Production and application technology is critical for the success of entomopathogenic nematodes (EPNs) in biological control. Production approaches include in vivo, and in vitro methods (solid or liquid fermentation). For laboratory use and small scale field experiments, in vivo production of EPNs appears to be the appropriate method. In vivo production is also appropriate for niche markets and...

This paper describes the experience gained in Sweden in connection with early phase-out of CFC-113 in the production engineering industry. It concentrates particularly on the phase-out of CFC-113 in the production of PCB assemblies, although parallel applications for cleaning of precision components, metal cleaning and : to some extent the phase-out of l,l,l-trichloroethane are also considered....

Though largely forgotten now, Technology Networks were community-based prototyping workshops supported by the Greater London Council from 1983 until 1986. They emerged out of a movement for socially useful production. Recalling the radical roots and conflicted experiences of the workshops brings to the fore issues still relevant today: tensions between prototyping activities for business develo...

Automatically judging sentences for their grammaticality is potentially useful for several purposes — evaluating language technology systems, assessing language competence of second or foreign language learners, and so on. Previous work has examined parser ‘byproducts’, in particular parse probabilities, to distinguish grammatical sentences from ungrammatical ones. The aim of the present paper ...

The present study aims to shed some light on an old controversy about the joint impact of acquiescence and social desirability on item responses. There are two main hypotheses: (a) of the two biases, social desirability is by far the prime determinant, and (b) acquiescence operates in all sorts of items, including those impacted by social desirability. A new methodology is harnessed to assess t...

This paper formally defines the Ratio Modeling technique as set of steps enabling you to quickly perform low confidence capacity predictions, which are required when budgeting hardware, assessing technical risk, validating alternative technical architecture designs, sizing packaged applications, and predicting production system capacity requirements. This technique enables you to define the rel...

An enroute air traffic control (ATC) simulation has provided the basis for research into the marriage of discrete simulation and artificial intelligence techniques. A program which simulates, using real world data, the movement of aircraft in an ATC environment forms a robot's world model. Using a production system to respond to events in the simulated world, the robot is able to look ahead and...

Blomeke, C.R., Rusk, C.P., Balschweid, M.A., & Elliott, S.J. The purpose of this study was to evaluate retinal imaging technology as a means of permanent identification of 4-H beef and sheep projects. The specific objectives of this study were to compare the time required to collect a retinal image versus a nose print, and to determine the false match and false non-match rate of visual verifica...

The customer is the core element of business based on current market situation, even for industrial equipment which customers’ requirements are now very various. It means that the inside processes of the manufacturer should adjust to customer’s requirements: the company must be very flexible among other properties. The challenge is that the flexibility comes from the management of the knowledge...

This study assessed the potential influence of social desirability (SD) response bias on the E, N, and P EPQ-R scores at the level of individual items. The study was based on a bidimensional IRT model which was fitted in a large sample. This allowed a detailed analysis of both the internal validities of the items and the content of the items which were most affected by SD. The E items were leas...