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Product Design for the Environment: A Life Cycle Approach - Chapter 8 docx

Product Design for the Environment: A Life Cycle Approach - Chapter 8 docx

... the life cycle: • Consumption of material resources and saturation of waste disposal sites • Consumption of energy resources and loss of the energy content of dumped products • Total direct and ... that of the employment and consumption of material resources This was shown in the overview of the product life cycle and of the resource flows characterizing it, in Figure 2.9 This partial view of ... reuse, reuse of parts, and recycling of materials A different potential of environmental benefit corresponds to each of these, depending on the level of the recovery flows in the life cycle (as is...

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Cognitive differences in collaborative design between architectural and industrial design processes case of building project related product design

Cognitive differences in collaborative design between architectural and industrial design processes case of building project related product design

... processes of project-related products, due to the different nature of buildings and products on the one hand as well as the different requirements, patterns, and habits of architectural and industrial ... Kernel of Conceptual System (Tzonis et al 1978) and structure of conflict (Coombs and Avrunin, 1988), two types of design differences are derived In addition, a comparative study of architectural and ... was developed in the framework of a study on the transformation of architectural thinking between 1650 and 1800, the period during which the modern thinking and practices of architecture gained...

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FINAL ACTION PLAN FOR IMPROVEMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS IN CRITICALLY POLLUTED AREAS “VISAKHAPATNAM CLUSTER” ANDHRA PRADESH docx

FINAL ACTION PLAN FOR IMPROVEMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS IN CRITICALLY POLLUTED AREAS “VISAKHAPATNAM CLUSTER” ANDHRA PRADESH docx

... thereby reducing the movement of M/s VPT is in the process of number of trucks and dust fly-off mechanization of stocking, loading and unloading of dusty cargo like coal and iron ore to eliminate ... subsequent vehicle Type of vehicle At the time of registration of 1st Vehicle Second of subsequent vehicle Motor Cycles % of the cost of the Vehicle 14 % of the cost of the Vehicle Four wheeler ... Eastern Coast of Andhra Pradesh with a topography like a spoon shaped basin surrounded by hill ranges on three sides and sea on the other side and is often called as bowl area for assessment of environmental...

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The “Six Sins of GreenwashingTM” - A Study of Environmental Claims in North American Consumer Markets potx

The “Six Sins of GreenwashingTM” - A Study of Environmental Claims in North American Consumer Markets potx

... likely alternative The “Six Sins of GreenwashingTM” Sin of the Hidden Trade-Off Sin of No Proof Sin of Vagueness Sin of Irrelevance Sin of Fibbing Sin of Lesser of Two Evils © 2007 TerraChoice ... the Sin of Fibbing a) Do tell the truth Always b) Always tell the truth The “Six Sins of GreenwashingTM” Sin of the Hidden Trade-Off Sin of No Proof Sin of Vagueness Sin of Irrelevance Sin of Fibbing ... Sins of Greenwashing”: recycled content and manufacturing impacts S in s C o m m itte d b y C a te g o ry The Sin of Vag u eness 11% The Sin of Fib bing 1% The Sin of N o Proof 26% The Sin of the...

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MECHANISMS OF AESTHETIC EXAPTATION IN ARTEFACT DESIGN: HOW A BEAUX-ARTS GARDEN EVOLVED INTO AN AVANT-GARDE ART PARK pptx

MECHANISMS OF AESTHETIC EXAPTATION IN ARTEFACT DESIGN: HOW A BEAUX-ARTS GARDEN EVOLVED INTO AN AVANT-GARDE ART PARK pptx

... selection of sculptures (Art committee) and landscape designs (Garden committee) for the park; 17 Members of the design (art and garden) committees start meeting and drafting lists of artists and garden ... illustration of the methods and the findings of the case study, which are analyzed and used to build a process model of cognition and exaptation in artefact design Finally, the implications of the ... “to have the benefit of your views…as we consider who the outstanding sculptors and artists of our time might be, your views and expertise would be of enormous benefit to us and the City needs...

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Integration of Weather Information in Transportation Management Center Operations: Self-Evaluation and Planning Guide doc

Integration of Weather Information in Transportation Management Center Operations: Self-Evaluation and Planning Guide doc

... short-term forecasts of arrival time, duration, and intensity of specific weather events at specific locations Better prediction of impact of weather events including assessment of reductions in ... Agency Name and Address United States Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration, Office of Operations 1200 New Jersey Ave., SE Washington, DC 20590 13 Type of Report and Period ... (or Levels of Integration) 54 6.2.2 Level of Complexity and Relative Costs 55 6.2.3 Requirements at Various Levels of Integration 56 6.3 Item of Integration – Availability of Weather...

