Although in sustainable development field, innovative solutions have been sought worldwide by environmental groups, academia, governments and companies for many years, recently, citizens and communities have emerged as a new group and taken more and more active role in this field. Many scholars call for more research on the role of community and community innovation in sustainable development. ...

INTRODUCTION To investigate the state of the art of intra-laboratory turnaround time (intra-TAT), provide suggestions and find out whether laboratories accredited by International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 15189 or College of American Pathologists (CAP) will show better performance on intra-TAT than non-accredited ones. MATERIALS AND METHODS 479 Chinese clinical laboratories part...

The importance of accurately monitoring rangeland degradation dynamics over decades is increasing in Linxia rangeland, the birthplace of the Yellow River in China. Since 2000, the Chinese government has implemented the “Grain for Green” program and enforced a grazing ban in Gansu province, one of the most degraded provinces, to mitigate the problem of rangeland degradation. The effects of these...

The integration of spatial datasets from different sources is becoming an increasingly important issue. It is very desirable to have a rigorous approach to integration, as an ad hoc approach can easily lead to incorrect inferences. This paper takes a formal approach, giving the beginnings of a logical semantics framework which allows meaning to be defined mathematically for spatial datasets whi...

this paper discovers the necessary variables need for creating models for tacit knowledge acquisition, especially in medical care services. the case studied here, was knowledge of diagnosing and time of delivery in twin pregnancy with nuchal translucency screening. this paper covers the empirical work undertaken on semi-structured interview based on thematic analysis. with regard of theoretical...

We study here how to provide the designer of geographic databases with a database query language extensible and customizable. The model presented here is a rst step toward a high level spatial query language adapted to the manipulation of thematic maps. For this, we take as an example a toy application on thematic maps, and show by using a complex objects algebra that application dependent geom...

Ulva zoospores preferentially settle on N-acylhomoserine lactone (AHL) producing marine bacterial biofilms. To investigate whether AHL signal molecules also affect the success and rate of zoospore germination in addition to zoospore attraction, the epiphytic bacteria associated with mature Ulva linza were characterized and bacterial isolates representative of this community tested for the abili...

T he one-day symposium Gut in Focus, which was held at the Karolinska Institutet on February 2nd, 2015, focused on certain aspects related to the gut, by far the largest organ of the body. When I started studying medicine more than 60 years ago, I heard two statements about the gut: (1) The gut has a brain, if not a mind, of its own and (2) Bacteria constitute up to 50 per cent of feces’ mass a...