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The Mesothelioma Compensation Center is a compensation advocate for Navy Veterans or energy workers with mesothelioma. To get the best possible compensation job done they recommend Erik Karst and his colleagues at the law firm of Karst von Oiste.

The last thing the California Mesothelioma Victims Center wants to see is a diagnosed US Navy Veteran get shortchanged because they had no way to differentiate between the nation's best mesothelioma lawyers, and a personal injury law firm.

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The Mesothelioma Compensation Center is offering to make certain a coal, natural gas, or nuclear power worker with mesothelioma has on-the-spot access to attorney Erik Karst of Karst von Oiste-one of the nation's most skilled mesothelioma lawyers.

The Mesothelioma Compensation Center's top priority is seeing to it that a power plant worker with mesothelioma in any state receives the best compensation and to get the job done they recommend attorney Erik Karst of the law firm Karst von Oiste.

The US Navy Veterans Mesothelioma Advocate's top priority is seeing to it that a Navy Veteran with mesothelioma receives the best compensation results and to get the compensation job done they have endorsed attorney Erik Karst of Karst von oiste.

The US Navy Veterans Mesothelioma Advocate is appealing to a Navy Veteran with mesothelioma to call them anytime at 800-714-0303 for direct access to the lawyers at Karst von Oiste-to ensure they receive the best possible compensation results."

The Mesothelioma Victims Center is urging a person who has just been diagnosed with mesothelioma to call them anytime including weekends for direct access to attorney Erik Karst of the law firm of Karst von Oiste-Get Better Compensation Results.

The US Navy Veterans Mesothelioma Advocate's top priority is seeing to it that a Navy Veteran with mesothelioma receives the best financial compensation results and to get the compensation job done they have endorsed Erik Karst of Karst von Oiste.

The Mesothelioma Victims Center is appealing to a Navy Veteran with mesothelioma anywhere in the nation or their family to call for direct access to attorney Erik Karst of the law firm of Karst von Oiste to ensure the best compensation results.

The US Navy Veterans Mesothelioma Advocate does not want one US Navy Veteran with mesothelioma to confuse a significant financial compensation settlement of possibly a million dollars with a monthly VA disability payment that might be $3000.

The US Navy Veterans Mesothelioma Advocate is urging Navy Veteran with mesothelioma who was exposed to asbestos on a US Navy destroyer to call them at 800-714-0303 for direct access to attorney Erik Karst of the law firm of KVO-Get Compensated.

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The Mesothelioma Victims Center is appealing to a construction worker with mesothelioma anywhere in the nation to call them anytime at 800-714-0303 for direct access to attorney Erik Karst of the law firm Karst von Oiste to discuss compensation.

The Mesothelioma Compensation Center is urging a welder or a skilled trades person with mesothelioma anywhere in the nation or their family to call them at 800-714-0303 to ensure the best possible compensation results. This outreach is nationwide.

Before a person with mesothelioma in any state hires a lawyer the Mesothelioma Victims Center is appealing to a Navy Veteran or person with this rare cancer to call them at 800-714-0303 for direct access to Erik Karst of Karst von Oiste.

The Mesothelioma Compensation Center is urging a waterworks worker or plumber with mesothelioma nationwide to call them for direct access to attorney Erik Karst of the law firm Karst von Oiste to discuss compensation. Don't play lawyer roulette.

The US Navy Veterans Mesothelioma Advocate is urging a Navy Veteran with mesothelioma or their family to call them anytime at 800-714-0303-especially if the Veteran was assigned to a ship or submarine being repaired at the Puget Sound Navy Shipyard.

"The Mesothelioma Victims Center is on a mission to see to it that a Navy Veteran or a shipyard worker with mesothelioma receives the best compensation results and they suggest the lawyers at the law firm of Karst von Oiste to get the job done."

The Mesothelioma Compensation Center says, "We have endorsed attorney Erik Karst of the law firm of Karst von Oiste to help a power plant worker with mesothelioma with compensation because we know he and his team will deliver the best results."

The Mesothelioma Victims Center has endorsed the Erik Karst and the lawyers at the law firm of Karst von Oiste-KVO to help a family who has just learned their loved one has advanced mesothelioma any where in the nation and they come to you.

The Mesothelioma Victims Center is appealing to the family of a construction worker with advanced mesothelioma to call 800-714-0303 for direct access to Erik Karst of the law firm of Karst von Oiste to ensure a better compensation settlement result.

The Mesothelioma Victims Center is urging the family of a person who was just diagnosed with mesothelioma who never thought they had exposure to asbestos to call them anytime at 800-714-0303 for direct access to attorney Erik Karst of Karst von-KVO.

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This year's conference will continue to focus and build on the challenges and hurdles that companies working in the microbiome industry will have to recognize and navigate in order to successfully commercialize their products.

