Building James Stone’s Elkhorn Distillery

2020 ◽  
pp. 371-402
Author(s):  
Karl Raitz
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Construction Materials ◽  
Mechanical Equipment ◽  
Barley Malt ◽  
Business Partnership ◽  
Scott County

On the eve of the Civil War, Scott County farmer James M. Stone owned twenty-three enslaved people, farmed 137 acres of improved land along South Elkhorn Creek, and was one of the most prosperous farmers in the county. By 1867, his industrial distillery produced about thirty barrels of whiskey per week. He entered into a business partnership with James H. Shropshire, who assisted with management and provided some of the capital for expansion. Stone made extensive modifications to his works to comply with the new federal requirements imposed by the 1868 revenue law, including building a state-of-the-art stack-type warehouse of brick, with a metal roof and iron window shutters. Cooper Adam Michaels made barrels for Elkhorn and other distilleries. Elkhorn’s transport connections for grain, construction materials, fuel, and whiskey were unimproved roads and a track-side depot on the railroad some two and a half miles distant. Logistics proved to be problematic for the duration of Elkhorn’s operations. Elkhorn consumed more grain than was produced locally and required shipments from Outer Bluegrass counties; barley malt came from Canada, and hops arrived from brokers in Lexington and Cincinnati. Most grain was shipped in sacks. New mechanical equipment often proved unreliable or unsuited for its application, necessitating ad hoc repairs. The distillery operation included a large pen where hogs were fed slop.

scholarly journals State-of-the-art methods and devices for generation, exposure, and collection of aerosols from e-vapor products

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 239784732097975
Author(s):  
Stéphanie Boué ◽  
Didier Goedertier ◽  
Julia Hoeng ◽  
Anita Iskandar ◽  
Arkadiusz K Kuczaj ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ad Hoc ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Physicochemical Characterization ◽  
Objective Evaluation ◽  
Vapor Generation ◽  
Characterization Methods ◽  
Clinical Exposure ◽  
Aerosol Generation

E-vapor products (EVP) have become popular alternatives for cigarette smokers who would otherwise continue to smoke. EVP research is challenging and complex, mostly because of the numerous and rapidly evolving technologies and designs as well as the multiplicity of e-liquid flavors and solvents available on the market. There is an urgent need to standardize all stages of EVP assessment, from the production of a reference product to e-vapor generation methods and from physicochemical characterization methods to nonclinical and clinical exposure studies. The objective of this review is to provide a detailed description of selected experimental setups and methods for EVP aerosol generation and collection and exposure systems for their in vitro and in vivo assessment. The focus is on the specificities of the product that constitute challenges and require development of ad hoc assessment frameworks, equipment, and methods. In so doing, this review aims to support further studies, objective evaluation, comparison, and verification of existing evidence, and, ultimately, formulation of standardized methods for testing EVPs.

scholarly journals CorGAT: a tool for the functional annotation of SARS-CoV-2 genomes

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matteo Chiara ◽  
Federico Zambelli ◽  
Marco Antonio Tangaro ◽  
Pietro Mandreoli ◽  
David S Horner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Functional Annotation ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Supplementary Information ◽  
Genomic Sequences ◽  
Supplementary Data ◽  
Evolutionary Patterns ◽  
Genomic Variants ◽  
Art Methods ◽  
Available Resources

Abstract Summary While over 200 000 genomic sequences are currently available through dedicated repositories, ad hoc methods for the functional annotation of SARS-CoV-2 genomes do not harness all currently available resources for the annotation of functionally relevant genomic sites. Here, we present CorGAT, a novel tool for the functional annotation of SARS-CoV-2 genomic variants. By comparisons with other state of the art methods we demonstrate that, by providing a more comprehensive and rich annotation, our method can facilitate the identification of evolutionary patterns in the genome of SARS-CoV-2. Availabilityand implementation Galaxy   http://corgat.cloud.ba.infn.it/galaxy; software: https://github.com/matteo14c/CorGAT/tree/Revision_V1; docker: https://hub.docker.com/r/laniakeacloud/galaxy_corgat. Supplementary information Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

scholarly journals Parallel Crossed Chaotic Encryption for Hyperspectral Images

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 1183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Villaseñor ◽  
Eric Gutierrez-Frias ◽  
Nancy Arana-Daniel ◽  
Alma Alanis ◽  
Carlos Lopez-Franco
Keyword(s):  
Chaotic Systems ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Hyperspectral Images ◽  
Encryption Algorithm ◽  
Electromagnetic Spectrum ◽  
Chaotic Encryption ◽  
Raw Data ◽  
Essential Tool ◽  
Encryption Schemes

Hyperspectral images (HI) collect information from across the electromagnetic spectrum, and they are an essential tool for identifying materials, recognizing processes and finding objects. However, the information on an HI could be sensitive and must to be protected. Although there are many encryption schemes for images and raw data, there are not specific schemes for HI. In this paper, we introduce the idea of crossed chaotic systems and we present an ad hoc parallel crossed chaotic encryption algorithm for HI, in which we take advantage of the multidimensionality nature of the HI. Consequently, we obtain a faster encryption algorithm and with a higher entropy result than others state of the art chaotic schemes.

