Without agar, countries could not produce vaccines or the “miracle drug” penicillin, especially critical in wartime. In fact, they risked a “breakdown of [the] public health service” that would have had “far-reaching and serious results,” according to Lieutenant-General Ernest Bradfield. Extracted from marine algae and solidified into a jelly-like substrate, agar provides the surface on which scientists grow colonies of microbes for vaccine production and antibiotic testing. “The most important service that agar renders to mankind, in war or in peace, is as a bacteriological culture medium,” wrote oceanographer C.K. Tseng in a 1944 essay titled “A Seaweed Goes to War.”3
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Schaeffler is hoping to use robots in its own factories – for example, to load freshly made parts from conveyor belts into washing machines, prior to packaging them for shipment. "We are already experiencing a labour shortage," says Kehr. I ask whether humans who currently are doing this task will be retrained for other roles in the factory and Kehr says, "Absolutely."
表面的原因并不复杂——大宗商品价格下跌。超级周期结束，铜价回落，矿业投资减弱，这是几乎所有资源出口国都会面临的冲击。但更深层的原因在于，秘鲁极不稳定的政治环境。