Measuring microenvironments for global change: DIY environmental microcontroller units (EMUs)

Modular Test Code for Microcontroller Units with ROM

This paper describes the concept of a modular test code developed to reside in Microcontroller Units (MCUs) with Read-Only Memory (ROM) to make easier the test bench evaluation of integrated circuit (IC) prototypes designed at Brazil Semiconductor Technology Center (BSTC). MCU standard input/output ports are used to select independent operating modes and to transfer data from/to a hostcomputer....

Global Environmental Change and Human Health.

Forecasting agriculturally driven global environmental change.

During the next 50 years, which is likely to be the final period of rapid agricultural expansion, demand for food by a wealthier and 50% larger global population will be a major driver of global environmental change. Should past dependences of the global environmental impacts of agriculture on human population and consumption continue, 10(9) hectares of natural ecosystems would be converted to ...

Global environmental change research: empowering developing countries.

This paper discusses ways to reconcile the United Nations Millennium Development Goals with environmental sustainability at the national and international levels. The authors argue that development and better use of sustainability relevant knowledge is key, and that this requires capacity building globally, and especially in the less developed regions of the world. Also essential is stronger in...

Modeling Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change