Wireless Structural Control (WSC) systems can play a crucial role in protecting civil infrastructure in the event of earthquakes and other natural disasters. Such systems represent an exemplary class of cyber-physical systems that perform close-loop control using wireless sensor networks. Existing WSC research usually employs wireless sensors installed on small lab structures, which cannot capt...

BACKGROUND Early identification and intervention are imperative for suicide prevention. However, at-risk people often neither seek help nor take professional assessment. A tool to automatically assess their risk levels in natural settings can increase the opportunity for early intervention. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to explore whether computerized language analysis methods can be ut...

Abstract Trapped ion in the Lamb–Dicke (LD) regime with LD parameter η ≪ 1 can be cooled down to its motional ground state using sideband cooling. Standard cooling works weak coupling (WSC) limit, where strength is small compared natural linewidth γ of internal excited state, a rate much less than . Here we consider schemes strong (SSC) regime, comparable or even greater We derive analytic expr...

Kura clover (Trifolium ambiguumM. Bieb.) grown in monoculture is difficult to harvest mechanically because of its decumbent growth habit, and legumes in general have poor ensiling characteristics. Our objectives were to assess forage yield, nutritive value, and silage characteristics of kura clover–winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) mixtures to determine usefulness as a silage crop. ‘Cardinal’...

Commonsense reasoning remains a major challenge in AI, and yet, recent progresses on benchmarks may seem to suggest otherwise. In particular, the neural language models have reported above 90% accuracy Winograd Schema Challenge (WSC), commonsense benchmark originally designed be unsolvable for statistical that rely simply word associations. This raises an important question---whether these trul...

abstract             this study was conducted to investigate the effects of different levels of yeast and molasses on chemical composition and nutritional value of artiplex lentiformis silage. the levels of yeast include: zero (control), 2.5 and 5 g/kg dry matter and levels of molasses include: zero (control), 10 and 15 percent that were added to atriplex and then ensiled. the experiment arrang...

The paper deals with the concrete planning problem (CPP) – a stage of the Web Service Composition (WSC) in the PlanICS framework. A novel SMT-based approach to CPP is defined and its performance is compared to the standard Genetic Algorithm (GA) in the framework of the PlanICS system. The discussion of both the approaches is supported by extensive experimental results.

The root system of perennials is composed of the roots of different growth years. The nutrient storage capacities and activities of roots are an important basis for judging root components and plant senescence. In this research, changes in the contents of water-soluble carbohydrate (WSC) were used as indicators of the nutrient storage and activity of roots of different life years. From the earl...

Aphids feed on plant phloem sap, rich in sugars but poor in essential amino acids. However, sugars cause osmotic regulation problems for aphids, which they overcome by hydrolysing the sugars in their gut and polymerising the hydrolysis products into oligosaccharides, excreted with honeydew. Aphids harbour primary bacterial endosymbionts, which supply them with essential amino acids necessary fo...