Working time reduction (WTR) is a policy that could improve quality of life while reducing environmental impacts. However, WTR coupled with a salary reduction may benefit only higher-income earners and increase social inequalities. Against this background, we analyze ho...

Funding Information: S.T. and P.S. are both supported by Melbourne Research Scholarship, awarded by the University of Melbourne. F.D.C. has been supported with “Progetto di ricerca di rilevante interesse nazionale; Bando PRIN 2017-Progetto 2017X7Z8S3.” Publisher Copyrig...

Shocks are one of nature’s most powerful particle accelerators and have been connected to relativistic electron acceleration and cosmic rays. Upstream shock observations include wave generation, wave-particle interactions and magnetic compressive structures, while at th...

Ceramic-based packed bed solutions are becoming more common in the energy fields as both thermal energy storage and heat exchanger. Such solutions are usually designed for the working temperature ranges above600 ◦C, thus thermal radiation becomes significant and even ac...

The large majority of previous work on human-robot conversations in a second language has been performed with a human wizard-of-Oz. The reasons are that automatic speech recognition of non-native conversational speech is considered to be unreliable and that the dialogue...

A hybrid energy storage system (HESS) consisting of batteries and supercapacitors (SCs) is an effective approach to stability problems brought by renewable energy sources (RESs) in microgrids. This paper investigates the energy exchange between the two energy storage de...

The outer coordination sphere of metalloenzyme often plays an important role in its high catalytic activity, however, this principle is rarely considered in the design of man-made molecular catalysts. Herein, four Ru-bda based molecular water oxidation catalysts with we...

Light is the foundation of the visual perceptual process that initiates the evaluation of the surrounding area. Linked to various aspects and rhythms of the body, light connects us to both the natural environment and the interior space. The process of perceiving and ass...

This paper provides an exploratory understanding of the process of knowledge-work in the inter-organisational setting of a large-scale infrastructure project. Taking a process perspective, it explores why an autonomous project-owner organisation in the rail industry sec...

The entry conditions of severe accident management guidelines (SAMGs) in pressurized water reactors (PWRs) rely on the indication of core exit temperature (CET). Yet, the setpoints for the CET may be different from plant to plant. Most Westinghouse PWR designs adopt the...