Processing feed onfarm using a portable grinder-mixer provides an affordable and flexible manufacturing system for producers with small to intermediate size operations (50 to 400 farrow to finish sows). The portable grinder-mixer differs from a stationary mill in several important areas during feed processing. These differences will be considered by examining five functions or cost centers in a...

Modern day digital integrated circuit designs can be designed without choosing a target programmable device or fabrication process until near the very end of the design flow. Current analog design tools and processes, however, require that the fabrication process be chosen very early on in the design process. This paper describes a vision of analog design that can be used to make more of the an...

T here are few pieces of equipment that are common to virtually all healthcare facilities, but portable power devices or power strips (sometimes called portable power taps) are one of them. Whether it is in a hospital, surgery center, doctor's offi ce, or veterinarian's offi ce, power strips are pervasive as the expansion of electrical equipment continues. The eternal problem appears to be eith...

Process representation languages designed to support execution have evolved to support specialized reasoning capabilities like action selection and task decomposition, but do not readily support inferences that one might need for explanation or question answering. In this paper, we report on a process language, PPL, that we have designed to serve as a bridge between a representation designed fo...

Of late it has become very common for research compilers to emit C as their target code, relying on a C compiler to generate machine code. In eeect, C is being used as a portable compiler target language. It ooers a simple and eeective way of avoiding the need to re-implement eeective register allocation, instruction selection, and instruction scheduling, and so on, all for a variety of target ...

The instrument to be described was developed for the measurement of bioelectric potentials, especially those found on the skin. As such it was desired that it be portable, not dependent on the availability of electric current, and that, because of its biological applications, the input resistance be at least 10 megohms and that grid current through this resistance be less than 1 0-10 amperes wi...