Global Energy Interconnection

1 week ago | sciencedirect.com | Jie Jenny Zou |Zhu Wang |Zhi-Cheng Wu |He-Ping Zhao

High-salinity industrial wastewater (e.g., from pickling, pharmaceuticals, and chemical industries) poses significant challenges to conventional activated sludge processes (Tan et al., 2019) due to its osmotic stress on microbial cells, leading to inhibited metabolic activity, cell lysis, and poor nitrogen removal efficiency (Kartal et al., 2006; Khatibi, 2019; Zhu et al., 2015).

2 weeks ago | sciencedirect.com | Ann T Gregory |A. Robert Denniss |Maria Cheung |Karen Flood

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

1 month ago | sciencedirect.com | Giovanni Rigoni |Maria Soriano |Almut Heinken |Ines Thiele

In recent years, the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) has undergone revolutionary changes with the emergence of therapies that block the action of inflammatory cytokines, represented by infliximab and ustekinumab (UST).1 UST was approved for the treatment of Crohn’s disease (CD) in the United States and the European Union in 2016, and in China in 2020.2 Up to now, a substantial amount of prospective and retrospective studies around the world have confirmed the effectiveness of...

1 month ago | sciencedirect.com | James Archsmith |Christian Bauer |David C.S. Beddows |Gabriel Correa |Gabriel Corrêa

Transportation is responsible for more than 25% of worldwide carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil fuel in internal combustion engine vehicles (Girod et al., 2013). Transportation is one of the main sectors where emissions are growing up. More than half of all transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions are attributed to road transport section (McCollum et al., 2018).

1 month ago | sciencedirect.com | Yosef Bonaparte |Jeremy Page |Huy Hoang |Dung Tran

The theoretical framework of ‘investment under uncertainty’ has highlighted the properties of irreversibility as one of the major drivers of capital investment decisions (Bernanke, 1983, Dixit and Pindyck, 1994). Bernanke’s (1983) ‘bad-news’ principle posits that long-term capital investment projects are characterized by some degree of irreversibility, hence, an increase in economic uncertainty can cause a delay in capital investment.