One man's trash

Genetically engineered phytoremediation: one man's trash is another man's transgene.

Plant-based environmental remediation, or phytoremediation, has been widely pursued in recent years as a favorable clean-up technology and is an area of intensive scientific investigation. For the vast majority of field applications, vegetative 'phyto-crops' are selected specifically for their capacity for site decontamination and not for additional concurrent or post-remediation utility. By co...

Trash Compaction

Let P be a set of n objects on a square grid. A push is a transformation of P that involves sweeping a horizontal or vertical line by one unit, starting from the hull of P , displacing objects in the direction of the sweep. For example, when pushing to the right, all the leftmost objects are displaced one unit to the right. This in turn displaces other objects further right. Given P , we want t...

Tree structured fiber optics MANs

3617P HYONA - trash

Visual scenes typically contain many objects that compete for the control of attention and saccades, on the basis of their intrinsic salience (exogenous control) or their relevance for the goals of the observer (endogenous control). The present chapter reviews the evidence regarding the relationship between endogenous and exogenous attention and saccades. Furthermore, a competitive integration ...

Residuals: Trash or Treasure?

One of the significant challenges to the successful teaching of statistics is that of giving the topic some relevant historical perspective. Such an effort is worthwhile because many students need a context within which they can understand why we are studying a given technique and how that technique came about. In fact, many of our traditional statistical procedures can be associated with speci...