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MARKETING OF COMPOSTS PREPARED FROM YARD WASTES INCREASINGLY BEING DIVERTED FROM LANDFILLS WILL BECOME A PROBLEM. DURING MATURATION, COMPOSTS ARE NATURALLY RECOLONIZED BY BENEFICIAL MICROORGANISMS THAT PROVIDE BIOLOGICAL CONTROL OF SOME SOILBORNE PLANT DISEASES. CONTROLLED ADDITION OF SPECIFIC BIOCONTROL AGENTS TO COMPOSTS, FOLLOWED BY FORMULATION OF POTTING MIXES WITH THIS PRODUCT INDUCES PREDICT ...

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TOXIC HEAVY METALS, SUCH AS LEAD AND CADMIUM, ARE PREVALENT IN THE ENVIRONMENT DUE TO THEIR HIGH INDUSTRIAL USE. THESE TOXIC METALS ARE CUMULATIVE POISONS AND ARE TOXIC EVEN AT LOW DOSES, CAUSING EITHER CHRONIC OR ACUTE TOXICITY WITH PRIMARILY HEPATOTOXIC, NEPHROTOXIC OR NEUROTOXIC EFFECTS. THERE ARE NO USEFUL RAPID SCREENING TESTS TO DETECT CADMIUM IN WATER OR ON SURFACES. THE TESTS AVAILABLE FOR ...

THE OBJECTIVES OF THIS RESEARCH PROJECT ARE TO DETERMINE IF A SYSTEM DESIGNED AROUND THE HIGH SHEAR PIN MIXER WILL SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVE THE 1) DISTRIBUTION OF CHEMICALS IN SUSPENSION FERTILIZERS, THEREBY MINIMIZING PRECIPITATION AND CRYSTALLIZATION, AND 2) GEL STRENGTH OF THE SUSPENDING AGENT WHILE MINIMIZING THE COMMON VISCOSITY PROBLEM AND SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASING THE "STORAGE LIFE" OF THE SUSP ...

THE INDIAN MEAL MOTH (IMM), PLODIA INTERPUNCTELLA (HUBNER), IS A STORED PRODUCTS PEST OF WORLDWIDE IMPORTANCE. DUE TO ITS INSECTICIDE RESISTANCE, IMM HAS BECOME DIFFICULT TO CON TROL. A GRANULOSIS VIRUS (PIGV) HAS SHOWN CONSIDERABLE POTENTIAL IN CONTROLLING IMM. MICROGENESYS,INC. PROPOSES TO CONDUCT EXPERIMENTS TO INVESTIGATE THE COMMERCIAL APPLICATION OF PIGV. THE MOST ECONOMICAL METHOD OF PIGV P ...

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A FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING NETWORK (FMN) IS A GROUP OF SMALL MANUFACTURING FIRMS WHICH TEMPORARILY PRODUCE A PRODUCT WHICH NONE OF THEM CAN MANUFACTURE ALONE. IN EUROPE, FMN FORMATION HAS RESULTED IN SUBSTANTIAL ECONOMIC REVITALIZATION. FMNS ARE UNIQUELY SUITED TO THRIVE IN RURAL AREAS, WHICH SUPPORT MORE SMALL FIRMS THAN LARGE, AND HAVE A WORKFORCE WITH THE NECESSARY TECHNICAL SKILLS. IN THE RURAL ...

PRESENT-DAY HERBICIDE SPRAYING OF FIELD ROW CROPS IS VERY INEFFICIENT; OVER 75 PERCENT OF THE HERBICIDE IS WASTED AS OVERSPRAY, WHICH IS COSTLY AND CONTAMINATES THE ENVIRONMENT.THE FEASIBILITY OF EFFICIENTLY APPLYING TRANSLOCATABLE HERBICIDES WITH ELECTROSTATIC SPRAY DEPOSITION TECHNIQUES WILL BE EXAMINED. STUDIES WILL EVALUATE DIFFERENT PARTICLE CHARGING MEANS, INCLUDING INDUCTION CHARGING, CORON ...