College of Engineering, Swansea University, Centre for Solar Energy Research, UK Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Surrey, UK Department of Mathematics, Physics, and Electrical Engineering, Northumbria University, UK Advanced Technology Institute, University of Surrey, UK Qioptiq Ltd, Qioptiq Space Technology, UK Correspondence Dan A. Lamb, Centre for Solar Energy Research, Co...

J. Mula CIGIP (Research Centre on Production Management and Engineering) Polytechnic University of Valencia Plaza Ferrándiz y Carbonell, 2 03801 Alcoy (Alicante) [email protected] R. Poler CIGIP (Research Centre on Production Management and Engineering) Polytechnic University of Valencia Plaza Ferrándiz y Carbonell, 2 03801 Alcoy (Alicante) [email protected] J.P. García-Sabater CIGIP (Resear...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficiency of resources allocation and sustainability of the use of netupitant+palonosetron (NEPA) for chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) prophylaxis assuming the Italian National Health Service (NHS) perspective. A published Markov model was adapted to assess the incremental cost-utility ratio of NEPA compared with aprepitant (APR) + palonosetron (PALO), ...

Retinoids exhibit chemotherapeutic and chemopreventive activities, possibly due to their ability to modulate cell growth, differentiation, and apoptosis. These effects are thought to be mediated by nuclear retinoic acid (RA) receptors (RARs) and retinoid X receptors, each of which includes three subtypes (alpha, beta, and gamma) that act as transcription factors. To determine whether RARs play ...

Tropical deforestation has many consequences, amongst which alteration of the hydrological cycle and loss of habitat and biodiversity are the focus of much public interest and scientific research. Here we examine the potential biodiversity and hydrological impacts of an extreme deforestation scenario – the loss of all tropical forest areas currently identified by the World Wildlife Fund as bein...

Scientific high-end computing (HEC) has become an important tool for scientists world-wide to understand problems, such as in nuclear fusion, human genomics and nanotechnology. Every year, new HEC systems emerge on the market with better performance and higher scale. With only very few exceptions, the overall availability of recently installed systems has been lower in comparison to the same de...

Human-elephant conflict (HEC) threatens the survival of endangered Asian elephants (Elephas maximus). Translocating "problem-elephants" is an important HEC mitigation and elephant conservation strategy across elephant range, with hundreds translocated annually. In the first comprehensive assessment of elephant translocation, we monitored 16 translocations in Sri Lanka with GPS collars. All tran...

The role, effectiveness, and even existence of hospital ethics committees (HECs) are not universally agreed upon. Over the past 20 years, the study of HECs has focused mainly on their structure, scope, and function, making the results more descriptive than anything. In an effort to present study results that could help HECs better serve the needs of their organizations, the authors of this arti...

This paper presents a modeling application of surface runoff using the Hydrologic Modelling System (HEC-HMS). A case study was carried out for the Jianghe watershed, a typical semi-arid and sub-humid geo-climatic region in northern China. Two modeling schemes using different descriptive sub-mechanism models provided by HEC-HMS for runoff volume, direct runoff and routing (channel flow) were inv...