On paper, growing herbs from seeds appears to be a no-brainer way to save money. For the price of one bunch of fresh parsley at the store, you can often buy a seed packet that yields dozens—even ...

Then there are specialty herbs that are difficult to source or harvest, such as saffron, the world’s most expensive spice, which requires around 70,000 Crocus sativus flowers to yield just one ...

Determining the failure propagation paths is always an important content of safety analysis. The traditional safety analysis methods are hard to deal with large complex systems. Therefore, model-based ...

This paper describes ultra-high capacity long haul optical transmission technologies based on multicore fibers (MCFs) with space-division multiplexing. First, we discuss the factors limiting the total ...

The myth that dead bodies cause a major risk of disease, which is reiterated in all large natural disasters from the earthquake in Managua, Nicaragua (1972) to hurricane Mitch, the Turkish earthquake, ...