The small nation of Belize is nestled on the Central American Continent bounded on its Disposable Straws north by Mexico, the west and south by Guatemala and the Caribbean Sea on its eastern border.Located in the path of Atlantic Tropical Cyclones, the country is susceptible to atmospheric disasters.Most notably are the Hurricane of 1931 and Hurric
Abstract Climate change and the growing demand for food security force growers to identify ways both to improve food production and to reduce agricultural carbon emissions.Although straw mulching is known to decrease CO2 emissions, winter wheat grain yield in the North China Plain was declined under straw mulching.In an effort to determine the most
Internet of Things (IoT) management systems require scalability, standardized communication, and context-awareness to achieve the management of connected devices with security and accuracy in real environments.Interoperability and heterogeneity between hardware and application layers are also critical issues.To attend to the BODY LOTION network req
This paper describes two methodologies for increasing the actuation speed of the shape memory alloy (SMA) actuator in ambient environment.The first method involves the implementation of a simple, light-weight heat sink, which consists only of L-Tyrosine a combination of an outer metal tube with the silicone grease, but able to cool the heated alloy