scholarly journals Engaging students to fill surveys using chatbots: University case study

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 473
Author(s):  
Nadir Belhaj ◽  
Abdemounaime Hamdane ◽  
Nour El Houda Chaoui ◽  
Habiba Chaoui ◽  
Moulhime El Bekkali
Keyword(s):  
Language Processing ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Student Feedback ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Conversational Agents ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Common Response ◽  
Before And After

The use of chatbot or conversational agents is becoming common these days by the companies in many fields to make smart conversations with users. Backed by artificial intelligence and natural language processing they provide a strong platform to engage users. These positive aspects of chatbots can be beneficial in the educational sector, especially in conducting online survey. This study aims to explore the feasibility of a new chatbot approach survey as a new survey method in Moroccan university to overcome the web survey’s common response quality problems. Indeed, having student feedback before and after graduation is essential for university assessment. This new approach keeps students engaged, supportive, and even excited to offer feedback without getting bored and dropping the conversation, especially in Moroccan universities known by an overcrowding of students where it is difficult to get their feedback. This feedback feeds into our university' databases for further reporting and decision making to improve the quality of educational content and student-oriented services. Finally, we have shown the effectiveness of our approach by a comparative data study between the traditional online survey and the use of this chatbot.

Obesity management through Ayurveda - A Case Study

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dheeraj Kumar Tyagi ◽  
Shivakumar .
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Findings ◽  
Dietary Habit ◽  
Unhealthy Lifestyle ◽  
Lifestyle Management ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Effect Of Treatment ◽  
And Control

Lifestyle disorders are one of the biggest threats for the population living unhealthy lifestyle. Sthoulya (Obesity) is one such disorder which creates lot of physical as well as mental disorder to the sufferer. Due to changing lifestyle, comforts and dietary habit lots of individuals changed their life totally. Obesity is a growing disease in developed and developing countries. Prevalence is drastically hike in past few years. Ayurveda, the science of life with which we can manage and control lots of lifestyle disorders. Focusing on dietary and lifestyle management along with treatment, we can overcome the hazards of obesity which is growing in a uncontrolled manner. The available data is based on the clinical findings only. Aim and objective: To assess the effect of “Guru Cha Atarpanam Chikitsa” in the management of Sthoulya. Setting: Swastharakshana evam Yoga, OPD and IPD, SDMCAH, Hassan. Method: Udwarthana, Parisheka, Shamana Aushadhis, Ahara, and Vihara was followed within the treatment duration and effect of treatment was assessed before and after treatment, advised for follow up. Results: The treatment adopted is effective in the management of Sthoulya and to improve the quality of life.

scholarly journals Farmer Preference to High Elevation Rice Technological Packages for Accelerating Technological Dissemination (A case Study in Humbang Hasundutan Regency)

Agro Ekonomi ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Setia Sari Girsang ◽  
Agung B Santosa ◽  
Tommy Purba ◽  
Deddy R Siagian ◽  
Khadijah E Ramija
Keyword(s):  
Low Cost ◽  
High Elevation ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
User Friendliness ◽  
Level Of Satisfaction ◽  
High Level ◽  
Level Of Importance

Accelerating the introduction of a new technological package is needed to increase the productivity of high elevation puddled rice in Humbang Hasundutan. The objectives of the study are to find out the perception of the existence of technological packages and farmers' preference for a new technological package. The study used a survey method with primary data gathered using questionnaires. The criteria of locations and respondents were used to obtain relevant respondents and data concerning their knowledge of high elevation puddled rice cultivation.  The collected data were processed by using Importance Performance Analysis in order to find out the level of Importance and Satisfaction of the indicators and the valued aspects in the technological package components. The results of the study showed that the socio-economic aspects had to be heeded in organizing the technological package. Indicators having a high level of importance and a low level of satisfaction consisted of production cost, quality of seeds, farmer groups empowerment, technology information institution, capital cost, agricultural tools and machines, pest control, sales price, irrigation canals, and farm roads. On the other hand, introducing new superior seeds, productivity attribute and planting age were important indicators for local farmers as to improve the quality of existing seeds. Farmers group expected that the technological package had a high level of productivity, better access to input, low cost, and good user-friendliness in its application.

scholarly journals Impact of treated sewage on meiobenthic nematodes: a case study from the Tunisian Refining Industries Company

2022 ◽  
Vol 82 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Hedfi ◽  
M. Ben Ali ◽  
A. Noureldeen ◽  
H. Darwish ◽  
T. Saif ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Organic Matter ◽  
Environmental Parameters ◽  
The Other ◽  
Treated Sewage ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Bizerte Bay ◽  
De Man ◽  
The Impact

