Fusarium kuroshium is a novel member of the Ambrosia Fusarium Clade (AFC) that has been recognized as one of the symbionts of the invasive Kuroshio shot hole borer, an Asian Front Grilles ambrosia beetle.This complex is considered the causal agent of Fusarium dieback, a disease that has severely threatened natural forests, landscape trees, and avoc
This study aims at developing a clinically oriented automated diagnostic tool for distinguishing malignant melanocytic lesions from benign melanocytic nevi in diverse image databases.Due to the presence of artifacts, smooth lesion boundaries, and subtlety in diagnostic features, the accuracy of such systems gets hampered.Thus, the proposed framewor
This work aims at developing and testing a novel Coalitional Distributed Model Predictive Control (C-DMPC) strategy suitable for vehicle platooning applications.The stability of the algorithm is ensured via the terminal constraint region Washer formulation, with robust positively invariant sets.To ensure a greater flexibility, in the initialization
We report the accuracy of a two-layer, back-propagation artificial neural network in identifying edibility of a set of random mushrooms.Mushrooms edibility was Washer synthesized using many different characteristics.Tests were run using different combinations of number of hidden nodes, separation of training, validation, and test data and number of
A submarine eruption started off the south coast of El Hierro, Canary Islands, on 10 October 2011 and continues at the time of this writing (February 2012).In the first days of the event, peculiar eruption products were found floating on the sea surface, drifting for long distances from the eruption site.These specimens, which have in the meantime