The concept of eco-efficiency is here presented as a valuable contribution to a sustainable regional development in the European Union. Eco-efficiency and dematerialization strategies are more and more established at the business level where practical and easily understandable methods and management tools have been developed and applied in the past years and decades. On this (micro) level, case...

Directional distance function (DDF) is a recognized technique for measuring efficiency while incorporating undesirable outputs. This approach allows for desirable outputs to be expanded while undesirable outputs are contracted simultaneously. A drawback of the DDF approach is that the direction vector to the production boundary is fixed arbitrarily, which may not provide the best efficiency mea...

The Evidence Ontology (ECO) is a structured, controlled vocabulary for capturing evidence in biological research. ECO includes diverse terms for categorizing evidence that supports annotation assertions including experimental types, computational methods, author statements and curator inferences. Using ECO, annotation assertions can be distinguished according to the evidence they are based on s...

Unique fragments of adenovirus type 2 DNA generated by cleavage with endonuclease R-Eco RI or endonuclease R-Hsu I (Hin dIII) were used to map cytoplasmic viral RNAs transcribed early in productive infection. Radioactive early viral RNA was first fractionated by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Eluted viral RNAs were then tested for hybrid formation with DNA fragments. The Eco RI DNA fragmen...

This article presents a methodological study on the potential use of structural optimization strategies for eco-design to support engineers during the design process of green products. The structure of the traditional process of eco-design now depends on the personal skills of the designer and his ability to integrate in the traditional design process the requirements of eco-sustainability. The...

This study aims to contribute to the literature on the microeconomics of eco-innovation from a behavioural perspective. To this end, the Carnegie School ́s model of the ́initiation of inno-vation ́ was condensed into the empirically applicable model of the ?Composed Eco-Initiation Structure? (CEIS). The CEIS focuses upon the following three variables: general environmental goals, regulation-speci...

Eco-engineering has a crucial role in defining and achieving the sustainability credentials of civil engineering project. Better eco-engineering practices would help better reducing adverse impacts on environment society, but also financial performance However, assessment effects strategies can be challenging, as treatment this topic been neglected scientific literature. The challenges lie bala...

‘‘Living in harmony with nature” is the slogan of the Chinese government’s campaign against the environmental crisis and has become the target of many mega eco-city projects which have emerged in China during the last decade. A number of papers in Chinese journals attribute this slogan to the government’s revival of the Confucian ecological vision, combined with western technology. This paper f...