Effectiveness of various cleaning strategies in acute and long-term care facilities during novel corona virus 2019 disease pandemic-related staff shortages

Background Cleanliness of hospital surfaces helps prevent healthcare-associated infections, but deus gorras comparative evaluations of various cleaning strategies during COVID-19 pandemic surges and worker shortages are scarce.Purpose and methods To evaluate the effectiveness of daily, enhanced terminal, and contingency-based cleaning strategies in

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Near-term benefits from investment in climate adaptation complement long-term economic returns from emissions reduction

Abstract Previous studies have suggested that a combined strategy using both emissions abatement and climate adaptation can improve economic outcomes.Here, using a parsimonious economic-climate assessment model, we have shown that, relative to investment in abatement, adaptation has a much shorter timescale for economic return.Adaptation deployed i

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Load Estimation of Offshore Wind Turbines

The influence of 3 MW Hywind-II wind turbine wakes from an upstream offshore floating wind turbine on a downstream turbine with a separation distance of seven rotor diameters was studied for a site in the Gulf of Maine.The turbines and the platforms were subjected to atmospheric boundary layer flows.Various sensitivity studies on fatigue loads with

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