Techniques such as ensembling and distillation promise model quality improvements when paired with almost any base model. However, due to increased testtime cost (for ensembles) and increased complexity of the training pipeline (for distillation), these techniques are challenging to use in industrial settings. In this paper we explore a variant of distillation which is relatively straightforwar...

Techniques such as ensembling and distillation promise model quality improvements when paired with almost any base model. However, due to increased testtime cost (for ensembles) and increased complexity of the training pipeline (for distillation), these techniques are challenging to use in industrial settings. In this paper we explore a variant of distillation which is relatively straightforwar...

Abstract With the aim of maintaining or obtaining good environmental status in Northeast Atlantic and northern Mediterranean Sea, European Marine Strategy Framework Directive (EU-MSFD) came into force 2008. All EU Member States (MS) have task assessing current state their adjacent waters to guarantee sustainable use marine resources healthy ecosystems for future generations. Although MSFD has b...

Background: Thymus daenensis is on e of the endemic aromatic species in Iran that its essential oil is used in food and pharmaceutical industries. Objective: In this study, the effects of plant growth stages and distillation methods on essential oil content and thymol percentage of this species were evaluated. Methods: The aerial parts of Th. daenensis were collected in three stages of plan...

The oxy-combustion technology is ready for demonstration [1]. However, the energy penalty and investment cost related to CO2 capture are still too high to implement this technology in the power industry. The thermal efficiency penalty is currently around 10% points, and as discussed in [2] it is commonly expected to be reduced to below 6% points in the near future. Improvements on the sub-units...

In functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) data analysis, normalization of time series is an important and sometimes necessary preprocessing step in many widely used methods. The space of normalized time series with time points is the unit sphere , named the functional space. Riemannian framework on the sphere, including the geodesic, the exponential map, and the logarithmic map, has been ...

Ethanol production from agro-based raw materials normally involves two major steps, fermentation and distillation. These steps are reviewed, mainly in relation to molasses, which is the most common raw material in tropical countries. The specific effect on fermentation efficiency of molasses quality in terms Fermentable Sugars, the ratio of fermentable to non-fermentable solids, Volatile Acids,...

The economics membrane distillation (MD) and common seawater desalination methods including multi effect distillation (MED), multistage flash (MSF) and reverse osmosis (RO) are compared. MD also has the opportunity to enhance RO recovery, demonstrated experimentally on RO concentrate from groundwater. MD concentrated RO brine to 361,000 mg/L total dissolved solids, an order of magnitude more sa...