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Factors Driving Battery and Solar Purchase Decision of Residents: a Behavioural Choice Experiment Using a Hybrid Discrete Choice and Latent Variable Model

Advanced Sustainable Systems, EarlyView.
This article explores what drives households to adopt solar PV and battery systems in South East Queensland. Using hybrid discrete choice experiments, it reveals distinct adopter profiles and highlights cost, system size, and energy independence as key motivators.
Mohammad Alipour, Elnaz Irannezhad, Rodney A. Stewart, Oz Sahin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pupil constrictions to subjective brightness as a gateway to probe consciousness in non communicating patients

Scientific Reports
Retinal illumination primarily determines pupil size, yet extra-retinal factors like subjective brightness also influence pupillary responses. Previous works reported that in healthy individuals, stimuli whose semantic content evokes brightness cause ...
Aude Sangare, Cécile Eymond, Lise Jodaitis, Sophie Demeret, Benjamin Rohaut, Lionel Naccache   +5 more
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Characterization of responders to transcranial direct current stimulation in disorders of consciousness: A retrospective study of 8 clinical trials

Neurotherapeutics
The treatment for patients with disorders of consciousness challenges researchers and clinicians. The stimulation of the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex with transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) may enhance behavioral responsiveness of a ...
Alice Barra, Rodrigo Huerta-Gutierrez, Jitka Annen, Geraldine Martens, Steven Laureys, Roberto Llorens, Tobias Kurth, Aurore Thibaut   +7 more
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Equal Rights for Zombies?: Phenomenal Consciousness and Responsible Agency [PDF]

, 2019
Intuitively, moral responsibility requires conscious awareness of what one is doing, and why one is doing it, but what kind of awareness is at issue? Neil Levy argues that phenomenal consciousness—the qualitative feel of conscious sensations—is entirely ...
Al-Shehbaz, Ihsan, Salariato, Diego, Zuloaga, Fernando   +2 more
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Polylactic Acid (PLA), Polycaprolactone (PCL), and Chitosan: the Biodegradable Transition in Medical Waste Management

Advanced Sustainable Systems, EarlyView.
The shift to biodegradable materials in healthcare promises reduced plastic pollution, but their production, adoption, and long‐term impacts remain complex. Integrating lifecycle insights with global policy coordination is essential for meaningful environmental gains. Abstract The COVID‐19 pandemic sharply increased medical waste, intensifying concerns
By Haoxuan Yu, Remco van de Pas, Izni Zahidi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Comorbidities Coma Scale (CoCoS): Psychometric Properties and Clinical Usefulness in Patients With Disorders of Consciousness

Frontiers in Neurology, 2019
Although comorbidities have a well-known impact on the functional recovery of patients with disorders of consciousness, including coma, vegetative state (VS), and minimally conscious state (MCS), a specific tool for their assessment in this challenging ...
Francesca Pistoia, Antonio Carolei, Yelena G. Bodien, Yelena G. Bodien, Sheldon Greenfield, Sherrie Kaplan, Simona Sacco, Caterina Pistarini, Alfonsina Casalena, Antonio De Tanti, Benedetta Cazzulani, Gianluca Bellaviti, Marco Sarà, Joseph Giacino   +13 more
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Care pathways models and clinical outcomes in disorders of consciousness [PDF]

, 2017
Objective: Patients with Disorders of consciousness, are persons with extremely low functioning levels and represent a challenge for health care systems due to their high needs of facilitating environmental factors.
Antoniono, Elena, Arcuri, Francesco, Avesani, Renato, Bramanti, Placido, Buffoni, Mara, Cardinale, Viviana, Corallo, Francesco, Corsico, Paolo, D'ippolito, Mariagrazia, De Nigris, Fulvio, De Torres, Laura, Dessi, Barbara, Dolce, Giuliano, Estraneo, Anna, Feller, Sandro, Ferro, Salvatore, Fogar, Paolo, Formisano, Rita, Lamberti, Gianfranco, Lanzillotti, Crocifissa, Leonardi, Matilde, Martinuzzi, Andrea, Mazza, Luigi, Morganti, Laura, Navarro, Jorge, Pessina, Adriano, Piperno, Roberto, Salvi, Luca, Sattin, Davide, Scarponi, Federico, Vassallo, Claudio, Zampolini, Mauro, Zavatta, Elena   +32 more
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Hard, Harder, and the Hardest Problem: The Society of Cognitive Selves [PDF]

, 2020
The hard problem of consciousness is explicating how moving matter becomes thinking matter. Harder yet is the problem of spelling out the mutual determinations of individual experiences and the experiencing self.
Posina, Venkata Rayudu
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Corn Zein Nanocarriers for Agrochemical Delivery and Smart Packaging

Advanced Sustainable Systems, EarlyView.
This review explores zein, a corn‐derived biodegradable protein, as a multifunctional nanocarrier for sustainable agriculture and packaging. It examines advances in agrochemical delivery, smart packaging, and stimuli‐responsive systems, while addressing scalability, environmental fate, and regulatory barriers.
Muhammad Shahidul Islam, Debela T. Tadele, Tizazu H. Mekonnen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Methodological Artefacts in Consciousness Science [PDF]

, 2017
Consciousness is scientifically challenging to study because of its subjective aspect. This leads researchers to rely on report-based experimental paradigms in order to discover neural correlates of consciousness (NCCs).
Michel, Matthias
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