Abstract: The automatic inspection of surface defects is an essential task for quality control in the computers, communications, and consumer (3C) electronics industry. Traditional inspection ...

On June 27, the day after the 16 women started their paddle on the Colorado River, smoke filled the air and the wind picked ...

Abstract: The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is a combinatorial optimization problem that is useful in a number of applications. Since there is no known polynomial-time algorithm for solving large ...

Just a couple of years ago, a study found that American pickup trucks had, on average, gained about 1,300 pounds since the 1990s. Today’s trucks are bigger, heavier and more powerful than ever before, ...

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The Ford Ranger is somewhere in between a work truck and a "lifestyle truck." It can comfortably fill either role, which gives it unique appeal but also a bit of an identity crisis. Towing and hauling ...