Terry Tempest Williams’s assertion that beauty is not something granted;rather, we must create in a broken world. What another time I might have dismissed as nothing more than rusting lawn chair, stand of brittle grass, or the moon tangled power lines compelled me to make beautiful images.

In industrial assembly lines, seam sealing is a painting process used for making watertight seals or for preventing rusting. In the process, sealant is painted on seams located at the joints of pressed metal parts. We developed a sealing robot system that adjusts the sealing gun motion adaptively to the seam position sensed by a range sensor (a scanning laser rangefinder which senses profile ra...

Wheat leaf rust is a devastating disease worldwide. Identification of resistance genes in seedlings and for slow rusting are important breeding gene deployment to control the disease. A total 108 wheat cultivars from Beijing Shandong province set 36 differentials, mostly near-isogenic lines background Thatcher with known genes, were tested 20 Puccinia triticina pathotypes (FHJS1, FGBQ,PG...

B rownfield sites are a common eyesore on the edges of many cities; the abandoned, decaying hulks of industrial or commercial structures sit rusting and forgotten while they leach harmful chemicals such as asbestos, solvents or heavy metals into the soil. Some brownfields lie virtually untouched for years because it is often cheaper to expand cities into virgin territory than to demolish large ...

Methaemoglobinaemia may be caused by ingestion of a number of drugs, among them nitrites, some of which are remarkably toxic. This was tragically highlighted by the death of a 17 year old dental nurse after taking a single 1 g tablet of sodium nitrite. These tablets are widely used in the medical and dental profession to prevent rusting of instruments while immersed in disinfectant solutions. T...