Emissions from open burning, on a mass pollutant per mass fuel (emission factor) basis, are greater than those from well-controlled combustion sources. Some types of open burning (e.g. biomass) are large sources on a global scale in comparison to other broad classes of sources (e.g. mobile and industrial sources). A detailed literature search was performed to collect and collate available data ...

Green waste is a key component of California’s solid waste stream and so is an important target for effective waste diversion. The California Integrated Waste Management Board (CIWMB) reports that about 15 million cubic yards of organics comprised largely of green waste are diverted annually in California. The diverted organics are principally used as compost and mulch in agricultural and urban...

Campylobacter, mainly Campylobacter jejuni and C. coli, are worldwide recognized as a major cause of bacterial food-borne gastroenteritis (World Health Organization 2010). Epidemiological studies have shown handling or eating of poultry to be significant risk factors for human infections. Campylobacter contamination can occur at all stages of a poultry meat production cycle. In summer 1999, eve...

This is a book, both comprehensive and thought-provoking, with a timely thesis that is a “must read” for anyone interested in human behavior and our collective future. Matthew Blakeway takes the view that our brains are biological computers with algorithms for action. But what if the algorithms are based on faulty data? What if our actions, based on our beliefs, are a product of causal circular...

A multidisciplinaiy study the oceanography of the Pontevedra Ria (NW Spain), including hydrography, biogeochemistiy and biogeochemical modeUlng, has been performed. The hydrographlcal variability of the Pontevedra Ria was dependent on freshwater inputs and upwelUng of nutrient-rich East North Atlantic Central Water from the shelf. Intrusions of the Poleward Current were also detected during win...

Today, Finland has more forests than it has had for the last several hundred years. This is due to the ecological concept of sustainable development, in which a considerable part of the forest’s natural growth remains unexploited. Although Finnish pine and spruce forests are only about 1 percent of the total resources in the world, Finland has been able to build a leading position among the for...

Looking up, it’s easy to spot the clouds. The white fluff is strikingly contrasted by the blue sky. It’s not so easy from space, especially above the Earth’s poles. The clouds blend in against the vast expanses of snow and ice. This is a problem for scientists who use satellites to study clouds and climate. Recently though, UC Berkeley statistician Bin Yu, her graduate student Tao Shi, and thei...

Cereal Chem. 66(l):51 -55 Water retention properties of two hexane-defatted corn germ protein retention of both CGP preparations. Time of incubation (10-30 min) and (CGP) preparations processed by a modified and a conventional procedure pH of solution (pH 6-7) did not affect water retention. Defatted CG P and soy protein flour were studied in model systems and analyzed using obtained by the mod...

Infantile hemangiomas, also known as ‘’haemangiomas of infancy,’’ (IHs) are common benign tumors of endothelial cells characterized by a unique pattern of rapid proliferation that occurs in the first months of life, followed by slow involution that may take years to complete. They reportedly occur in as many as 12% of children and are frequently brought to the attention of plastic surgeons, der...

The influence of rhizosphere/rhizoplane culture conditions on the ability of various rhizobia to bind soybean seed lectin (SBL) was examined. Eleven strains of the soybean symbiont, Rhizobium japonicun4 and six strains of various heterologous Rhizobium species were cultured in root exudate of soybean ( Glycine max IL.I Merr.) and in association with roots of soybean seedlings which were growing...