... packaging and use, to disposal and recycling It must, therefore, assimilate thelifecycleapproachandthe holistic view of theproductsystem recurrent concepts not only in this book but also in the ... cover the entire life cycle, including the production, distribution, use, and retirement of the product) It is precisely in relation to the planning of the production– consumption–disposal cycle ... that the most appropriate tools of the DFX system are introduced 8.2 Environmental Strategies for theLifeCycleApproach Design strategies play an essential role in thelifecycleapproach They...
... Chapter and Chapter The case chosen is Esplanade-Theatres on the Bay project in Singapore The roof cladding system of this project embraces both system products and special products andthe design ... traditional production method 19 Chapter products are distinguished into three types: special products, system products, and standard products Project-independent products are standard products, ... differences in the collaborative design processes of the project-related products, which include both system products and special products, are observed and analyzed The Kernel of Conceptual System (Tzonis...
... the rotary kiln for calcination The gases from the kiln are fed to the incinerator to increase the residence time of the gases The waste heat from the gases is used for steam generation and thereby ... de-dusting system to the zinc oxide plant was not having tail gas treatment plant to the sulphuric plant • There was no systematic and proper disposal of solid waste generated from the industry All the ... Ltd) • The Industry established initially to produce iron ore pellets andthe main raw material required i.e iron ore fines were being stored in the premises and in the port area and thereby...
... considerations throughout the lifecycle of theproduct from raw material extraction, manufacture, use, and ultimate disposal of theproductThe lifecycle stages considered and covered by the standard should ... to declare their products meet a publicly available standard They then conduct random audits to maintain the integrity of the environmental declarations The existence of the public standards also ... organization verifies the products meet the standards based on a review of the product, additional information provided by the manufacturer, and after an onsite visit to verify the accuracy of the information...
... both the music band-shell andthe entire oval defined by the great lawn, the sound systemandthe amphitheatre” In this context, fund-raisers andthe city project manager started debating about the ... between the three separated areas of the plan the great lawn, the music band-shell andthe amphitheatre- visually, circling on the map of the plan the radiation of circular waves produced by the ... re-interpreted the boundaries between the three separated areas of the plan the great lawn, the music band-shell andthe amphitheatre- visually, circling on the map of the plan the radiation...
... it to the end of the list (in the blank cells) and specify the frequency of the weather event Weather definitions are provided in Appendix A Note: Never The weather event does not occur in the ... labor, and equipment that are controlled and operated by the TMC and not the entire transportation department (If there are other changes to TMC operations and functions, list them in the "other" ... addressed the major weather conditions in the region, their impacts on traffic flow and traffic operations, the current use of weather information in the TMC, andthe critical operational needs of the...
... as reported by Anderson and Domsch (1990) for qD Positive and negative values indicate a daily loss and an enrichment, respectively, of microbial biomass carbon in the ecosystem These indices ... and three FACE plots) was the unit of replication The significance of FACE, time andthe interaction between the two factors was determined in not fertilized plots (years 2000–2003, n = 36) The ... etc.) (Anderson, 2003) The ratio of biomass C to soil organic C (Cmic:Corg) reflects the contribution of microbial biomass to soil organic carbon (Anderson and Domsch, 1989) It also indicates the...
... and standards were run as duplicates andthe mean of the duplicates was used in the statistical analyses Muscle tissue biopsies Muscle biopsies were obtained from the vastus lateralis using the ... incubated at 95ºC for minutes and loaded onto the gel along with Decade Marker (AM7778, Applied Biosystems) The gel was preheated and then run at 100V for hours using the WB system (Invitrogen) with ... loading using the area under the curve from the Ponceau signal These loading corrected signals were then scaled to the signal for the cells transfected with scrambled sequence and percentage...
... the first-round PCR, the LTR-Tag-F and LTR-R primers were used andthe second-round PCR was performed using the Tag-F and LTR-R primers The standard linear curve was in the range of ng to 0.25 ... designed and performed the experiments, analyzed data and contributed to writing the paper; ZH performed peptide synthesis and purification; AF designed the study, and contributed to the writing; ... [15] The way by which the interplay between the LEDGF/ p75 and Rev proteins regulates integration of the viral Figure Stimulation of p24 and virus production in LEDGF/ p75-knockdown cells by the...
