Public policy is intended to protect the public interest, which threatened by complex problems such as climate change, global pandemics, unsustainability, violence, and inequality. Policymakers are challenged when dealing with these issues because an array of stakeholders has different perspectives, interests, positions, value sets, resource complements, so on. Finding common ground move forwar...

The ability to safely and effectively manage reproduction is central to the success of AZA captive-breeding programs. Although the AZA Wildlife Contraception Center routinely monitors contraceptive safety, there have been no studies that compare the effects of contraceptive use to separation of males from females, the other option for preventing reproduction. We used retrospective medical recor...

Purpose Businesses are always seeking resilient strategies so they can weather unpredictable competitive environments. One source of unpredictability is the unsustainability of commerce’s environmental, economic or social impacts and the limitations this places on businesses. Another is poor resilience causing erroneous and unexpected outputs. Companies prospering long-term must have both resil...

In the context of current systemic crisis, neoliberal capitalism is widely questioned for its unsustainability, but there a lack proposals from other epistemological and ontological frameworks that allow construction real alternatives economy existence. From critical perspective, based on field work in Araucanía region southern Chile, between 2010 2020, this article it analyzed resignification ...

The social security reform wave in the 1990s and early 2000s responded to rising deficits of public PAYG (pay-as-you-go) systems. Privatisation was regarded as a cure for population ageing problem believed lie under situation. Some academics were sceptic argued that privatisation not remedy problem. This paper empirically investigates validity this claim. Using simple market equilibrium conditi...

The development of alternative energy sources has attracted worldwide interest given the adverse effects fossil fuels on global climate as well their unsustainability. This study examines feasibility marine power generation off East Coast Trinidad and Tobago focuses mainly Vertical Axis Marine Turbine generator. At this location where data was collected, measurement depth varied between 3 to 10...

One of the main reasons of unsustainability of city development in Iran is that planners and mayors have not almost been able to create connections between different dimensions of a city. Sustainability indicators are evaluation tools of cities operation applicable in living environmental, economical, and social aspects. The purpose of this paper is to offer a framework including the descriptio...

Throughout the 20th century, several thinkers noticed that Technology was becoming a global phenomenon. More recently, US geologist Peter Haff claimed Technosphere is now in place and can be conceived as new Earth geological system. This unprecedented situation creating enormous challenges not only for our species, since more of its members are dependent on subsistence this man-made sphere, but...

The paradigm shift towards a more humanistic and ecological evoked by United Nations the Green Deal is increasingly required in this period of growing unsustainability, especially during ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. challenge today to reduce poverty inequalities, while preserving vitality natural ecosystems ensuring inclusive economic growth wellbeing, both now future, thus including future gener...

Abstract In recent years, the explosive development of artificial intelligence implementing by neural networks (ANNs) creates inconceivable demands for computing hardware. However, conventional hardware based on electronic transistor and von Neumann architecture cannot satisfy such an demand due to unsustainability Moore’s Law failure Dennard’s scaling rules. Fortunately, analog optical offers ...