Automated lettuce thinners reduce labor requirements and increase speed of thinning

Automated lettuce thinners reduce labor requirements and increase speed of thinning

been hindered by a declining supply of farm labor (Taylor et al. 2012), generating interest among growers in methods to reduce labor requirements for thinning, weeding, irrigating and harvesting (Fennimore et al. 2010; 2014). Thinning lettuce is particularly labor intensive, and most lettuce fields in California are hand-thinned (manually thinned). Automated lettuce thinners that use machine vi...

Automated lettuce thinners reduce labor requirements and increase speed of thinning

been hindered by a declining supply of farm labor (Taylor et al. 2012), generating interest among growers in methods to reduce labor requirements for thinning, weeding, irrigating and harvesting (Fennimore et al. 2010; 2014). Thinning lettuce is particularly labor intensive, and most lettuce fields in California are hand-thinned (manually thinned). Automated lettuce thinners that use machine vi...

A Thinning Method of Linear And Planar Array Antennas To Reduce SLL of Radiation Pattern By GWO And ICA Algorithms

In the recent years, the optimization techniques using evolutionary algorithms have been widely used to solve electromagnetic problems. These algorithms use thinning the antenna arrays with the aim of reducing the complexity and thus achieving the optimal solution and decreasing the side lobe level. To obtain the optimal solution, thinning is performed by removing some elements in an array thro...

Increase Safety, Reduce Costs

Labor and material requirements for hospital construction.

In 1980, each $1,000 . of contract cost for hospital construction generated an estimated 51 .4 hours of work, according to a Bureau of Labor Statistics survey .' This means that each $1 billion spent on hospital construction in 1980 would have created 27,129 jobs-12,850 in the construction industry and 14,279 in industries which produce and deliver the materials, equipment, and supplies used in...