scholarly journals Prolexbase: une ontologie pour le traitement multilingue des noms propres

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thierry Grass ◽  
Denis Maurel ◽  
Mickaël Tran
Keyword(s):  
Proper Names ◽  
Research Programme ◽  
Conceptual Level ◽  
Specific Language ◽  
Written Text ◽  
Computer Aided ◽  
Linguistic Level ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Language Technologies ◽  
Different Levels

Proper names often constitute a problem in translation. This contribution deals with an ontology which represents the basis for a multilingual database of proper names, Prolexbase. It is being set up for treatment of proper names in the framework of the Prolex project, a research programme supported by the French Ministry of Industry in collaboration with two firms working on the market of language technologies: Systran and Exalead. The aim of this collaboration is to create a multilingual database of proper names containing information applicable to machine translation, computer aided translation, data research as well as spelling dictionaries. These particular aims guided the creation of the ontology whose description will follow. Beside a set of language-dependent and language-independent relations associated with a logical model, the data- base is founded on a four level ontology: the level of instances (the proper names such as they appear in a written text in a specific language), the linguistic level (the level of so called “prolexemes”), the conceptual level (the numerical pivots) as well as the metaconceptual level (types and supertypes). We will describe here the different levels of the ontology and their implementation in the database using French and German examples.

scholarly journals Effects of disk tillage on soil condition, crop yield and weed infestation

2011 ◽  
Vol 48 (No. 1) ◽  
pp. 20-26
Author(s):  
M. Birkás ◽  
T. Szalai ◽  
C. Gyuricza ◽  
M. Gecse ◽  
K. Bordás
Keyword(s):  
Winter Wheat ◽  
Crop Yield ◽  
Field Experiments ◽  
Soil Layer ◽  
Soil Condition ◽  
Perennial Weeds ◽  
Weed Infestation ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Different Levels

This research was instigated by the fact that during the last decade annually repeated shallow disk tillage on the same field became frequent practice in Hungary. In order to study the changes of soil condition associated with disk tillage and to assess it is consequences, long-term tillage field experiments with different levels of nutrients were set up in 1991 (A) and in 1994 (B) on Chromic Luvisol at Gödöllö. The effects of disk tillage (D) and disk tillage combined with loosening (LD) on soil condition, on yield of maize and winter wheat, and on weed infestation were examined. The evaluation of soil condition measured by cone index and bulk density indicated that use of disking annually resulted in a dense soil layer below the disking depth (diskpan-compaction). It was found, that soil condition deteriorated by diskpan-compaction decreased the yield of maize significantly by 20 and 42% (w/w), and that of wheat by 13 and 15% (w/w) when compared to soils with no diskpan-compaction. Averaged over seven years, and three fertilizer levels, the cover % of the total, grass and perennial weeds on loosened soils were 73, 69 and 65% of soils contained diskpan-compaction.

scholarly journals Integration of various scales for measurement of insomnia

2021 ◽  
pp. 263208432110100
Author(s):  
Satyendra Nath Chakrabartty
Keyword(s):  
Test Scores ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Weighted Sum ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Normal Probability ◽  
Equivalent Test ◽  
Item Scores ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Different Levels

Background Scales for evaluating insomnia differ in number of items, response format, and result in different scores distributions and score ranges and may not facilitate meaningful comparisons. Objectives Transform ordinal item-scores of three scales of insomnia to continuous, equidistant, monotonic, normally distributed scores, avoiding limitations of summative scoring of Likert scales. Methods Equidistant item-scores by weighted sum using data-driven weights to different levels of different items, considering cell frequencies of Item-Levels matrix, followed by normalization and conversion to [1, 10]. Equivalent test-scores (as sum of transformed item- scores) for a pair of scales were found by Normal Probability curves. Empirical illustration given. Results Transformed test-scores are continuous, monotonic and followed Normal distribution with no outliers and tied scores. Such test-scores facilitate ranking, better classification and meaningful comparison of scales of different lengths and formats and finding equivalent score combinations of two scales. For a given value of transformed test-score of a scale, easy alternate method avoiding integration proposed to find equivalent scores of another scales. Equivalent scores of scales help to relate various cut-off scores of different scales and uniformity in interpretations. Integration of various scales of insomnia is achieved by finding one-to-one correspondence among the equivalent score of various scales with correlation over 0.99 Conclusion Resultant test-scores facilitated undertaking analysis in parametric set up. Considering the theoretical advantages including meaningfulness of operations, better comparison, use of such method of transforming scores of Likert items/test is recommended test and items, Future studies were suggested.

