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Generation Adequacy and Investment Incentives in Britain: from the Pool to NETA
No full textThree years after the controversial change of the British market design from compulsory Pool with capacity payments to decentralised energy-only New Electricity Trading Arrangements (NETA) market framework, we compare the two designs in terms of investment incentives. We review the biases of the Pool capacity payments design, the drought of investment following the introduction of NETA, and the reaction of the market during the first “stress-test” of NETA during the winter 2003. In an energy-only market such as NETA, it is essential that price signals are right and the system operator has a crucial role in contracting ahead for reserve. We recommend that NETA adopt a single marginal imbalance price as dual imbalance pricing distorts price signals in times of scarcity. The lack of long-term contracting that causes hedging and financing difficulties for power projects can becompensated by vertical and horizontal reintegration at a cost of increased market power
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
α-NETA stability.
No full text<p>α-NETA was spiked into 10% captisol (A) or mouse plasma (B) and incubated at the indicated temperatures. At the indicated times, the samples were quenched and analyzed by mass spectrometry. The stability of Benfluorex (positive control compound) was also determined (B). Mean ± SD of triplicate wells for each point is displayed.</p
Singa neta
No full text<i>Singa neta</i> (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) <p> <b>Record:</b> Erbil (Fomichev <i>et al</i>. 2018).</p> <p> <b>Distribution:</b> Mediterranean, Iraq, Iran.</p>Published as part of <i>Al-Khazali, Azhar Mohammed, Kachel, Hamid Saeid, Zamani, Alireza & Hussen, Fenik Sherzad, 2023, An updated and annotated checklist of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Iraq, pp. 132-158 in Zootaxa 5339 (2)</i> on page 136, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5339.2.2, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/8297212">http://zenodo.org/record/8297212</a>
Effect of low-dose transdermal E2/NETA on the reduction of postmenopausal bone loss in women
No full textOBJECTIVE:
To assess the efficacy of a continuous-combined transdermal patch (estradiol/ norethisterone acetate [E(2)/NETA] 25/125; Estragest TTS, Novartis, Basel, Switzerland) in the reduction of bone loss in postmenopausal women.
DESIGN:
In a 96-week, double-blind, randomized, multicenter, parallel study, 124 healthy women with an intact uterus more than 4 years after menopause received either transdermal continuous-combined E(2)/NETA (0.025/0.125 mg/day) or placebo patch for 24 treatment cycles; diet was normalized for calcium intake. Lumbar spine bone mineral density (BMD) ranged from 0.969 to 0.805 g/cm2 with a mean annual BMD decrement ranging from 3% to 8% within the last 24 months. BMD at lumbar spine L(2)-L(4) (postero-anterior) and femur were assessed by dual energy x-ray absorptiometry after 6, 12, and 24 cycles. Efficacy variables included measurement of biochemical markers of bone turnover (3, 6, 12, and 24 months).
RESULTS:
BMD at lumbar spine was significantly higher at all time points in the E(2)/NETA group than in the placebo group (P < 0.0001). Significant increases in BMD (P < 0.0008) from baseline were observed at all sites after 24 months in the E(2)/NETA group compared with placebo, which demonstrated a decrease from baseline. At endpoint, statistically significant decrements in the values of bone remodeling markers were observed (P < 0.05) with E(2)/NETA.
CONCLUSIONS:
E(2)/NETA 25/125 Estragest TTS was more effective than placebo in reducing the activation frequency of bone remodeling and in preventing bone loss at the spine and hip. Effects on the hip were similar to those observed for higher doses of estrogen
Neta chilensis
No full text<i>Neta chilensis</i> (Walker, 1836) <p> <b>Chile:</b> 2 ♂♂, Santiago, Rincón El Arbol, Aculeo, X.1969, L.E. Peña leg., MZUSP; 2 ♀♀, Central Chile, Comudes, 1898–1902, S. Shönemann leg., ZMB; 38 ♀♀, Central Chile, Cauquenes, VIII.1899, S. Shönemann leg., ZMB.</p>Published as part of <i>Tauhyl, Luís Gustavo Moreli, Marinho, Marco Antonio Tonus & Urso-Guimarães, Maria Virginia, 2023, First cladistic analysis of Toxotarsinae (Diptera: Calliphoridae), with insights on the evolution of the group and on the transformation series of some historically controversial characters, pp. 537-560 in Zootaxa 5270 (3)</i> on page 558, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5270.3.6, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/7863528">http://zenodo.org/record/7863528</a>
Pragmatic Case Studies as a Source of Unity in Applied Psychology
No full textTo unify or not to unify applied psychology: that is the question. In this article we review pendulum swings in the historical efforts to answer this question—from a comprehensive, positivist, “top-down,” deductive yes between the 1930s and the early 60s, to a postmodern no since then. A rationale and proposal for a limited, “bottom-up,” inductive yes in applied psychology is then presented, employing a case-based paradigm that integrates both positivist and postmodern themes and components. This paradigm is labeled “pragmatic psychology” and, its specific use of case studies, the “Pragmatic Case Study Method” (“PCS Method”). We call for the creation of peer-reviewed journal-databases of pragmatic case studies as a foundational source of unifying applied knowledge in our discipline. As one example, the potential of the PCS Method for unifying different angles of theoretical regard is illustrated in an area of applied psychology, psychotherapy, via the case of Mrs. B. The article then turns to the broader historical and epistemological arguments for the unifying nature of the PCS Method in both applied and basic psychology.Peer reviewe
α-NETA target selectivity.
No full texta<p>PubChem BioAssay identifier.</p>b<p>PubChem, 2014b.</p>c<p>PubChem, 2014a.</p>d<p>Partial effect; 46-58% maximum inhibition at up to 57 µM.</p>e<p>This study.</p>f<p>Agonist activity, EC<sub>50</sub> (µM).</p>g<p>Sastry et al., 1988a.</p>h<p>Single dose (25 µM) tested, 106% inhibition.</p>i<p>Tested up to 92 µM.</p>j<p>Tested up to 57 µM.</p>k<p>Tested up to 35 µM.</p><p>α-NETA target selectivity.</p
A new sixth-order scheme for nonlinear equations
No full textApplied Math. Letters, 25, (2012), 185–189, doi:10.1016/j.aml.2011.08.012.The article of record as published may be located at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aml.2011.08.012In this paper we present a new efficient sixth-order scheme for nonlinear equations. The method is compared to several members of the family of methods developed by Neta (1979) [B. Neta, A sixth-order family of methods for nonlinear equations, Int. J. Comput. Math. 7 (1979) 157–161]. It is shown that the new method is an improvement over this well known scheme
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