Recently it has been reported that a cathepsin B inhibitor, CA-074Me, attenuates ecotropic murine leukemia virus (Eco-MLV) infection in NIH3T3 cells, suggesting that cathepsin B is required for the Eco-MLV infection. However, cathepsin B activity was negative or extremely low in NIH3T3 cells. How did CA-074Me attenuate the Eco-MLV infection? The CA-074Me treatment of NIH3T3 cells inhibited cath...

Pyrosequencing analysis of 16S rRNA genes was used to examine impacts of elevated CO(2) (eCO(2)) on soil microbial communities from 12 replicates each from ambient CO(2) (aCO(2)) and eCO(2) settings. The results suggest that the soil microbial community composition and structure significantly altered under conditions of eCO(2), which was closely associated with soil and plant properties.

With the increasing awareness of sustainability, eco-design has been an important trend in the fashion industry. Many fashion brands such as Nike, Adidas, and The North Face have developed sustainable fashion by incorporating eco-design elements. Eco-design is an important part of sustainable supply chains. In this paper, we conducted a product line analysis of eco-designed products from a famo...

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...

Climate change is strongly linked to human behavior and technologies, and many of the barriers to sustainable behavior are rather psychological than technological. More sustainable technologies and food products have been introduced to combat climate change, most often labeled with morally load-ed labels such as “organic” or “environmentally friendly”. The purpose of this thesis was, first, to ...

Introduction More and more eco-feedback technology is being implemented to support people’s self-awareness regarding water, heating or energy consumption. Although eco-feedback technologies have managed to raise awareness (e.g, using visualisations [7]) about consumption, many challenges still remain. For instance, people still experience disengagement using technology [16, 1] as it is di cult ...

Purpose Recent OECD (2010, 2011) reports argue that eco-innovation is the key to realising growth. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the drivers of eco-innovation and to compare the impact of eco-innovation and non-eco-innovation on firm performance. The paper provides insights into the role government regulation can play in directing and stimulating eco-innovation. Design/methodology/app...

We present a general step-by-step extending approach to parallel execution of enumeration of combinatorial objects (ECO).Themethodology extends a famous enumeration algorithm,OrderlyGeneration, which allows concurrently generating all objects of size n + 1 from all objects of size n. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time there is an attempt to plug parallel computing into Orderly...

Bst EII identifies, a bi-allelic polymorphism in the human LDL receptor gene (l). The 33kb allelc cannot readily be distinguished from the 24kb fragment in the heterozygote using a 0.6 agarose gel. Lower percentage gels often cause handling problems. We suggest co-digestion of DNA with non-polymorphic enzymes such as Eco RI (or Bam HI). Figure 1 shows an autoradiograph of a Southern blot where ...