These systems can also incorporate data from external sources, such as weather conditions or energy prices, to further optimize energy usage. The algorithms can learn from historical data and make predictions about future energy usage to adjust power usage in real-time. One application of AI-based...
Different income groups have different income levels, income growth patterns, and sensitivities to food prices, which is directly reflected in the different elasticities of demand across different income strata [2,27]. This means that using the average elasticity of the entire population to carry ...
Virtually all human infrastructure - gas stations, surface area of roads, hospitals etc., scale using similar biological allometry relationships (West, 2017). Connections – veins in bodies, social media, telephones or highways, scale at roughly ½ of the number of nodes squared (.5n2). Each...
In the context of increasingly integrated global supply chains, the impacts of heat stress are not just confined to specific populations and industrial sectors in low latitudes but extend to wider regions and sectors19,20,21,22. For example, a Western European country such as the UK is rarely ...
Predictions range as high as 5 degrees Celsius or more by the end of the 21st century, according to the Climate Science Special Report from the U.S. Global Change Research Program. However, sharp reductions in greenhouse gas emissions could cap the temperature rise at 2 degrees Celsius or les...
A team led by Prof Claus-Michael Lehr of the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS) has developed a novel human lung cell line that should enable much more accurate predictions of the behavior of active substances or dosage forms in humans than previ...
One of the major advantages of using steam propulsion is that boil-off gas, created by thermal conductivity through the tank walls and movement of the liquid in a seaway, can be readily burned in the ship's boilers. This saves the consumption of fuel oil bunkers (which escalated in price ...
Potential applications of quantum computing in the UK The computational speed potential of quantum computing can make processes faster and attempt calculations that have been impossible until now due to the time they would take. Below are a few examples of the positive benefits of quantum computing....
Tens of thousands of species are threatened with extinction as a result of human activities. Here we explore how the extinction risks of terrestrial mammals and birds might change in the next 50 years. Future population growth and economic development ar
Natural gas had a longer plateau than oil. This year’s decline is less easy to identify because of the seasonal cycle as maintenance and peak shaving production is scheduled to match demand. Most of the imports to the UK come direct via dedicated pipeline from the Nyhamna gas plant in ...