Abstract The main objective of the current study was to assess the impact of the water taken from the ‘Tunisian Refining Industries Company’ on meiobenthic nematodes, before and after a series of treatments in decantation basins followed by its discharge in Bizerte bay, Tunisia. The comparison of environmental parameters of the two types of water was clearly indicative of an improvement in the quality of treated waters after a significant reduction in their loads in hydrocarbons. Overall, the water retained a good quality after being treated by ‘Tunisian Refining Industries Company’ before discharge in the sea. At the end of the experiment, differential responses were observed according to the richness of sediment in organic matter and hydrocarbons. Thus, it was apparent that the nematode assemblage exposed to the treated waters was closer to controls and associated to higher values of abundance, than that under untreated ones. It was also assumed that the species Microlaimus honestus De Man, 1922, Paramonohystera proteus Wieser, 1956 and Cyartonema germanicum Juario, 1972 are sensitive bioindicators of bad environmental statues and of hydrocarbon presence in the environment. On the other hand, Metoncholaimus pristiurus (Zur Strassen, 1894) Filipjev, 1918 would rather be classified as a positive bioindicative species of this type of pollutants.

scholarly journals Improving V2X-6G network capacity using a new UAV-based approach in a Cloud/ICN architecture, case Study: VANET network

2021 ◽  
Vol 297 ◽  
pp. 01019
Author(s):  
Abdeslam Houari ◽  
Tomader Mazri
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Networks ◽  
Network Capacity ◽  
Intelligent Environment ◽  
New Approach ◽  
The Road ◽  
Road Users ◽  
Aerial Vehicle ◽  
On The Road

6G of mobile networks plays a crucial role in improving the capacity and enhancing the quality of services of Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) based networks evolving in an intelligent environment. VANET is a promising project in the intelligent transportation field using V2X communications. The emergence of several 5G and 6G technologies has raised several challenges for scientists and researchers to allow vehicles and road users to enjoy several services while ensuring their safety on the road. Among these technologies, the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), which can perform different tasks for road users and vehicle drivers such as data caching, packet relaying and processing. In this article, we present a new approach based on 6G Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) technology on a vehicular cloud architecture while exploiting the exchange support of information-centric networking (ICN) for the improvement of network capacity.

Embodied Conversation

2021 ◽  
pp. 1091-1107
Author(s):  
Andrej Zgank ◽  
Izidor Mlakar ◽  
Uros Berglez ◽  
Danilo Zimsek ◽  
Matej Borko ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Language Processing ◽  
Automatic Speech Recognition ◽  
Speech Synthesis ◽  
Conversational Agents ◽  
Embodied Conversational Agent ◽  
Computer Interfaces ◽  
Human Computer Interfaces ◽  
Text To Speech Synthesis ◽  
High Level

The chapter presents an overview of human-computer interfaces, which are a crucial element of an ambient intelligence solution. The focus is given to the embodied conversational agents, which are needed to communicate with users in a most natural way. Different input and output modalities, with supporting methods, to process the captured information (e.g., automatic speech recognition, gesture recognition, natural language processing, dialog processing, text to speech synthesis, etc.), have the crucial role to provide the high level of quality of experience to the user. As an example, usage of embodied conversational agent for e-Health domain is proposed.

scholarly journals Pursuing Opportunities Available to Support Your Own Learning: A Case Study: University of Guyana Library

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 18
Author(s):  
Debra Lowe ◽  
Simmone La Rose ◽  
Nalisa Bhagwandin
Keyword(s):  
Personal Growth ◽  
Professional Growth ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Knowledge And Practice ◽  
The University ◽  
Continual Learning

This article provides an assessment of the pathways Librarians at the University of Guyana Library (UGL) explored to achieve continual learning for professional growth and self-development.The writers adopted a survey method to capture data from sixteen senior professionals from the University of Guyana Library. The findings revealed that while the University of Guyana Administration provided some avenues for professional growth and development for all professionals, there were some areas that required a more structured and equitable approach.  The findings indicated that much more can be done to facilitate growth and development for senior Library professionals, particularly in the field of Librarianship. From the discussions, the researchers concluded that in spite of the limited access to available resources, Library senior professionals actively pursued alternative avenues to enhance and advance learning. This was intended to acquire current knowledge and practice so that they may provide a higher quality of service to their clientele; further, their experience (in the process) will assist in enhancing their professional development and personal growth.

scholarly journals Better Word Representation Vectors Using Syllabic Alphabet: A Case Study of Swahili

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (18) ◽  
pp. 3648
Author(s):  
Casper S. Shikali ◽  
Zhou Sijie ◽  
Liu Qihe ◽  
Refuoe Mokhosi
Keyword(s):  
Language Processing ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Language Model ◽  
Central Africa ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Language Models ◽  
Word Embeddings ◽  
Word Representation

