background: heavy metals (hms) are one of the most important polluting substances emitted to the environment during cement production. tehran cement factory located in the southeastern of tehran, iran, closer to agricultural lands cultivates alfalfa, barley, and maize as feed. the objective of the study was to determine the concentration of hms in agricultural soils. methods: thirty six soil sa...

In this era of digital technology and network communications, paper-based data management can be a bottleneck, slowing factory-wide information transfer. This study explores the evolution of paperless communication in a factory environment and reviews some of the key technologies that contribute to the implementation of a paperless system including digital communication, the virtual factory, co...

BACKGROUND Growing evidence suggests that dairy products may have beneficial cardiometabolic effects. The current guidelines, however, limit the intake of full-fat dairy products. OBJECTIVE We investigated the association of dairy consumption, types of dairy products, and dairy fat content with metabolic syndrome (MetSyn). METHODS We analyzed baseline data of the Brazilian Longitudinal Stud...

world Concrete world Extension Farming Systems Journal volume 6 number 1 – Industry Forum © Copyright AFBMNetwork http://www.csu.edu.au/faculty/science/saws/afbmnetwork/efsjournal/index.htm 125 appropriate risk exposure for the situation the farmer currently faces. From an extension point of view this represents a significant step up in competency. In discussing the challenges associated with t...

A virtual factory integrated manufacturing system combined with system simulation and virtual reality is introduced in this paper. We describe the system architecture and development methodology, provide the working principle of process simulation and monitoring in virtual factory, and then explain the detailed applications of virtual factory integrated manufacturing system. With the visualizat...

Collaborating autonomous agents are becoming an increasingly attractive alternative to traditional hierarchical control architectures, offering better support for robustness, scalability, reconfigurability, and reusability, especially in systems where problem solving and decision making must be distributed. This is particularly true for the Virtual Factory [11] model of factory integration. In ...

OBJECTIVES We carried out a detailed exposure assessment of benzene and toluene in two shoe factories in Tianjin, China. Our goal was to identify workers with a broad range of benzene exposures, for an epidemiologic study relating exposure to early biologic effects. METHODS A comprehensive exposure survey program was initiated. Over a period of 16 months, 2783 personal solvent exposure sample...

Livestock Gross Margin Insurance for Dairy Cattle (LGM-Dairy) is Asian basket option-like insurance tool that enables U.S. dairy producers to protect income-over-feed-costs margins. While LGM-Dairy rating method assumes flat implied volatility curves for all marginal price distributions, substantial evidence suggests upward-bending skews in implied volatility curves are typical and expected fea...

The association between consumption of full-fat dairy foods and CVD may depend partly on the nature of products and may not apply to low-fat dairy foods. Increased circulating levels of inflammatory biomarkers after consumption of dairy product-rich meals suggest an association with CVD. In the present study, we tested the effects of low-fat and full-fat dairy diets on biomarkers associated wit...

BACKGROUND This review provides a reappraisal of the potential effects of dairy foods, including dairy fats, on cardiovascular disease (CVD)/coronary heart disease (CHD) risk. Commodities and foods containing saturated fats are of particular focus as current public dietary recommendations are directed toward reducing the intake of saturated fats as a means to improve the overall health of the p...