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Soil microbial indices as bioindicators of environmental changes in a poplar plantation pot

Soil microbial indices as bioindicators of environmental changes in a poplar plantation pot

... index by 25 and 42% ( p < 0.001) in control and FACE plots, respectively (Fig 1C) In fact qCO2 reaches, at the end of 2003, values of 1.86 and 1.43 for control + N and FACE + N versus 3.86 and 2.90 ... grateful to Prof Giuseppe Scarascia Mugnozza coordinator of EU EUROFACE (EVR1-CT-2002-40027) and MIUR Centre of Excellence ‘‘Forests and climate’’ projects for allowing the use of POPFACE experimental ... estrazione Proceedings of the 50th Congress of Italian Society of Soil Science (SISS) Nannipieri, P., 1994 The potential use of soil enzymes as indicators of productivity, sustainability and pollution...

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báo cáo khoa học: " Integration of microRNA changes in vivo identifies novel molecular features of muscle insulin resistance in type 2 diabetes" ppsx

báo cáo khoa học: " Integration of microRNA changes in vivo identifies novel molecular features of muscle insulin resistance in type 2 diabetes" ppsx

... target prediction and Gene Ontology analysis The binding of miRNA to target mRNA occurs between the ‘seed’ region of the miRNA (nucleotides to of the 5’ end of the mature miRNA) and the 3’ untranslated ... the background of absent filtered probesets (black circles) The insert shows the mean expression of OXPHOS probesets (± standard error of the mean) (b) Plot of median intensity of OXPHOS probes ... Sweden Wellcome Trust Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 5EH, Scotland Department of Biochemistry, Scripps Research Institute,...

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Báo cáo y học: " Peptides derived from the HIV-1 integrase promote HIV-1 infection and multi-integration of viral cDNA in LEDGF/p75-knockdown cells" doc

Báo cáo y học: " Peptides derived from the HIV-1 integrase promote HIV-1 infection and multi-integration of viral cDNA in LEDGF/p75-knockdown cells" doc

... incubated with the indicated concentration of INS and infected with wt or ΔRev HIV-1 at a MOI of 1.0 The average number of integration events per cell (A) and of total viral DNA copies per cell (B) ... stimulation of integration [25] Methods Protein expression and purification Expression and purification of the histidine-tagged IN and LEDGF/p75 expression vectors, were a generous gift from Prof Engelman, ... containing 300 nM of each primer and 12.5 μl 2× SYBR Green Master Mix (ABI) at a final volume of 25 μl, and run on an ABI PRIZM 7700 The second-round PCR cycles began with DNA denaturation and a polymerase-activation...

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ELECTRONIC WORD OF MOUTH APPLICATIONS IN PRODUCT RECOMMENDATION AND CRISIS INFORMATION DISSEMINATION

ELECTRONIC WORD OF MOUTH APPLICATIONS IN PRODUCT RECOMMENDATION AND CRISIS INFORMATION DISSEMINATION

... vector of user ui of dimension d = |D| rating of ui for category dl support threshold confidence of an association rule category score of user ui and u j item similarity score of user ui and u ... degree of independence and creative freedom to explore myself I am grateful to Professors Kaushik Dutta, Professor Tulika Mitra, and Professor Tuan Quang Phan, who commented on my research and reviewed ... (Okada and Yamamoto, 2011; Chatterjee, 2001) have investigated the influence of electronic word -of- mouth on customers’ purchase intention and also explored the varying effects of positive and negative...

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A critical analysis of environmental governance in urban china a case study of nanjing

A critical analysis of environmental governance in urban china a case study of nanjing

... involvement of a wide range of institutions and actors in the production and implementation of policy outcomes”, one sub-process of which is collaboration and coordination within and between ... meanings and purposes of production, of work, and of the control over economic decision-making If the meanings and purposes are against their perceptions on environmentalism, they will stand opposed ... or vandalizing official properties Based on both two faces of social environmentalism in China, we can see that while the latter usually is a result of ‘collective grievance and victimhood, and...

