INTRODUCTION Cereal grains generally are the primary source of energy in feedlot diets. Availability of energy from the grain depends largely on the type of grain used as well processing of that grain (Owens et al., 1997). A variety of grain processing techniques are used including grinding, steam flaking, and compiling high moisture corn to ferment. Each processing method differs in its nutrit...

Abstraction-Carrying Code (ACC) has recently been proposed as a framework for mobile code safety in which the code supplier provides a program together with an abstraction (or abstract model of the program) whose validity entails compliance with a predefined safety policy. The abstraction plays thus the role of safety certificate and its generation is carried out automatically by a fixpoint ana...

a ABSTRACT The Intelligent Systems and Robotics Center (ISRC) at Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) is developing technologies for glovebox size reduction in the DOE nuclear complex. A study was performed for Kaiser-Hill (KH) at the Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site (RFETS) on the available technologies for size reducing the glovebox lines that require size reduction in place. Currently...

An important question in ensemble based data assimilation scheme is how many ensembles do we require to correctly capture the important features in either our atmospheric or oceanic models given a set of observations. In this paper we present a method to evaluate how many ensembles we require. This method is based on the ensembles representing the modes of the system that contain the directions...

Consider a large database of questions that assess the knowledge of learners on a range of different concepts. In this paper, we study the problem of maximizing the estimation accuracy of each learner’s knowledge about a concept while minimizing the number of questions each learner must answer. We refer to this problem as test-size reduction (TeSR). Using the SPARse Factor Analysis (SPARFA) fra...

The ubiquity of modular structure in real-world complex networks is being the focus of attention in many trials to understand the interplay between network topology and functionality. The best approaches to the identification of modular structure are based on the optimization of a quality function known as modularity. However this optimization is a hard task provided that the computational comp...

Biomass size reduction is an important step in biomass densification and this article reviews reduction studies. Hammermilling technology had the advantage of low maintenance over other methods including crushing, shearing and rollermilling. A review of equipment design parameters showed that hammermill tip speed, power requirements, grinding rate, screen size, and clearance affect performance ...

Consider a large database of questions that test the knowledge of learners (e.g., students) about a range of different concepts. While the main goal of personalized learning is to obtain accurate estimates of each learner’s concept understanding, it is additionally desirable to reduce the number of questions to minimize each learner’s workload. In this paper, we propose a novel method to extrac...