Most marine bacteria produce exopolysaccharides (EPS), and bacterial EPS represent an important source of dissolved organic carbon in marine ecosystems.It was proposed that bacterial EPS rich in uronic acid is resistant to mineralization by microbes and thus has a long residence time in global oceans.To confirm this hypothesis, bacterial EPS rich i

This paper presents a task allocation-oriented framework to enable efficient in-network processing and cost-effective multi-hop resource sharing for dynamic multi-hop multimedia wireless sensor networks with low node mobility, e.g., pedestrian speeds.The proposed system incorporates a fast task reallocation algorithm to quickly recover from possibl

The May 23, 2011, plasticizer incident was one of the most serious food safety issues that ever occurred in Taiwan.Most, if not all, plasticizer-contaminated food items were due to malicious replacement of palm oil with phthalate plasticizer(s) in the cloudy-agent formulas by UTI CLEANSE two upstream manufacturers.The incumbent agencies in Taiwan t

Wheat Fusarium head blight (FHB), caused by Fusarium species, is a widespread and destructive fungal disease.In addition to the substantial yield and revenue losses, diseased grains are often contaminated with Fusarium mycotoxins, making them unsuitable for human consumption or use as animal feed.As a vital food and feed ingredient in China, the qu