More Issues Per Year

Improving energy efficiency by 5% and more per year?

Reduction of specific energy consumption by 1 – 2% per year is typically what is considered feasible for end-use energy applications. This article tries to answer the question whether much higher rates, for example 5% and more are feasible for new equipment, installations and buildings. After examining some end-use functions in industry, buildings and the transport sector, it is concluded that ...

Greater Pulp Yields per Acre per Year

Yelp + + : 10 Times More Information per View

In this project we investigate two machine learning methods, one supervised and one unsupervised, that will allow the information content of Yelp data to be efficiently conveyed to the users. The first is matrix completion via the novel ”max-norm” constraint which out results show to be more powerful than the traditional nuclear norm minimization. The second is text summary via sparse PCA which...

More than One Sense Per Discourse

Previous research has indicated that when a polysemous word appears two or more times in a discourse, it is extremely likely that they will all share the same sense [Gale et al. 92]. However, those results were based on a coarse-grained distinction between senses (e.g, sentence in the sense of a ‘prison sentence’ vs. a ‘grammatical sentence’). We report on an analysis of multiple senses within ...

Producing More Pigs per Sow per Y E a R - Genetic Contributions 1

This review paper summarizes available knowledge on the genetic manipulation of litter size in pigs. Selection among breeds permits the exploitation of existing variation and this has already proceeded much further in Europe than in the United States. Crossbreeding strategies are available to enable the commercial herd to maximize sow productivity while ensuring carcasses acceptable to each par...