... rules and multilevel similarity In all these studies, the authors attempted to determine the associations among the 20 2.3 Solution Intuition items andthe consequent items in the rules are the candidates ... literature, the bias in diffusion analysis is inevitable because of the unstandardized retweet practices Our approach combines the activity network with the follower network and introduces theconcept ... “Info = Description, Name”, i.e., the description of the item andthe name of the item Apache Lucene (Apache, 2001) is used to first index the items and then compute the item-item similarity score...
... governmentality) theories both in the East andthe West 13 Chapter - Conceptual Framework Ecological Modernization (EM) theory and Governance theory, two foundational theories for this thesis, are ... via their mutual supervision, they can govern others in case of any undesirable behavior that arises against the consensus they build together On the other hand, in modern urban governance, there ... angles: the first perspective adopts the top-down environmental governance approach by the state, the second angle takes the bottom-up approach to environmental governance by the civil society, and...
... of the stamp of the socialist state and its long-standing social and economic systems from comparative, historical, and theoretical literature on this subject (Solinger 1995) The essays in the ... experiences and thoughts in Nanjing andthe reasons for these experiences and thoughts (Wu 2005) Wong described the nature and characteristics of the marginalized lives experienced by migrants and argued ... articulated the now-famous concept of assimilation as “a process of interpretation and fusion in which persons and groups acquire the memories, sentiment, and attitudes of other persons and groups and, ...
... all the teachers, staff and all the students with who I was in the lab, in Lecture Theater and for some in trip This year has been for me a great opportunity and I thank the ENST-Bretagne andthe ... of the total energy that can be kept reversibly, and ∆ S is the entropy variation related to the energy T ∆ S lost by thesystem In an ideal system, the consumption of NAND will be: T∆S As there ... is the contact angle between the liquid andthe template To reduce the required pressure and to maximize the filling factor, some surfactants are used to decrease the surface tension and the...
... living and nonliving parts) within thesystem is an ecosystem. The human ecosystem concept is then grounded in the deconstruction of the human/nature dichotomy, andthe emergent premise that all species ... subsumed as the southern portions of the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans), andthe Arctic Ocean (which is sometimes considered a sea of the Atlantic) The Pacific and Atlantic may be further subdivided ... as the southern portions of the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans), andthe Arctic Ocean (which is -: 34 :- sometimes considered a sea of the Atlantic) The Pacific and Atlantic may be further...
... effluent The results are measured and compared to the ISO 24511 norms, required discharge characteristics, andthe EPA standards The factors considered as part of the integrated model for energy and ... solids, average flow, and observations from the other plants with similar conditions The BOD level of the influent is noted for every month, andthe change in the BOD level of the influent in each ... combine the two systems The integration model presented in Figure is a holistic approach to process design that considers the interaction among various sections of the process flow and shares the...
... Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, the Slovak Republic, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom, andthe United States The Commission of the European ... 1.1 0.9 Finally, theproduct charges are not believed to have any incentive impact, either On the one hand, because the charge rates are too low; on the other hand, because products were charged ... reduce their negative environmental impacts and pay for these reductions are in line with the Polluter Pays Principle 3.1 THE CURRENT SYSTEM OF POLLUTION ANDPRODUCT CHARGES Legal Background The...
... the young couple, just married, invites the parents of the groom to dinner, andthe groom and his father go to watch football on the TV And for the first time the mother of the 30 groom andthe ... appreciate the outcome of the intellectual endeavor but not understand the process that produces the outcome, and cannot quantify the results (Suh 1990: 6) On the other hand, design is the epitome of the ... it is as relative as life for the people People define design differently, and then they change their minds and define it again and again for each case and scenario in their life It becomes a translation...
... replaced the nursery beds and breeding ground of the lagoon and these areas were called Con However, there were 32 % respondents have no concerns about these impacts They have no idea and they don’t ... to the inland might have no relationship with salinisation of crop land, but in the long run, salt water might leak out and penetrate through dike system to the rice land, and render those lands ... brackish and marine waters andthe tidal regime is semi-diurnal The lagoon receives inflows from five rivers and exchanges water with the ocean through the Thuan An and Tu Hien river mouths These...