We acknowledge the valuable contributions of many individuals. Most importantly, we thank Steven Stoft for his participation and insight. We also thank the California Air Resources Board, the California Public Utilities Commission, and E3 for helpful data and methodological clarifications.

The LOGON MT demonstrator assembles independently valuable general-purpose NLP components into a machine translation pipeline that capitalizes on output quality. The demonstrator embodies an interesting combination of hand-built, symbolic resources and stochastic processes.

Sometimes it seems that an existing bearer of value should be preserved even though could destroyed and replaced with something equal or greater value. How can this conservative intuition explained justified? This paper distinguishes three answers, which I call existential, attitudinal, object-affecting conservatism. raise some problems for existential attitudinal conservatism, suggest how they...

Oleo-gum resins such as frankincense and myrrh are some of the economically and culturally valuable products obtained from trees and shrubs of the genera Boswellia and Commiphora, respectively. They are important natural plant products used in several industries that include pharmacology, food, flavour, liqueur and beverage, cosmetics, perfumery and others. Moreover, frankincense and myrrh have...