This paper investigates the potential for eco-certification to improve livelihoods and conserve biodiversity in tropical countries, using the example of a traditional rubber agroforestry practice in Indonesia. Eco-certification has the potential to allow farmers to generate revenue streams by marketing environmental benefits of their practices. However, in the years since eco-certification firs...

This paper presents a novel approach for object detection using a feature construction method called Evolution-COnstructed (ECO) features. Most other object recognition approaches rely on human experts to construct features. ECO features are automatically constructed by uniquely employing a standard genetic algorithm to discover series of transforms that are highly discriminative. Using ECO fea...

The funding statement presented in [1] is incomplete. The correction is as follows: ‘This work was supported by predoctoral fellowship FI05/00569 to A.C. and by Plan Nacional de IþDþi and Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Subdirección General de Redes y Centros de Investigación Cooperativa, Ministerio de Economı́a y Competitividad, Spanish Network for Research in Infectious Diseases (REIPI RD12/001...

This article explores the aesthetic implications of ecostructuralism. Eco-structuralism is a method of music composition that utilises the sonic features of natural sounds as structural elements in new compositions. This paper places eco-structuralism within an aesthetic and analytical framework. It explores views of aesthetics and nature and discusses how eco-structuralism is positioned in rel...

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is a tool to solve engineering problem. Commercial CFD code are being used most problem but rarely for external aerodynamic due some limitation of features. Compare in house that able written certain area interest and also implement specific discretization scheme increase accuracy. In this work, the developed by using high resolution (ROE TVD scheme) flow past...

High sensitivity C reactive protein, fibrinogen levels and the onset of major depressive disorder in post-acute coronary syndrome BMC Cardiovascular Disorders Sample doi:10.1186/s12872-015-0015-3 Marianne Lafitte ([email protected]) Sandrine Tastet ([email protected]) Paul Perez ([email protected]) Marie-Aimée Serisé ([email protected]) Anne-Sophie ...

There is growing interest in the role and contribution of e-government to the level of corruption and the eco-efficiency in terms of economic prosperity and environmental degradation of nation states. In this paper, we use publicly available archival data to explore the relationships among e-government maturity, corruption, and eco-efficiency (defined in terms of economic prosperity and environ...

The general disenchantment with command-and-control mechanisms led to pressure to experiment with tools of deregulation which encourage the desired behaviour through financial incentives rather than through legal coercion. Eco-labelling can be seen as a representation of this trend to deregulate environmental protection by allowing industry to make the decision of whether or not to apply for th...

The world is now facing difficulties such as climate change, energy consumption and economic crisis and the green growth is commonly used as a solution to overcome that difficulties. To achieve the green growth eco-efficiency is a very important key. Studies on eco-efficiency have been done by others using financial value of product which cannot show the real value of the product. In this study...