Next, they are cracked and then deshelled by a "winnower". It later acquired the VC-backed company The Winnower . The Winnower was founded by Dr. Joshua Nicholson. Their rice winnower ("dega-o" or "kiyag") are made of bamboo or rattan. Another algorithm called SP-STAR, is faster than WINNOWER and uses less memory. The WINNOWER algorithm is a heuristic algorithm and it works as follows. The Winnower is a journal that offers post-publication peer review. The pottery winnower model was used as a funeral object in the Central Plains. The combined header-harvester added the winnower to thresh the grain from the heads. Since the CLIQUE problem is intractable, WINNOWER uses a heuristic to solve CLIQUE. WINNOWER constructs a collection "C" of all possible "l"-mers in the input.