The success that banks have had deploying remote deposit capture has been tremendous over the past few years. The ability to decrease manual handling of checks and increases deposit breadth has certainly been a positive in what otherwise has not been the greatest of times in the banking community. However, as with any success along comes scrutiny. Echoes from the halls of Congress of not enough...

Production of nursery crops in the US is accomplished in containerand field-growing conditions, with propagation and seedling-rearing carried out in greenhouses; 11% of the US national farm-product is represented by these crops. Container-grown crops represent 60% of the US market and represent a highly labor-intensive and thus costly segment of ornamental crop production. The USDA, NASA and th...

Security breaches are often caused by software bugs, which may frequently be due to developer’s memory lapses, lack of attention/focus, and knowledge gaps. Developers have to contend with heavy cognitive loads to deal with issues such as functional requirements, deadlines, security, and runtime performance. We propose to integrate secure programming support seamlessly into Integrated Developmen...

there are many potential sources of stormwater pollutants in urban areas; one of these sources is gas stations, which are numerous and spread city-wide. a study was conducted to evaluate the water quality of runoff from gas stations in the city of tijuana, mexico. pollutant loads in runoff from gas stations in the study area were higher than in other published studies. the estimated loads from ...