Velocity distribution at two sites within the southern basin of Lake Michigan

Also published as Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant Program, report IL-IN-SG-R-91-4."ISWS/RI-115/91."--Cover.Includes bibliographical references (p. 38-39).Enumeration continues through succeeding title

Development of Criteria for Shore Protection Against Wind-generated Waves for Lakes and Ponds in Illinois

published or submitted for publicationis peer reviewedOpe

Kankakee River Basin in Illinois: hydraulics, hydrology, river geometry, and sand bars interim report

This interim report summarizes the work completed within the first nine months of the project. This report summarizes all of the existing streamflow records for Illinois and for two stations from Indiana, lists the available literature, and describes the field trip to the site. Analyses of the bed and bank material samples collected during the field trip also are included. Maps of the bank lines from the Route 30 Bridge in Indiana to the confluence of the Kankakee River with the Des Plaines River have been completed and will be available with the final report. Bank conditions of the entire main stem of the Kankakee River from the Route 30 Bridge in Indiana to its confluence with the Des Plaines River are also summarized. This includes general bank conditions, shoreline stability, erosion sites and severity, pumping stations, log and tree jams, and other features. Additional work on the surveying of the river and sand bar geometries is now being done. A final report will be prepared that summarizes all of the existing and newly collected data on hydraulics, hydrology, sediment transport, bed and bank material distributions, and sedimentation patterns

Stabilization of alluvial channels

Submitted to Office of Water Resources Research, U.S. Department of Interior.Includes bibliographical references.Project A-0002-COLO, Grant agreement nos. 14-01-0001-553, 726, 900, 1074, 1625

Sediment Transport and Hydraulics of Flow in the Kankakee River--Illinois: Phase II

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Experimental exploration of compact convolutional neural network architectures for non-temporal real-time fire detection.

In this work we explore different Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architectures and their variants for non-temporal binary fire detection and localization in video or still imagery. We consider the performance of experimentally defined, reduced complexity deep CNN architectures for this task and evaluate the effects of different optimization and normalization techniques applied to different CNN architectures (spanning the Inception, ResNet and EfficientNet architectural concepts). Contrary to contemporary trends in the field, our work illustrates a maximum overall accuracy of 0.96 for full frame binary fire detection and 0.94 for superpixel localization using an experimentally defined reduced CNN architecture based on the concept of InceptionV4. We notably achieve a lower false positive rate of 0.06 compared to prior work in the field presenting an efficient, robust and real-time solution for fire region detection

Effect of paclobutrazol and sucrose on in vitro cormel formation in gladiolus

Studies with excised shoots of six gladiolus cultivars viz., Bellariana, Blue Moon, Cream White, Friendship, Her Majesty and Top Brass indicated that paclobutrazol enhanced early cormel initiation and development. The interaction between paclobutrazol and sucrose was significant for cormel size. Supplementation of 10 mg L–1 paclobutrazol and 120 g L–1 sucrose to Murashige and Skoog’s medium favored formation of bigger cormels. Among the cultivars response to exogenous sucrose supplementation varied significantly and absence of paclobutrazol produced longer leaves, roots and smaller cormels

Waves and Drawdown Generated by River Traffic on the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers

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Waves Generated by River Traffic and Wind on the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers

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Fatigue and Collapse of Cyclically Bent Strip of Amorphous Solid

Fatigue caused by cyclic bending of a piece of material, resulting in its mechanical failure, is a phenomenon that had been studied for ages by engineers and physicists alike. In this Letter we study such fatigue in a strip of athermal amorphous solid. On the basis of atomistic simulations we conclude that the crucial quantity to focus on is the {\em accumulated damage}. Although this quantity exhibits large sample-to-sample fluctuations, its dependence on the loading determines the statistics of the number of cycles to failure. Thus we can provide a scaling theory for the W\"ohler plots of mean number of cycles for failure as a function of the loading amplitude