Author: Keith Burgess-Jackson ABSTRACT Mass homicides, of which school shootings are a species, are all too common. What makes them philosophically interesting is that the usual punishments for such crimes are ineffective. How does one deter a person who is … Continue reading
Authors: Deqing Yang, Rong Liu, Yongsheng Wang, Minrui Ou, Junjie Gu ABSTRACT Amino acids have been extracted from Hairtail surimi using enzymes in an ultra-high pressure bioreactor. The extraction efficiency of different enzymes including papain, trypsin, and proteases (acid, … Continue reading
Authors: Teresa Simões, Ana Estanqueiro, Jorge Maia Alves ABSTRACT In recent years the publication of new legislation in the renewables sector, namely the one related to microgeneration systems, has contributed to an increase in the installation of renewable energy systems … Continue reading
Authors: Ravinder Jerath, Connor Beveridge, Michael Jensen, Ruchir Paladiya ABSTRACT Excessive distress and insomnia are much too common in the modern world and often lead to a myriad of detrimental effects including loss of cognitive ability and even physical ailments … Continue reading
Authors: Daniela Casimiro, José Guerreiro ABSTRACT Maritime spatial planning is considered a key instrument for the success of integrated maritime policy. MSP is therefore an integrated approach to address the conflicting and competing uses of ocean resources and spaces in … Continue reading
Author: Demetri Kantarelis ABSTRACT It appears that in today’s brand-proliferating, constantly market-segmenting and technologically evolving global economy, consumer perceptions affect an entire industry in which brand loyalty is possible such as the extremely hot and rapidly developing global smartphone industry. … Continue reading
Authors: Abdulaziz Alshammari, Mohamed A Zohdy, Debatosh Debnath, George Corser ABSTRACT Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) technology has recently emerged, and gaining significant attention from the research because it is promising technologies related to Intelligent Transportation System (ITSs) and smart cities. … Continue reading
Authors: Lusine Gasparyan, Ilya Mazo, Vahan Simonyan, Ferdinand Gasparyan ABSTRACT The results of comparative theoretical analyzes of the behavior of internal low-frequency noises, signal-to-noise ratio and sensitivity to DNA molecules for EIS and ISFET based nanosize biosensors are presented. It … Continue reading
Authors: Paula Costa, Teresa Simões, Ana Estanqueiro ABSTRACT A Geographical Information System (GIS) methodology was developed to identify and characterize suitable areas for deploying renewable energy projects. The methodology enables to compute the sustainable renewable energy potential in an area … Continue reading
Authors: Behnam Kheyraddini Mousavi, Arash Kheyraddini Mousavu, Tito Busani, Mani Hossein Zadeh, S. R. J. Brueck ABSTRACT Nanostructured, sub-wavelength anti-reflection layers (NALs) have attracted much attention as a new generation of anti-reflection surfaces. Among different designs, sub-wavelength periodic nanostructures are … Continue reading