With the rapid development of our economy, the production is largely expanded and people’s living standard is greatly improved. However, energy consumption also brought us with many problems, which have been of wide concern by the whole world. To develop a low-carbon economy is an inevitable trend of solving the energy consumption problem for energy development. Moreover, the current energy uti...

Exploring the transformational potential of industrial biotechnology on the way to a green economy Foreword 2 executive summary 3 rethinking the climate change challenge 4 doing more with less 5 doing more oF the right things 6 industrial biotechnologies' path to a low carbon economy 7 IMproved effIcIency 9 swItchIng to bIofuels 11 replacIng petrocheMIcals wIth bIobased MaterIal 13 closIng the ...

This paper describes a method for controlling the growth of the carbon footprint of buildings during the preparation, design and procurement stages of construction projects. The process utilizes prevailing cost estimation techniques. As an outcome, new indicators for carbon efficiency and carbon economy of buildings are proposed. They have been developed together with the city of Espoo in a res...

Given two positions i and j in a string T of length N , a longest common extension (LCE) query asks for the length of the longest common prefix between suffixes beginning at i and j. A compressed LCE data structure is a data structure that stores T in a compressed form while supporting fast LCE queries. In this article we show that the recompression technique is a powerful tool for compressed L...

Liquid crystalline elastomers (LCEs) are smart materials capable of reversible shape-change in response to external stimuli, and have attracted researchers' attention in many fields. Most of the studies focused on macroscopic LCE structures (films, fibers) and their miniaturization is still in its infancy. Recently developed lithography techniques, e.g., mask exposure and replica molding, only ...