The Mesothelioma Compensation Center has endorsed attorney Erik Karst of Karst von Oiste to ensure an electrician or plumber with mesothelioma receives the best compensation and they make house house calls nationwide-rather than sending a book.

The Mesothelioma Compensation Center is urging a power plant or energy worker with mesothelioma or their family to call them at 800-714-0303 for direct access to attorney Erik Karst of Karst von Oiste. Please don't gamble on your compensation.

The Mesothelioma Victims Center says "We fear people with mesothelioma have halted their compensation because of the Coronavirus. If you have mesothelioma please call for direct access to attorney Erik Karst of KVO-to get compensation started ASAP."

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When you try to develop a machine learning application that affects people, you quickly learn that fairness is far more complex than we usually think, and also that fairness almost always requires us to make difficult trade-offs

Faster authentication can reduce contact center costs, help eliminate the need for security questions, and contribute to an enhanced customer experience

The study ‘Sustainable biomass and bioenergy in the Netherlands’ was carried out by researchers Goh, Mai-Moulin and Junginger from Utrecht University in the framework of the Netherlands Programmes Sustainable Biomass. It looks at “biomass from the three major categories, i.e. woody biomass, oils and fats and carbohydrates used in different sectors in the Netherlands”.

For each of these three categories a Sankey diagram is presented, like for example this one for oils and fats.
[See image gallery at www.sankey-diagrams.com]
The diagram has a very clear structure. Import streams are from the top and exports leave to the bottom. Domestic Dutch production is from the left, use of oils and fats in the Netherlands is to the right. Flows are in million tons (MT) dry mass. Data is for the year 2014.

See the full report here.

Cofiring wood and coal at Fairbanks, Alaska, area electrical generation facilities represents an opportunity to use woody biomass from clearings within the borough's wildland-urban interface and from other sources, such as sawmill residues and woody material intended for landfills. Potential benefits of cofiring include air quality improvements, reduced greenhouse gas emissions, market and employment development opportunities, and reduction of municipal wood residues at area landfills. Important issues that must be addressed to enable cofiring include wood chip uniformity and quality, fuel mixing procedures, transportation and wood chip processing costs, infrastructure requirements, and long-term biomass supply. Additional steps in implementing successful cofiring programs could include test burns, an assessment of area biomass supply and treatment needs, and a detailed economic and technical feasibility study. Although Fairbanks North Star Borough is well positioned to use biomass for cofiring at coal burning facilities, long-term cofiring operations would require expansion of biomass sources beyond defensible-space-related clearings alone. Long-term sources could potentially include a range of woody materials including forest harvesting residues, sawmill residues, and municipal wastes.

The Chugach and Tongass National Forests are changing, possibly in response to global warming.

In rural Alaskan communities, high economic, social, and ecological costs are associated with fossil fuel use for power generation.

Woody biomass can be used for the generation of heat, electricity, and biofuels. In many cases, the technology for converting woody biomass into energy has been established for decades, but because the price of woody biomass energy has not been competitive with traditional fossil fuels, bioenergy production from woody biomass has not been widely adopted. However, current projections of future energy use and renewable energy and climate change legislation under consideration suggest increased use of both forest and agriculture biomass energy in the coming decades.

The Fall River research site in coastal Washington is an affiliate installation of the North American Long-Term Soil Productivity (LTSP) network, which constitutes one of the world's largest coordinated research programs addressing forest management impacts on sustained productivity. Overall goals of the Fall River study are to assess effects of biomass removals, soil compaction, tillage, and vegetation control on site properties and growth of planted Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco). Biomass-removal treatments included removal of commercial bole (BO), bole to 5-cm top diameter (BO5), total tree (TT), and total tree plus all legacy woody debris (TT+). Vegetation control (VC) effects were tested in BO, while soil compaction and compaction plus tillage were imposed in BO+VC treatment. All treatments were imposed in 1999. The preharvest stand contained similar amounts of carbon (C) above the mineral soil (292 Mg/ha) as within the mineral soil to 80- cm depth including roots (298 Mg/ha). Carbon stores above the mineral soil ordered by size were live trees (193 Mg/ha), old-growth logs (37 Mg/ha), forest floor (27 Mg/ha), old-growth stumps and snags (17 Mg/ha), coarse woody debris (11 Mg/ha), dead trees/snags (7 Mg/ha), and understory vegetation (0.1 Mg/ha). The mineral soil to 80-cm depth contained 248 Mg C/ha, and roots added 41 Mg/ha. Total nitrogen (N) in mineral soil and roots (13 349 kg/ha) was more than 10 times the N store above the mineral soil (1323 kg/ha). Postharvest C above mineral soil decreased to 129, 120, 63, and 50 Mg/ha in BO, BO5, TT, and TT+, respectively. Total N above the mineral soil decreased to 722, 747, 414, and 353 Mg/ha in BO, BO5, TT, and TT+, respectively. The ratio of total C above the mineral soil to total C within the mineral soil was markedly altered by biomass removal, but proportions of total N stores were reduced only 3 to 6 percent owing to the large soil N reservoir on site.

