This document provides an opinion of the Scientific Panel on Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO Panel) of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) on genetically modified maize MON 863 and the maize hybrid MON 863 x MON 810. The opinion is based on two questions raised by the Commission related to applications for the placing of the maize on the market by Monsanto under the Novel Food Regulat...

1.1 Purpose The use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in agriculture is rising, but not without debate. There are many scientists who argue that genetic engineering in agriculture is the best way to solve many issues of poverty, food security, environmental harm, and the need for increasing competitiveness in sales, but others raise ethical issues regarding the health of the people who c...

The antigenicity of an ethylene oxide-treated human serum in humans has been studied. The immune response to the material had many of the characteristics of a delayed cellular skin reaction. Even after repeated immunizations by intradermal skin testing over a period of 1(1/2) years, no detectable antibody could be found in the sera. The antigenicity has been shown to be associated with drastic ...

We study the dynamical consequences of Maggiore’s unique generalised uncertainty principle (GUP). We find that it leads naturally, and generically, to novel consequences. In the high temperature limit, there is a drastic reduction in the degrees of freedom, of the type found, for example, in strings far above the Hagedorn temperature. In view of this, the present GUP may perhaps be taken as the...

Using numerical calculations, we compare three versions of the Barrett– Crane model of 4-dimensional Riemannian quantum gravity. In the version with face and edge amplitudes as described by De Pietri, Freidel, Krasnov, and Rovelli, we show the partition function diverges very rapidly for many triangulated 4-manifolds. In the version with modified face and edge amplitudes due to Perez and Rovell...

in carbonate systems, dolomites often form the best reservoirs .the dolomitized part of dalan(upper permian) and kangan(lower triassic) formations makes up the essential part of gas reservoirs in the south of iran. the dalan and kangan formations were dolomitized to various degrees in the areas of south of iran and- persian gulf.in most cases, dolomitization enhanced porosity and permeability o...

Type 2 Diabetes (T2D), a major public health issue reaching worldwide epidemic, has been correlated with lower olfactory abilities in humans. As olfaction represents a major component of feeding behavior, its alteration may have drastic consequences on feeding behaviors that may in turn aggravates T2D. In order to decipher the impact of T2D on the olfactory epithelium, we fed mice with a high f...

ABSTRACT The effect of silicon oxide surface segregation on the locally-resolved kinetics of the CO oxidation reaction on individual grains of a polycrystalline Pd foil was studied in situ by PEEM, MS and XPS. The silicon oxide formation induced by Si-impurity segregation at oxidizing conditions, was monitored by XPS and its impact on the global and local (spatially resolved) kinetics of the CO...

Spectroscopic properties of germanium oxygen-deficient centers were studied in vapor axial deposition and modified chemical-vapor deposition germanosilicate glass after hydrostatic densification by as much as 19%. Gaussian decomposition showed a broadening and a significant shift of the initial absorption bands at 5.11 and 5.42 eV. A threefold decrease of the 3.15-eV luminescence band was revea...

In this report, we discuss block preconditioners used to solve the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. We emphasize on the approximation of the Schur complement used in SIMPLE-type preconditioners. In the usual formulation, the Schur complement uses scaling with the diagonal of the convection diffusion matrix. A variant of SIMPLE, SIMPLER is studied. Convergence of the SIMPLER preconditione...