Abstract Rainwater harvesting (RWH) systems use runoff to meet water supply demand and may also benefit reduction. We develop the Analysis Simulation Program (RASP) model simulate an RWH system using storage volume, roof area, irrigated as inputs. A cost-benefit of was developed with subject reliability target capture in each simulation. Near-optimal solutions were identified for case a constra...

in this study the wavelet neural network (wnn) and artificial neural network (ann) were used to simulate barley breakage percentage in combine harvester. the models have been trained using the same data conditions. air temperature, thresher cylinder speed, distance between thresher cylinder and concave (back and forth) and the percentage of barely moisture were as the input variables. the resul...

This study examined whether two species of lepidopteran larvae (Cleora scriptaria and Epiphyas postvittana) were deterred from feeding on the leaves of kawakawa (Macropiper excelsum) after the leaves had been damaged in three different ways: by larval feeding, using a hole punch or a metal rasp. A hierarchy of choice experiments was performed in the laboratory, examining the feeding ‘preference...

Determining the pattern of activity of individual connections within a neural circuit could provide insights into the computational processes that underlie brain function. Here, we develop new strategies to label active synapses by trans-synaptic fluorescence complementation in Drosophila. First, we demonstrate that a synaptobrevin-GRASP chimera functions as a powerful activity-dependent marker...

Epiduroscopy is very useful in the treatment of not only low back pain caused by failed back surgery syndrome, epidural scar or herniated disc but also by chronic refractory low back pain which does not respond to interventional conservative treatment including fluoroscopically-directed epidural steroid injections and percutaneous adhesiolysis. Because cauterization using a laser fiber has beco...

This paper is based on a previous work of the first author [13] in which a mathematical model of the computer has been presented. The model deals with random access memory, such as RASP of C. C. Elgot and A. Robinson [12], however, it allows for a more realistic modeling of real computers. This new model of computers has been named by the author (Y. Nakamura, [13]) Architecture Model for Instru...

Deep and shallow processing techniques have complementary strengths and weaknesses. There are various ways in which deep and shallow techniques can be combined in practical systems to take advantage of the strengths of each approach. In this paper, I argue for the advantages of using a semantic representation as the interface between various types of deep and shallow processing. I illustrate ho...

This paper identifies reusable interactions and presents them as an important construct for the development and reuse of software for computer animation. A reusable interaction manages the flow of information among software components. They are first-class entities that are easy to adapt, to organize hierarchically, and to operate dynamically. In computer animation and other time-dependent syst...

We have screened chromosome arm 3L for ethyl methanesulfonate-induced mutations that disrupt localization of fluorescently labeled gurken (grk) messenger (m)RNA, whose transport along microtubules establishes both major body axes of the developing Drosophila oocyte. Rapid identification of causative mutations by single-nucleotide polymorphism recombinational mapping and whole-genomic sequencing...