Soil Sensor Network

Water management during crop irrigation is a problem for the agricultural industry. To help farmers better maintain water usage, a wireless soil sensor network comprised of a sensor pod and wireless communication has been designed and implemented. It was proven that the sensor pod can be installed 6-8 inches below the ground and communicate up to at least a 6km distance back to the gateway. The senor pod shells have a 2 mm thick shell to prevent the pod from shattering when coming into contact with the ground after being released from the planter, as calculated through the force of impact equations. The sensor pod contains a capacitive soil moisture sensor with an accuracy of 90% and a temperature sensor with an accuracy of ±0.2ºC. Lithium-ion batteries with a 2800 mA-H rating were chosen to ensure the sensor pods would be power-efficient in order to last an entire growing season. The sensor data is transmitted wirelessly through LoRaWAN communication using a RN2903 transceiver and a quarter wavelength, 3” monopole antenna. A Sentrius Laird gateway was used to collect and forward sensor pod data to the Senet dashboard. The Senet dashboard then forwarded the data to a web-based application that farmers can reference to check the status of their fields

Applications

Volume 3 describes how resource-aware machine learning methods and techniques are used to successfully solve real-world problems. The book provides numerous specific application examples: in health and medicine for risk modelling, diagnosis, and treatment selection for diseases in electronics, steel production and milling for quality control during manufacturing processes in traffic, logistics for smart cities and for mobile communications

Applications

Volume 3 describes how resource-aware machine learning methods and techniques are used to successfully solve real-world problems. The book provides numerous specific application examples: in health and medicine for risk modelling, diagnosis, and treatment selection for diseases in electronics, steel production and milling for quality control during manufacturing processes in traffic, logistics for smart cities and for mobile communications

Belle II Technical Design Report

The Belle detector at the KEKB electron-positron collider has collected almost 1 billion Y(4S) events in its decade of operation. Super-KEKB, an upgrade of KEKB is under construction, to increase the luminosity by two orders of magnitude during a three-year shutdown, with an ultimate goal of 8E35 /cm^2 /s luminosity. To exploit the increased luminosity, an upgrade of the Belle detector has been proposed. A new international collaboration Belle-II, is being formed. The Technical Design Report presents physics motivation, basic methods of the accelerator upgrade, as well as key improvements of the detector.Comment: Edited by: Z. Dole\v{z}al and S. Un

Traveling Salesman Problem

This book is a collection of current research in the application of evolutionary algorithms and other optimal algorithms to solving the TSP problem. It brings together researchers with applications in Artificial Immune Systems, Genetic Algorithms, Neural Networks and Differential Evolution Algorithm. Hybrid systems, like Fuzzy Maps, Chaotic Maps and Parallelized TSP are also presented. Most importantly, this book presents both theoretical as well as practical applications of TSP, which will be a vital tool for researchers and graduate entry students in the field of applied Mathematics, Computing Science and Engineering

Topical Workshop on Electronics for Particle Physics

The purpose of the workshop was to present results and original concepts for electronics research and development relevant to particle physics experiments as well as accelerator and beam instrumentation at future facilities; to review the status of electronics for the LHC experiments; to identify and encourage common efforts for the development of electronics; and to promote information exchange and collaboration in the relevant engineering and physics communities

Microsystems platforms for array-based single-cell biological assays

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2008.Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-164).For much of the past century, plated cell cultures have served investigations regarding a variety of fundamental biological processes. Though this in vitro approach has been fruitful, for surveying topics including cell cycle effects3' 8, pro-survival4, 7, 9, 10 and apoptotic2' 11 signaling networks, gene regulationl2' 13, and stress dynamicsl4' 15 (among others), it caters best to harvesting the averaged responses from binned populations of cells and offers only limited avenues for tracking individual cell behaviors. Microsystems-based initiatives16-28 are beginning to aid this investigative shortcoming by offering a variety of strategies for handling individual cells. Such efforts, may ultimately serve studies of cross-population heterogeneity29-33, an effect often masked when tracking responses via averaged population-based means. As it is believed that small subpopulations of cells may be responsible or determining the fate of various diseases and developmental processes34-36, this new paradigm for probing cell function will likely offer key insights.In my dissertation, I offer a unique suite of microsystems-based tools37-42 for servicing novel biological assays centered on cross-population dynamics. This work leverages the investigative potential enabled by arrayed groupings of precisely-spaced single cells and presents innovations in active and passive cell trapping architectures, packaging design, and the use of novel materials for microfabrication41' 43. From proof-of-concept forays, where I discuss the first reported row/column-based electrically-addressable platform40 for trapping, imaging, and releasing collections of individual cells, to scaled implementations that employ frequency modulation to assign unique forcing effects to in-system constructs, I outlay fundamentals for designing, building, and evaluating dielectrophoresis-reliant (DEP) microsystems architectures.(cont.) I further present matured platforms that, for the first time, parallelize single-cell manipulations within microfluidic devices by combining hydrodynamic weir-based cell capture with DEP-based actuation37-39. In progressions toward functional on-chip bioassays, I experimentally validate conditions for in-device cell viability and offer a novel means for tracking mitosis in individual cells. Ongoing work, related to the developments presented here, offers the hope of new empirical approaches to drug discovery, the assignment of gene function in the aftermath of the human genome project, and enhanced understandings of cell communication-linked dynamic responses.by Brian M. Taff.Ph.D