Jarvis is a system designed to respond to user issued commands to provide convenient control over a number of electronic devices. These devices can be lights, TV's, radios, stereos, etc. The system will be designed to work best within a moderate home with the convenience of a wireless router. Fig. 1.1 shows how each stage of the system will interact with each other. More details on this are pro...

A coupled photosynthesis-stomatal conductance model with single-layer sunlit and shaded leaf canopy scaling is implemented and evaluated in a diagnostic box model with the Pleim-Xiu land surface model (PX LSM) and ozone deposition model components taken directly from the meteorology and air quality modeling system—WRF/CMAQ (Weather Research and Forecast model and Community Multiscale Air Qualit...

Accurate estimation of leaf stomatal conductance (gs) is important in predicting carbon andwater cycles of terrestrial ecosystem. To estimate gs on field-grown soybean and maize underwater-stressed condition accurately, a modified optimal stomatal conductance (OSCM) modelwas established based on the relationship between marginal water cost of carbon gain and soilwater content by introducing a w...

With the increase of human activities since the Industrial Revolution, atmospheric greenhouse gas (GHG) concentration has increased, which is believed the cause of climate change. Methane (CH4) fluxes were measured at two commercial swine barns (Jarvis and Guelph) with a four tower micrometeorological mass balance method. Two and three separate measurements were conducted at Jarvis and at Guelp...

made to offset the direct-threat claim by an employer. In Jarvis, the only arguments made that Mr. Jarvis could be reasonably accommodated were his own suggestions that his co-workers be warned, speak in a normal tone, and not approach him from behind. Perhaps a more effective accommodation could have been suggested that would have satisfied the court had Mr. Jarvis undergone a forensic evaluat...

In a recent paper, McLure & Jarvis (2002, astro-ph/0204473, v.1) reanalyze AGN broad-line reverberation measurements presented in Kaspi et al. (2000). They find the broad-line region size and the AGN luminosity at 5100 Å can be related by RBLR ∝ L0.5 5100. This differs from the result of Kaspi et al., who found RBLR ∝ L 0.7 5100, a departure from expectations for a constant ionization parameter...