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A Bibliometric Analysis on Energy Efficiency and Conservation
No full textEnergy efficiency and conservation are pivotal in addressing global energy challenges and promoting sustainability. This paper presents a comprehensive bibliometric analysis spanning 1976 to 2023, aiming to reveal the nuanced dynamics of the field. Utilizing the Scopus database and bibliometric analysis tools like VOSviewer, we explored publication trends, platform rankings, publication types, global distribution, and interconnected research themes. The dominance of top platforms like Energy and Journal of Cleaner Production underscored their significance, with insights into the role of conference proceedings and specialized platforms like Energy Efficiency. Journal articles prevailed, reflecting the academic community’s commitment to peer-reviewed channels, while diverse publication forms and subject areas highlighted a multifaceted approach. The global landscape showcased the United States’ leadership, with impactful contributions from Indonesia, fostering collaboration between developed and developing nations. VOSviewer visualizations revealed interconnected research themes, emphasizing the interdisciplinary nature of climate change and sustainable development. This study offers valuable insights for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners, guiding them to understand historical trends, identify influential platforms, recognize interdisciplinary patterns, and foster global collaborations to shape a more sustainable energy future
A Bibliometric Analysis on Energy Efficiency and Conservation
Get PDFEnergy efficiency and conservation are pivotal in addressing global energy challenges and promoting sustainability. This paper presents a comprehensive bibliometric analysis spanning 1976 to 2023, aiming to reveal the nuanced dynamics of the field. Utilizing the Scopus database and bibliometric analysis tools like VOSviewer, we explored publication trends, platform rankings, publication types, global distribution, and interconnected research themes. The dominance of top platforms like Energy and Journal of Cleaner Production underscored their significance, with insights into the role of conference proceedings and specialized platforms like Energy Efficiency. Journal articles prevailed, reflecting the academic community’s commitment to peer-reviewed channels, while diverse publication forms and subject areas highlighted a multifaceted approach. The global landscape showcased the United States’ leadership, with impactful contributions from Indonesia, fostering collaboration between developed and developing nations. VOSviewer visualizations revealed interconnected research themes, emphasizing the interdisciplinary nature of climate change and sustainable development. This study offers valuable insights for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners, guiding them to understand historical trends, identify influential platforms, recognize interdisciplinary patterns, and foster global collaborations to shape a more sustainable energy future
Social and historical aspects of the assimilation of Christianity in Southeast Asia from 1500-1900 with reference to Thailand and the Philippines
Get PDFThough many have attempted to address the complexities of the encounter between Christianity and non-western societies, the literature has not dealt much with Southeast Asia. This article attempts to help fill that gap by examining some of the factors affecting the assimilation of Christianity in Southeast Asia by looking at two countries in detail: Thailand and the Philippines. These two
countries offer strikingly different assimilation results. Thailand was not colonized when Christianity was introduced while in the Philippines colonization and Christianity were intimately linked. As a result, both Thailand and the Philippines are a study in contrasts
The Role of Marketing Capabilities and Integrative Capabilities for Business Model Innovation in Small Business Indonesian Culinary Sector
Get PDFThis empirical study is about developing business model innovations based on the antecedents of marketing capabilities and integrative capabilities in the culinary sector in Indonesia. Specifically, the respondents used are 136 small-scale businesses from various regions in Indonesia. Data collection was carried out in the range of September 2020 through questionnaires distributed through digital channels. This research is quantitative research by using SMART-PLS as a statistical tool. The research orientation is to see the effect of marketing capability and integrative capability on business model innovation and firm performance, also the effect of business model innovation on performance. The results of this study found that marketing capabilities affect business model innovation and performances. Another finding is integrative capabilities affects business model innovation but does not affect firm performance, and furthermore the construct of the business model innovation itself affects performance. This finding is important for the culinary sector which is the leading sector in the creative economy in Indonesia. The central role of business model innovation is also the orientation of forming a strategic posture for small-scale business actors who are still entrepreneurial in order to make their business to be strategic. Keywords: Business model innovation, Marketing Capabilities, Integrative Capabilities, Firm Performanc
