A smart Information and Communication Technology (ICT) enables a synchronized interplay of different key factors, aligning infrastructures, consumers, and governmental policy-making needs. In the harbor’s logistics context, smart ICT has been driving a multiyear wave of growth. Although there is a standalone value in the technological innovation of a task, the impact of a new smart technology i...

The prevalence of obesity, metabolic syndrome, and type 2 diabetes mellitus, and the associated cardiac pathologies are rising to alarming levels. Conventional medical therapies for the prevention and treatment of cardiomyopathy are less effective in patients with these metabolic disorders, and this is attributed, at least in part, to a limited understanding of the cellular and genetic mechanis...

About the Community Anchorage is a combined city-county government that covers Alaska's largest and most important metropolitan area. The combined municipality covers almost 2,000 square miles and has a population of over 280,000. Some 220,000 people live in the " Anchorage Bowl " – the urban area on the Anchorage peninsula that is cut off from the rest of the municipality by geography, militar...

Fast and unplanned city growth, has effects such as isolation of village societies, threatening urbancores and centers and small and weak societies, destruction of open spaces and open and natural regions. Smart growthoffers a sustainable way for urban developing with appropriate use of available sources, increase of urban services,developing neighborhoods with different uses, making public tra...

Submerged attached growth bioreactors (SAGBs) were operated at 20 °C for 30 weeks in smart-aerated, partial nitritation ANAMMOX mode and in a timer-controlled, cyclic aeration mode. The smart-aerated SAGBs removed 48-53% of total nitrogen (TN) compared to 45% for SAGBs with timed aeration. Low dissolved oxygen concentrations and cyclic pH patterns in the smart-aerated SAGBs suggested conditions...

The growth of the population of mobile devices such as smart phones and tablets provides huge amount of idling computing power. Smart phone technology drastically reduces the use of power for doing common internet applications such as chatting, send/receive mail, downloading music, video, data from internet. Smart phones now drastically replaces the normal cell phones. Smart phones can be used ...

America is the only national organization dedicated to researching, advocating for and leading coalitions to bring better development strategies to more communities nationwide. From providing more sidewalks to ensuring more homes are built near public transportation or that productive farms remain a part of our communities, smart growth helps make sure people across the nation can live in great...

Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) and Navigant Consulting recently released a white paper 1 documenting the interim results of an economic assessment for smart grid technologies in the Pacific Northwest. The study, called the Regional Business Case (RBC), is the first bottom-up assessment to account for the interactions of various technologies and quantify the uncertainties and risks of reg...