1. One major gap in our ability to predict the impacts of climate change is a quantitative analysis of temperatures experienced by organisms under natural conditions. We developed a framework to describe and quantify the impacts of local climate on the mosaic of microclimates and physiological states of insects within tree canopies. This approach was applied to a leaf mining moth feeding on app...

We propose an excavation-type demining robot PEACE for farmland aiming at “complete removal” and “automation.”(Mori et al., 2003, Mori et al., 2005) The reason why we choose farmland as the demining area is as follows: farmland is such an area where local people cannot help entering to live, so it should be given the highest priority (Jimbo, 1997). PEACE is designed to clear APMs (anti-personne...

This paper presents a new approach to the detection of anti-personnel landmines which is based on the physical detection of landmines using a sharpened probe in a fashion similar to that employed by human deminers. The axial force applied to the probe is sensed as the probe is driven into the ground (at 30 degrees to the horizontal in order to avoid initiating the landmine), and the force infor...

waste material from the coal cleaning accumulated in a number of areas along the east coast of Vancouver Ryan, B., (2008): Preliminary Analyses of Coal Refuse Material from Vancouver Island; Geoscience Reports 2008, B.C. Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources, pages 99-118. 1Resource Development and Geosciences Branch; Oil and Gas Division; BC Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum ...

Jepsen, G. Olhoeft, S. Painter, J. Priscu; Dept. of Space Studies, Southwest Research Institute, 1050 Walnut St. #400, Boulder CO 80302 ([email protected]); Dept. of Chemistry and Geochemistry, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO; Dept. of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT; Dept. of Geophysics, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO; Center for...

Amine Chellali * : Robotics research group, IRCCyN-Ecole des Mines de Nantes and Department of Surgery, Cambridge Health Alliance Cedric Dumas: Robotics research group, IRCCyN-Ecole des Mines de Nantes and Biomedical Imaging Group, CSIRO Isabelle Milleville-Pennel: PsyCoTech research group, IRCCyN-CNRS * Corresponding author: Email: [email protected] Mailing Address: Cambridge Health All...

No single mine sensor has the potential to increase the probability of detection and decrease false alarm rates for all types of mines under the wide variety of environmental conditions in which mines exist. As is clear from the previous chapter, each innovative method is subject to limitations under certain conditions of environment and mine type. Thus it is unlikely that any one technology wi...

Reporters: Shigeru Chiba Associate Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Theo D’Hondt Professor, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Examiners: Nancy Hitschfeld Assistant Professor, Universidad de Chile, Chile Éric Monfroy Professor, Université de Nantes, France Jacques Noyé Assistant Professor, École des Mines de Nantes, France Gustavo Rossi Professor, Universidad Nacional de La Plat...

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Translator’s Note: The original French version of this two-paper series was published as: Akrich, M., Callon, M. & Latour, B. (1988) A Quoi Tient Le Succès des Innovations? 1. L’Art de l’Intéressement. Annales des Mines, Gérer et Comprendre, 11, 4–17 Akrich, M., Callon, M. & Latour, B. (1988) A Quoi Tient Le Succès des Innovations? 2. L’Art de Choisir les Bons Porte-Parole. Annales des Mines, G...