MSocial Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA) uses a life cycle perspective to assess social impacts of products, and the S-LCA guidelines describe developing system boundaries based on factory-level perspective. However, such may exclude stakeholders with negative performance which are cooperating factory but not directly involved product under study, it can result in step back corporate responsibilit...

This paper introduces a novel bio-inspired meta-heuristic optimization algorithm, named termite life cycle optimizer (TLCO), which is based both on the of colony and modulation movement strategies used by many animal species in nature. Termite colonies are comprised three distinct castes: workers, soldiers reproductive termites. Each caste undertakes set specific tasks that ensure growth surviv...

There are four forms of hydatid disease. Echinococcus granulosus (EG) is the most common and gives rise to cystic hydatid disease (CHD), which is the focus of this review. Echinococcus multilocularis is uncommon and causes alveolar hydatid disease (AHD), which is far more aggressive and frequently mimics malignancy. The rarest clinical form is Echinococcus vogeli or polycystic hydatid disease (...

Adipose stem cells, which reside in a vascular niche, are essential to the development and maintenance of adipose tissue. Data from humans and rodents show that maintenance of adult adipose tissue is a dynamic process. Adipocyte turnover in young adult mice is estimated to be greater than 10% per month. The adipose stem cell niche is just as active, generating new adipocytes and replenishing th...