Will economic growth inevitably degrade the environment, throughout development? We present a household-level framework emphasising the trade-off between consumption that causes pollution and pollution-reducing abatement. Our model provides a simple explanation for upward-turning, non-monotonic paths of environmental quality during economic growth. Its innovation yields sufficient conditions th...

Adenovirus types 8 and 19 are responsible for a large number of cases of acute follicular conjunctivitis, mainly in the form of epidemic keratoconjunctivitis (EKC). This study successfully demonstrates the establishment of adenovirus infection in rabbit corneal organ cultures. Normal rabbit corneas were maintained in culture without significant morphologic alterations for up to 7 weeks. Adenovi...

epidemic keratoconjunctivits (ekc) caused by certain species d human adenoviruses (ads) is a highly contagious severe disease involving both the conjunctiva and cornea. the hallmark of this disease is subepithelial infiltration of leukocytes, which results in corneal opacities that may persist fo months or even years. in this case study of a 6-month old infant, we report symblepharon formation,...

Renewable Energy Consumption (REC) would reduce pollution and a large pool of literature has probed the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) including REC in panel or country-specific model. The present study reviewed 69 empirical studies found that 57 out validated EKC but 12 did not confirm EKC. Out these, 64 reduced emissions. In analyses, 18 25 24 substantiated studies, 39 44 40 Comparatively,...

We show that a variety of seemingly diverse concepts used to theoretically explaining the EKC have a common origin in two key preference and production elasticities. We also prove that they jointly correspond to a unique, underlying preference-technology theoretical framework. © 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Plastics have become an indispensable part of modern life. Although plastics, which waste after use, are recycled for the economy, they a critical problem because many cause environmental pollution and threaten It is known that use plastics has increased rapidly in parallel with increase income emerged from increasing industrialization since 1950s. According to Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC)...

Abstract This study examines the link between economic complexity and environmental pollution by exploiting a massive unprecedented decline of CO 2 emissions in former socialist transition countries after fall iron curtain. We refer to extended theories Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC), stating that follows an inverted u-shaped course with respect complexity. Using comprehensive data 27 for pe...

Human adenoviruses (HAdV), species D in particular (HAdV-D), are frequently associated with epidemic keratoconjunctivitis (EKC). Although the infection originates at the ocular surface epithelium, the mechanisms by which HAdV-Ds bypass the membrane-associated mucin (MAM)-rich glycocalyx of the ocular surface epithelium to trigger infection and inflammation remain unknown. Here, we report that a...

This paper provides new empirical evidence on Environmental Kuznets Curves (EKC) for greenhouse gases (GHGs) and air pollutants at sector level. A panel dataset based on the Italian NAMEA over 1990-2005 is analysed, focusing on both emission efficiency (EKC model) and total emissions (IPAT model). Results show that looking at sector evidence, both decoupling and also eventually re-coupling tren...