Martin, Daniel Thomas M.S., Purdue University, May 2014. Wheat Stored in Triple Layer Plastic Bags: Protection Against the Rice Weevil, Sitophilus oryzae L. (Coleoptera: Curcilionidae) and the Effect of Air Leaks on Hermetic Storage. Major Professor: Dr. Larry L. Murdock. The Purdue Improved Crop Storage system is a triple layer high-density polyethylene storage technology that has proven to be...

The influence of nature of the feed sample, feeding frequency and pore size on the influx of bacteria and protozoa into synthetic fiber bags suspended in the rumens of sheep fed different diets was studied. Counts of total culturable bacteria in bags with a pore size of 10 microns were less than 30% of the ruminal counts for animals that were fed the lucerne hay and high-roughage diets. The max...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the risk of serious nonfatal injuries in frontal crashes among belted children seated in the right front seat of vehicles in which second-generation passenger air bags deployed compared with that of belted children seated in the right front seat of vehicles in which first-generation passenger air bags deployed. DESIGN AND SETTING We enrolled a probability sample of 1781 ...

Associative computation is characterized by search by content and data parallel computation. Search by content paradigm is natural to scalable high performance heterogeneous computing since use of tagged data makes data independent of implicit addressing mechanisms. In this paper, we present an algebra for associative logic programming, an associative resolution scheme, and a generic framework ...

A variety of seals is used to close bags. Each seal has advantages and disadvantages. For shop assistants sealing bags could be a repetitive physically demanding action. Opening and closing the bags again can cause some discomfort or annoyance for consumers. Besides, it is an activity which can endanger safety, i.e., knives being used in opening, children swallowing the systems of sealing. To p...

Gasarch, Golub, and Srinivasan studied the Robin Hood game in the case of random, memoryless strategies. In this brief note we extend their main result to the case of bounded memory, and clarify several questions raised by them. 1. The Robin Hood game The Robin Hood game RH(r, s, A) is defined for functions r, s : N → N such that 1 ≤ r(i) < s(i) for each i, and for a set A, as follows: (1) On d...

Multi-instance learning (MIL) has a wide range of applications due to its distinctive characteristics. Although many state-of-the-art algorithms have achieved decent performances, a plurality of existing methods solve the problem only in instance level rather than excavating relations among bags. In this paper, we propose an efficient algorithm to describe each bag by a corresponding feature ve...

To the Editor: Extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)– producing members of the family Enterobacteriaceae (enterobacteria) are a worldwide problem (1), but little data are available from central Africa (2). In recent years, ESBL-producing Enterobacteriaceae isolates have shifted from the hospital to the community and the environment (1). The aim of this study was to assess the presence of ESBL-pr...