Policy makers and practitioners are in need of useful tools and models for assessing ecosystem service outcomes and the potential risks and opportunities of ecosystem management options. We utilize a state-and-transition model framework integrating dynamic soil and vegetation properties to examine multiple ecosystem services-specifically agricultural production, biodiversity and habitat, and so...

Marine pathogens present serious challenges to aquaculture, fisheries productivity, and marine conservation requiring novel solutions identify, control, mitigate their effects. Several ecological habitats, such as mangroves wetlands can recycle waste serve aquatic filtration systems. While nutrient cycling other ecosystem services of these habitats have been well-studied, potential remove mecha...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to assess the effectiveness of the Smart Care service for the diabetes management. METHODS Fifty-six patients with diabetes mellitus were recruited in Daegu, Korea. All participants completed a diabetes management education course (diet, exercise, and complications) for their self-care and received access to a care management website through a netbook and ...

The impact of digital technologies in manufacturing organizations has been felt for decades. Servitization processes themselves have developed from the traditional Product-Service Systems (PSS) toward new business models infused with technologies, paving way to smart PSS. There is, however, a lack understanding how platforms (DP) can be leveraged offering service offerings. In this paper, we hi...

The shrinking Baiyangdian Lake and drying up rivers are widely observed in recent years. Due to the significant advantages in integrated analyses of natural and economic systems, emergy analysis is introduced in this paper to assess the health status of Baiyangdian Watershed. First, we establish a emergy based conceptual framework for the assessment, delineate an emergy flow diagram of Baiyangd...

Providing web services from smart phones is current recent research topic, this happened because of smart phones are used almost every area, where today’s user uses for mobile banking, emailing, searching location and data. Smart phones are advanced in terms of processing power, memory with an embedded camera, sensors and same time parallel advancement in wireless network and software web techn...

The Smart City concept relates to improving efficiency of city services and facilitating a more sustainable development of cities. However, it is important to highlight that, in order to effectively progress towards such smart urban environments, the people living in these cities must be tightly engaged in this endeavour. This paper presents two novel services that have been implemented in orde...