Introduction Fly ash, a by-product from power plants, is a powdery gray material that is stored in large ash dykes or ponds. This ash is used in making bricks and in cement factories. Fly ash is considered to be a major pollution problem as it is dispersed into the air and pollutes bodies of water. However, for the local tribal populations of Korba district, Chhattisgarh state, fly ash is becom...

The quality and nature of knowledge that can be found by an automated knowledge-extraction system depends on its inputs. For systems that learn by reading text, the Web offers a breadth of topics and currency, but it also presents the problems of dealing with casual, unedited writing, non-textual inputs, and the mingling of languages. The results of extraction using the KNEXT system on two Web ...

The natural weaning process of piglets is a gradual event, whereas in current commercial pig production sudden, stressful phase the pigs’ life. Management strategies such as co-mingling non-littermates before aim to mimic (semi)natural conditions and stimulate social skills order minimize adverse effects stress around weaning. present study investigated which way timing non-littermate during la...

An embryonic stem (ES) cell line stably expressing lacZ under the control of an endogenous promoter has been isolated and used as a marker to follow the fate of ES cells injected into blastocysts and morulae, before midgestation. The results show a multisite pattern of blastocyst colonization by ES cells deposited into the blastocoel cavity and a low degree of mingling between ES cells and ICM ...

Although chickens and turkeys comprise the majority of poultry species seen by the veterinary practitioner, occasionally we also encounter waterfowl such as ducks and geese. Feature that is unique to waterfowl is that their environment usually involves the presence of man-made or natural bodies of water, and this may enhance the co-mingling of free-living waterfowl species with the domestic flo...

Social entrepreneurship is trendy! It offers all the challenges and rewards of traditional entrepreneurship, combined with the vision of changing society, if not the world. One social entrepreneur has just received the “Alternative Nobel Prize”; in 2004 Jeff Skoll, the founder of e-Bay, donated 4.4 million pounds to establish a research center on social entrepreneurship; and many social entrepr...

The development of a global ethical system is desirable to fulfil the societal promise of the technology of the Internet. The author attempts to construct such a „pragmatic“ ethical system (in an age of relativism and ethical scepticism) using concepts drawn from a number of moral philosophers. The global ethics construct uses the quality of human rationality as a basis, co-existing with the es...