STRETCHING THE FRONTIERS OF PRECAUTION

Stretching the frontiers of precaution

The increasing pace and impact of technological change in the world underline the growing need for taking due precautions.In this essay the author reviews a number of cases over the past 2 centuries where new technologies have been introduced too rapidly with too little attention to possible consequences and avoidable damage to health or the enviro

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Problems of the dynamics of some romanian river channels

Our present work is meant to discuss the dynamics in Heritage Banners sorne cross-sections of severa! rivers situated in different conditions: discharge and load, grain size channel deposits, slope, channel pattern, anthropic intervention.For the short intervals of time characteristics for high floods and season cycles, there has been noticed an al

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Home energy management in smart households: Optimal appliance scheduling model with photovoltaic energy storage system

At present, with the applying of distributed energy resource (DER) in the demand side, the difficulty of demand-side management Heritage Banners (DSM) is increasing.Improving the consumption rate of DER is currently one of the important research contents of the home energy management system (HEMS).How to better coordinate household appliances to pa

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Characterization of Protein Radicals in Arabidopsis

Oxidative modification of proteins in photosystem II (PSII) exposed to high light has been studied for a few decades, but the characterization of protein radicals formed by protein oxidation is largely unknown.Protein oxidation is induced by the direct reaction of proteins with reactive oxygen species known to -2146826246 form highly reactive prote

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