Vegetation deterioration is a main cause of erosion and land degradation. Therefore, land cover reclamation in the effected areas will affect erosion trend. In reclamation projects, the investigation of relationship between the planted species and soils is highly recommended. Atriplex species can sequester carbon into soil, and have an ability to conserve soil and prevent soil erosion,...

A robotic system is presented that uses threedimensional ultrasound to visually servo a surgical instrument. Tracking of both the surgical instrument and a target was done using image based algorithms on the real-time 3D ultrasound data. The tracking techniques are shown to be especially amenable for execution on powerful graphics processor units. By harnessing a graphics card, it was possible ...

Scott Turner's 1993 Minstrel system was a high water mark in story generation, harnessing the concept of imaginative recall to generate creative stories. Using case based reasoning and an author level planning system, Minstrel models human creative processes. However, the algorithmic and representational commitments made in Minstrel were never subject to principled and quantitative analysis. By...