background: forecasting of air pollutants has become a popular topic of environmental research today. for this purpose, the artificial neural network (aan) technique is widely used as a reliable method for forecasting air pollutants in urban areas. on the other hand, the evolutionary polynomial regression (epr) model has recently been used as a forecasting tool in some environmental issues. in ...

Process and product models are commonly used for performing life-cycle assessments (LCAs) of the environmental impacts of materials and products through different stages of fabrication, use, and end-of-life options. In this article, we show that these models can be represented as process flow diagrams or as matrices of process interactions. In either representation, the inventory of environment...

Life-cycle assessment (LCA) facilitates a systems view in environmental evaluation of products, materials, and processes. Life-cycle assessment attempts to quantify environmental burdens over the entire life-cycle of a product from raw material extraction, manufacturing, and use to ultimate disposal. However, current methods for LCA suffer from problems of subjective boundary definition, inflex...

The circadian clock forms one of the most fascinating adaptations to life on earth. Organisms can not only anticipate the day/night cycle but can make use of an internal clock to measure daylength as an indicator of the changing of the seasons. The innate period of the clock is not exactly equal to 24 h, but is reset each day by environmental signals at dawn and dusk, most notably by changes in...