The U.S. final demand categories such as household consumption, private fixed investments, government purchases and investments, and export of goods and services have a wide range of environmental, economic, and social impacts. Analysis of these impacts, termed as the Triple Bottom Line (TBL), stimulated a tremendous interest by policy makers over the last decade. Therefore, current research ai...

The aim of the present study was to determine the level of antibiotic resistance patterns of bacterial isolates from Eastern Mediterranean fish in Turkey. The resistance of 93 Enterobacteriaceae isolates from gills to 10 different antibiotics belonging 7 classes (which most using in Turkey), was investigated by agar diffusion method. A total 13 species of bacteria were isolated: the most common...

Tamarind seed, a household waste from the kitchen is used for the sorptive removal of fluoride from synthetic aqueous solution as well as from field water samples. Batch sorptive defluoridation was conducted under variable experimental conditions such as pH, agitation time, initial fluoride concentration, particle size and sorbent dose. Maximum defluoridation was achieved at pH 7.0. Defluoridat...

This paper is addressing a few aspects of how to go about implementation and review of the SDGs / Agenda 2030. In my presentation, I will illustrate main points with examples from practice at the local, national and international. I will be happy to discuss them in more depth during the meeting. I am drawing on my background as a social and organizational psychologist, and – probably more so – ...

This study explores the extent to which the presence and activities of siblings shaped the chances of women migrating to rural and urban areas in two rural areas of Belgium and the Netherlands during the second half of the nineteenth and first decades of the twentieth century. Shared-frailty Cox proportional hazard analyses of longitudinal data from historical population registers show that sib...

Relevant Education in Math and Science (REMS) is a university-led STEM outreach program designed to use real-world industrial engineering problems to make 5 – 12 grade math and science fun and meaningful for students. In this work, we present the nine current engineering lab activities, developed in both in-lab and on-line format consisting of three different real-world contexts: competitive ma...

The characteristics of the user’s implicit knowledge in product design and the relationship between the user’s implicit knowledge and design knowledge are discussed. The transformation model of user implicit knowledge to design knowledge is built. And the key technologies of it are analyzed. The four design dimensions which the transformation from user implicit knowledge to design knowledge is ...

BACKGROUND The financial burden of cancers has profound effects and there is a clear need to explore the issue from different perspectives and for different population groups. This study aimed at investigating inpatient cancer care (ICC) burden in Anhui, a typical inland province of China. METHODS The study collected data through a household survey conducted during April to November, 2014 usi...