One hundred twelve crossbred feedlot heifers were used in two experiments to assess the impact of heat stress and its relief by shade and(or) water misting on behavior, physiology, performance, and carcass traits. Treatments were 1) no shading or misting (CONT); 2) only misting (MIST); 3) only shading (SHADE); and 4) shading plus misting (SHMI). Head in the feed bunk, head in or above the water...

Mist netting is a widely used technique to sample bird and bat assemblages. However, captures often decline with time because animals learn and avoid the locations of nets. This avoidance or net shyness can substantially decrease sampling efficiency. We quantified the day-to-day decline in captures of Amazonian birds and bats with mist nets set at the same location for four consecutive days. We...

OBJECTIVES To assess the relation between measured levels of exposure to soluble oil mists in a plant manufacturing ball bearings, and both respiratory symptoms and airway responsiveness in the workforce. METHODS 114 male workers exposed to oil mist and 55 unexposed male controls from nearby factories were studied. Soluble oil mist concentrations were measured with area samplers. Respiratory ...

Birds are a frequently chosen group for biodiversity monitoring as they are comparatively straightforward and inexpensive to sample and often perform well as ecological indicators. Two commonly used techniques for monitoring tropical forest bird communities are point counts and mist nets. General strengths and weaknesses of these techniques have been well-defined; however little research has ex...

Development of Internet of things (IoT) has revitalized the feature scale of wearables and smart home/city applications. The landscape of these applications encountering big data needs to be replotted on cloud instead of solely relying on limited storage and computational resources of small devices. However, with the rapid increase in the number of Internet-connected devices, the increased dema...

Mist-netting is frequently used to sample the species richness and diversity of bird communities in New Guinea, but its effectiveness and potential biases are poorly known. The study analyzed mist-netting data from survey points in a mature tropical lowland forest to assess patterns in quantity and diversity of species and its overall description of a bird community, particularly those resultin...

Water mist fire suppression system (WMFSS) is one of the candidates in substituting the Halogen-based total flooding system. The system with strong spray momentum gives a satisfactory performance in extinguishing solid fires, liquid fires as well as kitchen fires under no ventilation. Nozzle with high discharge momentum and low operating pressure are the goal. Water mist discharged is assumed t...

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have shown success for many sequence-modeling tasks, but learning long-term dependencies from data remains difficult. This is often attributed to the vanishing gradient problem, which shows that gradient components relating a loss at time t to time t− τ tend to decay exponentially with τ . Long short-term memory (LSTM) and gated recurrent units (GRUs), the most ...

Emissions of sulfur trioxide (SO3) are a key component of plume opacity and acid deposition. Consequently, these emissions need to be low enough to not cause opacity violations and acid deposition. Generally, a small fraction of sulfur (S) in coal is converted to SO3 in coal-fired combustion devices such as electric utility boilers. The emissions of SO3 from such a boiler depend on coal S conte...

Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (AARSs) constitute a family of RNA-binding proteins, that participate in the translation of the genetic code, by covalently linking amino acids to appropriate tRNAs. Due to their fundamental importance for cell life, AARSs are likely to be one of the most ancient families of enzymes and have therefore been characterized extensively. Paradoxically, little is known abou...