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The ecological footprint, as an excellent tool, has received much attention as an indicator for sustainable development over the 10 years. Pasture is one important natural resource. How can we calculate the pasture footprint dominant by agriculture and animal husbandry in Northern China. We take different approaches calculation the pasture. First we use the conventional ecological footprint method...
As the world finds itself in the 21st century, engineers will be challenged as never before to tackle the systems of complex problems threatening the advancement and very survival of humanity. Attempts to apply the systems approach to these messy problems have often failed because its practitioners failed to recognize the importance of understanding political, social, and economic factors as part...
In psychological as well as socioeconomic studies, individual intelligence has been found decisive in many domains. In this paper, we employ genetic programming as the algorithm of our learning agents who compete with other designed strategies extracted from the literature.We then discuss the possibility of using population size as a proxy parameter of individual intelligence of software agents. By...
Straightforward thinking in a matter of one-way cause-and-effect approaches has proven to be a valuable concept for hundreds of years especially in Western democracies, where the cultural embeddedness provided fertile soil. However this methodology has also proven to be a misconception when addressing certain "complex" issues. Leaving Aristotelian logic aside and introducing an aporetic...
Today, money forms its own virtual world that is destructive to real economy; monetary economy formed by circulation of money has grown in an imbalanced way to have unproportionate influences over the real economy that consists solely of production, distribution and consumption. Virtual world technology can potentially lower the cost of alternative forms of economy that existed in the past, and bring...
Technology development and implementation process mainly involves; necessitating trends and utility, economic drives & compulsions, host organization working culture & capabilities and competence, awareness & motivation of working technocrats & other professionals. This presentation covers all these main aspects to logically assess the contemporary setup and outline suitable guidelines.
This paper articulates a new and very different approach to deterrence in the nuclear age, one focussed on the underlying causes rather than the more easily visible effects of superpower intransigence, one based on positive rather than negative incentives, and one with the unusual potential to remove barriers (whether perceived or real) between political adversaries rather than continuously to create...
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