During the past several years RSS-based content syndication has become a standard technique for efficiently and timely disseminating information on the web. From a data processing perspective RSS feeds are standard XML resources which are periodically refreshed by feed aggregators for generating continuous streams of items. In this article, we study the problem of information loss in the contex...

Catfish diets must provide enough energy, protein, vitamins and minerals in the proper proportions for fast, efficient growth and health maintenance. Choosing the right feed plays an important role in determining the productivity and profitability of aquaculture operations. But, producers aren’t the only people who are interested in diet quality. Certain characteristics of the diet influence th...

The system operates in two modes : bootstrap and feed forward mode. In bootstrap mode a portion of the image is segmented, the texture boundary is located, and all of the parameters necessary for configuring the system are found. These include the resolution of the segmentation, identification of the most effective features for distinguishing between the two textures, and an estimate of the tex...

Food safety continues to be an important issue to the prevention of foodborne illness outbreaks. Animal feed is the beginning of the food safety chain. However, animal feeds can be contaminated with undesirable substances such as dioxins, mycotoxins, heavy metals, pesticides and veterinary drugs at any time during the processing, storage and dispersal. These substance can be transmitted through...

A new technique is described to model (internal) radiation therapy. It is founded on morphological processing, in particular distance transforms. Its formal basis is presented as well as its implementation via the Fast Exact Euclidean Distance (FEED) transform. Its use for all variations of internal radiation therapy is described. In a benchmark trial, FEED proved to be truly exact as well as f...

This paper, presents a theoretical and practical basis of preprocessing on handwritten text for character recognition using forward-feed neural networks. Afterwards, the Feed forward algorithm gives working of a neural network followed by the Back Propagation Algorithm which compromises Training, Calculating Error, and Modifying Weights. The proposed solutions focus on applying Back Propagation...

This study investigated the optimal yeast strains for producing single cell protein based on waste sugar beet pulp (SBP) under various biomass loads. All tested were capable of growing biomass. Candida utilis and Saccharomyces cerevisiae Ethanol Red produced greatest increase in fresh SBP (ΔN 1.84%). Scheffersomyces stipitis 2.27%) provided highest dried SBP. showed significant assimilation nit...

The high demand for animal feed in major towns Kenya has escalated the proliferation of manufacturing and uncontrolled facilities. This exposes workers to grain dust, which is harmful their respiratory health. exposure levels have not been extensively studied reported Kenya. goal study was assess dust mill Kiambu County, facilities were purposely sampled. sites monitored using a portable partic...