Determination of microbial degradability of N is important in formulating a sound supplementation strategy for efficient utilisation of basal as well as supplementary diet components. In vitro degradability of N (IVDN) from tannin-containing browses (Acacia cyanophylla, Acacia albida, Acioa barteri and Quercus ilex) and two herbaceous legumes (Desmodium intortum and Desmodium uncinatum) was det...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a discipline interested in the processes and methods that allow a machine to perform tasks related to human intelligence. It offers many opportunities related to problem solving, quick decision-making, increasing efficiency and reducing costs. Because of its so various fields of application, artificial intelligence is at the heart of the new industrial revolution...

The New York Times Annotated Corpus and the ACM Digital Library are two prototypical examples of document collections in which each document is tagged with keywords and significant phrases. Such collections can be viewed as high-dimensional document cubes against which browsers and search systems can be applied in a manner similar to online analytical processing against data cubes. The tagging ...

We present a simple system for interactively specifying lighting parameters, including position, for high-quality image synthesis. Unlike inverse approaches to the lighting-design problem, we do not require the user to indicate a priori the desired illuminative characteristics of an image. In our approach the computer proposes, culls, and organizes a set of candidate lights automatically, using...

We present a novel system and methodology for browsing and exploring topics and concepts within a document collection. The process begins with the generation of multiple taxonomies from the document collections, each having a unique theme. These taxonomies then become an integral tool in the exploration of the document collection. It is assumed that the user of our system may have only a vague ...

-The Popularity of Web resulted in heavy traffic in the Internet. This intense increase in internet traffic has caused significant increase in the user perceived latency. In order to reduce this effectively. Prefetching techniques are found to be best suitable. Prefetching technique is motivated by the fact that, in general, once a user goes to a Web site; he/she generally browses around for se...

The preceding special issue of this journal highlighted the enormous potential of the growing open data movement for social change and sustainable development (Sharif and Van Schalkwyk 2016). Others have emphasised its potential for economic development (Iemma 2012; Stott 2014; Vickery 2011), transparency and accountability (Geiger and von Lucke 2012; Janssen 2011, 2012; Meijer, Curtin, and Hil...

With the tremendous growth of World Wide Web (WWW), the door has been opened to a multitude of services and information for even the most casual of users. Today, many wireless and mobile devices are being produced to provide access to this information, and the capabilities of these devices can vary depending on characteristics such as physical memory, storage space, and network speed. In the fu...

Access to information has moved on from desktop and laptop computers in office and home environments and is now an any place, any time activity due to mobile devices. Although mobile devices have small keyboards that make typing in text input cumbersome compared to conventional desktop and laptops, the ability to access unlimited amount of information through the Internet using these devices ha...

A laboratory course for undergraduate students of phonetics has been developed and tested at the Department of Phonetics at Umeå university. The course consists of exercises designed to acquaint the students with basic acoustic analysis methods, along with a small section on speech perception. All instructions are in the form of web pages. In addition it is posible to administer questionnaires,...