Mainly due to an enforced legislation as well as an increased social demand, companies need to integrate ecological aspects into their corporate goals. Compliance to these goals often leads to the development of innovative approaches to environmental management by means of applying the fundamental principles of the “Circular Economy”. Additionally, intra and inter-organizational concepts of was...

Many successful designs of compliant actuators have been recently proposed. However, the challenge of providing passive and active motion in one actuator has remained. In this paper, a novel mechanism for changing the stiffness of the series elastic actuator over a wide range is presented. An accurate force source is provided by introducing the force control using veloc...

Ioanna G Alexandropoulou1,2*, Maria Panopoulou2, Theodoros A Parasidis1, Theocharis Konstantinidis1 and Theodoros C Constantinidis1 1Laboratory of Hygiene and Environmental Protection, Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace, Campus (Dragana) Building , 68100 Alexandroupolis, Greece 2Microbiology Laboratory, Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace, Campus (Dragana), 68100 Alexan...

One of the most formidable questions facing the environmental health research community today is how to translate basic fundamental research into a product (e.g., disease outcome) that meets the needs of its stakeholders--the medical community, regulatory agencies, and ultimately, the citizens of our nation. Historically, a successful research program could be defined as one that received conti...

A pragmatic phenomenological approach in environmental planning Preface This thesis is the result of a year of research into the philosophical backgrounds of the design of our landscape. The main challenge was the integration of philosophical theories and ideas with concrete issues of environmental planning. My interest in both abstract theorising and concrete changes in the landscape led to a ...

The paper studies the Islamic viewpoint about the environment and presents the notion of environmental balance in an Islamic economy. It asserts that this balance can be maintained with the help of Islamic ethics and institutions. The paper demonstrates the positive role of the private sector in terms of environment-friendly behavior, fellow-feeling, and simple living of the people. Similarly, ...

Interdisciplinary researchers and educators, as community members, creators of knowledge, and environmental activists and practitioners, have a responsibility to build a bridge between community practice, academic scholarship, and professional contributions aimed at establishing environmental sustainability. In this paper, I focus on an undervalued area of environmental politics, practices, and...

In the environment impacts assessment context, several methods are proposed in literature, such as life cycle analysis, multi criteria analysis and cost benefit analysis etc. Recently, others methods combining MCDA (Multi Criteria Decision Analysis) and AI (Artificial Intelligence) have been explored to develop enhanced methodologies for knowledge based decision support. In this paper, a new ap...

Introduction Noise pollution has become an important problem in our society. Noise assessment regulations require the measurement and evaluation of noise. The basic equipment for this measurement is the noise monitoring systems (or NMS). The current generation of NMS consists of "dumb" systems that record noise level and, possibly, noise spectra, over programmed periods of time. The interpretat...

Since the days of Freud, the major focus in the field of mental health has been on the individual and on his personality. It is now time to start moving toward a better balance in emphasis between host and environmental factors (W.H.O., 1960). In order to achieve this, some research groups that focus more on the environment than on the personality are needed. This is a natural approach for thos...