P.S. Baenziger, L.A. Nelson, T. Regassa, L. Xu, and M.L. Bernards, Dep. of Agronomy and Horticulture; R. A. Graybosch, USDA-ARS and Dep. of Agronomy and Horticulture; S.N. Wegulo, Dep. of Plant Pathology, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68583; R.N. Klein, Dep. of Agronomy and Horticulture, West Central Res. and Ext. Center, North Platte, NE 69101, D.D. Baltensperger, (formerly Dep. of Agronomy a...

Essential blepharospasm is a focal dystonia characterized by the involuntary and obliged closure of the eyes secondary to the contraction of the orbicular muscle and/or a dysfunction of the upper eyelid elevator muscle. The etiology of blepharospasm, which is more frequent in women between the fifth and seventh decade of life, is as yet unknown. Its diagnosis requires an in-depth ophthalmologic...

In this paper, an optimal group control for elevator systems is proposed with timed Petri net based approach. Elevator system is modeled by timed Petri nets and hall call response times are estimated with moment generating functions (MGFs) method, which is applicable to real traffic patterns. Two assignment policies are proposed to satisfy the demands of passengers (i.e. hall/car calls) and to ...

Efficient elevator group control is important for the operation of large buildings. Recent developments in this field include the use of fuzzy logic and neural networks. This paper summarizes the development of an evolution strategy (ES) that is capable of optimizing the neuro-controller of an elevator group controller. It extends the results that were based on a simplified elevator group contr...

Monitoring and prediction of passenger movements are able to generate timely heuristic information that reduces the complexity of the elevator dispatching task to one of finding the best route through already computed data. This paper demonstrates that such information, when used by heuristic search techniques, allows optimal dispatching solutions to be achieved in a practical elevator installa...

This paper describes an proof-of-concept with the goal of providing new interactions for elevators. By connecting the control unit of the elevator to the ISO/IEC 24752 Universal Remote Console (URC) middleware – the Universal Remote Console (UCH) – we show some examples of alternative and accessible User Interfaces. By this, we achieve not only accessible UIs, e.g., spoken language interfaces, ...

conclusions the study showed that elevator buttons could lead to transmission of pathogenic bacteria. it is necessary to clean and disinfect elevator buttons daily, especially in departments with high contamination potential such as laboratories, particularly in biological laboratories and pilot plant rooms. methods the study was a across sectional research. samples were taken from elevator but...

Constraint Nets have been developed as an algebraic on-line computational model of robotic systems. Timed 8-automata have been studied as a logical speci cation language of real-time behaviors. A general veri cation method has been proposed for checking whether a constraint net model satis es a timed 8-automaton speci cation. In this paper, we illustrate constraint net modeling and timed 8-auto...

DOI: 10.1002/elps.202200234 The cover picture shows a schematic of rapid-prototyped, multi-layered “tadpole” device combining electrode array and microfluidic channel for continuous dielectrophoresis (DEP) separation. A mixture green purple particles is introduced at the inlet (right). They are pumped along sorted by DEP; experience positive DEP (attraction towards wall), repelled to center. At...