Food waste is a growing global concern. Data on the factors and magnitude are largely estimates, thus local studies aid in providing information impacts of food waste. Three important agro-climatic zones British Columbia nine common crops, both annual perennial, were selected to evaluate environmental nutritional implications Using Canadian estimates total waste, constituent water, caloric cont...

Background: Inventory management of platelets is critically important to avoid shortage and minimise wastage.1 In our centre this challenging with a platelet order delivery time 12–24 hours no other stock within 400 km radius. Aim: To examine if phoning clinical haematology staff reduced wastage. Methods: Our senior transfusion scientist introduced routine calls when were expiring in the next 1...

Genital infections with Chlamydia trachomatis (C. trachomatis) continue to be a worldwide epidemic. Immune response to chlamydia is important to both clearance of the disease and disease pathogenesis. Interindividual responses and current chlamydial control programs will have enormous effects on this disease and its control strategies. Humoral immune response to C. trachomatis occurs in humans ...

This paper provides an overview of the current state-of-the-art in selective harvesting robots (SHRs) and their potential for addressing challenges global food production. SHRs have to increase productivity, reduce labor costs, minimize wastage by selectively only ripe fruits vegetables. The discusses main components SHRs, including perception, grasping, cutting, motion planning, control. It al...

BACKGROUND South African nuclear medicine imaging departments have been fortunate in being able to receive an uninterrupted supply of molybdenum-99 (99Mo)/technetium-99m (99mTc) generators. Nuclear medicine radiographers practising in private sector services in the northern Gauteng region indicated a possible problem with the quantities of wasted and unused 99mTc radiopharmaceuticals returned t...