background spoilage of tea (camellia sinensis) is often accompanied by contamination and formation of mycotoxins, which are toxic secondary metabolites produced by specific tea-borne fungi. objectives the purposes of this study were to isolate aspergillus flora in the air from tea gardens and factories in gilan and mazandaran provinces, in northern iran, and to determine their protein patterns....

The World Trade Organization s Sanitary Phytosanitary Agreement facilitates the scrutiny of the benefits and costs of countrylevel regulatory programs and encourages regulatory rapprochement on food safety issues. In Taiwan, food safety control system (FSCS), which includes good hygienic practice (GHP) and hazard analysis critical control point (HACCP), has been developed to embody principles o...

The Experience Factory (EF) is an infrastructure designed to support experience management (e.g., the reuse of experience) in software organizations. It supports the collection, processing, management, analysis, and dissemination of experiences made on the job. One key issue of experience management is the aggregation of these documented experiences into more valuable patterns and laws. In this...

In this paper, we argue for the incorporation of architecture analysis techniques in Software Factories. While software factories often rely on a domain-specific (or product-line specific) architecture, frequently there are some architectural alternatives left open. In these situations, architectural analysis, static or dynamic is essential. The paper elaborates these concepts and shows an exam...

Due-date performance is one of the most important production indexes for success utilized by wafer fabrication factories. Traditionally, the industry sets a specific due-date tightness level and a dispatching rule based on the total processing time, the production capacity, pre-defined order release criteria and historical data, to ensure deliveries are made on-time. However, such policies typi...

While the last 50 years of agriculture have focused on meeting the food, feed, and fiber needs of humans, the challenges for the next 50 years go far beyond simply addressing the needs of an ever-growing global population. In addition to producing more food, agriculture will have to deal with declining resources like water and arable land, need to enhance nutrient density of crops, and achieve ...