A trend of significant increase in municipal solid waste generation has been recorded worldwide. This has been found due to over population growth rate, industrialization, urbanization and economic growth. Consumerism speed has been found very high covering around more then 50% of total population since last decade due to higher economic growth, which has ultimately resulted in increased solid ...

We consider systems of diffusion equations that have considerable interest in Soil Science and Mathematical Biology and focus upon the problem of finding those forms of this class that can be linearized. In particular we use the equivalence transformations of the second generation potential system to derive forms of this system that can be linearized. In turn, these transformations lead to nonl...

ing from these difficulties, given satisfactory measures of key outcomes and individual and background characteristics, teasing out the role of institutions and policies in producing observed differences across countries is far from straightforward. Even focusing on one country, it is difficult to disentangle the impact of a specific institutional structure or policy innovation from broader eco...

The supersymmetric flavor, CP and Polonyi problems are hints that the fundamental scale of the soft supersymmetry breaking parameters may be above a TeV, in apparent conflict with naturalness. We consider the possibility that multi-TeV scalar masses are generated by Planckor unification-scale physics, and find the conditions under which the masses of scalars with large Yukawa couplings are driv...

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This paper analyzes the welfare use of Turkish immigrants and natives in Germany. After a brief description of the system of minimum income protection and its recent reform we use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study to investigate the correlates of transfer receipt for the two subsamples. Immigrants of Turkish origin have a higher propensity to use welfare benefits than natives. Aft...

Ten years have passed since the design of the Slovenian health insurance card system, which has been used daily in the entire Slovenian health sector for the last eight years. Eventually, however, a growing number of business and technical reasons arose for the gradual renovation of the system. Therefore, in 2006, on the basis of a study of feasible solutions, the Health Insurance Institute of ...

Though the term ebusiness has not been developed academically, once it is set into a well-defined context it can command an intuitive meaning for a significant historical change process. We use the term and present ebusiness as a particular phase in the greater context of an ongoing computer/network revolution by which old business models and paradigms are obliterated and replaced by new ones. ...

The aim of this editorial is to briefly introduce some papers of different nature presented by the contributors to the special issue on “Second Generation General System Theory”. These contributions have been focused on the need for building a post-Bertalanffy Systemics, based on new problems, representations, and approaches to complexity. Furthermore, such new Systemics is expected to be able ...