... rise in environmental consciousness among consumers For some, environmental concern has become a way of life guiding their consumption on a daily basis For others, environmental concerns are not ... based on the description of environmentally conscious consumers contained in articles written by Heimlich (2008) and Wandel and Bugge (1997): ‘I am concerned a lot about environmental problems’, ... words, environmentally conscious consumers are also health conscious to some degree and therefore may often consider health and environment as two critical reasons guiding their consumption This...
... Introduction This paper presents the results of a quasi-experimental study of the impactsof certain federally funded nutritionand human services interventions on the health outcomes of seniors and ... 4: Chronic Health Conditions, Sensory Impairments, and Oral Health The prolonged nature of illness and disability from chronic disease results in pain and suffering and decreased quality of life ... percentage of residents who reported having selected conditions (Table 10) reveals that both the treatment and control groups are very high-needs populations Depression is the most common condition among...
... (focusing on providing an understanding of the causal connection of pressures to impacts) and industrial ecology (focusing on understanding how our system of production and consumption causes environmental ... rationale and options for decoupling economic activity from resource inputs andenvironmentalimpacts It builds in part on priority assessments of the Working group on the EnvironmentalImpactsof ... hence was based on a broad review and comparison of existing studies and literature analyzing the resource demands andenvironmentalimpactsof production, consumption, or resource use of countries,...
... continuation of conventional coal combustion technologies used in 2000 with limited environmental controls, addition of best available emission control technologies (BACT) to the conventional Mongolia ... the concentrations of these pollutants are often correlated with PM and inclusion of the impactsof all pollutants individually would potentially overestimate the contribution of air pollution ... Atmospheric Environment 40 (2006) 1706–1721 consumption and technologies, air pollution and related environmentalimpacts is necessary to evaluate different air pollution control options but is lacking...
... organisations can improve their contribution to sustainable development and reduce their environmentalimpacts but one area that is often overlooked is the use of resources and the release of carbon ... This is part of “Greener Events”, a guide on reducing the environmentalimpactsof conferences and seminars There are also companion guides on outdoor/community events, presentations & on exhibiting ... at once but you can make a start on several key aspects of event management Decide on what’s important to you and everyone involved and aim for continuous improvement with how you organise and...
... polarized along the length of the QR, which reduces the confinement of the exciton, and thus, the coulomb interaction of the electron and hole for a given bound exciton is reduced and exciton−exciton interactions ... coherent acoustic phonons Upon pump photon excitation, a coherent phonon is generated within the NCs This coherent acoustic phonon is coupled via a piezoelectric and deformation potential; thus, ... CONCLUSION Time-resolved ultrafast TA spectroscopy was used to explore the intraband relaxation and coherent acoustic phonons in QDs and QRs of various sizes We found that intraband relaxation...
... polarized along the length of the QR, which reduces the confinement of the exciton, and thus, the coulomb interaction of the electron and hole for a given bound exciton is reduced and exciton−exciton interactions ... coherent acoustic phonons Upon pump photon excitation, a coherent phonon is generated within the NCs This coherent acoustic phonon is coupled via a piezoelectric and deformation potential; thus, ... CONCLUSION Time-resolved ultrafast TA spectroscopy was used to explore the intraband relaxation and coherent acoustic phonons in QDs and QRs of various sizes We found that intraband relaxation...
... (focusing on providing an understanding of the causal connection of pressures to impacts) and industrial ecology (focusing on understanding how our system of production and consumption causes environmental ... rationale and options for decoupling economic activity from resource inputs andenvironmentalimpacts It builds in part on priority assessments of the Working group on the EnvironmentalImpactsof ... hence was based on a broad review and comparison of existing studies and literature analyzing the resource demands andenvironmentalimpactsof production, consumption, or resource use of countries,...
... Chatterjee and Wernerfelt, 1991) Second and more importantly, RBV literature offers a dynamic and evolutionary view of economies of scope Authors such as Dierickx and Cool (1989) and Teece et ... of divisionalization facilitates greater coordination among divisions on the applications of systems technologies as it increases internal knowledge/resources transactions inside each division ... diversification and vice versa However, the impact of technology on business diversification has a time lag of two years while the impact of product diversification on technological diversification shows...
... in winter and early spring, and viral infections in the mother during the second and third trimesters of gestation A strong association between hypofrontality and negative symptoms of schizophrenia, ... emotional withdrawal, poor rapport, social passivity and apathy, difficulty in abstract thinking, lack of spontaneity and flow of conversation, and stereotyped thinking (N1 to N7); and health concerns, ... Supporting software includes dynamic filters, multiple angle reconstructions, surface variable attenuation corrections, three dimensional/conventional /cross sectional displays The computer then reconstructs...
