Water is the first and foremost limiting factor for agricultural production, and undoubtedly, water crisis is considered as one of the international challenges for governments and human societies. Given that virtual water was first used as a way to tackle water scarcity in countries with limited water resources, so that countries with low water should import food from abundant countries...

The growing internationalisation of the world economy in recent decades has placed firms under strong competitive pressures, but has also handed them new opportunities to improve their productivity by exploiting, for example, the cost advantages and technological progress available to those which import intermediate goods and services for use in their production. Despite the strong development ...

The increase of Indonesia’s dairy imports confirms that Indonesia is dependent on imports. Practically, the bigger import dependence leads to exposure GDP. characteristics are also described by degree concentration. These research objectives are: (1) find out level dependency and openness Indonesian imports; (2) concentration based commodity geographic concentrations. This study uses Import Dep...

Efforts to provide alternative resources and technologies for producing liquid fuel have recently been intensified. Different levels of dependence on oil imports carbon prices a significant impact the composition cost-minimizing portfolio technologies. Considering such factors, how should China plan its future industry? The model supporting technology capacity configuration that minimizes total...

the concept of energy security has been changed into one of the key and controversial concepts in international relations and energy economy in the recent years. the literature of this concept has more developed in europe. because, european countries supply their major needs by imports. hence, russia as one of the main energy suppliers of europe :union: uses leveraging energy for closer to euro...

Many mitochondrial proteins are encoded by nuclear genes and after translation in the cytoplasm are imported via translocases in the outer and inner membranes, the TOM and TIM complexes, respectively. Here, we report the characterization of the mitochondrial protein, Mmp37p (YGR046w) and demonstrate its involvement in the process of protein import into mitochondria. Haploid cells deleted of MMP...

Renewable energy systems such as Photovoltaic (PV) have become one of the best options for supplying electricity at distribution network level. This is mainly because PV system sustainable, environmentally friendly, and a low-cost form energy. The intermittent unpredictable nature renewable sources which leads to mismatch between power generation load demand challenge having 100% networks. Ther...