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Over the years, and despite the energy efficiency measures and possibilities, there has been an increase in energy consumption worldwide. However, the resources and primary energies are limited and short stocked, and the energy...

Brazil is a biofuel superpower and a pioneer in the large-scale production and use of sugarcane ethanol. The country has plans to replace 10 percent of the world's fossil fuels by 2025 with biofuels (Novo et al., 2010). Brazil...

Political Economy; Political Science; Environmental Political Economy Biofuel; Brazil; Historical Institutionalism; Sugarcane

Social media are being extensively used as a platform to conduct marketing and advertising activities (Shwetha et al., 2020). However, there is always a challenge in how organizations can figure out the results of social media...

Consumer Management Business and Management E-Business

Cuckoo Search (CS) algorithm is a nature-inspired optimization algorithm (NIOA) with less control parameters that is stable, versatile, and easy to implement. CS has good global search capabilities, but it is prone to local...

Algorithms Computer Science and Information Technology Artificial Intelligence

In an increasingly globalized world, social networks appear as an indispensable tool for sports clubs, as they make it easier for them to reach a large number of supporters. The main objective of this study is to measure the...

Solar thermal energy can be captured on absorbent surfaces, but coatings tend to deteriorate, due to changes in hue, thermal shocks, or detachment of all layers. There is a great challenge in reducing the deterioration because...

Sustainable Development Environmental, Agricultural, and Physical Sciences Environmental Science and Technologies

Leadership, innovation, and performance are essential factors to achieve the desired sustainable profitability of companies. The relationship between these variables is one of the keys to the organizational success, although...

Business and Management Hospitality, Travel, and Tourism Management Hospitality, Travel, & Tourism Management

Internet of Things (IoT) is a constantly growing paradigm that promises to revolutionize healthcare applications and could be associated with several other techniques. Data prediction is another widely used paradigm, where data...

Health Information Systems Medical, Healthcare, and Life Sciences Health Information Systems

The application of ubiquitous technologies in the improvement of education strategies is called ubiquitous learning. This strategy amplifies the pedagogical potential of e-learning through a ubiquitous and contextualized...

Distance Education Education Educational Technologies

The performance of a company is affected by several variables and understanding them and knowing how they work is decisive for management. Therefore, this research aims to address and measure how transformational leadership...

Internet of Things (IoT) is a constantly growing paradigm that promises to revolutionize healthcare applications and could be associated with several other techniques. Data prediction is another widely used paradigm, where data...

Information Security & Privacy Security and Forensics Cyber and Network Security Computer Science and Information Technology Science and Engineering

The term outsourcing has become a conventional means of describing anything associated with the transaction of services that enables client organisations to blur core activities and thereby reduce their internal workforce and...

Personalized sequencing and recommendation of pedagogical actions in virtual learning environments are relevant aspects in promoting an effective learning process with computer-aided support. Hence, this work investigates the...

Distance Education Education Educational Technologies

Tourism lifestyle entrepreneurs play an essential role in the innovation and competitiveness of tourist destinations. However, existing knowledge about the determinants of the innovation they generate is far from being fully...

In this work, we present a non-invasive electronic platform for physiological data acquisition on cattle grazing systems. The platform can be used for dairy and beef cattle to continuously monitor physiological variables such as...

Environmental Technologies Environmental, Agricultural, and Physical Sciences Environmental Science and Technologies

Mutations in fumarate hydratase (FH) cause hereditary leiomyomatosis and renal cell carcinoma1. Loss of FH in the kidney elicits several oncogenic signalling cascades through the accumulation of the oncometabolite fumarate2....

Animals Mice DNA Mitochondrial Fumarate Hydratase Fumarates Immunity Innate Mitochondria Kidney Cytosol

We report on the host properties of five X-ray-luminous active galactic nuclei (AGN) identified at 3 < z < 5 in the first epoch of imaging from the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science Survey. Each galaxy has been imaged with...

310 Galaxies and Cosmology

We present a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of the morphological and structural properties of a large sample of galaxies at z = 3–9 using early James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) CEERS NIRCam observations. Our sample...

310 Galaxies and Cosmology