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Long-term urban microgrid design: Socio-spatial resilience to promote energy democracy

open access: yesTATuP – Zeitschrift für Technikfolgenabschätzung in Theorie und Praxis
This research article argues that long-term considerations for sociotechnical resilience in urban microgrid design should include socio-spatial dimensions and energy democracy as key concepts. Referring to Otto Neurath and ‘Red Vienna’ of the 1920s this
Sadeeb Simon Ottenburger, Ulrich Ufer
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Shared Yet Contested: Energy Democracy Counter-Narratives

open access: yesFrontiers in Communication, 2018
Conventional ways of communicating about the transition to renewable energy in North America presuppose that energy systems can be changed while sustaining existing social, political, and economic relations.
Matthew J. Burke
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Energy transactions among smart buildings based on social preferences

open access: yesIET Renewable Power Generation, 2023
The presence of smart buildings in a smart grid as prosumers with the ability to both consume and produce clean energy can help to decentralize and decarbonize the electricity industry.
Hossein Alizadeh   +3 more
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Global patterns of renewable energy innovation, 1990–2009 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Cost-effective approaches to mitigating climate change depend on advances in clean energy technologies, such as solar and wind power. Given increased technology innovation in developing countries, led by China, we focus our attention on global patterns ...
Bayer, Patrick   +2 more
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Beyond technology: why energy democracy is the engine of rural revival

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainable Energy Policy
Rural America sits at the center of a profound energy paradox: communities with some of the nation's richest renewable resources continue to face persistent energy insecurity, economic vulnerability, and deepening social divides.
Lacour M. Ayompe, Long Pham
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Energy democracy: A digital future?

open access: yesEnergy Research & Social Science, 2022
This is the final version. Available on open access from Elsevier via the DOI in this record ; Academic exploration of energy democracy has produced a rich theorization of its foundations that exhibits significant pluralism in response to different geographic, social, ideological and technical contexts. This paper develops the literature by considering
Emily Judson   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Genetic attenuation of ALDH1A1 increases metastatic potential and aggressiveness in colorectal cancer

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Aldehyde dehydrogenase 1A1 (ALDH1A1) is a cancer stem cell marker in several malignancies. We established a novel epithelial cell line from rectal adenocarcinoma with unique overexpression of this enzyme. Genetic attenuation of ALDH1A1 led to increased invasive capacity and metastatic potential, the inhibition of proliferation activity, and ultimately ...
Martina Poturnajova   +25 more
wiley   +1 more source

Review Of Hiring And Firing Public Officials: Rethinking The Purpose Of Elections By J. Buchler [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Few books can be called workmanlike as well as exciting, analytic as well as poignant. Hiring and Firing Public Officials achieves those rare pairings by methodically pursuing an academic coup.
Berger, Ben
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Metformin promotes mitochondrial integrity through AMPK‐signaling in Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Metformin mediates mitochondrial quality control in Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) fibroblasts carrying mtDNA mutations. At therapeutic levels, metformin activates AMPK signaling to restore mitochondrial dynamics by promoting fusion and restraining fission, while preserving mitochondrial mass, enhancing autophagy/mitophagy and biogenesis ...
Chatnapa Panusatid   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Energy Transition: Democracy, Justice and Good Regulation of the Heat Market

open access: yesEnergies, 2020
This paper discusses whether the concepts of energy democracy, energy justice and the principles of good market regulation could play a role in developing a more consistent approach towards the regulation of the energy sector.
Blanka Vitéz, Saskia Lavrijssen
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