much attention has been increasingly paid to the technology of field and service robotics. The FSR conferences have been held bi-a collection of selected papers from FSR'03. To promote the robot industry, the potential needs and the market of robot technology have been investigated, and it has been predicted that field and service robots is the area most expected to enlarge the robot market rat...

In this paper, a three ring-resonator serially coupled is considered as an optical filter. We are going to improve the performance of the designed optical filter by increasing the quality factor and finesse of filtered wavelengths. The first and last rings are coupled to the bus waveguides that carry the input and output fields. The effect of coupling parameters and ring radii on the filtering ...

The objectives of this study were to assess the effects of early grain feeding on acetate and glucose turnover rates and acetate and glucose preference for palmitate synthesis by subcutaneous fat (SCF), intramuscular fat (IMF), and visceral fat (VF) in finishing steers. Sixteen Angus × Simmental steers were used in the study; 8 were early weaned (EW) and fed a high-grain diet immediately after ...

Funding information U.S. Department of the Interior Southeast Climate Center; U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center; U.S. Geological Survey National Water Census Abstract 1. Streamflow is essential for maintaining healthy aquatic ecosystems and for supporting human water supply needs. Changes in climate, land use and water use practi...

Abstract The first size reduction (FSR) in the Reticulofenestra-Gephyrocapsa-Emiliania ( RGE ) lineage (order Isochrysidales), which occurred early Oligocene (~32 Ma), is of great significance for understanding Lilliput effect that has affected coccolithophore communities from late Eocene to this day. We conducted a morphologic analysis on coccoliths Reticulofenestra species lived during middle...

Cables are usually bent into a U-shape to cross obstacles during installation: this includes the upward-bending mode (UBM) and downward-bending (DBM). An experimental study was conducted investigate combustion behavior of U-shaped cables with above bending forms different angles. The ignition point set in middle temperature distribution, flame spread rate (FSR), mass loss (MLR), dimensional cha...

A class of whispering-gallery-mode resonators, herein referred to as adiabatic microring resonators, is proposed and numerically demonstrated. Adiabatic microrings enable electrical and mechanical contact to be made to the resonator without inducing radiation, while supporting only a single radial mode and therein achieving an uncorrupted free spectral range (FSR). Rigorous finite-difference ti...

We demonstrate an all-fiber add-drop filter composed of a microfiber knot (working as a resonator) and a fiber taper (working as a dropping fiber). The dropping taper can be either parallel or perpendicular to the input port of the filter. A quality factor (Q factor) of 13,000 is obtained from a parallel-coupling 308 microm diameter microknot add-drop filter with a free spectral range (FSR) of ...

In this paper, we clarify reconstruction-based discretization schemes for unstructured grids and discuss their economically high-order versions, which can achieve accuracy under certain conditions at little extra cost. The clarification leads to one of the most economical approaches: flux-and-solution-reconstruction (FSR) approach, where highly be constructed based on an extended kappa-scheme c...