item: #1 of 46 id: cord-006947-nrzjedhi author: Dasgupta, S title: Nano- and microparticles at fluid and biological interfaces date: 2017-09-20 words: 18461 flesch: 45 summary: The temporary nature of contact-line pinning can be observed for instance for metastable orientations of dumbbell-shaped particles at interfaces; the distribution of particle orientations relaxes towards the globally stable particle orientation when the system ages particle orientations For non-spherical particles, the orientation of the particles at interfaces, as well as particle shape, size, and surface properties have to be taken into account to determine adsorption energies and interface deformations. keywords: adhesion; angle; aspect; bending; capillary; contact; curvature; deformations; ellipsoidal; energies; energy; figure; fluid; forces; interactions; interface; line; membrane; nanoparticles; orientation; particles; shape; surface; systems; tension; wrapping cache: cord-006947-nrzjedhi.txt plain text: cord-006947-nrzjedhi.txt item: #2 of 46 id: cord-026501-4ddala5r author: Pastukhova, Maria title: Governing the Global Energy Transformation date: 2020-03-26 words: 9190 flesch: 42 summary: If governance of the energy transition is to be exercised effectively and efficiently, a common understanding of 'energy transition' seems to be helpful and necessary. Nowadays, 'energy transition' is a concept widely accepted and operationalized by national governments, regional and international bodies and non-governmental organizations alike. keywords: climate; countries; economic; energy; energy transformation; energy transition; fossil; g20; global; governance; irena; level; security; system; transformation; transition; world cache: cord-026501-4ddala5r.txt plain text: cord-026501-4ddala5r.txt item: #3 of 46 id: cord-027376-c2n9w7un author: Sokolov, Andrii title: Simulation Methodology for Electron Transfer in CMOS Quantum Dots date: 2020-05-25 words: 4426 flesch: 50 summary: The electric potential developed in the silicon channel allows us to calculate the modulation of the edge of the conduction band and the formation of potential energy wells in the channel. We demonstrated two case studies: the electron transport through multiple QDs and the construction of an X-rotation gate, and showed the effect of decoherence due to potential energy fluctuations. Decoherence by quantum telegraph noise: a numerical evaluation Improved exponential split operator method for solving the time-dependent schrödinger equation A mixed-signal control core for a fully integrated semiconductor quantum computer system-on-chip Decoherence in qubits due to lowfrequency noise CMOS position-based charge qubits: theoretical analysis of control and entanglement Quantum dephasing induced by non-markovian random telegraph noise Universal quantum hamiltonians Rotation and phase-shift operations for a charge qubit in a double quantum dot Photon enhanced interaction and entanglement in semiconductor position-based qubits Modeling of semiconductor electrostatic qubits realized through coupled quantum dots Split-operator spectral method for solving the timedependent schrödinger equation in spherical coordinates Quantum Mechanics -Non-Relativistic Theory Qubit gates with simultaneous transport in double quantum dots The harmonic oscillator in quantum mechanics: a third way Two-channel kondo phases and frustration-induced transitions in triple quantum dots Theoretical Concepts of Quantum Mechanics. keywords: case; electron; energy; function; method; potential; quantum; qubits; system; time cache: cord-027376-c2n9w7un.txt plain text: cord-027376-c2n9w7un.txt item: #4 of 46 id: cord-030610-zjymmuuy author: Li, Jun title: Respiration‐driven triboelectric nanogenerators for biomedical applications date: 2020-08-09 words: 9188 flesch: 37 summary: Both types of respiration energy from air flow and chest/abdomen movement have been actively investigated for TENG designs for electricity generation. Still powered by respiration energy, this tandem system achieved a high detection gas response of 34, fast response time of 11 seconds, and recovery time of only 20 seconds. keywords: air; applications; beam; device; energy; figure; frequency; harvesting; human; mode; monitoring; nanogenerator; output; power; rate; respiration; self; sensor; teng cache: cord-030610-zjymmuuy.txt plain text: cord-030610-zjymmuuy.txt item: #5 of 46 id: cord-031330-zgzq35fe author: Kumar, Durgesh title: In-silico prediction of novel drug-target complex of nsp3 of CHIKV through molecular dynamic simulation date: 2020-08-24 words: 5117 flesch: 48 summary: MD trajectories were studied to collect the information about the nsp3 of CHIKV with and without screened compound and then, MM-GBSA calculations were performed to calculate change in binding free energies for the formation of complex. In this protocol, Method A (Protein-Ligand Complex) was used to estimation of binding free energy and these molecules are listed in Table 2 . keywords: binding; chikv; complex; compounds; drug; energy; molecules; nsp3; simulations; table; target cache: cord-031330-zgzq35fe.txt plain text: cord-031330-zgzq35fe.txt item: #6 of 46 id: cord-031641-x51pprjt author: Beyer, Dirk title: CPU Energy Meter: A Tool for Energy-Aware Algorithms Engineering date: 2020-03-13 words: 2717 flesch: 51 summary: In order to make energy measurements as easy as possible, we integrated CPU Energy Meter into BenchExec, a benchmarking tool that is already used by many researchers and competitions in the domain of formal methods. The tool CPU Energy Meter makes it easy and convenient to access energy measurements done by the CPU for various of its parts. keywords: consumption; cpu; energy; meter; time; tool cache: cord-031641-x51pprjt.txt plain text: cord-031641-x51pprjt.txt item: #7 of 46 id: cord-033693-zx5g5dyg author: Hardon, Anita title: Chemical 24/7 date: 2020-10-14 words: 7940 flesch: 60 summary: This study reported that energy drink use was associated with poor sleep and tiredness the next day (Patrick et al. 2018) , an observation also made in a study of energy drinks by US soldiers in Afghanistan (CDC 2010) . Ella and her coworkers would regularly consume such energy drinks in large volumes, often mixing five or six sachets with a jug of cold water. keywords: caffeine; cocaine; drinks; drug; effects; energy; energy drinks; guards; night; people; security; sleep; stimulants; use; work; workers; working cache: cord-033693-zx5g5dyg.txt plain text: cord-033693-zx5g5dyg.txt item: #8 of 46 id: cord-034362-4xdtbbzb author: Remesar, Xavier title: Dietary Energy Partition: The