(Un)making the manual scavenger

Habits, Their Making and Unmaking

The Making and the Unmaking of a Dullard

relations, but as bushels of wheat, sacks of corn, fence boards, and barn timbers. His study of mechanics began with an "old oaken bucket" swung from an iron pulley, progressed through the grindstone stage to the mechanism of a reaper, to the profound discovery that the turning of a small gear moved a larger one more slowly but with greater power, and finally broke out into an ecstasy of deligh...

The creation of a 'community' and unmaking of a president

By DENNIS BAHLER When Dr. William Masterson resigned as president of Rice Tuesday af te r five days of vigorous controversy, uninterrupted bustling activity, and moral soul-searching by nearly everyone involved in the controversy, he brought to a close one of the most significant episodes in the history of the University. His action has also opened the gates to a broader examination in some qua...

Scavenger community response to the removal of a dominant scavenger

Z. H. Olson ([email protected]), J. C. Beasley and O. E. Rhodes, Jr., Dept of Forestry and Natural Resources, 195 Marstellar Street, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA. Present address for OER: USDA, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Wildlife Services, National Wildlife Research Center, 4101 LaPorte Avenue, Fort Collins, CO 80521, USA. – T. L. DeVault, USDA, Animal and Plant ...

The Keystone Scavenger Team

Stereo vision for small mobile robots is a challenging problem, particularly when employing embedded systems with limited processing power. However, it holds the promise of greatly increasing the localization, mapping, and navigation ability of mobile robots. To help in scene understanding, objects in the field of vision must be extracted and represented in a fashion useful to the system. At th...