Nanometer scale carbon fibers (carbon nanofibers) are of great interest to scientists and engineers in fields such as materials science, composite production, and energy storage due to their unique chemical, physical, and mechanical properties. Precursors currently used for production of carbon nanofibers are primarily from nonrenewable resources. Lignin is a renewable natural polymer existing ...

Electricity prices are known to be very volatile and subject to frequent jumps due to system breakdown, demand shocks, and inelastic supply. As many international electricity markets are in some state of deregulation, more and more participants in these markets are exposed to these stylised facts. Appropriate pricing, portfolio, and risk management models should incorporate these facts. Authors...

Bike Sharing Systems (BSSs) are widely adopted in major cities of the world due to concerns associated with extensive private vehicle usage, namely, increased carbon emissions, traffic congestion and usage of nonrenewable resources. In a BSS, base stations are strategically placed throughout a city and each station is stocked with a pre-determined number of bikes at the beginning of the day. Cu...

The aim of this paper is to survey the general area of quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping, and its specific impact on current understanding of plant domestication. Plant domestication is not only of historical interest, but is also of ongoing importance as changing human needs and availability of nonrenewable resources impel continuing (and perhaps even accelerated) investigation of prospec...

The production of food is responsible for major environmental impacts. Bearing this in mind, it is even worse when food is lost rather than consumed. In Switzerland, 46% of all processing potatoes and 53% of all fresh potatoes are lost on their way from field to fork. Our study therefore compares the environmental impacts of losses of fresh potatoes with those of French fries. With the aid of a...

Intensive use of non-renewable resources like coal and crude oil has created several issues challenges such as the worsening greenhouse effect, depletion fossil fuels, air pollution, global warming, climate change. A few remedies have been implemented to address these caused by heavy nonrenewable fuels. Developing adopting green energy technologies is a step in same direction. Green potential r...

“Sustainable agriculture” as legally defined in the U.S. Code Title 7, Section 3103 means an integrated system of plant production practices. It has point-specific application that will over long term goals like satisfy people’s food and fiber requirements, enhance quality environment natural resource base upon which agricultural economydepends, make most efficient use nonrenewable resources on...

Global phosphate mineral resources are nonrenewable and inevitably depleting. Exploiting elite varieties has become imperative for the efficient use of phosphorus (P) sustainable crop production. Three potato were hydroponically evaluated P mobilization, uptake, utilization efficiencies at different levels sources during 28 d seedling growth. ‘Harley Blackwell’, ‘La Chipper’, ‘Red LaSoda’ selec...

Governance is increasingly recognized as key to sustainability and human wellbeing in mountain social–ecological systems (MtSES). Mountains present particular challenges for effective governance related their geographic complexities, status commons, susceptibility environmental change, impacts of external political socioeconomic processes. This study reports on the results a global survey local...