The emerald ash borer, Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), a phloem-feeding insect from Asia, was identified in 2002 as the cause of widespread ash (Fraxinus sp.) mortality in southeastern Michigan and Essex County, Ontario. Most larvae overwinter as nonfeeding prepupae in the outer sapwood or thick bark of large trees. In a series of studies, we evaluated effects of grindi...

BACKGROUND Inpatient palliative care programs can improve care of patients with serious illness. We developed the California Hospital Initiative in Palliative Services (CHIPS) program to assist hospitals in establishing these programs. CHIPS included an introductory conference followed by 10 months of mentoring with telephone calls, e-mails, on-site consultation at the hospital, and a reunion c...

Grazing incidence X-ray fluorescence is a non-destructive technique for analyzing the geometry and compositional parameters of nanostructures appearing e.g. in computer chips. In this paper, we propose to reconstruct posterior parameter distribution given noisy measurement generated by forward model an appropriately learned invertible neural network. This network resembles transport map from re...

The particle size distribution of wood chips, along with the moisture content, are some of the main parameters for defining the quality of most wood fuels. A new experimental rotor, powered by the self-propelled forage harvester Claas Jaguar was developed by the Consiglio per la ricerca in agricoltura e l'analisi dell'economia agraria (CRA), Agricultural Engineering Research Unit (CRA-ING). The...

We discuss models for computation in biological neural systems that are based on the current state of knowledge in neurophysiology. Di*erences and similarities to traditional neural network models are highlighted. It turns out that many important questions regarding computation and learning in biological neural systems cannot be adequately addressed in traditional neural network models. In part...

Currently, fuzzy controllers are the most popular choice for hardware implementation of complex control surfaces because they are easy to design. Neural controllers are more complex and hard to train, but provide an outstanding control surface with much less error than that of a fuzzy controller. There are also some problems that have to be solved before the networks can be implemented on VLSI ...

This paper gives an overview of hardware implementation techniques employed in solving real-time classEfication problems using Neural Network, Principle Component Analysis (PCA), and Independent Component Analysis (ICA) techniques. The first part of the paper reviews digital, analog, and hybrid strategies for hardware implementation, outlining their advantages and disadvantages. The second part...

The paper describes the fabrication and chemical applications of polymer microchannel chips, with special reference to in situ observations of the chemical/physical processes occurring in polystyrene microchannel chips, including those in microchannel-microelectrode/microheater chips. On the basis of absorption/fluorescence microspectroscopy and microelectrochemistry techniques, we show some ch...