Seaweed has long been used in the Japanese and Chinese diet. In 600 B.C., Sze Teu wrote in China, "Some algae are a delicacy fit for the most honored guests, even for the King himself." Some 21 species are used in everyday cooking in Japan, six of them since the eighth century. Seaweed accounts for some 10% of the Japanese diet and seaweed consumption reached an average of 3.5 kg per household ...

ON 16 DECEMBER 1gg 1, I gave the seventh Sol M. Malkin Lecture in Bibliography on “The Future of Rare Book Libraries” at the School of Library Service (SLS) ,Columbia University.” (In assessing this honor, bear in mind that I am the person principally responsible for selecting Malkin Lecturers.) The Book Arts Press published the first six Malkin Lectures as separate pamphlets, most of them eleg...

In this project, Entropic will serve as a technology transfer agent for the Speech and Language Systems (SLS) program. Our ultimate goal is to make complete systems developed in the course of SLS research readily available to interested parties in government, education, and industry. An intermediate goal is to provide clean, well documented implementations of speech recognition systems such as ...

Fast and accurate speech recognition systems systems bring with them the possibility of designing effective voice driven applications. Efforts to this date have involved the construction of monolithic systems, necessitating repetition of effort as each new system is implemented. In this paper, we describe an initial implementation of a general spoken language interface, the Carnegie Mellon Spok...

A materials structural and chemical composition influences its optical scattering properties. In this paper we investigate the use of subsurface laser scattering (SLS) for inferring structural and chemical information of food products. We have constructed a computer vision system based on a supercontinuum laser light source and an AcoustoOptic Tunable Filter (AOTF) to provide a collimated light...

We investigate the symmetric and anti-symmetric spin-orbit forces (SLS and ALS) of the effective ΛN interaction derived from a quark cluster model with the instantoninduced interaction (I I I), which can reproduce the observed YN cross sections as well as the observed NN scattering data. It is found that coupling to the ΣN channel enhances ΛN ALS, and therefore that the cancellation between SLS...

The orientation of SFF-manufactured parts can have a signiicant eeect on the quality of the parts, in both surface eeects and strength. Currently, orientation is either ignored or set on the basis of experience. This paper takes some simple experiments and creates quantitative measures relating diierent aspects of part quality to orientation. This leads to several computational tools for optimi...

This study aimed to assess ecological quality status of hard substratum macroinvertebrates communities of the Caspian Sea with three ecological indices and their relationship with environmental factors. For this purpose, benthic communities of the Caspian Sea basin were studied seasonally during 2014 in 8 sampling sites. Temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, pH, nitrate, nitrite, silicate an...