Arctic, Antarctic and inaccessible lofty regions of Himalayas, which are geographically diverse areas and have been a constant source of inspiration, envisages a challenging field of study 'by early adirelrturers and scientists of the world. Characteristics of ice obtained at Arctic and Antarctic do not possess similar properties. Even the salient properties of snow and ice of western and centr...

The identification of herbicide residues on crop foliage is necessary to make crop-management decisions for weed pest control and to monitor pesticide residue levels on food crops. Electronic-nose (e-nose) methods were tested as a cheaper, alternative means of discriminating between herbicide residue types (compared with conventional chromatography methods), by detection of headspace volatiles ...

Perceptual Control Theory (PCT) is a systems model for the regulation of actions based on negative feedback loops as used in engineering control theory (Powers, 1973; Robertson, & Powers, 1998). An everyday example of an engineering control system is the cruise control in your car. By way of illustration, the speed limit is 70 mph, so you set the cruise control at 70 mph. The cruise control now...

WLR1, a biotype of Lolium rigidum Gaud. that had been treated with the sulfonylurea herbicide chlorsulfuron in 7 consecutive years, was found to be resistant to both the wheat-selective and the nonselective sulfonylurea and imidazolinone herbicides. Biotype SLR31, which became cross-resistant to chlorsulfuron following treatment with the aryloxyphenoxypropionate herbicide diclofop-methyl, was r...

in order to evaluate of using planting pattern for reducing herbicides dose in corn (single cross 704), a field experiment was conducted in 2007 at research field of collage of agriculture, islamic azad university branch of takestan. the experimental design was randomized complete block with 18 treatments and using factorial design with 4 replications. treatments consisted of corn planting patt...

In order to investigate physiological and biochemical changes of wheat under stress residue of Imazethapyr herbicide (Imazethapyr), an experiment was conducted in a completely randomized design with four replications in greenhouse conditions at university of Mohaghegh Ardebili. The treatments consisted of five dose levels of herbicide Imazethapyr (0, 0.011, 0.022, 0.033 and 0.044 micrograms of ...

Use of efficient methods of weed control with as regards environmental sustainability as well as increased crop yield and also weed resistance to herbicides is essential. In order to, an experiment was conducted in 2012 in the Damavand jaban in Iran. Experiment treatments were compared in a split plot design by a randomized completely block design with 3 replication. The used variety of maize w...

In this paper we explore learning based predictive cruise control and the impact of this technology on increasing fuel efficiency for commercial trucks. Traditional cruise control is wasteful when maintaining a constant velocity over rolling hills. Predictive cruise control is able to look ahead at future road conditions and solve for a cost effective course of action. Model based controllers h...

Cruise missile can be classified as a smart bomb and also Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) due to its ability to move and manoeuvre by itself without a pilot. Cruise missile flies in constant velocity in cruising stage. Malaysia is one of the consumers of cruise missiles that are imported from other nations, which can have distinct geographic factors including their local terrains compared to Mala...

In this paper we present the results of a study within the CRUISE Network of Excellence. Within CRUISE we have simulated a simple scenario for Wireless Sensor Networks with three different simulation tools: NS-2, OMNeT++ and OPNET. The scenario investigated is that of a fire fighter entering a building and deploying sensor nodes in different rooms. Data collected from the sensor nodes is transm...