The current crisis demonstrates the critical role that energy plays in our lives.The vulnerability of some of us in relation to an essential daily service illustrates that public policies need to be strengthened to deliver a resilient and fair market in which the consumer takes centre stage.The pandemic has given rise to additional imbalances that
Remote electronic voting (REV) as technology is gradually taking root in the political practice in Russia.As the technology is legally and chronologically new, it is both interesting and necessary to explain its implementation, as well as to identify the technological basis of the REV and, therefore, questions about the potential illegal use of thi
The current age is witnessing an unprecedented dependence on data originating from humans through the devices that comprise the Internet of Things.The data collected by these devices are used for many purposes, including predictive maintenance, smart analytics, preventive healthcare, disaster protection, and increased operational efficiency and per
Rapid and precise detection of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) at trace levels is critical for industrial safety and environmental air quality monitoring, yet existing methods often struggle with cost, speed, or sensitivity.A cost-effective cavity ring-down spectroscopy (CRDS) analyzer is presented, incorporating a novel digital locking circuit for sequenti
The consensus Shirts is that Amazonian white-sand ecosystems (campinaranas) shelter several endemic plant species.However, recent studies have shown that most species are generalists, and they also occur in other Neotropical ecosystems.To investigate this issue, we analyzed the proportion of endemic/specialist species in a checklist of trees, palms