To understand water-protein interactions in solution, the electrostatic field is calculated by solving the Poisson-Boltzmann equation, and the free energy surface of water is mapped by translating and rotating an explicit water molecule around the protein. The calculation is applied to T4 lysozyme with data available on the conservation of solvent binding sites in 18 crystallographically indepe...

In order to adopt sustainable practices and strategies, organizations and individuals need to understand the environmental impact of their behavior and the knowledge about successful resource conservation strategies. Information Systems research and real-time feedback systems in particular can help to bridge this "environmental literacy gap”. In previous work, we presented an IS artifact that p...

and Agriculture (NIFA) and Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) to evaluate the effects of agricultural conservation practices on spatial patterns and trends in water quality at the watershed scale. In some projects, participants also investigated how social and economic factors influence implementation and maintenance of practices. The 13 projects were conducted from 2004 to 2011 as pa...

BACKGROUND Emergency and primary care physicians are often asked to estimate patients' likely duration of sickness absence or temporary disability following work-related injury or illness. However, return to work is a complex interaction of multiple factors and often difficult to predict accurately. AIMS To compare physician estimates of expected time away from work and severity of injury, ma...

environmental matters are becoming a question of great importance and the increased attention to such matters has helped to make businesses, politicians and society in general consider the environment a matter of priority concern. environmental concern, taken to mean an attitude favourable to the environment, has become widespread in different environmental aspects, such as energy saving, water...

The role of behavioral ecology in improving wildlife conservation and management has been the subject of much recent debate. We sought to answer 2 foundational questions about the current use of behavioral knowledge in conservation: To what extent is behavioral knowledge used in wildlife conservation and management, and how does the use of animal behavior differ among conservation fields in bot...

in this study, the optimal cropping patterns based on individual aims are presented and followed by a multi-objective cropping pattern with emphasize on the use of conservation tillage methods in darab region presented. individual goals consisted of maximizing gross margin and food secin this study, the optimal cropping patterns based on individual aims were presented and followed by using a mu...

ABSTRACT: The authors have proposed and discussed temporary storage of heated water in openings excavated in rock mountain from the viewpoints of multiple-utilization of land, environmental safeguards, energy conservation, etc. When used for heated-water storage, the rock mass around the openings will receive the effects of the heated water. In this study, a uniaxial compression creep test at h...

Despite decades of research, uncertainty remains about what motivates individuals to engage in pro-environmental behavior. The multifaceted and complex nature of energy conservation, like other forms of pro-environmental behavior, still poses a challenge to efforts at accurately explaining or predicting it. This paper examines the extent to which variables in the value-belief-norm framework are...