Smartphones have recently gained significant popularity in heavy mobile processing while users are increasing their expectations toward rich computing experience. However, resource limitations and current mobile computing advancements hinder this vision. Therefore, resource-intensive application execution remains a challenging task in mobile computing that necessitates device augmentation. In t...

The Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging key technology for future industries and everyday lives of people, where a myriad of battery operated sensors, actuators, and smart objects are connected to the Internet to provide services such as mobile healthcare, intelligent transport system, environmental monitoring, etc. Since energy efficiency is of utmost importance to these battery constraine...

Sustainability starts with conserving resources for future generations. Since human’s existence on this earth, he has been consuming natural resources. The resource consumption pace in the past was very slow, but industrialization in 18th century brought a change in the human lifestyle. New inventions and discoveries upgraded the human workforce to machines. The mass manufacture of goods provid...

OBJECTIVE To explore the relationship between general internists' tendency to conserve medical resources and their willingness to participate in physician-assisted suicide (PAS). DESIGN AND PARTICIPANTS Survey of a random sample of general internists in 6 urban areas of the United States. MEASUREMENTS We assessed the physicians' use of medical resources by constructing a scale based on 6 hy...

Introduction Economic theory tells us that increases in the relative prices of natural resources should cause farmers to switch to techniques that use fewer farming resources. The adoption of resource-conserving technology is one possible response that can lead toward a more environmentally sustainable outcome. Do farmers respond to changes in natural resource prices and quality by adopting ava...

J . N . P R E T T Y , * , † A . D . N O B L E , ‡ D . B O S S I O , § J . D I X O N , | R . E . H I N E , † F . W . T . P E N N I N G D E V R I E S , ⊥ A N D J . I . L . M O R I S O N † Department of Biological Sciences and Centre for Environment and Society, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester CO4 3SQ, U.K., International Water Management Institute (IWMI), P.O. Box 1025, Kasetsart U...