The use of the metabolism concept, expanded to include aspects of livability, is applied to cities to demonstrate the practical meaning of sustainability. Its application in industrial ecology, urban ecology, urban demonstration projects, business plans and city comparisons are used to illustrate its potential. # 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

A compact model of torque disturbances in the brushless motors of an industrial manipulator is discussed and algorithms are given for the identification of model parameters. Thanks to its compactness, the model allows the implementation of a straightforward and effective technique for disturbance compensation. The compensation is adaptive as estimates of the parameters of the model are updated ...

Little is currently known about the process of individual adjustment o information technology innovations. This article reports the results of a critical review of the literature, using an interactional psychology framework. In the past, researchers have focused on the limited themes of stress and attitudes. The indicators of individual adjustment emphasized in past research are strain sYmptoms...

a Centre of Post-Graduation and Research in Management, School of Economic Sciences, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Antônio Carlos Avenue, 6627, Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, 31270‐901, Brazil b Department of Administrative Sciences, School of Economic Sciences, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Antônio Carlos Avenue, 6627, Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, ...

Pumpkins for Halloween usage have become a widely grown crop in Tennessee. This season four fungicide treatments were evaluated for efficacy at The University of Tennessee Plateau Experiment Station at Crossville in 2001. Foliar diseases require a strict spray schedule for effective control. Therefore, a well balanced Integrated Pest Management program for control of mildew and blight diseases ...

Many studies exist about the selection phase of fungicide resistance evolution, where a resistant strain is present in a pathogen population and is differentially selected for by the application of fungicides. The emergence phase of the evolution of fungicide resistance--where the resistant strain is not present in the population and has to arise through mutation and subsequently invade the pop...

Cottonball, caused by the fungus Monilinia oxycocci, is an economically important disease on many cranberry marshes in Wisconsin. Cottonball has also been described in the Pacific Northwest and southeastern Canada, but losses in these areas have generally been minor. For reasons that are not known, cottonball has increased in importance in Wisconsin over the past 30 years. In recent years, abou...

51 A Comparison of Multi-Criteria Decision Making Approaches for Maintenance Strategy Selection (A Case Study); Malek Tajadod, Department of Industrial Engineering, Shahid Bahonar University, Kerman, Iran Mohammadali Abedini, Department of Industrial Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST), Tehran, Iran Ali Rategari, School of Innovation, Design and Engineering, Mälardalen...