Precious Jade

The rice genome. The most precious things are not jade and pearls.

T he most precious things are not jade and pearls but the five grains. " The five grains referred to in this Chinese saying are most likely to be rice, wheat, millet, sorghum, and maize (1). These cereal grains account for up to 60% of the calories consumed by people in the developing world (2). We could also apply this saying to the valuable genetic information that cereals contain—especially ...

Jade 25.3

Europe's precious children.

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Applications experience in Jade

This paper presents our experience developing applications in Jade, a portable, implicitly parallel programming language designed for exploiting task-level concurrency. Jade programmers start with a program written in a standard serial, imperative language, then use Jade constructs to describe how parts of the program access data. The Jade implementation analyzes this information to automatical...

Silicosis in jade workers.

The recent finding of cases of silicosis among jade workers in Hong Kong points to this disease being an occupational hazard. The source was found to be the silica flour that was added in a polishing process. Five cases are described together with the results of environmental investigation in a workplace. In three cases the disease was of early onset, rapidly progressive, and presented the feat...