We show new results about the garden-hose model. Our main results include improved lower bounds based on non-deterministic communication complexity (leading to the previously unknown Θ(n) bounds for Inner Product mod 2 and Disjointness), as well as an O(n · log n) upper bound for the Distributed Majority function (previously conjectured to have quadratic complexity). We show an efficient simula...

Adding greenery from public spaces to the co-digestion process with sewage sludge was evaluated by shredding experiments and laboratory-scale batch and continuous mesophilic anaerobic fermentation experiments. The ratio of the shredded grass with 20mm or less in length by a commercially available shredder was 93%. The methane production was around 0.2NL/gVS-grass in the batch experiment. The co...

The majority of ovarian tumors arise from the transformation of the ovarian surface epithelial cells, a single layer of cells surrounding the ovary. To identify genes that may contribute to the malignant phenotype of ovarian cancers, cDNA representational difference analysis was used to compare expressed genes in primary cultures of normal human ovarian surface epithelium (HOSE) and ovarian tum...

We propose a new approach for cross-cut shredded document reconstruction and evaluate it on the DARPA Shredder Challenge dataset. We begin by pre-processing chads. A set of costs based on shape (gaps, overlaps, edge similarity), graphical content (ruling line alignment, text line alignment), and semantic content (character and letter combinations) is calculated and used to rank putative chad ma...

Artificial neural networks, ANNs were developed to model the biological oxygen demand (BOD), biochemical oxygen demand (COD), and total suspended solids (TSS) treatment in 3 horizontal subsurface flow (HSSF) constructed wetlands (CWs) located in Samaha village, Nile Delta, Egypt. Gravel, hollow plastic bits and shredded tires pieces were used as different wetland treatment media. Three hundred ...

Broccoli (Brassica oleracea), carrot (Daucus carota), marigold (Tagetes patula), nematode-resistant tomato (Solanum lycopersicum), and strawberry (Fragaria ananassa) were grown for three years during the winter in a root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne incognita) infested field in Southern California. Each year in the spring, the tops of all crops were shredded and incorporated in the soil. Amendmen...

Respiratory modules are medical devices used to assist patients breathe. The aim of this article is develop a control method that achieves exact tracking time-varying target pressure, for unknown patient-hose-leak parameters and in the presence patient breathing effort. This achieved by an online estimation hose characteristics enables compensation pressure drop over hose. Stability closed-loop...

T H E value of chromic oxide (chromium sesquioxide) as an indicator for estimating fecal output of sheep and cattle is dependent upon its concentration at a given sampling time providing the basis for estimating a standard recovery. However, chromic oxide excretion rate exhibits a diurnal variation (Hardison et al., 1959; Kane, Jacobson and Moore, 1952) which apparently precludes choosing a des...