Barriers to Adoption of Sustainable Technologies for Energy-Efficient Building Upgrade—Semi-Structured Interviews

Barriers to real world adoption of semantic web technologies

The author of this paper is the creator of the DELI open source API for Composite Capabilities / Preference Profiles (CC/PP) and UAProf, two formats for device capability negotiation based on RDF. As a result of this work, the author has observed that developers outside the Semantic Web activity are currently experiencing difficulties in deploying Semantic Web technology in real world use cases...

Thermoelectricity for future sustainable energy technologies

— Thermoelectricity is a general term for a number of effects describing the direct interconversion of heat and electricity. Thermoelectric devices are therefore promising, environmental-friendly alternatives to conventional power generators or cooling units. Since the mid-90s, research on thermoelectric properties and their applications has steadily increased. In the course of years, the devel...

Identifying the Barriers of Sustainable Agriculture Adoption by Wheat Farmers in Takestan, Iran

Conventional agriculture systems of production often lead to environmental degradation, economic problems and even social conflict. The efficacy of agriculture systems conducive to the economic, environmental and social sustainability of farming operations has been demonstrated, yet the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices is not widespread. This study evaluates the barriers of sustai...

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF ENERGY-EFFICIENT TECHNOLOGIES: POTENTIAL FOR INPUT-OUTPUT AND SUPPLY-CHAIN ANALYSES IN IRAN

Energy Efficient Sustainable Routing Architecture for Manet

The Iternet of Things(IOT) is acknowledged as one of the most significant areas of upcoming technology and is gaining vast attention from a wide range of industries, Agriculture, Education, Telehealth, etc. IoT is a combination of various resource constrained networks like WSN and MANET where the limited battery power is a serious issue. In addition to this reliability and performance of the ph...