Academic Articles & Research Papers

Predictors of Five Days Mortality in Diabetic Ketoacidosis Patients: a Prospective Cohort Study

Aim: to determine the role of serum lactate and diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) severity as predictors for five-days mortality in DKA patients. Methods: a prospective cohort study was conducted in DKA patients admitted to emergency department (...

Metabolic perturbations underlying the associations of endocrine-disrupting chemical mixtures with muscle mass and strength in adults: A repeated-measures study

Introduction: Adult exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) may reduce muscle mass and strength; however, few studies considered EDC mixtures and their potential mechanisms. Objectives: We aimed to explore associations of EDC mixt...

An inexact multiple-recourse hybrid-fuel management model with considering carbon reduction requirement for a biofuel-penetrated heating system

In China’s goal of reaching carbon neutrality by 2060, the blending-biofuel-based heating technique is being used to reduce CO2 and air-pollutant emissions in existing district heating systems in northern China. This brings a series of new ...

A recent update on development, synthesis methods, properties and application of natural products derived carbon dots

Abstract Natural resources are practically infinitely abundant in nature, which stimulates scientists to create new materials with inventive uses and minimal environmental impact. Due to the various benefits of natural carbon dots (NCDs) fr...

Isotope engineering of silicon and diamond for quantum computing and sensing applications

Abstract Some of the stable isotopes of silicon and carbon have zero nuclear spin, whereas many of the other elements that constitute semiconductors consist entirely of stable isotopes that have nuclear spins. Silicon and diamond crystals c...

Continuous monitoring biosensors for advanced healthcare and environmental applications: challenges, material innovations and future directions

This review critically discusses the development of continuous monitoring biosensors and the technological developments that have facilitated the transition from one-off or periodic measurement sensors to longer-term, connected and autonomo...

Quantum Error Correction and Fault Tolerant Quantum Computing

Sustainable Quantum Computing

While researchers in both industry and academia are racing to build quantum computing (QC) platforms with viable performance and functionality, the environmental impacts of this endeavor, such as its carbon footprint, e-waste generation, mi...

Neural Network Models for Time Series Forecasts

Neural networks have been advocated as an alternative to traditional statistical forecasting methods. In the present experiment, time series forecasts produced by neural networks are compared with forecasts from six statistical time series ...

Artificial neural networks in process engineering

Artificial neural networks are made up of highly interconnected layers of simple ‘neuron-like’ nodes. The neurons act as nonlinear processing elements within the network. An attractive property of artificial neural networks is that, given t...

Monomer Structure and Discharge Power Influence the Multiscale Architecture of Plasma-Polymerized Hydrocarbon Nanoparticles.

How Progressive Hydrogenation Shapes the Optical Response of Carbon Clusters.

A periodic system of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons for predictive molecular growth processes.

White dwarf + M dwarf Detached Binaries in Long Period Radio Transients: Observed Binary Parameters, Evolution, and Population Constraints

Long period radio transients (LPTs) are the slowest radio-pulsing sources ever found, with the current population spanning periods of seven minutes to over six hours. Two of the thirteen published LPTs, ILT J1101+5521 and GLEAM-X J0704--37,...

Effects of long-term exposure to air pollutant mixture on blood pressure in typical areas of North China

Background: Studies about the combined effects of gaseous air pollutants and particulate matters are still rare. Objectives: This study was performed based on baseline survey of the Diverse Life-Course Cohort in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (B...

An Adaptive Architecture for Long Term Energy Programme Management

Climate change, population growth, changing energy consumption patterns and the advent of feasible renewable energy sources has prompted governments worldwide to set targets for carbon emission reductions. The transition to a ‘near zero emi...

The Carbon Budget of Land Conversion: Sugarcane Expansion and Implications for a Sustainable Bioenergy Landscape in Southeastern United States

ABSTRACT The expansion of sugarcane onto land currently occupied by improved (IMP) and semi‐native (SN) pastures will reshape the U.S. bioenergy landscape. We combined biometric, ground‐based and eddy covariance methods to investigate the i...

Renewable energy and geopolitics: A review

This article reviews the literature on the geopolitics of renewable energy. It finds that while the roots of this literature can be traced back to the 1970s and 1980s, most of it has been published from 2010 onwards. The following aggregate...

The Economics of Renewable Energy

Greater use of renewable energy is seen as a key component of any move to combat climate change, and is being aggressively promoted as such by the new U.S. administration and by other governments.Yet there is little economic analysis of ren...

Modeling Climate Change Issues in Indonesia Based on Media Headlines

Climate change has become a global issue affecting all countries in the last decades. This phenomenon poses a concern to Indonesia as it is one of the climate change’s epicenters. Various studies have shown that climate change can harm mult...