Phylogenetic diversity of microbial communities in real drinking water distribution systems
No full textMicrobial regrowth in drinking water distribution systems (DWDS) is a major concern in the water supply industry. Detailed knowledge of the microbial community in DWDS will be of great importance for assessing the microbiological risks of drinking water. The spatial heterogeneity of microbial community structures in the bulk waters of a large real DWDS was investigated using 16S rRNA clone library analysis. The results indicate that high residual chlorine in drinking water could not control microbial regrowth in DWDS. The bacterial communities in the bulk waters were spatially heterogenic, mainly composed of Alphaproteobacteria and Betaproteobacteria (or Cyanobacteria). Microorganisms from the genera Acinetobacter, Sphingomonas and Gemella were detected, implying there is microbiological risk from drinking water. This work provides new insight into microbial ecology in DWDS.Biotechnology & Applied MicrobiologySCI(E)9ARTICLE1119-1241
Is Azvudine Comparable to Nirmatrelvir-Ritonavir in Real-World Efficacy and Safety for Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19? A Retrospective Cohort Study
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EP241021a: A Months-duration X-Ray Transient with Luminous Optical and Radio Emission
No full textShu, Xinwen et al.-- Full list of authors: Shu, Xinwen; Yang, Lei; Yang, Haonan; Xu, Fan; Chen, Jin-Hong; Eyles-Ferris, Rob A. J.; Dai, Lixin; Yu, Yunwei; Shen, Rong-Feng; Sun, Luming; Ding, Hucheng; Zheng, WeiKang; Jiang, Ning; Li, Wenxiong; Sun, Ning-Chen; Xu, Dong; Zhang, Zhumao; Jin, Chichuan; Rau, Arne; Wang, Tinggui; Wu, Xue-feng; Yuan, Weimin; Zhang, Bing; Nandra, Kirpal; Filippenko, Alexei V.; Poidevin, Frédérick; Soria, Roberto; Kumar, Amit; Aguado, David S.; An, Fangxia; An, Tao; An, Jie; Andrews, Moira; Anutarawiramkul, Rungrit; Baldini, Pietro; Brink, Thomas G.; Butpan, Pathompong; Cai, Zhiming; Castro-Tirado, Alberto J.; Cheng, Huaqing; Cui, Weiwei; Farah, Joseph; Fu, Shaoyu; Fynbo, Johan P. U.; Gao, Xing; Han, Dawei; Han, Xuhui; Howell, D. Andrew; Hu, Jingwei; Jiang, Shuaiqing; Kumar, Brajesh; Lei, Weihua; Li, Dongyue; Li, Chengkui; Liu, Huaqiu; Liu, Xing; Liu, Yuan; Liu, Xiaowei; López-Oramas, Alicia; López Fernández-Nespral, David; Maund, Justyn R.; McCully, Curtis; Niu, Zexi; Newsome, Megan; O'Brien, Paul; Pan, Haiwu; Pan, Yu; Padilla Gonzalez, Estefania; Pérez-Fournon, Ismael; Silima, Walter; Sun, Hui; Sun, Shengli; Sun, Xiaojin; Terreran, Giacomo; Tinyanont, Samaporn; Wang, Junxian; Wang, Yanan; Wang, Yun; Wiersema, Klaas; Xu, Yunfei; Xue, Yongquan; Yang, Yi; Zhang, Fabao; Zhang, Juan; Zhang, Pinpin; Zhang, Wenda; Zhang, Yonghe; Zhao, Haisheng; Zhu, Zipei; Xin, Liping; Yao, Zhuheng; Cordier, Bertrand; Wei, Jianyan; Qiu, Yulei; Daigne, FrédéricWe present the discovery of a peculiar X-ray transient, EP241021a, by the Einstein Probe (EP) mission and the results from multiwavelength follow-up observations. The transient was first detected with the Wide-field X-ray Telescope as an intense flare lasting for ∼100 s, reaching a luminosity of L0.5‑4 keV ≈ 1048 erg s‑1. Further observations with EP's Follow-up X-ray Telescope reveal a huge drop in the X-ray flux by a factor of >1000 within 1.5 days. After maintaining a nearly plateau phase for ∼7 days, the X-ray flux decreases ∝t‑1.2 over a period of ∼30 days, followed by a sudden decrease to an undetectable level by EP and XMM-Newton, making it the longest afterglow emission detected among known fast X-ray transients. Bright counterparts at optical and radio wavelengths were also detected, with high peak luminosities in excess of 1044 erg s‑1 and 1041 erg s‑1, respectively. In addition, EP241021a exhibits a nonthermal X-ray spectrum, red optical color, X-ray and optical rebrightenings in the light curves, and fast radio spectral evolution, suggesting that relativistic jets may have been launched. We discuss the possible origins of EP241021a, including a choked jet with supernova shock breakout, a merger-triggered magnetar, a highly structured jet, and a repeating partial tidal disruption event involving an intermediate-mass black hole, but none can perfectly explain the multiwavelength properties. EP241021a may represent a new type of X-ray transient with month-duration evolution timescales; future EP detections and follow-up observations of similar systems will provide statistical samples to understand the underlying mechanisms at work. © 2025. The Author(s).This work was based on data obtained with Einstein Probe, a space mission supported by the Strategic Priority Program on Space Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with ESA, MPE, and CNES (grant XDA15310000), the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (grant XDB0550200), and the National Key R&D Program of China (grant 2022YFF0711500).
