Farmers market is enjoying increasing popularity in recent years for its advantages in building sustainable communities. Like other emerging markets that grow faster than their management capacity, however, hidden perils of the farmers market are becoming visible. Food safety is one key issue being endangered as the market expands. Being temporary and open in its form, most farmers markets do n...

The most common methods of reducing mercury emissions are the use fixed bed granular sorbents and sorbent injection. However, both these have disadvantages, such as increasing flow resistance or need to remove from flue gas, respectively. These disadvantages can be eliminated by using permanently bound construction materials (fixed materials—FSMs) mixed with (sorbent polymer composites—SPCs). a...

Food safety concerns people's lives and property safety, the repeated food scandals of Chinese food safety brings a great shock at home and abroad. Chinese government has put forward many policies and schemes to solve the repeated food problems in China in recent years. There are several important measures in the process of dealing with the food safety problem. Among them, food recall is the mo...

In this paper we consider one of the classical finite state machine (FSM) model modifications FSM with time-outs (or timed FSM). In this model in addition to the ordinary transitions under inputs there are transitions under time-outs when no input is applying. The behavior of many modern systems includes time-outs, for example, mobile phones, etc. In the past few years some work have been carri...

Following an overview on the fast changing global context of agriculture, and food and nutrition security, this paper provides a framework for identifying the set of essential international public goods for a well-functioning world agriculture and food system: natural resource management related to biodiversity, water, and soils; climate change adaptation and mitigation; trade and food reserves...