BACKGROUND Winter chill is one of the defining characteristics of a location's suitability for the production of many tree crops. We mapped and investigated observed historic and projected future changes in winter chill in California, quantified with two different chilling models (Chilling Hours, Dynamic Model). METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Based on hourly and daily temperature records, win...

This Paper relates some of the experiences gained from the initial stages of a trial software quality program undertaken in Australia’s largest government research agency, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). The program, known as Outreach, has assigned experienced software engineers and software process engineers to work alongside the research scientists an...

The collection consists of all the *.csiro.au (public) websites as they appeared in March 2007. The resulting data set consists of 370 715 documents, with total size 4.2 gigabytes. The web crawler visited the outward-facing pages of CSIRO in a fashion similar to the crawl used in CSIRO’s own search engine. In fact, the same crawler technology that CSIRO uses was used to gather the CSIRO documen...

In this paper, is presented the design of an algorithm for detection and avoidance of obstacles for Guanay II AUV. The obstacle detection system is based on a sonar and its use guarantees the safe navigation of AUV. The strategy of obstacle avoidance is performed based on Fuzzy reactive architecture for different forward speeds of the vehicle. Simulation results obtained by developing the algor...