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Social integration of rural migrants in urban wuhan

Social integration of rural migrants in urban wuhan

... 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, by sharing ... point of view, a theoretical and empirical framework is developed on rural-urban migration and urbanization, dual economy, and the social integration of rural migrants The purpose of this framework ... migration (He and Gober 2003) Feng, Zuo, and Ruan examined the fate of rural migrants in Shanghai, providing a profile of recent rural migrants and analyzing the pattern of occupational 26 and income...

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Integration of silicon nanowires in MOS technology

Integration of silicon nanowires in MOS technology

... coefficient Dox thickness of the buried oxide Ec value of the conduction band Ev value of the valence band Ef Fermi level eox thickness of oxide layer G∞ energy of volume per atom of the bulk material ... leading to film precursors and by-products (often unselective and undesirable) Mass transport of film precursors and reactants to the growth source Adsorption of film precursors and reactants on growth ... of the potential barrier Figure II-2 : Illustration of the pinch-off phenomenon To sum-up, this short channel effect tends to make the gate control difficult with an increase of Off-current and...

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Final thesis Emerging Issues of Environmental Management in India

Final thesis Emerging Issues of Environmental Management in India

... definition of life considers all of these properties to be essential Human-made analogs of life may also be considered to be life The biosphere is the part of Earth’s outer shell — including air, land, ... Preservation of threatened and endangered species • extinction; The establishment of nature and biosphere reserves under various types of protection; and, most generally, the protection of biodiversity and ... units, • A list of the team who prepared the EIA, • Records of public meeting and consultations, • A catalogue of information, both data and written material and their sources, and • Technical...

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Integration of energy and environmental systems in wastewater treatment plants

Integration of energy and environmental systems in wastewater treatment plants

... of the process flow and shares the benefits of each individual process design model The main objective of this model is to integrate and optimize each process by conducting a detailed study of ... filter, sand filter, primary and secondary clarifier, and oxidation Figure illustrates the various processes used at the plant, the flow of influent through various filters, and the capacity of each ... review, capacity and specifications of the equipment, it is estimated that the clarifier reduces the BOD level by 10%, pump and trickling filter by 25%, and rest of the 65% by blower and oxidation...

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ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION AND PRODUCT CHARGES IN ARMENIA: Assessment of Reform Progress and Directions for Further Improvement pptx

ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION AND PRODUCT CHARGES IN ARMENIA: Assessment of Reform Progress and Directions for Further Improvement pptx

... Environment and energy, detailed tables Luxembourg MFE (2003), Budget Bulletin – 2002 State Budget of the Republic of Armenia Ministry of Finance and Economy of the Republic of Armenia and Macroeconomic ... from violations of the environmental legislation of the Soviet Union and the Union republics thereof (EAP TFS/DANCEE, 2000) With Resolution No 448 of the Government of the RA of September 1993, ... from stationary sources, 43% of the chlorine and 33% of the toluene emissions It also accounts for 9% of the copper emissions, 8% of the chloride emissions and 5% of the sulphate emissions in...

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Engineering Concepts in Industrial Product Design With A Case Study of Bicycle Design

Engineering Concepts in Industrial Product Design With A Case Study of Bicycle Design

... Significance of the Bicycle 109 4.1.3 Evolution of the Bicycle 112 4.1.4 Types of the Bicycle 118 4.1.4.1 Roadster and Style Bikes 119 4.1.4.2 Commuter and City Bikes ... Giving an understanding of unions and intersections between industrial product design and engineering criteria will be an advantage in activities of these professions both in industrial and educational ... types); as an example of mature design, bicycles; design abilities of scientists and designers (industrial and engineering designers) and their approach to design problems; and being a successful...

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Environmental and Social Impacts of Shrimp farming in Tam Giang lagoon, Vietnam-Local perception

Environmental and Social Impacts of Shrimp farming in Tam Giang lagoon, Vietnam-Local perception

... the area The research team consisted of a staff from RIA No 1, DOFI and CSSH and officers of People's Committee of the District (PCD) and People's Committee of the Commune (PCC) The fieldwork was ... pollution by nutrients and organic wastes from effluents and wastes, chemicals and medicinal residues to water and soil, salinisation of agricultural land and introductions of non-native species ... in provincial and national agencies: the Ministry of Fisheries (MOFI), RIA No 1, Hai phong Institute of Oceanography (HIO), DOFI, Department of Resource and Environment (DOSTE), and Hue Science...

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