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Journal articles on the topic "Prospective generation"
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Mousa, Anwar M. "Prospective of Fifth Generation Mobile Communications." International Journal of Next-Generation Networks 4, no. 3 (2012): 11–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.5121/ijngn.2012.4302.
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Bell, Linda G. "A Prospective Longitudinal Study of Family From Generation to Generation." Family Journal 26, no. 4 (2018): 411–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1066480718806519.
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This study explores the effects of family system characteristics on the children’s families when they grow up and become parents themselves. Family systems have profound effects for individual family members. The study addresses the question of whether or not these effects continue into the next generation by influencing the families created by adult children. Also evaluated is the extent to which parental intentions to make specific changes can be successful. Families in two generations participated in home interviews during the midlife/adolescent family life cycle stage. During home interviews at both waves, family members completed a questionnaire describing their family. They then discussed differences of opinion about the family and jointly created a projective “picture” of their family. Both family members’ reports and coded measures from the family interaction process supported a continuity between family of origin (FoO) characteristics and the next generation’s families. Evidence was also found for the ability of both mothers and fathers to purposely change particular family characteristics, such as connection, individuation, or conflict, in their second generation families. These results support the usefulness of exploring connections between FoOs and families of procreation. They also suggest that helping parents focus on particular characteristics they wish to change from their FoOs may enhance their success in making those changes.
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Suko, Suko, and Suyitno Muslim. "Tranformasi Digital Sebagai Epistemologis Model Pendidikan Calon Guru Agama Katolik di Era 4.0." VOCAT: JURNAL PENDIDIKAN KATOLIK 1, no. 2 (2022): 105–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.52075/vctjpk.v1i2.36.
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Realizing the educational ideals of prospective Catholic religious teachers in Indonesia in the industrial era 4.0 leads to an epistemological model for implementing digitalization-based education. Digital transformation is a form of technological development that affects all aspects of human life and shapes the characteristics of today's generation. Changes in the world of technology have caused the educational world of prospective Catholic teachers to adapt in terms of models, strategies, methods, place and time in managing the educational process. Therefore, digital transformation literacy is the driving force that changes the face of the education model for Catholic teacher candidates in the 4.0 era. A systematic literature review is a way to examine the problems of Quo Vadis' education model for Catholic teacher candidates in the industrial era 4.0. De facto educational institutions for prospective Catholic teachers must be technology literate in educating generation 4.0 students. The education of this generation is inseparable from the influence of the development of the world of technology in educating prospective Catholic teachers to face educational challenges. Catholic religious education is challenged to change the way of teaching and learning in preparing prospective digital generations of Catholic teachers. Creative and innovative, the educational model for prospective Catholic teachers is directed at building an atmosphere of freedom of learning that utilizes digital media as an epistemological attitude of repentance and self-change to be able to carry out a learning process that cannot be separated from the digital world.
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Seema, Manchala, and Syed Sayf Ali. "A Study on Succession Planning, Prospective Successor Selection, Transfer of Idiosyncratic Firm Knowledge in Family Owned Businesses of Hyderabad." Shanlax International Journal of Management 9, no. 1 (2021): 8–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.34293/management.v9i1.4101.
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This study seeks to gain a better understanding of how the succession planning is undertaken in family owned businesses, most preferred qualities in the prospective successor and the transfer of tacit idiosyncratic firm knowledge from one generation to the next generation. The fact that family businesses contribution to the Indian economy is highly significant as well as the fact that most of the family businesses do not survive beyond three generations makes the study important. This study was conducted by distributing a quantitative survey containing numerous close ended questions to the family business owners, potential successors and successors. The survey asked respondents to explain how succession planning takes place in their firm, the most preferred qualities in the prospective successor and the mode of transfer of tacit idiosyncratic firm knowledge from one generation to another. The survey results provided insight into many important factors of succession planning such as the prospective successor being chosen with consensus of the all the family members, the process of succession being well communicated in the business and possessing leadership values is the most preferred quality sought in a successor. Learning by observing is the most preferred mode of transfer of tacit knowledge from one generation to another.
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Harville, EW, D. Breckner, T. Shu, M. Cooper, and LA Bazzano. "Establishing a three-generation prospective study: Bogalusa daughters." Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease 11, no. 2 (2019): 188–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s2040174419000357.
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AbstractObjective:The Developmental Origins of Disease hypothesis has spurred increased interest in how prenatal exposures affect lifelong health, while mechanisms such as epigenetics may explain the multigenerational influences on health. Such factors are not well captured within conventional epidemiologic study designs. We explored the feasibility of collecting information on the offspring and grand-offspring of participants in a long-running study.Design:The Bogalusa Heart Study is a study, begun in 1973, of life-course cardiovascular health in a semirural population (65% white and 35% black).Main measures:Female participants who had previously provided information on their pregnancies were contacted to obtain contact information for their daughters aged 12 and older. Daughters were then contacted to obtain reproductive histories, and invited for a clinic or lab visit to measure cardiovascular risk factors.Results:Two hundred seventy-four daughters of 208 mothers were recruited; 81% (223) had a full clinic visit and 19% (51) a phone interview only. Forty-five percent of the daughters were black, and 55% white. Mean and median age at interview was 27, with 15% under the age of 18. The strongest predictors of participation were black race, recent maternal participation in the parent study, and living in or near Bogalusa. Simple correlations for cardiovascular risk factors across generations were between r = 0.19 (systolic blood pressure) and r = 0.39 (BMI, LDL).Conclusion:It is feasible to contact the children of study participants even when participants are adults, and initial information on the grandchildren can also be determined in this manner.
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Saranya, G., M. D. Subashchandran, Praksah Mesta, and T. V. Ramachandra. "Prioritization of prospective third-generation biofuel diatom strains." Energy, Ecology and Environment 3, no. 6 (2018): 338–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40974-018-0105-z.
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Alawasa, Khaled. "Distributed Energy Resources Electrical Systems: Current status and Future prospective." Jordan Journal of Energy 1, no. 1 (2022): 37–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.35682/jje.v1i1.59.
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Distributed generation (DG) is an approach that utilizes small scale technologies to generate electricity close to the consumer side. Generally, DG can provide high reliability, high security, low cost electricity, and less environment impact. This paper gives an overview of some of the most significant issues related to the distributed generation (DG). It discusses different aspects of DG, such as definitions, technologies, motivation for moving to DG, some drawbacks associated with the centralized systems which have led to DG. DGs challenges, standards and polices are also presented. In addition, the economic impact and a price comparison between central power plants and DGs are discussed. Also a case study was conducted in order to study the impact of using distributed generations in Edmonton downtown. Three distributed generations, combustion turbine types with 25 MW capacities each have been implemented in Edmonton power system. The total cost estimations have been studied in this case, and the results have revealed that this type of distributed generation is inexpensive and more economic compared with price from the utility. It was estimated from the calculation that the price for the energy is about ¢6.27/kWh while the current electricity price from the utility is ¢8.561/kWh, for long term estimation it is found that the proposed CTs in this project has 11 years for a payback period, after that the project start earning money which is relatively good and wroth investment. The second part of the study analyses the impact of DGs on the system losses using Power-World software, and the result have proven that the loss is significantly decreases when the DG systems are in operation, hence DGs help reducing the costs that associated with the system’s losses.
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Tomasovic, Nikola. "Prospective thermal power generation in the Western Balkan countries." Thermal Science 19, no. 2 (2015): 357–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/tsci140221101t.
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Orsmark-Pietras, Christina, Henrik Lilljebjörn, Marianne Rissler, et al. "Comprehensive Prospective Next Generation Sequencing of Acute Myeloid Leukemia." Blood 126, no. 23 (2015): 3830. http://dx.doi.org/10.1182/blood.v126.23.3830.3830.
