Planting non-food bioenergy crops on marginal lands is an alternative bioenergy development solution in China. Native non-food bioenergy plants are also considered to be a wise choice to reduce the threat of invasive plants. In this study, the impacts of climate change (a consensus of IPCC scenarios A2a for 2080) on the potential distribution of nine non-food bioenergy plants native to China (v...

Citation: Bargain A, Marchese F, Savini A, Taviani M and Fabri M-C (2017) Santa Maria di Leuca Province (Mediterranean Sea): Identification of Suitable Mounds for Cold-Water Coral Settlement Using Geomorphometric Proxies and Maxent Methods. Front. Mar. Sci. 4:338. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00338 Santa Maria di Leuca Province (Mediterranean Sea): Identification of Suitable Mounds for Cold-Water Co...

This paper proposes a novel lexicalized approach for rule selection for syntax-based statistical machine translation (SMT). We build maximum entropy (MaxEnt) models which combine rich context information for selecting translation rules during decoding. We successfully integrate the MaxEnt-based rule selection models into the state-of-the-art syntax-based SMT model. Experiments show that our lex...

In this paper, we address the problem of predicting one of three functions for the English pronoun ‘it’: anaphoric, event reference or pleonastic. This disambiguation is valuable in the context of machine translation and coreference resolution. We present experiments using a MAXENT classifier trained on gold-standard data and self-training experiments of an RNN trained on silver-standard data, ...

Arbutus andrachne L., the strawberry tree, is an evergreen shrub or small tree in Turkish flora and has broad uses. The wood used for decorative purposes, packaging, manufacturing furniture. fruits are edible treating many kinds of diseases. However, global warming might affect abundance this symbolic plant's distribution, especially at higher latitudes. This study was conducted to determine ex...

Some di cult conceptual problems that have plagued Statistical Mechanics from the start, are explained by reference to a very simple experiment, which also explains why the MAXENT formalism gives reliable predictions. Then some of the inner workings of MAXENT are revealed by a general perturbation theorem, showing how a prediction is modi ed by adding a new constraint. It is illustrated by the ...

In the context of contemporary monophonic music, expression can be seen as the difference between a musical performance and its symbolic representation, i.e. a musical score. In this paper, we show how Maximum Entropy (MaxEnt) models can be used to generate musical expression in order to mimic a human performance. As a training corpus, we had a professional pianist play about 150 melodies of ja...

An understanding of the habitat selection patterns by wild herbivores is critical for adaptive management, particularly towards ecosystem management and wildlife conservation in semi arid savanna ecosystems. We tested the following predictions: (i) surface water availability, habitat quality and human presence have a strong influence on the spatial distribution of wild herbivores in the dry sea...