Renewable energy can make small-scale mining in Europe more feasible

Integration of Renewable Energy in Europe

Can We Make Information Extraction More Adaptive?

It seems widely agreed that IE (Information Extraction) is now a tested language technology that has reached precision+recall values that put it in about the same position as Information Retrieval and Machine Translation , both of which are widely used commercially. There is also a clear range of practical applications that would be eased by the sort of template-style data that IE provides. The...

More Possessions Can Make Consumers Less Happy

This research challenges a central tenet of consumerism—the widespread belief that owning more (e.g., more clothes, another TV, or another car) is more satisfying than owning less. We posit and show in the lab and the field that even though consumers prefer to own more goods, ironically, they can be more satisfied owning less. This occurs with contrasting possessions— goods that fulfill similar...

Can fuzzy logic make things more clear?

Intensive care is a complex environment involving many signals, data and observations. Clinical decision support and artificial intelligence using fuzzy logic and closed loop techniques are methods that might help us to handle this complexity in a safe, effective and efficient way. Merouani and colleagues have performed a study using fuzzy logic and closed loop techniques to more effectively we...

Treatment of small scale gold mining wastewater using pilot-scale sedimentation and Cocopeat filter bed system

The use of amalgamation process to recover gold from mined ores by the small-scale gold miners in the Philippines and other developing countries produces and dispose of untreated wastewater to the receiving water bodies. In this study, a field-scale filter bed system was constructed to treat heavy metal metal-laden wastewater collected from small-scale gold mining site in Paracale, Camarines No...