Insuring Against Losses from Transgenic Contamination: The Case of Pharmaceutical Maize

Concerns about the risk of food supply contamination and the resulting financial losses have limited the development and commercialization of certain pharmaceutical plants. This article develops an insurance pricing model that helps translate these concerns into a cost-benefit analysis. The model first estimates the physical dispersal of maize pollen subject to a number of weather parameters. This distribution is then validated with the limited amount of currently available field trial data. The physical distribution is then used to calculate the premium for a fair-valued insurance policy that would fund the destruction of possibly contaminated fields. The flexible framework can be readily adapted to other crops, management practices, and regions

A multi-layer extension of the stochastic heat equation

Motivated by recent developments on solvable directed polymer models, we define a 'multi-layer' extension of the stochastic heat equation involving non-intersecting Brownian motions.Comment: v4: substantially extended and revised versio

Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) and Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) Conceptual Design Report Volume 2: The Physics Program for DUNE at LBNF

The Physics Program for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) at the Fermilab Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) is described

Carbon Monoxide Emission Control with Radiation Pyrometer

Paper from the AFRC 2016 conference titled Carbon Monoxide Emission Control with Radiation PyrometerThe environmental requirements of incinerators and oxidizers have become more restrictive as a result of the tighter emissions standards. MACT regulations have taken the lowest test emissions from different incinerators to generate a composite emissions value that all incinerators of that class must met. Medical waste incinerators have very stringent emissions values that must be met particularly difficult task because the composition of the waste stream can not be predetermined. These waste streams have the potential of rapid changing in flow rate and organic content. To maintain control of the oxidizer, a rapid temperature measurement system must be instituted. Radiation thermocouples have been demonstrated to be effective on may process that have a uniform gas composition. ; ; Several radiation thermocouples were tested in an different incinerators and oxidizers that are subject to rapid changes in the flow rate and composition. Process control was provided and demonstrated to adequately control the oxidizer. A summary of the control parameters and the differences in response time and characteristics of the two radiation detectors and a standard thermocouple will be made