In this paper, we turn to the philosophy of Jean-Luc Nancy. In his work La Création du Monde ou la Mondialisation of 2002 the French philosopher analyses the process of globalisation. Rather than denoting a new homogeneity, the term refers to a world horizon characterized in its interpalpable multiplicity of cultural, socio-economical, ideological and politico-moral content. According to Nancy,...

Conversion of lignocellulosic biomass into monomeric carbohydrates is economically beneficial and suitable for sustainable production of biofuels. Hydrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass using high acid concentration results in decomposition of sugars into fermentative inhibitors. Thus, the main aim of this work was to investigate the optimum hydrolysis conditions for sorghum brown midrib IS11861...

As two major communication technologies, the internet and wireless, are maturing rapidly to dominate our civilised life, the authors urgently need to re-establish users’ confidence to harvest new potential applications of large-scale distributed systems. Service agents and distributed multi-agent systems (MASs) have shown the potential to help with this move as the lack of trust caused by heavi...

The production, distribution and consumption of information goods have evolved through continuous disruptions, such as the invention of the printing press. Presently, these activities are being disrupted by the Internet and digital technology revolutions, which are triggering a paradigm change in this field. P2P content delivery is included in the disrupting factors. It has endured an explosive...

Arguably, the most important challenge nowadays in energy industry is utilization of intermittent renewable sources. On one hand, sources are future terms sustainability. While on other several questions remain unanswered connection with their day-to-day operation and system integration. Creating microgrids local control distributed resources seems to offer solutions but there a lack practical ...

Filgrastim is an important protein that treats neutropenia which has significant clinical applications including a possible cure against cancer. However, despite its significant medical benefits, the large scale production of Filgrastim is still rare and is reported only by a handful of companies throughout the world. We present a techno-economic feasibility analysis for a recombinant human ana...

According to a recent Gartner report, Turkey is among the emerging economies and in the list of top 30 countries for Information Technology (IT), and offshore services. In the last decade, the country has done excellent progress in the software sector which is reflected in the rise of exports to many countries. In this article, we present an overview of the Turkey’s software sector scenario inc...

We present a techno-economic analysis of services deployed over integrated satellite-terrestrial networks which employ an Information-Centric Networking (ICN) architecture. Our methodology provides a systematic procedure to assess the gains of various service integration scenarios, initially identifying the technical capabilities for which ICN can provide advantages and considering the requirem...