Background & Aims: Fungi are among the most important biological agents in air pollution. Textile factories are known as high risk places for contamination with fungal spores and metabolites. Since Yazd is one of the most important textile industry centers, this study was conducted to determine the concentration and types of airborne fungi in Yazd textile factories. Methods: A total of 235 indo...

Industrial and mining activities are recognized as major sources of soil pollution. This study proposes an index system for evaluating the inherent risk level of polluting factories and introduces an integrated risk assessment method based on human health risk. As a case study, the health risk, polluting factories and integrated risks were analyzed in a typical industrial and mining gathering a...

This paper provides evidence that as a result of poor mobility of capital within India, regional wealth constrains the growth of regional manufacturing. It shows that capital market imperfections can help explain the uneven pattern of industrial growth across regions in India. I exploit a policy-induced exogenous increase in the supply of credit to an identifiable set of factories in 1998 to de...

There has been recent interest in characterizing UHF propagation within buildings and houses. Factory radio channels, however , have not been discussed previously in the literature. This paper details the results of narrow-hand propagation measurements performed at five factories. The extensive empirical data indicate that path loss is dependent upon local surroundings and is log-normally distr...

The recent results from Super-K clearly indicate the existence of neutrino oscillations and, therefore, motivate the building of a muon storage ring (20-50 GeV) that can produce a directed beam of intense neutrinos (10 -10 per year) for both domestic and intercontinental experiments (base line of as much as 5,000 km). Such a device requires a powerful proton source (1-4 MW), muon capture, manip...

Background: Industrial fermentation typically uses complex nitrogen substrates which consist of mixture of amino acids. The uptake of amino acids is known to be mediated by several amino acid transporters with certain preferences. However, models to predict this preferential uptake are not available. We present the stoichiometry for the utilization of amino acids as a sole carbon and nitrogen s...

Background: A rapid microtiter plate based sandwich hybridization assay was developed for detection and quantification of single RNA species using magnetic beads. Following solution hybridization target RNA molecules were collected by biotin-streptavidin affinity binding and detected by fluorescence signal generated by alkaline phosphatase. The 18S rRNA and SUC2 mRNA of Saccharomyces cerevisiae...

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This paper studies the multi-factory production (MFP) network scheduling problem where a number of different individual factories join together to form a MFP network, in which these factories can operate more economically than operating individually. However, in such network which known as virtual production network with self-interested factories with transportation times, each individual facto...