Understanding and designing appropriate educational youth safety programs for the Amish requires an appreciation of their history, their distinctiveness in an American society built on economic, social and cultural change, and how the Amish themselves have changed over the years. The qualitative research study highlighted in this paper sought to determine culturally and age-appropriate curricul...

Robotic search and rescue is a challenging yet promising research area which has significant real-world application potentials. In this paper, a survey of multi-robot systems and how they can be implemented in search and rescue operations is presented. In particular, the problems of task allocation, communication, and human-robot interaction in multi-robot systems are explored.

Hand operation accompanied with any combination of large forces, awkward positions and repetition may lead to upper limb injury or illness and may be exacerbated by vibration. Commercial lawn mowers expose operators to these factors during actuation of hand controls and therefore may be a health concern. A nontraditional lawn mower control system may decrease upper limb illnesses and injuries t...

Autonomous (i.e., robotic) mowers have recently garnered interest with the public and within turfgrass industry. However, limited research has been conducted on their use for mowing warm-season turfgrasses. An experiment was at University of Florida’s West Florida Research Education Center (Jay, FL, USA) to investigate performance an autonomous mower using a lower than recommended height-of-cut...

Hand operation accompanied with any combination of large forces, awkward positions and repetition may lead to upper limb injury or illness and may be exacerbated by vibration. Commercial lawn mowers expose operators to these factors during actuation of hand controls and therefore may be a health concern. A nontraditional lawn mower control system may decrease upper limb illnesses and injuries t...

Whether you buy a laptop computer or a lawn mower, you expect to learn how best to use it. For some products it is enough to skim the user’s manual. For others you need to attend a class. In the past, product training was considered an attribute of product support. It came bundled with the product and was an expected feature like a power cord or the certificate of warranty. This situation has c...

We consider the problem of optimal position liquidation with the aim of maximizing the expected cash flow stream from the transaction in the presence of a temporary or permanent market impact. We use a stochastic programming approach to derive trading strategies that differentiate decisions with respect to different realizations of market conditions. The scenario set consists of a collection of...

"Mow-lawning" is a colloquial term referred to actively cutting grass using reel mower, typically at faster than normal pace in order maximize exercise benefit and minimize time, with the emphasis on physical action of mowing only secondarily resulting lawn care. While mow-lawning remains relatively uncommon United States, adoption this practice by those healthy enough engage level required can...