PPE consistency please

Thermal comfort and personal protective equipment (PPE).

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is considered the last preferred solution to an Occupational Safety Health (OSH) system. Brazilian OSH legislation assumes and requires PPE usage to neutralize the possibility of pesticide contamination. This study examines the inadequacy of the PPE used in a tomato crop, particularly from the standpoint of thermal comfort. This study made observations regard...

Software Parts for Elliptic PPE Software

We examine the question or whether very high level elliptic prob· lem solvers can be built (in theory or in practice) from a collection of software parts. In theory the answer is yes. in current practice the answer is no. because most of the required software parts are missing. The "levels" of software parts needed are identified and their contents outlined. There are isolated collections of pa...

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More data, please!

Witwer (1 ) observes in his review of miRNA studies that “data submission was reported at publication for 40% of all articles.” Sadly, the problem of poor data reporting is neither new nor restricted to miRNA data. Poor access to data motivated the 2001 MIAME (minimum information about a microarray experiment) standards in the first place (2 ). In 2008, Ochsner et al. (3 ) reviewed microarray s...