A considerable penetration of rooftop PV generation and increasing demand for heating loads will enlarge the peak-to-valley difference, imposing a great challenge to the reliable operation of distribution systems under cold climates. The objective of...
Battery thermal management is critical for electric vehicles operating in cold climates, where low temperatures reduce battery efficiency, limit regenerative braking and accelerate degradation. This study compares PTC heater and heat pump systems for...
The sustainability of experience-intensive wellness tourism services increasingly depends on managers’ ability to understand heterogeneous and implicit tourist preferences that are rarely captured through traditional survey-based approaches. In...
The White Paper on Peak Carbon and Carbon Neutral Action 2022 states that China is to achieve peak carbon by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060. Based on the “3060 dual-carbon” goal, how to improve the efficiency of energy performance is...
The strong decline of freshwater fish species in Europe implies that further ex-situ conservation plans should be implemented in the near future. The present study reflects our experience with the Pyrenean sculpin (Cottus hispaniolensis Bacescu-Meste...
Cancer heterogeneity and progression are subject to complex interactions between neoplastic cells and their microenvironment, including the immune system. Although glioblastomas (GBMs) are classified as ‘cold tumours’ with very little lym...
This work presents two mixed-integer programming models that intend to minimize the costs of the picking and storage operation through better planning and organization of the places occupied by the products in the warehouse. A large customer that sto...
When tissues are under physiological stresses, such as vigorous exercise and cold exposure, skeletal muscle cells secrete succinate into the extracellular space for adaptation and survival. By contrast, environmental toxins and injurious agents induc...
In temperate areas, rice deals with low temperatures that can affect plant growth and crop yield. Rapid germination is required for adequate plant establishment in the field, therefore obtaining cultivars that maintain this phenotype under suboptimal...
To address the demand for natural fibers, developing new varieties that are resistant to abiotic stress is necessary. The present study was designed to investigate the physiological and biochemical traits of three varieties of C. capularis (Y49, Y38,...
Hybrid service function chains (SFCs) composed of containerized network functions (CNFs) and virtual machine-based network functions (VMNFs) underpin latency-critical services in edge computing environments, yet the order-of-magnitude difference in c...
Independent community pharmacies are well positioned to expand clinical services through Chronic Care Management (CCM), yet implementation models remain limited. This prospective observational study evaluated the implementation of a pharmacist-led CC...
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Teaching and training cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) through simulation is a priority in Health Sciences degrees. Although CPR is taught as a simulation, it can still be stressful for the trainees since it resembles a real-life circumstance. The...
Numerous environmental and endogenous factors affect the level of genetic diversity in natural populations. Genetic variability is the cornerstone of evolution and adaptation of species. However, currently, more and more plant species and local varie...
Many weed biological control programs suffer from large-scale spatial variation in success due to restricted distributions or abundances of agents in temperate climates. For some of the world’s worst aquatic weeds, agents are established but overwint...
Selecting an appropriate reference gene is of crucial importance for improving the accuracy of qRT-PCR analyses. In this study, strawberry (Fragaria ananassa) seedlings were subjected to different environmental conditions including heat, cold, drough...
The significant protein and dietary fiber content of cold-pressed pumpkin (PSF) and okra (OSF) seed byproducts are well-known. However, their impact on noodles’ nutritional quality has never been studied. For the first time, noodle formulation was de...
The recent release of the nuclear, chloroplast and mitochondrial genome assemblies of Siberian larch (Larix sibirica Ledeb.), one of the most cold-resistant tree species in the only deciduous genus of Pinaceae, with seasonal senescence and a rot-resi...
Sitodiplosis mosellana, a notorious pest of wheat worldwide, copes with temperature extremes during harsh summers and winters by entering obligatory diapause as larvae. However, the metabolic adaptive mechanism underlying this process is largely unkn...
Carcass quality includes a battery of essential economic meat traits that play a significant role in influencing farmer breed preferences. A preliminary study was undertaken to investigate the carcass quality and the associated genomic regions in a s...
Seashore paspalum (Paspalum vaginatum) is among the most salt- and cadmium-tolerant warm-season perennial grass species widely used as turf or forage. The objective of this study was to select stable reference genes for quantitative real-time polymer...
The effect of cold rolling on the microstructure and mechanical properties of an Al- and C-containing CoCrFeNiMn-type high-entropy alloy was reported. The alloy with a chemical composition (at %) of (20–23) Co, Cr, Fe, and Ni; 8.82 Mn; 3.37 Al; and 0...
Damage to buildings and infrastructure caused by freeze–thaw cycles is a common problem in cold regions. To counteract this, multi-stage phase change material (PCM) aggregate concrete has gained attention for its potential in structural protect...
This paper presents a numerical analysis of two hot water storage tank configurations—one equipped with an external heat exchanger (Tank-1) and the other with an internal heat exchanger (Tank-2). The objective is to evaluate and compare their t...
Influenza viruses continue to be an important public health threat. Vaccination is the most effective measure to control the influenza virus circulation. However, these viruses are continuously evolving through antigenic drift/shift, and thus the vac...
