Transport is a critical factor in modern pork production and can seriously affect swine welfare. While previous research has explored thermal conditions during transport, the impact of extreme weather conditions on the trailer thermal environment under industry practices has not been well documented; and the critical factors impacting microclimate are not well understood. To assess the trailer ...

The T r a n s f o r m a t l o n a l q u e s t i o n Answer ing (TqA) sys tem was deve loped ove r a p e r i o d o f t i m e b e g i n n i n g in t h e e a r l y p a r t o f t h e l a s t decade and c o n t i n u i n g t o t h e p r e s e n t . I t s s y n t a c t i c component i s a t r a n s f o r m a t i o n a l grammar p a r s e r [ 1 , 2, ~ ] , and i t s s e m a n t i c Gomponqnt i s a Knu ...

For over thirty years, the complexity of knowledge acquisition has been the greatest obstacle to widespread use of semantic systems. The task of translating information from a textbook to a computable semantic form requires the combined skills of a linguist, logician, computer scientist, and subject-matter expert. Any system that requires its users to have all those skills will have few, if any...

A main contribution of this paper is the explicit construction of comparison morphisms between the standard bar resolution and Bardzell’s minimal resolution for truncated quiver algebras (TQA’s). As a direct application we describe explicitely the Yoneda product and derive several results on the structure of the cohomology ring of TQA’s. For instance, we show that the product of odd degree coho...

The Technical Quality Assurance group was initiated by the EFSUMB Board in 2007 and met firstly in 2008 to discuss and evaluate methods and procedures published for performing technical quality assurance for diagnostic ultrasound devices. It is the aim of this group of experts to advise the EFSUMB Board of effective and efficacious methods for routine use and to make recommendations regarding t...

Audit has become prevalent throughout UK Universities and in associated institutions such as funding bodies and national government. There is pressure from funding bodies for Universities to be seen as audited, for Universities to be accountable and held to account, and messages from central government about the need for greater transparency of processes and greater responsibility for action. T...