BACKGROUND AND AIMS Plant species that share pollinators are potentially subject to non-adaptive interspecific pollen transfer, resulting in reduced reproductive success. Mechanisms that increase pollination efficiency between conspecific individuals are therefore highly beneficial. Many nocturnally flowering plant species in Thailand are pollinated by the nectar bat Eonycteris spelaea (Pteropo...

Process safety might be considered as the most important area to improve several aspects in the process industry design. Ways of dealing with hazards include means to either control them or totally remove them. Both control and removal ways can be applied during the design stage to produce inherently safer designs. There exist several practical examples where issues related to inherently safer ...

The cultivation of higher plants occupies an essential role within bio-regenerative life support systems. It contributes to all major functional aspects by closing the different loops in a habitat like food production, CO2 reduction, O2 production, waste recycling and water management. Fresh crops are also expected to have a positive impact on crew psychological health. Plant material was first...

Over the Jast several years, the Waste Treatment and Immobili zation Plant (WTP) contractor has executed a test program and analysis effort to establish an aerosol entrainment coefficient (AEC) value for confinement ventilation system designs. The Board advises that the recommended AEC values from this program may not bound expected conditions at the WTP. The AEC values are key design parameter...

Total Control Effort Abstract—A new Feed-Forward/Feedback Generalized Minimum Variance Pole-placement Controller to incorporate the robustness of classical pole-placement into the flexibility of generalized minimum variance self-tuning controller for Single-Input Single-Output (SISO) has been proposed in this paper. The design, which provides the user with an adaptive mechanism, which ensures t...