Understanding the dynamics of semi-arid rangelands is a prerequisite for their proper management and long-term enclosure experiments are an important tool to investigate grazing impact. Hein (2006) presents findings from a 10 year enclosure experiment in the semi-arid Ferlo, Senegal. His main conclusion is that current high grazing pressure (0.15–0.20 TLU/h) negatively affects rain use efficien...

Feature selection is fundamental in many data mining or machine learning applications. Most of the algorithms proposed for this task make the assumption that the data are either supervised or unsupervised, while in practice supervised and unsupervised samples are often simultaneously available. Semi-supervised feature selection is thus needed, and has been studied quite intensively these past f...

Semi-supervised learning is a machine learning framework where learning from data is conducted by utilizing a small amount of labeled data as well as a large amount of unlabeled data (Chapelle et al., 2006). It has been intensively studied in data mining and machine learning communities recently. One of the reasons is that, it can alleviate the time-consuming effort to collect “ground truth” la...

The growing interest in time-series classification can be attributed to the intensively increasing amount of temporal data collected by widespread sensors. Often, human experts may only review a small portion of all the available data. Therefore, the available labeled data may not be representative enough and semi-supervised techniques may be necessary. In order to construct accurate classifier...

The effects of semi-intensive (100 kg m−3), intensive (200 and super-intensive (400 m−3) stocking densities on the growth welfare African catfish (Clarias gariepinus) were investigated under commercial production conditions. Plasma cortisol, glucose, selected transcripts following a stress challenge, lactate, as well skin lesions, analyzed at regular intervals (from 12 g juveniles to 1.5–2.0 kg...

This paper concerns applications of advanced techniques of variational analysis and generalized differentiation to problems of semi-infinite and infinite programming with feasible solution sets defined by parameterized systems of infinitely many linear inequalities of the type intensively studied in the preceding development [5) from our viewpoint of robust Lipschitzian stability. We present me...

Vannamei shrimp cultivation business is one type of that has the potential to be profitable considering high level demand every year and course also requires a fairly large investment. A true investment an made through feasibility analysis process determine whether activity carried out or harmful. Good decisions will result in good even though financial taken are not good, on contrary wrong det...

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