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From Field to Fork

From Field to Fork

Many organizations throughout the supply chain have already launched traceability initiatives and have started to see the return on their investments.

IT — A Love-Hate Relationship

IT — A Love-Hate Relationship

It’s easy to complain about downtime associated with scheduled IT overhauls and upgrades, but try to remember how life would be without them, and maybe take an extra moment to appreciate your tech.

Ultrasonic Tank Testing a Resounding Success

Ultrasonic Tank Testing a Resounding Success

For the assessment of wall thicknesses of tank shells, SGS used an ultrasonic crawler, a tool designed to cost-effectively take thickness measurements on above-ground ferro-magnetic structures.

Remote Wireless Inventory Management

Remote Wireless Inventory Management

BinMaster presents its BinLink® Web-based monitoring solution to enable remote wireless inventory management of stored materials from any computer connected to the Internet anywhere in the world.

Reducing Emissions while Recouping Costs

Reducing Emissions while Recouping Costs

Dürr Systems saved Central Motor Wheel of America 80 percent in fuel consumption and a projected $427,000 per year based upon fuel costs and production hours.

Faulty Valve Blamed For Propane Blaze

Investigators are blaming a faulty valve for a propane-fueled blaze at a closed Nebraska manufacturing plant that forced thousands of evacuations.

Breaking Down Biodegradable Plastic Packaging Material

Interest in biodegradable disposable plastic items has steadily grown over the last decade. With packaging materials, the reduction in usage of raw materials, re-use and recycling are the best route to a sustainable lifestyle.

Plant Interruptions Behind Eggo Waffle Shortage

ATLANTA (AP) - Kellogg Co. says there will be a nationwide shortage of its popular Eggo frozen waffles until next summer because of interruptions in production at two of the four plants that make them.

Utah Refinery Blast Video Shows 100-Foot Fireball

MIKE STARK Associated Press Writer - November 18, 2009 WOODS CROSS, Utah (AP) - Video released Tuesday shows a 100-foot fireball ripping through a Utah refinery during a gas explosion that knocked a nearby home off its foundation earlier this month.

Combined HART Communicator & Calibrator

Combined HART Communicator & Calibrator

The hand-held DPI 620 advanced multifunction calibrator from GE Sensing & Inspection Technologies now incorporates full HART® capability, making it the only combined HART communicator and calibrator currently on the market.

EU Steelmakers Against Iron Price Hikes

Mar 12 | News

Steelmakers say price hikes of between 80 and 90 percent for steel's raw ingredient would have a significant impact on steel prices.

Gas Line Explodes near Oklahoma City

Mar 12 | News

A natural gas line explosion northeast of Oklahoma City sent flames into the air but caused little damage and no injuries.

OSU Engineer Designing New-Generation Reactor

Mar 12 | News

Regulators estimate the frequency of a complete nuclear reactor meltdown at about once every 1 million years, yet this reactor's odds are once every 100 million.

Western U.S., Canada Go Own Way on Carbon Trading

Mar 11 | News

As U.S. prospects for a national climate change bill fade, five U.S. states and Canadian provinces are on track to start a cap-and-trade market for carbon dioxide in 2012.

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Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Act (and CFATS) by Luke Simpson

Dec 17 2009

Chemical and water facilities are high on the current administration's list of security priorities, with the Chemical Facility Antiterrorism Act of 2009 under review by lawmakers. The bill would broaden federal juristiction over facility secutiry, and would also make inherently safer

SuperSite: dictionary of metabolite and drug binding sites in proteins.

Feb 10

The increasing structural information about target-bound compounds provide a rich basis to study the binding mechanisms of metabolites and drugs. SuperSite is a database, which combines the structural information with various tools for the analysis of molecular recognition. The...

MMsINC: a large-scale chemoinformatics database.

Feb 10

MMsINC (http://mms.dsfarm.unipd.it/MMsINC/search) is a database of non-redundant, richly annotated and biomedically relevant chemical structures. A primary goal of MMsINC is to guarantee the highest quality and the uniqueness of each entry. MMsINC then adds value to these...

Targeted small-molecule inhibitors of protein kinase B as anticancer agents.

Feb 10

Protein kinase B (PKB or Akt) is a central component of the PI3K - PKB - mTOR signalling cascade and is firmly established as an attractive target for pharmacological intervention in cancer. A number of small molecule inhibitors with well-defined, direct molecular interactions...

We Regret to Inform You

We Regret to Inform You

Mar 11

Just when I thought it was safe to get in front of my computer, I find out that it’ll kill me — and management knew all along.

Measure Twice, Criticize Less

Measure Twice, Criticize Less

Mar 9

The reality of the situation is that experts are predicting a world population of 9.5 billion by 2050 — meaning that our global food production will have to double.

On the Edge of my Driver’s Seat

On the Edge of my Driver’s Seat

Mar 8

Do the Renewable Fuel Standard bill and other green legislation leave you stranded on the edge of your driver’s seat?

Stalking the Weather Report

Stalking the Weather Report

Mar 8

Why do I check the weather three to five times a day? I think it's that weird habit that I go to when I am distracted, or bored, or shifting from one task to the next.

Egg Crisis 2010

Egg Crisis 2010

Mar 3

The situation is nothing to rival the coffee crisis of 2009 or the interoffice email crisis. We lost many good Cubites in the conflicts that ended with the dismantling of the Great Foam Wall.

Here's $8 Billion — What Now?

Here's $8 Billion — What Now?

Feb 17 | Video

David Ratcliffe, Chairman, President, and CEO of Southern Company, reacts to President Obama's announcement regarding the first federal loan guarantees for new nuclear construction.

Chlorine Tankers Shifted Away from Olympics

Chlorine Tankers Shifted Away from Olympics

Feb 11 | Video

A Canadian chemical manufacturer will store fifty chlorine-filled rail cars in Washington as a security measure during the upcoming 2010 Winter Olympic games.

Chemical Processing of the Future?

Chemical Processing of the Future?

Jan 27 | Video

A theoretical bench-top factory that uses nano-sized production lines to sort atoms and fabricate atomically-precise devices.

Boeing's Biofuel-Powered Hydroplane

Boeing's Biofuel-Powered Hydroplane

Jan 20 | Video

Boeing is racing a hydroplane that uses a 50/50 blend of sustainable biofuel and jet fuel.