Patent Application by Robert E. Godes

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An Interesting Paper

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Novel Attractive Force Between Ions in Quantum Plasmas
by P. K. Shukla and B. Eliasson

Neonicotinoids

Save the bee species from extinction.

Assessment of the Environmental Exposure of Honeybees to Particulate Matter Containing Neonicotinoid Insecticides Coming from Corn Coated Seeds

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Andrea Tapparo*†, Daniele Marton†, Chiara Giorio†, Alessandro Zanella†, Lidia Soldà†, Matteo Marzaro‡, Linda Vivan‡, and Vincenzo Girolami‡

^† Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Università degli Studi di Padova, via Marzolo 1, 35131, Padova, Italy

^‡ Dipartimento di Agronomia Animali Alimenti Risorse Naturali e Ambiente, Università degli Studi di Padova, Agripolis, viale dell’Università 16, 35020 Legnaro, Padova, Italy

Environ. Sci. Technol., 2012, 46 (5), pp 2592–2599

DOI: 10.1021/es2035152

Publication Date (Web): January 31, 2012

Copyright © 2012 American Chemical Society

*E-mail: andrea.tapparo@unipd.it.

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Air Pollution and Industrial Hygiene

Abstract

Since seed coating with neonicotinoid insecticides was introduced in the late 1990s, European beekeepers have reported severe colony losses in the period of corn sowing (spring). As a consequence, seed-coating neonicotinoid insecticides that are used worldwide on corn crops have been blamed for honeybee decline. In view of the currently increasing crop production, and also of corn as a renewable energy source, the correct use of these insecticides within sustainable agriculture is a cause of concern. In this paper, a probable—but so far underestimated—route of environmental exposure of honeybees to and intoxication with neonicotinoid insecticides, namely, the atmospheric emission of particulate matter containing the insecticide by drilling machines, has been quantitatively studied. Using optimized analytical procedures, quantitative measurements of both the emitted particulate and the consequent direct contamination of single bees approaching the drilling machine during the foraging activity have been determined. Experimental results show that the environmental release of particles containing neonicotinoids can produce high exposure levels for bees, with lethal effects compatible with colony losses phenomena observed by beekeepers.

Another Report on Bee Colony Extiction

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Broadcast power is said to depend upon the development of ultrafast diodes.

J. Appl. Phys. 108, 084316 (2010); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3501051 (3 pages)

Graphene-based ultrafast diode

D. Dragoman¹, M. Dragoman², and R. Plana³

¹Department of Physics, University of Bucharest, P.O. Box MG-11, 077125 Bucharest, Romania
²National Research and Development Institute in Microtechnology, Str. Erou Iancu Nicolae 32B, 077190 Bucharest, Romania
³LAAS CNRS, 7 Avenue du Colonel Roche, 31077 Toulouse Cedex 4, France

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(Received 27 July 2010; accepted 9 September 2010; published online 27 October 2010)                 

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We present a graphene-based ballistic diode, which is able to rectify an incident signal due to an oblique gate positioned between the two terminals of the device. The operating point of the diode can be controlled by the applied gate voltage, whereas the current-voltage dependence of the device can be changed by varying the inclination angle of the gate. In particular, the ideality factor of the graphene-based diode can take values higher or lower than 1 by modifying this inclination angle. The rectifying properties of the graphene diode are thus tunable, in deep contrast with semiconductor-based diodes.

© 2010 American Institute of Physics

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1. INTRODUCTION
2. SCHOTTKY-LIKE DIODE ON GRAPHENE
3. CONCLUSION

Food Ingredients

This is my personal list of substances to try to avoid.   You would think someone would have learned to at least try to keep heavy metals out of the food supply.

Food  ingredients to minimize:
·     Arsenic (linked to stomach cancer)
·     Cadmium (linked to breast cancer)
·      Lead (Brain damage)
·      Excessive levels of Phosphates (linked to lung cancer)

Artificial colors

Artificial sweeteners like aspartame and saccharin

Acesulfame-K (acesulfame potassium)

Ammonium chloride

Azodicarbonamide

Benzoates

BHA and BHT (butylated hydroxyanisole and butylated hydroxytoluene)

Brominated vegetable oil

Calcium saccharin

Calcium stearoyl-2-lactylate

Cyclamates

Dimethylpolysiloxane

Ethylene oxide

Ethoxyquin

High fructose corn syrup

Hydrogenated fats

Methyl silicon

Monosodium glutamate (MSG)

Nitrates/nitrites

Partially hydrogenated oil

Polydextrose

Potassium benzoate

Propylparaben

Sodium sulfite

Sulfites (sulfur dioxide)

TBHQ (tertiary butylhydroquinone)

Tetrasodium EDTA

Opel's GaAs Poet Technology 100 GHz Clock Speed

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I got to see the IBM demonstration of how their tracking system works.  It can monitor the doctor to make sure he washes his hands for the minimum require amount of time before he touches a patient, the location of a patient, whether he falls, etc. It seems like a lawyer’s agenda to deal with civil law suits. The Goths in their legal system had a more direct way of dealing with the excessively litigious nature of their society. 

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A little Gothic

Some things just sound better in gothic.

þata auk leik meinata bi sunjai ist mats, jah þata bloþ mein bi sunjai ist draggk.

þata = This

auk = for

leik = flesh

meinata = Mine

bi = in

sunjai = truth

ist = is

mats = food

jah = and

bloþ = blood

draggk = drink