J.E.H. Kusters,
J.E.H. Kusters
Institution: University of Groningen, Department of Spatial Planning & Environment, Landleven 1, 9747 AD, Groningen, the Netherlands
Email: j.e.h.kusters@rug.nl
F.M.G. van Kann,
F.M.G. van Kann
Institution: University of Groningen, Department of Spatial Planning & Environment, Landleven 1, 9747 AD, Groningen, the Netherlands
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C. Zuidema
C. Zuidema
Institution: University of Groningen, Department of Spatial Planning & Environment, Landleven 1, 9747 AD, Groningen, the Netherlands
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The foreseen large-scale growth of offshore wind energy towards 2050 in pursuit of an energy transition obliges scholars and policymakers to start considering its integration in the wider offshore energy system. Both technological innovations and advances in spatial policy are necessary to facilitat...
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The foreseen large-scale growth of offshore wind energy towards 2050 in pursuit of an energy transition obliges scholars and policymakers to start considering its integration in the wider offshore energy system. Both technological innovations and advances in spatial policy are necessary to facilitate offshore system integration. This study draws from agenda-setting theory to explore barriers and opportunities affecting the prioritization processes surrounding three offshore energy storage and transport concepts in Dutch marine spatial planning practice. The findings demonstrate that although various arenas for agenda-setting exist, they are geared to the input of established stakeholders, including the oil and gas and offshore wind sectors. Also, prioritization is hindered by a short-term (2030) governmental fixation and long-term institutional ambiguity. Therefore, supportive institutions are needed, providing regulatory certainty and reliable incentive mechanisms, whilst remaining adaptive to address imminent uncertainties, in pursuit of system integration needed for an energy transition.
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Posted 1 year ago
Esther Adeniran,
Esther Adeniran
Institution: Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 90048, United States
Email: esther.adeniran@cshs.org
Megan Quinn,
Megan Quinn
Institution: Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, College of Public Health, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN 37614, United States
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Richard Wallace,
Richard Wallace
Institution: Quillen College of Medicine Library, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN 37614, United States
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Rachel R. Walden,
Rachel R. Walden
Institution: Quillen College of Medicine Library, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN 37614, United States
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Titilola Labisi,
Titilola Labisi
Institution: Department of Health Promotion, College of Public Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198, United States
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Afolakemi Olaniyan,
Afolakemi Olaniyan
Institution: Department of Health Promotion and Education, School of Human Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221, United States
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Robert Pack,
Robert Pack
Institution: Department of Community and Behavioral Health, College of Public Health, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN 37614, United States
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Billy Brooks
Billy Brooks
Institution: Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, College of Public Health, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN 37614, United States
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Background
Following the national implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2014, barriers still exist that limit the adoption of substance use treatment (SUT) services in mainstream health care (MHC) settings in the United States. This study provides an overview of current evidence on bar...
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Background
Following the national implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2014, barriers still exist that limit the adoption of substance use treatment (SUT) services in mainstream health care (MHC) settings in the United States. This study provides an overview of current evidence on barriers and facilitators to integrating various SUT services into MHC.
Methods
A systematic search was conducted with the following databases: “PubMed including MEDLINE”, “CINAHL”, “Web of Science”, “ABI/Inform”, and “PsycINFO.” We identified barriers and/or facilitators affecting patients, providers, and programs/systems.
Results
Of the 540 identified citations, 36 were included. Main barriers were identified for patients (socio-demographics, finances, confidentiality, legal impact, and disinterest), providers (limited training, lack of time, patient satisfaction concerns, legal implications, lack of access to resources or evidence-based information, and lack of legal/regulatory clarity), and programs/systems (lack of leadership support, lack of staff, limited financial resources, lack of referral networks, lack of space, and lack of state-level support). Also, we recognized key facilitators pertaining to patients (trust for providers, education, and shared decision making), providers (expert supervision, use of support team, training with programs like Extension for Community Health Outcomes (ECHO), and receptivity), and programs/systems (leadership support, collaboration with external agencies, and policies e.g., those expanding the addiction workforce, improving insurance access and treatment access).
Conclusions
This study identified several factors influencing the integration of SUT services in MHC. Strategies for improving SUT integration in MHC should address barriers and leverage facilitators related to patients, providers, and programs/systems.
