Field tests in 2010-2011 were performed in New York, Minnesota, Maryland, Ohio, and Georgia to compare Bt sweet corn lines expressing Cry1A.105 + Cry2Ab2 and Cry1Ab with their non-Bt isolines, with and without the use of foliar insecticides. The primary insect pest in all locations during the trial years was Heliocoverpa zea (Boddie), which is becoming the most serious insect pest of sweet corn...

This study examines IPO returns for commercial banks and savings banks over the period 1975 to 1994. These financial firms have traditionally been eliminated from IPO studies due to the regulatory nature of the industry. Logue’s (1973) justification for excluding these firms is that they would create a downward bias in any IPO study as a result of the market’s more accurate pricing of these iss...

Private company valuation is typically performed by BV professionals who regularly estimate the value of nonmarketable interests. In order to develop a valuation estimate, BV professionals review and interpret empirical evidence to support decision making. For example, for the valuation of nonmarketable interests—within the context of a fair market value business valuation—there is typically a ...

A review of tree domestication principles, practices and case studies illustrates the importance of a methodological approach to domestication. Domestication of new species involves of the entire value chain from identification of candidate species, through production and management, to uptake by communities and markets. Efforts to domesticate forest trees have often neglected the final step of...

www.pharmtech.com yophilization or freeze-drying is often used to stabilize various pharmaceutical products, including virus vaccines, protein and peptide formulations, liposome, and small-chemical drug formulations (1–4). Often a pharmaceutical product may be susceptible to physical and chemical degradation when stored as a ready-to-use solution. The goal of the formulations scientist is to id...