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Bridging the Gap Between Socio‐Political and Community Acceptance of Wind Energy: Policy Insights for Sustainable Energy Development

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Wind energy plays an important role in achieving energy transition and sustainable development goals, yet disparities between socio‐political and community acceptance continue to hinder project implementation. Understanding this gap is essential for designing more socially responsive wind energy policies.
Kaiqi Liu, Shigeo Nishikizawa, Takehiko Murayama, Kultip Suwanteep, Qiao Yu, Wei Zhang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Epidemiological assessing of motorcyclists’ country-level traffic accidents, 2013

پژوهان, 2015
Introduction: Motorcycling is one of the most important factors of causing injury and motorcyclists are assumed to be as a vulnerable group of road accidents.
Behzad Gholamaliee, Salman Khazaei, Somayeh Jamorpour, Abdollah Mohammadian Hafshejani, Hamid Salehinia   +4 more
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Dynamic Time-Dependent Route Planning in Road Networks with User Preferences

, 2015
There has been tremendous progress in algorithmic methods for computing driving directions on road networks. Most of that work focuses on time-independent route planning, where it is assumed that the cost on each arc is constant per query.
Baum, Moritz, Dibbelt, Julian, Pajor, Thomas, Wagner, Dorothea   +3 more
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Task co‐use and product improvement: An organization design perspective

Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Co‐using tasks—using the same task to produce more than one product—promises economies of scope. However, task co‐use also ties products together, changing a firm's task network by introducing cross‐product interdependencies. In light of these interdependencies, we identify an unrecognized downside of task co‐use for product ...
Johanna Glauber, Tobias Kretschmer
wiley   +1 more source

How Do We Measure and Increase Systems Thinking? Comparing Self‐Reported and Performative Metrics in Response to Building Causal Loop Models

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Systems thinking is a mindset and skill essential to understanding and addressing complex challenges. However, increasing and measuring systems thinking is difficult. In this research, we compared multiple approaches to measuring systems thinking, including self‐reported measures of a systems thinking mindset and performative measures of ...
Cynthia McPherson Frantz, Julia Blotner, John E. Petersen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of half‐joint failures on RC girder bridges: A robustness quantification study

Structural Concrete, EarlyView.
Abstract The robustness of bridge structures is critical to ensuring safety and service continuity, particularly in aging infrastructure exposed to degradation and unexpected loads. Reinforced concrete (RC) half‐joint bridges—widely built in Italy between the 1950s and 1970s—exhibit specific vulnerabilities due to inspection challenges, durability ...
Paolo Martinelli, Matteo Colombo
wiley   +1 more source

“I'm a Good Guy Who Deserves Better, Yet Nobody Wants to Give me Better”: The Accounts of Nice Guys

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Within Western popular culture and online discourse, a “Nice Guy” is someone who enacts niceness for which they believe they are owed, deserving of, or entitled to something in return—especially the romantic or sexual attention of women. In this study, we examine the use of accounts in personal narratives told in an anonymous online discussion forum ...
Brooke Weinmann, Dennis D. Waskul
wiley   +1 more source

Chinese Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Surgical Treatment of Adult Obstructive Sleep Apnea (2024)

World Journal of Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a common chronic disorder characterized by abnormal breathing during sleeping. OSA can damage various organs throughout the body and is burdensome, both socially and economically. Moreover, as OSA has been increasingly studied in recent years, new evidence‐based guidelines for its diagnosis and surgical ...
Working Group of Guideline for the Diagnosis and Surgical Treatment of Adult OSA, Subspecialty Group of Laryngopharyngology, Society of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Chinese Medical Association, Subspecialty Group of Voice, Society of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Chinese Medical Association, Editorial Board of Chinese Journal of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Survey the status and trend of traffic accidents in Qazvin Province (2006-2015)

The Journal of Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, 2017
Background: The road traffic accidents (RTAs) have caused life losses and economical damages in Iran. In spite of the high rate of RTAs and related death, no study has been conducted on RTAs in Qazvin province.
K. Hosseinzadeh, R. Sadegh, SS. Sedghi Oskuyi, M. Shahsavari   +3 more
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Logistics in European Traffic Policy [PDF]

Modular concepts and logistics centers are the basic instruments for improving resource utilization in European transport system. Efficacy of the system and integration of transport services are not as advanced as they could be.
Marija Radmanovac, Miroljub Jevtic
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