Category: Other Sciences

Mainstream bioeconomic strategies often prioritize uniformity and marketability, transforming biological materials into standardized feedstocks and codifying knowledge into intellectual property, with success measured by the extent to which these…

This story was originally published by Canary Media.

Geothermal energy was spared in U.S. President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax and spending law, which made deep cuts to incentives for other forms of clean energy. But developers of the resurgent…

In September 2024, two months before the US presidential election returned Donald Trump to power for a second term, I secured a congressional fellowship to work for Bill…

One morning in 2014, a colleague asked whether I’d seen a new study linking concussion risk to altitude exposure. The work was part of a package of evidence promoting a device to prevent concussion in contact sports. I’m not a concussion…

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Lonni Besançon was far away from home and, like most of us, spending a lot of time…

Modeling framework

A linear programming optimization model is developed for the solar PV global supply chain analysis. Unlike other possible modelling approaches^10,49, our optimization model explicitly seeks out solutions that maximize a specified…

The methodological flowchart of the study is shown in Fig. 7. The method is composed of four steps. (1) Image preprocessing; (2) Solar PV detection machine learning model training; (3) Solar PV database generation in Japan with the trained model…