We address the image captioning task by combining a convolutional neural network (CNN) with various recurrent neural network architectures. We train the models on over 400,000 training examples ( roughly 80,000 images, with 5 captions per image) from the Microsoft 2014 COCO challenge. We demonstrate that stacking a 2-Layer RNN provides better results on image captioning tasks than both a Vanill...

Developing agroforestry systems in private forests is expected to increase productivity. This study aims determine the appropriate design for Falcataria moluccana-based Central Lombok Regency. Three intercrop species were tested: small taro (Colocasia esculenta), ginger (Zingiber officinale), and vanilla (Vanilla planifolia Andrews). was established using a completely randomized design. The thr...

In an interior environment, the display life of miniature potted roses (Rosa hybrida L.) `Bronze' was 7 days, while that of `Vanilla' was 23 days. Although there was a substantial difference in ethylene production between flowers from two cultivars, there was no difference in binding site activity (kd ˆ 0.14 nl lÿ1). Pre-treatment with the ethylene action inhibitor 1-methylcyclopropene (1-MCP) ...

The microbial ecology of traditional postharvesting processing of vanilla beans (curing) was examined using a polyphasic approach consisting of conventional cultivation, substrate utilization-based and molecular identification of isolates, and cultivation-independent community profiling by 16S ribosomal DNA based PCR-denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis. At two different locations, a batch o...

This paper describes a reversed-phase liquid chromatographic method for the determination of vanillin, associated natural aromatic compounds and/or synthetic precursors, ethyl vanillin, and coumarin, a commonly encountered adulterant in nonbeverage and beverage alcohol products using a ternary gradient mobile phase. The compounds were separated on a Nova-Pak C18 column by using water, methanol,...

Almost a decade ago, the Kerner Commission warned that this country was moving toward two societies-one white and one black. Data on residential segregation indicate clear-cut boundaries for these two societies-large cities are becoming black but most suburban areas remain white. Detroit is a case in point and this led the 1976 Detroit Area Study to investigate the sources of racial residential...

A barrier option is an otherwise vanilla call or put option with a strike of X but with an extra parameter B, the barrier: the option only comes into existence (is knocked in) or is terminated (is knocked out) if the spot price crosses the barrier during the life of the option. Because there is a positive probability (in either case) of worthlessness, these options are cheaper than the correspo...