Marie Dumont1, Arnaud Lehner1, Sophie Bouton2, Marie Christine Kiefer-Meyer1, Aline Voxeur1,3, Jérôme Pelloux2, Patrice Lerouge1 and Jean-Claude Mollet1,* Laboratoire de Glycobiologie et Matrice Extracellulaire Végétale (Glyco-MEV) EA4358, Normandy University, University of Rouen, Institut de Recherche et d’Innovation Biomédicale, 76821 Mont-Saint-Aignan, France, Laboratoire Biologie des Plante...

When the young French physician Jean-Emmanuel Gilibert (1741-1814) addressed his readers in 1772, he probably had little hope of a positive response. His appeal, quoted from his Plan de recherches sur l'art de conserver la sante des enfans, de preserver & gue'rir leurs maladies, reads, "Citizens! Are you ready to let your children's doctor collect the data that are required in order to lay the ...

This thesis presents the development of hardware, theory, and experimental methods to enable a robotic manipulator arm to interact with soils and estimate soil properties from interaction forces. Unlike the majority of robotic systems interacting with soil, our objective is parameter estimation, not excavation. To this end, we design our manipulator with a flat plate for easy modeling of intera...

The avionics systems for two small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are considered from the point of view of hardware selection, navigation and control algorithm design, and software development. Some common challenges for many small UAV systems are addressed, including gust disturbance rejection at low speeds, control power, and systems integration. A rapid prototyping simulation framework whic...

Md. Saiful Islam and Md. Haider Ali Institute of Information Technology, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Dhaka , Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] Abstract Due to the rapid development of World Wide Web (WWW) and imaging technology, more and more images are available in the Internet and stored in databases. Searching the related...

* Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law. I am indebted to Edward Smith, Esq., Bingham, Dana and Gould, Boston, to my colleagues at Boston University Workshop, and to Professors Wendy Gordon, Maureen O'Rourke and William Park for their insightful comments. Many thanks to my assistants Dan Pierce, 3L, and William Hecker, Esq. for their invaluable help in research and editing the Artic...

Prof. Maryam Shokri was born in 1950, in Sari city, Iran, where she got her diploma certificate. She received her B.Sc. degree in Natural Resources from Tehran University during 1969 to 1973. She employed the Environmental Organisation as teacher in High School in Environment during 1973-1975. She received a scholarship position from the Buali Sina University to finish her M.Sc. degree from Mon...

Dr. Mohammad Hossein Jazirei was born in 1922 in Bandar-e-Anzali and finished high school there.In May 1944, he graduated in agriculture engineering and occupied the position of Lahijan forester in Forestry Department of Ministry of Agriculture in fall. In 1955, he moved to Belgium and was admitted by Agronomy Institute of Belgium; he achieved MS in Water and Forest field in 1957. After doing r...

An Iranian Rangeland ecologist, born in 1937 in Tabriz, He got his MSc. in agriculture in 1961 from Tabriz University. He was hired by Rangeland Improvement and Fodder Procurement Organization in 1963. At the early steps of his career, he worked as the head of Daland Range Seed Production Station in Gorgan, and then he worked as the head of Homand Plant Research Center from 1966. He received hi...

Mansour Mesdaghi was born in 1941 in Ghazvin, Iran, where he completed his elementary and high school.After graduation from Gorgan Forest and Range school, he had been employed in Ministry of Natural Resources as a technician in FAO branch of United Nation in collaboration with Dr. D. L. Goodwin, the Range Scientist at Houmand Range Research Station. He received his B.A degree in Economics at T...