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... Up to half of the global fruit and vegetable production is wasted or lost along the supply chain, causing wastage of resources and economic losses. Ambient parameters strongly influence quality and shelf life of fresh fruit and vegetables. Monitoring these parameters by using Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled sensor and communication technology in supply chains can help to optimize product qualitie ...
... With advantages of low substrates cost, high optical purity of end products and environmentally friendly fermentation process, microbial production of valuable chemicals grow rapidly. Compared with static microbial strain engineering strategies, such as gene deletion, overexpression and mutation, dynamic pathway regulation is a new approach that balances cellular growth and chemical production. Qu ...
communications technology; computer security; energy efficiency; heat; models
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... The integrated energy system (IES) constitutes a new kind of cyber-physical system combined with advanced information and communication technology. The coupling of the cyber system and IES improve energy efficiency while introducing the threat of cyber security. This paper highlights the significance of the cyber security of IES and figures out the weak spots of cyber security in heating systems o ...
... High costs for installing, maintaining, and updating a standard picture archiving and communication system (PACS) can be prohibitive for small/medium‐sized veterinary facilities. The aims of this prospective, exploratory study were to describe the design, implementation, and author experiences for 1 year's use of a low‐cost PACS based on network‐attached storage. The system described here was easi ...
carbon; communications technology; energy; power generation; power plants
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... With the popularity of distributed power generation units, traditional consumers become prosumers. Meanwhile, the emerging information and communication technology brings new opportunities to the energy trading service by providing various platforms. Thus, the energy trading problem of prosumers quickly ascends to the spotlight. Nevertheless, the personalized small-scale prosumers bring challenges ...
carbon; communications technology; environmental Kuznets curve; industrialization; models; pollution; renewable energy sources; research and development
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... Since industrialization, the world has been under great strain from rising temperatures. Economies work hard to boost economic growth by sacrificing natural surroundings that are degrading owing to increased carbon emissions from unsustainable production and consumption. The race-to-the-bottom strategy is seen in different parts of the globalized world, corroborating the pollution haven concept an ...
Internet; carbon; communications technology; energy efficiency; environmental quality; pollution; research
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... The role of information and communication technology (ICT) is imperative in the transformation of the world. ICT is directly affecting all the sectors of the whole economy. Thus, the present study is determined to investigate the effect of ICT on energy efficiency and environmental sustainability in emerging Asian economies from 1990 to 2019. The panel augmented autoregressive distributed lag-pool ...
Japan; carbon; carbon dioxide; communications technology; data collection; energy; environmental degradation; humans; socioeconomic development; Denmark; Iceland; Netherlands; Norway; South Korea; Sweden; Switzerland; United Kingdom
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... Although ICT has played a critical role in the socio-economic growth of human cultures, it has also brought with it significant environmental risks. Nevertheless, scholars remain divided on this topic; some believe that ICT has had a positive influence on the quality of the environment, while others believe that ICT has created major environmental issues. Hence, this research is another effort to ...
Campylobacter jejuni; analytical methods; biofilm; bioluminescence; biosensors; byproducts; communications technology; culture media; detection limit; food pathogens; food production; food safety; model food systems; public health; quorum sensing; risk
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... The food-borne pathogen Campylobacter jejuni produces autoinducer-2 (AI-2) as an interspecies signalling molecule. AI-2 can trigger enhanced colonisation and biofilm formation, and this poses a serious risk to public health. To date, this communication system of C. jejuni is only partially understood, as detection and quantification of such autoinducer signalling molecules in complex media is hard ...
COVID-19 infection; Internet; communications technology; geography; spatial data
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... In the era of communication technology and its integration with the learning process, the role of the educational institutions has significantly changed, especially after the expansion of Internet use and the rise of what's currently known as “Internet-based learning environments”. After the COVID-19 pandemic, it was necessary for researchers to search for alternatives to the traditional pedagogic ...
