Soil disinfestation with steam has potential to partially replace fumigants such as methyl bromide, chloropicrin, and 1,3-dichloropropene because it is effective, safer apply, less negative impact on the environment. Here, we compared efficacy of + mustard seed meal (MSM) chloropicrin soil disinfection, plant growth, fruit yield in a strawberry ( Fragaria × ananassa ) fruiting field. The MSM wa...

Focusing on the tadditional test automation technique’s lack in the AJAX Web application and based on the AJAX key techniques and asynchronous work mode ,a special asynchronous test automation method for the AJAX Web application is analyzed and designed. The design of the structure frame of the center of the AJAX test automation technique and a pair of program defined functions access and wait ...

Today end users are no longer mere consumers of computer tools but increasingly need to be more active producers of information and software artifacts. New techniques for engineering software are needed to support end users in this new role. This paper introduces one of these techniques, namely unwitting end-user development, and explains the BANCO architecture, which has been designed to suppo...

The addition of biochar to agricultural soils has been shown to improve crop productivity and sequester carbon in soils over a millennial timeline. However, little formal research has assessed the logistics or economics of transitioning to a biochar economy. This paper examines the problem of biochar application to soil. Specifically, we look at two methods of application-broadcast-and-disk and...

The time between swine (Sus scrofa) manure application to soil as a crop fertilizer, the first rainfall event, and the frequency of rainfall events should influence leaching potential of fecal pathogens. Soil microcosms were inoculated in the lab with a swine manure isolate of Escherichia coli, strain RS2G, expressing green fluorescent protein, to examine how timing and frequency of rainfall ev...

MAC protocols employ identical schedules for both unicast and broadcast packet transmissions, and modify their ―unicast schedule‖ to work with broadcast packets. For instance, IEEE 802.11 cannot perform an RTS / CTS handshake for broadcast packets, and thus only utilizes CSMA for broadcast packets, regardless of the impact on life or contention. The MAC schedule should be chosen to maximize the...

The evolution in satellite digital broadcast has lead to wide variety of Internet and multimedia applications even in few first years of service launch. DVB is expected to be prominent television broadcast standard for next decades also in terrestrial television. While being member of same protocol family, terrestrial digital television (DVB-T) sets quite different constraints on performance th...

A system for speaker-based audio-indexing and an application for speaker-tracking in broadcast news audio are presented. The process of producing an indexing information in continuous audio streams based on detected speakers is composed of several tasks and is therefore treated as a multistage process. The main building blocks of such an indexing system include components for an audio segmentat...