For use in off-road autonomous driving applications, we propose and study the use of multi-resolution local binary pat- tern texture descriptors to improve overall semantic segmentation performance and reduce class imbalance effects in off-road visual datasets. Our expe...

Prodiginines and tambjamines are related families of bioactive alkaloid natural products with pharmaceutical potential. Both compound families result from a convergent biosynthetic pathway ending in the condensation of a conserved bipyrrole core with a variable partner....

Bacterial production of β‐lactamases with carbapenemase activity is a global health threat. The active sites of class D carbapenemases such as OXA‐48, which is of major clinical importance, uniquely contain a carbamylated lysine residue which is essential for catalysis....

Recent reforms to social studies and history education in Canada raise many questions about the relationship between Indigenous approaches to history, and the emphasis in new curricula on historical thinking. What are the implications of the relationship between these t...

We present a new collocation-based multi-configuration time-dependent Hartree (MCTDH) approach for solving the Schrödinger equation required to compute (ro-)vibrational spectra, photodissociation cross sections, reaction rate constants, etc. that can be used with general...

The ability of robotic excavators to acquire meaningful knowledge about materials during digging can augment their autonomous functionality, as well as optimize downstream operations in construction and mining. Some material properties, such as rock sizes, can be determ...

I review some computational methods for calculating vibrational spectra. They all use iterative eigensolvers to compute eigenvalues of a Hamiltonian matrix by evaluating matrix-vector products. A direct-product basis can be used for molecules with five or fewer atoms. Th...

Competitive fishing has become an important element of recreational fisheries for black bass Micropterus spp. in North America. The vast majority of competitive events involve a “live‐release” format, where fish are held in a boat's live well after being angled and are ...

Boron compounds having a conjugated chelate backbone (N,C‐chelate or C,C‐chelate) and two mesityl substituents on boron have been found to undergo a facile one‐pot transformation/reaction with dienophiles, which leads to the dearomatization of one mesityl ring and its [...

In the real world, employees may be presented with difficult tasks that could be tackled in multiple ways and with available resources. On top of this, with deadlines, few external resources, and other tasks that employees typically face, thinking tends to be narrowed a...