This paper describes a cost benefit analysis (CBA) of the Materials Off-Shore Sourcing (MOSS) project. The project focused on improving the operation of US inbound intercontinental supply chains of automotive parts. The MOSS project sought to reduce transit time, transit-time variability and inventory by providing a collaborative environment engaging original equipment manufacturers (OEM), supp...

Recent observations of solar active regions with the Transition Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE) have revealed finely textured, low-lying EUV emission, called the “moss,” appearing as a bright dynamic pattern with dark inclusions. The moss has been interpreted as the upper transition region by Berger and coworkers. In this study we use SOHO Coronal Diagnostic Spectrometer and TRACE observati...

Glutathione status and its relationship to protein synthesis during water deficit and subsequent rehydration have been examined in the drought-tolerant moss, Tortula ruralis. During slow drying there is a small decrease in total glutathione but the percentage of oxidized glutathione (GSSG) increases. During rapid drying there is little change in total glutathione but a small increase in GSSG. O...

The parallel machine scheduling problem is an important and difficult problem to be considered in the real-world situations. Traditionally, this problem consists of the scheduling of a set of independent jobs on parallel machines with the aim of minimizing the maximum job completion. In today's manufacturing systems, in which both early and tardy finishing of job processing are undesired, the o...

We evaluated the impact of commercial moss harvest on the development of an understory epiphyte community in the Pacific Northwest by characterizing natural development stages using data from both a long-term regrowth study and demographic sampling. First, experimentally stripped 1 m long cylindrats on 46 shrub stems in the Oregon Coast Range were monitored for species composition and abundance...

The production of recombinant proteins in moss bioreactors provides all of the benefits of molecular farming in plants but avoids many plant-specific disadvantages, such as the genetic instability of de-differentiated cells in suspension culture or the lack of containment during field production. Protein yields are in the same range as those of other cell-culture-based production systems. On to...

a haploid organism directly leads to an altered phenotype, making forward and reverse genetic approaches more straightforward in haploid moss than in diploid seed plants. A major additional asset of mosses came from the discovery that, in the moss Physcomitrella patens, recombination occurs between DNA introduced into cells by transfection and homologous sequences in its nuclear DNA. This occur...

Purpose: To evaluate the potential of active compounds derived from moss in the prevention and treatment of various diseases. Methods: Three species of moss were extracted with deionized water at 95 °C, and with 70.5 % ethanol at 85 °C. Analysis of total phenolic contents (TPC) of the extracts were performed by FolinCiocalteu (FC) method. The antioxidant activity of the extracts were determined...

UNLABELLED PREMISE OF THE STUDY Bacterial contamination is a major problem in plant tissue culture, resulting in loss of experimental strains or preventing use of field-collected isolates. Here we evaluated an agar embedding method for eliminating bacteria from experimental cultures of the mosses Ceratodon purpureus and Physcomitrella patens. • METHODS AND RESULTS We blended moss protonema...

BACKGROUND Actin is essential for tip growth in plants. However, imaging actin in live plant cells has heretofore presented challenges. In previous studies, fluorescent probes derived from actin-binding proteins often alter growth, cause actin bundling and fail to resolve actin microfilaments. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS In this report we use Lifeact-mEGFP, an actin probe that does not aff...