Costs of Adopting Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs) to Ensure Food Safety in Fresh Strawberries

Crop Production/Industries, Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety,

The Philippine Bakery Sector

Trade, Bakery, Philippines, Bakery Ingredients, Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety, International Relations/Trade, D4, F1,

Alternatives to Methyl Bromide in Michigan Field Production of Seedling Conifers and Herbaceous Perennials: Economic Comparisons

Crop Production/Industries,

FLORIDA AND THE FRESH STRAWBERRY INDUSTRY

Agribusiness,

Recapturing Value from Food Safety Certification: Incentives and Firm Strategy

Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety,

Characterization of superconducting through-silicon vias as capacitive elements in quantum circuits

The large physical size of superconducting qubits and their associated on-chip control structures presents a practical challenge towards building a large-scale quantum computer. In particular, transmons require a high-quality-factor shunting capacitance that is typically achieved by using a large coplanar capacitor. Other components, such as superconducting microwave resonators used for qubit state readout, are typically constructed from coplanar waveguides which are millimeters in length. Here we use compact superconducting through-silicon vias to realize lumped element capacitors in both qubits and readout resonators to significantly reduce the on-chip footprint of both of these circuit elements. We measure two types of devices to show that TSVs are of sufficient quality to be used as capacitive circuit elements and provide a significant reductions in size over existing approaches

Overlapping Agencies: The Collision of Cancer, Consumers, and Corporations in Richard Powers’s Gain

Richard Powers\u27s 1998 novel Gain establishes a complicated relationship between its two main characters, a corporation called Clare International and suburban mom named Laura Bodey. Readers, assuming the malignity of such corporations, mistake the hints Laura encounters that Clare is responsible for her ovarian cancer for facts. Such readings overlook the science of ovarian cancer as well as how Powers depicts Laura\u27s relation to her disease. I analyze Laura\u27s understudied half of the novel, framing it as a cancer narrative that reworks conventions of that genre. In placing her cancer in broad social and environmental contexts, Powers eschews the individualist strain that characterizes many illness narratives. In so doing, the novel demands engagement with consumer agency and bodily frailty in the face of corporate dominance