Monsanto: Q1. Does Monsanto maintain an ethical culture than can effectively respond to various stakeholders? I believe Monsanto makes an effort to have an ethical culture and for the most part they succeed. The bribery issues in Indonesia‚ within their own company‚ in the late 1990’s/early 2000’s were reported to the Department of Justice by Monsanto. This level of corporate governance is something I think many large corporations would not do. The farmers‚ who are primary stakeholders because
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Once the GMF appear in every single supermarket‚ do you know what exactly you are going to eat? GMF means genetically modified foods. The genetically modified foods are initially born in U.S. in 1983. About thirty years before‚ people use the original seeds or sprouts to grow their fruits and vegetables. However‚ as the well development of the genetically modified foods‚ the natural foods are gradually replaced in nowadays society. And as the genetically modified foods starts gain its popularity
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California based genetic foods producer Calgene Inc. has been chosen as the subject for the case analysis. The company‚ which is now part of Monsanto‚ introduced genetically modified tomatoes in the year 1992 called the “Flavr Savr Tomato”. This case analysis uses the Langenderfer & Rockness’ Seven Stage Framework to analyse the ethical decisions taken by the company. Stage 1: What are the facts of the case? Calgene Inc. has invested $20 million in producing genetically modified (GM) tomatoes
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Our analysis of drought indices focuses on the five crops with the broadest geographic distribution and highest production in the U.S.: barley‚ corn‚ cotton‚ soybean and winter wheat (Figure 1). Data on crop production for each county are collected by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and made available by the National Agricultural Statistics Service (https://quickstats.nass.usda.gov). Only crop statistics under non-irrigated conditions were considered in this study. We created five
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newest innovations in medicine but there is still yet to be a perfect ideal antibiotic. In this experiment six antibiotics will be tested to determine which is the most effective on gram-negative bacterium Escherichia Coli and gram-positive bacterium Bacillus Cereus. In previous class experiments‚ gram-staining was conducted to determine the qualities of gram-positive
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Optical Technologies: The Medical All-Rounder Called Light According to the German industry association‚ Spectaris‚ the second largest market for optical technologies in Germany is the medical technology segment. In 2005‚ 2.9 billion Euros of annual turnover was generated in Germany‚ which includes eyeglass lenses‚ microscopes and laser as well as diagnostic scanner for the laboratory. Estimates for the area endoscopes and supplies state that the turnover regarding the international market will
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A review of the contemporary knowledge of bovine tuberculosis and government policy in Iran Keyvan Tadayon a‚b‚ Ken Forbes b‚ Davoud Soleimani c‚ Reza Aref Pajoohi a‚ Bahman Marhmati c‚ Jamaloddin Javidi c‚ Rouholah Keshavarz a‚ Kioomars Soleimani a‚ Ali Shakibamehr a‚ Mohammad Mohammad Taheri a‚ Shojaat Dashti Pour a‚ Nader Mosavari a‚* a Razi Vaccine & Serum Research Institute‚ Karaj‚ Iran b Medical Microbiology Department‚ Medical School‚ Aberdeen University‚ Aberdeen‚ Scotland‚ UK c Iranian
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UNKNOWN LAB REPORT UNKNOWN NUMBER 54 Ron Williams 7-28-05 Bio 205 Prof. Curlee Fall 2005 Purpose There are many reasons for knowing the identity of microorganisms. The reasons range from the knowing the causative agent of a disease in a patient‚ so as to know how it can be treated‚ to knowing the correct microorganism to be used for making certain foods or antibiotics. This study was done by applying all of the methods that have been learned so far in the microbiology laboratory
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2.4 Mechanism Of Phosphate Solubilization: In contrary to Nitrogen soluble Phosphorous is not supplied to plants by atmosphere . Due to this reason the primary and secondary minerals and/or organic compounds are the source of P to great extent. In soil solution concentration of phosphorous is least as compare to other nutrients and ranges from0.001 to 1mg/ml Brady and Weil (2002 ).There are widely three categories of P compounds in soil: (i) compounds which are inorganic‚ (ii) organic compounds
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microscopes. Simple Microscopes Compound Microscopes Scanning Electron Microscope Transmission Electron Microscope #4. Identify these stains: (Functions and Reagents) Simple Stain- CULTURES: Staphylococcus epidermis slant Bacillus megaterium broth MATERIALS USED: Methylene blue‚ Distilled water‚ Slide‚ Inoculating Loop FUNCTION: To observe shape size‚ morphology‚ and arrangement. ---FROM SOLID: (slant) 1. Mark the smears on the underside. 2. Place 1 to 2 loopfuls
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