scholarly journals Chitosan Micro-Grooved Membranes with Increased Asymmetry for the Improvement of the Schwann Cell Response in Nerve Regeneration

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (15) ◽  
pp. 7901
Author(s):  
Luca Scaccini ◽  
Roberta Mezzena ◽  
Alessia De Masi ◽  
Mariacristina Gagliardi ◽  
Giovanna Gambarotta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Schwann Cell ◽  
Nerve Regeneration ◽  
High Fidelity ◽  
Solvent Casting ◽  
Peripheral Nerve Injuries ◽  
Cell Shaping ◽  
Micro Pattern ◽  
Chitosan Scaffolds ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Different Levels

Peripheral nerve injuries are a common condition in which a nerve is damaged, affecting more than one million people every year. There are still no efficient therapeutic treatments for these injuries. Artificial scaffolds can offer new opportunities for nerve regeneration applications; in this framework, chitosan is emerging as a promising biomaterial. Here, we set up a simple and effective method for the production of micro-structured chitosan films by solvent casting, with high fidelity in the micro-pattern reproducibility. Three types of chitosan directional micro-grooved patterns, presenting different levels of symmetricity, were developed for application in nerve regenerative medicine: gratings (GR), isosceles triangles (ISO) and scalene triangles (SCA). The directional patterns were tested with a Schwann cell line. The most asymmetric topography (SCA), although it polarized the cell shaping less efficiently, promoted higher cell proliferation and a faster cell migration, both individually and collectively, with a higher directional persistence of motion. Overall, the use of micro-structured asymmetrical directional topographies may be exploited to enhance the nerve regeneration process mediated by chitosan scaffolds.

User identification across online social networks in practice: Pitfalls and solutions

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 377-391 ◽  
Author(s):  
Azadeh Esfandyari ◽  
Matteo Zignani ◽  
Sabrina Gaito ◽  
Gian Paolo Rossi
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Online Social Networks ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Application Programming Interface ◽  
User Identification ◽  
Application Programming ◽  
Test Sets ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Programming Interface

To take advantage of the full range of services that online social networks (OSNs) offer, people commonly open several accounts on diverse OSNs where they leave lots of different types of profile information. The integration of these pieces of information from various sources can be achieved by identifying individuals across social networks. In this article, we address the problem of user identification by treating it as a classification task. Relying on common public attributes available through the official application programming interface (API) of social networks, we propose different methods for building negative instances that go beyond usual random selection so as to investigate the effectiveness of each method in training the classifier. Two test sets with different levels of discrimination are set up to evaluate the robustness of our different classifiers. The effectiveness of the approach is measured in real conditions by matching profiles gathered from Google+, Facebook and Twitter.

scholarly journals الجانب النظري في تصميم منهج لتعليم العربية للجامعيين غير المتخصصين فيها / The theoretical aspect in designing syllabus for teaching Arabic for non-specialist university students in Arabic

1970 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
الرشيد يوسف عباس
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Theoretical Aspect ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
Abu Dhabi ◽  
Linguistic Knowledge ◽  
Written Text ◽  
Conversation Skills ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Main Ideas

