We review recent progress at the two e + e − B factories. The first measurement of CP violation and the prospects for measuring all the angles of the unitarity triangle are discussed.

stabilizers have been used to improve the texture of ice cream for several decades. they added it to ice cream to control ice and lactose crystal growth during hardening and storage, to give body and stiffness during freezing for air incorporation and to impart smoothness in body and texture. nowadays, most of the industrial stabilizers are provided from abroad, so, extraction, determination of...

special issue focusses on the theme of metabolic engineering and the design of cellular factories. This is a very timely issue given that we sit at a newly developing nexus between systems biology understanding and synthetic biology design and construction [1]. The tangible result of these forces is a newfound capacity to rapidly produce an expanding array of new molecules in recombinant organi...

In the current economic climate, for many businesses it is generally no longer sufficient to pursue exclusively economic interests. Instead, integrating ecological and social goals into the corporate targets is becoming ever more important. However, the holistic integration of these new goals is missing from current factory planning approaches. This article describes the conceptual framework fo...

The rapid increase in the number of diabetic patients globally and exploration of alternate insulin delivery methods such as inhalation or oral route that rely on higher doses, is bound to escalate the demand for recombinant insulin in near future. Current manufacturing technologies would be unable to meet the growing demand of affordable insulin due to limitation in production capacity and hig...

In spite of many recent advances in MEMS technologies for integrated planar devices, most products of the future will continue to require assembly from separate parts because of differing material property requirements, the need to have a three-dimensional extent, or because of many different end user functional needs. Because many products will be very small and complex, or larger products wil...

Beyond the factory floor, there is an even larger opportunity to improve performance. The true world-class competitors have discovered this opportunity and have extended the principles that worked on the factory floor to the upstream processes that feed production, "white collar" factories. They have reorganized their white collar factories, moving away from junctional organization toward proce...

"The share of children employed in English cotton factories fell significantly before the introduction of effective child labor legislation in the early 1830s. The early factories employed predominantly children because adults without factory experience were relatively unproductive factory workers. The subsequent growth of the cotton industry fostered the development of a labor market for produ...

This brief paper has two purposes. First, we gauge developments in the study of the Antarctic ice sheet over the last seven years by comparing the contents of this issue with the volume produced from an American Geophysical Union meeting, held in September 1998, on the West Antarctic ice sheet. We focus on the uptake of satellite-based observation; ice-ocean interactions; ice streams as foci of...

A linear three-dimensional problem of hydroelastic wave diffraction by a bottom-mounted circular cylinder is analysed. The fluid is of finite depth and is covered by an ice sheet, which is clamped to the cylinder surface. The ice stretches from the cylinder to infinity in all lateral directions. The hydroelastic behaviour of the ice sheet is described by linear elastic plate theory, and the flu...