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Posted 1 year ago
Abhijith Prakash,
Abhijith Prakash
Institution: School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, UNSW Sydney, 330 Anzac Pde., Kensington, Sydney, 2052, NSW, Australia
Email: abi.prakash@unsw.edu.au
Rohan Ashby,
Rohan Ashby
Institution: School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy, UNSW Sydney, Tyree Energy Technologies Building, 229 Anzac Pde., Kensington, Sydney, 2052, NSW, Australia
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Anna Bruce,
Anna Bruce
Institution: Collaboration on Energy and Environmental Markets, UNSW Sydney, Tyree Energy Technologies Building, 229 Anzac Pde., Kensington, Sydney, 2052, NSW, Australia
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Iain MacGill
Iain MacGill
Institution: Collaboration on Energy and Environmental Markets, UNSW Sydney, Tyree Energy Technologies Building, 229 Anzac Pde., Kensington, Sydney, 2052, NSW, Australia
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Across several power systems with market frameworks, policy-makers are proposing that balancing flexibility requirements emerging during energy transition be addressed through new reserve product markets. However, these may introduce additional costs, constraints and complexity, and even encroach up...
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Across several power systems with market frameworks, policy-makers are proposing that balancing flexibility requirements emerging during energy transition be addressed through new reserve product markets. However, these may introduce additional costs, constraints and complexity, and even encroach upon the functions of existing operational practices. Thus, policy-makers need to assess and compare flexibility design options, and quantifying system flexibility capabilities based on current and expected resource mixes can assist in achieving this. In this article, we offer a practical method to quantify the time-varying spectrum of upwards and downwards flexibility capabilities in systems, and subsequently apply it to historical and projected resource mixes in two regions of the Australian National Electricity Market. Our results suggest that with higher penetrations of renewable energy: (1) downwards flexibility margins can be exhausted around noon if wind and solar are unable or unwilling to provide it, (2) upwards flexibility becomes more scarce during morning and evening peak demand events and (3) a greater portion of upwards flexibility is provided by energy-limited resources. Given these trends, we recommend that policy-makers examine how existing operational practices can be augmented to elicit upwards flexibility provision, and that duration specifications and sustained footroom procurement be considered for reserve products.
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Harry Gorfine,
Harry Gorfine
Institution: Victorian Fisheries Authority, Queenscliff, Australia
Email: hgorfine@unimelb.edu.au
Justin Bell,
Justin Bell
Institution: Victorian Fisheries Authority, Queenscliff, Australia
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Michael Cleland,
Michael Cleland
Institution: RightIntoIT, Tinbeerwah, Australia
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Khageswor Giri
Khageswor Giri
Institution: Bundoora AgriBio Centre, Australia
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Assessing the status or exploited marine fish populations often relies on fishery dependent catch and effort data reported by licensed commercial fishers in compliance with regulations and by recreational anglers voluntarily. This invariably leads to bias towards the fraction of a fish population or...
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Assessing the status or exploited marine fish populations often relies on fishery dependent catch and effort data reported by licensed commercial fishers in compliance with regulations and by recreational anglers voluntarily. This invariably leads to bias towards the fraction of a fish population or community that can be legally fished i.e., the stock as defined by legal minimum lengths and spatial boundaries. Data are restricted to populations which continue to be exploited at the expense of obtaining data on previously exploited and unexploited populations [1,2], so if a fishery is contracting spatially over time, then successively less of the overall fish community is monitored with bias towards where biomass is highest or most accessible [3]. A viable alternative is to conduct population monitoring surveys independently of a fishery to obtain information that is more broadly representative of the abundance, composition and size structure of fish communities and their supporting habitats [4–6]. Whereas catch and effort data often must be de-identified and aggregated to protect the confidentiality of fishers’ commercial and personal interests, this constraint does not exist for independently acquired monitoring data, collected at public expense and hence publicly available at high levels of spatial and temporal resolution. Time series underpins the utility of fishery independent survey (FIS) datasets in terms of the life histories of exploited fish species and the time frames of their responses to various combinations of fishing mortality and environmental fluctuations and trends [7].
One-off surveys can establish a baseline and spatial distribution pattern, but regular surveys conducted consistently over time are necessary to detect trends from which population status can be inferred. We present several unique datasets focused on the commercially valuable blacklip abalone (Haliotis rubra), spanning three decades of annually collected data from up to 204 locations on subtidal rocky reefs along a coastline of almost 2500 km, the State of Victoria, Australia. It is rare for data to be collected consistently at this intensity over such a long period of monitoring [2], especially with surveys conducted by small teams of highly skilled research divers, some of whom up until recently had participated in every year.