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Abstract Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) is a heterogeneous disease with poor overall five-year survival of less than 30%. Current risk stratification is largely based on cytogenetics, combined with information of the most commonly mutated genes in AML (e.g. NPM1, FLT3, DNMT3A). To improve clinical decision making and to increase our understanding of the mechanisms underlying AML it is essential to gain additional information about the mutational landscape of AML. In this prospective study we perform comprehensive Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) to determine the mutational landscape of AML. Starting from September 2014, bone marrow samples, with matched skin biopsies, were collected from all newly diagnosed samples of AML at Skåne University Hospital, Sweden. So far, almost 40 AML samples have undergone whole-exome sequencing (WES) (100X coverage), targeted AML-gene panel sequencing (>100 genes with recurrent mutations in the TCGA AML data set) (400X), RNA-seq and low pass Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) (1.5X). Additionally, clinical data such as age, treatment response and survival outcome are collected and samples are also cryopreserved for functional follow-up studies. The targeted AML-panel sequencing allows for high coverage data enabling identification of not only common but also rare variants present in subclones, while WES might reveal genes and pathways not previously associated with AML. Low pass WGS enables the detection of cytogenetic alterations, ranging from larger structural rearrangements to fusion gene detection. RNA-seq also makes the detection of fusion genes possible as well as providing global gene expression data. So far our prospective study has identified 22 recurrently mutated genes (with mutations present in >5% of the reads). Out of these, DNMT3A (34%), NPM1 (29%), TET2 (21%), FLT3 (18%) and RUNX1 (18%) were the most commonly mutated genes. The corresponding mutation frequencies in TCGA AML data set are DNMT3A (26%), NPM1 (27%), TET2 (9%), FLT3 (28%) and RUNX1 (10%). More than 70% of the cases carry combinations of mutations in two up to seven of the genes included in our AML panel. Each patient also carries a private combination of unique exomic variants. RNA-seq data confirmed all clinically known fusion genes and principal component analysis revealed that cases with e.g. NPM1 mutations have a uniform gene expression pattern. Although diagnostics has improved over the last years, information of the most commonly mutated genes has not largely improved risk stratification. A plausible explanation is the clonal complexity in AML and the joint risk combination of common and rare variants. NGS-based methods have greatly improved our possibility to detect genetic alterations and comprehensive NGS of AML has the potential to identify mutational patterns that can further improve diagnostics and risk stratification. Disclosures No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.
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Rettenbacher, M. A., A. Hofer, G. Kemmler, and W. W. Fleischhacker. "Neutropenia Induced by Second Generation Antipsychotics: A Prospective Investigation." Pharmacopsychiatry 43, no. 02 (2010): 41–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0030-1249071.
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Kearns, Jordan Taylor. "Effects of intermittent generation on the economics and operation of prospective baseload power plants." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/115006.
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Thesis: S.M. in Technology and Policy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Engineering, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, Technology and Policy Program, 2017.<br>Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, 2017.<br>This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.<br>Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-157).<br>The electricity system is transitioning from a system comprised primarily of dispatchable generators to a system increasingly reliant on wind and solar power-intermittent sources of electricity with output dependent on meteorological conditions, adding both variability and uncertainty to the system. Dispatchable generators with a high ratio of fixed to variable costs have historically relied on operating at maximum output as often as possible to spread these fixed costs over as much electricity generation as possible. Higher penetrations of intermittent capacity create market conditions that lead to lower capacity factors for these generators, presenting an economic challenge. Increasing penetrations of intermittent capacity, however, also leads to more volatile electricity prices, with highest prices in hours that renewable sources are unavailable. The ability of dispatchable generators to provide energy during these high priced hours may counteract the loss of revenue from reduced operating hours. Given the disparate revenues received in this volatile market, the relative competitiveness of generation technologies cannot be informed by their cost alone; the value of generators based on their production profiles must also be considered. Consequently, comparisons of generator competitiveness based on traditional metrics such as the levelized cost of electricity are misleading, and power system models able to convey the relative value of generators should instead be used to compare generator competitiveness. The purpose of this thesis is to assess the relative competitiveness of generation technologies in an efficient market under various penetrations of intermittent power. This work is specifically concerned with the relative competitiveness of power plants equipped with carbon capture and storage ( CCS) technology, nuclear power plants, and renewable generation capacity. In order to assess relative competitiveness, this work presents an extensive literature review of the costs and technical flexibility of generators, with particular attention to CCS-equipped and nuclear capacity. These costs and flexibility parameters are integrated into a unit commitment model. The unit commitment model for co-optimized reserves and energy (UCCORE), developed as part of this thesis, is a mixed integer linear programming model with a focus on representing hourly price volatility and the intertemporal operational constraints of thermal generators. The model is parameterized to represent the ERCOT power system and is used to solve for generator dispatch and marginal prices at hourly intervals over characteristic weeks. Data from modeled characteristic weeks is interpolated to estimate generator profits over a year to allow for a comparison of generator competitiveness informed by both costs and revenues. Scenario analysis conducted using the UCCORE model shows that the difference in energy prices captured by generators becomes an important driver of relative competitiveness at modest penetrations of intermittent power. Increasing the ratio of intermittent to dispatchable capacity causes intermittent generators to depress market prices during the hours they are available due to their coordinated output. Prices, however, rise in hours when intermittent capacity is unavailable because of scarcity of available capacity. This work develops the weighted value factor to compare the revenues of intermittent and dispatchable generation capacity. The weighted value factor is the market value of a generators production profile relative to an ideal generator dispatched at full capacity for all hours. The results show that as the proportion of intermittent capacity increases, the relative value of dispatchable generators also increases and at an increasing rate. At high penetrations of intermittent capacity, the power system experiences increasing risk of generation shortages leading to exceptionally high prices. In these systems, dispatchable generators able to capture peak pricing become most profitable. At lower penetrations of intermittent capacity, peak pricing remains influential, but is less extreme and the relative importance of low capital and fixed costs increases. The sensitivity of generator profitability to assumed value of lost load, oil and gas price, and carbon price is also assessed. The key implication of these results is that efficient price signals may lead to opportunities for investment in dispatchable generators as the proportion of intermittent capacity on a power system increases. Markets and models that do not capture the full hourly volatility of efficient energy prices, however, are missing critical signals. The importance of these signals on relative competitiveness increases with the penetration of intermittent power. Without accounting for price volatility, markets and models will undervalue dispatchable capacity and overvalue intermittent capacity.<br>by Jordan Taylor Kearns.<br>S.M. in Technology and Policy<br>S.M.
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Foreman, Veronica L. (Veronica Lynn). "Emergence of second-generation low earth orbit satellite constellations : a prospective technical, economic, and policy analysis." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/119297.
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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2018.<br>Thesis: S.M. in Technology and Policy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Engineering, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, Technology and Policy Program, 2018.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-145).<br>Modern proposals for Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellations underscore the tremendous potential and versatility of distributed spacecraft missions (DSMs), but they have also begun to stress the limits of the existing development paradigm. A new generation of LEO constellations is emerging, and understanding the related technical, economic, and policy landscapes will be critical to fostering their success. The most significant value of this research effort comes from its breadth. LEO constellations are becoming essential tools for a wide range of applications, and this work seeks to examine the diverse set of topics facing modern constellation stakeholders. Through a multidisciplinary, systems engineering evaluation, this thesis synthesizes current knowledge gaps and questions related to second-generation LEO constellations. The investigation begins with a discussion of the historical development of DSMs, and three distinct eras of constellation use are identified. The initial time period, 1959 to 1996, captures the early DSMs that framed the development of modern systems. The first generation spans from 1997 to 2009. It begins with the installation of the first commercial, telecommunications constellations and demonstrates logistic growth for commercial DSM member spacecraft. Growth rates surge again as the second generation begins in 2010, and the data reflect current trends toward commercial, remote-sensing applications of DSM systems. The second generation of LEO constellations coincides with an approximately 189% increase in the annual NGSO satellite launch rate and a 92% increase in the number of constellation systems initialized each year over the first generation. This work continues by underscoring technologies that have enabled this growth through a survey of relevant literature and patent filings. Contemporary issues in constellation technology policy are also examined. Through a series of cost and risk focused case studies, limitations within the existing development and maintenance paradigms are illustrated. The new generation of constellations is challenging the assumptions that have traditionally guided such analyses, and opportunities for further framework development are discussed. This thesis represents a contribution to the advancement of constellation systems by assessing the viability of the existing paradigm and identifying critical areas of future research.<br>Supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Grant No. 1122374<br>by Veronica L. Foreman.<br>S.M.<br>S.M. in Technology and Policy
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Parkinson, Lisa Michiko. "Prospective First-Generation College Racial Minority Students: Mediating Factors that Facilitate Positive Educational Characteristics for College Admission." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2015. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6043.