Deep learning has extensively been used in natural language processing with sub-word representation vectors playing a critical role. However, this cannot be said of Swahili, which is a low resource and widely spoken language in East and Central Africa. This study proposed novel word embeddings from syllable embeddings (WEFSE) for Swahili to address the concern of word representation for agglutinative and syllabic-based languages. Inspired by the learning methodology of Swahili in beginner classes, we encoded respective syllables instead of characters, character n-grams or morphemes of words and generated quality word embeddings using a convolutional neural network. The quality of WEFSE was demonstrated by the state-of-art results in the syllable-aware language model on both the small dataset (31.229 perplexity value) and the medium dataset (45.859 perplexity value), outperforming character-aware language models. We further evaluated the word embeddings using word analogy task. To the best of our knowledge, syllabic alphabets have not been used to compose the word representation vectors. Therefore, the main contributions of the study are a syllabic alphabet, WEFSE, a syllabic-aware language model and a word analogy dataset for Swahili.

scholarly journals Pengaruh e-CRM terhadap Kualitas Hubungan dan Hasil dengan Atribut Layanan dan Pemulihan Layanan sebagai Variabel Mediasi

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 129
Author(s):  
Rini Apriyanti ◽  
Fatchur Rohman ◽  
Nur Khusniyah Indrawati
Keyword(s):  
Relationship Quality ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Service Recovery ◽  
Customer Relationships ◽  
Customer Relationship ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Quality And Outcomes ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Service Attribute

This research is expected to find out more about the effect of e-Customer Relationship Management (e-CRM) on relationship quality and outcomes by using service attributes and service recovery as a mediating variable for customers of PT BCA Tbk, The Main Branch of Malang. This study uses a quantitative approach by explanatory research. An online survey method which was conducted on 132 priority customer of PT BCA Tbk The Main Branch of Malang. The analytical method uses SEM-PLS. This research shows that the quality of the relationship results is significantly influenced by e-CRM, and is also significantly and directly influenced by service attributes and service recovery. Each service attributes and service recovery were found to act as mediators in this study, namely partially mediating e-CRM on relationship quality and results. The results also convey that e-CRM can directly and significantly influence each service attribute and service recovery. It's miles hoped this research can assist practitioners in improving the relationship quality and outcomes of the company and customer relationships with e-CRM, through service attributes and service recovery.

scholarly journals DISGROU: an algorithm for discontinuous subgroup discovery

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. e512
Author(s):  
Reynald Eugenie ◽  
Erick Stattner
Keyword(s):  
Basic Assumption ◽  
Numerical Data ◽  
Subgroup Discovery ◽  
Search Process ◽  
Target Variable ◽  
Traditional Methods ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Numerical Attributes

In this paper, we focus on the problem of the search for subgroups in numerical data. This approach aims to identify the subsets of objects, called subgroups, which exhibit interesting characteristics compared to the average, according to a quality measure calculated on a target variable. In this article, we present DISGROU, a new approach that identifies subgroups whose attribute intervals may be discontinuous. Unlike the main algorithms in the field, the originality of our proposal lies in the way it breaks down the intervals of the attributes during the subgroup research phase. The basic assumption of our approach is that the range of attributes defining the groups can be disjoint to improve the quality of the identified subgroups. Indeed the traditional methods in the field perform the subgroup search process only over continuous intervals, which results in the identification of subgroups defined over wider intervals thus containing some irrelevant objects that degrade the quality function. In this way, another advantage of our approach is that it does not require a prior discretization of the attributes, since it works directly on the numerical attributes. The efficiency of our proposal is first demonstrated by comparing the results with two algorithms that are references in the field and then by applying to a case study.

scholarly journals Gambaran Perubahan Tekanan Darah Pada Pasien Gagal Ginjal Kronik Yang Menjalani Terapi Hemodialisis Di Ruang Hemodialisa Rumah Sakit TK. II Pelamonia Makassar

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-94
Author(s):  
Abdul Herman Syah Thalib
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Renal Failure ◽  
Replacement Therapy ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Kidney Replacement Therapy ◽  
Pressure Changes ◽  
Descriptive Survey

Background: The kidneys have a very important role in maintaining a healthy body. The kidneys experience acute renal failure when the kidney cannot function suddenly. Without kidney replacement therapy, deaths from metabolic disorders can occur quickly. One kidney replacement therapy can be done is hemodialysis. Although hemodialysis is safe and beneficial for patients, it does not mean without side effects. Various complications can occur when patients undergo hemodialysis one of which is intradialisis hypertension. This complication can lead to new, more complex problems, including discomfort, increasing stress affecting the quality of life, worsening the patient's condition and even causing death. Objective To determine the description of blood pressure changes in patients with chronic renal failure undergoing hemodialysis therapy in the Hemodialysis room at TK II Pelamonia Hospital Makassar. Methods: This study used a descriptive survey method with a case study approach. Results: Research shows that patients undergoing hemodialysis therapy experience changes in blood pressure in pre and post hemodialysis. Conclusion: There is an effect of hemodialysis on changes in blood pressure in patients with kidney failure in the Hemodialysis Room of TK. II Pelamonia Hospital Makassar.

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