Automatic irrigation systems usually conveniently protect landscape investment. While conventional irrigation systems are known to be inefficient, automated ones have the potential to optimize water usage. In fact, there is a new generation of irrigation systems that are smart in the sense that they monitor the weather, soil conditions, evaporation and plant water use, and automatically adjust ...

0957-4174/$ see front matter Published by Elsevier doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2010.03.048 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 979 845 2230. E-mail address: [email protected] (B. Nepal). Understanding customer requirements and incorporating them into the conceptual vehicle design is the first step of automotive product development (PD). However, lack of quantitative data and undefined relationships between th...

The link between coordinate transformations in the plane and their effects on the graph of a function can be difficult for students studying college level mathematics to comprehend. To solidify this conceptual link in the mind of a student Microsoft Excel can serve as a convenient graphing tool and pedagogical aid. The authors of this paper describe how various transformations and their related...

The customer oriented market leaded to the growth of complexity of production and service processes. This growing complexity has increased the required logistics operations and leaded to the appearance of global supply chain strategies. There are several supply strategies, which are based on just-in-time philosophy and they are core tools of leaning. One of these JIT-based supply strategies is ...

We thank Dr Poullis for his comments [1] on our article [2] and recommendation of his Excel datasheet to record continuous data for variables such as blood pressure, temperature, glucose, lactate and haematocrit. The point that Dr Poullis raises is highly pertinent to surgical studies and databases—howmuch data do we need to record? Continuous data recording during surgery is an admirable goal,...

We study the problem of efficiently predicting a correct program from a large set of programs induced from few input-output examples in Programming-byExample (PBE) systems. This is an important problem for making PBE systems usable so that users do not need to provide too many examples to learn the desired program. We first formalize the two classes of sharing that occurs in version-space algeb...