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First-generation college (FGC) students represent a small portion of the population of students on college campuses across the nation. Racial minority students are also highly underrepresented at four-year institutions. When one combines FGC students who are also racial minorities, they comprise an even smaller subgroup of students attending four-year college campuses. Research conducted to evaluate how FGC students perform their first year in college is prevalent. Additionally, research has been completed on factors that help predict a high school student's admission into and performance in college. However, very little research exists about factors identified in high school that may help strengthen a prospective FGC, racial minority, and high school student's admission into college. This study will utilize the RELATE questionnaire to evaluate individual characteristics or circumstances identified in prospective first-generation college racial minority students that may be potentially mediated for by high school counselors or college administrators to help strengthen college or university admission. Counselors or advisors could have an impact on improving the likelihood of college or university admission for this population by facilitating the process of coming to terms with family stressors and/or strengthening their flexibility or adaptability to new or different environments, learning, and people. Since the RELATE database does not include direct data regarding college admission, positive student educational characteristics such as sociability, calmness, organization, maturity, and happiness will be utilized to represent potential stronger preparation for admission into college. RELATE is a questionnaire designed for individuals in a committed relationship and provides important information regarding the individual, the partner, and the relationship. Research with the RELATE questionnaire data is generally utilized in family and social science domains. This study is unique since it accesses the individual instead of couple data for positive educational characteristics and research. This comparative study between prospective first-generation college White students and prospective first-generation college racial minority students is designed to assist educators in secondary and higher educational levels to better prepare prospective FGC students, particularly prospective FGC racial minority students, for college admission. Also, this study will distinguish between various characteristics that may assist college recruiters identify prospective FGC students who may be a strong fit for their institutions.
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Christophe, Corinne. "Evaluation de la méthode des personas en intervention corrective, préventive et prospective." Thesis, Université de Lorraine, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014LORR0124/document.
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Cette thèse s’inscrit dans le cadre des recherches menées sur la méthode des personas. Modèles d’utilisateurs, les personas restituent de manière personnalisée des comportements, des attitudes ou encore des contextes d’usage. A ce titre, ils sont utilisés dans le domaine de la conception de produits numériques. Nous proposons, plus largement, de les mobiliser au cours d’interventions axées sur la santé des salariés et la performance des systèmes. En effet, les personas sont considérés dans la littérature comme un outil puissant de génération et de sélection des idées. De plus, les travaux menés principalement en psychologie de la créativité permettent de penser que les personas sont effectivement susceptibles d’améliorer les performances créatives des acteurs impliqués dans un processus de transformation ou de conception. Néanmoins, très peu de recherches ont porté sur cet aspect. La question est donc d’établir la capacité des personas à générer des idées nouvelles et adaptées. Cinq études ont été conduites pour répondre à cette question. Elles montrent que les personas ne se distinguent pas des autres sources d’inspiration étudiées par le nombre d’idées générées. Leur apport fondamental se situe au niveau de la nature des idées produites et de leur capacité à instrumenter la sélection de ces idées. De plus, les personas soutiennent la construction de représentations communes, la simulation langagière et l’activité argumentative dans les groupes de travail. Ces résultats confirment l’utilité du recours aux personas dans un processus de transformation ou de conception. Ils ouvrent des perspectives sur un enrichissement de l’intervention<br>This thesis is part of the research on personas. As user models, personas restore in a personalized way, behaviors, attitudes or contexts of use. Thus, they are commonly used in the field of digital product design. We propose using them in a broader context i.e in interventions focused in occupational health and systems performance. In the literature on personas they are considered as a powerful tool for idea generation and idea selection. In addition, the research mainly in the domain of the psychology of creativity shows that personas are actually likely to improve creative performance. However, very few studies have focused on this aspect. The question is to establish whether the personas are able to generate new and relevant ideas. Five studies were carried out to answer this question. They indicate that personas do not generate more ideas than other sources of inspiration taken into consideration. Their fundamental contribution lies in the nature of the ideas generated and in their ability to orchestrate the selection of these ideas. Moreover, personas support the construction of common representations, the simulation activity and the discussion in the working groups. These results confirm the contribution of personas to a transformation or design process. They allow us to open up perspectives for an enrichment of the intervention
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Vieira, Julio Cesar da Silva Freitas. "Planejamento de cenários adotando a metodologia Shell no setor de energia elétrica: visualizações da geração distribuída no Brasil." Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, 2013. http://www.repositorio.jesuita.org.br/handle/UNISINOS/4762.
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Previous issue date: 2013-07-12<br>Nenhuma<br>O futuro, com seus riscos e incertezas, pode ser apontado como um dos assuntos que mais gera receios nas organizações. Para lidar com essas situações, algumas empresas utilizam técnicas e metodologias já comprovadas pela academia, para se tornarem competitivas. Quando organizações apresentam situações de alto grau de incerteza, quantidade insuficiente de oportunidades, setor em mudança e problemas de comunição interna, a metodologia de planejamento de cenários prospectivos é a mais indicada. No referencial teórico, foram mapeadas as principais abordagens de cenários prospectivos, dando ênfase para a metodologia selecionada para a aplicação, a metodologia Shell, que possui histórico de utilização, literatura disponível pela própria Shell e poucos estudos de aplicação no Brasil. Para aplicação piloto desta metodologia, foi selecionada a empresa CEEE, que atende os mercados de geração, transmissão e distribuição de energia elétrica, fazendo parte de um setor que se encontra em mudanças no país. A área de estudos escolhidas para os cenários foi a Geração Distribuída (GD). A aplicação foi concluída com a visualização de dois cenários da Geração Distribuída em 2035, os cenários Personalidade e Alienação. Estas estórias foram inicialmente delimitadas para o Estado do Rio Grande do Sul. Porém no decorrer de suas construções, tiveram sua delimitação ampliada para o setor de energia elétrica brasileiro. As estórias dos cenários construídos neste estudo tiveram como principais forças motrizes as questões institucionais, ambientais e políticas, que resultaram em um cenário otimista e um pessimista. Um dos fatores críticos para o sucesso da GD no Brasil, apontado pelos cenários, é à evolução intelectual da população brasileira, uma força capaz de exigir seus direitos, melhores práticas e se opor as forças dominantes e hegemônicas no poder. Os resultados desta aplicação mostraram que a metodologia de planejamento de cenários apresentou sinais de contribuição para aprendizagem, criatividade, comunicação interna e auxílio no processo de tomada de decisões da organização, sendo indicada a utilização desta ferramenta. As análises finais desta pesquisa permitiram também a elaboração de uma lista com os Fatores Críticos para o Sucesso (FCS) da aplicação da metodologia de planejamento de cenários Shell.<br>The future with its risks and uncertainties could be rendered as one of the issues that generate more apprehension in organizations. In order to deal with this reality, some companies utilize academy proved techniques and methodologies in order to be competitive. When organizations face situations of high level of uncertainty, insufficient quantity of opportunities, constant changing business environment and problems with internal communication, the planning methodology for prospective scenarios is the most indicated. During the gathering of the theoretical reference, the main prospective scenarios approach came to light. The emphasis was given to the methodology selected for the application, the Shell methodology, which has a historical of utilizing such literature, which is made available by the company itself, as well as a few studies that are being applied in Brazil. As a pilot methodology exercise, the company CEEE has been selected. CEEE deals with the generation, distribution and transmission of electrical energy and is inserted in a sector facing a changing environment scenario. The study area that was chosen for the scenarios was Distributed Generation (DG). The application has completed with the visualization of two scenarios of Distributed Generation in Brazil at the 2035, Personalidade and Alienação scenarios. This stories were initially delimited to the Rio Grande do Sul state. However at the course of its buildings had extended its delimitation to the Brazilian electricity sector. The stories of the scenarios constructed in this study had as main driving forces, institutional, environmental and political issues, which resulted in an optimistic scenario and a pessimist. One of the critical factors for the success of DG in Brazil, as present at the scenarios, was the intellectual evolution of the Brazilian population, a force able to claim their rights, best practices and oppose the dominant and hegemonic forces of power. The results of the research have shown that the planning methodology for prospective scenarios showed signs to contribute to the learning, creativity stimulus and internal communication in the target company, as well as help the process of decision making in the organization, which indicates the utilization of this tool. The final analyzes of this study also contributed to the creation of a list with Critical Success Factors (CSF) influencing in the application of the Shell planning methodology for prospective scenarios.
