Juli G. Pausas*, Jon E. Keeley and Dylan W. Schwilk CIDE-CSIC, Ctra. Naquera Km 4.5 (IVIA), Montcada, Valencia 46113, Spain; Western Ecological Research Center, Sequoia Field Station, US Geological Survey, Three Rivers, CA 93271, USA; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA; and Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University...

This study proposes the use of product design in the development of new refrigerants. Product design involves the use of consumer preference functions as described by Bagajewicz (2007). Consumer preference functions relate the satisfaction of consumers to different refrigerants based on their properties. The properties examined in this study were toxicity, flammability, explosion potential, glo...

Introduction. At present, the house-building industry, that produces timber structures, is in process of sufficiently intensive development; however, high flammability wood factor restrains widespread use construction. The purpose this work to optimize conditions application fire-retardant construction industry. co-authors believe following problems are be solved attain objective:● a comparativ...