A RESPONSE BY THE FOOD INDUSTRY TO THE CHANGING ENVIRONMENT

Identifies the broad parameters of the synthetic food situation and enumerates marketing problem confronting manufacturers of synthetic food products.Marketing,

Health Care in Rural Communities: Exploring the Development of Informal and Voluntary Care

Nation-state restructuring has resulted in significant political, economic and social change in rural communities. One manifestation of this transformation has been the changing nature of local governance, characterised by the re-working of central-local relations and public- private responsibilities, such that local informal and voluntary sectors now play an active and direct role in the organisation and delivery of health care services. This paper investigates the relationship between the changing nature of local governance and the provision of health care services, and places it within the context of rural communities and population aging in Canada. In particular, it considers the ascendancy of informal and voluntary sectors with respect to homecare in rural Ontario, and features an analysis of data from the National Population Health Survey and the National Survey of Giving, Volunteering and Participating, representing user (demand) and provider (supply) perspectives respectively. The results provide a cross-section of informal and voluntary home care in the late 1990s, which indicates that informal and voluntary sectors are major players in the local organisation and delivery of health care services in rural communities. This suggests that the current state of health care provision in rural communities of Ontario is affected very much by the changing nature of local governance associated with restructuring. The 'snap-shot' of health care in rural communities presented in this paper highlights the need to examine further the relationship between governance and health care services at the local level. It also points to the need for more detailed data sets that integrate health, informal and voluntary care data at meaningful geographical and administrative scales to reflect clearly rural communities in Canada.health care; rural communities

An Evaluation of Proposed Mechanisms of Slab Flattening in Central Mexico

Central Mexico is the site of an enigmatic zone of flat subduction. The general geometry of the subducting slab has been known for some time and is characterized by a horizontal zone bounded on either side by two moderately dipping sections. We systematically evaluate proposed hypotheses for shallow subduction in Mexico based on the spatial and temporal evidence, and we find no simple or obvious explanation for the shallow subduction in Mexico. We are unable to locate an oceanic lithosphere impactor, or the conjugate of an impactor, that is most often called upon to explain shallow subduction zones as in South America, Japan, and Laramide deformation in the US. The only bathymetric feature that is of the right age and in the correct position on the conjugate plate is a set of unnamed seamounts that are too small to have a significant effect on the buoyancy of the slab. The only candidate that we cannot dismiss is a change in the dynamics of subduction through a change in wedge viscosity, possibly caused by water brought in by the slab

Shearing-Stress Measurements by use of a Heated Element

The rate of local heat transfer from a solid surface to a moving fluid is related to the local skin frinction. Measurements of the heat transmission from small elements embedded in the surface of a solid can thus be used to botain local skin-friction coefficients. This method was applied by Fage and Falkner for laminar boundary layers and by Ludwieg for turbulent boundary layers. The present report discussed the possible range of application of such an instrument in low- and high-speed flow and presents experimental data to show that a very simple instrument can be used to obtain laminar and turbulent skin-friction coefficients with a single calibration. The instrument consists of an ordinary hot-wire cemented into a groove in the surface. The heat loss from the wire is proportional to the cube root of the wall shearing stress, and the constant of proportionality may be found by one calibration, for example, in laminar flow

THE OPTICAL SCANNER - FRIEND OR FOE?

Examines pros and cons of the optical scanner for various institutions in the distribution channel. Concludes it's good.Agribusiness,

Spacelab 3 vapor crystal growth experiment

The Space Shuttle Challenger, with Spacelab 3 as its payload, was launched into orbit April 29, 1985. The mission, number 51-B, emphasized materials processing in space, although a wide variety of experiments in other disciplines were also carried onboard. One of the materials processing experiments on this flight is described, specifically the growth of single crystals of mercuric iodide by physical vapor transport

Permian foraminifera from Turkey

14 p., 32 pl., 2 fig.http://paleo.ku.edu/contributions.htm

\u27The Good Shepherd Lays Down His Life for the Sheep\u27 (John 10:11, 15, 17): Questioning the Limits of a Johannine Metaphor

Scholars have long recognized that the Good Shepherd discourse reflects a realistic picture of the ancient Palestinian shepherd and his relationship to the flock. But how far should the details in this metaphor be pressed? It is often asserted that any halfway decent shepherd would have been willing to die on behalf of his flock and that Jesus’ statement to that effect (10:11, 15, 17) reflects a common expectation. This scenario, however, would actually leave a flock more exposed to danger. Thus, it is appropriate to understand Jesus’ pronouncement as falling outside the realm of historical verisimilitude and better to regard the “laying down of the shepherd’s life” as the singular element of the discourse that is intended to advance the story’s christological agenda