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Critical evaluation of European balancing markets to enable the participation of Demand Aggregators
(2020-04-15)
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Restricted access - publisher's policyEuropean Directives are incentivizing consumers to play an active role in the electricity system and to collaborate to maintain its stability, which has been historically provided by large generation power plants. However, ... -
Development of ARCADIA: a tool for assessing the quality of peer-review reports in biomedical research
(2020-06)
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Open AccessObjective To develop a tool to assess the quality of peer- review reports in biomedical research. Methods We conducted an online survey intended for biomedical editors and authors. The survey aimed to (1) determine if ... -
Management and activation of energy flexibility at building and market level: a residential case study
(2020-03-01)
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Open AccessThe electricity sector foresees a significant change in the way energy is generated and distributed in the coming years. With the increasing penetration of renewable energy sources, smart algorithms can determine the ... -
Comparison between economic and environmental drivers for demand side aggregator
(2020-08)
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Open AccessDemand-side flexibility is a promising source of the energy system that might enhance renewable energy penetration and help to democratize the electricity sector. However, it is not clear what is the best strategy to adopt ... -
Using interior point solvers for optimizing progressive lens models with spherical coordinates
(2019-12-19)
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Open AccessDesigning progressive lenses is a complex problem that has been previously solved by formulating an optimization model based on Cartesian coordinates. This work presents a new progressive lens model using spherical ... -
Optimal postponement in supply chain network design under uncertainty: an application for additive manufacturing
(Taylor & Francis, 2020-06-17)
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Open AccessThis study presents a new two-stage stochastic programming decision model for assessing how to introduce some new manufacturing technology into any generic supply and distribution chain. It additionally determines the ... -
Miniature switchable millimeter-wave BiCMOS low-noise amplifier at 120/140 GHz using an HBT switch
(2019-10-01)
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Open AccessA 120–140 GHz frequency-switchable, very compact low-noise amplifier (LNA) fabricated in a 0.13 µm SiGe:C BiCMOS technology is proposed. A single radio-frequency (RF) switch composed of three parallel hetero junction bipolar ... -
Transfer to the Local Stroke Center versus Direct Transfer to Endovascular Center of Acute Stroke Patients with Suspected Large Vessel Occlusion in the Catalan Territory (RACECAT): study protocol of a cluster randomized within a cohort trial
(2019-05-29)
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Open AccessRationale: Optimal pre-hospital delivery pathways for acute stroke patients suspected to harbor a large vessel occlusion (LVO) have not been assessed in randomized trials. Aim: To establish whether stroke subjects with ... -
Adherence to reporting guidelines increases the number of citations: the argument for including a methodologist in the editorial process and peer-review
(2019-05-31)
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Open AccessFrom 2005 to 2010, we conducted 2 randomized studies on a journal (Medicina Clínica), where we took manuscripts received for publication and randomly assigned them to either the standard editorial process or to additional ... -
Location routing problems on trees
(2019-04-30)
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Restricted access - publisher's policyThis paper addresses combined location/routing problems defined on trees, where not all vertices have to be necessarily visited. A mathematical programming formulation is presented, which has the integrality property. The ... -
The effects of lithium sulfur battery ageing on second-life possibilities and environmental life cycle assessment studies
(2019-01-01)
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Open AccessThe development of Li-ion batteries has enabled the re-entry of electric vehicles into the market. As car manufacturers strive to reach higher practical specific energies (550 Wh/kg) than what is achievable for Li-ion ... -
Does evidence support the high expectations placed in precision medicine? A bibliographic review
(2018-01-09)
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Open AccessBackground: Precision medicine is the Holy Grail of interventions that aretailored to a patient’s individual characteristics. However, the conventional design of randomized trials assumes that each individual benefits ...