Systematic control structure design requires the use of a model of the plant. Developing rigorous plant models based on physical and chemical principles is often a laborious and time consuming task. This paper studies the effect of simplifications of the heat exchanger model on the resulting control structure design for the PRICO LNG process. It is found that significant model simplifications m...

PIECE (Plant Intron Exon Comparison and Evolution) is a web-accessible database that houses intron and exon information of plant genes. PIECE serves as a resource for biologists interested in comparing intron-exon organization and provides valuable insights into the evolution of gene structure in plant genomes. Recently, we updated PIECE to a new version, PIECE 2.0 (http://probes.pw.usda.gov/pi...

Understanding microbial partnerships with the medicinally and economically important crop Cannabis has the potential to affect agricultural practice by improving plant fitness and production yield. Furthermore, Cannabis presents an interesting model to explore plant-microbiome interactions as it produces numerous secondary metabolic compounds. Here we present the first description of the endorh...

in this paper the interior noise level of a vehicle due to structural vibration, named structure borne noise, as a part of nvh analysis has been investigated. first structural analysis is performed and vibrational behavior of structure carried out due to power plant excitations. then interior acoustic cavity response for such excitation and resultant noise is determined. vibrational analysis is...

This paper talks about a decentralized approach for diagnosis of discrete event systems based on the plant decomposition. A decentralized structure is used to avoid state space explosion found in centralized structure or decentralized structure with composition step. From plant models, all possible faults are identified to construct abnormal behavior models called diagnosers. Originality of thi...

This atlas contains 147 bright-field photomicrographs that illustrate the anatomy of bacteria, algae, fungi, lichens, mosses, liverworts, ferns, conifers, and flowering plants. With each micrograph, there is an interpretive line drawing which is useful since many of the photographs are of fair quality only. The book is representative of thinking in the field of plant anatomy 50 years ago. There...

We compared the density and spatial distribution of four small mammal species (Microtus ochrogaster, Peromyscus maniculatus, Sigmodon hispidus, and P. leucopus) along with general measures of an old field plant community across two successional phases (1984–1986 and 1994–1996) of an experimental study of fragmentation in eastern Kansas. During the early phase the plant community was characteriz...