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© Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014. The future adoption of automated weed control, either chemical or mechanical or otherwise, depends on a number of driving forces as well as on constraints that affect the diffusion of innovations. Some driving forces are the high labor requirements for weed control in organic agriculture, the development of herbicide resistance of weeds, and societal pressure for reduction of chemical use in ...

Due to the large chemical space in which realistic multi-step chemical transformations take place, the exhaustive exploration of the region of this space that is relevant for the full description of this transformation, including locating all relevant intermediates and transition states, is a very hard task to perform. Not only the computational time needed is large, but also the amount of user time needed to set up and analyze calculations for ...

The potential of hyperspectral measurements for early disease detection has been investigated by many experts over the last 5 years. One of the difficulties is obtaining enough data for training and building a hyperspectral training library. When the goal is to detect disease at a previsible stage, before the pathogen has manifested either its first symptoms or in the area surrounding the existing symptoms, it is impossible to objectively ...

Cardiovascular diseases are a major public health concern and currently the leading cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide. Medical imaging supports several cardiovascular disease applications, and recent technological advancements have increased the quality and quantity of medical images available. In turn, the additional information provided has been supporting diagnosis procedures, treatments and patient monitoring. However, to access ...

COVID-19 hits every country’s healthcare system and economy. There is a trend toward using automation technology in response to the COVID-19 crisis not only in developed countries but also in those with lower levels of technology development. However, current studies mainly focus on the world level and only a few ones report deployments at the country level. In this work, we investigate the use of automation solutions in Vietnam with locally ...

The software industry has seen an increasing interest in test automation. In this paper, we present a test automation maturity survey serving as a self-assessment for practitioners. Based on responses of 151 practitioners coming from above 101 organizations in 25 countries, we make observations regarding the state of the practice of test automation maturity: a) The level of test automation maturity in different organizations is differentiated by ...

Contemporary warfare is increasingly shaped by the complex relationship between the privatization of security and technologically driven automation. On the one hand, there is a growing tendency to employ private military and security companies for a range of military support tasks. On the other hand, the growing automation of security technologies is bound to make war less manpower intensive. Combat systems will have much more autonomy and ...

The construction industry is still one of the least digitised sectors worldwide and digitisation in the road construction sector in particular is even more dire. To improve the efficiency of the sector, it is of the utmost importance that construction monitoring tasks, i.e. progress, quality and quantity analyses, are automated. The goal of the presented framework is the automation of the following three vital interconnected subjects: (1) The ...