This work presents a model based on on-farm irrigation scheduling and the simple genetic algorithm optimization (GA) method for decision support in irrigation project planning. The proposed model is applied to an irrigation project located in Delta, Utah of 394.6 ha in area, for optimizing economic pro®ts, simulating the water demand, crop yields, and estimating the related crop area percentage...

The peripheral distribution of the fibre content of individual ulnar nerve fascicles supplying skin and muscles of the hand in human volunteers was indirectly mapped by tracing the fields of projected sensation evoked by intraneural electrical microstimulation (INMS) and by tracing receptive fields delineated through intraneural recording of afferent impulse activity elicited by natural stimula...

It has become clear that foods crushing is performed in the circumscribed region between functional cusps, that is, at "the main occluding area". However, it is not established to evaluate this area objectively. The purpose of this study was to establish the positional evaluation of the main occluding area quantitatively and evaluate the positional change depending on the age with this method. ...

We show that, contrary to planar membranes under tension, tense membrane tubules exhibit important critical fluctuations originating from unidimensional Goldstone modes. The latter yield unexpected behavior, such as correlations extending over the whole tube length and the increase of the fluctuating area over the projected area with increasing tension.

Summer temperature extremes over the global land area were investigated by comparing 26 models of the fifth phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) with observations from the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) and the Climate Research Unit (CRU). Monthly data of the observations and models were averaged for each season, and statistics were calculated for individual mo...

We introduce a novel person identification method for a surveillance system of much wider area than conventional systems using CCTV cameras. In the proposed system, we install cameras to rooftops of buildings or a low altitude airship, and identify people by gait features extracted from shadows, which are projected on the ground by the sun in the daytime or lights in the evening. Figure 1 shows...

We introduce a novel person identification method for a surveillance system of much wider area than conventional systems using CCTV cameras. In the proposed system, we install cameras to rooftops of buildings or a low altitude airship, and identify people by gait features extracted from shadows, which are projected on the ground by the sun in the daytime or lights in the evening. Since conventi...

This work presents an electrical technique called electric cell-substrate impedance sensing to measure the cell-substrate separation and the projected area of an individual adherent cell. Cell adhesion and cell spreading are fundamental processes of adherent cells. By recording changes in the cell-substrate separation, the projected area, or both properties with time, the dynamics of cell sprea...