Ultra-High Performance Fibre Reinforced Concrete (UHPFRC) is charact erized by a unique combination of extremely low permeability, high strength and deformability. Extensive R&D works and applications over the last 10 years have demonstrated that cast on site UHPFRC is a fast, efficient and price competitive method for the repair/re habilitation of existing structures. More recently, an origina...

Eco-efficiency is a tool for sustainability analysis that indicates how to carry out economic activities effectively. This paper assesses agricultural eco-efficiency using data envelopment analysis (DEA) and the Theil index approach. Using basic data of 31 provinces in China during 2003–2013, we analyzed the agricultural eco-efficiency development level and spatial pattern in China. The results...

We have now enough background in the teaching of eco-design to make some conclusions on practices and evolutions in this area; in France these teachings are very supported by studies of APEDEC (Association of Experts for the Development of Eco-Design) that published in 2006 and 2010 the results of enquiries concerning this subject. Curricula concerning eco-design exist since 1987 but a signific...

This paper describes ICON, a novel editor designed to configure a set of input devices and connect them to actions into a graphical interactive application. ICON allows physically challenged users to connect alternative input devices and/or configure their interaction techniques according to their needs. It allows skilled users – graphic designers or musicians for example – to configure any ICO...

Metastatic breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths among women. Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a highly aggressive subcategory of breast cancer and currently lacks well-defined molecular targets for effective targeted therapies. Disease relapse, metastasis, and drug resistance render standard chemotherapy ineffective in the treatment of TNBC. Because previous...

Eco-driving is a driving style that can significantly reduce fuel consumption and CO2 emission. Current methods for eco-driving practice are inefficient or not easily accessible. Therefore, we introduce iCO2, an online multi-user three-dimensional (3D) ecodriving training space, which was developed in Unity3D and made available as a Facebook application since September 2012. In iCO2, agents are...

BACKGROUND High levels of exhaled carbon monoxide (eCO) are a marker of airway or lung inflammation. We investigated whether hypo- or hyperventilation can affect measured values. METHODS Ten healthy volunteers were trained to achieve sustained end-tidal CO2 (etCO(2)) concentrations of 30 (hyperventilation), 40 (normoventilation), and 50 mmHg (hypoventilation). As soon as target etCO(2) values...

scientists call pasture a natural eco-system and range is an agricultural eco-system. in this point of view although pasture that was full of plants growing by itself and not growing by human being (pirdashti, 2007; mohgadam, 2005) and two groups of living beings such as human being, plants, domesticated, and not living being like weather, wind, gradient which are effective in making of pasture...

Number: 007-0582 Abstract Title: A Closed-loop Supply Chain Model for Managing Overall Optimization of Eco-efficiencyTitle: A Closed-loop Supply Chain Model for Managing Overall Optimization of Eco-efficiency Authors: Name: Wei D. Solvang, Ziqiong Deng, Bjoern Solvang Organization: Department of Industrial Engineering, Narvik University College, Norway Address: Lodve Langes gate 2, pb. 385, N-8...