On a pan-European basis, industrial property values have only increased marginally following the global financial crisis. Yet, despite continued financial pressures in the region, Prologis research indicates the recovery of industrial values in Europe should continue at a stronger pace compared with the other real estate sectors. Cyclical factors, including a deficit in Class-A space and attrac...

Thiram (tetramethylthiuram disulfide) is a fungicide used to control plant pathogenic fungi such as Rhizoctonia spp, Phythium spp. and Fusarium spp. which often infest oil palm seedlings from the prenursery until the main nursery stage. With increasing applications of thiram in oil palm nurseries, it is necessary to investigate the fate of thiram in the nursery environment. The trial was conduc...

BACKGROUND Humans living near industrial point emissions can experience high levels of exposures to air pollutants. Map Ta Phut Industrial Estate in Thailand is the location of the largest steel, oil refinery, and petrochemical factory complexes in Southeast Asia. Air pollution is an important source of oxidative stress and reactive oxygen species, which interact with DNA and lipids, leading to...

Concern has been rising about the health of the U.S. commercial real estate market and any impact it may have on financial markets and institutions. It is too early to judge the full extent of any problems, but commercial real estate financing has been shaken by the financial market turmoil associated with recent residential mortgage defaults. The spreads of commercial mortgage-backed securitie...

We explore the overlap between service and computerization using macro-level industrial data on the U.S. real estate market and five comparison industries (hospitals, financial services, legal services, machinery manufacturing, and fabricated metals). The macro-level data comes from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis and the U.S. Census Bureau and we use it to develop insights on computerizat...