مخلص البحث:يسعى هذا المقترح إلى تصميم منهج لتعليم اللغة العربية للجامعيين غير المتخصصين فيها، خاصة طلاب المعهد البترولي ب:)أبو ظبي(، وهم طلاب منخرطون في مجال الدراسات الهندسية نسبة لطبيعة المؤسسة التعليمية التي ينتمون إليها ولقد - -قررت اللغة العربية لهؤلاء الطلبة بوصفها متطلباً جامعياً يسعى إلى ربط الطالب الجامعي باللغة العربية قراءة، وكتابة، وتحدثًً.ويهدف هذا المقترح إلى تمكين الطالب الجامعي من القراءة السليمة الخالية من الأخطاء، وتحديد الأفكار الرئيسة للنص،فضلاًعن إقامة الححج وإبداء وجهات النظر، وكتابة مقالات متماسكة تعكس رؤيةً واضحةً، وقدرةً على عرض الموضوع،وتوظيف المعرفة اللغوية بأساليبها التركيبية والبلاغية في إنتاج نصوص مكتوبة، وتطبيق المعرفة اللغوية في تحليل وعرض كتاباتالآخرين بأسلوب يتسم بالسلامة اللغوية، والمهارة الفنية.الكلمات المفتاحية: الدارسون - حاجات الدارسي - تخطيط المنهج - المهارات الأنشطة. -Abstract:This paper tries to propose a syllabus design for teaching Arabic to university students who are not specializing in the language with special reference to the students of Petroleum College of Abu Dhabi. They are engineering students who have to fulfill the college requirement subject of Arabic that covers the reading, writing and conversation skills. The syllabus aims to enable the students to read correctly, identify the main ideas of the text, argue and state opinions, write a cohesive text that clearly reflects the idea, be able to present the topic, use linguistic knowledge with the structural and rhetorical styles in producing written text, apply linguistic knowledge in analyzing the writing of others with correct use of language and styles. The study discovered the need to set up such syllabus to teach Arabic specifically to non-specialist students in Arabic; the need analysis had also helped the students to give input on their own expectations; non-specialist students are in a more need to the Arabic language skills comparing to the others; they  need more practical use of the language then the knowledge about the language and the material content need to made relevant with the reality of the student life.Keywords: Students - Students’ Needs - Language planning – Skills – Activities.Abstrak:Kajian ini cuba untuk memberikan satu cadangan rekabentuk silibus untuk pengajaran bahasa Arab kepada para pelajar university yang dalam pengkhususan bukan bahasa Arab di Kolej Petrolium Abu Dhabi. Mereka terdiri daripada pelajar jurusan kejuruteraan yang perlu untk mengambil matapelajaran tersebut sebagai salah satu matapelajaran wajib universiti. Matapelajaran Bahasa Arab tersebut meliputi kemahiran membaca, menulis dan bertutur. Silibus yang dibuat menyasarkan para pelajar untuk mampu membaca dengan betul, mengenali isi utama sesuatu teks, berhujah dan mengemukakan pendapat, menulis satu teks yang kohesif dan jelas isinya, mampu untuk membentangkan tajuk tersebut, menggunakan pengetahuan bahasa dengan stail retorik dan struktur dalam menulis teks, menggunakan dalam menganialisa pendapat teks orang lain dengan menggunakan bahasa dan stail yang betul. Kajian ini mendapati bahawa terdapat keperluan untuk membuat silibus pengajaran bahasa Arab terutamanya kepada yang bukan pengkhususan. Kajian analisa keperluan juga membolehkan para pelajar mengemukakan jangkaan mereka terhadap silibus yang dibuat; pelajar bukan pengkhususan lebih memerlukan pendedahan aspek-aspek tertentu berbanding kepada pelajar lain, mereka juga memerlukan aspek praktikal bahasa lebih daripada aspek pengetahuan tentang ilmu bahasa dan kandungan silibus perlulah lebih relevan kepada realiti kehidupan pelajar.Katakunci: Pelajar -ٌ keperluan pelajar -ٌٌ perancangan bahasa -ٌٌ kemahiran -ٌ akitiviti.

