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Advanced Microchannel Radial Receivers for the Economic Feasibility of Solar Thermal Power Plants

SolarPACES Conference Proceedings
A key aspect for the development of solar thermal technology is to improve cost-competitiveness without compromising efficiency. One of the more expensive items in a solar thermal power plant is the heliostat field, which accounts for 40-50% of the ...
María José Montes, José Ignacio Linares, David D'Souza, Mercedes Ibarra, Eva Arenas, Alexis Cantizano, Marta Muñoz, Rubén Barbero, Antonio Rovira   +8 more
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Institutional and Community Perceptions of Distance Education in Bangladesh: Preparing for The 21st Century

, 2017
Bangladesh Open University (BOU), the sole distributor of distance education (DE) in Bangladesh, is regarded as one of the mega universities in the world.
Plunkett, Margaret, Margaret PLUNKETT, Md AKTARUZZAMAN, Aktaruzzaman, Md   +3 more
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Clinical Impact of NOTCH3 Variant Location After First Stroke in CADASIL

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Despite its monogenic origin, Cerebral Autosomal Dominant Arteriopathy with Subcortical Infarcts and Leukoencephalopathy exhibits marked variability in clinical expression and severity. Variants in the NOTCH3 gene, within epidermal growth factor‐like repeat domains 1–6 or 7–34, are known to influence disease onset, but their impact ...
Léa Aguilhon, Hugues Chabriat, Dominique Hervé, Stéphanie Guey, Sophie Tezenas Du Montcel, Juliette Ortholand   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation of Digital Technologies for Home‐Based Assessment in People With Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Digital technologies hold promise for transforming healthcare by enhancing personalized treatments and offer valuable opportunities to improve patient care. Here, we evaluated several novel, self‐administered, home‐based, digital endpoints for their association with corresponding conventional standard clinical measures (primary) in ...
Arne Mueller, Vanessa Vallejo, Mónica Povedano Panadés, Orla Hardiman, Véronique Danel‐Brunaud, Senda Ajroud‐Driss, Philippe Couratier, Jeremy Shefner, Anna Gokey, Mike DiCesare, Erin Lennox, Jens Praestgaard, Lucie Brujin, Peggy Allred, Ram Miller   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Strategic Role of Internal Audit in Enhancing Risk Management in Zambian Water and Sanitation Utilities

Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Science
This study examins the role of internal audit (IA) in enhancing the effectiveness of risk management in the water and sanitation utilities of Zambia, which are at risk due to non-revenue water, infrastructure destruction, and regulatory pressure.
Enock M. Phiri, Francis Simui, Austin M. Mwange   +2 more
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White Matter and Perivascular Imaging Changes in Alzheimer's Disease and Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Peak‐width of skeletonized mean diffusivity (PSMD) and diffusion tensor imaging–analysis along the perivascular space (DTI‐ALPS), reflecting white matter integrity and glymphatic function, are altered in Alzheimer's disease (AD).
Debina Laishram, Guangwei Du, Sangam Kanekar, Nandakumar Nagaraja   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Integration of Artificial Intelligence into Architectural Education: An Online Model Proposal for Instructor Training for Studio Courses

Buildings
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is driving a fundamental paradigm shift in architectural design, transitioning from deterministic drafting to algorithmic curation.
Fatma Kaya Orhon, Kamil Çekerol, Serap Uğur   +2 more
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Course/Materials Development for Distance Education: Additional Readings and Exercises

Note: No date of issue was indicatedThis contains Course/Materials Development for Distance Education sessions on the following topics: (1.) Part 1 - Planning materials development: where do we begin, Part 2 -The target audience: profiling your learners,
The Distance Education Center of The University of the West Indies and The International Extension College
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Lifelong Learning & Distance Higher Education

, 2005
As globalisation advances, education is increasingly crossing borders - national, regional, sectoral and institutional. At the same time, educational systems are having to respond to other profound changes, such as the knowledge explosion, the changing ...

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Reserves, Injury Severity, and Outcomes in Traumatic Brain Injury: A CENTER‐TBI Observational Study

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Reserve refers to the brain's ability to maintain function after an injury and strongly relates to traumatic brain injury (TBI) outcomes. This study examined (1) whether associations between pre‐injury reserve proxies and outcomes differed across injury severity categories, and (2) whether the impact of injury severity varied across ...
Natascha Ekdahl, Marika C. Möller, Lindsay Wilson, Anne Vik, Toril Skandsen, Jonas Stenberg, CENTER‐TBI participants and investigators   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source