Purpose – Awareness of environmental impacts on our society is increasing among companies. In order to turn environmental problems into business opportunities, many companies are beginning to consider how environmental, or green aspects can be integrated into their service offerings. This opportunity can be of specific interest to logistics service providers, whose core business is an environme...

Enterovirus A71 (EV-A71) has recently become an important public health threat, especially in South-East Asia, where it has caused massive outbreaks of Hand, Foot and Mouth disease every year, resulting in significant mortality. Rapid detection of EV-A71 early in outbreaks would facilitate implementation of prevention and control measures to limit spread. Real-time RT-PCR is the technique of ch...

For the analysis of blue-green algal food supplements for cylindrospermopsin (CYN), a C18 solid-phase extraction column and a polygraphitized carbon solid-phase extraction column in series was an effective procedure for the clean-up of extracts. Determination of CYN was by liquid chromatography with ultraviolet light detection. At extract spiking levels of CYN equivalent to 25-500 µg g(-1), blu...

LTE broadcast is a communication standard which is expected to revolutionize the multimedia service provision in the future. The distinctive features of this standard such as increased service capacity, high spectral efficiency, and spectral adjustability have encouraged many companies to select this standard for the future generation broadcasting. In this paper, after a complete introduction o...

We cover the second half of Green and Tao’s proof of the existence of arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions of prime numbers, by constructing a function and pseudorandom measure suitably associated to the primes. 1.1 Orienting remarks The proof of the Green-Tao Theorem breaks conveniently into two distinct stages: 1. First, it is shown how the conclusion of Szemerédi’s Theorem can be extende...

Construction of long low autocorrelation binary sequences (LABS) is a complex process which involves many limitations. LABS have many practical applications. In pulse coding schemes, sequences with low autocorrelation side lobe energies are required to reduce the noise and to increase the capability of radars to detect multiple targets. In literature, numerous techniques were employed to solve ...

Animals are assumed to obtain/conserve energy effectively to maximise their fitness, which manifests itself in a variety of behavioral strategies. For marine animals, however, these behavioral strategies are generally unknown due to the lack of high-resolution monitoring techniques in marine habitats. As large marine herbivores, immature green turtles do not need to allocate energy to reproduct...

We investigate consequences of the Möbius invariance of the BFKL Hamiltonian and of the triple Pomeron vertex. In particular, we show that the triple Pomeron vertex in QCD, when restricted to the large Nc limit and to the space of Möbius functions, simplifies and reduces to the vertex used in the Balitsky-Kovchegov (BK) equation. As a result, the BK equation for the dipole density appears as a ...

Growing public awareness of climate change requires transportation professionals to integrate green concepts into the transportation planning, design, construction, and operation processes. For the past decade, while many studies have been done regarding carbon emission reduction strategies for on-road and off-road operations, very few have dealt with emission reduction issues in highway projec...