Climate is changing across the world, including the major maize-growing state of Iowa in the USA. To maintain crop yields, farmers will need a suite of adaptation strategies, and choice of strategy will depend on how the local to regional climate is expected to change. ...

<jats:p>Africa’s urbanization rate has increased steadily over the past three decades and is reported to be faster than in any other region in the world . It is estimated that by 2030, over half of the African population will be living in urban areas . But the nature of...

Research work was done during the reporting period on the two-part research program: (A) to improve energy conservation through increased unit and system efficiencies, energy management, and system optimization, and (B) to develop a novel, low-cost hybrid photovoltaic/t...

Searching for mobile data offloading solutions has been topical in recent years. In this paper, we present a collaborative WiFi-based mobile data offloading architecture - Metropolitan Advanced Delivery Network (MADNet), targeting at improving the energy efficiency for ...

This paper contributes to the economic literature on pure and impure public goods by consid-ering two alternatives for contributing to the public good climate protection: compensating carbon emissions from conventional consumption or paying higher prices for climate-fri...

In future high-performance systems it will be essential to balance often-conflicting objectives of performance, power, energy, and temperature under variable workload and environmental conditions. In this work, we describe a goal-driven approach that conveys multiple ex...

Δημοσίευση σε επιστημονικό περιοδικό Summarization: Coal mining and processing activities in Russia result in the generation of huge quantities of wastes containing elevated concentrations of residual S (Sdt=2.1–9%), C (Cdo > 12%), heavy metals and other hazardous eleme...

The purpose of the present study is to investi- gate the performance enhancement of a shell and tube, latent heat thermal storage (LHTS) unit due to the addition of microsize copper particles in the phase change material (PCM). The thermo-physical properties of composit...