ROW COVERS, WATERMELON, AND HAIL DAMAGE

Predicting Damage of Meloidogyne incognita on Watermelon.

Quantitative growth response of watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) sensitive to Meloidogyne incognita is poorly understood. Determination of soil population densities of second-stage juveniles (J2) of M. incognita with Baermann funnel extraction often is inaccurate at low soil temperatures. In greenhouse experiments, three sandy soils were inoculated with dilution series of population densities of ...

Hail suppression and society.

An interdisciplinary assessment of hail suppression in the past, present, and future has shown it to be currently scientifically uncertain but a potentially beneficial future technology. An established suppression technology would be widely adopted in the Great Plains, providing benefits to agriculture and secondarily to the American consumer. Development of a reliable technology will require a...

Hail and Farewell

Hail Sensing Probes: Feasibility Analysis for Probes to Monitor and Study Hail

This work presents the feasibility study regarding the realization of hail sensing probes for remote sensing and study of hail. The probes are designed as artificial hailstones in order to study both the physical properties of the portion of atmosphere where the formation of hail occurs and the modification of atmospheric conditions while the hailstones are falling to the ground. The basic idea...

Generation of Minimal Vertex Covers for Row/Column Allocation in Self-Repairable Arrays

This paper considers the problem of applying neural network for logic circuit testing and proposes an efficient method based on hyperneural network (HNN). The HNN uses an energy function that not only considers binary relations but also captures all higher order relations among N neurons. We illustrate the hyperneural concept using two formulations. First, a constraint engery function is define...