The impact of human activity on the biosphere has produced a global society context in which scarcity of natural resources and risks to ecological health such as air pollution and water contamination call for new solutions that help sustain the development of human society and all life on earth. This review article begins by recalling the historical and philosophical context from which contempo...

Lap Mui Ann Chan • Ana Muriel • Zuo-Jun Max Shen David Simchi-Levi • Chung-Piaw Teo School of Management, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida The Engineering Systems Division and the Dep...

Overexpression of SPRR1B in bronchial epithelial cells is a marker for early metaplastic changes induced by various toxicants/carcinogens. Previously, we have shown that the transcriptional stimulation of SPRR1B expression by phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) is mainly mediated by a -150/-94 bp enhancer harboring two critical 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate-responsive elements (TREs) a...

In this paper we examine classical and fundamental processes of business planning and marketing. As a result we define a five-phase process model for planning and marketing and we examine the relationship of planning and marketing to both the acquisition cycle and the research, development, test, and evaluation cycle. We construct a product life cycle—an abstraction that is a familiar part of m...

Hiroshi Murakami 1,*, Akio Katsuki 2 and Takao Sajima 2 1 Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering, Faculty of Environmental Engineering, The University of Kitakyushu, 1-1 Hibikino, Wakamatsu-ku, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka 808-0135, Japan 2 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan; [email protected] (A.K.); sa...

Hiroshi Murakami 1,*, Akio Katsuki 2, Takao Sajima 2 and Mitsuyoshi Fukuda 1 1 Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering, Faculty of Environmental Engineering, The University of Kitakyushu, 1-1 Hibikino, Wakamatsu-ku, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka 808-0135, Japan; [email protected] 2 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu University, 744, Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fuk...

The application of integrated environmental management (IEM) as an analytical framework and general methodology to support ocean governance is suggested in this paper. IEM is described as an adaptive process, which has to consider interactively problem assessment, policy priorities, the formulation of policies and their implementation in adequate measures, taking into account the multiple persp...

The selection of product portfolios, processing routes and the combination of technologies to obtain a sustainable biorefinery design according to economic and environmental criteria represents a challenge to process engineering. The aim of this research is to generate a robust methodology that assists the process engineers to conceptually optimise the environmental and economic performances of...