ABSTRACT During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the emergence and rapid increase of the B.1.1.7 (Alpha) lineage of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), first identified in the United Kingdom in September 2020, was well documented in different areas of the world and became a global public health concern bec
It is becoming popular to replace destructive laboratory testing with related nondestructive testing (NDT) and/or machine learning (ML) techniques.Such an approach is becoming particularly desirable in operating facilities, where failing components result not only in the need for repair but also in the suspension of facility use for up to several m
The high penetration of renewable energy sources, combined with a limited possibility to expand the transmission infrastructure, stretches the system stability in the case of faults.For this reason, operators are calling for additional control flexibility in the grid.In this paper, we propose the deployment of switchable reactors and capacitors dis
A new record of lithistid demosponges is reported from a western Sardinian karstic cave.The new specimen matches the trait of the genus Neophrissospongia (Corallistidae) for an ectosomal skeleton of radial dichotriaenes, a choanosomal skeleton as a network of dicranoclone desmas, and streptaster/amphiaster microscleres with short spiny rays bearing