The data comprises ∼28,000 records from ∼4500 site surveys conducted during 1992 to 2021 [2]. Although the fixed site design remained unchanged, the number of sites surveyed varied over time, mostly increasing in number periodically, and the survey method was refined on several occasions. We defined three different variants in the survey method due to technological advancement for both enumerating abalone abundance and measuring shell size structure [7]. The relative abundance counts were standardized using a Bayesian generalized linear mixed model (GLMM) to test for interannual trends whilst allowing for inherent differences among sites, research divers, and their interactions [8].
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Posted 1 year ago
Francisco Ferrada,
Francisco Ferrada
Institution: Faculty of Engineering and Sciences, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile
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Frederic Babonneau,
Frederic Babonneau
Institution: Kedge Business School, Bordeaux, France
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Tito Homem-de-Mello,
Tito Homem-de-Mello
Institution: School of Business, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile
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Francisca Jalil-Vega
Francisca Jalil-Vega
Institution: Electrical Energy Management Group, Faculty of Engineering, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Email: f.jalil-vega@bristol.ac.uk
In this paper we implement a long-term multi-sectoral energy planning model to evaluate the role of green hydrogen in the energy mix of Chile, a country with a high renewable potential, under stringent emission reduction objectives in 2050. Our results show that green hydrogen is a cost-effective an...
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In this paper we implement a long-term multi-sectoral energy planning model to evaluate the role of green hydrogen in the energy mix of Chile, a country with a high renewable potential, under stringent emission reduction objectives in 2050. Our results show that green hydrogen is a cost-effective and environmentally friendly route especially for hard-to-abate sectors, such as interprovincial and freight transport. They also suggest a strong synergy of hydrogen with electricity generation from renewable sources. Our numerical simulations show that Chile should (i) start immediately to develop hydrogen production through electrolyzers all along the country, (ii) keep investing in wind and solar generation capacities ensuring a low cost hydrogen production and reinforce the power transmission grid to allow nodal hydrogen production, (iii) foster the use of electric mobility for cars and local buses and of hydrogen for long-haul trucks and interprovincial buses and, (iv) develop seasonal hydrogen storage and hydrogen cells to be exploited for electricity supply, especially for the most stringent emission reduction objectives.
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Imelda Dian Rahmawati,
Imelda Dian Rahmawati
Institution: Universitas Muhammadiyah Sidoarjo, Indonesia
Email: imeldadian@umsida.ac.id
Linna Wulandari
Linna Wulandari
Institution: Universitas Muhammadiyah Sidoarjo, Indonesia
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This study aims to determine the Effect of Inflation, Rupiah Exchange Rate, and Population on Value Added Tax (VAT) Revenue During the Covid-19 Pandemic (Study at Kpp Sidoarjo Selatan Regional Office). This study uses quantitative methods with secondary data as a data source. This research was condu...
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This study aims to determine the Effect of Inflation, Rupiah Exchange Rate, and Population on Value Added Tax (VAT) Revenue During the Covid-19 Pandemic (Study at Kpp Sidoarjo Selatan Regional Office). This study uses quantitative methods with secondary data as a data source. This research was conducted at the Tax Office in Sidoarjo. In this study, it is time series data from 2018 to 2020 where 3 years X 12 months = 36 observations. In this study, non-probability sampling technique used in this study was saturated sampling. The data analysis technique used in this study is Multiple Linear Regression with SPSS 26 data processing tools. The results of this study indicate that inflation has an effect on VAT receipts during the Covid-19 pandemic, Exchange rates, and the number of residents affect VAT receipts during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Posted 1 year ago
Fahmi Shahab,
Fahmi Shahab
Institution: Universitas Muhammadiyah Sidoarjo, Indonesia
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"This study examines the meaning of ""mampu"" or ""ability"" in Article 5 Paragraph 1 letter (b) of Law No. 1/1974 on Marriage, which serves as a requirement for a husband to practice polygamy in Indonesia. Through a normative legal research method with a statutory approach, the study finds that ""m...
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"This study examines the meaning of ""mampu"" or ""ability"" in Article 5 Paragraph 1 letter (b) of Law No. 1/1974 on Marriage, which serves as a requirement for a husband to practice polygamy in Indonesia. Through a normative legal research method with a statutory approach, the study finds that ""mampu"" refers to the husband's ability to provide for the needs of his wives and children, including clothing, shelter, and food, based on his income and monthly expenses during his previous marriage. The research emphasizes that ""mampu"" is a prerequisite for husbands to practice polygamy, ensuring that they can fulfill the needs of all their wives and children while providing legal protection for their first wife and children.
