Eco-efficiency, defined as the economic profit per unit of environmental impact, can largely differ between farms that produce same crop. Understanding underlying drivers differences in eco-efficiency help to identify effective options for increasing product performance. Here, we analyzed 200 paddy Iran. With multiple linear regression modeling, assessed influences farming system (conventional,...

PVM and other distributed computing systems have enabled the use of networks of workstations for parallel computation, but their approach of treating all networks as collections of point-to-point connections does not promote efficient communication—particularly collective communication. The Efficient Collective Operations package (ECO) contains programs which solve this problem by analyzing the...

Corchorus olitorius L.,is a culinary and medicinal herb, widely used as a vegetable in several countries in Asia. Many studies have shown that C. olitorius contains several antioxidants and exhibits anti-inflammatory and anti-proliferative activities in various in vitro and in vivo settings. Recently, C. olitorius has been approved for its antitumor activity; however, the underlying molecular m...

In recent years, supporting intellectual property right has gained more significance. Intellectual property rights could be considered as legal rights resulting from intellectual activities in industrial, scientific, literary and artistic fields. Today, many countries are seeking practical information about using intellectual property to improve economic growth. Intellectual property rights hav...

We examined how ecological and evolutionary (eco-evo) processes in population dynamics could be better integrated into population viability analysis (PVA). Complementary advances in computation and population genomics can be combined into an eco-evo PVA to offer powerful new approaches to understand the influence of evolutionary processes on population persistence. We developed the mechanistic ...

An antagonistic relationship is traditionally seen as existing between eco-education and technology, with conventional instructional approaches usually characterized by a commentator guiding students in field learning. Unfortunately, in this passive learning approach, the discovery of rich ecological resources in eco-environments to stimulate positive emotions and experiences is often condensed...

Energy efficiency enhancement has become an increasingly important issue for battery electric vehicles. Even if it can be improved in many ways, the driver's driving pattern strongly influences the battery energy consumption of a vehicle. In this paper, eco assist techniques to simply implement an energy-efficient driving assistant system are introduced, including eco guide, eco control and eco...

Design for Environment (DfE) has become a main stream policy that aims to gratify the human needs while preserving the ecological environment. Nowadays many countries have established environmental laws. Hence, companies are being asked to provide the eco-profiles of products. In order to assist electronic companies to execute the life cycle assessment (LCA) and construct the eco-profiles for a...

Is evolutionary biology in the midst of a new synthesis? Historically, evolutionary biology has evolved with punctuated syntheses, such as ‘‘Darwinian evolution’’ and the ‘‘Modern Synthesis.’’ Over the last three decades Evolutionary Developmental Biology has taken up the torch and rapidly transformed itself into an integrative discipline with its own journals and funding panels. Our field has ...

An attempt has been made to interpret the outcomes of a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) in terms of environmental costs. This attempt ensures the environmental accountability of the products while LCA ensures their eco-friendly nature. Keeping this as an objective, a Life Cycle Environmental Cost Analysis (LCECA) model was developed. This new tool incorporates costing into the LCA practice. This mo...