As the world recovers from the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, the international community should promote a mix of policies to sustain this global recovery and create jobs through reducing carbon dependency, ecological degradation and poverty. Such a Global Green New Deal (GGND) requires a long-term commitment to implementing and coordinating “green investments” by the Group o...

Planning for electricity generation systems is a very important task and should take environmental and economic factors into account. This paper reviews the existing metrics and methods in evaluating energy sustainability, and we propose a sustainability assessment index system. The input indexes include generation capacity, generation cost, and land use. The output indexes include desirable an...

This article investigates how the means by which actors compete for position in management of international society stratifies order. Advancing scholarship on hierarchies, it applies a theory social closure to examine two status groups, The Family Civilised Nations and G20, arguing that stratification is reproduced dynamic interplay top-down collectivist exclusion part superiorly positioned bot...

Elderly patients with obstructive lung diseases often receive mechanical ventilation to support their breathing and restore respiratory function. However, mechanical ventilation is known to increase the severity of ventilator-induced lung injury (VILI) in the elderly. Therefore, it is important to investigate the effects of aging to better understand the lung tissue mechanics to estimate the se...

Samples from three stations in Kranji Reservoir, Singapore (n = 21) were collected and analyzed for cyanomyovirus abundance and diversity. A total of 73 different g20 (viral capsid assembly protein genes) amino acid sequences were obtained from this study. A phylogenetic analysis revealed that the 73 segments were distributed in six major clusters (α to ζ), with four unique subclusters, which w...

Fiscal policy is an essential tool that policymakers use for guiding the economy. Thus, effects of fiscal may affect many aspects our lives, including impact carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. This article investigates role policy, in addition to gross domestic product (GDP), innovation, and financial development, mitigating CO2 emissions context Environmental Kuznets Curve theory Group Twenty (G2...