A Fodder Collecting Song

Foder collecting songs are sung antiphonally between two people or groups of people. Such songs can be sung by anyone, but are mostly sung by youths when they cut grass in the autumnThis collection presents forty-nine audio files including: several folk song genres; folktales and; local history from the Sman shad Valley of Sde dge countyWorld Oral Literature Projec

January Collecting in Central Michigan

Excerpt: To the uninitiated reader, searching for adult insects in mid-winter might seem a fruitless task at best. Yet as the List of Michigan Insects and Related Arthropods takes shape, L\u27off-season collecting records are urgently needed by the compilers. Many species of insects thrive when we might wish to stay indoors; the Collembola are good examples, as are the species of Chionea (Diptera: Tipulidae), a genus of wingless crane-flies. We should like to know much more about the distribution of many hardy winter insects, and only increased collecting will enable this

Collecting a corpus of Dutch SMS

In this paper we present the first freely available corpus of Dutch text messages containing data originating from the Netherlands and Flanders. This corpus has been collected in the framework of the SoNaR project and constitutes a viable part of this 500-million-word corpus. About 53,000 text messages were collected on a large scale, based on voluntary donations. These messages will be distributed as such. In this paper we focus on the data collection processes involved and after studying the effect of media coverage we show that especially free publicity in newspapers and on social media networks results in more contributions. All SMS are provided with metadata information. Looking at the composition of the corpus, it becomes visible that a small number of people have contributed a large amount of data, in total 272 people have contributed to the corpus during three months. The number of women contributing to the corpus is larger than the number of men, but male contributors submitted larger amounts of data. This corpus will be of paramount importance for sociolinguistic research and normalisation studies

Gossypium survey. Collecting in Peru (III), collecting in Mexico (IV), present survival of sub-spontaneous cotton

Ces dernières années, le CIRP a organisé avec le concours de l'Institut français de recherches du coton et textiles exotiques (IRCT) une mission en plusieurs phases pour récolter des spécimens de cotonniers subspontanés. Les spécimens récoltes a l'intérieur du Pérou lors d' une mission effectuée en octobre 1981 variaient du point de vue de la couleur, de la fibre et de la forme des graines; lors d'une autre mission conduite dans le sud du Mexique en février-mars 1982, des échantillons de Gossypium hirsutum ont été récoltes et la gamme des G-hirsutum de la race du Yucatan a été passée en revue

Warehouse Storing and Collecting of Parts

This report deals with reducing the high costs resulting from the wear and tear of the fork-lifts used to store or collect items in a warehouse. Two problems were identified and addressed separately. One concerns the way items should be stored or collected at storage locations on the shelves of one corridor. The other problem seeks for an efficient way to define which fork-lift should operate on each corridor, and the order by which the fork-lifts should visit the corridors. We give to both problems formulations that fit in the framework of combinatorial optimization