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Giving Legs to Handprint Thinking: Foundations for Evaluating the Good We Do
Earth's Future, 2020 In environmental management and sustainability there is an increasing interest in measurement and accounting of beneficial impact—as an incentive to action, as a communication tool, and to move toward a positive, constructive approach focused on ...
Joseph H.A. Guillaume +11 more
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Estimation of the carbon footprint of student halls of residence in the University of Strathclyde [PDF]
, 2006 There is a rapid increase in environmental awareness, which has led to legislative and governmental policy developments addressing the reduction in carbon emissions to the atmosphere. As an example of a local level response, the University of Strathclyde
Bezyrtzi, Georgia +3 more
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Ecological Footprint and Water Footprint of Taipei [PDF]
Sustainability, 2019 Taiwan suffers from many natural disasters and is vulnerable to climate change. A continuous increase in its ecological footprint (EF) would pose numerous threats to the city. Taipei is Taiwan’s most densely populated city. Whether its citizens are consuming more resources because of their high income and high degree of urbanization, thereby burdening ...
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Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.Implantable optoelectrical devices are an effective resource for the modulation and monitoring of neural activity with high spatiotemporal resolution. This review discusses current challenges faced by these devices and outlines future perspectives for the development of next‐generation neural interfaces targeting chronic, multisite, and multimodal ...
Stella Aslanoglou +4 more
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Agriculture, 2019 Water scarcity is worsened by climate change. Water savings can be reached by improving irrigation efficiency both on farm and on water supply. To do that, the choice of the best irrigation technology is not always straightforward, because farmers need ...
Eros Borsato +3 more
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Respiratory Organ‐on‐a‐Chip for Disease Modeling: From Architecture to Functional Integration
Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.Respiratory organ‐on‐a‐chip (ROC) models capture key mechanical and cellular cues of the human respiratory system, enabling quantitative dissection of disease mechanisms. This review links ROC architectures to disease modeling, functional integration, and commercialization, and proposes a decision framework that aligns model complexity with mechanistic
Jinzhuo Hu +4 more
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Do Footprint-based CAFE Standards Make Car Models Bigger? [PDF]
, 2015 Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards have historically been set equal across all manufacturer fleets of the same type. Concerns about varying costs across firms and safety implications of standards that are set homogeneously across firms and ...
Jean, Brianna Marie
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Bioinspired Adaptive Sensors: A Review on Current Developments in Theory and Application
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.This review comprehensively summarizes the recent progress in the design and fabrication of sensory‐adaptation‐inspired devices and highlights their valuable applications in electronic skin, wearable electronics, and machine vision. The existing challenges and future directions are addressed in aspects such as device performance optimization ...
Guodong Gong +12 more
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Sprawl Leaves its Footprint in Water [PDF]
, 2001 The Environmental and Energy Study Institute held a Congressional briefing on water pollution resulting from increased motor vehicle traffic associated with urban sprawl. The briefing featured information from recent studies by the National Water Quality
Ron Grandon
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