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CURRENT ANNUAL CROPPING SYSTEMS IN NORTHERN IDAHO REMAIN SUSCEPTIBLE TO WINTER OIL EROSION. PRODUCTION OF PERENNIA FORAGE CROPS IN EROSION-PRONE LAND OF NORTHERN IDAHO OFFERS THE POTENTIAL FOR GREATER AGRICULTURAL SUSTAINABILITY THROUGH REDUCED SOIL EROSIN AND DIVERSIFICATION OF THE AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY. IN SPITE OF THIS POTENTIAL, THERE IS LITTLE UNDERSTANDING OF THE TECHNICAL AND ECONOMIC CONSTR ...

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We propose to develop an Environmental Monitoring System by integrating various technologies to create a hybrid artificial neural network system. By functionally decomposing the requirements of environmental monitoring we can apply emerging technologies to fulfill these modularized requirements. Ten (10) years of experience indicate that the technologies directly applicable to specific requirement ...

Internal parasites of livestock result in a retardation of weight gain and sigificant economic losses. The main methods for the diagnosis of parasites are almost a centrury old, laboratory-based, time-consuming, laborious and notiriously unreliable. As a result, many animal owners have resorted to treating their animals prophylactically with deworming drugs instead of diagnosing the presence of pa ...

This project is relevant to USDA's Strategic Goal to, "Assist rural communities to create prosperity so they are self-sustaining, repopulating, and economically thriving" (USDA, 2014). By creating solutions for rural affordable housing, entrepreneurship, and electric utility financial sustainability, the proposed work simultaneously addresses issues that USDA supports individually through the ...

A hybrid lithium ion battery / super capacitor energy storage device is developed that uses the high power capability of the super capacitor to satisfy pulsed power load requirements such that stress on the lithium ion batteries is reduced. This results in extended discharge time and higher efficiency utilization of the battery stack.

In this effort, ATI will the effects of substituting or replacing all or some of the copper in 7075 with nickel and the addition of nanoparticles on the hot tearing characteristics and mechanical properties of cast material. Thermodynamic modeling will be used to develop 7075 variants and explore the phases that will form when some of all of the copper is replace by nickel. Methods such as ultraso ...

This proposal is for research into various configurations to reduce or eliminate the drag and resulting lateral loading that result from the shotgun connector and evaluate the potential overall weapon system improvement by simulating the trajectory of the improved system. Three configurations will be studied by computational fluid dynamics to estimate aerodynamic properties and utilized to simulat ...