... Climate change and increased greenhouse gas emissions boost the global average temperature to less than 2°C, which is the estimated breakeven point. The globe is moving into blue pollution economies as the environmental sustainability objective becomes more distorted. The study looked at three United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, namely (i) affordable and clean energy; (ii) industry, inno ...
Russia; carbon; carbon dioxide; communications technology; ecological footprint; economic development; energy; energy industry; environmental Kuznets curve; environmental quality; foreign direct investment; international trade; issues and policy; models; pollution; renewable energy sources; research; telephones; Brazil; China; India; South Africa
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... The increasing use of information and communication technology (ICT) in this digital era and its interlinkage with other economic and environmental factors have gotten considerable attention from researchers. ICT tools are considered very important in economic activities such as international trade, the financial sector, and foreign direct investment. ICT is also interlinked with innovation and en ...
communications technology; descriptive statistics; markets; sustainable development; trade; wheat; India
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... e-Mediated extension services helps the farmers to be e-ready and exploits the potential of ICT tools. National Agriculture Market (e-NAM) created an opportunity for the integration of physical Agricultural Produce Market Committees (APMCs) that can be accessible across the country through common digital platform to facilitate trade of agriculture commodities. The objective of the study was to det ...
... Until recently, human nonverbal vocalisations such as cries, laughs, screams, moans, and groans have received relatively little attention in the human behavioural sciences. Yet these vocal signals are ubiquitous in human social interactions across diverse cultures and may represent a missing link between relatively fixed nonhuman animal vocalisations and highly flexible human speech. Here, we revi ...
COVID-19 infection; communications technology; databases; disease transmission; health services; humans; information dissemination; spatial data; India
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... Health is an important part of human life. The awareness about the quality health care plays a major role in the human life. The present Corona virus Disease (COVID-19) is infectious and fast spreading. In a country like India, prevention of the infection is still the best option. The use of Geo-Information Communication Technology (Geo-ICT) framework can help in the prevention of spread of the di ...
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; World Bank; carbon; climate change; communications technology; data collection; ecology; education; empirical research; environmental quality; foreign direct investment; sustainable development; transportation
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... The debate on the role of information and communication technology (ICT) in environmental sustainability remains a puzzle in empirical research. It is unclear whether ICT can help mitigate the after-effects of carbon emissions and, in turn, alleviate the unavoidable consequences of climate change. In this study, we examined the role of ICT in environmental sustainability for a panel of 24 Organisa ...
... In many terrestrial species, there is a relationship between the acoustic features of vocal signals and the underlying motivational state and arousal level of the signaller. This information may be particularly important during complex social interactions, which are common in species where males compete for access to females during the breeding season. However, research into how information on mot ...
Argiope bruennichi; chemical communication; chemical ecology; communications technology; derivatization; enantiomers; enantioselective synthesis; females; kin recognition; males; mass spectrometry; sex pheromones; silk; spiders
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... Emerging evidence shows that the cuticular and silk lipids of spiders are structurally more diverse than those of insects, although only a relatively low number of species have been investigated so far. As in insects, such lipids might play a role as signals in various contexts. The wasp spider Argiope bruennichi has probably the best investigated chemical communication system within spiders, incl ...
communications technology; electricity; energy efficiency; motivation; solar energy; Pakistan
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... Grounded in the motivation theory, this study examines the impact of green intrinsic motivation (GIM) and green thinking (GT) on the energy efficiency behavior (EEB) of the electricity consumers and solar energy prosumers via energy efficiency environmental benefits evaluation (EEBE) as a mediator. Moreover, the moderating role of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) adoption norms in be ...
... Predator presentation experiments are widely used to investigate animal alarm vocalizations. They usually involve presentations of predator models or playbacks of predator calls, but it remains unclear whether the two paradigms provide similar results, a major limitation when investigating animal syntactic and semantic capacities. Here, we investigate whether visual and acoustic predator cues elic ...