The data presented in this Letter are based in part on observations made with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array, the Very Long Baseline Array, the Australia Telescope Compact Array, MeerKAT, and XMM-Newton. The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is a facility of the U.S. National Science Foundation operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc. The Australia Telescope Compact Array is part of the Australia Telescope National Facility (https://ror.org/05qajvd42), which is funded by the Australian Government for operation as a National Facility managed by CSIRO. The MeerKAT telescope is operated by the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory, which is a facility of the National Research Foundation, an agency of the Department of Science and Innovation. We acknowledge the use of the ilifu cloud computing facility (www.ilifu.ac.za) and the Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy (IDIA), a partnership of the University of Cape Town, the University of Pretoria, and the University of the Western Cape. This work has made use of the “MPIfR S-band receiver system” designed, constructed, and maintained by funding of the MPI für Radioastronomy and the Max Planck Society. XMM-Newton is an ESA science mission with instruments and contributions directly funded by ESA Member States and NASA.
Some of the data presented herein were obtained at the W. M. Keck Observatory, which is operated as a scientific partnership among the California Institute of Technology, the University of California, and NASA; the observatory was made possible by the generous financial support of the W. M. Keck Foundation. KAIT and its ongoing operation were made possible by donations from Sun Microsystems, Inc., the Hewlett-Packard Company, AutoScope Corporation, Lick Observatory, the U.S. NSF, the University of California, the Sylvia and Jim Katzman Foundation, and the TABASGO Foundation. Research at Lick Observatory is partially supported by a generous gift from Google, Inc. Mephisto is developed at and operated by the South-Western Institute for Astronomy Research of Yunnan University (SWIFAR-YNU), funded by the “Yunnan University Development Plan for World-Class University” and “Yunnan University Development Plan for World-Class Astronomy Discipline.”
X.S. is supported by the National SKA Program of China (2022SKA0130102) and the National Science Foundation of China (NSFC) through grants 12192220 and 12192221. J.H.C. and L.D. acknowledge the support from the Hong Kong Research Grants Council (HKU106220154, 109000722). C.J. acknowledges the National Natural Science Foundation of China through grant 12473016. Y.X. acknowledges the support of NSFC 12025303. P.O.B. acknowledges support from UKRI under grant ST/W000857/1. R.S. acknowledges INAF grant 1.05.23.04.04. A.K. and J.R.M. are supported by the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) consolidated grant ST/V000853/1. F.P. acknowledges support from the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (MICINN) under grant PID2022-141915NB-C21. F.X.A. acknowledges support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (12303016) and the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (BK20242115). T.A. acknowledges the support of the Xinjiang Tianchi Talent Program and FAST Special Program (NSFC 12041301). A.V.F.’s research group at UC Berkeley acknowledges financial assistance from the Christopher R. Redlich Fund, Gary and Cynthia Bengier, Clark and Sharon Winslow, Alan Eustace and Kathy Kwan, William Draper, Timothy and Melissa Draper, Briggs and Kathleen Wood, Sanford Robertson (W.Z. is a Bengier–Winslow–Eustace Specialist in Astronomy, T.G.B. is a Draper–Wood–Robertson Specialist in Astronomy, Y.Y. was a Bengier–Winslow–Robertson Fellow in Astronomy), and numerous other donors. B.K. acknowledges the support from the “Special Project for High-End Foreign Experts,” Xingdian Funding from Yunnan Province, the Key Laboratory of Survey Science of Yunnan Province (202449CE340002), and the National Key Research and Development Program of China (grant No. 2024YFA1611603).Peer reviewe
