Agricultural/gardening/farming applications:

• chickens with fecal contamination, 243

• colored string preferred by chickens, 264, 361

• crop damage by wild boars, 128, 153

• crop yield comparisons, 399–400

• dehorning of dairy calves, 344

• fungi in beech forest trees, 160

• killing insects with low oxygen, 346, 491–492

• maize seeds, 162

• pig castration, 441

• plants that grow on Swiss cliffs, 97, 541

• rat damage to sugarcane, 460

• subarctic plants, 494

• USDA chicken inspection, 128

• zinc phosphide in pest control, 111

Archaeological applications:

• ancient pottery, 106, 159, 297, 489

• bone fossils, 329–330

• defensibility of a landscape, 345–346, 493

• radon exposure in Egyptian tombs, 272, 294, 336–337, 357

• shaft graves in ancient Greece, 50, 69, 273–274, 287, 350

Astronomy/space science applications:

• astronomy students and the Big Bang theory, 346

• lunar soil, 362

• measuring the moon’s orbit, 504, 513, 521, 547–548, 560

• redshifts of quasi-stellar objects, 514

• Satellite Database, 21

• satellites in orbit, 40

• space shuttle disaster, 245

• speed of light from galaxies, 109, 110–111

• tracking missiles with satellite imagery, 241

Automotive/motor vehicle applications. See also Aviation applications; Travel applications

• air bag danger to children, 300–301

• air-pollution standards for engines, 332–334

• ammonia in car exhaust, 108–109

• car battery guarantee, 74–75

• car crash testing, 107, 159–160, 170, 179, 242, 438

• critical-part failures in NASCAR vehicles, 237

• gas mileage, 202, 210–212

• improving driving performance while fatigued, 433

• motorcycle detection while driving, 345

• motorcyclists and helmets, 17

• railway track allocation, 40, 129

• red light cameras and car crashes, 398–399, 418–419

• safety of hybrid cars, 488–489

• satellite radio in cars, 17–18

• selecting new-car options, 162

• speeding and fatal car crashes, 154

• speeding and young drivers, 328

• traffic sign maintenance, 457, 469

• unleaded fuel costs, 237

• variable speed limit control for freeways, 181

Aviation applications:

• aircraft bird strikes, 281, 288

• classifying air threats with heuristics, 483

• “cry wolf” effect in air traffic controlling, 482

• flight response of geese to helicopter traffic, 492–493

• shared leadership in airplane crews, 381–382

• unoccupied seats per flight, 259