Garbage in and garbage out. A Q&A system must receive a well formulated question that matches the user’s intent or she has no chance to receive satisfactory answers. In this paper, we propose a keywords to questions (K2Q) system to assist a user to articulate and refine questions. K2Q generates candidate questions and refinement words from a set of input keywords. After specifying some initial ...

This article examines the scope for strategies to build natural assets in the hands of low-income individuals and communities. Natural assets include sources of raw materials such as forests and fisheries, and the airsheds, lands, and water bodies that provide environmental sinks for the disposal of wastes. These resources become assets when people have rights to access their benefits. Four str...

Sustainability starts with conserving resources for future generations. Since human’s existence on this earth, he has been consuming natural resources. The resource consumption pace in the past was very slow, but industrialization in 18th century brought a change in the human lifestyle. New inventions and discoveries upgraded the human workforce to machines. The mass manufacture of goods provid...

ethanol producing bacteria are useful in industrial production of biofuel. there are interesting for screening of active bacteria from natural resources and introduce to biofuel industries. the present study aims to isolation of ethanol producing bacteria with characterization, optimization, and evaluation of their ethanol productivity. samples from various fruits, plant saps and soils were scr...

integrating natural resources management in the secondary school curriculum in kenya has received a lot of talk without adequate practical activities. the farmers of the future programme under the world agroforestry centre, formally the international centre for research in agroforestry (icraf), initiated a practical approach to integration of natural resources management in the secondary school...

in recent years, the occurrence of water and wind erosion indifferent parts of country due to the changes of land use from the forest andpasture into the agricultural and also construction of communication lineshave increased. the study and research on this phenomenon, the effectivefactors in creating them and also identification of geomorphology faciestypes are necessary to prevent the waste o...

the main sources of all natural light are the sun, the moon and the stars. in other words, the principle source of illumination is the light as mediated by atmosphere. according to some philosophers, spiritual or holy light includes not only material and quantified aspect, but being non-physical properties it treats as a spiritual connector between god and man. the light is the main part of exi...

A hierarchical framework is proposed to address the issues of modeling different type of words in keyword spotting (KWS). Keyword models are built at various levels according to the availability of training set resources for each individual word. The proposed approach improves the performance of KWS even when no training speech is available for the keywords. It also suggests an easier way to co...