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MAZZITELLI, CARLOTTA. "CIrculating TUmor CELls (CTCs), circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) and exosomes (Ex) in breast cancer patients: a prospective study." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Genova, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11567/1044956.
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The translational study CITUCEL aims to correlate the presence of CTCs and ctDNA at different time points with the clinical outcome of BC patients in neo-adjuvant, adjuvant or advanced setting and to compare the mutational profiles of the primary tumor, CTCs and ctDNA in the different settings.
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CTCs have been characterized and isolated single or in pool with the DEPArray system, after immunologic negative enrichment with antibodies coupled to magnetic beads against common leukocytes and red blood cells antigens, followed by cells labelling with specific antibody for epithelial, mesenchymal and pan-leukocyte markers. CTCs mutational analyses have been performed by NGS on the Ion Torrent™ platform using the Oncomine Breast cfDNA V2.0 Kit and an in house developed approach based on the molecular tagging. The same kit and the same panel was used to analyse ctDNA, extracted from plasma using ccfDNA LV kit (Promega). Primary tumor mutational profile has been evaluated in NGS with a custom panel.
Results
A total of 60 patients have been enrolled in the study (32 in neo-adjuvant, 22 in adjuvant and 6 in advanced settings). CTCs have been recovered and morphologically/phenotypically re-evaluated; ctDNA has been extracted, quantified and analysed by NGS. Preliminary analysis shown a significative difference in CTCs baseline counts between the early settings and the advanced one (P=0.038). No significative change has been detected before and after treatment in the (neo)-adiuvant setting, but remarcably a lower CTCs baseline count correlates with pCR (P=0.0399). Similar results have been obtained in regards of ctDNA, definitely higher in the blood of MTS patients (P=0.0127); no significative differences were detected before and after treatment, and no correlation has been found with pCR. The mutational analysis is in progress.
Conclusions
The results of the study will provide information on the applicability of liquid biopsy in clinical practice.
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Mannil, Manoj [Verfasser], Michael W. [Akademischer Betreuer] Sereda, Jutta [Akademischer Betreuer] Gärtner, and Reinhard [Akademischer Betreuer] Hilgers. "Clinical prospective study on disease variability and score generation in patients with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1A (HMSN1A) / Manoj Mannil. Gutachter: Jutta Gärtner ; Reinhard Hilgers. Betreuer: Michael W. Sereda." Göttingen : Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, 2014. http://d-nb.info/1059570033/34.
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Kennedy, Brian Michael Kennedy. "Leveraging Multimodal Tumor mRNA Expression Data from Colon Cancer: Prospective Observational Studies for Hypothesis Generating and Predictive Modeling." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1498742562364379.
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Mapukule, Livhuwani Ernest. "Interpretation of regional geochemical data as an aid to exploration target generation in the North West Province South Africa." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/268.
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This study involves the application, interpretation and utilization of regional geochemical data for target generation in the North West Province, South Africa. A regional soil geochemical survey programme has been carried out by the Council of Geoscience South Africa since 1973. A number of 1:250 000 sheet areas have been completed, but there are no interpretative maps which could aid in mineral exploration and other purposes. In order to utilize the valuable and expensive data, the project was motivated through data acquisition and interpretation to generate exploration targets. The study area is confined to Mafikeng, Vryburg, Kuruman and Christiana in the Northwest Province, where potential exploration and mining opportunities exist in areas of great geological interest. These include geological events such as the Bushveld Complex, the Kalahari manganese field and the Kraaipan greenstone belts. The aim of this project was to utilize geochemical data together with geophysical and geological information to verify and identification of possible obscured ore bodies or zones of mineralization, and to generate targets. Another objective was the author to be trained in the techniques of geochemical data processing, interpretation and integration of techniques such as geophysics, in the understanding of the geology and economic geology of the areas. Approximately 5 kg of surface soil was collected per 1 km2 by CGS from foot traversing. Pellets of the samples were prepared and analyzed for TiO2, MnO and Fe2O3, Sc, V, Cr, Ni, Co, Cu, Zn, As, Y, Ba, Nb, Rb, Th, W, Zr, Pb, Sr and U using the simultaneous wavelengthdispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometer technique at the Council for Geoscience, South Africa. For each element the mean +2 standard deviations were used as a threshold value to separate the negative from the positive anomalies. The integration of geological, geophysical and geochemical information was used to analyze and understand the areas of interest. A number of computer programmes were extensively used for data processing, manipulation, and presentation. These include Golden Software Surfer 8®, Arc-View 3.2a®, TNT-Mips®, JMP 8 ®, and Microsoft Excel®. Through geochemical data processing and interpretation, together with the low resolution aeromagnetic data, gravity data and geological data, seven (7) exploration target areas have been generated: These have been numbered A to G. It is concluded that there is good potential for Cr, PGMs, vanadium, nickel, iron, copper, manganese, uranium and niobium in the targets generated. The results provide some indication and guide for exploration in the target areas. In Target A, Cu, Cr, Fe, Ni and V anomalies from the lower chromitite zone of far western zone of the Bushveld Complex, which has be overlain buy the thick surface sand of the Gordonia Formation. Target B occurs over the diabase, norite, andesitic lava and andalusite muscovite hornfels of the Magaliesberg Formation. This target has the potential for Cu, Fe and Ni mineralization. The felsic rocks of the Kanye Formation and the Gaborone Granite in target C have shown some positive anomalies of niobium, uranium, yttrium and rubidium which give the area potential for Nb, REE and U exploration. Target D is located on the Allanridge Formation, and has significant potential for Ni-Cu mineralization, and is associated with the komatiitic lava at the base of the Allanridge Formation in the Christiana Area. The light green tholeiitic, calc-alkali basalt and andesitic rocks of the Rietgat Formation are characterized by a north-south trending yttrium anomaly with supporting Ba and Y anomalies (Target E). This makes the area a potential target for rare earth elements. Calcrete on the west of the Kuruman has a low b potential target for vanadium. It is believed that the area might be potential for potassium-uranium vanadate minerals, carnotite which is mostly found in calcrete deposits. This study has proved to be a useful and approach in utilizing the valuable geochemical data for exploration and future mining, generated by Council for Geoscience Science. It is recommended that further detailed soil, rock and geochemical surveys and ultimately diamond drilling be carried out in the exploration target areas generated by this study.
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Huet, Lila. "Role of electric flexibility in the future French grid with high renewable integration." Thesis, KTH, Energiteknik, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-263063.
