Structural snow fences are known as a cost-effective way to enhance road safety on highways, which, however, only used during winter, making them “useless” summer. To increase their cost-effectiveness, Photovoltaics Snow Fences (PVSF) were developed by integrating PV panels with conventional structural fences. As part of the feasibility study supported Minnesota Department Transportation (MnDOT...

Despite their limited put/get interface, simple hosted storage services are becoming very popular. Many companies and individuals are using them to store and backup data. Recent work has demonstrated that it is even possible to build file systems on top of such abstractions. However, the available API lacks some features that could prove beneficiary in building distributed storage systems on to...

With the advantages of flexible parking locations and convenient cycling, Dockless Bicycle-sharing (DBS) has become increasingly popular worldwide. However, with massive increase DBSs electric fences, DBS systems face several challenges: (1) hardness identifying tidal zones; (2) difficulty accurately evaluating overload fences; (3) issues rebalancing in time. To deal these challenges, we propos...

Roads affect animals in three adverse ways. They act as barriers to movement ('fence effect'), enhance mortality due to collisions with traffic, and decrease habitat size. We study the relative importance of the first two effects using a spatially explicit individual-based model of population dynamics. We discuss our results with respect to the suitability of fences along roads as a measure to ...

The effectiveness of manure incorporation in reducing the numbers of adult lesser mealworms emerging from caged-layer poultry manure applied to agricultural fields was examined in summer 2002 and 2004. Incorporation treatments included control (no incorporation), disk (7-cm depth), harrow (15-cm depth), chisel plow (30-cm depth), and moldboard plow (33-cm depth) on silt loam soils in New York s...

Soil analyses and measurements with the Portable In Situ Wind Erosion Laboratory (PI-SWERL) were conducted on 16 soil types in an area heavily affected by off-road vehicle (ORV) driving. Measurements were performed in ORV trails as well as on undisturbed terrain to investigate how ORV driving affects the vulnerability of a soil to emit PM10 (particles<10microm), during the driving as well as du...