Residents of 401 mobile homes in Georgia, Mississippi, Illinois, and Oklahoma were surveyed after they heard a tornado warning. Most residents (69%) did not seek shelter during the warning. Half of those who sought shelter went to the frame house of a friend, neighbor, or relative, and 25% of...

This paper presents the results of plant-site experiments conducted on several natural-gas-fired, reverberatory aluminum furnaces to evaluate overall energy efficiency and to analyze major sources of heat loss, providing an overall picture of current aluminum melting furnaces in the US aluminum...

This paper argues that whether genetic modification of crops is seen as radically different or simply a further step of ‘traditional’ breeding techniques affects the perception of the associated benefits and risks of their commercialisation and the wider context scrutinised to assess...