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The operation of electric grids depends on the balance between the electric generation and the demand. In France, the Transmission System Operator, RTE, is responsible for the stability and the security of the grid. Today, the electric generation follows the variations of the demand. However, environmental concerns prompt to develop new strategies and policies for Energy Transition. The development of Smart Grids, the uncertain future of nuclear generation, the massive integration of renewable sources are the focus of those. Furthermore, renewable energies generation is intermittent and can not be controlled. The current strategy for the balance between generation and demand is challenged. The electric grid has to be readjusted by adding more electric flexibility to ensure its stability. The electric flexibility is usually associated to storage technologies as batteries or pumping stations. A state of art review is used to define this notion and to evaluate the technological and economic maturity of different electric flexibility vectors. The following report is based on a selection of prospective scenarios, development plans already launched in France, proposing a significant share of renewable energies in a future energy mix and current French energy data. Two studies were carried out : one at a regional level, for Bretagne and one at national level for France. An evaluation at 2050 is carried out to determine the load factors of intermittent energies, consumption and residual demand in Bretagne. On the basis of these prospective estimates, a need for electric flexibility can be determined for the Bretagne region. This first study highlights an issue related to future needs for electric flexibility. However, since the balance between production and consumption is achieved at a national level, a second study on France is necessary. The French need for electric flexibility is then estimated through a linear optimization that evaluates the energy production required to achieve a generation/consumption balance taking into account energy sources merit order.<br>Det franska elnätets funktion beror på balansen mellan elproduktionen och efterfrågan. Transmissionssystemoperatören, RTE, ansvarar för nätets stabilitet och säkerhet. Idag följer den elektriska generationen variationerna i efterfrågan. Miljömässiga frågor är emellertid snabba för att utveckla nya strategier och strategier för energiövergång. Utvecklingen av Smart Grids, den osäkra framtiden för kärnkraftsproduktion, den massiva integrationen av förnybara källor är deras fokus. Vidare är generering av förnybara energikällor intermittent och kan inte kontrolleras. Den nuvarande strategin för balans mellan produktion och efterfrågan utmanas. Elnätet måste justeras genom att lägga till mer elektrisk flexibilitet för att säkerställa stabiliteten. Den elektriska flexibiliteten är vanligtvis förknippad med lagringsteknik som batterier eller pumpstationer. En allmänt erkända tekniska används för att definiera denna uppfattning och att utvärdera den tekniska och ekonomiska mognaden hos olika elektriska flexibilitetsvektorer. Följande undersökningar grundar sig på ett urval av framtida scenarier, utvecklingsplaner som redan lanserats i Frankrike, och föreslår en betydande andel förnybara energikällor i en framtida energimix och nuvarande franska energidata. Två studier utfördes på olika perimetrar: på Bretagne-regionen och i Frankrike. En utvärdering vid 2050 utförs för att bestämma belastningsfaktorerna för intermittent energi, förbrukning och återstående efterfrågan i Bretagne. På grundval av dessa framtida uppskattningar kan ett behov av elektrisk flexibilitet bestämmas för Bretagne-regionen. Denna första studie lyfter fram ett problem som rör framtida behov av elektrisk flexibilitet. Men eftersom balansen mellan produktion och konsumtion uppnås på nationell nivå krävs en andra studie om Frankrike. Det franska behovet av elektrisk flexibilitet uppskattas sedan genom en linjär optimering som utvärderar den energiproduktion som krävs för att uppnå en generation / konsumtionsbalans med hänsyn tagen till energikällans meriteringsordning.<br>Le fonctionnement du réseau électrique français repose sur l’équilibre entre la production et la consommation d’électricité. Le gestionnaire du réseau de transport, RTE, est responsable de la stabilité et de la sécurité du réseau. Aujourd’hui, la production électrique s’adapte aux variations de la consommation. Cependant, des préoccupations environnementales incitent à la mise en place de nouvelles stratégies et politiques pour la transition énergétique. Le développement d’un réseau intelligent, l’avenir incertain du nucléaire et l’intégration massive d’énergies renouvelables sont au centre de celles-ci. De plus, la production électrique des énergies renouvelables s’avère intermittente et fatale. La stratégie actuelle du maintien de l’équilibre production/consommation est remise en question. Le système électrique doit être repensé en y intégrant plus de flexibilité électrique pour en garantir la stabilité. La flexibilité électrique est usuellement associée aux technologies de stockage comme les batteries électrochimiques et les STEP hydrauliques. Un état de l’art permet de définir précisément cette notion et d’évaluer la maturité technologique et économique en France de ces différents vecteurs de flexibilité électrique. L’objet des recherches suivantes est basé sur une sélection de scénarios prospectifs, de plans de développement d’ores et déjà lancés en France, proposant une part importante d’énergies renouvelables dans un futur mix énergétique et des données énergétiques actuelles françaises. Deux études ont été menées sur différents périmètres : sur la région Bretagne et sur la France entière. Une évaluation à 2050 est effectuée pour déterminer facteurs de charge des énergies intermittentes, consommation et demande résiduelle en Bretagne. A partir de ces estimations prospectives, un besoin en flexibilité peut être déterminé sur le périmètre de la Bretagne. Cette première étude permet de mettre en exergue une problématique liée aux futurs besoins de flexibilité électrique. Cependant, l’équilibre entre production et consommation étant réalisé à un niveau national, une seconde étude sur le périmètre français est nécessaire. Le besoin français en flexibilité est alors estimé par le biais d’une optimisation linéaire qui évalue la production énergétique nécessaire pour obtenir un équilibre production/consommation en tenant compte de la préséance économique.
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Williams, Armenia Martin. The impact of Medicare's Prospective Payment System on home health agencies: A "third generation" study in policy implementation. University of Georgia, 1992.
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Geological Survey (U.S.), ed. Basin evolution, and the timing and extent of oil generation, Canning River region, North Slope, Alaska: Preliminary Basin2 calculations assuming a conductive thermal history. U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, 1998.
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Williams, Armenia Martin. THE IMPACT OF MEDICARE'S PROSPECTIVE PAYMENT SYSTEM ON HOME HEALTH AGENCIES: A "THIRD GENERATION" STUDY IN POLICY IMPLEMENTATION (HEALTH POLICY). 1991.
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Bristow, Jennie, Sarah Cant, and Anwesa Chatterjee. Generational Encounters with Higher Education. Policy Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781529209778.001.0001.
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The 21st century has witnessed significant changes to the structures and policies framing Higher Education. But how do these changes in norms, values, and purpose shape the generation now coming of age? Employing a generational analysis, this book offers an original approach to the study of education. Drawing on a British Academy-funded study, comprising a policy review, semi-structured interviews and focus groups with students and with academics of different generations, and an analysis of responses to the Mass Observation Study, the book explores the qualitative dimensions of the relationship between academics and students, and examines wider issues of culture and socialisation, from tuition fees and student mental health, to social mobility and employment. The book begins with a discussion of the emergence of a ‘graduate generation’, in a context where 50 per cent of young people are encouraged to go to University, on the basis that this is a personal investment in their future careers. Subsequent chapters review the policy changes that have led to this framing of Higher Education as an increasingly individualised experience, where ‘student choice’ is operationalised as the means by which Universities are funded and held to account; historical differences in the experience of Higher Education; and the impact of these changes on the role and status of academic staff and the experience of current and prospective students.
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Quddus, Muhammad Abdul. Petroleum Science and Technology: Petroleum Generation, Accumulation and Prospecting. Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
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Quddus, Muhammad Abdul. Petroleum Science and Technology: Petroleum Generation, Accumulation and Prospecting. Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
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Quddus, Muhammad Abdul. Petroleum Science and Technology: Petroleum Generation, Accumulation and Prospecting. Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
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Petroleum Science and Technology: Petroleum Generation, Accumulation and Prospecting. Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
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Torluccio, Giuseppe, Paolo Palliola, Paola Brighi, et al. IFRS9 e le sfide di contesto. AIFIRM, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.47473/2016ppa00032.
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Under IFRS9, Financial Institutions are required to implement impairment frameworks to determine the expected losses on their credit portfolio taking into account the current (so called “point in time”) and the prospective (so called “forward looking”) economic cycle. The Covid-19 pandemic, which began in early 2020, has posed significant challenges for Financial Institutions in their ability to manage credit risk. Despite numerous guidelines given by regulators, estimating IFRS9 expected loss continues to be a considerable challenge. The challenge partly stems from the relationship between macro-economic scenarios and credit losses, the treatment of moratoriums inside the historical series for development and calibration of IFRS9 risk parameters, and the management of support measures defined at National and European levels (e.g. Next Generation EU) for the forward looking estimations.
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Spencer, Santino. Lead Generation: 3-In-1 Guide to Master Cold Email Marketing, B2B Prospecting, Landing Page Optimization and Cold Calling. Independently Published, 2022.
