Long-term equilibrium in electricity markets with renewables and energy storage only by Tarel, Guillaume, Korpås, Magnus, Botterud, Audun

“…We show that, mathematically, an electricity price structure that depends on the period of the year (i.e. EES charging or discharging, VRE curtailment, load shedding) and on investments costs leads to cost recovery for VRE and EES. …”
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Nipah: The history, and future, of one of the world’s most lethal viruses by Viveros, Alex Gabriel

“…Nipah has caused smaller outbreaks in nearby Bangladesh nearly every year since then. The Malaysian farmers appeared to have been infected directly from their pigs, rather than from each other. …”
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Values and value in simulated participant methodology : a global perspective on contemporary practices by Nestel, Debra, McNaughton, Nancy, Smith, Cathy, Schlegel, Claudia, Tierney, Tanya

“…This article has been written for the 40th year of the publication of Medical Teacher. While we celebrate the contribution of simulated participants (SPs) to health professions education through values and value-based learning, we also offer critical reflection on elements of our practice, commencing with language. …”
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Improving air traffic control speech intelligibility by reducing speaking rate effectively by Hou, Nana, Tian, Xiaohai, Chng, Eng Siong, Ma, Bin, Li, Haizhou

“…Low intelligibility of Air Traffic Control (ATC) speech is one major cause of aircraft accidents every year. Many factors can affect speech intelligibility, among which the most prominent aspects is the high speaking rate commonly present in ATC speech. …”
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Annual dilated convolution neural network for newbuilding ship prices forecasting by Gao, Ruobin, Liu, Jiahui, Bai, Xiwen, Yuen, Kum Fai

“…The annual dilated convolution filter owns a vision across one year and integrates all variables’ temporal information. …”
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Nanoporous gold nanostructures : morphological design and their energy conversion applications by Yang, Zhe

“…Lastly, chapter 6 summarizes research works in my 4-year PhD study and provides an outlook of the potential future direction in this field.…”
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Get your facts right: preschoolers systematically extend both object names and category-relevant facts by Holland, Amanda, Mather, Emily, Simpson, Andrew, Riggs, Kevin J.

“…We explicitly contrast facts varying in category relevance, and test for extension using two different tasks. Three- to four-year-olds (N = 61) were provided with one of three types of information about a single novel object: a category-relevant fact (‘it’s from a place called Modi’), a category-irrelevant fact (‘my uncle gave it to me’), or an object label (‘it’s called a Modi’). …”
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Lean Six Sigma in healthcare: a systematic literature review on challenges, organisational readiness and critical success factors by McDermott, Olivia, Antony, Jiju, Bhat, Shreeranga, Jayaraman, Raja, Rosa, Angelo, Marolla, Giuliano, Parida, Ratri

“…Peer-reviewed literature over a 16-year period was studied to understand the deliverables of LSS. …”
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Examining the role of childhood experiences in gender identity and expression: an interpretative phenomenological analysis using Social Learning Theory by Dodgers, Steph, Cordoba, Sebastian, Coe, Jennifer

“…We conducted eight semi-structured interviews with 20–30-year-olds living in the UK to do this. We employed interpretative phenomenological analysis to analyse our data, which enabled us to investigate participants’ memories of their gender socialisations, observations, and internalisations in childhood and their interpretation of these experiences. …”
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State of the nation: class, Labour politics and the contemporary relevance of Our Friends in the North (1996) by Collins, Jeremy

“…The ‘monumental’ series was described at the time as ‘one of the major television programmes of this or any other year’. A recent (September 2022) rescreening of the series has re-emphasized the relevance of the themes it explores, and a one-off radio play updated the story to follow the children of the original characters in the 2020s. …”
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A critique of the decision of the European Court of Human Rights in Ireland v United Kingdom, and its effect on Article 3 jurisprudence by Simonsen, NJ

“…This thesis argues that the growing breadth of the latter concept has occurred in tandem with, and may partly explain, the rapid increase in the number of Article 3 violations found by the Court each year. These developments have carried important consequences. …”

