Adapting horse-drawn mowers to tractor power

Caption title.Digitized 2006 AES MoU

Rental rates for farm machines

Caption title.Digitized 2006 AES MoU

Workshop Report: Developing a Research Agenda for the Energy Water Nexus

The energy water nexus has attracted public scrutiny because of the concerns about their interdependence and the possibility for cascading vulnerabilities from one system to the other. There are trends toward more water-­‐intensive energy (such as biofuels , unconventional oil and gas production, and regulations driving more water consumption for thermoelectric power production ) and more energy-­‐intensive water (such as desalination, or deeper ground water pumping and production). In addition demographic trends of population and economic growth will likely drive up total and per capita water and energy demand, and due to climate change related distortions of the hydrologic cycle, it is expected that the existing interdependencies will be come even more of a concern. Therefore, developing a research agenda and strategy to mitigate potential vulnerabilities and to meet economic and environmental targets for efficiently using energy and water would be very worthwhile. To address these concerns, the National Science Foundation (NSF) sponsored a workshop on June 10-­‐11, 2013 in Arlington, VA (at NSF headquarters) to bring together technical, academic, and industry experts from across the country to help develop such a research agenda. The workshop was sponsored by NSF Grant Number CBET 1341032 from the Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems. Supporting programs were: Thermal Transport Processes, Environmental Sustainability, and Environmental Engineering.Center for Research in Water Resource

Farm tractors : their care, operation and maintenance

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Plow adjustment and operation

"May, 1942.""Reprinted, October 1946.""A properly adjusted plow will give real satisfaction to the operator through better work, lighter draft, and less wear on shares and other parts. Different plowing conditions are often encountered even on a single farm. Therefore plows need to be readjusted frequently. It is the purpose of this circular to outline the more important plow adjustments."--Page 1.23 pages : illustration

funcX: A Federated Function Serving Fabric for Science

Exploding data volumes and velocities, new computational methods and platforms, and ubiquitous connectivity demand new approaches to computation in the sciences. These new approaches must enable computation to be mobile, so that, for example, it can occur near data, be triggered by events (e.g., arrival of new data), be offloaded to specialized accelerators, or run remotely where resources are available. They also require new design approaches in which monolithic applications can be decomposed into smaller components, that may in turn be executed separately and on the most suitable resources. To address these needs we present funcX---a distributed function as a service (FaaS) platform that enables flexible, scalable, and high performance remote function execution. funcX's endpoint software can transform existing clouds, clusters, and supercomputers into function serving systems, while funcX's cloud-hosted service provides transparent, secure, and reliable function execution across a federated ecosystem of endpoints. We motivate the need for funcX with several scientific case studies, present our prototype design and implementation, show optimizations that deliver throughput in excess of 1 million functions per second, and demonstrate, via experiments on two supercomputers, that funcX can scale to more than more than 130000 concurrent workers.Comment: Accepted to ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC 2020). arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1908.0490

Status of the tilefish, Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps, fishery off South Carolina and Georgia and recommendations for management

We used a sex- and age-structured model and CPUE data from commercial and research vessels to assess the current status of the tilefish, Loplwlatilus chamaeleonticeps, substock off South Carolina and Georgia. Based on commercial CPUE data and assumed natural mortality (M) rates of 0.10-0.25, we estimated that adult population density prior to fishing ranged from 603 to 950 per km2 and stock biomass ranged from 1,130 to 1,570 tonnes (t). Our estimates of the recommended fishing mortality rate ranged from 0.10 eM - 0.10) to 0.48 (M = 0.25), resulting in sustainable yields of 40 (M - 0.10) to 82 t eM = 0.25) per year. We obtained higher estimates of virgin population density (883-1,710 per km~ when research CPUE data were used. Sustained yield estimates also were higher, ranging from 55 (M - 0.10) to 148 t (M = 0.25) per year. Average estimates of recommended yield from commercial and research CPUE data were 58 and 95 t, respectively. Observed yields in the developing fishery exceeded 100 t in 1981-84 and in 1986; however, current observations indicate that fishing effort has declined to a low level in response to reduced catches. Based on the assumption that commercial CPUE data better reflect population trends, we recommend that the annual harvest not exceed about 50 t, which should result in a stock biomass of about 400-800 t. Apparent limitations on sustainable yield from the fishery probably can be attributed to the long lifespan, slow growth rate, and sedentary nature of tilefish

Ferruccio Ritossa’s scientific legacy 50 years after his discovery of the heat shock response: a new view of biology, a new society, and a new journal

The pioneering discovery of the heat shock response by the Italian scientist Ferruccio Ritossa reached maturity this year, 2012. It was 50 years ago that Professor Ritossa, through an extraordinary combination of serendipity, curiosity, knowledge and inspiration, published the first observation that cells could mount very strong transcriptional activity when exposed to elevated temperatures, which was coined the heat shock response. This discovery led to the identification of heat shock proteins, which impact many areas of current biology and medicine, and has created a new avenue for more exciting discoveries. In recognition of the discovery of the heat shock response, Cell Stress Society International (CSSI) awarded Professor Ritossa with the CSSI medallion in October 2010 in Dozza, Italy. This article is based on a session of the Fifth CSSI Congress held in Québec commemorating Professor Ritossa and his discovery