This study designs a market platform for peer-to-peer (P2P) energy trading in transactive energy (TE) systems, where prosumers and consumers actively participate in the market as seller or buyer to trade energy.An auction-based approach is used for market clearing in the proposed platform and a review of different types of auctions is performed.The

Improvements in life expectancy have been considerable over the past hundred years.Forecasters have taken to applying historical trends under an assumption of continuing improvements in life expectancy in the future.A linear mixed effects model was used to estimate the trends in global and regional rates of improvements in life expectancy, child, a

The Florida harvester ant (Pogonomyrmex badius) excavates deep nests in the sandy soils of the Gulf and Atlantic coastal plains.Nest relocations of over 400 colonies in a north Florida coastal plains pine forest were tracked and mapped from 2010 to 2013.Individual colonies varied from one move in two years to four times a year, averaging about one

Supa Pengpid,1,2 Karl Peltzer21ASEAN Institute for Health Development, Mahidol University, Salaya, Phutthamonthon, Nakhonpathom, Thailand; 2Deputy Vice Chancellor Research and Innovation Office, North West University, Potchefstroom, South AfricaObjectives: The study aimed to report the prevalence and socio-psychological correlates of non-fatal