We examine the use of woody residues, primarily from forest harvesting or wood products manufacturing operations (and to a limited degree from urban wood wastes), as a feedstock for direct-combustion bioenergy systems for electrical or thermal power applications. We examine opportunities for utilizing biomass for energy at several different scales, with an emphasis on larger scale electrical power generation at stand-alone facilities, and on smaller scale facilities (thermal heating only) such as governmental, educational, or other institutional facilities. We then identify west-wide barriers that tend to inhibit bioenergy applications, including accessibility, terrain, harvesting costs, and capital costs. Finally, we evaluate the role of government as a catalyst in stimulating new technologies and new uses of biomass material.

Timber availability, aboveground tree biomass, and changes in aboveground carbon pools are important consequences of landscape management.

Cofiring of biomass and coal at electrical generation facilities is gaining in importance as a means of reducing fossil fuel consumption, and more than 40 facilities in the United States have conducted test burns. Given the large size of many coal plants, cofiring at even low rates has the potential to utilize relatively large volumes of biomass. This could have important forest management implications if harvest residues or salvage timber are supplied to coal plants. Other feedstocks suitable for cofiring include wood products manufacturing residues, woody municipal wastes, agricultural residues, short-rotation intensive culture forests, or hazard fuel removals. Cofiring at low rates can often be done with minimal changes to plant handling and processing equipment, requiring little capital investment. Cofiring at higher rates can involve repowering entire burners to burn biomass in place of coal, or in some cases, repowering entire powerplants. Our research evaluates the current status of biomass cofiring in North America, identifying current trends and success stories, types of biomass used, coal plant sizes, and primary cofiring regions. We also identify potential barriers to cofiring. Results are presented for more than a dozen plants that are currently cofiring or have recently announced plans to cofire.

This handbook and financial app is a guide to help communities quickly determine if biomass energy projects might work for them so that this option is not overlooked. Its purpose is as a screening tool designed to save significant time, resources, and investment by weeding out those wood energy projects that may never come to fruition from those that have a chance of success. It establishes technical, financial, and social criteria and indicators to evaluate proposed biomass investment options. Through showcasing of successful projects using text, photos, video interviews, and diagrams, it facilitates virtual project planning and interaction with experts. The interactive wood energy financial app allows estimation of capital investment costs to facilitate project design and screening across a variety of wood energy options. The calculator can be accessed from the eBook or from the Web.

If you’re a local businessperson, an entrepreneur, a tribal partner, a community organizer; a decision-maker for a school district, college, or hospital; a government leader; a project developer; an industry leader; or an equipment manufacturer, the Alaska Community Handbook will be helpful to you.

This book is intended to help people better understand how wood energy is helping to revitalize rural Alaskan communities by reducing energy costs, creating jobs, and helping to educate the next generation.

The Community Biomass Handbook Volume 4: Enterprise Development for Integrated Wood Manufacturing is a guide for creating sustainable business enterprises using small diameter logs and biomass. This fourth volume is a companion to three Community Biomass Handbook volumes: Volume 1: Thermal Wood Energy; Volume 2: Alaska, Where Woody Biomass Can Work; and Volume 3: How Wood Energy is Revitalizing Rural Alaska. This volume is designed to help business partnerships, forest managers, and community groups rapidly explore and evaluate integrated manufacturing opportunities.

Due to the exponential growth of biomedical literature, event and relation extraction are important tasks in biomedical text mining. Most work only focus on relation extraction, and detect a single entity pair mention on a short span of text, which is not ideal due to long sentences that appear in biomedical contexts. We propose an approach to both relation and event extraction, for simultaneously predicting relationships between all mention pairs in a text. We also perform an empirical study to discuss different network setups for this purpose. The best performing model includes a set of multi-head attentions and convolutions, an adaptation of the transformer architecture, which offers self-attention the ability to strengthen dependencies among related elements, and models the interaction between features extracted by multiple attention heads. Experiment results demonstrate that our approach outperforms the state of the art on a set of benchmark biomedical corpora including BioNLP 2009, 2011, 2013 and BioCreative 2017 shared tasks.

By Jeff Mulhollem Penn State News The first harvest of 34 acres of fast-growing shrub willow from a Penn State demonstration field this winter is a milestone in developing a sustainable biomass supply for renewable energy and bio-based economic development, … Continue reading →