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Notions of human wellbeing can be used to evaluate and plan technological innovation and engineering design. However, current engineering practices and most engineering education curricula do not adequately deal with wellbeing. A set of interdisciplinary courses at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez are proposed by the authors to fill this gap and to provide a transition to an engineering curriculum...
This paper examines internet sharing behavior. Sharing is a kind of reciprocal prosocial behavior, which can help consumers to cooperate with each other and reduce the transaction costs during the consumption process. Sharing is a public behavior, which is a powerful tool to combine consumers together and establish stable sensation and bonds among them. With the innovation and development of Internet...
The most fundamental means of maintaining mechanical safety is to systematically carry out safety design and analysis in the mechanical design process. The fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method is to take the advantages of the level analytic hierarchy process and fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method. Firstly, the evaluation index system is divided into ladder level structure, calculated the index...
The sustainability concern has shaped a new approach to product innovation in 21st century. Greening the product innovation (GPI) is believed to positively impact the environment, as well as the economic growth. However, review of literatures indicates that firms are still ambiguous to embark on GPI, partly because they do not know what capabilities are required for such an effort. This paper aims...
Cultured meat — edible muscle tissue grown in a laboratory or factory (carnery) without the need of a whole animal — was shown to be feasible in 2000 [1] and several researchers have since suggested that large-scale production is possible [2–5]. Using ESEM principles as a guide, this investigation represents a preliminary attempt to shed light on some of the environmental, economic, and social implications...
Sustainable development analysis is the important problem in contemporary domestic and international. The analysis about sustainable development evaluation index system spreads widely in the international, this paper analyzes sustainable development index system of research results in the relevant international organizations and main developed countries. We point out the characteristics of the related...
Economic growth modeling for agricultural system is invistigated. The model is describe by a coupled ordinary nonlinear differential equation. The equation can be solved by Runge-Kutta methods. The simulation show that by assuming linear indrustrial growth, the land used tends to constant and the rice production is growth and then become steady. When we consider the technological factor, the rice...
A key characteristic of a knowledge economy is the shift from an economy dominated by tangible assets to one that is based on intangible, knowledge-based assets, which consist primarily of human capital and innovation. The success of a regional knowledge economy is, in turn, measured by its ability to attract and retain companies that focus on the production, dissemination and application of knowledge,...
Community Wireless Networks (CWNs) not only provide free or affordable Internet access but also facilitate human capital formation. They facilitate human capital accumulation by serving as a venue for brokering knowledge, providing training and enhancing access to information. Previous literature, mostly case studies, shows that CWNs support schools, improve healthcare, provide training and facilitate...
The social capital available to the firm from its external network is the focal topic around which the literature is reviewed. 57 papers obtained from search of the top three journals in strategy field have been reviewed. The paper tries to find the patterns and trends in researches done from the review. The major motive behind this is to find relevant research gap in terms of broad areas left untouched...
This article analyses the performance and main features of current environmental crisis, revealing the specific reasons for the environmental crisis, and proposed the ideological source of the environmental crisis is humanistic ideology. It summarizes the basic connotation of national ecological ethic by expounding the concept of ecological ethic, western ecological ethics, and Chinese traditional...
Traffic plays an important role in social stability and community development. Without an appropriate traffic signal control system, the possibility of traffic congestion will be very high and causes various negative impacts. The traffic signal control system with video camera sensor is implemented in embedded systems using BeagleBoard-xM. The system uses Viola-Jones method and Haar Training in detecting...
According to the endogenous economic growth theory, environment improvement policy is the means to promote economic growth. The paper sets the Hamiltonian optimization model with emission tax policy and emission abatement investment policy being endogenous. By mathematical analysis, we find that environment policy can stimulate human capital and technological advances accumulating much faster so as...
The function of university is teaching, research and social services. To establish what kind of organizational form in university can perfect teaching, research and social services in university is a key topic to explore and practice. The development of university transformed from extensive growth to intensive growth, paid more attention to educational quality, structural optimization and the improvement...
The regulation of human behavior by institutions can be deemed as a process of social choice, in which specific social choice rules attain the objective of institution design by governing human choices. This paper provides a new framework of institution design — institution design based on social choice, which avoids the “black box” dilemma in institution design. The paper discusses the key issues...
The actual version of risk management for structures was issued 2010–12 in IEC 62305-2 Ed2. Enduring discussions show the necessity of a further development towards Ed3. This document offers the evolution of an advanced risk management. Based on its revised definitions, the actual problems are analyzed and solved. All terms are deeply discussed and the relevance of the new solution is shown in comparison...
Mathematical sociology and neo-classical economic theory are predicated upon two heretofore irreconcilable views of human behavior. Sociology assumes the on tic primacy of structures composed of known patterns of behavior, diminishing the significance of subjective agency. Economics assumes the on tic primacy of rational self-interest, with scant attention paid to social drives. In this paper, we...
Sustainable design approaches consider the environmental impacts of products during their whole lifecycle. The application of sustainable design leads to the development of more environmentally benign products and processes. Principles and methods of sustainable design are discussed in this article. The goals of sustainable design are reducing or minimizing the use of non-renewable resources. The...
Globally, logistics is an important economic activity valued at about USD 320 billion a year and growing at an annual rate of 3 to 10 percent. Malaysia has recognized the industry as the main key towards enhancing Malaysia's progress on becoming a globally competitive fully developed nation. It was predicted that the logistics industry would grow at 8.6% during the year 2006 – 2020 plan period and...
Low-carbon economy is characterized by low energy consumption, low pollution and low emission. Such kind of economic development mode has brought great challenge to Chinese economy. It is unavoidable that heavy chemical industrial based Chinese industry has to consume large quantity of energies and resources during its progress, resulting in the unprecedented environmental pressure, resource pressure...
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