Today’s consumers are more aware of the environmental issues caused by heavy industrialization. They demand eco friendly products which will reduce the damages caused by industrialization. They are interested in buying eco friendly products and willing to pay more (Consumers who care). The willingness to pay more on eco-friendly products differs among demographic groups. This difference is caus...

Customer feedback is used to understand customer requirements. Early design phases require the consideration of items including manufacturing, the environment, and sustainability management. Therefore, it is crucial that eco-efficiency is taken into account in the early design phases. Traditionally, eco-efficiency is considered only in terms of eco-design issues, not customer requirements based...

The current paper deals with the mathematical models of predator-prey system where a transmissible disease spreads among the predator species only. Four mathematical models are proposed and analysed with several popular predator functional responses in order to show the influence of functional response on eco-epidemic models. The existence, boundedness, uniqueness of solutions of all the models...

Environmental fluctuations, species interactions and rapid evolution are all predicted to affect community structure and their temporal dynamics. Although the effects of the abiotic environment and prey evolution on ecological community dynamics have been studied separately, these factors can also have interactive effects. Here we used bacteria-ciliate microcosm experiments to test for eco-evol...

Recently, rainwater management is considered as an essential means for recovering natural hydrological cycles in urban area. However, a lack of technical knowledge on the design of rainwater management system has been identified as a major hurdle preventing widespread application of rainwater management. This study focused on the application of design methods for rainwater management system. A ...

In this paper, we describe a compilation system that automates much of the process of performance tuning that is currently done manually by application programmers interested in high performance. Due to the growing complexity of accurate performance prediction, our system incorporates empirical techniques to execute variants of code segments with representative data on the target architecture. ...

208 words) 3 Understanding the consequences of environmental change on both long and short term ecological and 4 evolutionary dynamics is a basic prerequisite for any effective conservation or management 5 programme but inherently problematic because of the complex interplay between ecological and 6 evolutionary processes. Components of such complexity have been described in isolation or within...

This paper reports a 15 weeks study of artistic eco-feedback deployed in six houses with an innovative sensing infrastructure and visualization strategy. The paper builds on previous work that showed a significant decrease in user awareness after a short period with a relapse in consumption. In this study we aimed to investigate if new forms of feedback could overcome this issue, maintaining th...

13 Within the framework of the European project EcoBioCap (ECOeffi14 cient BIOdegradable Composite Advanced Packaging), aiming at con15 ceiving the next generation of food packagings, we have designed an 16 argumentation-based tool for management of conflicting viewpoints 17 between preferences expressed by the involved parties (food and pack18 aging industries, health authorities, consumers, w...

1. Over the past decade, there has been a substantial increase in interest in the immune system and the role it plays in the regulation of disease susceptibility, giving rise to the field of eco-immunology. 2. Eco-immunology aims to understand changes in host immune responses in the broader framework of an organism's evolutionary, ecological and life-history contexts. 3. The immune system, howe...