The lack of reliable Chinese sentiment resources limits research progress on Chinese sentiment classification. However, there are many freely available English sentiment resources on the Web. This article focuses on the problem of cross-lingual sentiment classification, which leverages only available English resources for Chinese sentiment classification. We first investigate several basic meth...

High moisture, co-product feeds such as brewer’s and distiller’s grains can be economical feeds for ruminants. However, two major factors limit the use of these types of feeds. First, their high moisture content (approximately 50-70%) limits the distance that they can be economically shipped from their sources of production (perhaps 75 to 100 miles). Second, the aerobic stability of these feeds...

We study three contractual arrangements – co-development, licensing, and co-development with opt-out options – for the joint development of new products between a small and financially constrained innovator firm and a large technology company, as in the case of a biotech innovator and a major pharma company. We formulate our arguments in the context of a two-stage model, characterized by techni...

The process of product development in the textile and apparel industry usually needs several partners. These partners have to share and to communicate their ideas in a more and more efficient and time saving way. The internet technologies offer new fields for the application of a prototype (search engine) in a TRIAL project, called CREATIV[1]. The test bed is the so-called design network includ...

Online stores like Amazon and Ebay are growing by the day. Fewer people go to departmental stores as opposed to the convenience of purchasing from stores online. These stores may employ a number of techniques to advertise and recommend the appropriate product to the appropriate buyer profile. This article evaluates various 3-node and 4-node motifs occurring in such networks. Community structure...

  In this paper, modeling and optimization of Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis is considered in a fixed-bed catalytic reactor using an industrial Fe-Cu-K catalyst. A one dimensional pseudo-homogenous plug flow model without axial dispersion is developed for converting syngas to heavy hydrocarbons. The effects of temperature, pressure, H2 to CO ratio in feed stream, and CO molar flow on the mass flow r...

During the 1980s and early 1990s, the world insurance market grew substantially. World insurance premiums in 1993 accounted for about 8 percent of world gross domestic product (GDP), compared to 4 percent in 1984. This article explains a substantial proportion of the variation in propertyliability insurance consumption across countries belonging to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and ...

Using biomass as a sustainable, renewable energy source can be part of a solution for reducing dependence on fossil fuel–based energy and mitigating global warming, and both the production and use of biofuels made from biomass have increased. Biofuel production creates not only biofuel or ethanol, but also co-products containing lignin, modified lignin, and lignin derivatives. The use of these ...

Nippondenso Co. Ltd. (NDCL) is Japan's foremost manufacturer of automotive components. It faces the challenge of manufacturing massproduction-volume products in unpredictable model mix in order to meet the high variety Just In Time (JIT) production requirements of its customers, notably Toyota. Over the past 25 years it has increased its ability to meet this challenge and indeed has made the co...

Globalization and the use of technology call for an adaptation of value creation strategies. As the potential for rationalization and achieving flexibility within companies is to the greatest possible extent exhausted, approaches to the corporate reorganization of value creation are becoming increasingly important. In this process, the spread and further development of information and communica...