The Government of Minas Gerais, in its strategic plan 2011-2014 established the sustainable economic development as one of its strategies and in this context born the Pole of Excellence in Environmental Innovation (PEEI). ...

Researchers, academics and even the National Development Plan 2012, converge about the insufficient entailment between university and the labor market. This results in a lack of harmony in the training of graduates of ...

Remanufacturing is one of the strategies of end of life (EOL strategies for End Of Life) having greater recovery and aims to restore the product to a “like new” condition, offering the same quality and guarantee given for ...

It describes this initiative, the complete constructive process to self-build a dome of 8m diameter and 4.5m high with prefabricated panels of Expanded Polystyrene Foam (EPS), and that this building can be used as an ...

The perceptions and beliefs of footwear consumers might be essential in the development of strategies in the design of environmentally friendly products, as much for the company as for the elaboration of green trade and ...

One way to measure the environmental performance of an organization is through the use of indicators for environmental sustainability (IES). The IES provide an important source of information that may help to those responsible ...

Leonardo, in one of his Notebooks wrote "never will produce an invention more beautiful, or simpler, or more appropriate than those made by Nature, because in their inventions nothing is lacking, nothing is superfluous", ...

The multivariate techniques can represent an alternative, fast, easy, inexpensive and non-destructive to determine physicochemical properties of oils in service in aircraft internal combustion engines (MCI), such as kinematic ...

Leonardo da Vinci improved and fully completed the drawings and sketches of the designs of the Italian engineers who were contemporaries or who preceded him. Thus, he improved the machine designs of Paolo Santini and ...

This paper is based on the exhaustive revision of existing tools for the multizonal modelling of atmospheric pollutants. The study of the behaviour of spatial data of different kind of pollutants in the air needs a special ...