This study presents indoor and field validation results for two versions of the “DUSST” optical soiling sensor, intended to be a low-cost low-maintenance device measuring photovoltaic losses. Indoor testing covers irradiance calibration temperature dependencies, which are necessary achieve high accuracy, low uncertainty measurements. Field includes an array different environments including Saud...

The National Turfgrass Evaluation Program (NTEP) Tall Fescue Test was planted in 2018 at the Kansas State University Olathe Horticulture Center, Olathe, KS. Differences have been observed among entries maintained under low maintenance conditions.

• Long-term friction of snake skin using pure sliding reciprocating motion is studied. Snake shows low and stable ? (?0.2) over several thousands cycles. Stick-slip behavior not observed as compared to an epoxy resin similar hardness. Hierarchical microstructure stiffness gradient probably contribute reduce wear. skins evolved withstand permanent wear during sliding. Here, the ventral scales La...

In this work, a new custom design of an anomaly detection and classification system is proposed. It composed convolutional Auto-Encoder (AE) hardware to perform which cooperates with mixed HW/SW Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) the detected anomalies. The AE features partial binarization, so that weights are binarized while activations, associated some selected layers, non-binarized. This has...