Central Role of Glucose date: 2020-10-19 words: 18445 flesch: 42 summary: • Intervention of microbiota through transformation/catabolism or even synthesis of amino acids [98] ; • Further transformation/catabolism by the intestine and the liver before overall distribution [99] ; • Sparsely known real catabolic pathways for many amino acids [100-103] in humans; • The absence of specific amino acid/protein reserves; • The lack of knowledge on the regulation of essential amino acids; • The gross differences between measured calorimetric pump energy content of proteins and the real energy obtained in vivo from amino acids according to the known (or assumed) metabolic pathways [103] ; • The assumed relatively small amount of actually oxidized amino acids derived from the diet compared with carbohydrates and lipids; • The uncertainty on how the N of amino acids is processed and excreted [104] , which directly affects the estimations of dietary amino acid use [105] ; • The diversity and complexity of amino acid catabolism; • The common absence of data on diet protein amino acid composition. The main, basic studies on our handling of diet amino acids, protein synthesis, and recycling of amino N were done essentially more than half century ago, and they were invariably focused on the ways to preserve N, the mechanisms to survive under conditions of starvation [113] , dietary protein deprivation [114] and, globally, malnutrition keywords: acids; amino; ammonia; body; carbohydrate; cycle; diet; energy; excess; fat; fatty; glucose; human; insulin; lactate; liver; mechanisms; metabolism; obesity; protein; pyruvate; regulation; substrates; tissue; use cache: cord-034362-4xdtbbzb.txt plain text: cord-034362-4xdtbbzb.txt item: #9 of 46 id: cord-034852-adhq1zt9 author: Makarieva, Anastassia M. title: Life’s Energy and Information: Contrasting Evolution of Volume- versus Surface-Specific Rates of Energy Consumption date: 2020-09-13 words: 13180 flesch: 49 summary: Assuming, additionally, that complexity generally increases with evolution [19] , higher energy rate densities in organisms that appeared later in the evolution were interpreted as a correlation between energy rate density and complexity. In summary, given that the low q b (1) assumed to characterize the lower life forms in the analyses of Chaisson [15] and previous work appears to be a miscalculation, while phytoplankton q p (2) falls instead on the upper border of all life energy rate densities, little support remains for a progressive increase in energy rate densities or any other consistent change in metabolic allometry with evolution ( Figure 2 ), see also analyses by Ikeda [63] , Johnson et al. keywords: body; consumption; decay; energy; energy consumption; environment; figure; information; life; mass; metabolic; organisms; power; rate; size; time cache: cord-034852-adhq1zt9.txt plain text: cord-034852-adhq1zt9.txt item: #10 of 46 id: cord-102200-9sm4rlao author: Kazi, Aamer title: Specific cutting energy reduction of granite using plasma treatment: A feasibility study for future geothermal drilling date: 2020-12-31 words: 4524 flesch: 55 summary: The plasma treatment showed a maximum of 65% and a minimum of 15% reduction in specific cutting energy and was regarded as being dependent on mainly the hardness and size of the samples. Specific cutting energy is defined as the amount of energy required to remove a unit volume of the workpiece material. keywords: cutting; drilling; energy; geothermal; granite; plasma; power; rock cache: cord-102200-9sm4rlao.txt plain text: cord-102200-9sm4rlao.txt item: #11 of 46 id: cord-104122-klvx927g author: Tayfuroglu, Omer title: An Accurate Free Energy Method for Solvation of Organic Compounds and Binding to Proteins date: 2020-05-28 words: 2413 flesch: 34 summary: The method is adopted from ANI-1ccx neural network potentials (Machine Learning) for the The insertion of the ligand to an environment of solvent (solvation free energy) or receptor (binding free energy) can be defined by a coupling parameter, λ. 61 key: cord-104122-klvx927g authors: Tayfuroglu, Omer; Yildiz, Muslum; Pearson, Lee-Wright; Kocak, Abdulkadir title: An Accurate Free Energy Method for Solvation of Organic Compounds and Binding to Proteins date: 2020-05-28 journal: bioRxiv DOI: 10.1101/2020.05.26.116459 sha: doc_id: 104122 cord_uid: klvx927g Here, we introduce a new strategy to estimate free energies using single end-state molecular dynamics simulation trajectories. keywords: binding; energies; energy; learning; ligand; methods; simulations cache: cord-104122-klvx927g.txt plain text: cord-104122-klvx927g.txt item: #12 of 46 id: cord-239720-efbfqnem author: Axelrod, Simon title: GEOM: Energy-annotated molecular conformations for property prediction and molecular generation date: 2020-06-09 words: 6442 flesch: 51 summary: Second, conformer energies are determined with classical force fields, which are rather inaccurate [73] . Hit validation Nontargeted metabolomics reveals the multilevel response to antibiotic perturbations Conformations and 3D pharmacophore searching Confab -Systematic generation of diverse low-energy conformers RDKit: Open-source cheminformatics Conformational analysis using distance geometry methods A sobering assessment of small-molecule force field methods for low energy conformer predictions Neural message passing for quantum chemistry Analyzing learned molecular representations for property prediction Discriminative embeddings of latent variable models for structured data Chemprop Machine Learning for Molecular Property Prediction Extensions of marginalized graph kernels Rectified linear units improve restricted boltzmann machines SchNet-A deep learning architecture for molecules and materials Neural networks for Atomistic systems Conformational entropy in molecular recognition by proteins Extended-connectivity fingerprints A simple representation of three-dimensional molecular structure Universal structure conversion method for organic molecules: from atomic connectivity to three-dimensional geometry Converts and [sic] xyz file to an RDKit mol object Attention is all you need keywords: conformers; dropout; energy; features; graph; information; learning; models; molecular; molecules; prediction; schnet cache: cord-239720-efbfqnem.txt plain text: cord-239720-efbfqnem.txt item: #13 of 46 id: cord-252529-t8tannlh author: Vaka, Mahesh title: A review on Malaysia’s solar energy pathway towards carbon-neutral Malaysia beyond Covid’19 pandemic date: 2020-07-13 words: 7241 flesch: 43 summary: key: cord-252529-t8tannlh authors: Vaka, Mahesh; Walvekar, Rashmi; Rasheed, Abdul