employees’ satisfaction based on their physical environment is an important factor that can improve employees’ performance, job satisfaction, and organizational productivity in office buildings. occupants’ environmental satisfaction are related to 10 different characteristics, including thermal comfort, air quality, lighting, acoustic quality, office layout, workspace furnishing, cleanliness an...

There is rich biodiversity and biomass in wetlands and these areas are important in ecosystems. Assessment of the environment of wetlands is critical in the management of pivotal ecosystems. The energy ecological footprint (EEF) is an improved form of the ecological footprint method based on the theory of energy value. EEF can be a useful tool for comparing and monitoring environmental impacts....

This paper describes an energy-aware, airborne, dynamic data-driven application systems for persistent sensing in complex atmospheric conditions. The work combines i.) new onboard and remote real-time, wind sensing capabilities; ii.) online models for planning based on Gaussian processes for onboard data and dynamic atmospheric models that assimilate Doppler radar data; and iii.) a hierarchical...

Climate change and its possible impacts on the environment and socio-economic systems now constitute the most important environmental problem facing mankind in the 21st century. Climate change will increase poverty and hardship, endanger food security, destabilize economies, decrease food and water and create social insecurity in many countries and undermine our goals for achieving sustainable ...

The prevailing systems for decision-making in many countries tend to separate environmental factors at the policy, planning and management levels, a practice that has important implications for sustainable development. Among many methods, at different decision-making levels, environmental planning and environmental assessment are currently the most widely used in China. This article briefly int...

Wastewater treatment systems are predominantly based on biological processes that in principle derive energy from biochemical reactions involving substrate degradation available in the raw waste. The most commonly used technologies are suspended medium (activated sludge process), and attached growth or biofilm based technologies (tricking filters). In these processes, the key players responsibl...

Introduction In major corporations the winds of globalisation and the efforts to seek further process efficiencies are accompanied by the frequent and massive deployment of large ICT platforms and business redesigns. ERP packages are one example of this drive to wire into software and hardware new routines, processes and practices in ways that are aligned with the prevailing globalisation and r...

workflow, resource management, resource model Resource management is a key issue in providing resource independence and efficient use of workflow resources. The paper has outlined a design of such a resource management system for enterprise workflow environments. It is capable of handling a large number of workflow resources that are independently managed by pre-existing resource systems. It in...