Developments in Bulb Flats and Other Hot Rolled Special Steel Profiles for Advancing Commercial and Naval Shipbuilding in the U.S.

2000 ◽  
Vol 16 (04) ◽  
pp. 193-206
Author(s):  
Iain Braidwood ◽  
Geoff Lofthouse
Keyword(s):  
Composite Structures ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Construction Materials ◽  
Structural Performance ◽  
Life Cycle Costs ◽  
Naval Vessel ◽  
Special Steel ◽  
Steel Shapes ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Hot Rolled

Special steel profiles are increasingly being used for commercial and warship construction to reduce production and life cycle costs. In particular, bulb flats (Holland profiles), manufactured by special profiles businesses, are increasingly being used for plate stiffening in warships and naval auxiliaries. Examples are the UK's Type 23 Frigates, the LPH HMS Ocean, Watson Class Sealift ships and the Dutch LPD HrMs Rotterdam, as well as, looking to the future, the UK Type 45 Destroyer. Some comparison will be made of naval vessel construction on both sides of the Atlantic, particularly looking at the advantages that bulb flats can bring to naval vessel construction. This paper will discuss the challenge of introducing new shapes, examine the state of the art in the production of special steel shapes and describe metallurgical developments that enable the delivery of shapes with required structural performance and suitability for production. Shipbuilding developments such as laser welding are being addressed with a view to the manufacture of special profiles, particularly where tolerance and chemical composition issues need to be addressed. Future lightweight vessel construction may involve a mix of aluminium, steel and composite structures. Special profiles can be developed to assist in the joining of these different construction materials.

The Spanish Civil War (1936–1939)

Secret Wars ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 99-141
Author(s):  
Austin Carson
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Unique Role ◽  
Limited War ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Over Time

This chapter analyzes foreign combat participation in the Spanish Civil War. Fought from 1936 to 1939, the war hosted covert interventions by Germany, Italy, and the Soviet Union. The chapter leverages variation in intervention form among those three states, as well as variation over time in the Italian intervention, to assess the role of escalation concerns and limited war in the use of secrecy. Adolf Hitler's German intervention provides especially interesting support for a theory on escalation control. An unusually candid view of Berlin's thinking suggests that Germany managed the visibility of its covert “Condor Legion” with an eye toward the relative power of domestic hawkish voices in France and Great Britain. The chapter also shows the unique role of direct communication and international organizations. The Non-Intervention Committee, an ad hoc organization that allowed private discussions of foreign involvement in Spain, helped the three interveners and Britain and France keep the war limited in ways that echo key claims of the theory.

scholarly journals A new geography of civil war: a machine learning approach to measuring the zones of armed conflicts

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Kyosuke Kikuta
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
Conflict Zones ◽  
Original Estimate ◽  
Conflict Zone ◽  
Machine Learning Approach ◽  
New Geography

Abstract Where do armed conflicts occur? In applied studies, we may take ad hoc approaches to answer this question. In some regression studies, for instance, a single conflict event can cause an entire province to be classified as a conflict zone. In this paper, I fill this void of knowledge by developing a machine learning method that is less dependent on the areal-unit assumptions and can flexibly estimate conflict zones. I apply the method to a conflict event dataset and create a new dataset of conflict zones. A replication of Daskin and Pringle (2018, Nature 553, 328–332) with the new dataset indicates that the effect of civil war on mammal populations is much smaller than the original estimate.

scholarly journals Partial Compilation of ASP Programs

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 857-873 ◽  
Author(s):  
BERNARDO CUTERI ◽  
CARMINE DODARO ◽  
FRANCESCO RICCA ◽  
PETER SCHÜLLER
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Analysis ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Blow Up ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Answer Set Programming ◽  
General Purpose ◽  
Combinatorial Problems ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Input Program ◽  
Evaluation Algorithm

AbstractAnswer Set Programming (ASP) is a well-known declarative formalism in logic programming. Efficient implementations made it possible to apply ASP in many scenarios, ranging from deductive databases applications to the solution of hard combinatorial problems. State-of-the-art ASP systems are based on the traditional ground&solve approach and are general-purpose implementations, i.e., they are essentially built once for any kind of input program. In this paper, we propose an extended architecture for ASP systems, in which parts of the input program are compiled into an ad-hoc evaluation algorithm (i.e., we obtain a specific binary for a given program), and might not be subject to the grounding step. To this end, we identify a condition that allows the compilation of a sub-program, and present the related partial compilation technique. Importantly, we have implemented the new approach on top of a well-known ASP solver and conducted an experimental analysis on publicly-available benchmarks. Results show that our compilation-based approach improves on the state of the art in various scenarios, including cases in which the input program is stratified or the grounding blow-up makes the evaluation unpractical with traditional ASP systems.

