POWER GRID INFRASTRUCTURAL RESILIENCE AGAINST EXTREME EVENTS

Power Grid Infrastructural Resilience against Extreme Events

Extreme weather events are one of the main causes of large-scale power outages in distribution systems.The changing climate has led to an increase in the frequency and severity of these events, which, if not mitigated, are expected to lead to more instances of widespread outages Circuit Breaker and the severe societal and economic damages that ensu

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Improving the performance of spray operators through monitoring and evaluation of insecticide concentrations of pirimiphos-methyl during indoor residual spraying for malaria control on Bioko Island

Abstract Background Quality control of indoor residual spraying (IRS) is necessary to ensure that spray operators (SOs) deposit the correct concentration of insecticide on sprayed structures, while also confirming that spray records are not being falsified.Methods Using high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), this study conducted quality con

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Sad State of Phage Electron Microscopy. Please Shoot the Messenger

Two hundred and sixty publications from 2007 to 2012 were classified according to the quality of electron micrographs; namely as good (71); beanie mediocre (21); or poor (168).Publications were from 37 countries; appeared in 77 journals; and included micrographs produced with about 60 models of electron microscopes.The quality of the micrographs wa

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