Khaliq; Khalid, Mohammad title: A review on Malaysia’s solar energy pathway towards carbon-neutral Malaysia beyond Covid’19 pandemic date: 2020-07-13 journal: J Clean Prod DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.122834 sha: doc_id: 252529 cord_uid: t8tannlh COVID’19 pandemic has devastated several industries and solar energy is no exception. According to the Malaysian Investment Development Authority (MIDA), thriving RE technologies in Malaysia include solar energy, hydroelectric and biomass. keywords: demand; development; electricity; emission; energy; future; government; grid; malaysia; policies; policy; power; technology cache: cord-252529-t8tannlh.txt plain text: cord-252529-t8tannlh.txt item: #14 of 46 id: cord-253212-ygmkul62 author: Khrennikov, Andrei title: Social Laser Model for the Bandwagon Effect: Generation of Coherent Information Waves date: 2020-05-17 words: 9057 flesch: 48 summary: We present the basic notions of this theory such as social energy (Section 2.2)) and social atom, human gain medium (Section 2.3), information field (Section 2.4), the energy levels structure of social atoms (Section 2.6), and spontaneous and stimulated emission of information excitations (Section 2.8). The basic distinguishing property of such waves is that they carry huge amounts of social energy. keywords: atoms; color; communications; echo; energy; excitations; field; information; information field; laser; mirror; quantum; quasi cache: cord-253212-ygmkul62.txt plain text: cord-253212-ygmkul62.txt item: #15 of 46 id: cord-255036-vpw40g40 author: Zhang, L.Z. title: Thermodynamic modeling of a novel air dehumidification system date: 2004-08-14 words: 3620 flesch: 49 summary: In this system, a membrane based total heat exchanger is used to pre-cool the fresh air before it is pumped to a refrigeration system for air dehumidification. In hot and humid regions like Guangzhou, air dehumidification is required most of the year. keywords: air; dehumidification; energy; heat; membrane; moisture; system; transfer cache: cord-255036-vpw40g40.txt plain text: cord-255036-vpw40g40.txt item: #16 of 46 id: cord-257213-ukr5a4g3 author: Garcia, Davide Astiaso title: Developing and testing a new tool to foster wind energy sector industrial skills date: 2020-10-06 words: 2630 flesch: 33 summary: Hence, using ICT, this research proposes the development of an innovative training tool in the RE sector, 145 particularly focused on wind energy sector. The present status and challenges of wind energy education and 732 training in China Rewards in gamification Investment efficiency of the new energy industry in china China's SO2 shadow prices and environmental technical 738 efficiency at the province level 595 This research has been carried out within the SkillWind project co-funded by Erasmus+ Programme of the 596 European Union (2015-1-ES01-KA202-015935). keywords: energy; learning; research; sector; training; wind cache: cord-257213-ukr5a4g3.txt plain text: cord-257213-ukr5a4g3.txt item: #17 of 46 id: cord-264867-ezsy76mx author: Rahman, Hamidur title: The recent advancement of low-dimensional nanostructured materials for drug delivery and drug sensing application: A brief review date: 2020-09-30 words: 29153 flesch: 41 summary: First, N. Abdolahi et al. investigated the adsorption properties of CXB drug adsorption on B 12 N 12 fullerene (BNNC) and found that BNNC can be a potential candidate for the nano-vehicle of CXB to transfer it into the targeted cell [367] . Final results of the CONKO 003 study Efficacy and safety profile of gemcitabine in nonsmall-cell lung cancer: A phase II study Activity of gemcitabine in patients with non-small cell lung cancer: A multicentre, extended phase II study Gemcitabine plus paclitaxel versus paclitaxel monotherapy in patients with metastatic breast cancer and prior anthracycline treatment Fatal pulmonary toxicity resulting from treatment with gemcitabine Severe acute lung injury induced by gemcitabine A density functional theory-based analysis of the structural, topological and electronic properties of gemcitabine drug adsorption on the pyrrolidine functionalized single-walled carbon nanotube Flutamide-induced hepatotoxicity: report of a case series Severe gynecomastia due to anti androgens intake: A case report and literature review Mechanism of action and pure antiandrogenic properties of flutamide Assessment of the adsorption mechanism of Flutamide anticancer drug on the functionalized single-walled carbon nanotube surface as a drug delivery vehicle: An alternative theoretical approach based on DFT and MD Assessment of solvent effects on the interaction of Carmustine drug with the pristine and COOH-functionalized single-walled carbon nanotubes: A DFT perspective Metformin use and prostate cancer in Caucasian men: Results from a population-based case-control study Metformin and pathologic complete responses to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in diabetic patients with breast cancer Antidiabetic Therapies Affect Risk of Pancreatic Cancer Quantum Chemical Study on the adsorption of metformin drug on the surface of pristine, Si-and Al-doped (5, 5) SWCNTs, Phys. keywords: adsorbate; adsorbent; adsorption energy; adsorption properties; anticancer drug; bnnt; boron; carbon; charge; chemical; debye; decrease; delivery system; dft; drug adsorption; drug carrier; drug delivery; drug interaction; drug sensor; drugs; effects; energy gap; et al; functional; graphene; increase; interaction; interaction energy; kcal; l energy; mol; nanotubes; nitride; potential; pristine; r n; structure; study; swcnt; system; theory cache: cord-264867-ezsy76mx.txt plain text: cord-264867-ezsy76mx.txt item: #18 of 46 id: cord-276178-0hrs1w7r author: Bangotra, Deep Kumar title: An Intelligent Opportunistic Routing Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks and Its Application Towards e-Healthcare date: 2020-07-13 words: 9222 flesch: 56 summary: The constraint of energy in sensor nodes has affected the transmission of data from one node to another and therefore, requires boundless methods, policies, and strategies to overcome this challenge [7] . The constraint of energy in sensor nodes has affected the transmission of data from one node to another and therefore, requires boundless methods, policies, and strategies to overcome this challenge [7] . keywords: data; energy; network; node; packet; protocol; relay; routing; sensor; source cache: cord-276178-0hrs1w7r.txt plain text: cord-276178-0hrs1w7r.txt item: #19 of 46 id: cord-278900-3rfb1b71 author: Fell, Michael J. title: Validity of energy social