There is a growing impetus in developing novel strategies to address global concerns regarding food security. As crop productivity gains through traditional breeding begin to lag and arable land becomes scarcer, it seems that we are heading for unsustainable global populations. It has been foreshadowed that global food production will need to rise more than 50% before 2050 to meet the ever-incr...

Sir, The distally based anterolateral thigh flap is one anatomical variant of the versatile regional flap commonly employed to reconstruct large knee defects [1]. Venous congestion poses a common concern for such flaps as oedema can potentiate complications such as tip necrosis and eventually scar development. To limit loss of mobility secondary to scarring in the knee, the surgeon should take ...

Turbocharged diesel engines suffer from worse transient performance than their naturally aspirated counterparts, mostly at low loads and speeds. This leads to overshoot in engine-out exhaust emissions (primarily particulate matter/soot and NOx) after a speed or load increase, as well as poor drivability. The main cause for this problematic behavior is located in the turbocharger in the form of ...