The Loose Valley, etc., Near Maidstone

The Implementation and Optimisation of Mud Recycle at Maidstone Mill

Mud Recycle is a process option for cane diffuser factories; it eliminates the need for a filter station by using the bed of shredded cane in the diffuser to separate out mud solids from the juice. This paper describes the Mud Recycle system at Maidstone mill and presents the results of a Mud Recycle trial that was carried out during the 1998 season. Maidstone switched to Mud Recycle on a perma...

Introduction etc

Bilateral and multilateral development cooperation agencies are to an increasing extent promoting and adopting a sector-wide approach (SWAp) in their development cooperation. The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), for example, joined their first sector-wide approach cooperation in the late 90s, and today they are involved in SWAps in countries in Africa, Asia and Latin...

Reports etc

MSJ–ETC Editorial

The demand and growth for published research in the field of multiple sclerosis (MS) has increased exponentially over the last few years. The primary aim of the Multiple Sclerosis Journal (MSJ) has always been to reflect the excellent work of the ever-expanding and diverse clinical and research field of MS, and this role will now be shared by MSJ’s companion journal MSJ Experimental, Translatio...

Periods, Capitalized Words, etc

In this article we present an approach for tackling three important aspects of text normalization: sentence boundary disambiguation, disambiguation of capitalized words in positions where capitalization is expected, and identification of abbreviations. As opposed to the two dominant techniques of computing statistics or writing specialized grammars, our document-centered approach works by consi...