State of the art on geopolymer concrete

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoi G. Ralli ◽  
Stavroula J. Pantazopoulou
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Performance ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Construction Materials ◽  
Cementitious Materials ◽  
Sustainable Construction ◽  
Geopolymer Concrete ◽  
Critical Material ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Critical Requirement

PurposeImportant differentiating attributes in the procedures used, the characteristic mineral composition of the binders, and the implications these have on the final long term stability and physico-mechanical performance of the concretes produced are identified and discussed, with the intent to improve transparency and clarity in the field of geopolymer concrete technologies.Design/methodology/approachThis state-of-the-art review covers the area of geopolymer concrete, a class of sustainable construction materials that use a variety of alternative powders in lieu of cement for composing concrete, most being a combination of industrial by-products and natural resources rich in specific required minerals. It explores extensively the available essential materials for geopolymer concrete and provides a deeper understanding of its underlying chemical mechanisms.FindingsThis is a state-of-the-art review introducing the essential characteristics of alternative powders used in geopolymer binders and the effectiveness these have on material performance.Practical implicationsWith the increase of need for alternative cementitious materials, identifying and understanding the critical material components and the effect they may have on the performance of the resulting mixes in fresh as well as hardened state become a critical requirement to for short- and long-term quality control (e.g. flash setting, efflorescence, etc.).Originality/valueThe topic explored is significant in the field of sustainable concrete technologies where there are several parallel but distinct material technologies being developed, such as geopolymer concrete and alkali-activated concrete. Behavioral aspects and results are not directly transferable between the two fields of cementitious materials development, and these differences are explored and detailed in the present study.

scholarly journals IMOC: Optimization Technique for Drone-Assisted VANET (DAV) Based on Moth Flame Optimization

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-29
Author(s):  
Rehan Tariq ◽  
Zeshan Iqbal ◽  
Farhan Aadil
Keyword(s):  
Ad Hoc Networks ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Performance Metrics ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Optimization Technique ◽  
Node Density ◽  
Routing Problems ◽  
Clustering Techniques ◽  
End To End ◽  
Hoc Networks

Technology advancement in the field of vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) improves smart transportation along with its many other applications. Routing in VANETs is difficult as compared to mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs); topological constraints such as high mobility, node density, and frequent path failure make the VANET routing more challenging. To scale complex routing problems, where static and dynamic routings do not work well, AI-based clustering techniques are introduced. Evolutionary algorithm-based clustering techniques are used to solve such routing problems; moth flame optimization is one of them. In this work, an intelligent moth flame optimization-based clustering (IMOC) for a drone-assisted vehicular network is proposed. This technique is used to provide maximum coverage for the vehicular node with minimum cluster heads (CHs) required for routing. Delivering optimal route by providing end-to-end connectivity with minimum overhead is the core issue addressed in this article. Node density, grid size, and transmission ranges are the performance metrics used for comparative analysis. These parameters were varied during simulations for each algorithm, and the results were recorded. A comparison was done with state-of-the-art clustering algorithms for routing such as Ant Colony Optimization (ACO), Comprehensive Learning Particle Swarm Optimization (CLPSO), and Gray Wolf Optimization (GWO). Experimental outcomes for IMOC consistently outperformed the state-of-the-art techniques for each scenario. A framework is also proposed with the support of a commercial Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) to improve routing by minimizing path creation overhead in VANETs. UAV support for clustering improved end-to-end connectivity by keeping the routing cost constant for intercluster communication in the same grid.

scholarly journals Three decades of international RILEM activities to combat deleterious Alkali-Silica Reactions (ASR) in concrete.

2018 ◽  
Vol 199 ◽  
pp. 03001
Author(s):  
Børge Johannes Wigum ◽  
Jan Lindgård
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
Construction Materials ◽  
Performance Testing ◽  
Test Methods ◽  
Alkali Content ◽  
International Union ◽  
Field Exposure ◽  
Performance Based Assessment

Since 1988, the International Union of Laboratories and Experts in Construction Materials, Systems and Structures (RILEM) Technical Committees (TCs) have been seeking to establish universally applicable test methods for assessing the alkali-reactivity potential of aggregates, and from later on, for concrete mixes. TC 106 (1988 – 2001) focused on accelerated aggregate tests. The successor committee TC 191-ARP (2001 – 2006) also included work on diagnosis/appraisal & specification. TC 219-ACS (2006 – 2014) introduced work on performance testing & modelling. The major recommendations were published as a RILEM State-of-the-art Report in 2016. In 2014, TC 258-AAA was established, scheduling to finish the work on performance-based assessment in 2019. This current TC is focusing on the following Work Packages; WP1Performance based testing concepts, WP2 Relationship between results from laboratory and field and the establishment of field exposure sites, WP3 Testing of potential alkalis released from certain types of aggregates and measurement of internal concrete alkali content, and eventually; WP4 Verification of alkalis released from aggregates.

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