Abinaya Dinesh

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Subdirectories | CS 162 Project 3
Export-led growth premised on infrastructure investment seeks to fuel an economic surge by leveraging relatively low labor costs to capture global manufacturing market share.
Africa’s Infrastructure-Led Growth Experiment Is Faltering. It Is Time to Focus on Agriculture - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Over the last three decades, a third wave of Asian countries—including Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Vietnam—have leapfrogged African countries in terms of per capita income using export-led manufacturing with similarly deficient infrastructure.
Africa’s Infrastructure-Led Growth Experiment Is Faltering. It Is Time to Focus on Agriculture - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Mega-infrastructure projects including railways, power stations, state-of-the-art airports and seaports, impressive highways, and spectacular bridges have been, and continue to be, built at an unprecedented pace
Africa’s Infrastructure-Led Growth Experiment Is Faltering. It Is Time to Focus on Agriculture - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
those African countries that have invested a great deal in infrastructure continue to lag other countries in Asia (like Bangladesh) in key manufacturing sectors like textiles regardless of infrastructure quality
Africa’s Infrastructure-Led Growth Experiment Is Faltering. It Is Time to Focus on Agriculture - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Finally, it only makes sense if box/point prompts will be available at inference time which can be fed from a data annotation process or a object/keypoint detection model.
Fine-tune Segment-Anything model. Tips & caveats | by Rustem Glue | Jun, 2023 | Medium | Medium
It’s important to note that there is very little commercial farming in the DRC, with the most important export being coffee. Most plantations are owned by foreign organizations or elites within the nation, providing a few jobs but keeping money in the hands of the already wealthy. The country lacks access to tools like farming grants and loans, fertilizers and pesticides, and infrastructure like silos and tractors that have transformed the way farming exists in most of the world.
The Global Food Crisis: Addressing Disease with Computer Vision | by Alexander Yevchenko | Medium
There’s much room for the expansion of agricultural fields into previously unused lands to provide sustenance for both the population of the country and to bolster the economy off of exports, rather than being reliant on costly imports.
The Global Food Crisis: Addressing Disease with Computer Vision | by Alexander Yevchenko | Medium
The little food they’re able to produce without knowledge of modern farming techniques and a lack of adequate fertilizers and pesticides isn’t enough to feed their families, and must therefore look to imported foods to supplement their diets, which is often too expensive to afford.
The Global Food Crisis: Addressing Disease with Computer Vision | by Alexander Yevchenko | Medium
This is due to the fact that most of the population engages in subsistence farming, planting crops like bananas, peanuts and cassava to feed their own families.
The Global Food Crisis: Addressing Disease with Computer Vision | by Alexander Yevchenko | Medium
As a result of further competition, importing nations will benefit from lower prices, which in turn lowers food acquisition costs for their citizens and allows them to increase imports to adequately support the needs of burgeoning populations.
The Global Food Crisis: Addressing Disease with Computer Vision | by Alexander Yevchenko | Medium
For example, the prices of staple foods in sub-Saharan Africa surged by an average of 23.9% between 2020–2022, leaving 140 million people on the continent acutely hungry.
The Global Food Crisis: Addressing Disease with Computer Vision | by Alexander Yevchenko | Medium
Land managers and fire authorities prioritise areas close to communities or known spots where large fires can start, including along roadsides where the risks of accidental ignition from the public are highest.
Smoke in the air as Australia’s fire crews prepare for the return of El Niño | Environment | The Guardian
Along with maximum power point tracking (MPPT), it is one of the primary methods of controlling the output of solar panels to that which can be utilized by a battery.[
Pulse-width modulation - Wikipedia
The number of leaves is regressed from multiple image resolutions, created by a Feature Pyramid Network (FPN) (Xie et al., 2015), thus accounting for both small and large leaves
Frontiers | Leaf Counting: Fusing Network Components for Improved Accuracy
The shears require calculating the orthogonal vector to the vector spanning from the center of the plant to the prune point. The servo that controls cut angle is then activated to position the shears along the orthogonal vector.
Automated Pruning of Polyculture Plants | IEEE Conference Publication | IEEE Xplore
For a quieter, more precise and delicate pruning tool, we motorized a pair of Japanese topiary shears. A pair of Niwaki Topiary Shears [37] were fastened directly to the FarmBot’s gantry rails. A YANSHON Digital 360° servo motor is able to close the shears by winding a high strength steel cable attached to one handle of the shears onto a spool; the shears reopen with a spring mechanism when the cable is unwound. This assembly is mounted to a 2-axis servo gimbal (using BETU Digital 270° servo motors). The gimbal is able to position the shears vertically, horizontally, or at any intermediate ang…
Automated Pruning of Polyculture Plants | IEEE Conference Publication | IEEE Xplore
the FarmBot is instructed to move along the vector from the current location to the prune point
Automated Pruning of Polyculture Plants | IEEE Conference Publication | IEEE Xplore
Spatial resolution: 2 km/pixel in the north-south direction, 4.5 km /pixel in the east-west direction at the center of the FOR (Field of Regard)
TEMPO Instrument
In October 2011, the U.S. Justice Department announced that a biotech specialist at Cargill had pleaded guilty to stealing information from Cargill and Dow AgroSciences. Kexue Huang, a Chinese national, was discovered to be passing trade secrets back to China.[35]
Cargill - Wikipedia
By 2002, Cargill had over $50 billion in annual sales, twice the amount of its closest rival, Archer Daniels Midland
Cargill - Wikipedia
In 1979, Cargill entered the meat-processing business with the purchase of beef processor MBPXL (later Excel).[26] The division expanded into turkey, food service and food distribution businesses and is now known as Cargill Meat Solutions.
