Sentences with phrase «including chemical plants»

During the next 25 years he produced several bodies of personal work including Chemical Plants, 1989, a photo essay shot in petrochemical facilities; Subway Portraits, 2002 - 03, a response to 9/11; and Brooklyn Shadows, 2006 - 08, images of barren trees projected onto the raw, urban canvas of concrete and asphalt.
Principal stationary pollution sources include chemical plants, coal - fired power plants, oil refineries, petrochemical plants, nuclear waste disposal activity, incinerators, large livestock farms (dairy cows, pigs, poultry, etc.), PVC factories, metals production factories, plastics factories, and other heavy industry.
Principal stationary pollution sources include chemical plants, coal - fired power plants, oil refineries, nuclear waste disposal activity, incinerators, large animal farms, PVC factories, metals production factories, plastics factories, and other heavy industry.

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The official archives of The Coca - Cola Company that includes exhibits such as the original stock certificates of forbearer Pemberton Chemical Company, an opportunity to sample 100 drinks from the beverage giant's portfolio of brands from around the world, a retail store, an advertising archive, a miniature bottling plant that allows you to see the process of turning the syrup into the finished product, an advertising theater with commercials from the past century in multiple languages around the world, and more.
[9] Cotton accounted for 5.7 % by value of all the plant protection chemicals sold that year, including 16.1 % of all insecticide sales, 3.9 % of herbicide sales, 4 % of growth regulators / desiccants / defoliants, and 1 % of world fungicide sales.
Other facilities and areas include a clean in place area, milk and water silos, dissolved air flotation plant, water and wastewater holding tanks, and bulk chemical storage.
Did you know that the sea around the UK is home to more than 8000 different of species of plants and animals, but this wonderful marine environment is being ruined by pollution, including rubbish left on beaches, sewage and chemical and oil spills.
Hickey researched a man - made chemical, perfluorooctanoic acid, that has been used since the 1940s to make industrial and household products, like nonstick coatings and heat - resistant wiring, including at a factory owned by Saint - Gobain Performance Plastics near the village water treatment plant.
An internal investigation at the Dupont Yerkes Chemical Plant has left three members of management without jobs after a notebook surfaced that included doodles of the plant exploPlant has left three members of management without jobs after a notebook surfaced that included doodles of the plant exploplant exploding.
Projects include the construction of a manufacturing plant on the Lotte Chemical site in Teesside, expansion of the Haribo factory near Wakefield and the development of a former eye hospital in Manchester into a biomedical centre of excellence.
The plant's emissions, which include two carcinogenic chemicals, account for nearly half the county's risk score.
A: The county is building the amphitheater on a site that was a dumping ground for hazardous chemicals from the Solvay Process soda ash plant, which later became Allied Chemical Co.The chemicals disposed (from at least 1926 to 1944) include phenols, benzene, toluene, xylene and naphthalene.
According to the state, one of the sources of contamination is the Saint Gobain plant, which manufactures plastics, and other chemicals, including PFOA.
It also gives the location of nearby environmental trouble spots, including brownfield sites, hazardous waste dumps and chemical plants.
Bio-jet fuel can be produced from various plant materials, including oil crops, sugar crops, starchy plants and lignocellulosic biomass, through various chemical and biological routes.
Other agricultural production goods include timber, fertilizers, animal hides, leather, industrial chemicals (starch, sugar, alcohols and resins), fibers (cotton, wool, hemp, silk and flax), fuels (methane from biomass, ethanol, biodiesel), cut flowers, ornamental and nursery plants, tropical fish and birds for the pet trade, and both legal and illegal drugs (biopharmaceuticals, tobacco, marijuana, opium, cocaine).
These include a plant - produced chemical called resveratrol, which spurs cells to increase production of sirtuins, the proteins that promote cell survival.
Crops and weeds from this plant family, which includes tobacco, produce chemicals such as nicotine that deter feeding by most insects, but not M. sexta, which makes its physiology especially interesting to scientists.
Garlic mustard's weapon, Klironomos finds, is a chemical that kills the soil fungi that help many plants, including woody trees, obtain key nutrients.
7 Before you vegetarians get on your high tofu horse: Nitrites and their chemical relatives, nitrates, are ubiquitous in plants, including vegetables and grains.
In recent years, scientists have identified a host of compounds called chemical elicitors — found, for example, in insect saliva — that can limit plant defenses, including the production of bad - tasting compounds that ward off herbivores.
The kit aims to teach «basic chemistry», along with «crystal growing, physics, magnetism, optics, growing plants» and much more, even including «chromatography» — all without chemicals.
The CO2 will come from a plant that processes corn into multiple products, including corn syrup, food chemicals and ethanol.
Many plants, including the wild tomato species used in this study, produce chemical compounds to repel insect pests and other hungry herbivores.
Other compounds that have been tested to stress plant cells include heavy metals, chemicals such as methyl jasmonate and sodium acetate, and the cell walls of microorganisms.
When grown in TNT - laden areas, which include old mines, waste sites, and military conflict zones, plants absorb and remove the toxic chemicals from the soil through their roots in a process known as remediation.
During the past decade, some cancer research has highlighted the potential therapies found in plants, including chemicals found in foods such as turmeric, apple peels and green tea.
«What is remarkable is that the plants exposed to different vibrations, including those made by a gentle wind or different insect sounds that share some acoustic features with caterpillar feeding vibrations did not increase their chemical defenses,» Cocroft said.
Plant defenses — which can include induced cell fortification, cell suicide, toxic chemicals, and defensive enzymes and proteins — typically were sufficient to keep the infection in check, but not strong enough to eliminate it.
The researchers performed a number of tests to eliminate the possibility of contamination from modern wheat, including trying to sequence DNA from the chemical solutions it used in the experiments, but no plant sequences were detected.
Plants (and other things that photosynthesize) are the world's primary producers and have been converting the sun's energy into usable chemical form, including food for animals, for billions of years.
A chemical element found abundantly on planet earth, in rocks, plants and animals (including humans).
In keeping with HHMI's «people, not projects» approach to funding, this competition is open to those dedicated to basic research from both doctoral and / or medical training paths in the biomedical and life science disciplines, including plant, evolutionary, chemical and computational biology, as well as biophysics and biomedical engineering.
Other higher - tech options include using chemicals to absorb CO2 from the air, or burning plants for energy and capturing the CO2 that would otherwise be released, then storing it permanently deep below the ground, called bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS).
The land also includes buckthorn, a non-native plant species, which is known to change the chemical composition of the soil and remove light from the canopy trees.
These include environmentally friendly heterogeneous catalysis, energy efficient microwave and ultrasonic - activated processes, supercritical fluid extraction of valuable chemicals from plants, and novel materials derived from biomass.
Continued expert reaction to Hurricane Harvey including reports of an explosion at a chemical plant in Houston as a result of the flooding.
Susan Amara, USA - «Regulation of transporter function and trafficking by amphetamines, Structure - function relationships in excitatory amino acid transporters (EAATs), Modulation of dopamine transporters (DAT) by GPCRs, Genetics and functional analyses of human trace amine receptors» Tom I. Bonner, USA (Past Core Member)- Genomics, G protein coupled receptors Michel Bouvier, Canada - Molecular Pharmacology of G protein - Coupled Receptors; Molecular mechanisms controlling the selectivity and efficacy of GPCR signalling Thomas Burris, USA - Nuclear Receptor Pharmacology and Drug Discovery William A. Catterall, USA (Past Core Member)- The Molecular Basis of Electrical Excitability Steven Charlton, UK - Molecular Pharmacology and Drug Discovery Moses Chao, USA - Mechanisms of Neurotophin Receptor Signaling Mark Coles, UK - Cellular differentiation, human embryonic stem cells, stromal cells, haematopoietic stem cells, organogenesis, lymphoid microenvironments, develomental immunology Steven L. Colletti, USA Graham L Collingridge, UK Philippe Delerive, France - Metabolic Research (diabetes, obesity, non-alcoholic fatty liver, cardio - vascular diseases, nuclear hormone receptor, GPCRs, kinases) Sir Colin T. Dollery, UK (Founder and Past Core Member) Richard M. Eglen, UK Stephen M. Foord, UK David Gloriam, Denmark - GPCRs, databases, computational drug design, orphan recetpors Gillian Gray, UK Debbie Hay, New Zealand - G protein - coupled receptors, peptide receptors, CGRP, Amylin, Adrenomedullin, Migraine, Diabetes / obesity Allyn C. Howlett, USA Franz Hofmann, Germany - Voltage dependent calcium channels and the positive inotropic effect of beta adrenergic stimulation; cardiovascular function of cGMP protein kinase Yu Huang, Hong Kong - Endothelial and Metabolic Dysfunction, and Novel Biomarkers in Diabetes, Hypertension, Dyslipidemia and Estrogen Deficiency, Endothelium - derived Contracting Factors in the Regulation of Vascular Tone, Adipose Tissue Regulation of Vascular Function in Obesity, Diabetes and Hypertension, Pharmacological Characterization of New Anti-diabetic and Anti-hypertensive Drugs, Hypotensive and antioxidant Actions of Biologically Active Components of Traditional Chinese Herbs and Natural Plants including Polypehnols and Ginsenosides Adriaan P. IJzerman, The Netherlands - G protein - coupled receptors; allosteric modulation; binding kinetics Michael F Jarvis, USA - Purines and Purinergic Receptors and Voltage-gated ion channel (sodium and calcium) pharmacology Pain mechanisms Research Reproducibility Bong - Kiun Kaang, Korea - G protein - coupled receptors; Glutamate receptors; Neuropsychiatric disorders Eamonn Kelly, Prof, UK - Molecular Pharmacology of G protein - coupled receptors, in particular opioid receptors, regulation of GPCRs by kinasis and arrestins Terry Kenakin, USA - Drug receptor pharmacodynamics, receptor theory Janos Kiss, Hungary - Neurodegenerative disorders, Alzheimer's disease Stefan Knapp, Germany - Rational design of highly selective inhibitors (so call chemical probes) targeting protein kinases as well as protein interaction inhibitors of the bromodomain family Andrew Knight, UK Chris Langmead, Australia - Drug discovery, GPCRs, neuroscience and analytical pharmacology Vincent Laudet, France (Past Core Member)- Evolution of the Nuclear Receptor / Ligand couple Margaret R. MacLean, UK - Serotonin, endothelin, estrogen, microRNAs and pulmonary hyperten Neil Marrion, UK - Calcium - activated potassium channels, neuronal excitability Fiona Marshall, UK - GPCR molecular pharmacology, structure and drug discovery Alistair Mathie, UK - Ion channel structure, function and regulation, pain and the nervous system Ian McGrath, UK - Adrenoceptors; autonomic transmission; vascular pharmacology Graeme Milligan, UK - Structure, function and regulation of G protein - coupled receptors Richard Neubig, USA (Past Core Member)- G protein signaling; academic drug discovery Stefan Offermanns, Germany - G protein - coupled receptors, vascular / metabolic signaling Richard Olsen, USA - Structure and function of GABA - A receptors; mode of action of GABAergic drugs including general anesthetics and ethanol Jean - Philippe Pin, France (Past Core Member)- GPCR - mGLuR - GABAB - structure function relationship - pharmacology - biophysics Helgi Schiöth, Sweden David Searls, USA - Bioinformatics Graeme Semple, USA - GPCR Medicinal Chemistry Patrick M. Sexton, Australia - G protein - coupled receptors Roland Staal, USA - Microglia and neuroinflammation in neuropathic pain and neurological disorders Bart Staels, France - Nuclear receptor signaling in metabolic and cardiovascular diseases Katerina Tiligada, Greece - Immunopharmacology, histamine, histamine receptors, hypersensitivity, drug allergy, inflammation Georg Terstappen, Germany - Drug discovery for neurodegenerative diseases with a focus on AD Mary Vore, USA - Activity and regulation of expression and function of the ATP - binding cassette (ABC) transporters
Paul's research expertise includes: cultivation of marine bacteria, microbial distribution and interactions with marine plants and invertebrates, sequence - based approaches to the discovery of natural products from marine microbes, comparative genomics, microbial chemical ecology, molecular evolution and natural product biosynthesis.
The new data indicated that much of the change came from heavy industry — including plants that produce coal chemicals and cement, as well as those using coking coal, which goes to make steel, Ms. Jones said.
At some point between 1999 and 2008, each of the participants also provided at least one blood and urine sample which the scientists analyzed for the presence of various chemicals, including dioxins contained in pesticides, phthalates found in fragrance, plastics, cosmetics and hair spray, plant - derived estrogens, and polychlorinated biphenyls, among others.
What's more, synthetic marijuana — referred to by a number of names including Spice, K - 2, Moon Rocks, and more — relies on a mixture of manmade chemicals sprayed onto miscellaneous dried plants and herbs and often incites erratic behavior in users.
Most of the research has been done on folks with very high exposures, including those who lived near chemical plants in West Virginia and Ohio, where drinking water had become contaminated.
It doesn't bog down the reader with botanical and chemical minutiae, but rather gives a snapshot on the plant highlighting only the most relevant aspects, including its medicinal benefits, how to prepare it, and a suggest dose.
Sea vegetables are also one of the best food sources of iodine (which is essential for thyroid function) and a good source of phenolic compounds, a group of plant chemicals that may provide a host of health benefits including antioxidants, anti-inflammatory, and anti-clotting properties.
Plants contain thousands of natural chemicals (phytochemicals) that help your body to work properly, including production of enzymes and antioxidants.
Cruciferous vegetables provide lots of nutrients, including folate, vitamin C, selenium, potassium and a number of beneficial plant chemicals.
Previously this team had focused on the impact of endocrine disrupting chemicals, including pesticides, herbicides, industrial products and plant phytoestrogens, on reproductive and neuroendocrine function in Japanese quail.
... cocoa flavanols (plant chemicals protecting against oxidative stress) have a host of benefits, including the potential to decrease the risk of cardiovascular disease.
Post college, and throughout my certification course in California Native Plant Botany and Herbal Medicine, I continued to formulate skincare products, only this time, the ingredients included wild botanicals with potent chemical compounds.
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