Fourier transform infrared for noninvasive optical diagnosis of oral, oropharyngeal, and laryngeal cancer by Menzies, GE, Fox, HR, Marnane, C, Pope, L, Prabhu, V, Winter, S, Derrick, AV, Lewis, PD

“…The 5-year survival rate for advanced head and neck cancers is 50%. …”

Dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 infection over two epidemic waves in Manaus, Brazil: A serological study of seven thousand blood donors by Alexander, N, Dye, C, Busch, MP, Buss, L, Prete, CA, Brady, OJ, Mee, P, Abrahim, CMM, Crispim, MAE, da Costa, AG, Salomon, T, Mayaud, P, Oikawa, MK, Faria, NR, Sabino, EC

“…The overall force of infection was 1.19 per person year (95% confidence interval 1.14–1.24) during the two main waves. …”

The molecular epidemiology and ecology of Campylobacter in the UK by Wimalarathna, H

“…This thesis examines the molecular epidemiology of clinical campylobacteriosis in Oxfordshire over a one-year period, considering the distribution of <em>Campylobacter jejuni</em> and <em>Campylobacter coli</em> clonal complexes, the relationship between clonal complex and ciprofloxacin resistance and the relationship between travel-associated campylobacteriosis and <em>Campylobacter</em> genotype.…”

Equalities in education outcomes in Korea, Sweden and Norway by Goh, HC

“…It was also found that the percentage of 15 year-olds judged “unable to solve basic reading tasks” varies from under 7 per cent in Korea to more than 20 per cent in Denmark and Norway. …”

Simple Executive Function as an endophenotype of autism-ADHD, and differing associations between simple versus complex Executive Functions and autism/ADHD traits by Hendry, A, Bedford, R, Agyapong, M, Begum Ali, J, Bazelmans, T, Ersoy, M, Goodwin, A, Mason, L, Narvekar, N, Pasco, G, Johnson, MH, Jones, EJH, Charman, T

“…In this longitudinal study, 107 children with a family history of autism and/or ADHD (FH-autism/ADHD), and 24 children with No-FH-autism/ADHD completed multiple EF tasks (5 at age 2 years, 7 at age 3 years). Parents reported on their child’s autism- (Q-CHAT at age 2, SRS-2 at age 3), and ADHD-related traits (CBCL DSM-ADHD scale, both ages). …”

Maize monoculture supported pre-Columbian urbanism in southwestern Amazonia by Lombardo, U, Hilbert, L, Bentley, M, Bronk Ramsey, C, Dudgeon, Gaitan-Roca, A, Iriarte, J, Mejía Ramón, AG, Quezada, S, Raczka, M, Watling,JG, Neves, E, Mayle, F

“…Collectively, our findings show how the Casarabe culture managed the savannah landscape for intensive year-round maize monoculture that probably sustained its relatively large population. …”

A Multi-satellite Perspective on “Hot Tower” Characteristics in the Equatorial Trough Zone by Pilewskie, J, Stephens, G, Takahashi, H, L’Ecuyer, T

“…Less than 35% of all deep cores are classified as hot towers, and we estimate that 800–1700 hot towers occur at any given time over the course of a day, with the mean maximum core and hot tower frequency occurring at the time of year when peak convective intensity and precipitation occur. …”

Effects of soil management practices on soil fauna feeding activity in an Indonesian oil palm plantation by Tao, H-H, Slade, E, Willis, KJ, Caliman, J-P, Snaddon, JL

“…To address this knowledge gap, we used the bait lamina method to investigate the effects of different soil management practices on soil fauna feeding activity, and whether feeding activity was associated with management-mediated changes in soil chemical properties, in a 15-year-old oil palm plantation. We examined the four management zones: (1) empty fruit bunch (EFB) application along the sides of harvesting paths; (2) chemical fertilization within palm circles; (3) understory vegetation with pruned fronds in inter-row areas; (4) no input in the cleared part of the harvesting paths. …”

Exploring accountability: memory, object, metaphor and common sense by Mustafa, Hasri

“…Design/methodology/approach This study is based on a four-year ethnographic work from 2002 to 2006, as accessed and analysed by the researcher. …”