Notable as has been the growth of plant physiology and great as have been its contributions to agriculture, horticulture, forestry, and other fields, it may be questioned whether it is making as substantial contributions to plant science as it can and should make. There is considerable evidence that it is not. There are still too few courses in plant physiology offered in our colleges and some ...

CONTEXT Industrial waste (which is composed of various toxic chemicals), changes to the disposal process, and addition of chemicals should all be monitored and controlled carefully in the industrial waste industry to reduce the health hazard to workers. CASE PRESENTATION Five workers in an industrial waste plant developed acute toxic hepatitis, one of whom died after 3 months due to fulminant...

Forget about farm-to-fork when it comes to genetically modified (GM) crops. Think farm-to-pharmacy, or farmto-factory. Produced through plant molecular farming (PMF), this new set of transgenic crops is being grown not for food, but to produce medicines and industrial products. For example, potatoes have been modified to produce a vaccine against the Norwalk virus, research that is currently in...

This paper describes a data acquisition system developed to solute the problem of different data acquisition modules communication in ubiquitous industrial environment. The system can allow faster reconfiguration of plant-floor networks as applications change. It can achieve higher throughput, lower average message delay and less average message dropping rate in wireless communication. The deve...

Coal combustion is used in many industrial processes in South Africa. The exposure of workers and the absence of international biological monitoring standards for toluene created a problem. A cross-sectional study on 100 workers indicated that the biological threshold for ortho-cresol:creatinine ratio reference value of < 1 mg/g could presently be used as a reference for non-industrial human ex...