Sodium pentobarbital, a euthanasia drug, can persist in animal carcasses following euthanasia and can cause secondary toxicosis to animals that consume the remains. This experiment was conducted to observe the effects of composting on euthanized horse carcass degradation and sodium pentobarbital residues in compost material up to 367 d. Six separate compost bins were constructed on pastureland....

Debris flows can grow greatly in size and hazardous potential by eroding bed bank materials. However, erosion mechanisms are poorly understood because debris complex hybrids between a fluid flow moving mass of colliding particles, erodibility varies events, field measurements hard to obtain. Here, we identify the key controls on debris-flow based data set that combines information properties, c...

David Smyth is a plant developmental geneticist. He began his independent career at Monash University in Melbourne in 1974, where he investigated the basis of the very large genomes of the true lilies (Lilium species) when DNA cloning methods became available. Two abundant dispersed elements turned out to be retrotransposons, revealing their important role in bulking up some plant genomes. In 1...

Membrane bioreactor has been used on winery waste water to overcome difficulties that are typically met in this environment with traditional biological treatment: poor sludge settling, bulking related to high sugar concentration and variable load. This paper reports about an innovative approach to membrane filtration used in combination with injector aeration to make membrane bioreactor best su...

The Cosmetic Ingredient Review Expert Panel (Panel) reviewed the safety of 62 dimethicone crosspolymer ingredients as used in cosmetics. These ingredients function mostly as absorbents, bulking agents, film formers, hair-conditioning agents, emollient skin-conditioning agents, slip modifiers, surface modifiers, and nonaqueous viscosity-increasing agents. The Panel reviewed available animal and ...