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Furculiță, Cornelia. "Prospective Developments for Contemplation." In The WTO and the New Generation EU FTA Dispute Settlement Mechanisms. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83118-9_12.
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Furht, Borko. "Next Generation of Real-Time Operating Systems: Industrial Prospective." In Real Time Computing. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-88049-0_59.
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Vyas, Anamaya, and Gerard Deepak. "SportsKBGen Framework: Knowledge Base Generation for Sports as a Prospective Domain." In Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-78943-4_9.
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Sikder, Sadia, Mohammad Toha, and Md Mostafizur Rahman. "Prospective Energy Production from Incineration: A Brief Overview on Different Types of Energy Produced by Incineration." In Generation of Energy from Municipal Solid Waste. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-74334-4_12.
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Navas-Anguita, Zaira, Diego García-Gusano, and Diego Iribarren. "Prospective Assessment of the Carbon Footprint of a National Power Generation System." In Carbon Footprints. Springer Singapore, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7912-3_1.
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Stefani, Oliver, Ralph Mager, Evangelos Bekiaris, Maria Gemou, and Alex Bullinger. "Merging of Next Generation VR and Ambient Intelligence – From Retrospective to Prospective User Interfaces." In Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Ambient Interaction. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73281-5_77.
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Salaria, Neha, Neeraj, Indu Kumari, Bhawna, and Rajesh Kumar. "Utilization and Future Prospective of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) in Biodiversity Conservation of Endangered Medicinal Plants." In Biotechnological Innovations for Sustainable Biodiversity and Development. CRC Press, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781032697550-2.
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Abramovici, Michael, and Youssef Aidi. "Next Generation Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)." In Integration of Practice-Oriented Knowledge Technology: Trends and Prospectives. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34471-8_12.
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Shreya, Ankannagiri Harika Reddy, Vaishnavi Tirunagari, and Kumar K. V. Rajesh. "Analytical Prospective on Fashion Industry." In Predictive Analytics and Generative AI for Data-Driven Marketing Strategies. Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9781003472544-4.
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Scarborough, Brandon. "Prospecting for Energy and the Environment." In Free Market Environmentalism for the Next Generation. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137443397_5.
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Stoffersen, Birgitte, Mads Bytofte Rasmussen, Morten Jellesen, Jakub Marcin Szykula, and John Hald. "Corrosion Behavior of Materials for Prospective Use in Molten Salt Reactors." In CONFERENCE 2025. AMPP, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5006/c2025-00496.
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Abstract Molten salt reactors (MSRs) represent a promising Generation IV technology for safe and efficient nuclear power generation. The effective operation of MSRs depends on the durability and reliability of structural materials capable of enduring high temperatures, irradiation and a corrosive environment. This work investigates the corrosion behavior of nickel 201 and alloys as Inconel 600 and stainless steel when exposed to molten sodium hydroxide (NaOH) at 600 ºC, simulating the corrosive conditions of a potential MSR moderator environment. Electrochemical techniques were used to provide in situ information of the corrosion behavior of metal alloys exposed to molten salt. SEM/EDS and XRD were used to characterize the oxide formation and degradation mechanisms post exposure. The effects of corrosion mitigation techniques as using a protective blanketing gas or providing cathodic protection mitigation were explored. The findings provide essential information for designing and implementing durable and reliable molten salt reactors, advancing the development of sustainable, safe and efficient energy solutions.
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Sharma, Amit, and Namrata Sengar. "Experimental Study of Steam Generation through Solar Parabolic Trough Collector for Prospective Use in Small Industries." In 22nd ISME International Conference on Recent Advances in Mechanical Engineering for Sustainable Development. Trans Tech Publications Ltd, 2025. https://doi.org/10.4028/p-c5wuq2.
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The solar parabolic trough collector technology is one of the most reliable technologies in the field of solar thermal. This is due to the fact that temperatures as high as 300-400°C can be achieved using this technology. This technology is used for hot water production, process steam requirement, power generation and many more. In the present work a thermal study on a parabolic trough collector is performed to observe the range of steam temperatures to be useful for small scale industry applications. The paper presents the steam temperatures, temperature profiles for the solar collector components and the solar radiation variation over the day. On the basis of several experiments it was found that in the parabolic trough collector the maximum pressure of 221 bar and the maximum steam temperature of around 374°C is achieved. From the experimental data obtained, the variation in temperatures with solar radiation on clear and intermittent cloud cover is discussed. From the results it can be concluded that this system may be used successfully for production of hot water and steam for use in many different industries such as dairy, textile, paper, timber, bricks, chemicals, plastics etc. Hot water and steam from solar system can be used in small scale industries for rose water making, cooking, drying, sterilization, food processing etc. In this paper a design for rose water making process through parabolic trough collector has been proposed. Keywords: Solar concentrator, parabolic trough, cylindrical parabolic collector, steam, temperature profile, industry applications.
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Abbas, Safdar, Paraskevi Karka, and Stavros Papadokonstantakis. "Optimization of prospective circular economy in sewage sludge to biofuel production pathways via hydrothermal liquefaction using P-graph." In The 35th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering. PSE Press, 2025. https://doi.org/10.69997/sct.189301.
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Hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) has proven to be an appropriate technology for converting sewage sludge into a valuable resource for renewable energy generation. This study focuses on a prospective analysis of various technological scenarios for sewage sludge-to-fuel pathways via HTL, co-located with a wastewater treatment plant, in support of a circular economy perspective. Four technological foreground scenarios and three prospective background scenarios aligned with the Paris agreement�s climate targets REMIND-SSP2-Base (projecting a 3.5�C temperature rise by the end of the century), PKBudg1150 (aiming to limit the rise to below 2�C), and PKBudg500 (targeting a cap below 1.5�C) are analyzed for sewage sludge-to-fuel conversion in 2030, 2040, and 2050. The superstructure problem of the possible combinations of the developed scenarios is solved using the P-graph studio which is based on the branch and bound approach. The goal of this study is to maximize the objective function (OF) by accounting the credits from avoided GHG emissions, the market value of recovered products, while subtracting operational costs and GHG emission penalties incurred during the biocrude production and upgrading processes. The optimal solution shows a potential OF equal to 858 �/ton of sewage sludge for Pkbudg500 under technological foreground scenario 2 by 2040. The P-graph approach demonstrates that HTL treatment of sewage sludge provides an alternative production pathway within the circular economy concept, capable of identifying optimal and near-optimal solutions for addressing trade-offs between future socio-economic policies and practical implementation for 2030, 2040, and 2050, which are often difficult to monetize.
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Nilsson, Karl-Fredrik, and Cécile Pétesch. "CEN WS064: Code Evolution and Pre-Normative Research for Generation IV Nuclear Reactor Design and Construction Codes." In AM-EPRI 2024. ASM International, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.31399/asm.cp.am-epri-2024p0784.
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Abstract This paper presents the CEN WS064 Prospective Group 2, a project involving different European stakeholders from more than 20 organizations with the objective to identify the needs and propose code developments research for the nuclear design and construction code RCC-MRx for innovative reactors with more onerous operational conditions: i) reactor components are generally exposed to higher temperatures; ii) have innovative and more corrosive coolants such as liquid lead or molten salt; iii) materials and components are generally exposed to higher radiation levels than light-water reactors. The main outputs of the CEN WS064 are code evolution proposals and proposals for pre-normative research in support of code evolution. The code evolution is driven by further improving safety and cost reduction. Nuclear Design Codes are robust engineering tools but should incorporate new technologies and research. The paper describes the adopted methodology and the rationale for identifying code evolution needs. Code evolution and research proposals will be discussed. Examples of proposals that will be discussed include: Guideline for design of material/components with innovative coolants, extension of design life to 60 years; qualification of new materials and components with advanced manufacturing. A general requirement is that code evolution and associated material and component qualification and codification need to be significantly accelerated for which new approaches such as AI tools will play an important role.
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Rachmat, Hary, Hammam Riza, and Taufik Fuadi Abidin. "Fine-Tuning Large Language Model (LLM) to Answer Basic Questions for Prospective New Students at Syiah Kuala University Using the Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Method." In 2024 Ninth International Conference on Informatics and Computing (ICIC). IEEE, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1109/icic64337.2024.10956296.
