Designing timber harvesting units is a challenging task. The task requires decision making on logging equipment, landing site, cable road profile, road location, and transportation system. Traditionally forest planners have done the task manually. However, the manual method makes it difficult to examine many alternatives and the harvest plans depend...
The detection of subtle variations in mineral chemistry in zoned hydrothermal
alteration associated with the formation of porphyry copper deposits by short-wave
infrared spectroscopy and rock chemistry are potentially valuable vectoring tools for
mineral exploration. In order to correctly interpret the data collected by these methods,
results must be calibrated...
Although a large number of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers covering the entire genome are needed to enable molecular breeding efforts such as genome wide association studies, fine mapping, genomic selection and marker-assisted selection in peach [Prunus persica (L.) Batsch] and related Prunus species, only a limited number of genetic...
Once the purview of the geeks and the early adopters, social software applications like blogs and wikis have made their way into the mainstream. And it seems that every day more tools emerge: social bookmarking, citation-sharing, RSS and more. Just keeping abreast of new tools and what they do is...
Presentation about the future of online public access catalogs. I discuss whether or not the catalog; or, more specifically, the local OPAC, has a future and the other search and discovery tools the OPAC is competing with. I also review short-term and long-term changes that are necessary for OPACs to...