research during and after COVID-19: challenges, considerations, and responses date: 2020-06-13 words: 6188 flesch: 36 summary: key: cord-278900-3rfb1b71 authors: Fell, Michael J.; Pagel, Laura; Chen, Chien-fei; Goldberg, Matthew H.; Herberz, Mario; Huebner, Gesche M.; Sareen, Siddharth; Hahnel, Ulf J.J. title: Validity of energy social research during and after COVID-19: challenges, considerations, and responses date: 2020-06-13 journal: Energy Res Soc Sci DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2020.101646 sha: doc_id: 278900 cord_uid: 3rfb1b71 Measures to control the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are having unprecedented impacts on people’s lives around the world. We argue that they are especially important for those domains of energy social research that claim broad generalisability to their findings and insights, with limited focus on context. keywords: covid-19; data; energy; findings; measures; pandemic; research; researchers; validity; variables cache: cord-278900-3rfb1b71.txt plain text: cord-278900-3rfb1b71.txt item: #20 of 46 id: cord-283133-jspfwuqu author: Farangi, Mostafa title: The environmental and economic analysis of grid-connected photovoltaic power systems with silicon solar panels, in accord with the new energy policy in Iran date: 2020-07-01 words: 5767 flesch: 46 summary: Renewable energy policy Similar to other countries in the world, there has been a growing trend toward the utilization of sustainable energies in Iran, too. These policies can be listed as follows: Feed-in tariff (FIT) policy is an energy-supply policy concentrated on supporting the progress of renewable energy plans by proposing long period purchase arrangements for the sale of renewable energy electricity. keywords: electricity; emissions; energy; grid; iran; plants; policy; power; scale; years cache: cord-283133-jspfwuqu.txt plain text: cord-283133-jspfwuqu.txt item: #21 of 46 id: cord-283907-ev1ghlwl author: Cao, Lingyan title: Electrical load prediction of healthcare buildings through single and ensemble learning date: 2020-11-30 words: 8759 flesch: 38 summary: Similar to the research conducted in general buildings, electrical load prediction models for healthcare buildings can also be classified into physical and data-driven models. In the ensemble machine learning category, XG-Boost and Random Forest, are popular energy prediction models which builds a decision tree in a sequential and parallel way, respectively. keywords: buildings; consumption; data; energy; ensemble; et al; healthcare; hospital; learning; load; machine; models; performance; prediction cache: cord-283907-ev1ghlwl.txt plain text: cord-283907-ev1ghlwl.txt item: #22 of 46 id: cord-287248-otbiiybs author: Lacey-Barnacle, Max title: Proximities of energy justice: contesting community energy and austerity in England date: 2020-08-21 words: 10799 flesch: 33 summary: While the participant observation technique was used to build connections to local energy communities, the in-depth interviews facilitated a much deeper conversation with research participants to explore the complexity of individual experiences and relationships between different organisations, alongside how these experiences and relationships relate to contesting local energy transitions and issues of local geography. key: cord-287248-otbiiybs authors: Lacey-Barnacle, Max title: Proximities of energy justice: contesting community energy and austerity in England date: 2020-08-21 journal: Energy Res Soc Sci DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2020.101713 sha: doc_id: 287248 cord_uid: otbiiybs Spatial inequities are deeply embedded in low-carbon energy transition processes. keywords: alw; bristol; carbon; carbon energy; communities; community; community energy; energy; energy justice; injustice; justice; lawrence; lawrence weston; lcg; local; transitions; weston cache: cord-287248-otbiiybs.txt plain text: cord-287248-otbiiybs.txt item: #23 of 46 id: cord-291179-p2ro0zdj author: Brown, Marilyn A. title: Estimating employment from energy-efficiency investments date: 2020-06-08 words: 3175 flesch: 45 summary: These may challenge the ability of energy economy models of historic U.S. conditions as used in this study to provide robust forecasts of employment from energy efficiency investments in the future. Responding to this, we increased the share of energy efficiency investment allocated to the sector. keywords: effects; efficiency; employment; energy; investments; jobs; sectors cache: cord-291179-p2ro0zdj.txt plain text: cord-291179-p2ro0zdj.txt item: #24 of 46 id: cord-291909-x0sfwqnk author: Butler, Colin D. title: Environmental Health, Planetary Boundaries and Limits to Growth date: 2019-09-12 words: 7950 flesch: 45 summary: This entry has reviewed the issue of Limits to Growth, its more modern formulation as Planetary Boundaries and the relevance of both concepts to global population health. CFCs, by harming the stratospheric ozone layer, clearly impinge on an Earth System function (and thus indirectly on human environmental health); the destruction of the stratospheric ozone layer causes UV light to reach the earth's surface to a greater extent than prior to the widespread use of CFCs, leading to the potential for an increased incidence of skin cancer, ocular problems and immunosuppression. keywords: biodiversity; change; climate; decline; diseases; earth; energy; entities; food; growth; health; human; land; ltg; novel; population; services; system; world cache: cord-291909-x0sfwqnk.txt plain text: cord-291909-x0sfwqnk.txt item: #25 of 46 id: cord-293304-kakxmc14 author: Achutha, A. S. title: Theoretical Insights into the Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Activity of Chloroquine and Its Analogs and In Silico Screening of Main Protease Inhibitors date: 2020-09-22 words: 5899 flesch: 50 summary: Binding energy obtained for docking CQ and HCQ with 3CL pro and PfDHFR-TS; structure of CQ analogs with 4-aminoquinoline scaffold; structure of chloroquine analogs with quinoline scaffold, values for internal and external validation criteria, binding energy values of training and test molecules predicted with Model 2; domains and active site of 6LU7 bound with inhibitor N3; 2D interaction diagrams of docked complexes of CQ, HCQ with 3CL pro ; docked poses of CQ and HCQ in active site of 6LU7; 2D interaction diagrams of 29, 25, 22, 8, 24, 1, and 10 with 6LU7; structures of screened compounds from Asinex compound library; 2D interaction diagram of compounds having unfavorable interaction with target; 2D interaction diagrams of Asinex compounds with 6LU7 