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Allahar, Kerry N., Darryl P. Butt, Jon Webb, and Indrajit Charit. "Electrochemical Properties of Spark Plasma Sintered Tungsten." In CORROSION 2011. NACE International, 2011. https://doi.org/10.5006/c2011-11205.
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Abstract The increased application of spark plasma sintering (SPS) for powder metallurgy (PM) is due to the benefits of fast heating rate, uniform heating condition, lower sintering temperature and shorter dwell time. This method involves the Joule heating of specimens by a pulsed dc coupled with axial pressure. The limitation of PM is the reduced mechanical strength and corrosion properties as compared to solid-state sintering. Tungsten cermets are prospective next generation nuclear materials and the corrosion resistance of these cermets will be influenced by the native oxide associated with tungsten. The behavior of tungsten in acidic environments has been shown to be associated with the dissolution of the outer layer of WO3(H2O)x that rests on the compact inner layer of WO3. The application of sintering temperatures at 1300 °C and 1700 °C with dwell times of 5 minutes yielded SPS tungsten specimens from two tungsten powders of different sizes with varying levels of porosity. Potentiodynamic polarization and electrochemical impedance spectroscopic experiments were performed on these specimens under pH 1 and pH 11 conditions. The data was analyzed using equivalent electrical circuits to determine the influence of the morphology on the electrochemical behavior of the sintered tungsten.
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Kaczerewska, O., I. Sousa, J. Figueiredo, R. Martins, S. Loureiro, and J. Tedim. "Silica Nanocapsules Based on Gemini Surfactant as Environmentally Friendly Nanocontainers for Corrosion Protection in Seawater." In CORROSION 2021. AMPP, 2021. https://doi.org/10.5006/c2021-16741.
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ABSTRACT Encapsulation of active agents (corrosion inhibitors, pH indicators) has been described as a promising approach to impart controlled release and limit detrimental interactions between the active agents and the coating matrix. Mesoporous silica nanocapsules (SiNC) are engineered materials widely used for encapsulation. One synthesis route reported in the literature for these materials is based on a one-step emulsification process (oil-in-water microemulsion), using hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) as emulsifier of the microemulsion. However, CTAB is also a source of toxicity to marine species, thus its replacement by other surfactants has been suggested. This work describes the synthesis of new silica nanocapsules loaded with corrosion inhibitor 2-mercaptobenzothiazol (MBT) by using a gemini surfactant as a potential replacement for CTAB. The obtained nanocapsules were characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), dynamic light scattering (DLS) and BET for pore size and surface area analysis. All the parameters were compared with those for nanocapsules based on CTAB, as well as ecotoxicity in relevant marine species. Nanocapsules were characterized by electrochemical techniques for anticorrosion applications, showing that they can be a prospective, new generation of nanomaterials with lower toxicity.
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Kulkarni, Manohar, and Xiangyang Gong. "Coal Fired MHD Technology: A Prospective Power Generation Method." In International Joint Power Generation Conference collocated with TurboExpo 2003. ASMEDC, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ijpgc2003-40041.
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By passing the combustion gases through magnetic field, magneto generator converts heat directly to electric power without moving parts. The inherent characteristic of high efficiency and low emission makes Coal fired MHD power generation technology attractive to be a potential alternative power generation method in the future. This paper presents the working principle of MHD generator and describes the coal fired MHD power plant systems and the key components in these systems. It also reviews the batch research of Department of Energy on coal fired MHD electric power generation—Proof of Concept Program from 1987 to 1993 and states some challenges remained on its way to commercial use.
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Shlyaptsev, Vyacheslav N., Jorge J. Rocca, Michael Grisham, Gonzalo Avaria, Fernando Tomasel, and Aleksandr Noy. "Prospective schemes for next generation x-ray lasers." In SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, edited by James Dunn and Gregory J. Tallents. SPIE, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.828385.
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Narayana Iyer, Subramanian, Thanos Megaritis, Lionel Ganippa, and Harish Sarma Krishnamoorthy. "Methanol + Hydrogen - A Prospective Alternate Fuel for Cleaner Offshore Power Generation." In Offshore Technology Conference. OTC, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4043/32330-ms.
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Abstract This paper analyzes the benefits of employing reciprocating engines to power offshore oil and gas (O&G) loads using methanol as fuel instead of (or mixing with) diesel that has been used conventionally. The study is carried out on a methanol-based single-cylinder, 50-liter, heavy-duty reciprocating engine for two test cases of power (30 kW and 111 kW) at different boost pressure and injection timing. In this investigation, 1-dimensional modeling and analysis using Ricardo Wave software was performed. Then, the effect of adding small amounts (&lt;10%) of hydrogen into the engine in terms of performance improvement and emissions’ reduction is explored. Moreover, engine performance, indicated thermal efficiency, and CO/NOx emissions are compared for different boost pressure values at varied injection timing and constant power. The tests are carried out by modeling multiple use cases and comparing them, including (i) direct injection of methanol, and (ii) direct injection of methanol with port injection of hydrogen by spark ignition method. The addition of hydrogen with methanol results in a significant reduction in emissions and increase in the indicated thermal efficiency. Moreover, advancing the injection timing and increasing the boost pressure decrease the CO/NOx emissions, and also improve the indicated thermal efficiency. This paper presents these analyses in detail for multiple test conditions.
Reports on the topic "Prospective generation"
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Gomelsky, Roberto. Fossil Fuel Power Plants: Available Technologies and Thermal Plant Prospective Potential in Latin America. Inter-American Development Bank, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0009137.
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The general objective of this study is to provide an overview of fossil-fuel-based electric power technologies other than coal-fired technologies (coal-fired technologies are the subject of a specific guideline that has already been adopted by the IDB) and an assessment of the relevance of these technologies in the future power generation mix in Latin America and the Caribbean resulting from new generation and retrofit investment in which the IDB may participate.
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Mehmood, Hamid, Surya Karthik Mukkavilli, Ingmar Weber, et al. Strategic Foresight to Applications of Artificial Intelligence to Achieve Water-related Sustainable Development Goals. United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.53328/lotc2968.
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The report recommends that: 1) Policymakers should conduct holistic assessments of social, economic, and cultural factors before AI adoption in the water sector, as prospective applications of AI are case- specific. It is also important to conduct baseline studies to measure the implementation capacity, return on investment, and impact of intervention. 2) To ensure positive development outcomes, policies regarding the use of AI for water-related challenges should be coupled with capacity and infrastructure development policies. Capacity development policies need to address the AI and Information and Communications Technology (ICT) needs for the AI-related skill development of all water-related stakeholders. Infrastructure development policies should address the underlying requirements of computation, energy, data generation, and storage. The sequencing of these policies is critical. 3) To mitigate the predicted job displacement that will accompany AI-led innovation in the water sector, policies should direct investments towards enabling a skilled workforce by developing water sector-related education at all levels. This skilled workforce should be strategically placed to offset dependency on the private sector. 4) Water-related challenges are cross-cutting running from grassroots to the global level and require an understanding of the water ecosystem. It is important for countries connected by major rivers and watersheds to collaborate in developing policies that advance the use of AI to address common water-related challenges. 5) A council or agency with representation from all stakeholders should be constituted at the national level, to allow for the successful adoption of AI by water agencies. This council or agency should be tasked with the development of policies, guidelines, and codes of conduct for the adoption of AI in the water-sector. These key policy recommendations can be used as primary guidelines for the development of strategies and plans to use AI to help achieve water-related SDGs.
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Southgate, Douglas. Alternatives for Habitat Protection and Rural Income Generation. Inter-American Development Bank, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0008857.
