Comité TED 20

Expert Committee on Weeds Comité d ’ experts

For most of the next century, we will need to produce enough food for nine billion people instead of the six billion we are trying to feed today. If we try to improve the average diet as well, we may need to double annual world food production for most years of the next century. There is not much more land that can be devoted to agriculture without having an enormous environmental impact on for...

Se p 20 03 CUBIC STRUCTURES AND A RIEMANN - ROCH FORMULA FOR EQUIVARIANT EULER CHARACTERISTICS TED

The computation of Euler characteristics via geometric invariants is one of the fundamental problems of topology and geometry, and more recently of number theory. The incarnation of this problem we will consider in this paper concerns the equivariant Euler characteristics of coherent sheaves on projective flat schemes over Z on which a finite group G acts. These Euler characteristics lie in the...

Turbine Engine Diagnostics (TED)

expert system to aid the M1 Abrams tank mechanic find-and-fix problems in the AGT-1500 turbine engine. TED was designed to provide the apprentice mechanic with the ability to diagnose and repair the turbine engine like an expert mechanic. The expert system was designed and built by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and the U.S. Army Ordnance Center and School. This article discusses the relevan...

Farmer Ted Goes Natural

We’ve all been given a problem in a calculus class remarkably similar to the following one: Farmer Ted is building a chicken coop. He decides he can spare 190 square feet of his land for the coop, which will be built in the shape of a rectangle. Being a practical man, Farmer Ted wants to spend as little as possible on the chicken wire for the fence. What dimensions should he make the chicken co...

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