In this paper we describe a method for detecting terminological variants and their translations in bilingual texts. Our approach is based on abductive reasoning and combines various monolingual and bilingual resources. A small scale experiment shows that precision and recall increase when using more resources and when the resources interfere in a less restricted way. In order to tune our system...

A 60-70% increase in consumption of animal products is expected by 2050. This increase in the consumption will demand enormous resources, the feed being the most challenging because of the limited availability of natural resources, ongoing climatic changes and food-feed-fuel competition. The costs of conventional feed resources such as soymeal and fishmeal are very high and moreover their avail...

Over the years, a number of studies have evaluated the concept of size and profitability. Thanks to the efforts of researchers conducting these studies, it should be easier to determine an answer that may best fit a given farm or ranch environmental and economic conditions. In it simplest form, it can be generalized that size is usually related to production, but more resources are needed to ma...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com volume of Lake Geneva. With such situations, it seems clear that a reduction of food wastage at global, regional, and national scales would have a substantial positive effect on natural and societal resources. Food wastage reduction would not only avoid pressure on scarce natural resources but also decrease the need to raise food production by 60 pe...