This work addresses the economic and environmental performance of integrated biorefineries based on sugarcane juice and residues. Four multiproduct scenarios were considered; two from sugar mills and the others from ethanol distilleries. They are integrated biorefineries producing first (1G) and second (2G) generation ethanol, sugar, molasses (for animal feed) and electricity in the context of ...

Maintaining growth through intensification in the New Zealand dairy industry is a challenge for various reasons, in particular sustainably managing the large volumes of effluent. Dairy farm effluents have traditionally been treated using two-pond systems that are effective in the removal of carbon and suspended solids, however limited in their ability to remove nutrients. In the past these nutr...

The epidemic of antimicrobial resistant infections continues to challenge, compromising animal care, complicating food animal production and posing zoonotic disease risks. While the overall role of therapeutic antimicrobial use in animals in the development AMR in animal and human pathogens is poorly defined, veterinarians must consider the impacts of antimicrobial use in animal and take steps ...

Parallel texts are documents that present parallel translations. This paper describes a simple method that can be deployed on a real-time news feed to create an infinitely growing source of parallel texts in French and English. Our experiment was lead on the Canada Newswire news feed. Given some of its intrinsic properties, it was possible to deploy a relatively simple text matching techniques ...

A new approach to robust estimation of signals, prediction of time{series and robust feedforward control is considered. Signal and system parameter deviations are represented as random variables, with known covariances. A robust design is obtained by minimizing the squared estimation error, averaged both with respect to model errors and the noise. A polynomial equations approach, based on avera...

There are many factors that contribute to poverty and hunger in developing countries, including war, political instability, lack of infrastructure and poor economic conditions. We do not claim that the use of GM crops alone will eliminate the need for political, social or economic change, or that they will simply ‘feed the world’. We recognise that we are discussing only part of a much larger p...

Abstract This research was conducted at the Nutrition and Animal Feed Laboratory, Beef Cattle Research Institute, Grati, Pasuruan, East Java. study aimed to determine effect of addition MSG by-product on durability nutritional content concentrate. The material used in this concentrate, which contained several raw materials added with levels. treatments applied were: Treatment A: 5 Kg Concentrat...

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...

You cannot dispute the warning of England’s chief medical officer, Sally Davies, that antibiotic resistance is one of modern health’s greatest threats. Also beyond dispute is her analysis of its causes—the lack of new drugs combined with massive overuse of existing antibiotics. What physicians and policy makers generally overlook, however, is the critical role played by the ongoing overuse of a...