J.S. Neubauer 1 20 Annual AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellites The vast foreseeable benefits of on-orbit servicing to current and future space systems have sparked the development of both large-scale servicing spacecraft and small-scale technology demonstration platforms. The latter provide the ability to prove certain crucial technologies more efficiently than their larger counterparts, due...

(Indra Mainz) "Everything should be made as simple as possible–but no simpler!"-Albert Einstein Meinen Eltern. Acknowledgements First of all I would like to thank my supervisor apl. Prof. Dr. Gerhard Steger for the freedom in doing research and the confidence he had shown me. Thank you, Gerhard, for facing the world of ontologies. Additionally, I wish to thank Prof. Dr. Martin Lercher for accep...

Design and expansion of distribution systems seems inevitable in view of the need to satisfy the rise in energy consumption in a technical and economical way. Optimal location, sizing and determining the service area of substations is one of the principle problems in expansion of distribution systems. Also uncertainty is one of the important factors that increase risk of exact decision makings....

Low productivity in agriculture is mainly due to the inability of the farmers to exploit the available technologies fully, resulting in lower efficiencies of production. The present study has estimated the technical and scale efficiencies of tomato-producing farms in Karnataka, considering different production levels and has identified the determining factors of their technical efficiency. The ...

Pest control is one of the ecosystem services most affected by intensification agriculture. Pests can lead to significant losses in crop yields and jeopardise food security. In this context, installing hedgerows around greenhouses presented as an opportunity improve presence natural enemies favour pests. However, adoption practice has not spread among farmers. The objective article dete...