With all the excitement around IoT (Internet of Things), big data and cognitive computing the impact of wearable electronics on the manufacturing environment frequently gets lost in the noise. However, the capability and capacity to serve the needs driven by these trends falls on the shoulders of the electronics industry and in particular SMT assembly. This paper explores the seemingly conflict...

Copper aluminum interconnects are being used in automotive applications for deployment underhood, onengine and on-transmission. Electronics is widely used for enabling safety function including lane departure warning systems, collision avoidance systems, antilock braking systems, and vehicle stability systems. Models for copper interconnect degradation are needed for life prediction modeling to...

ity Systems. He has an MBA from the University of Wis-consin-Whitewater and an MSME (Industrial Engineering) from Colorado State University. He is employed as Technical Manager for the Midwest Independent System Operator, an electric utility that oversees the reliability of the power grid over much of the Midwest. He is also an adjunct on-line instructor for Bismarck State College. Bill D. Bail...

Bacterial plasmids contain specific genes for resistances to toxic heavy metal ions including Ag+, AsO2-, AsO4(3-), Cd2+, Co2+, CrO4(2-), Cu2+, Hg2+, Ni2+, Pb2+, Sb3+, and Zn2+. Recent progress with plasmid copper-resistance systems in Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas syringae show a system of four gene products, an inner membrane protein (PcoD), an outer membrane protein (PcoB), and two peripl...

Starting in 1926 and continuing for 80+ yr, 11,241 crop genetic materials have been registered as of 31 Dec. 2008. The crop registration process is an important pathway to publically describe and document new and useful genetic materials and to incorporate these into the public domain via the National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS). Crop Registration materials are now searchable via the Germplas...

The use of NLP techniques for document classification has not produced significant improvements in performance within the standard term weighting statistical assignment paradigm (Fagan 1987; Lewis, 1992bc; Buckley, 1993). This perplexing fact needs both an explanation and a solution if the power of recently developed NLP techniques are to be successfully applied in IR. A novel method for adding...