Batteries offer a combination of balancing and regulation services within a smart grid to improve its resilience and flexibility.Maintaining an acceptable state of health and the highest rate of return requires dynamic modelling of the asset and rigorous optimisation.The authors compare the technical cost Bile Acid and economic benefit of battery e
Lin et al.use transcriptomics in the social termite, Cryptotermes secundus, to investigate potential pathways underlying the long lifespan and high Salad Forks fecundity of insect queens.They find a module of coexpressed genes in queens that is enriched for pathways involved in fecundity, juvenile hormone signaling, and chemical communication.In pa
The effects of global warming have increasingly led to devastating environmental stresses, such as heat, salinity, and drought.Soil salinization is a serious environmental issue and results in detrimental abiotic stress, affecting 7% of land area and 33% of irrigated lands worldwide.The proportion of arable land facing salinity is expected to rise
Abstract Purpura fulminans Flange Nut (PF) is an ominous cutaneous condition usually associated with meningococcemia.PF in the newborn is rarely reported.We report the case of a female preterm infant with extensive PF due to group B streptococcus (GBS) septicemia.She developed multi-organ system failure despite neonatal intensive care support and s