Simulation and Experiment of the Spiral Digging End-Effector for Hole Digging in Plug Tray Seedling Substrate

Hole digging in ensembles of tunneling molecular magnets

Digging for diamonds: Identifying valuable end-user code in repositories

To a large extent, repositories of end-user code are “write-only”: much of the code that people publish never sees substantial reuse. Yet buried within these repositories are valuable pieces of code, though finding them is not always easy. In prior work, we developed a model that can predict, when a web macro is created, whether that script will be reused by anybody. In the current paper, we an...

Digging for new solutions.

The magnitude of the increasing problem of resistance really takes all its meaning when appraised side-by-side with the paucity of new antimicrobials reaching the market (1). Several factors have contributed to making antimicrobial discovery less fashionable nowadays. The gigantic costs of bringing a new compound to market, from the identification of a promising target at the preclinical stages...

Digging for Data Structures

Because writing computer programs is hard, computer programmers are taught to use encapsulation and modularity to hide complexity and reduce the potential for errors. Their programs will have a high-level, hierarchical structure that reflects their choice of internal abstractions. We designed and forged a system, Laika, that detects this structure in memory using Bayesian unsupervised learning....

Design and force analysis of end-effector for plug seedling transplanter

Automatic transplanters have been very important in greenhouses since the popularization of seedling nurseries. End-effector development is a key technology for transplanting plug seedlings. Most existing end-effectors have problems with holding root plugs or releasing plugs. An efficient end-effector driven by a linear pneumatic cylinder was designed in this study, which could hold root plugs ...