protein (PDF) Research and Development on Therapeutic Agents and Vaccines for COVID-19 and Related Human Coronavirus Diseases Diagnosing COVID-19: The Disease and Tools for Detection A Review of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Based on Current Evidence Coronavirus Disease 2019: Model 2 was selected for further studies since it was the best fit model with next highest R 2 and Q 2 loo , which represents the fitness, robustness of the model, and the proximity of actual and predicted binding energy values. keywords: 3cl; binding; chloroquine; compounds; cys145; docking; energy; hcq; interactions; model; molecular; protein cache: cord-293304-kakxmc14.txt plain text: cord-293304-kakxmc14.txt item: #26 of 46 id: cord-294202-74ixazg4 author: Morris, Wyn title: Renewable energy diversification: Considerations for farm business resilience date: 2020-10-19 words: 7898 flesch: 37 summary: On farm renewable energy generation could be an additional contribution where agriculture can assist in tackling climate change and support the rural economy. key: cord-294202-74ixazg4 authors: Morris, Wyn; Bowen, Robert title: Renewable energy diversification: Considerations for farm business resilience date: 2020-10-19 journal: J Rural Stud DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2020.10.014 sha: doc_id: 294202 cord_uid: 74ixazg4 With a varied landscape, Wales is resource rich in terms of wind and water and a suitable location to develop many different forms of sustainable energy. keywords: activities; adoption; diversification; energy; farm; farmers; income; opportunities; resources; rural; wales cache: cord-294202-74ixazg4.txt plain text: cord-294202-74ixazg4.txt item: #27 of 46 id: cord-303102-ap1dzbp9 author: Iqbal, Sajid title: It is time to control the worst: testing COVID-19 outbreak, energy consumption and CO(2) emission date: 2020-11-12 words: 7948 flesch: 41 summary: The estimate of energy consumption is further classified into different proxies, such as energy consumptions (EC) are substituted with electricity consumptions (EC1) and fossil energy consumptions (EC2). It is time to control the worst: testing COVID-19 outbreak, energy consumption and CO(2) emission date: 2020-11-12 journal: keywords: carbon; covid-19; covid-19 outbreak; effect; emission; energy consumption; energy sector; impact; lockdown; oil; pakistan; pandemic; policy; sector; study cache: cord-303102-ap1dzbp9.txt plain text: cord-303102-ap1dzbp9.txt item: #28 of 46 id: cord-304887-7ly692to author: Skoczkowski, Tadeusz title: Technology Innovation System analysis of decarbonisation options in the EU steel industry date: 2020-08-28 words: 15615 flesch: 35 summary: Rising costs of energy make ITs more profitable The large share of public funds allocated for green economy envisaged in the EU financial perspective for 2021-2028 Growing unwillingness or even ban on financing non-sustainable investments (like coal power stations) with a risk of extension on other EII, e.g. I&S industry The expected positive impact of EU ETS on low-carbon technological up-take in I&S industry after 2020 (Modernisation Fund, Innovation Fund) technologies from environmental funds Lack of new business models in I&S industries rewarding TI Source: Own work. We built on the existing knowledge but unlike other analysis of I&S industry, development our TIS-based approach enables to a systematic analysis of the innovation system in a wider dimension than the standard methods, e.g. encompassing societal and environmental issues, networking, external factors. keywords: actors; carbon; climate; decarbonisation; development; efficiency; emission; energy; european; global; i&s industry; industry; innovation; iron; low; market; policy; production; public; r&d; research; steel; steel industry; support; technologies; technology; tis cache: cord-304887-7ly692to.txt plain text: cord-304887-7ly692to.txt item: #29 of 46 id: cord-304935-8gcmqh4e author: Chiriboga, Gonzalo title: Energy Return on Investment (EROI) and Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) of biofuels in Ecuador date: 2020-06-28 words: 6339 flesch: 47 summary: The scenarios vary the proportions of feedstock to estimate energy consumption through linear regression models. -S4 (50%) with energy consumption in the industrial stage equal to 13.85 MJ/kg bioethanol, which is higher than industrial plants in Argentina 11.91 MJ/kg, U.S. 11.80 MJ/ kg, and Chile 12.29 MJ/kg. keywords: african; analysis; biodiesel; biofuels; consumption; ecuador; energy; eroi; ethanol; oil; palm; production; return; use cache: cord-304935-8gcmqh4e.txt plain text: cord-304935-8gcmqh4e.txt item: #30 of 46 id: cord-305429-8pm28fmd author: Almaktar, Mohamed title: Revitalizing Operational Reliability of the Electrical Energy System in Libya: Feasibility Analysis of Solar Generation in Local Communities date: 2020-08-14 words: 3238 flesch: 37 summary: Whereas the incorporation of energy storage system (ESS) in the PV system increases the cost of 652 energy (COE) and the net present value (NPV), utilizing renewable PV systems is more attractive 653 financially than using the diesel generation option. HOMER is utilized to investigate the feasibility of different hybrid energy systems to fulfil the energy On the other hand, NPV is a standard method for using the time value of money to appraise long-term Where i is the nominal interest rate. keywords: electricity; energy; grid; inflation; libya; power; rate; system; tariff cache: cord-305429-8pm28fmd.txt plain text: cord-305429-8pm28fmd.txt item: #31 of 46 id: cord-311868-40bri19f author: Fattahi, A. title: A systemic approach to analyze integrated energy system modeling tools: A review of national models date: 2020-11-30 words: 12191 flesch: 36 summary: The revised Renewable energy Directive: Clean energy for all Europeans A review of computer tools for analysing the integration of renewable energy into various energy systems A review of energy system models A review of energy systems models in the UK: prevalent usage and categorisation A review of current challenges and trends in energy systems modeling Energy systems modeling for twenty-first century energy challenges Are decisions well supported for the energy transition? Only a limited number of energy system models was presented in this review, which is mainly due to limited time, resources, and access to modeling databases. keywords: capabilities; carbon; challenges; criteria; demand; electricity; energy; energy system; esms; flexibility; linking; modeling; models; options; policy; power; resolution; score; storage; system; technologies; transition