Highlights:
Study analyzes criteria for polygamy in Indonesia.
Husband's ability to provide for family is a key factor.
Legal research and deductive methods used for analysis."
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Posted 1 year ago
Rifqi Ridlo Phalevy,
Rifqi Ridlo Phalevy
Institution: Universitas Muhammadiyah Sidoarjo, Indonesia
Email: qq_levy@umsida.ac.id
Suryani Indah
Suryani Indah
Institution: Universitas Muhammadiyah Sidoarjo, Indonesia
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"This research aims to analyze the relationship between voluntary donations (infaq) and prohibited fees in the Ministry of Education and Culture Regulation No. 44 of 2012, as well as the views of Islamic scholars regarding the position of voluntary donations as a means of financing education. The re...
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"This research aims to analyze the relationship between voluntary donations (infaq) and prohibited fees in the Ministry of Education and Culture Regulation No. 44 of 2012, as well as the views of Islamic scholars regarding the position of voluntary donations as a means of financing education. The research method used is a normative approach that utilizes legal and comparative approaches. The research findings indicate that voluntary donations, also known as infaq, shadaqah, or amal jariyah, are considered a prohibited fee under the Ministry of Education and Culture Regulation No. 44 of 2012. However, in practice, these voluntary donations meet the criteria for fees as described in Article 11 of the regulation and are viewed by Islamic scholars as a form of social responsibility in the field of education. It is not permissible for these donations to be binding on the donor in terms of the amount and time of donation.
Highlights :
1. This research examines the connection between voluntary donations (infaq) and prohibited fees in education financing under Ministry of Education and Culture Regulation No. 44 of 2012.
2. The findings show that although infaq is considered a prohibited fee, it is viewed as a form of social responsibility in education by Islamic scholars.
3. It should not be binding on the donor in terms of the amount and time of donation."
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Posted 1 year ago
Anggun Sukma,
Anggun Sukma
Institution: University Muhammadiyah Sidoarjo, Indonesia
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Sri Budi Purwaningsih
Sri Budi Purwaningsih
Institution: Universitas Muhammadiyah Sidoarjo, Indonesia
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"Disputes over breach of verbal purchase agreements often occur in society, particularly in the business sector. The purpose of this study is to analyze efforts to resolve such disputes based on Law No. 30 of 1999 on Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution. The research method used is normati...
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"Disputes over breach of verbal purchase agreements often occur in society, particularly in the business sector. The purpose of this study is to analyze efforts to resolve such disputes based on Law No. 30 of 1999 on Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution. The research method used is normative research. The results of this study show that efforts to resolve disputes over breach of verbal purchase agreements can be carried out through non-litigation based on the selection of Alternative Dispute Resolution methods, such as Negotiation, Mediation, Conciliation, and Arbitration based on Law No. 30/1999. Non-litigation resolution is intended as the first resort and considers the court as a last resort, in addition, the evidence tools as regulated in Article 1866 of the Civil Code need to be presented because the agreement was made verbally.
Highlights :
1. Disputes over breach of verbal purchase agreements are common in the business sector.
2. Alternative Dispute Resolution methods such as negotiation, mediation, conciliation, and arbitration can be used to resolve disputes based on Law No. 30 of 1999 on Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution.
3. Non-litigation resolution is the preferred approach, with the court being considered as a last resort, and evidence tools as regulated in Article 1866 of the Civil Code need to be presented for verbal agreements."
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Radina Stoykova
Radina Stoykova
Institution: Department of Transboundary Legal Studies, Faculty of Law, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
Email: r.stoykova@rug.nl
Digital evidence and digital forensics have a significant impact on criminal investigation. This requires an examination if the fair trial principle remains sound in the new domain. In this paper the right to a fair trial in Art. 6 ECHR and its interpretation in case law is analysed in order to clar...
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Digital evidence and digital forensics have a significant impact on criminal investigation. This requires an examination if the fair trial principle remains sound in the new domain. In this paper the right to a fair trial in Art. 6 ECHR and its interpretation in case law is analysed in order to clarify its connection to evidence law and its specific application to the investigation stage of criminal proceedings. It is argued that the principle implicitly enshrines a framework for the development of universal evidence rules . Derived are two-groups of evidence rules: equality of arms based and presumption of innocence based. For each group specific challenges in the digital investigation are outlined and discussed in the context of a new governance model for digital evidence.
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