In the United States and the United Kingdom, over the last decade major retail chains have increasingly publicized their efforts to supply sustainably sourced and eco-labelled seafood. Debate exists over the extent of consumer demand for this product. Seafood eco-labels purportedly resolve the information asymmetry between producer and consumer, allowing consumers who care about sustainability ...

Although eco-labels were introduced with the intention of encouraging eco-friendly purchasing behavior by consumers, they have had little effect on consumers' purchasing decisions, and therefore a significant gap exists between eco-label awareness and actual purchasing behavior. The aim of this study was to analyze consumer preference, in terms of public and private values, for two types of Kor...

The research of adaptativity and reactivity in the control of adaptative manufacturing cells implies distribution of intelligence in decision making. It also entails the difficulty to master and optimize real-time decision-making. The aim of this paper is to study the interest of multi-agent system and eco-resolution, in the control of adaptative manufacturing cells. After an introduction of th...

Growing social concerns over the environmental externalities associated with business activities are pushing firms to identify activities that create economic value with less environmental impact and to become more eco-efficient. Over the past two decades, researchers have increasingly used frontier efficiency models to evaluate productive efficiency in the presence of undesirable outputs, such...

Land use/land cover change has been attracting increasing attention in the field of global environmental change research because of its role in the social and ecological environment. To explore the ecological risk characteristics of land use change in the Poyang Lake Eco-economic Zone of China, an eco-risk index was established in this study by the combination of a landscape disturbance index w...

Jorge C. G. Ramirez, Lynn L. Peterson, Diane J. Cook, Dolores M. Peterson Department of Computer Science & Engineering University of Texas at Arlington PO Box 19015, Arlington, TX 76019-0015 Tel: 817-272-3620; Fax: 817-272-3784 [email protected] HIV Clinical Research Group Division of General Internal Medicine University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center 5323 Harry Hines Blvd, Dallas, TX 7...

Background: Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA) displays increased traditional cardiovascular (CV) risk factors, such as insulin resistance (IR), metabolic syndrome or obesity. Thus, it is an urgent need to treat and manage these cardiometabolic comorbidities associated. Some evidence points out that methotrexate could improve CV due its anti-inflammatory properties, however the effect of PDE4 inhibitor ...

Background: To date, novel mechanisms such as the involvement of splicing machinery components in lupus nephropathy and its interplay with transcriptome innate immune cells have not been evaluated. Objectives: 1- identify altered transcriptomic signatures associated response monocytes from SLE patients association clinical features. 2- evaluate role spliceosome linked to profile monocytes. 3- a...