cache: cord-311868-40bri19f.txt plain text: cord-311868-40bri19f.txt item: #32 of 46 id: cord-318524-704w8ldm author: Kadir, M.A. title: Experimental and DFT data of p-chlorocalix[4]arene as drugs receptor date: 2020-09-02 words: 1358 flesch: 47 summary: Meanwhile, the value of interaction energy was collected from interaction energy calculation, the formula was displayed in equation 3. Theoretical models proposed by Gaussian were applied to measure the optimization energy, binding energy, and interaction energy of pchlorocalix [4] arene with the drugs. keywords: arene; data; energy cache: cord-318524-704w8ldm.txt plain text: cord-318524-704w8ldm.txt item: #33 of 46 id: cord-320490-3jmo35jc author: Ismail, Saba title: Immuno-informatics Characterization SARS-CoV-2 Spike Glycoprotein for Prioritization of Epitope based Multivalent Peptide Vaccine date: 2020-04-12 words: 6758 flesch: 46 summary: The count for other salt bridges from TLR3 to MEPVC is in following order: Asp124-Arg706 (mean, 3, max,7 and min,3), Glu98-Lys679 (mean, 5, max,10 and min,4), Asp402-Arg641 (mean, 12, max, 18 and min, 4), Glu146-Arg706 (mean,7 max,11 and min,3), Glu146-Lys679 (mean,5 max,13 and min,2), Glu272-Lys655 Gln722-Side 0.02% The vital hydrogen bond interactions involved between TLR3 receptor and MEPVC shortlisted by VMD were subjected to a novel AFD analysis to elucidate 3D movements of MEPVC atoms with respect to a reference TLR3 residues atom in simulation time. Residue wise decomposition of net binding energy into TLR3 receptor and MEPVC interacting residues. keywords: binding; complex; coronavirus; energy; epitopes; immune; interactions; kcal; mepvc; mol; protein; receptor; residues; sars; spike; structure; system; tlr3; vaccine cache: cord-320490-3jmo35jc.txt plain text: cord-320490-3jmo35jc.txt item: #34 of 46 id: cord-324185-zt88o3co author: Sovacool, Benjamin K. title: Contextualizing the Covid-19 pandemic for a carbon-constrained world: Insights for sustainability transitions, energy justice, and research methodology date: 2020-10-31 words: 7230 flesch: 35 summary: The energy crises revealed by COVID: intersections of indigeneity, inequity, and health Emergency measures to protect energy consumers during the Covid-19 pandemic: a global review and critical analysis Just transitions: histories and futures in a post-COVID world Culture and low-carbon energytransitions The cultural barriers to a low-carbon future: a review of six mobility and energy transitions across 28 countries The role of Lucha Libre in the construction of Mexican male identity Validity of energy social research during and after COVID-19: challenges, considerations, and responses Scientific research on the coronavirus is being released in a torrent Coronavirus comes home? It features articles that ask, and answer: What are the known and anticipated impacts of Covid-19 on energy demand and climate change? keywords: carbon; change; climate; covid-19; demand; disease; energy; evs; impacts; oil; pandemic; people; research; social; transitions; united; volume cache: cord-324185-zt88o3co.txt plain text: cord-324185-zt88o3co.txt item: #35 of 46 id: cord-325471-fc152wm3 author: Zhang, Xiaqi title: Calculations of energy deposition and ionization in the 2019 novel coronavirus by electron beam irradiation date: 2020-09-04 words: 2550 flesch: 37 summary: When primary electrons interact with a target molecule by inelastic scattering, they lose energy and excite the shell electrons as secondary electrons (SEs). The number of primary electrons was 10 > . keywords: coronavirus; electrons; energy; ionization; novel cache: cord-325471-fc152wm3.txt plain text: cord-325471-fc152wm3.txt item: #36 of 46 id: cord-326749-t727v0zt author: Lee, P. title: Probabilistic risk assessment of the energy saving shortfall in energy performance contracting projects–A case study date: 2013-07-16 words: 7398 flesch: 45 summary: Market Analysis and Forecasts Directive 2006/32/EC of the European Parliament From volatility to value: analysing and managing financial and performance risk in energy savings projects The Investment Risk in Whole-Buildings Energy Efficiency Upgrades Projects Actuarial pricing of energy efficiency projects: lessons foul and fair Evolution of the U.S. energy service company industry: market size and project performance from Promoting energy efficiency investments with risk management decision tools Management Measurement & Verification of Performance contracting American Society of Heating Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Measurement of Energy and Demand Savings, ASHRAE Guideline 14-2002 M&V Guidelines: Measurement and Verification for Federal Energy Projects International Performance Measurement & Verification Protocol Sensitivity analysis techniques for building thermal simulation programs Sensitivity analysis of energy performance of office buildings Multi-parameter building thermal analysis using the lattice method for global optimisation Energy efficient building design using sensitivity analysis-a case study Sensitivity analysis and energy conservation measures implications A comprehensive analysis of the impact of occupancy parameters in energy simulation of office buildings Probability Concepts in Engineering: Emphasis on Applications in Civil & Environmental Engineering Practical application of uncertainty analysis Comparative analysis of support mechanisms for renewable energy technologies using probability distributions Uncertainty sensitivity analysis of building performance using probabilistic climate projections: a UK case study, Automation in Construction Uncertainty analysis in building performance simulation for design support Method and case study of quantitative uncertainty analysis in building energy consumption inventories Constructing design weather data for future climates Developing a modified typical meteorological year weather file for Hong Kong taking into account the urban heat island effect Height construction costs of residential high-rise buildings in Shanghai EnergyPlus Energy Simulation Software, Version 7 American Society of Heating Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Standard Method of Test for the Evaluation of Building Energy Analysis Computer Programs, ASHRAE Code of Practice for Energy Efficiency of Building Services Installation, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Climate Change in Hong Kong in, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Monthly Climatological Normals for Hong Kong ASHRAE Handbook: Fundamentals, ASHARE Climatological Information Services, Extracts of Climatological