... water content of the sediments between high and low tides according to the method described by Cheong (2000) - 24 - Journal of Water and Environment Technology, Vol.2, No.1, 2004 Concentration of ... EFFECTS OF SPILLED AND STRANDED OIL ON TIDAL FLAT ECOSYSTEM The penetrated oil concentrations in the sediments after the spill were estimated from the concentration of hopane, i.e a non-degradable ... Infiltration rate of seawater by tide at day 23 and 58 in the C and O simulators Fig.8 shows infiltration rate of seawater by tidal action both in the C and O simulators The infiltration rates of sweater...
... mg/L of Ca at P concentrations of 0, 1.0 and 2.0 mg/L, leached As decreased to 22.6, 24.6 and 47.1 μg/L, respectively On the other hand, upon the addition of 100 mg/L Mg, the concentrations of ... Other Conditions 0.9 Effect of P and 100 and 2.0 pH adjusted to 3.0, 5.0, 7.0, 9.0 and 11.0 pH 7.0 Leaching in anaerobic incubation and 100 0.9 Effect of Ca and Mg concentrations Effect of pH ... significant upon addition of more than 100 mg/L of Ca and Mg Fig 1(b) shows the Fe concentration profiles of leachate with different Ca and Mg additions Data indicated that leached Fe concentrations decreased...
... cost ofenvironmental considerations Similarly, in an environmental management model, the primary focus is on controlling the environmental effects, although energy consumption is also considered ... nearly 3% of U.S electricity consumption The consumption rate is estimated at 75 billion kWh at a cost of $4 billion to pump, treat, deliver, collect, and clean water Pumping and aeration alone account ... operational monitoring and emergency measures Wastewater discharge to watercourses Intercept discharges; impose stringent environmental management and pollution controls Contamination of raw...
... also because of the absence of non-condensable gases heat transfer by radiation and natural convection are limited Thus, heat transfer between the hot saline water bed and the condensation surface ... variation of global solar radiation and the ambient temperature for the months of January to June Figure shows the variation of global solar radiation and the ambient temperature for the months of July ... month of March 5.6 Effect of series and parallel combination of flat plate collectors The combination of flat plate collectors in both series and parallel are considered and its effect on the...
... >$100b Size of organization (1999 dollars) Source: Reports of Condition and Income, National Information Center Database deposit share has come at the expense of regional and super-regional banking ... Source: Summary of Deposits, National Information Center Database II IMPACT OF THE CHANGES ON CONSUMERS Consumers have traditionally relied on nearby banks and branches for many of their banking ... of concentration Furst and others 2000 report that there were only nine separately chartered Internet-only banks at the beginning of 2000 One reason Internet-only banks have failed to catch on...
... Meeting of the Conference on the Human Dimension of the CSCE and in breach of Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and Article 10 of the European Convention on Human ... International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights within this context See Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, Frank ... provisions on net neutrality may be adopted in the context of the revision of Portuguese legislation in the scope of the transposition of the European Union directives on electronic communications...
... at low concentrations of RuvA (0.0026 and 0.026 nM) only very small amounts of protein bind to the Holliday junction even after 2.5 h of incubation Only after the concentration of RuvA is increased ... kinetic and equilibrium constants and also allows Ó FEBS 2002 Assembly of RuvA and RuvC on Holliday junctions (Eur J Biochem 269) 5495 the calculation of the stoichiometry of the interaction This ... with an overall Kd of approximately 0.2 nM and also demonstrate the formation of a RuvA/C complex on the Holliday junction MATERIALS AND METHODS Synthesis and purification of oligodeoxynucleotides...
... to the KCl concentration [9] The excitation and emission bandwidths were nm, and the scan speed was 1200 nmặmin)1 CD measurements CD spectra of CDase I-5 in different concentrations of KCl were ... spectra of CDase I-5 dissociation at various concentrations of KCl at pH and 25 C (B) Plot of log DF versus time by the Guggenheim method d, dissociation of CDase I-5 in the presence of 0.2 M ... the role of the oligomerization of CDase I-5, its dissociation/ association properties were investigated at low and high pHs and in the presence of KCl Considering also the 3D structure of CDase...
... understood by the public and political decision-makers (Fiscal and/ or environmentalimpacts can also be assessed for public relations purposes) The economic portion of a formal "environmental impact assessment" ... estimates of local spending impacts assuming continuation of current inter-industry trade patterns and local flows of money into and out of the area Their magnitudes vary depending on the technology of ... PRIMER ON ECONOMIC IMPACT ANALYSIS Economic impacts also lead to fiscal impacts, which are changes in government revenues and expenditures Economic impactson total business sales, wealth or personal...