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The key question the research in this paper tries to answer is whether those four activities truly represent a viable economic alternative in Latin America's environmentally fragile hinterlands. Several cases in each line of activity are analyzed to determine the level and distribution of the net financial returns they generate. Special attention was devoted to examining the degree to which net returns flow to local populations, as opposed to other economic agents. In general, examination of the rewards local populations can expect to derive from ecotourism and the harvesting of nontimber forest products suggests that allocating time and effort to those activities is unlikely to be very remunerative since unskilled labor is not particularly scarce in rural areas. In addition, little is to be gained by controlling access to natural resources, which for the most part are abundant. Moreover, making the sector-specific human capital and other investments needed for forest dwellers to capture more of the net returns from ecotourism, genetic prospecting, and so forth would probably not benefit them very much. Instead, furnishing them with education and training
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Keating, Thomas P., and Anna Storm. Writing the Forsmark Key Information File: Concluding Report. Linköping University Electronic Press, 2025. https://doi.org/10.3384/9789181181036.
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Countries with nuclear facilities are considering ways to safely store radioactiveleftovers from their nuclear activities over long timescales, including spentnuclear fuel. In Sweden, this work has come relatively far with the constructionphase now beginning for a deep geological repository for spent nuclear fuel at Forsmark. In parallel to the development of storage technologies, work is being carried out internationally to develop ways of communicating the long-term hazards of the radioactive remains to future generations. One such approach for communicating information about repositories and their content is called the Key Information File (KIF), a concept advanced through international expert groupsled by the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) within the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).This is the concluding report about the work to write a Key Information File for the prospective Forsmark Spent Fuel Repository, in a project commissioned by the Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company (SKB) over theperiod 2021-2024. It outlines project activities, insights gained, and recommendations for further work. In the report, it is argued: (1) for the KIF tosuccessfully work as tool for information transfer to future generations means accepting it is a document aimed at the widest possible audience, and therefore must be presented in a manner open to various readers; (2) that there is a need for a mechanism that supports the continuous renewal of the KIF, and here the projectuniquely proposes the SHIRE method, which stands for Share-Imagine-Renew; and (3) that the KIF also has an important role to play in contemporary conversations around memory transfer concerning nuclear waste repositories. This is because the work to rewrite a given KIF will in itself form a social practice, which could keep complex and critical questions about the memory of underground repositories relevant through time.
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Hertel, Thomas, David Hummels, Maros Ivanic, and Roman Keeney. How Confident Can We Be in CGE-Based Assessments of Free Trade Agreements? GTAP Working Paper, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.21642/gtap.wp26.
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With the proliferation of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) over the past decade, demand for quantitative analysis of their likely impacts has surged. The main quantitative tool for performing such analysis is Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) modeling. Yet these models have been widely criticized for performing poorly (Kehoe, 2002) and having weak econometric foundations (McKitrick, 1998; Jorgenson, 1984). FTA results have been shown to be particularly sensitive to the trade elasticities, with small trade elasticities generating large terms of trade effects and relatively modest efficiency gains, whereas large trade elasticities lead to the opposite result. Critics are understandably wary of results being determined largely by the authors’ choice of trade elasticities. Where do these trade elasticities come from? CGE modelers typically draw these elasticities from econometric work that uses time series price variation to identify an elasticity of substitution between domestic goods and composite imports (Alaouze, 1977; Alaouze, et al., 1977; Stern et al., 1976; Gallaway, McDaniel and Rivera, 2003). This approach has three problems: the use of point estimates as “truth”, the magnitude of the point estimates, and estimating the relevant elasticity. First, modelers take point estimates drawn from the econometric literature, while ignoring the precision of these estimates. As we will make clear below, the confidence one has in various CGE conclusions depends critically on the size of the confidence interval around parameter estimates. Standard “robustness checks” such as systematically raising or lowering the substitution parameters does not properly address this problem because it ignores information about which parameters we know with some precision and which we do not. A second problem with most existing studies derives from the use of import price series to identify home vs. foreign substitution, for example, tends to systematically understate the true elasticity. This is because these estimates take price variation as exogenous when estimating the import demand functions, and ignore quality variation. When quality is high, import demand and prices will be jointly high. This biases estimated elasticities toward zero. A related point is that the fixed-weight import price series used by most authors are theoretically inappropriate for estimating the elasticities of interest. CGE modelers generally examine a nested utility structure, with domestic production substitution for a CES composite import bundle. The appropriate price series is then the corresponding CES price index among foreign varieties. Constructing such an index requires knowledge of the elasticity of substitution among foreign varieties (see below). By using a fixed-weight import price series, previous estimates place too much weight on high foreign prices, and too small a weight on low foreign prices. In other words, they overstate the degree of price variation that exists, relative to a CES price index. Reconciling small trade volume movements with large import price series movements requires a small elasticity of substitution. This problem, and that of unmeasured quality variation, helps explain why typical estimated elasticities are very small. The third problem with the existing literature is that estimates taken from other researchers’ studies typically employ different levels of aggregation, and exploit different sources of price variation, from what policy modelers have in mind. Employment of elasticities in experiments ill-matched to their original estimation can be problematic. For example, estimates may be calculated at a higher or lower level of aggregation than the level of analysis than the modeler wants to examine. Estimating substitutability across sources for paddy rice gives one a quite different answer than estimates that look at agriculture as a whole. When analyzing Free Trade Agreements, the principle policy experiment is a change in relative prices among foreign suppliers caused by lowering tariffs within the FTA. Understanding the substitution this will induce across those suppliers is critical to gauging the FTA’s real effects. Using home v. foreign elasticities rather than elasticities of substitution among imports supplied from different countries may be quite misleading. Moreover, these “sourcing” elasticities are critical for constructing composite import price series to appropriate estimate home v. foreign substitutability. In summary, the history of estimating the substitution elasticities governing trade flows in CGE models has been checkered at best. Clearly there is a need for improved econometric estimation of these trade elasticities that is well-integrated into the CGE modeling framework. This paper provides such estimation and integration, and has several significant merits. First, we choose our experiment carefully. Our CGE analysis focuses on the prospective Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA) currently under negotiation. This is one of the most important FTAs currently “in play” in international negotiations. It also fits nicely with the source data used to estimate the trade elasticities, which is largely based on imports into North and South America. Our assessment is done in a perfectly competitive, comparative static setting in order to emphasize the role of the trade elasticities in determining the conventional gains/losses from such an FTA. This type of model is still widely used by government agencies for the evaluation of such agreements. Extensions to incorporate imperfect competition are straightforward, but involve the introduction of additional parameters (markups, extent of unexploited scale economies) as well as structural assumptions (entry/no-entry, nature of inter-firm rivalry) that introduce further uncertainty. Since our focus is on the effects of a PTA we estimate elasticities of substitution across multiple foreign supply sources. We do not use cross-exporter variation in prices or tariffs alone. Exporter price series exhibit a high degree of multicolinearity, and in any case, would be subject to unmeasured quality variation as described previously. Similarly, tariff variation by itself is typically unhelpful because by their very nature, Most Favored Nation (MFN) tariffs are non-discriminatory in nature, affecting all suppliers in the same way. Tariff preferences, where they exist, are often difficult to measure – sometimes being confounded by quantitative barriers, restrictive rules of origin, and other restrictions. Instead we employ a unique methodology and data set drawing on not only tariffs, but also bilateral transportation costs for goods traded internationally (Hummels, 1999). Transportation costs vary much more widely than do tariffs, allowing much more precise estimation of the trade elasticities that are central to CGE analysis of FTAs. We have highly disaggregated commodity trade flow data, and are therefore able to provide estimates that precisely match the commodity aggregation scheme employed in the subsequent CGE model. We follow the GTAP Version 5.0 aggregation scheme which includes 42 merchandise trade commodities covering food products, natural resources and manufactured goods. With the exception of two primary commodities that are not traded, we are able to estimate trade elasticities for all merchandise commodities that are significantly different form zero at the 95% confidence level. Rather than producing point estimates of the resulting welfare, export and employment effects, we report confidence intervals instead. These are based on repeated solution of the model, drawing from a distribution of trade elasticity estimates constructed based on the econometrically estimated standard errors. There is now a long history of CGE studies based on SSA: Systematic Sensitivity Analysis (Harrison and Vinod, 1992; Wigle, 1991; Pagon and Shannon, 1987) Ho