In a recent Opinion article in Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Ricciardi and Simberloff [1] argue that species translocations are not a viable conservation strategy to deal with threats such as climate change, because conservation biologists lack sufficient understanding of the associated risks. We agree with the basic tenet of their argument that the attention and credibility given to such sche...

Sarah Franklin’s comprehensive work in feminist science and technology studies is probably well known to most of Humanimalia’s readers, but most certainly not to all. Although much of her research involves the bio-technological use of other animals and the far-reaching cultural consequences and contexts of this kind of animal experimentation, Franklin’s way of approaching human-animal relations...

The high prices currently achieved in the acquisition of nonrenewable energy for electricity production and the low levels of energy efficiency in the housing sector are the national situation, which leads the Portuguese government to encourage the acquisition, the installation and the use of technologies which exploit indigenous and renewable energy. This study presents an application that was...

Subtractive manufacturing (CNC machining) has high quality of geometric and material properties but is slow, costly and infeasible in some cases; additive manufacturing (RP) is just the opposite. Total automation and hence speed is achieved in RP by compromising on quality. Hybrid Layered Manufacturing (HLM) developed at IIT Bombay combines the best features of both these approaches. It uses ar...

This paper locates the notion of technological revolutions in the NeoSchumpeterian effort to understand innovation and to identify the regularities, continuities and discontinuities in the process of innovation. It looks at the microand meso-foundations of the patterns observed in the evolution of technical change and the interrelations with the context that shape the rhythm and direction of in...

In small-scale hydropower scheme, the most important component is electro-mechanical equipment. Since cost contribution of this component is high because hydrokinetic projects require negligible civil works. Turbine and alternator contribute a major fraction of the hydrokinetic projects. Thus, there is a requirement to estimates the electromechanical equipment cost for a hydrokinetic hydropower...

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There are many benefits of technology in the workplace, such as an increase productivity and knowledge acquisition. However, technological advancement workplace may cause technostress. The term technostress refers to negative psychological relationship between people adopting new technologies. Technostress occurs when cannot adequately adapt or interact with information purpose this study is de...