In order to reduce gas consumption and increase the renewable energy proportion, this paper proposes a poly-generation system that couples geothermal, solar, and liquid natural gas (LNG) cold energy to produce steam, gaseous natural gas, and low-temp...
Rapid deployment of rooftop photovoltaics (PV), electric heating, and electric vehicles (EVs) is stressing low-voltage feeders in cold climates, where winter peaks push aging transformers to their limits. This paper quantifies how much stationary and...
Fruits are perishable fresh products with a short shelf life after harvesting. Perishable foods and their shelf lives are directly related to the temperature at which they are stored. Refrigeration is therefore essential in the conservation of fruits...
In numerous coffee-producing areas, coffee plants are routinely exposed to a low chilling temperature on a seasonal cycle. Despite the well-established significance of NAC transcription factors in mediating plant responses to abiotic stresses, their...
This paper investigates whether a low-code workflow engine can operate as practical Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) middleware at the edge when cloud application programming interface (API) rate limits make direct telemetry upload unsustainable....
With the rapid growth of urban logistics demand, carbon emissions and the time-varying nature of vehicle speeds have become critical challenges in sustainable transportation planning. This paper addresses a Time-Dependent Green Vehicle Routing Proble...
In this study, a location routing problem (LRP) model was considered for the distribution network of multiple perishable food items in a cold supply chain (CSC) where vehicles can refuel at gas stations during light of the COVID-19 disaster. Fuel con...
Thermotolerant vaccines greatly improved the reach and impact of large-scale vaccination programs to eliminate diseases such as smallpox, polio and rinderpest. A recent study demonstrated that the potency of the Nobivac® Canine Rabies vaccine was...
Rhinoviruses (RVs) are the etiological agents of upper respiratory tract infections, particularly the common cold. Infections in the lower respiratory tract is shown to cause severe disease and exacerbations in asthma and COPD patients. Viruses being...
In breeding winter malting barley, one recurring strategy is to cross a current preferred spring malting barley to a winter barley. This is because spring malting barleys have the greatest amalgamation of trait qualities desirable for malting and bre...
Fortification programs are considered to be an effective strategy to mitigate vitamin A deficiency in populations at risk. Fortified vegetable oils rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids were shown to be prone to oxidation, leading to limited vitamin A...
Despite the potential for improving iron status and child growth in low- and middle-income settings, concerns on the safety of high iron dosages of Micronutrient Powders (MNP currently limit their applicability in programs. We examined the effectiven...
There is currently no effective treatment strategy for recurrent/metastatic adenoid cystic carcinoma (R/M ACC). Furthermore, recent single-agent and combination immunotherapy trials have failed in unselected ACC cohorts, unlike non-ACC salivary gland...
As climate risk intensifies and ecowelfare is increasingly implicated in climate adaptation, we examine how FEMA’s Individuals and Households Program (IHP) allocates aid in the United States. We ask how and why IHP allocates aid, framing the an...
AIM: Cold exposure and exercise may increase thermogenic capacity of white adipose tissue (WAT), which could subsequently enhance energy expenditure and body weight loss. We aimed to identify possible alterations in uncoupling protein 1 (UCP1)—the ma...
Technologies for obtaining drinkable water are becoming more important as global water consumption steadily increases and climate change progresses. One possibility for obtaining water is the extraction of water vapor from ambient air by means of air...
Optical readout of large scale dual-phase liquid Argon TPCs is an attractive alternative to charge readout and has been successfully demonstrated on a 2 × 2 m active region within the CERN protoDUNE cold box. ARIADNE
Heart transplantation became a reality at the end of the 1960s as a life-saving option for patients with end-stage heart failure. Static cold storage (SCS) at 4–6 °C has remained the standard for heart preservation for decades. However, SCS only allo...
Testing drinking water systems for the presence of Legionella colonization is a proactive approach to assess and reduce the risk of Legionnaires’ disease. Previous studies suggest that there may be a link between Legionella positivity in the ho...
The “Little MonSta” benthic lander array consists of 8 ROV-deployable (remotely operated vehicle) instrumented lander platforms for monitoring physical and chemical oceanographic properties and particle sampling developed as part of the MMMonKey_Pro...
A major issue in the renewable energy supply of buildings is to establish a simultaneity of the fluctuating renewable energy generation and the energy consumption in buildings. This work provides a new case for a better understanding of how to establ...
The shift towards microservisation which can be observed in recent developments of the cloud landscape for applications has led towards the emergence of the Function as a Service (FaaS) concept, also called Serverless. This term describes the event-d...
3D-NAND flash memory provides high capacity per unit area by stacking 2D-NAND cells having a planar structure. However, because of the nature of the lamination process, the frequency of error occurrence varies depending on each layer or physical cell...
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Background: Diurnal temperature range (DTR) is an important index of climate change and variability. It is also a risk factor affecting human health. However, limited evidence is available to illustrate the effect of DTR modification on cause-specifi...
Excessive post-acidification remains a major quality concern in yogurt production, yet the strain-specific mechanisms in Streptococcus thermophilus starter cultures are unclear. This study compared the post-acidification capacity of FS (strong) and F...
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