Potato defends against Phytophthora infestans infection by resistance (R)-gene-based qualitative resistance as well as a quantitative field resistance. R genes are renowned to be rapidly overcome by this oomycete, and potato cultivars with a decent and durable resistance to current P. infestans populations are hardly available. However, potato cultivar Sarpo Mira has retained resistance in the ...

Software requirements management is a volatile and dynamic process that requires continuous requirements process improvement in order to arrive at adequate requirements. However, there is interdependence amongst the processes themselves that leads to requirements managers‘ inability to achieve satisficed requirements for the intended software system. As a result, several software projects have ...

A Lead Slowing Down Spectrometer (LSDS) provides a high neutron flux environment that enables measurements of small samples (∼μg) or samples with small cross sections (tens of μb). The LSDS at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) was previously used for fission cross section measurements and for studies of methods for assay of used nuclear fuel. The effective energy range for the LSDS is 0.1 ...

SI1IHIS I:I>IIUK I f I heir slogan, "The Road lo Respccl", Includes healing up on leams lhal had defealcd them lasi year, I lie Albany Siaie baseball (cam mighi have one fool on ihc path. The Danes clubbed oul 17 hits off of Ihrce RPI pitchers cnroule lo a 16-6 thrashing of Ihc Engineers, yesterday on Troy High School field, across ihe slreei from Ihe RPI campus. In terms of respect, Ihe Danes ...

Even though spring ecosystems are ecologically unique and socio-culturally important worldwide, they hardly attract research attention. The aims of this study were to evaluate the environmental status water quality, inventory species diversity aquatic animals in 65 springs Taiwan from 2012 2017, which seven unable be sampled due fact that dried or sealed up. 58 with complete quality data was as...

Nine subjects (6 males, 3 females) ranging in body mass from 90.9 to 45.5 kg ran repeated trials across a force platform while being filmed at 50 fps. The subjects ran five barefooted trials at each of three speeds: 3.35, 3.83, and 4.47 m s-I. Force data were collected on-line and analyzed for the magnitude and temporal characteristics of the initial impact (FZ1) peak and the active (Fz2) peak ...

S USAN Hong Xu (1952–2014) was for twenty-seven years a professor of management science at the Pennsylvania State University (1987–2014). She died at age 62 on July 1, 2014, after a two-and-a-half-year fight with cancer. Professor Xu was born in Beijing, China in 1952, and went to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, New York in 1982 for graduate education. After receiving her Ph.D. ...

In this research, a video delivery system is proposed by integrating the layered codec and the proposed corruption model. In the system, it is assumed that the base layer packets are delivered without loss since they are assigned the most reliable service level. Then, packets in the enhancement layer are analyzed with the corruption model and categorized for differentiated delivery services. Th...

1 Heidi J. C. Ellis, Dept. of Eng. & Sci., Rensselaer at Hartford, 275 Windsor St., Hartford, CT 06120 [email protected] 2 James C. McKim, Rensselaer at Hartford, [email protected] Abstract  The creation and evolution of a graduate-level certificate program in software engineering is presented in this paper. The software engineering certificate offered by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) is a four-...