Using workstation clusters (WSCs) is a practical and cost-e ective means of parallel computing. Fast workstations, using the latest RISC technology, can be assigned as computation nodes, however, communication between nodes is rather slow when using Ethernet. Recently, fast communication adaptors[2] have been developed, and the speed problem is being solved. We have developed a WSC called the R...

In the next decades, forage legumes are likely to become more important. However, predicted climate change may increase the risk of droughts and thus influence their agricultural performance. Decreases in yield due to water shortage are well documented, while influences on nutritive values are inconsistent. Therefore, we examined the effects of drought on crude protein (CP), neutral deterge...

Purpose: The study aimed to examine the relationship between Faith Based Organisations Strategies (FBOS) and Welfare of Street Children (WSC) in Lira City, specifically focusing on effect FBOS terms preventive strategies, rehabilitation outreach strategies collaboration WSC.
 Methodology: adopted a descriptive design, which employed mixed method approach both quantitative qualitative metho...

Chocolate milk is a popular tasteful dairy product and sugar is one of the main participants inits formulation. Massecuit III is a type of brown sugar consisting of phenolic compounds and other componentsthat might exhibit antioxidant activity and could improve and affect the nutritional properties of the food. Theaim of the present study is to replace some or all of the white sugar used in the...

BACKGROUND Oxidative damage is implicated in the etiology of cancer, cardiovascular disease, and other degenerative disorders. Recent nutritional research has focused on the antioxidant potential of foods, while current dietary recommendations are to increase the intake of antioxidant-rich foods rather than supplement specific nutrients. Many alternatives to refined sugar are available, includi...

Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus L. is a herbaceous perennial plant that could be drought tolerant once established after the first year. To evaluate the effects of water stress on growth parametersand forage quality of this plant, a field experiment was conducted using a randomized complete block design with three replications in Isfahan, Iran during 2013-2015. Treatments wer...

The Winograd Schema Challenge (WSC) is a pronoun resolution task for which deep semantic knowledge is required to achieve high performance. Until now it has been assumed that human performance on the WSC is nearly at ceiling, but evidence for this has been mainly anecdotal. Here we present the results of a large online experiment that both establishes a baseline for human performance on the WSC...

Motivated by the problem of automated Web service composition (WSC), in this paper, we present some empirical evidence to validate the effectiveness of using knowledge-based planning techniques for solving WSC problems. In our experiments we utilize the PKS (Planning with Knowledge and Sensing) planning system which is derived from a generalization of STRIPS. In PKS, the agent’s (incomplete) kn...

Much of the research on automated Web Service Composition (WSC) relates it to an AI planning task, where the composition is primarily done offline prior to execution. Recent research on WSC has argued convincingly for the importance of optimizing quality of service, trust, and user preferences. While some of this optimization can be done offline, many interesting and useful optimizations are da...

this study aimed to modify the current purchase formula of sugar beet into a formula with different coefficients with respect to sugar percentage of autumn sugar beet. ahvaz sugar factory was selected as an autumn sowing factory in iran and 163 samples were randomly taken at different delivery times in 2007 (28th april to 27th june).  from each truck, one sample was taken and sugar content, wat...