Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into an environment that causes instability, disorder, harm or discomfort to the ecosystem i.e., physical system or living organisms. Especially growing countries and most populated cities are severely affected by the pollution. Ignorance of cleanliness is spoiling our environment. The aim of this paper is to mainly concentrate on eradicating this i...

While there has been considerable controversy about trash talk in sport, there have been very few empirical studies of this phenomenon. The purpose of this study was to investigate the trash talk experiences of collegiate athletes. Surveys were completed by 414 male and female NCAA Division I and Division III athletes. Athletes responded to questions about how frequently they used trash talk, h...

The development of a holistic model to assess the long-term economic effects of trashing versus burning provides the foundations for assessing the potential profits from sales of trash to a mill. The costs of trash delivered under various circumstances are compared with the cost of coal of equivalent energy. Numerous factors influence the cost competitiveness of trash but it is evident that, in...

Automatic estimation of the amount of trash, such as branches and leaves, collected by a mechanical citrus harvester during harvesting eliminates problems in the processing plants with handling diseased leaves and fruit. A machine vision system was developed to estimate the amount of trash collected by a citrus canopy shake and catch harvester by acquiring and analyzing the images of the harves...

This paper discusses the identification of trash objects in cotton using machine vision-based systems. Soft computing techniques such as neural networks and fuzzy inference systems can classify trash objects into individual categories such as bark, stick, leaf, and pepper trash types with great accuracies. High speed trash measurements, enables the implementation of these techniques for on-line...

The main objective of this research was to design an efficient trash removal system and quantify the amount of trash materials such as leaves and twigs, generated during harvesting by a continuous citrus canopy shake and catch harvester, and to compare the efficiency of two destemmers with different lengths. A regular de-stemmer with a set of ten 24-inch long rollers and an extended de-stemmer ...

This paper reports on a children-dependent robotic approach to establish asynchronous child assistance with a social rapport network for the purpose of collecting trash from a public space. Our sociable trash box robot (STB) was unable to collect trash by itself. However, it did succeed in conveying its intentions to collect the trash from children. The main purpose of this study is to investig...

The larger black flour beetle, Cynaeus angustus (LeConte) (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae), is an agricultural and home nuisance pest in North America. In the Southern High Plains of Texas, the larger black flour beetle is associated with cotton gin trash, by-products of cotton ginning that are field stored in large piles for economic reasons. Larger black flour beetle overwinter in gin trash piles ...

The warming of world climate systems is driving interest in the mitigation of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In the agricultural sector, practices that mitigate GHG emissions include those that (1) reduce emissions [e.g., those that reduce nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions by avoiding excess nitrogen (N) fertilizer application], and (2) increase soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks (e.g., by retaining...

Historic land use changes and subsequent river channelization created deeply incised, unstable stream channels largely devoid of natural cover throughout the Yazoo River basin, Mississippi, USA. Large trash (e.g., televisions, toilets, car parts) dumped in streams provided shelter for some aquatic fauna. To determine whether trash served as a surrogate for natural cover, I examined crayfish use...