With the increasing pressure on crop production from the evolution of herbicide resistance, farmers are increasingly adopting Integrated Weed Management (IWM) strategies to augment their weed control. These include measures to increase the competitiveness of the crop canopy such as increased sowing rate and the use of more competitive cultivars. While there are data on the relative impact of th...

Returns of an individual enterprise in the short term are usually measured through a gross margin budget, which is determined by subtracting factors such as the cost of weed control (both herbicide and non-herbicide) and other inputs (eg seed and fertiliser) from gross income (calculated as crop yield multiplied by grain price). Crop yield is directly influenced by weed density, which itself is...

In this paper, we present experimental results comparing the incoherent wideband MUSIC (IWM) algorithm developed by the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) 2 and the stereausis algorithm developed by the University of Maryland (UMD) for the purpose of performing acoustic direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation of ground vehicles. We discuss the motivating factors behind the use of auditory-inspired te...

India has a wide range of agroclimates and soil types. The highly diverse agriculture and fanning systems are beset with different types of weed problems. Weeds cause 10-80% crop yield losses besides impairing product quality and causing health and environmental hazards. Invasive alien weeds are a major constraint to agriculture, forestry and aquatic environment. Crop-specific problematic weeds...

In this study, a stochastic power management strategy for in-wheel motor electric vehicles (IWM-EV) is proposed to reduce the energy consumption and increase the driving range, considering the unpredictable nature of the driving power demand. A stochastic dynamic programming (SDP) approach, policy iteration algorithm, is used to create an infinite horizon problem formulation to calculate optima...

1. Where biocontrol programmes for invasive plants are in place, only one-third are fully successful. Integrated weed management (IWM) emphasizes the use of several complementary control measures. 2. We used models of increasing complexity to determine which parameters affect site occupancy of an invasive shrub, Mimosa pigra , in tropical Australia. Two introduced biocontrol agents have spatial...

Janina Zimmermann,1,2,* Pasquale Pavone,2 and Gianaurelio Cuniberti2,3 1Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM, D-79108 Freiburg, Germany 2Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Regensburg, D-93040 Regensburg, Germany 3Institute for Materials Science and Max Bergmann Center of Biomaterials, Dresden University of Technology, D-01062 Dresden, Germany Received 2 April 2008; ...

1 Department of Psychology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel 2 Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel 3 Department of Psychology, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany 4 Knowledge Media Research Center, IWM-KMRC, Tübingen, Germany *Correspondence: [email protected] †These ...