Fossil fuels in the transport and mobility sector can be replaced with several renewable fuels, such as renewable electricity, hydrogen and biomass-to-liquid. When these alternative fuels are used, aspects such as safeguarding supply, economic efficiency, and environmental protection must be taken into account to ensure sustainable change and to create a sustainable society. We introduce a scen...

In this paper, we describe an interactive three-dimensional environment for exploring historical scenarios, and testing theories of decision-making, such as prospect theory or expected utility. The created environment exists within the Neverwinter Nights game engine. The vuser interacts with multiple agents, whose dialogue and action are defined in the NWScript scripting language. The scenarios...

(1) Laboratory for Hydrogeology, Department of Geology-Geography, Faculty of Exact Science, Catholic University of Leuven, Redingenstraat 16, 3000 Leuven, Belgium (2) Department of Hydrogeology and Engineering Geology, University of Miskolc, Miskolc, Hungary (3) Hydrogeology and Environmental Geology, Department of Georesources, Geotechnologies and Building Materials (GEOMAC), University of Liè...

This study examined the moderating roles of threat-salience and physical health on the relationship between age and threat interpretations. During an online study, participants (N=1352, ages 18-91) rated the likelihood of neutral and negative explanations of ambiguous physical (older adult-relevant), social (younger adult-relevant) and general (age-neutral) scenarios. Results were consistent wi...

The role of routine vaccination against poliomyelitis for the post-certification era remains an important area for policy decision-making. Two critical decisions need to be taken: first, to continue or discontinue vaccination with the live attenuated oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV); and second, if OPV is to be discontinued, whether vaccination with inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV) is needed. ...

Background: Extraterrestrial Encounter To date, humanity has not made any form of contact with extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI). But we cannot rule out the possibility that one or more ETI exist in our galaxy, or that we could detect, communicate with, or in other ways have contact with them in the future. There have been many analyses of how contact would proceed, but these tend to focus na...

Illicit drug use creates significant burden at societal, family and personal levels. Every year substantial resources are allocated for treatment and the consequences of illicit drug use in Australia and around the world. Heroin is one of the major forms of illicit drugs. Several independent heroin treatment strategies or interventions exist and state-of-the art research demonstrates their effi...

Worldwide food security and water safety issues necessitate countries with low water use efficiency of crop production (CWUE) to increase it and reduce regional CWUE variations. CWUE function was estimated with stochastic frontier analysis, and CWUE variation was decomposed on inter-continental, intra-continental and international level with variance decomposition method. It is proposed that in...