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Power systems of most EU countries will face substantial changes driven mainly by the EU Clean Energy Package and the expected increasing role of customers making use of demand response and distributed self-generation and self-storage resources (self-DG&S). This work aims to analyze the impact of these two factors on the long term evolution of both utility scale centralized generation and storage (CG&S), and self-DG&S. An hourly resolution generation expansion model based on cost minimization for CG&S and expenses' minimization for self-DG&S is used. Four case studies covering the period 2018-2047 for a real sized system (the Spanish one) are presented. Results highlight a strong synergy between battery costs and solar photovoltaic investments, while wind power seems to be better complemented by peaker thermal units.

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Although the everlasting goal of achieving a zero-defect production system is not new, the current state of the art has not yet allowed to reach this objective. This paper describes the architectural system foundations of the European R&D GO0DMAN project where a multi-agent system is developed as the mean to provide a real-time, multi-level and multi-stage approach to reach a zero-defect production system in multi-stage environments. Particularly, the paper focuses the integration of software agents and quality control stations forming smart inspection tools, aligned with the cyber-physical systems principles. The proposed approach is validated using an electrical motor testbed, where the agent-based system allows the digitization of the running testing system in a multi-stage schema.

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The main purpose of this case study was to identify the perception that people with a disability have about the concept of organizational innovation. Therefore, we aimed to provide an answer to the following research question: "How do people with a disability innovate?". The idea for doing this study emerged due to the lack of information and knowledge about the subject. We live in an era when it is easier to see people who suffer from a mental or physical malaise working in institutions or companies - more so than several years ago. Furthermore, people currently have a better understanding about the importance of embracing all individuals in society, and how it is necessary to give them all the same opportunities and to accept them in the business environment. At the same time that companies and institutions are accepting these people there may still be some gaps that make disabled people's work more difficult, resulting in a need to innovate in order to find new ways to overcome some obstacles that appear in their day-to-day lives. The way that people with disabilities modernize and modify some "basic" tasks may lead to a result that may be more productive and profitable for them and/or for the organization where they are inserted. To achieve that productivity and profitability, and also to boost their self-esteem, it is important to make sure that all the necessary tools are provided and that continuous monitoring is implemented to support these employees - creating not only a better understanding of their point of view but also improving their global efficiency. This is a qualitative study based on personal interviews with disabled people as well as being based on interactions with other employees at a major Portuguese university. The intention is to contribute to the increase of information in this area through a direct study with stakeholders while, additionally, adding to the perception of how coworkers and customers face and deal with disabled workers and whether they consider them capable of innovating or driving innovation. This case study concludes with some final considerations about the lack of opportunities given to disabled people which affects the evolution of their work in the workplace.

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Cardiovascular diseases are the main cause of death in the world and its occurrence is closely related to arterial stiffness. Arterial stiffness is commonly evaluated by analysing the arterial pulse waveform and velocity, with electromechanical pressure transducers, in superficial arteries such as carotid, radial and femoral. In order to ease the acquisition procedure and increase the patients comfort during the measurements, new optical fibre techniques have been explored to be used in the reliable detection of arterial pulse waves, due to their small size, high sensitivity, electrical isolation and immunity to electromagnetic interference. More specifically, fibre Bragg gratings (FBGs) are refractive index modulated structures engraved in the core of an optical fibre, which have a well-defined resonance wavelength that varies with the strain conditions of the medium, known as Bragg wavelength. In this work, FBGs were embedded in a commercial resin, producing films that were used to assess the arterial pulse in superficial locations such as carotid, radial and foot dorsum. The technique proved to be a promising, comfortable and trustworthy way to assess the arterial pulses, with all the optical fibre use advantages, in a non-intrusive biomedical sensing procedure. Examples of possible applications of the developed structures are smart skin structures to monitor arterial cardiovascular parameters, in a stable and reliable way, throughout daily activities or even during exams with high electromagnetic fields, such as magnetic resonance imaging.

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This paper describes a quantitative study for the validation of the Wagnild and Young's Resilience Scale ® to Information Systems Students. Individual resilience can be described as the person's ability to deal with problems, overcome obstacles, or resist the pressure caused by adverse situations, without entering into rupture. Therefore, resilience can have a significant role in students' education. However, little is known about the determinants that might undermine the resilience level of students, as well as which could affect their mental status and wellbeing, thus requiring new research efforts. This paper shows that Wagnild and Young's Resilience Scale ® is suitable for Information Systems Students: Perseverance, Self-Reliance, Equanimity, Meaningfulness and Existential Aloneness, emerged as main themes from the principal components analysis, as in the original study by Wagnild and Young suggested. Additionally, it is demonstrated that health have influence in the individual resilience. © 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd..