Review on bio-based plastic for future applications

This paper reviews the future applications of bio-based plastics. Most plastics are made through petrochemical processes. In other words, they start out as the chemical byproducts of oil refining, which are turned into a variety of plastics through chemical processes that form long molecular chains known as polymers. These polymers give plastics their structure. Bioplastics are biodegradable materials that come from renewable sources and can be used to reduce the problem of plastic waste that is suffocating the planet and contaminating the environment. The advantages of using bioplastics are bioplastics won’t leach chemicals into food, non- toxic and offer a zero waste end life options. Bioplastics can be recycled with conventional plastics to produce a great material for food packaging. It also has a socio�economic benefit that often have a positive impact on the consumers who are increasingly becoming aware of environmental issues. As conclusion, it is proven that bioplastics give promising future to cleaner and safer world

Comparing static Gantt and mosaic charts for visualization of task schedules

A mosaic chart has been proposed for representation of events on a timeline. While early studies demonstrated the effectiveness of mosaics in supporting visualization of multimedia records on a meeting browser, the usability of mosaics as a static timeline visualization has not been studied in more general settings. This paper investigates the use of the mosaic charts for visualization of project schedules. A user study was conducted to compare a building project schedule encoded alternatively as a mosaic or as a Gantt chart. Although the study focused on static graphs, for which the Gantt technique is usually very effective, results showed that the users were as fast and accurate at answering the questions using the mosaic representation as they were using Gantt charts. The analysis and experiment indicated algorithmic, space-filling and interpretation limitations of the mosaic technique. We suggest possible design improvements to overcome some of these limitations