Data, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Diurnal temperature range as an index of global climate change during the twentieth century Commercial Property for Lease and for Sale Assessing energy performance in the latest versions of Hong Kong building environmental assessment method (HK-BEAM) As such, energy retrofitting of existing building services equipment can yield significant amount of energy savings. keywords: analysis; building; chiller; data; energy; hong; kong; method; parameters; retrofit; savings; simulation; study; temperature; weather cache: cord-326749-t727v0zt.txt plain text: cord-326749-t727v0zt.txt item: #37 of 46 id: cord-327278-2n9eo1n8 author: Gil-Alana, Luis A. title: The relationship between energy consumption and prices. Evidence from futures and spot markets in Spain and Portugal date: 2020-09-30 words: 6009 flesch: 45 summary: Energy consumption, cultural background and payment structure Modeling energy demand: some emerging issues Weather and market specificities in the regional transmission of renewable energy price effects A review of current challenges and trends in energy systems modeling Modelling and measuring price discovery in commodity markets An analysis of time-varying commodity market price discovery Electricity price forecasting: a review of the state-of-the-art with a look into the future Recent advances in electricity price forecasting: a review of probabilistic forecasting Price discovery in energy markets Modeling electricity spot and futures price dependence: a multifrequency approach Forecasting electricity prices and their volatilities using Unobserved Components Component estimation for electricity market data: deterministic or stochastic? Moreover, a close relation between energy consumption and energy prices is found in the spot market whereas it is not found in the futures market. keywords: consumption; demand; electricity; energy; energy consumption; futures; iberian; market; model; prices; series; spot cache: cord-327278-2n9eo1n8.txt plain text: cord-327278-2n9eo1n8.txt item: #38 of 46 id: cord-331829-td9m9ojx author: Kirsch, Stuart title: Running out? Rethinking resource depletion. date: 2020-07-08 words: 2654 flesch: 51 summary: Deep sea oil now accounts for nearly one-third of global oil supplies, and the volume of offshore discoveries greatly outstrips new deposits found on land. While the petroleum industry has not overcome the challenges of oil extraction in the Arctic, especially the outsized risks to fragile environments, its task may be eased somewhat by the melting of the polar ice caps, which will open up formerly inaccessible terrain. keywords: coal; energy; fossil; metals; new; oil cache: cord-331829-td9m9ojx.txt plain text: cord-331829-td9m9ojx.txt item: #39 of 46 id: cord-333338-6mxeq8dg author: Cheshmehzangi, Ali title: COVID-19 and household energy implications: what are the main impacts on energy use? date: 2020-10-09 words: 5772 flesch: 42 summary: key: cord-333338-6mxeq8dg authors: Cheshmehzangi, Ali title: COVID-19 and household energy implications: what are the main impacts on energy use? date: 2020-10-09 journal: Heliyon DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e05202 sha: doc_id: 333338 cord_uid: 6mxeq8dg This study explores the impacts of COVID-19 on household energy use. The study intends to present the results of a small pilot study conducted in China, by addressing household energy use. keywords: consumption; covid-19; energy; energy use; household; household energy; impacts; lockdown; pandemic; study cache: cord-333338-6mxeq8dg.txt plain text: cord-333338-6mxeq8dg.txt item: #40 of 46 id: cord-334329-puwf6ab5 author: Yongjun, Gao title: Electrocatalysts for direct methanol fuel cells to demonstrate China's renewable energy renewable portfolio standards within the framework of the 13th five-year plan date: 2020-10-17 words: 12741 flesch: 30 summary: Economic Development and Cultural Change China and globalization: 40 years of Reform and Opening-up and globalization 4.0 Transition to low carbon energy policies in China-from the China's Five-Year Planning System: Implications for the Reform Agenda Testimony for the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission Environmental Kuznets curve for CO2 emissions in China: A spatial panel data approach International economic integration and environmental protection The current Chinese market reforms (Table 2B ) are designed to promote active research and development of new energy technologies and industries, particularly in green energy and transport (Elliott and Shanshan, 2008) . keywords: carbon; catalyst; china; co2; co2 hydrogenation; copper; development; dioxide; economy; emissions; energy; et al; gas; hydrogenation; methanol; methanol synthesis; new; production; reaction; support; synthesis; technology; water; zno; zro2 cache: cord-334329-puwf6ab5.txt plain text: cord-334329-puwf6ab5.txt item: #41 of 46 id: cord-335330-d8qevnl5 author: Brown, Stephen P.A. title: The continuing evolution of Energy Policy date: 2020-04-09 words: 2843 flesch: 49 summary: The articles published in 2019 covered a wide variety of topics in energy policy including primary energy resources; energy conversion, transportation, transmission and storage; energy use and end-use technologies; energy markets and pricing; Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Energy Policy journal homepage: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/enpol https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111459 energy and society; energy and the environment; investment, financing and other economic issues; and technological change. Over the years, the important policy issues in energy use and supply have changed, and the interest in energy policy issues has grown. keywords: articles; energy; issues; journal; policy; research; use cache: cord-335330-d8qevnl5.txt plain text: cord-335330-d8qevnl5.txt item: #42 of 46 id: cord-337058-rhu5hp9t author: Snyder, Brian F. title: The genetic and cultural evolution of unsustainability date: 2020-04-06 words: 8608 flesch: 33 summary: Instead, we simply note that human populations have repeatedly experienced collapse and in many of these cases, environmental and resource constraints are implicated. We define socio-ecological crisis as a situation in which human populations have expanded close to or beyond their ability to gather energy and materials from their environment which imperils the population and its standard of living. keywords: cultural; energy; environment; evolution; extraction; group; humans; increase; population; selection; socio cache: