Public procurement contracts are necessarily incomplete and require frequent ex-post renegotiation. In this paper we first develop a stylized theoretical model of the effects of renegotiation policies on firms’ bidding ...

Colorectal cancer (CRC) cells exhibit high plasticity and transition between different cellular states during the development of metastasis. Lgr5-expressing cancer stem cells fuel the growth of the primary tumor and ...

Due to the global large-scale development of renewable energy resources and the high uncertainty and variability of these sources, control optimization of energy supply systems has become crucial to use production facilities ...

The year 2022 saw record breaking temperatures in Europe during both summer and fall. Close to 30% of the European continent was under severe summer drought with a similarly large area affected (3.0 million km2) as during ...

To address contemporary sustainability challenges, we conceptualize business models for sustainability in which (urban) nature is a key resource, using the emergent concept of nature-based solutions (NBS). Based on 54 ...

Besides far-reaching public health consequences, the COVID-19 pandemic had a significant psychological impact on people around the world. To gain further insight into this matter, we introduce the Real World Worry Waves ...

Scholarship shows that community forests can be sustainably self-governed through collective action. In the Western Ghats (India), many NGOs have risen to support communities with this task. Few scientific studies explore ...

Mangroves, intertidal forests, are increasingly considered a high-priority ecosystem for international conservation efforts. Setting targets for future mangrove conservation and restoration requires understanding of the ...

The production of the ψ(2S) charmonium state was measured with ALICE in Pb-Pb collisions at sNN=5.02 TeV, in the dimuon decay channel. A significant signal was observed for the first time at LHC energies down to zero ...