The size and activity of the soil microbial biomass was studied in the plant row and in the inter-row of a sugarcane field under burning or green cane harvesting. The sites sampled were on the long-term trash management trial situated at Mount Edgecombe. Soils were sampled to 30 cm depth in (i) the centre of the plant row, (ii) 30 cm out from the row centre and (iii) 60 cm out from the row cent...

I had previously been networking with four neighborhood watch groups in the Rampart area. Wanting to assess the recycling facility's impact on the local community, I developed a questionnaire and distributed it to the groups leaders, who in turn gave it out to their members. Based on the questionnaire's results, the citizens agreed the center and its related problems created a nuisance for the ...

This paper has not already been accepted by and is not currently under review for a journal or another conference. Nor will it be submitted for such during IJCAI's review period. Abstract In this paper we describe the skills and RAPs used by the University of Chicago entry in the 1994 AAAI robot competition. The robot was controlled using the Animate Agent Architecture and the skills and RAPs p...

The purposive approach to computer vision has been much discussed in recent years, but there have been few tests of the viability of the paradigm in a working vision system. We have tested the approach in the context of vision for a mobile robot performing tasks in a typical, unaltered o ce environment. In particular, we examine the approach in the context of a trash collection task; the task t...

We explore techniques for detecting news articles containing invalid information, using the help of text categorization technology. The information that exists on the World Wide Web is huge enough in order to distract the users when trying to find useful information. In order to overcome the large amounts of data many methodologies of text categorization have been presented. One major problem w...

Putting Cyclin E in the trash L u and Pfeffer uncover a protein that helps remove Cyclin E after it has outlasted its usefulness. Cyclin E pushes cells from G1 into S phase. But if the protein lingers in cells, they can’t progress normally through the rest of the cell cycle. During S phase, the SCF pathway directs phosphorylated Cyclin E to the proteasome for destruction. A second, little-known...

‘Trash, dirt, glitch’ offers an introduction to a cluster devoted trash, dirt and glitch – concepts that, in aesthetic artistic domains, firmly merit joint exploration. In fashion urban design, music, art other practices, the trashy, dirty glitchy interconnect complex choreographies, discourses practices where they are framed as benefit rather than bother. For this cluster, authors asked four s...