cord-337058-rhu5hp9t.txt plain text: cord-337058-rhu5hp9t.txt item: #43 of 46 id: cord-343926-47m17k1t author: Kuzemko, Caroline title: Covid-19 and the Politics of Sustainable Energy Transitions date: 2020-07-02 words: 6628 flesch: 45 summary: Unsurprisingly, therefore, the early implications of Covid-19 were also significant but varied for emissions, fossil fuel and sustainable energy. This aspect of the politics of sustainable energy becomes particularly relevant given that lockdown led to, more or less temporary, new social practices. keywords: change; covid-19; demand; energy; fossil; fuel; global; pandemic; politics; recovery; term; time; transitions cache: cord-343926-47m17k1t.txt plain text: cord-343926-47m17k1t.txt item: #44 of 46 id: cord-345024-dtsi9qit author: Brauers, Hanna title: Comparing coal phase-out pathways: The United Kingdom’s and Germany’s diverging transitions date: 2020-10-01 words: 10312 flesch: 44 summary: In the analysis included actor groups are the firms of the incumbent coal regime, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), governments, labour unions, civil society and competitors for coal (this selection is based on Hess (2014) and Turnheim and Geels (2013) and the actors influence on coal transitions). To analyse drivers and hurdles away from coal, two EU countries, where coal mining and using coal for electricity generation played or still plays a major role for the economy, were chosen. keywords: change; climate; coal; coal phase; countries; electricity; energy; generation; germany; government; industry; market; mining; phase; policies; policy; power; regime; renewables cache: cord-345024-dtsi9qit.txt plain text: cord-345024-dtsi9qit.txt item: #45 of 46 id: cord-348594-nevbssd3 author: Boulakhbar, M. title: Towards a large-scale integration of renewable energies in Morocco date: 2020-09-02 words: 10257 flesch: 40 summary: Insights from technological innovation system analysis Xlinks -24/7 Solar Energy from the Sahara to the UK Energy storage technologies and real life applications -A state of the art review État Des Lieux Et Perspectives A review of multi-criteria decision making approaches for evaluating energy storage systems for grid applications A review of energy storage types, applications and recent developments Hybrid energy storage system for microgrids applications: A review Hydrogen energy, economy and storage: Review and recommendation A review and evaluation of thermal insulation materials and methods for thermal energy storage systems A literature review of energy flexibility in district heating with a survey of the stakeholders' participation Energy storage: Applications and challenges Review of energy storage system for wind power integration support Emergence of hybrid energy storage systems in renewable energy and transport applications -A review Review of system topologies for hybrid electrical energy storage systems Technoeconomic assessment of thermal energy storage solutions for a 1 MWe CSP-ORC power plant The role of electricity storage and hydrogen technologies in enabling global low-carbon energy transitions Linking the power and transport sectors -Part 1: The principle of sector coupling Le Maroc se met à la technologie «Power-to-X» A technical and economical assessment of hydrogen production potential from solar energy in Morocco Renewable energydriven desalination technologies: A comprehensive review on challenges and potential applications of integrated systems Future needs for desalination in South Mediterranean countries Global desalination capacity growing substantially, finds study | Water Tech Online Home -Global Water Intelligence Emerging desalination technologies for water treatment: A critical review Fouling mitigation in forward osmosis and membrane distillation for desalination Economic analysis of wind-powered desalination in the south of Morocco An Analysis of the Overall Adoption of RPA | Sia Partners Evaluation and minimisation of energy consumption in a medium-scale reverse osmosis brackish water desalination plant Water desalination by pervaporation -Comparison of energy consumption Desalination experience in Morocco Perspective of renewable desalination by using membrane distillation Hybrid Concentrated Solar Thermal Power Systems: A Review Hybrid concentrated solar thermal power systems: a review Design analysis of MVC desalination unit powered by a grid connected photovoltaic system Ministry of Equipment, Transport, Logistics Moroccan Climate Change Policy Charging stations' statistics in Socio-economic Analysis of Electric Vehicles in Morocco Application of microgrids in addressing distribution network net-load ramping Co-benefits of large scale plug-in hybrid electric vehicle and solar PV deployment A comprehensive study of economic unit M. Boulakhbar commitment of power systems integrating various renewable generations and plug-in electric vehicles Adoption of electric vehicle: A literature review and prospects for sustainability Review of challenges and assessment of electric vehicles integration policy goals: Integrated risk analysis approach Environmental effects of electromobility in a sustainable urban public transport The ultimate smart mobility combination for sustainable transport? key: cord-348594-nevbssd3 authors: Boulakhbar, M.; Lebrouhi, B.; Kousksou, T.; Smouh, S.; Jamil, A.; Maaroufi, M.; Zazi, M. title: Towards a large-scale integration of renewable energies in Morocco date: 2020-09-02 journal: J Energy Storage DOI: 10.1016/j.est.2020.101806 sha: doc_id: 348594 cord_uid: nevbssd3 Renewable energies are a sustainable, unlimited and decarbonised solution to address future energy challenges. keywords: capacity; demand; desalination; development; electricity; energy; energy storage; grid; moroccan; morocco; national; plants; potential; power; production; solar; storage; system; technologies; water; wind cache: cord-348594-nevbssd3.txt plain text: cord-348594-nevbssd3.txt item: #46 of 46 id: cord-351672-7oi9w87s author: Klemeš, Jiří Jaromír title: COVID‐19 pandemic facilitating energy transition opportunities date: 2020-09-30 words: 2671 flesch: 47 summary: However, there have not been only issues which are leading in the post-pandemic period to increase energy consumption. Figure 1 shows the source of energy consumption of IoT development, including data centre (main contributor), machine to machine communications, obsolescence of digital technologies and embodied energy. keywords: consumption; covid-19; data; efficiency; energy; example; new; pandemics cache: cord-351672-7oi9w87s.txt plain text: cord-351672-7oi9w87s.txt