Cargill - Wikipedia
In 1978, Cargill purchased the large Leslie Salt refining company in Newark, California, from Schilling.[24][25]
Cargill - Wikipedia
uring World War II, MacMillan Jr. continued to expand the company, which boomed as it stored and transported grain and built T1 tankers and Towboats ships for the United States Navy.
Cargill - Wikipedia
The US government overturned the Board's ruling and forced it to accept Cargill as a member. The 1936 corn crop failed and with the 1937 crop unavailable until October, the Chicago Board of Trade ordered Cargill to sell some of its corn. Cargill refused to comply
Cargill - Wikipedia
The US now experiences, on average, a billion-dollar weather or climate disaster every three weeks.
Fifth National Climate Assessment
Annual US greenhouse gas emissions fell 12% between 2005 and 2019. This trend was largely driven by changes in electricity generation: coal use has declined, while the use of natural gas and renewable technologies has increased, leading to a 40% drop in emissions from the electricity sector. Since 2017, the transportation sector has overtaken electricity generation as the largest emitter. {11.1, 13.1, 32.1; Figures 32.1, 32.3}
Fifth National Climate Assessment
This wasn’t always the case. For much of American history, municipal laws restricted where food could be sold, and who could do the selling. In early America, the market was literally a farmer’s market — places set aside for producers to sell directly to consumers. Wholesalers and other middlemen were regarded with suspicion, as agents who increased the price of food and profited at the expense of ordinary citizens.
All of New York’s Apples | Ambrook Research
But for independent grocers and restaurants, and large-volume buyers like the school system and the city’s jails, Hunts Point is irreplaceable
All of New York’s Apples | Ambrook Research
370, 450, 480, and 570 nm.
Four spectral classes of cone in the retinas of birds - PubMed
colored adapting lights
Four spectral classes of cone in the retinas of birds - PubMed
geo- metrical features are much larger than or much smaller than a typical wave length
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mapping RGB-D pixels t o graspability
CMR17
Researchers at AIFARMS have found that, by training a neural net on datasets collected by both soil and satellite sensors, they can track cover-cropping yields across entire growing regions. By interpreting images that use the entire electromagnetic spectrum, the model also enables remote monitoring of organic carbon and nitrogen levels in soil (SOC).
What Does the Future Hold for AI in Agriculture | Corteva
For our organs of sense, after all, are a kind of instrument. We can see how useless they would be if they became too sensi tive.
What is Life?
A coating of fine gray hairs covers each leaf, imparting a frostiness that gives big sagebrush its characteristic silvery green color. Run your hands along a branch of big sagebrush and you’ll find its leaves feel as soft and smooth as fine suede.
The Story Behind Sagebrush, An Icon Of The West | Montana Public Radio
The set of all surface colours, when viewed in a certain illumination, is called an object-colour solid , and this interpretation implies that it is a zonohedron
TheGeometryOfColourPreview.pdf
A unifying interpretation is that the Minkowski sum consists of all the points the disc would cover, if it were swept over every point on the triangle
TheGeometryOfColourPreview.pdf
To create the tristimulus values for an arbitrary spectrum, first multiply it by the color-matching functions, then integrate the result to get the total relative weights of the primaries, which are the tristimulus values for that color.
Representing colors as three numbers [color graphics] | IEEE Journals & Magazine | IEEE Xplore
In contrast, when the light goes from a standard high-index material (such as glass) into a low-index material (such as air), it always bends away from the normal. This is illustrated in the diagram.
Why can't flat lenses focus light? | Science Questions with Surprising Answers
interference between adjacent portions of the wave front as it passes through the drop
Kootenay Lake » Light play » rainbows
modify the de Bruijn assembly graph by adding weights to specific paths in the graph (Figure 1B), aiding in the identification and assembly of gene sequences
Applications of de Bruijn graphs in microbiome research - Dufault‐Thompson - 2022 - iMeta - Wiley Online Library
profile hidden Markov model-based search against the raw reads
Applications of de Bruijn graphs in microbiome research - Dufault‐Thompson - 2022 - iMeta - Wiley Online Library
Gene-targeted assembly approaches seek to address these challenges by assembling gene sequences directly from metagenomes rather than predicting them from assembled contigs
Applications of de Bruijn graphs in microbiome research - Dufault‐Thompson - 2022 - iMeta - Wiley Online Library
bias toward dominant members of the microbial community
Applications of de Bruijn graphs in microbiome research - Dufault‐Thompson - 2022 - iMeta - Wiley Online Library
The assembly of longer sequences is then done by finding an Eulerian cycle in the graph, a path that visits each edge (representing a k-mer) in the graph one time, and then collapsing the sequence of the k-mers in this path to assemble longer sequences [2] (Figure 1A).
Applications of de Bruijn graphs in microbiome research - Dufault‐Thompson - 2022 - iMeta - Wiley Online Library
only require the sequencing reads circumventing the need for a reference genome
Applications of de Bruijn graphs in microbiome research - Dufault‐Thompson - 2022 - iMeta - Wiley Online Library
where structural features in the graphs can be used to identify variants, indels, and homologous regions in sequences
Applications of de Bruijn graphs in microbiome research - Dufault‐Thompson - 2022 - iMeta - Wiley Online Library
reduces the Raman signal to noise ratio
Raman and fluorescence spectroscopy of in vitro skin tissue for diagnostics and monitoring
spectral fingerprint of a molecule
Raman and fluorescence spectroscopy of in vitro skin tissue for diagnostics and monitoring