Purpose The purposes of this commentary are to further an on-going debate concerning the appropriate form of land use baseline for attributional life cycle assessment (LCA) and to respond to a number of arguments advanced by Soimakallio (Int J Life Cycle Assess 20:1364–1375, 2016). The commentary also seeks to clarify the conceptual nature of attributional LCA. Methods The overarching approach ...

[57] ABSTRACT A ?exible system for determining the quality of agricul tural products based on characteristics such as, for ex ample, mass, shape, hardness, size, color and surface texture is disclosed herein. The quality determination apparatus includes a feeder assembly for sequentially dropping individual product samples upon an impact transducer arrangement. The impact transducer gener ates ...

PURPOSE This exploratory study compared three methods of assessing dementia specific quality of life, corresponding to the perspectives of residents, staff members, and trained observers. DESIGN AND METHODS We collected data on 172 residents with dementia in four special care nursing facilities and three assisted living facilities. Analyses assessed the relationship of each quality-of-life me...

multivariate control charts such as hotelling`s t^ 2 and x^ 2 are commonly used for monitoring several related quality characteristics. these control charts use correlation structure that exists between quality characteristics in an attempt to improve monitoring. the purpose of this article is to discuss some issues related to the g chart proposed by levinson et al. [9] for detecting shifts in ...

groundwater aquifers are an important source of water supply for agriculture, industry and drinking. the present study investigates the changes in the quality of groundwater using geostatistical methods in the ravar plain during a 10-year period. in this study, after selecting the appropriate spatial interpolation method to draw water quality parameters such as tds, sar and ec, zoning maps of r...