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Global Energy Crisis and the Risk of Blackout: Interdisciplinary Analysis and Perspectives on Energy Infrastructure and Security

Energies
The current global energy crisis is one of the most pressing challenges of the 21st century, it highlights the fragility of an old power system based on fossil fuels, geopolitical dependencies and often the precariousness and age of equipment and ...
Nicolae Daniel Fita, Ilie Utu, Marius Daniel Marcu, Dragos Pasculescu, Ilieva Obretenova Mila, Florin Gabriel Popescu, Teodora Lazar, Adrian Mihai Schiopu, Florin Muresan-Grecu, Emanuel Alin Cruceru   +9 more
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Working‐Class Muscles? Co‐Operative Gyms in Interwar Britain

History, EarlyView.
Abstract The Health & Strength League's network of co‐operative gymnasiums constituted one of interwar Britain's most significant yet overlooked physical culture institutions, affiliating over 800 gyms across Britain and Ireland by 1939. Drawing on Health & Strength magazine's editorial content and reader contributions, this article argues that these ...
CONOR HEFFERNAN
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Questionnaire survey of the occupants of high-rise residential buildings in Sapporo after the 2018 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi Earthquake

Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, 2022
In this study, a resident questionnaire survey was conducted for three reinforced-concrete high-rise condominium buildings in Sapporo. All three were subjected to the 2018 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi Earthquake.
Kazutaka Shirai, Ryunosuke Matsumoto, Junta Horii   +2 more
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Blackout DIFUSCO

CoRR
This study explores the integration of Blackout Diffusion into the DIFUSCO framework for combinatorial optimization, specifically targeting the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP). Inspired by the success of discrete-time diffusion models (D3PM) in maintaining structural integrity, we extend the paradigm to a continuous-time framework, leveraging the ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Deterrence Through Resilience and Civil Preparedness: The Comprehensive and Militarised Models of Civil Defence

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As hybrid threats blur the line between war and peace and challenge conventional deterrence logics, states increasingly turn to concepts of resilience, civil preparedness and whole‐of‐society as elements of their security strategies. This raises the question of how civilian agency can be viewed as an element of deterrence and what the ...
Agata Mazurkiewicz, Heljä Ossa
wiley   +1 more source

The Turning Point That Didn't Turn: WTO MC14 and the Future of Global Trade

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The fourteenth World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference (MC14) in Yaoundé was widely framed as a pivotal moment for restoring momentum to a multilateral trading system in crisis. Drawing on participant observation and interviews conducted during the conference, this article argues that MC14 exposed both the limits of the WTO's ...
Erin Hannah, James Scott
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People experiencing homelessness and their experiences with substance use services for alcohol treatment in England: Journey mapping based on semi‐structured interviews

Addiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Background and aims Alcohol consumption at high levels is common among people experiencing homelessness and contributes to inequalities. In relative terms these individuals are underrepresented in substance use services. This study captured common trajectories and identified barriers and facilitators to accessing treatment among a group of ...
Vera Helen Buss, Jamie Brown, Melissa Oldham, Sarah E. Jackson, Lion Shahab, Dimitra Kale, Sharon Cox   +6 more
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Sizing requirements of the photovoltaic charging station for small electrical vehicles

International Journal of Renewable Energy Development
Electric vehicles (EVs) are being introduced in Rwanda and becoming attractive for different reasons. For instance, these types of vehicles can help decrease air pollution and noise emissions. In addition, it presents an alternative to combustion engines,
Aimable Ngendahayo, Adrià Junyent-Ferré, Joan Marc Rodriguez-Bernuz, Elizabeth Nyeko, Etienne Ntagwirumugara   +4 more
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Sleep disturbances in children with cerebral palsy, their siblings, and parents: A qualitative descriptive study

Developmental Medicine &Child Neurology, EarlyView.
Children with cerebral palsy who experienced clinically significant sleep disturbances, their parents, and their siblings, were interviewed to understand the impact of sleep disturbance on the whole family. Six themes were identified, demonstrating the need for tailored, multidisciplinary, holistic sleep assessment and intervention, and family support.
Mary‐Elaine McCavert, Oliver Perra, Karen McConnell, Claire Kerr   +3 more
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Impacts of a global energy crisis on supply chain performance, ripple effects, and viability

International Transactions in Operational Research, EarlyView.
Abstract We simulate impacts of a global energy crisis on supply chains (SCs). First, we articulate the specific features that frame a global energy crisis as a unique type of SC large‐scale systemic shocks characterized by a long‐term disruption existence, disruption propagations (i.e., the ripple effect), a combination of immediate and delayed ...
Dmitry Ivanov
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