ENVIRONMENTAL LCA AND FINANCIAL ANALYSIS TO EVALUATE THE FEASIBILITY OF BIO-BASED SUGAR FEEDSTOCK BIOMASS SUPPLY GLOBALLY: PART 2. APPLICATION OF MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION-MAKING ANALYSIS AS A METHOD FOR BIOMASS FEEDSTOCK COMPARISONS

Early-stage evaluation of biofuel and bioproduct technologies is extremely complicated and involves many disparate feasibility criteria, including technical, financial, environmental, logistic, legal, social, and other aspects.Problems can arise for decision-makers when evaluating renewable technologies at this early stage due to bias, shifting pre

Background.General and abdominal obesity is widespread among women in the Russian population.The relationship between obesity and arterial stiffness, as a predictor of the development of cardiovascular diseases, in women of different ages remains unclear.Aims: to study the relationship between obesity and arterial stiffness and dynamics of central

We consider a finite one-dimensional chain of quantum rotors interacting with a set of thermal baths at different temperatures.When the interaction between the rotors is made chiral, such a system behaves as an autonomous thermal motor, converting heat currents into nonvanishing rotational ones.Such a dynamical response is strongly pronounced in th

The CNESTEN (National Center for Energy Sciences and Nuclear Technology, Morocco) operates a TRIGA Mark II reactor, which can reach a thermal maximum power at steady state of 2 MW.In reactors devoted to research and experiments, it is mandatory to characterize the neutron and photon fields in the irradiation positions.Together with a computational

Cigarette smoke (CS) is a major risk factor for emphysematous changes in the lungs and the underlying mechanism involves CS-induced cell here death.In the present study we investigated the ability of nutrients to rescue CS-induced cell death.We observed that pre-treatment with excess leucine can partially rescue CS extract-induced cell death in Sac