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An objective Canopy Weather Forecast System (CWFS) will be developed and tested. The system willbe based on a site-specific one-dimensional (1-D) soil-canopy-atmospheric boundary layer numericalmodel which is coupled to a three-dimensional (3-D) mesoscale atmospheric numerical model. Theoutput from the CWFS will be designed for input into a variety of models that provide directinformation for cr ...

Sepax Technologies, Inc. has identified a new type of anoin-exchange resin which separates single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) with >80% recovery yield and resolves in a single pass the chiral tubes of (6,5) well from commercial SWCNT starting materials by Chromatography. Improvement and scale up of the targeted resin production will facilitate the separation of chiral nanotubes for the academic ...

Consumers are now demanding more information about farm production processes and their resulting harvests. Harvest records, although difficult for farmers to capture, can contain rich product data such as grading information and macro and micronutrient content, allowing farmers to differentiate themselves from competitors and market their produce effectively, as in organic farming. Harvest records ...

Snyder Seed Corporation (SSC) has developed red pepper (capsaicin) coated wild bird seed that is palatable to birds but unpalatable to certain rodents such as squirrels and mice (U.S. patent application Number 7-892-484). SSC now wishes to expand its product development to include domestic poultry food products containing capsaicin for the purpose of decreasing rodent infestation in poultry produ ...

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project focuses on developing a novel scaleable process to produce advanced ceramics from agricultural materials such as rice husk cost effectively. Using such a processing approach, several of processing steps used to produce value added ceramics will be eliminated which will lead to a substantial cost reduction. Nanomaterials Research Corporation ...

Present farm and industrial meat production methods and technologies have a number of associated problems including health risks (infectious animal diseases, nutrition-related diseases), resource intensity (land, water, energy), damage to environment (green house gas emission, erosion, biodiversity loss) and ethical challenges (animal welfare). With increasing worldwide demand for meat, it is expe ...

There continues to be a need for production of biofuels from agricultural sources. Butanol is a more attractive fuel than ethanol because it leads to better gas mileage, it achieves higher blends with gasoline than bioethanol, it has greater compatibility with existing fuel infrastructure, it is less volatile, it is more amenable to transport via pipeline due to low water absorption, there is no n ...

A technically literate workforce, capable of math and science problem solving, is essential in order to attract and maintain high-tech industry and manufacturing within rural counties. Math and science intervention in problem solving has been shown to facilitate peak performance and to engage students in math, science and technology for the longer term, however, access to the instructional materia ...

The proposed program will demonstrate the feasibility of a battery-operated variable pressure, fully portable, needleless jet injector for use in large scale cattle injection programs. This system is based on a compact spring-loading technique which allows for a selectable pressure feature. The design will achieve suitable jet properties (laminar flow) required for adequate injection depths. Te ...

Over 80% of the local governments in the United States serve rural communities. The incremental, day to day decisions made in these municipalities and local agencies form much of the practical base of land and resource planning. If the quality of these local decisions can be improved, a concomitant increase in the overall national quality of land use planing is likely to follow. The goal of this p ...