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Farmers, crop consultants, and regulators are constantly faced with management/policy decisions that require the integration of current crop and soil conditions, and current and future weather conditions. Farmers and crop consultants must make these management decisions within a regulatory environment that is becoming more restrictive and complex. Regulators are forced to make policy recommendatio ...

Ethylene is a growth hormone for fruits and vegetables that is generated by the plants themselves; that is, it acts as a self-ripening agent. Hence, the removal of ethylene gas can play a central role in maintaining the freshness of these products. Whereas the temperature and the levels of oxygen and carbon dioxide gases are also important system variables that demand a significant economic invest ...

A. Water must be removed from biodegradable hydraulic fluids as they react with water and degrade insitu. B. Biodegradable hydraulic fluids for farm equipment provide a significant improvement over traditional petroleum based fluids due to decreased pollution. Increase the use and value of biodegradable hydraulic fluids by development of a membrane-based dewatering system.

The use of biodiesel offers significant advantages with regards to the reduction of total harmful engine emissions with the exception of NOx. Biodiesel is a renewable resource and soybean oil is known to be economically viable as a biodiesel fuel. Recent studies from the Environmental Protection Agency have shown that soybean oil alone or blended with #2 diesel fuel results in a significant decrea ...

Summer flounder (Paralichthys dentatus) are a valuable commercial and recreational species with a natural range from the southern Gulf of Maine to South Carolina. Landings of Atlantic flounders decreased from 90,000 mt in 1984 to 25,000 mt in 1994. Total annual landings of summer flounder peaked at 39.9 million pounds in 1979, but recently from 1990-2003 landings have been much lower, fluctuating ...

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Interleukin-8 (IL-8), a newly characterized proinflammatory cytokine, is chemotactic for polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMNs) and stimulates several other agonist effects, all culminating in accumulation at the site of infection or inflammation and the full plethora of effects, including tissue injury via degradative enzymes and oxygen-derived free radicals. All of these effects are mediated by sp ...

The resolution gap between available chip (sub-micron) and off-chip (100 to 125 micron) will be closed by a new laminate interconnection technology. Semiconductor manufacturing techniques, either on wafer (NChip) or in thin film form (IBM and others), are used to bring line widths and thicknesses into this resolution gap forming 10 micron lines. Problems with this technology include low yields, li ...