Sustainability challenges in our time such as climate change, food security, water consumption, pollution,environmental degradation and other socio-economic concerns are the main challenges for present and futuregenerations. Therefore, society is increasingly sensitive to sustainability issues and seeks information to achieve sustainability. Nevertheless, in universities, still envi...

Sustainability challenges in our time such as climate change, food security, water consumption, pollution,environmental degradation and other socio-economic concerns are the main challenges for present and futuregenerations. Therefore, society is increasingly sensitive to sustainability issues and seeks information to achieve sustainability. Nevertheless, in universities, still envi...

example in the special issues on biotech in China, Russia and Singapore [4–6]), several aspects of antibodies as therapeutics are addressed in this issue of BTJ. Ruuls et al. review a new class of antibody therapeutics: the age of the Umabs [7]. Zhou et al. review modern production technologies [8] and Garidel et al. report on a rapid, sensitive and economical assessment of monoclonal antibody ...

This paper promotes a social-cognitive framework to categorise those factors that enhance self-evaluation. These factors include social messages, personal factors and situational factors in the self-evaluation context. In addition, some technical issues with the accuracy of self-evaluations are outlined. These related to (a) the adequacy of the criterion, (b) the method of statistical compariso...

Satellite communications are experiencing a radical transformation due to technological trends, service demand and economical aspects. The choices operated at service and application levels have a significant impact on the technologies adopted at lower layers. The COST 272 action represents a privileged viewpoint on the European satellite research as far as services and technology are concerned...

Recent developments in both wireless communications and personal navigation technologies have made the concept of location-aware services both feasible and economical. Indeed, it is widely projected that the market for such services will increase substantially in the coming years. Obviously this market will provide significant opportunities and challenges for the tourism sector. In this article...

One of the key issues in crop protection products to be applied in tree crops is the dose rate adjustment. An inappropriate dose selection could be responsible of the lack of efficacy due to under dosage and a loss in efficiency due to over dosage. Both situations imply economical losses and greater impacts on the environment. A better dose adjustment is possible from a variable rate technology...

Most memory allocators ignore security issues. Instead they focus on maximizing performance and limiting fragmentation and waste. While these are very important issues for a memory allocator, in the days of worms that use code injection attacks to cause significant economical damage, security can not be ignored. This paper evaluates a representative set of commonly used memory allocators for C ...