The types and numbers of insect species associated with eight Kansas retail stores belonging to a pet store chain were surveyed during February to August 2001. Insects were monitored at 1-3-wk intervals using food- and pheromone-baited pitfall traps for beetles and pheromone-baited sticky traps for moths. Thirty traps of each type were placed within a store. Thirty insect species belonging to 2...

The Dynamic Data eXchange (DDX) is our third generation platform for building distributed robot controllers. DDX allows a coalition of programs to share data at run-time through an efficient shared memory mechanism managed by a store. Further, stores on multiple machines can be linked by means of a global catalog and data is moved between the stores on an as needed basis by multi-casting. Heter...

Today, we can find a vast amount of textual information stored in proprietary data stores. The experience of searching information in these systems could be improved in a remarkable manner if we combine these private data stores with the information supplied by the Internet, merging both data sources to get new knowledge. In this paper, we propose an architecture with the goal of automatically ...

The DNA-templated polymerization of synthetic building blocks provides a potential route to the laboratory evolution of sequence-defined polymers with structures and properties not necessarily limited to those of natural biopolymers. We previously reported the efficient and sequence-specific DNA-templated polymerization of peptide nucleic acid (PNA) aldehydes. Here, we report the enzyme-free, D...

Building information systems collect building related sensor data. This data is processed and distributed to various users. The present contribution discusses the application of web technologies in building information systems and aims to give an overview of interesting applications and current research and development fields. The analysis is conducted using the example of the Monitoring System...