• Stakeholders see great potential in PEDs for energy poverty reduction. Energy mitigation needs to be included from the onset. PED replication can synergistically address both decarbonization and mitigation. Increasing levels of makes more financially viable as tools. More consideration given social dimension decisions on new creation. 100 Positive Districts (PEDs) are created Europe by 2025, ...

Quantum error mitigation (QEM) has been proposed as an alternative method of quantum correction to compensate errors in systems without qubit overhead. While Markovian gate on digital computers have mainly considered previously, it is indispensable discuss a relationship between QEM and non-Markovian because noise effects inevitably exist most the solid-state systems. In this work, we investiga...

Sea turtles interact with a variety of fishing gears across their broad geographic distributions and ontogenetic habitat shifts. Cumulative assessments of multi-gear bycatch impacts on sea turtle populations are critical for coherent fisheries bycatch management, but such estimates are difficult to achieve, due to low fisheries observer effort, and a single-species, single-fishery management fo...

The animal health services-seeking behaviour of animal owners related to prevention and control of animal diseases may influence their decisions as to whether or not to use services provided by the public or private sectors. The specific objective of this paper was to assess the practices, capacities and incentives of actors involved in highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) control to provid...

Recently, an increasing number of green residential buildings have been developed worldwide owing to active promotion from the authorities and increasing interest from customers. However, in the same way as traditional residential buildings, the construction of green residential buildings faces various risks. The aims of this study are to identify and assess the diverse risks in green residenti...

The Scottish Executive considers 'Diffuse Pollution from Agricultural Enterprises' as a priority issue over the next 5-10 years and recognises the need to improve knowledge transfer, advice and training amongst farmers, crofters, contractors and advisers. The Scottish Environment Protection Agency commissioned SAC to survey advisory staff on diffuse pollution issues, mitigation measures and del...

The intensity of urban heat island is known to be stronger as city size (for example population of city) (Oke, 1973). In Tokyo 23 wards (hereinafter referred to as "Tokyo") with more than eight million people, urban heat island phenomenon is actualized and feared as a factor of increase in heatstroke patients and raising cooling energy consumption in summer. Therefore, Tokyo Metropolitan Govern...