In 1991, the beef industry initiated efforts to improve beef quality. But after four years, a 1995 National Beef Quality Audit (Smith et al., 1995) demonstrated that vast sums of money are still sacrificed due to quality shortfall. Almost everyone agrees that instrument technology would assist in developing a “quality-based” marketing system—permitting consumers to transmit preferences to produ...

In our work we focus on Robotic Mobile Fulfillment Systems in e-commerce distribution centers. These systems were designed to increase pick rates by employing mobile robots bringing movable storage units (so-called pods) to pick and replenishment stations as needed, and back to the storage area afterwards. One advantage of this approach is that repositioning of inventory can be done continuousl...

Leguminosae, Lathyrus sativus, Phytoalexin, 6a-Hydroxypterocarpan, Pisatin Lathyrus sativus was investigated for the nature of its phytoalexin response with the result that leaflets, im­ mature pods, and seeds were induced to produce 6a-hydroxy-3-methoxy-8,9-methylenedioxypterocarpan (pisatin). Evidence is presented for the metabolism of pisatin, by the wound pathogen Botrytis cinerea, to a phe...

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The Problem Often, during the course of a research project, papers get published on similar topics, perhaps with overlapping content and contributions. For example, a research group might publish a 5-page workshop paper (e.g. at HotOS), later produce an extended version of this paper for a conference (like SOSP), and then produce a revised version for a journal (like TOCS); another version of t...

The model system between peanut yield and agronomy characteristics which is nonlinear, irreversible and dissipative. The objective in the study was the peanut cultivated in the different ecological regions in Shandong province, aimed to establish the new non-nonlinear model based on Self-Organizing Maps (SOM) to improve the cultivation information of peanut growth process. In the article, apply...

Morphological characters such as main stem length (cm), number of branches per plant, leaf length (cm), number of leaves per main stem, number of leaflets per leaf, diameter of main stem (mm), pods / main stem and seeds / pod as well as agricultural herbage yield (t ha), dry matter yield (t ha), seed yield (t ha), crude protein (%) were investigated in Trakya, during the 1999-2002. The maximum ...

Red chili is amongst the important market commodities mainly for its pungency, color and their respective therapeutic significances. However, the persistence of aflatoxin contamination in chilies at higher levels is raising the health and economic risks. Post harvest practices may play as crucial role to make the red chilies physically damaged that may lead to increase the levels of aflatoxins....

High-speed transit (1300 km=hr) using pods traveling in evacuated tubes has been proposed. This Short Note addresses how earthquake ground shaking is changed when it is experienced by a high-speed pod that is confined to a track. In particular, earthquake motions can cause lateral deformations of the tube that cause centripetal forces in the pod. I discuss the nature of these forces for the cas...