Sentences with phrase «conditions at the plants»

The report found various unfavorable conditions at the plant, which the inspectors said «does not allow proper cleaning and maintenance» — which could be why the Listeria outbreak occurred.

Days after a news report focused on conditions at the plant, a California agency said it was investigating an episode that left a millwright's jaw broken.

The state departments of Labor, State and Environmental Conservation will lead the probe into worker safety, conditions at the plant, compliance with environmental regulations and overall compliance, Cuomo said.

Conditions at the plant are «really stable,» the plant manager, Akira Ono, recently told reporters.

And in response to the wave of press coverage about and activist condemnation of the conditions at those plants, Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook took offense at any suggestion that the company is indifferent to the workers in its supply chain.

In a congressional testimony yesterday, Gregory Jaczko, chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) said of the conditions at the plant: «We believe that radiation levels are extremely high.»

One of the potentially offsetting factors is the dry soil conditions at planting time in portions of the western Corn Belt.

Not exact matches

That deal seems to have fallen largely by the wayside, as the heating and air conditioning maker already let go of nearly 340 employees at the Indianapolis plant in July.

It said its gas conditioning plant at Hides, which processes gas before it is sent via a 760 - kilometre (472 - mile) pipeline to the PNG LNG export plant at Port Moresby, is continuing to operate.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo committed $ 750 million to fund the project, on the condition that SolarCity would generate 1,460 direct manufacturing jobs at the facility and spend $ 5 billion in related area investments in the next decade when the plant becomes fully operational.

In that respect Foxconn is probably the perfect partner to help Google achieve its vision given its history of poor working conditions and suicidal workers at its plants.

The U.S. consumer products company said Monday it was suspending operations at the plant due to deteriorating economic conditions and a shortage of raw materials.

They've still got an uphill battle to make sure that they meet the very stringent environmental conditions put forward in their partnership with the Squamish First Nation, but the proponents have respectfully engaged with First Nations, will provide job training and good, family - supporting jobs to local people, and will proceed in a way that minimizes climate changing emissions at the plant.

Biopolitics seeks, minimally, to bring about those elementary conditions which must be met if life — human, animal, and plant — is to survive at all and, maximally, to make possible the optimum enjoyment of existence.

When American Jews learned that workers at the Agriprocessors plant faced dire conditions, including receiving safety instructions in English even though many spoke only Spanish, the community entered a kosher crisis.

These plants are at the forefront of initiating best practices such as implementing employee - led safety committees, job observations and coaching, workplace condition monitoring and hazard analysis.

Under natural conditions, sugarcane plants flower only once a year and only at some locations, which reduces opportunities for crossing.

Over wintering is a fickle affair but you can improve your chances of success by: - Growing species that are more cold tolerate like Pubescens - Improving climatic conditions by bring plants indoors - Removing ripe pods before over wintering - Cutting back woody stems and removing dead or diseased growth to keep pest & disease at bay - Controlling water regimes If your attempts at over wintering are littered with more failures than success all is not lost.

It may be pertinent to mention that the book value of the power plant which is currently estimated at USD 325 million after five (5) years, with a life cycle of around 15 -20 years, will be handed over to the Government as a debt free asset which can be used to leverage and raise financing as a collateral or else the Government may choose to sell the operating asset to any investor who may not like to take any development risk, hence the plant being operational and in its best conditions.

Volunteering at local nature centers and farms and frequently walking in fields keep me aware of plant preferences for wet / dry and sun / shade conditions.

City Council members introduced what is being dubbed the «Ban the Baloney» resolution at the request of Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, who has switched to a plant - based diet to manage his diabetic condition.

In 2014, FERC granted New York City a 2 - year license to build a hydroelectric plant at the Cannonsville Dam, Preliminary work in 2015 led to the discovery of subsurface conditions, necessitating repairs and an extension of the deadline for the start of construction.

«I'm a plant scientist in Dr. Patel's lab at Big State University, with significant research experience in improving efficiency of various cropping systems under a range of environmental conditions, as well as working with parent lines development and hybrid seed production.

Research lags further in Europe «We need some dramatically new innovations,» he said, «research that is not ipso facto directed specifically toward a solution of a particular problem, but one which is aimed at a more fundamental understanding of the way plants grow and adapt to changes and conditions that they face.»

Jonathan Lynch, a plant physiologist at The Pennsylvania State University and another founder of the crops in silico movement, looks at root behavior under a range of soil nutrient conditions.

After listening to workers here, as well as at Foxconn's Shenzhen plant and Pegatron's Shanghai facility, a complex picture of working conditions emerged.

«This is because plant and animal pest numbers and vigour could increase under changed climatic conditions and at the same time impact on the persistence of native species.»

ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO — Hot spots of plant biodiversity may also be magnets for invading weeds that thrive in prime growing conditions, according to a study described here yesterday at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America.

Right: mature flowers of a tomato plant under hot conditions (32 degrees Celsius during the day, 26 at night).

Researchers at Tohoku University have found that plants activate autophagy in their leaf cells to derive amino acids that are used for survival under energy - starved «hunger» conditions.

He and Abordo, a mathematics major at the time, jumped at the chance to study how plants adjust their stomata in response to different atmospheric conditions.

«This provides evidence of a molecular genetic mechanism that is at work, coordinating adaptation of seed dormancy and flowering traits in the plants to accommodate environmental conditions,» said study co-author Heqiang «Alfred» Huo, a postdoctoral researcher in the Bradford lab.

«These benefits often translate to healthier plants producing greater yields at harvest, especially under stressful conditions.»

«At plant level, probes can be positioned at continuous levels of depth to determine the salt concentration to which roots are exposed and whether this concentration changes with the depth of the soil or in different weather conditionAt plant level, probes can be positioned at continuous levels of depth to determine the salt concentration to which roots are exposed and whether this concentration changes with the depth of the soil or in different weather conditionat continuous levels of depth to determine the salt concentration to which roots are exposed and whether this concentration changes with the depth of the soil or in different weather conditions.

«This research will help land managers better understand the conditions in which invasive plant species exist and which forest types are at risk of understory plant invasion.»

Also, climate change may allow some tropical and subtropical crops to thrive at mid-latitudes where they previously did not grow, but such changes could also improve conditions for crop pests and the spread of plant and animal diseases.

More than just an insurance policy against late frosts or unexpected dry spells, it turns out that seed dormancy has long - term advantages too: Plants whose seeds put off sprouting until conditions are more certain give rise to more species, finds in a team of researchers working at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center in North Carolina.

Taiwanese manufacturing giant Foxconn, which produces about 40 per cent of the world's electronics products, including iPhones, has recently come under fire over poor working conditions and high suicide rates at its plants in China.

Nuclear Elec - tric, which regularly assesses the level of neutron damage at its stations by monitoring the condition of samples of construction materials placed in the reactor, decided to shut down the plant's two reactors to investigate what was happening more thoroughly.

Furthermore, it might elucidate conditions and treatments that promote plant cell wall extensibility, and thus enhance plant growth at the cellular level.

To investigate, plant biochemist Autar Mattoo and colleagues at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Center in Beltsville, Maryland, grew tomatoes under two types of field conditions.

For six summers from 2010 to 2015, Theobald tracked environmental conditions and plant behavior for 48 species at 70 field plots, each one square meter, along the southern slope of Mount Rainier.

Fieldwork for the study — which was conducted by lead researcher Brittany Ayers, at the time an undergraduate in the Penn State Schreyer Honors College — was performed in a variety of weather conditions, which affected how the treatment plant dealt with the chemical compounds, Gall noted.

Human actions could also have created conditions that favoured domesticated plants over their wild brethren, says Mark Bush, an ecologist at the Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne.

«[This] study has important global implications, because we know early plants cooled the climate and increased the oxygen level in the Earth's atmosphere,» conditions that supported the expansion of terrestrial animal life, says Tim Lenton, an earth system scientist at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom who was not involved with the work.

The study was done at both the University of Georgia Horticulture Farm in Watkinsville, Georgia and at the University of Georgia Tifton campus so the scientists could compare plant responses under different environmental conditions.

Fossil evidence and reconstructions of past climatic conditions suggest that early flowering plants lived in warm tropical environments, explained co-author Jeremy Beaulieu, a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS) at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Masters Student, Rotation, Dept. of Plant Pathology December 2005 — April 2006 Cornell University, Geneva, NY Principal Investigator: Dr. Chris Smart The lab focuses on the identification of novel plant defense mechanisms under field conditions and is looking at the relationship between pathogen and insect resistPlant Pathology December 2005 — April 2006 Cornell University, Geneva, NY Principal Investigator: Dr. Chris Smart The lab focuses on the identification of novel plant defense mechanisms under field conditions and is looking at the relationship between pathogen and insect resistplant defense mechanisms under field conditions and is looking at the relationship between pathogen and insect resistance.

In Australia, at CSIRO plant Industry in Canberra, Richard Richards has bred drought tolerant wheat varieties called Vigour X-25 and Drysdale that yield 10 % to 20 % gains in arid conditions.

So on to plants and more musings of a non-expert: I understand that plants respond differently to different stimuli — when they are stressed they react differently from when they are relaxed and at peace with themselves — please do nt laugh you scientists because my brain is not a bad hard drive and I recall that some trees share resources with stressed neighbours under stressful conditions.