Agents situated in dynamic and unpredictable environments require several capabilities, including synthesizing and executing plans while continuing to be responsive to the world. The Cypress system is a domain-independent framework for defining persistent agents with this full range of behavior. Cypress has been used for several applications, including military operations and fault diagnosis on...

Japanese cedar pollen is the most common causative allergen for seasonal allergic rhinitis (AR) in Japan. More commonly known as Japanese cedar pollinosis, it occurs in spring causing the typical symptoms of seasonal AR, such as sneezing, rhinorrhea, nasal obstruction, nasal itching, and itching of the eyes. Previous reports indicate that the prevalence of Japanese cedar pollinosis among Japane...

Cypress Semiconductor makes a variety of PLL-based clock generators. This application note provides a set of recommendations to optimize usage of Cypress clock devices in a system. The application note begins with recommended termination techniques for clock generators. Subsequently, power supply filtering and bypassing is discussed. Finally, the application note provides some recommendations o...

This study examined the changes in rainfall-runoff characteristics in the year prior to and after intensive thinning of 50% in number in a steep headwater catchment, covered with 46-year-old Japanese cedar and cypress in western Japan. The magnitude of event peak flow, event quick flow, event water yield, and event response time did not change after thinning. Because 70% of rainfall events had ...

Fantastic Realism is a genre which remind us of Russia and its great writer Dostoevsky. This genre has been developed in Iran among Iranian writers who have been familiar with the books of world literature, especially Russian literature. Fantastic Realism employs and combines reality and imagination, and while it concerns the reality related to human beings, it pictures that kind of reality whi...

In Japan, seasonal allergic rhinitis in the spring due to exposure to Japanese cedar or Japanese cypress pollen is common. However, the allergic profile for perennial allergens in spring pollinosis remains unclear. Therefore, in this study, we investigated the allergic profiles of 652 patients with rhinitis. Total serum IgE, serum-specific IgE, and blood eosinophil counts were measured. Allergi...

The Kochi Prefecture Japanese Cedar and Cypress Pollen Information System (P-Net Kochi) was established in 1991 on the initiative of the Pharmaceuticals and Sanitation Division to improve the quality of life of people in Kochi Prefecture, particularly patients with pollinosis. Kochi Prefecture has the highest forests percentage (84%) in Japan. In addition, 40% of the population of the prefectur...

This paper describes a partial reimplementation of Doug Smith's CYPRESS algorithm design system within the Soar problem-solving architecture. The system, CYPRESS-SOAR, reproduces most of CYPRESS' behavior in the synthesis of three divide-and-conquer sorting algorithms from formal specifications. CYPRESS-Soar is based on heuristic search of problem spaces, and uses search to compensate for missi...

In the swampy floodplains of North Carolina’s Black River stand ancient trees with a story to tell. Many of these bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) were well over a millennium old when Columbus discovered the Western Hemisphere. As it turns out, their locale has greatly promoted their longevity: by being relatively inaccessible, the trees have been spared from loggers’ saws. But the inexorable ...