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How Important Is Pay and What Are the Effects (Positive and Negative) of Pay for Performance?: Evaluating Claims and Evidence

Human Resource Management, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 531-559, March/April 2026.
ABSTRACT Compensation plays a pivotal role in shaping employee behavior, motivation, and well‐being. Although extant research has explored various dimensions of compensation, questions about how important pay is to employees and concerns (on the part of employers and/or employees) about the unintended negative (in addition to intended positive ...
Barry Gerhart, Ji Hyun Kim, Shan He
wiley   +1 more source

Smart Metering as a Regulatory and Technological Enabler for Flexibility in Distribution Networks: Incentives, Devices, and Protocols

Energies
The digital transformation of low-voltage distribution networks demands a renewed perspective on both regulatory frameworks and metering technologies. This article explores the intersection between incentive structures and metering technologies, focusing
Matias A. Kippke Salomón, José Manuel Carou Álvarez, Lucía Súárez Ramón, Pablo Arboleya   +3 more
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Communication System Design for an Advanced Metering Infrastructure

Sensors, 2018
This paper primarily deals with the design of an Information and Control Technology (ICT) network for an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) on the IEEE 34 node radial distribution network.
Ricardo Siqueira de Carvalho, Pankaj Kumar Sen, Yaswanth Nag Velaga, Lucas Feksa Ramos, Luciane Neves Canha   +4 more
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The Contingent Payoff of Transparency: The Mediating Roles of Citizen Participation and Enforcement in Health Service Delivery Improvement

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, Volume 32, Issue 2, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Background How transparency reforms affect frontline health service delivery remains uncertain. Research presents a transparency paradox, where some studies report service improvements when transparency is combined with oversight, while others find minimal impact on outcomes such as staff absence or medicine availability.
Samuel Atiku, Alfred Okoh, Olufisayo Olakotan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Performance and Cost Evaluation of StarPU on AWS: Case Studies With Dense Linear Algebra Kernels and N‐Body Simulations

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Volume 38, Issue 3, February 2026.
ABSTRACT Task‐based programming interfaces introduce a paradigm in which computations are decomposed into fine‐grained units of work known as “tasks”. StarPU is a runtime system originally developed to support task‐based parallelism on on‐premise heterogeneous architectures by abstracting low‐level hardware details and efficiently managing resource ...
Vanderlei Munhoz, Vinicius G. Pinto, João V. F. Lima, Márcio Castro, Daniel Cordeiro, Emilio Francesquini   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Problem of Total Harmonic Distortion Measurement Performed by Smart Energy Meters

Measurement Science Review, 2022
Currently, electricity is treated as commodity that should be delivered from a distributor to a consumer with a certain quality. The power quality is defined by the set of measures with specific limit values.
Kuwałek Piotr, Wiczyński Grzegorz
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Diagnostic analytics of electricity tariff design in Nepal

Energy Conversion and Economics, Volume 7, Issue 1, Page 50-68, February 2026.
Abstract Nepal's electricity sector operates under a monopsony, with government entities dominating generation, transmission, and distribution. This market structure suppresses competition, leading to inherent challenges in establishing fair and efficient electricity tariff systems.
Prashant Kandel, Kamal Chapagain, Sambeet Mishra   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Green-RPL: An Energy-Efficient Protocol for Cognitive Radio Enabled AMI Network in Smart Grid

IEEE Access, 2018
With the capacity of achieving spectrum efficient wireless communications, cognitive radio enabled advanced metering infrastructure (CR-AMI) networks are expected to enhance the efficiency and practicability of future smart grids.
Zhutian Yang, Rui Han, Yunfei Chen, Xianbin Wang   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pace Energy & Climate Center 2016 Annual Report [PDF]

, 2017
The Center staff and many allies are deeply involved in the business of electric utility transformation. We live and work in a remarkable time. Decades of steady, thoughtful leadership on clean energy issues is now bearing fruit. Clean energy is not just
Pace Energy & Climate Center
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Artificial Intelligence Revolution in Transcriptomics: From Single Cells to Spatial Atlases

Advanced Science, Volume 13, Issue 5, 27 January 2026.
Single‐cell RNA sequencing and spatial transcriptomics have unveiled cellular heterogeneity and tissue organization with unprecedented resolution. Artificial intelligence (AI) now plays a pivotal role in interpreting these complex data. This review systematically surveys AI applications across the entire analytic workflow and offers practical guidance ...
Shixin Li, Tianxiang Xiao, Yuanyuan Lan, Chengxiao Wu, Zhouying Li, Rong Liu, Qing Fang, Chao Zhang   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source