Tests were conducted to determine the effects of drying conditions on the rate of fissure formation after drying and the resultant mechanical strength distributions of individual rice kernels. Long-grain varieties Cypress, Drew, and Wells at 21% harvest moisture content (HMC) were dried at 40°C, 45°C, 50°C, 55°C, and 60°C and constant 17% relative humidity (RH) to 12% MC. Immediately after dryi...

Algorithm theories represent the structure common to a class of algorithms, such as divide-and-conquer or backtrack. An algorithm theory for a class A provides the basis for design tactics – specialized methods for designing A-algorithms from formal problem specifications. We illustrate this approach with recent work on the theory of global search algorithms and briefly mention several others. ...

This paper presents PNETMAP, an algorithm that maps virtual communication networks of a Cyber Physical System onto a partially-known, physical network of reconfigurable embedded systems. The paper describes in detail the algorithm and offers an extensive set of experimental results on the quality of the produced communication structures for different network topologies. Experiments use a networ...

Sea level rise is already damaging coastal areas, and habitat damage will only increase. Wetlands and other coastal habitats serve many useful ecological purposes well documented in the literature. As sea level rise inundates former terrestrial coastal areas, the lost wetlands, cypress forests, spawning areas, and other valuable habitats can be replaced in newly inundated areas by assisted biot...

Chilopsis linearis 'Burgundy', "DESERT WILLOW" Calif. native, fast-growing small tree or large shrub w/ airy appearance; willow-like leaves & trumpet-shaped, burgundy-colored flowers over long spring/summer season; hummingbird favorite.. [30] (H*W*C*) Cupressus forbesii, "TECATE CYPRESS" Calif. native, drought tolerant, multi-trunked, evergreen tree to 25 ft. w/ cherry red bark & green-gray fol...

Heating of green wood involves a complex set of deformation processes, including reversible thermal strain, reversible shrinkage due to decrease of moisture content, and irreversible viscoelatic recovery of growth stress activated by temperature called hygrothermal recovery (HTR). Experimental tests were performed on small Japanese Cypress specimens oriented in the three principal R, T, L direc...

1U.S. Geological Survey, Idaho Cooperative Research Unit, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844-1141, USA 2College of Law, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844, USA 3Department of Science and Mathematics, Upper Iowa University, Fayette, IA 52142, USA 4PRBO Conservation Science, 3820 Cypress Drive #11, Petaluma, CA 94954, USA 5Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture and Departmen...

Chilopsis linearis 'Burgundy', "DESERT WILLOW" Calif. native, fast-growing small tree or large shrub w/ airy appearance; willow-like leaves & trumpet-shaped, burgundy-colored flowers over long spring/summer season; hummingbird favorite.. [30] (H*W*C*) Cupressus forbesii, "TECATE CYPRESS" Calif. native, drought tolerant, multi-trunked, evergreen tree to 25 ft. w/ cherry red bark & green-gray fol...

Katherine B. Gibney,1,2 Marc Fischer,1 Harry E. Prince,3 Laura D. Kramer,4 Kirsten St. George,4 Olga L. Kosoy,1 Janeen J. Laven,1 and J. Erin Staples1 1Arboviral Diseases Branch, Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Fort Collins, Colorado; 2Epidemic Intelligence Service Program, CDC, Atlanta, Georgia; 3Focus Diagnostics, Cypress, California; and 4...

I study repeated games with mediated communication and frequent actions. I derive Folk Theorems with imperfect public and private monitoring under minimal detectability assumptions. Even in the limit, when noise is driven by Brownian motion and actions are arbitrarily frequent, as long as players are sufficiently patient they can attain virtually efficient equilibrium outcomes, in two ways: sec...