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Developing Amaia: A Conversational Agent for Helping Portuguese Entrepreneurs—An Extensive Exploration of Question-Matching Approaches for Portuguese

Information, 2020
This paper describes how we tackled the development of Amaia, a conversational agent for Portuguese entrepreneurs. After introducing the domain corpus used as Amaia’s Knowledge Base (KB), we make an extensive comparison of approaches for automatically ...
José Santos, Luís Duarte, João Ferreira, Ana Alves, Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira   +4 more
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The Variety of Applications of Hermetia illucens in Industrial and Agricultural Areas—Review

Biology, 2022
Hermetia illucens (Diptera: Stratiomyidae, Linnaeus, 1978), commonly known as the black soldier fly (BSF), is a saprophytic insect, which in recent years has attracted significant attention from both the scientific community and industry.
Monika Kaczor, Piotr Bulak, Kinga Proc-Pietrycha, Marina Kirichenko-Babko, Andrzej Bieganowski   +4 more
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Effect of Wood Waste and Sunflower Husk Biochar on Tensile Strength and Porosity of Dystric Cambisol Artificial Aggregates

Agronomy, 2020
This paper focuses on the tensile strength (Q) and porosity of Dystric Cambisol cylinders with and without biochars (0.1% or 5% dose) obtained from wood waste (BC1) and sunflower husks (BC2).
Zofia Sokołowska, Katarzyna Szewczuk-Karpisz, Marcin Turski, Agnieszka Tomczyk, Marta Cybulak, Kamil Skic   +5 more
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Exploring Geometric Feature Hyper-Space in Data to Learn Representations of Abstract Concepts

Applied Sciences, 2020
The term concept has been a prominent part of investigations in psychology and neurobiology where, mostly, it is mathematically or theoretically represented.
Rahul Sharma, Bernardete Ribeiro, Alexandre Miguel Pinto, F. Amílcar Cardoso   +3 more
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How Reliable Are Ultra-Short-Term HRV Measurements during Cognitively Demanding Tasks?

Sensors, 2022
Ultra-short-term HRV features assess minor autonomous nervous system variations such as variations resulting from cognitive stress peaks during demanding tasks. Several studies compare ultra-short-term and short-term HRV measurements to investigate their
André Bernardes, Ricardo Couceiro, Júlio Medeiros, Jorge Henriques, César Teixeira, Marco Simões, João Durães, Raul Barbosa, Henrique Madeira, Paulo Carvalho   +9 more
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A New Approach to Quantifying Bioaccumulation of Elements in Biological Processes

Biology, 2021
Bioaccumulation, expressed as the bioaccumulation factor (BAF), is a phenomenon widely investigated in the natural environment and at laboratory scale.
Kinga Proc, Piotr Bulak, Monika Kaczor, Andrzej Bieganowski   +3 more
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K2-290: a warm Jupiter and a mini-Neptune in a triple-star system [PDF]

Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2019
We report the discovery of two transiting planets orbiting K2-290 (EPIC 249624646), a bright (V = 11.11) late F-type star residing in a triple-star system. It was observed during Campaign 15 of the K2 mission, and in order to confirm and characterize the
M. Hjorth, A. B. Justesen, T. Hirano, S. Albrecht, D. Gandolfi, F. Dai, F. Dai, R. Alonso, O. Barragán, M. Esposito, M. Kuzuhara, K. Lam, J. Livingston, P. Montañés-Rodríguez, N. Narita, G. Nowak, J. Prieto-Arranz, S. Redfield, F. Rodler, V. V. Eylen, J. Winn, G. Antoniciello, J. Cabrera, W. Cochran, S. Csizmadia, J. D. Leon, H. Deeg, H. Deeg, P. Eigmüller, M. Endl, A. Erikson, M. Fridlund, M. Fridlund, S. Grziwa, E. Guenther, A. Hatzes, P. Heeren, D. Hidalgo, D. Hidalgo, J. Korth, R. Luque, R. Luque, D. Nespral, D. Nespral, E. Pallé, E. Pallé, M. Pätzold, C. Persson, H. Rauer, H. Rauer, H. Rauer, Alexis M. S. Smith, T. Trifonov   +52 more
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Mesorhizobium septentrionale sp nov and Mesorhizobium temperatum sp nov., isolated from Astragalus adsurgens growing in the northern regions of China [PDF]

, 2004
Ninety-five rhizobial strains isolated from Astragalus adsurgens growing in the northern regions of China were classified into three main groups, candidate species 1, 11 and 111, based on a polyphasic approach.
Allen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, de Lajudie, de Lajudie, De Ley, En Tao Wang, Feng Ling Kan, Gao, Gao, Gaunt, Graham, Guo, Hurek, J. Peter W. Young, Jarvis, Jun Gu, Jun-Lian Gao, Kristina Lindström, Laguerre, Li, Marmur, Marmur, Martínez-Romero, Nagasawa, Page, Peng, Sarah Lea Turner, Shon, Sneath, Sriprang, Sullivan, Tan, Thompson, Turner, Velázquez, Vincent, Wang, Wang, Wayne, Wdowiak, Wen Xin Chen, Xu, Yu Hui Qiu, Zewdu Terefework, Zhang, Zhi Yuan Tan   +48 more
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Planning Sustainable Energy Systems in the Southern African Development Community: A Review of Power Systems Planning Approaches

Energies, 2022
Southern Africa has a huge potential for renewable energy sources such as hydro, solar, wind, biomass, and geothermal. However, electricity access remains a key policy issue for most member states, with a global average access to electricity of only 54 ...
Constantino Dário Justo, José Eduardo Tafula, Pedro Moura   +2 more
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Public houses and civic tensions in early modern Bern [PDF]

, 2007
This article examines the delicate relationship between the civic privilege of wine retailing and the constitutional emphasis on order in a city republic.
Kümin, Beat A.
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