The influence of extractive content on the thermal stability and kinetic degradation of two wood species has been investigated using chemical analysis and thermogravimetry. Two wood species were studied: Pinus taeda and Eucalyptus grandis. Thermogravimetric results showed that higher extractive contents in the wood accelerate the degradation process and promote an increase in the conversion val...

In this research, we propose the task of question summarization. We first analyzed question-summary pairs extracted from a Community Question Answering (CQA) site, and found that a proportion of questions cannot be summarized by extractive approaches but requires abstractive approaches. We created a dataset by regarding the question-title pairs posted on the CQA site as question-summary pairs. ...

We present a dual decomposition framework for multi-document summarization, using a model that jointly extracts and compresses sentences. Compared with previous work based on integer linear programming, our approach does not require external solvers, is significantly faster, and is modular in the three qualities a summary should have: conciseness, informativeness, and grammaticality. In additio...

Recovery of metabolites from fermentation broth by solvent extraction can be used to optimize fermentation processes. End-product reutilization, low product concentration and large volumes of fermentation broth and the requirements for large bioreactors, in addition to the high cost largely contributed to the decline in fermentative 2,3-butanediol production. Extraction can successfully be ...

High performance liquid chromatography coupled with photodiode array detector (HPLC-DAD) has been reported to quantify isolated flavonoids or these compounds in complex biological matrices, such as Chinese herbal drugs and products from factories. This work was designed, therefore, to develop an HPLC-DAD system to separate quercetin, luteolin and apigenin and to quantify them in extractive solu...

recovery of metabolites from fermentation broth by solvent extraction can be used to optimize fermentation processes. end-product reutilization, low product concentration and large volumes of fermentation broth and the requirements for large bioreactors, in addition to the high cost largely contributed to the decline in fermentative 2,3-butanediol production. extraction can successfully be used...

In this paper we show that information from citing papers can help perform extractive summarisation of medical publications, especially when the amount of text available for development is limited. We used the data of the TAC 2014 biomedical summarisation task. We report several methods to find the reference paper sentences that best match the citation text from the citing papers (“citances”). ...

We propose and develop a simple and efficient algorithm for generating extractive multi-document summaries and show that this algorithm exhibits stateof-the-art or near state-of-the-art performance on two Document Understanding Conference datasets and two Text Analysis Conference datasets. Our results show that algorithms using simple features and computationally efficient methods are competiti...