a Department of Refrigeration, Air Conditioning and Energy Engineering , National Chin-Yi University of Technology , Taiping City, Taiwan b Department of Electro-Optical and Energy Engineering , MingDao University , Changhua, Taiwan c Environment Research Laboratories , Industrial Technology Research Institute , Hsinchu, Taiwan d Department of Mechanical Engineering , National Chiao Tung Univer...

Department of Organic Fine Chemicals, Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University, 8-1, Mihogaoka, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-0047, Japan, International Research Center for Infectious Diseases, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, 3-1, Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan, Yokohama City Institute of Health, 1-2-17, Takigashira, Isogo-ku, Yokohama 235-001...

To assess the viability of discarded and buried vaccine strains, we examined vaccines that had been buried for >20 years in an industrial waste dump in the city of Milan, Italy. Viability results showed potential biological risk associated with uncontrolled burial of pharmaceutical industry waste, including some live vaccines.

Purpose-French universities can play a key role in generating Smart City approach through an innovative Public-Private Partnership dedicated to urban transformation. Methodology-We led an action-research study for five years with several research and pedagogic projects including users or citizens. Findings-The paper points out main factors of Smart City development. It also presents shared demo...

In the last 20 years the image of Manchester has gone from that of a declining industrial to a re-invented ‘post-industrial’ city. Central to this new image have been both the subsidised arts – with major investment in infrastructure and events and more commercial popular culture, most notably popular music (Haslam, 1999). This narrative in which arts and popular culture become emblematic of a ...

The Tijuana River Watershed (TRW) is a binational watershed on the westernmost portion of the US Mexico border, encompassing much of the City of Tijuana in Mexico and portions of the City and County of San Diego in the US (Figure 1). The basin contains three surface water reservoirs, various flood control works, and a National Estuarine Sanctuary which is home to several endangered species and ...

Given terrain information and user preferences such as desired city size, Autopolis generates commercial and industrial centers, and grows areas surrounding these centers. The program also creates streets and highways, and assigns a land-use for each parcel. Compared with previous methods, Autopolis generates cities with better realism, greater detail in layout, and more design variety.

Taking an urban metabolism perspective, this article investigates food and feed consumption as well as flows of nitrogen in the city of Vienna during the industrial transformation. It addresses the question of the amount of agricultural products consumed in the city and their nitrogen content, their origin and their fate after consumption. Changes in dietary nitrogen flows in nineteenth century...

a Energy Research Center of the Netherlands (ECN), Policy Studies Department, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Columbia University, Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy, The Earth Institute, New York City, NY, USA c School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Bologna, Italy d Eindhoven University of Technology, Department of Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences, Eindh...

James H. J. Buchholz1†, Melissa A. Green2 and Alexander J. Smits3 1 Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering / IIHR – Hydroscience & Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA 2 Laboratories for Computational Physics and Fluid Dynamics, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375, USA 3 Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princ...