BACKGROUND This study applies the POETICs framework (population, organization, environment, technology, institutions and culture) to an analysis of industrial carbon dioxide emissions in Japanese cities. The inclusion of institutional variables in the form of International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives membership, ISO 14001 implementation, and non-profit sector activity addresses ...

As the natural resources are getting exhausted, the concept of sustainable development of region has received increasing attentions, especially for resource-dependent cities. In this paper an innovative method that emergy analysis and IPAT (Human Impact Population Affluence Technology) model were combined in order to analyze the quantitative relationship of economic growth and energy consumptio...

Four cohorts of 40 subjects each were randomly assigned to 1 of 10 treatment conditions utilizing EMG feedback, cognitive monitoring training, systematic desensitization, high expectancy discussion group, or waiting list controls either in isolation or in various combinations. A three-way ANOVA for repeated measures indicated that significant anxiety reductions were experienced in all noncontro...

به‌منظور تحلیل نوترونیک قلب رآکتورها، نیاز به توسعه نرم‌افزارهای محاسبات هسته‌ای جهت تولید ثابت‌های چند گروهی و حل عددی معادله پخش است. برای این منظور، از روش‌هایی استفاده می‌شود که علاوه بر دقت مناسب حجم زمان بهینه‌ای برخوردار باشند. در پژوهش تئوری حاکم روش نودال بسط شار جریان متوسط هم‌چنین مرتبه‌های بالاتر پرداخته می‌شود. پس‌ازآن با گسسته‌سازی نوترون، نشان داده روش‌ بهینه خوبی بهره می‌برد. مس...

This paper examines the relationship between CO2 emissions in three economic sectors of G20 member countries using environmental IPAT model and STIRPAT validates EKC hypothesis by comparing results for developing developed countries. The confirm that there is a significant long-run equilibrium (primary, secondary, tertiary) across panel. Furthermore, elasticities suggest primary sector (agricul...

This article examines the causes of air pollution while paying particular attention to effects fossil fuel use in electricity generation. Dietz and Roza's (1994) STIRPAT model, which is a reformulated version IPAT was used. The data includes 20 countries with highest CO2 emission levels covers years 1991 2015. According empirical results this article, increases population GDP per capita are fol...

INTRODUCTION: The first steps towards Parallel Imaging were made from 1987 on [1]-[5]. Since the introduction of the first clinical examples with SMASH and SENSE by Sodickson [6] and Pruessman [8] it still took several years until the first vendor implementations for Parallel Imaging came up. Siemens introduced the integrated Parallel Acquisition Techniques (iPAT) for the MAGNETOM Sonata, Symph...

This study is intended to conduct an extended evaluation of sustainability based on the material flow analysis of resource productivity. We first present updated information on the material flow analysis (MFA) database in Taiwan. Essential indicators are selected to quantify resource productivity associated with the economy-wide MFA of Taiwan. The study also applies the IPAT (impact-population-...

Introduction Vessel wall imaging of intracranial arteries is challenging due to their small sizes and their relatively deep locations inside the brain. 3D Time-of-flight (TOF) and contrast enhanced MRA (ceMRA) are commonly used [1] luminographic techniques. They lack specificity as luminal defects may be caused by various reasons. Dark blood, two dimensional turbo spin echo (2DTSE) has been use...