Tests were conducted to determine whether the lesser grain borer, Rhyzopertha dominica (F.) (Coleoptera: Bostrychidae), selects rough rice (Oryza sativa L. (Poales: Poaceae)) kernels with cracked hulls for reproduction when these kernels are mixed with intact kernels. Differing amounts of kernels with cracked hulls (0, 5, 10, and 20%) of the varieties Francis and Wells were mixed with intact ke...

Christopher J.C. Burges Advanced Technologies, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies Holmdel, New Jersey [email protected] We show that the recently proposed variant of the Support Vector machine (SVM) algorithm, known as v-SVM, can be interpreted as a maximal separation between subsets of the convex hulls of the data, which we call soft convex hulls. The soft convex hulls are controlled by ch...

Up to recent years, bacterial adhesion has mostly been evaluated at the population level. Single cell level has improved in the past few years allowing a better comprehension of the implication of individual behaviors as compared to the one of a whole community. A new approach using atomic force microscopy (AFM) to measure adhesion forces between a live bacterium attached via a silica microbead...

Multihull vessels such as trimaran have been well known to better transverse stability and can provide wider deck area found be quite successful when operated passenger carriers. Trimaran has also produce lower resistance, hence power less fuel consumption, compared monohulls. The current research investigates the viscous interference hull of a displacement at various spacing configuration (up ...

The effects of polysaccharides and tannins present in the hulls of field beans (Vicia faba L.) on the digestion of amino acids, starch and lipid were studied in poultry. A control diet without hulls and the same diet substituted with 400 g hulls/kg diet from three different varieties of beans were fed to 3-week-old chicks for 4 d. Digestibility coefficients for amino acids, starch and lipid wer...

This study was conducted to assess the ability of the studied adsorbent, i.e. raw oak fruit hulls and the activated carbon prepared from oak fruit hull for removing the Methylene blue (MB) from aqueous solution. This study was conducted under various effective parameters, e.g., contact time, pH, MB concentration, adsorbent concentration. The optimum amount of each parameter was determined a...

Shape optimization is a growing field of interest in many areas of academic research, marine design, and manufacturing. As part of the CREATE Ships Hydromechanics Product, an effort is underway to develop a computational tool set and process framework that can aid the ship designer in making informed decisions regarding the influence of the planned hull shape on its hydrodynamic characteristics...

Ship hulls create a vector for the transportation of harmful non-indigenous species (NIS) all over world. To sustainably prevent NIS introductions, joint consideration environmental, economic and social aspects in search optimal biofouling management strategies is needed. This article presents multi-perspective soft systems analysis problem, based on an extensive literature review expert knowle...