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Do the public take action when a severe snow warning is issued?

open access: yesWeather, EarlyView.
Extreme weather events pose significant risks to the population, making timely warnings essential for preparedness. The UK Met Office’s National Severe Weather Warning Service (NSWWS) has issued impact‐based alerts for over a decade, yet evaluations of their effectiveness remain limited.
Helen Dacre, Rachel McCloy, Joi Alon
wiley   +1 more source

800 kV Fast Circuit Breaker: Mechanical Coupling Modelling, Buffer Design and Development

open access: yesHigh Voltage, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 800 kV fast circuit breaker (CB) used in ultra‐high voltage (UHV) converter transformer can reduce the total breaking time to 25 ms. It significantly improves the action speed and breaking capacity of the CB, with promising broad application prospects.
Enyuan Dong   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social information about others' affective states in a human‐altered world

open access: yesJournal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
Faced with anthropogenic change, animals now encounter challenges different from their evolutionary past. To cope with such challenges, animals may use social information about others' affective states to guide their decisions. Considering affective states of wild animals could have important implications for animal welfare and wildlife conservation ...
Luca G. Hahn   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of the brake-force distribution of hybrid electric vehicle with rear wheel drive in terms of energy recuperation

open access: yes, 2011
In this article the results of brake forces distribution modeling are presented and its impact on the efficiency of recuperative braking. Kinematic model of the vehicle and the simplifying assumptions adopted in the modeling equations of motion ...
Setlak, R., Fice, M.
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Insights from the Presidential Addresses to the Agricultural Economics Society

open access: yesJournal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Society's published presidential addresses have embraced a wide range of subject matter, reflecting a ‘road well travelled’ in agricultural economics. The areas covered include the development and use of data and statistics, lessons from history, sectoral analysis, land economics, international trade and international development.
David Blandford
wiley   +1 more source

Interactional privilege of violence: Status and interaction in the street field

open access: yesCriminology, EarlyView.
Abstract Criminologists have long described and theorized the relationship between status, respect, and violence within urban communities. Although this finding is generally accepted within criminology, ethnographic empirical illustrations of this phenomenon are sparse.
Hakan Kalkan, Heith Copes
wiley   +1 more source

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