Healthy urban ecosystems are increasingly recognised as important for resilient cities and need to be considered as part of GPR. Urban nature-based solutions (NBS) comprising green (vegetation) and blue (water) infrastructure need to be considered at multiple scales from the bioregions, through to...
Serverless projects are cheap to create, so they can be recreated many times for different environments. Dynamically-created cloud resources are typically given generated names. Allowing services to be discovered by other components is something that must be addressed to ensure the right balance of lo...
they first need to obtain permission from the user. If companies asked for such permission openly and explicitly, users would be more likely to deny these requests. As a result, many companies make use of complex mazes of “dark patterns” to shrewdly and legally gain access to user data....
Most also contain an a3 domain and are able to dimerize with soluble b-2-microglobulin (b2m) (Figure 1). The need to load a peptide of 8 to 10 amino acids (aa) in length between the a1 and a2 domains in order to stabilize the protein conformation is a hallmark of polymorphic ('...
A single P management approach is in most cases adequate. Next to P management, nitrogen management might be relevant to uplift the critical P load in shallow lakes. Species diversity of macrophytes will be impaired at high N concentrations especially if P is not very low. The downstream conseq...
Critical care, like many healthcare areas, is under a dual assault from significantly increasing demographic and economic pressures. Intensive care unit (ICU) patients are highly variable in response to treatment, and increasingly aging populations mean
As I noted in the preamble, Western Australia recently opted to build a new coal fired power station instead of using gas as originally planned, due to the shortage of gas in the south of the state. The WA domestic gas shortage has resulted in a local pressure group called the "DomGas ...
For example, nutritional performance varied from 0 to 13 people fed per hectare, the average potential impact of climatic conditions varied from 27% to 33% and the GHG emissions balance varied from +0.8 tCO2eq·ha−1 to +3.6 tCO2eq·ha−1. The results obtained can guide the design of...
Although enlarging the unit capacity of the wind turbines can be regarded as one scheme to accelerate the cooling process of the generator, it significantly increases the insulation aging, due to the increase of the inductance coil load [2]. Meanwhile, although several studies have reported ...
Therefore, in the biomedical field, new approaches to clarify the mechanisms involved in the balance of the function of cells, organs and systems are necessary to improve health maintenance. One of the most intriguing points is cells' plasticity and their ability to adapt to needs. The immune ...