The expanded programme of immunization was established in Cambodia in 1986. In 2002, 67% of eligible children were immunized, despite significant health sector and macro-economic financial constraints. A financial sustainability planning process for immunization was introduced in 2002, in order to mobilize national and international resources in support of the achievement of child health object...

Traditionally, materials selection for the design and construction of facilities has been based on economic and technological considerations, given the desired life span of a facility and the program of requirements and codes it must meet. In design environments where ecological, health, and ethical impacts are increasingly important, often the only way to choose from many different material al...

BACKGROUND The Ottawa Model of Smoking Cessation (OMSC) is a hospital-based smoking cessation program that is expanding across Canada. While the short-term effectiveness of hospital cessation programs has been documented, less is known about long-term sustainability. The purpose of this exploratory study was to understand how hospitals using the OMSC were addressing sustainability and determine...

The question of sustainability of agricultural production and the use of natural resources has become a popular topic. Most scientists agree that current systems are generally non-sustainable. Current rates of resource extraction will lead us to a depleted earth in the future. Sustainability is defined in many ways. For this paper sustainability should be considered the overlap of what is wante...

The hard real-time systems are characterized by sets of tasks for which are known the deadline, the arrival model (frequency) and the Worst-Case Execution Time (WCET). We focus on the scheduling of these systems on multiprocessor platforms. One of the main issues of this topic is to ensure that all deadlines are met. We go further by focusing on the temporal safety which we characterized by the...

This article argues the global environmental crisis shows the need for a broad, inclusive definition of sustainability. It shows how religious traditions can help contribute to broader definitions, and describes how work from the field of Religion and Ecology has developed resources. It argues that the next step for the study of Religion and Ecology is to address sustainability, and then propos...

There is a strong societal need to evaluate and understand the sustainability of biofuels, especially because of the significant increases in production mandated by many countries, including the United States. Sustainability will be a strong factor in the regulatory environment and investments in biofuels. Biomass feedstock production is an important contributor to environmental, social, and ec...

agricultural sustainability refers to the ability of a farm to produce food indefinitely, without causing irreversible damage to ecosystem health. the main objective of this study was to formulate a structural model to analyze the effects of ecological, social, and economic factors on sustainable agricultural development in qazvin province of iran. to achieve this aim, a structural model with 4...

The impact of cities on the environment increasingly dominates the debate on sustainability. Most global and regional environmental problems originate in cities. Cities concentrate increasing numbers of people and human activities; thus, they import increasing amounts of natural resources and export vast quantities of emissions and waste. Urbanization also entails major changes in the way peopl...

Periodically, new major forces dramatically reshape the business world. Just as globalisation, the information technology revolution and the knowledge economy have been doing for the past two decades. In the early part of this twenty-first century, the most important pressures facing businesses worldwide, especially those in the developed world, is arguably the need for integrating sustainabili...