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Abstract This article focuses on branding in the forest products industry, it examines corporate and product cobranding. Traditionally, in the forest products industry, uses of new industrial product brands have [...]

Employers consistently rank communication skills, in particular writing ability, among the most important skills for undergraduate business students to possess. However, improving writing skills, especially with respect to punctuation, grammar, [...]

Electronic meeting software (EMS) is a new method to get information to implement the results of an audit survey. The technology decreases noise due to discussions and is more effective. People taking part in EMS have equal participation and a person who conveys ideas need not be known to others present in the meeting, as people need not face each other. Moreover, members need not await their turn to speak, as the information can be processed at a later time and there is no overloading of information.

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Surface remote sensing techniques can identify hazardous materials in aging landfills while avoiding costly and intrusive drilling methods, according to scientists at Argonne National Laboratory. Remote sensing technology is applied [...]

New York City officials will implement a comprehensive waste management plan intended to make recycling the city's primary method of disposal by the year 2000. The plan includes a curbside [...]

Since its inception in the spring of 1991, the Environmental Transportation Association (ETA), Washington, D.C., has focused its lobbying efforts to support the long distance rail hauling of waste. The [...]

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The attitude of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) professionals involved with the waste industry differs sharply from non-waste industry ASME members and the general public on the importance of [...]

In a program to battle the continuing problem of landfill gases, industry and government are teaming up to research and develop a state-of-the-art landfill methane recovery program. With funding from [...]

In anticipation of The Big One, the long-feared earthquake that could wipe out all the cities on the West Coast, municipalities in California and Washington have set up crisis contingency [...]

Normal and autoimmune mice were studied with regard to signals eliciting differentiation and division of bone marrow stem cells. The erythropoiesis induced by anemia following serial bleedings was analyzed in young autoimmune New Zealand Black (NZB) mice and non-autoimmune strains. No difference in the response to the stimulus created by anemia was noted between the strains. After serial bleedings as a stimulus to stem cell proliferation, a five-fold increase in numbers of proliferating spleen cells occurred in both NZB and DBA/2 strains; the increased proliferating spleen cells in both strains were non-lymphoid. The bled animals had decreased percentages of B cells. The production of autoantibodies was not significantly altered by the experimentally induced anemia. In contrast, anti-immunoglobulin activation of resting B cells was increased in response to anemia. Young mice which had experimentally induced anemia had several characteristics in common with old autoimmune NZB mice. Both old NZB mice and young anemic animals had splenomegaly, increased numbers of proliferating spleen cells, decrease in splenic Ly 5+ cells and an increase in splenic colony forming units (CFUs). The anemic normal strains of animals lacked other characteristics of old NZB mice such as hyperimmunoglobulinemia or autoantibody production or elevated CD5+B cell numbers. This work supports the concept that the increase in spleen cell number, proliferating spleen cells, CFUs and the increased percentages of non-Ly-5 cells (which include erythroid precursors) found in the spleens of old NZB mice may in part result from their autoimmune hemolytic anemia.