scholarly journals Transcendental Philosophy as a Research Programme

2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 93-126
Author(s):  
Michael Lewin
Keyword(s):  
Research Programme ◽  
Transcendental Philosophy ◽  
Pure Reason ◽  
Critique Of Pure Reason ◽  
The Third ◽  
Definite Form ◽  
Historical Investigation ◽  
Clear Idea ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Insight Into

Transcendental philosophy was not born like Athena out of Zeus’s head, mature and in full armour from the very beginning. That is why in both prefaces to the Critique of Pure Reason (1781 and 1787) Kant introduces the concept of transcendental philosophy as an “idea.” The idea understood architectonically develops slowly and only gradually acquires a definite form. As witnessed by the works of Kant himself and of his predecessors and followers, the idea of transcendental philosophy has undergone a series of changes and adjustments compared to the initial plan. In this context, my goal is not simply exegesis and historical investigation of transcendental philosophy, but also to look at it from a systematic and methodological perspective. I examine the concept of transcendental philosophy from the viewpoint of programmatic metaphilosophy. The first part discusses programmatics as a distinct subsection of metaphilosophy. I argue that Kant’s architectonic methodology and the methodology of Lakatos can be used to understand the inception, development and degradation of philosophical systems. In the second part I look at the project of transcendental philosophy and the stages of its development from the standpoint of architectonics. The third part shows that Lakatos’s methodology can provide a detailed insight into the elements of transcendental philosophy, a clear idea of its logic and identify the component parts that can be improved and developed. In spite of the different levels of detailing and epistemological prerequisites, the methodologies of Kant and Lakatos can be combined to achieve a metaphilosophically informed and progressive understanding of philosophical projects.

scholarly journals Assessing the Impacts of Hierarchical Healthcare System on the Accessibility and Spatial Equality of Healthcare Services in Shenzhen, China

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 615
Author(s):  
Zhuolin Tao ◽  
Wenchao Han
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare System ◽  
Catchment Area ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Utilization Efficiency ◽  
Delivery Of Healthcare ◽  
Healthcare Accessibility ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Different Levels

The hierarchical healthcare system is widely considered to be a desirable mode of the delivery of healthcare services. It is expected that the establishment of a hierarchical healthcare system can help provide better and more equal healthcare accessibility. However, limited evidence has been provided on the impacts of a hierarchical healthcare system on healthcare accessibility. This study develops an improved Hierarchical two-step floating catchment area (2SFCA) method, which incorporates variable catchment area sizes, distance friction effects and utilization efficiency for facilities at different levels. Leveraging the Hierarchical 2SFCA method, various scenarios are set up to assess the accessibility impacts of a hierarchical healthcare system. The methods are applied in a case study of Shenzhen. The results reveal significant disparity and inequality in healthcare accessibility and also differences between various facility levels in Shenzhen. The overall healthcare accessibility and its equality can be significantly improved by fully utilizing existing facilities. It is also demonstrated that allocating additional supply to lower-level facilities can generate larger accessibility gains. Furthermore, allocating new supply to primary facilities would mitigate the inequality in healthcare accessibility, whereas inequality tends to be aggravated with new supply allocated to tertiary facilities. These impacts cannot be captured by traditional accessibility measures. This study demonstrates the pivotal role of primary facilities in the hierarchical healthcare system. It can contribute to the literature by providing transferable methods and procedures for measuring hierarchical healthcare accessibility and assessing accessibility impacts of a hierarchical healthcare system in developing countries.

Chapter 7.3 Mount Melbourne and Mount Rittmann

2021 ◽  
pp. M55-2018-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salvatore Gambino ◽  
Pietro Armienti ◽  
Andrea Cannata ◽  
Paola Del Carlo ◽  
Gaetano Giudice ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Mitigation ◽  
Research Programme ◽  
Monitoring Systems ◽  
Time Data ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Victoria Land ◽  
Geophysical Investigations ◽  
Antarctic Research ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The 1960S

AbstractMount Melbourne and Mount Rittmann are quiescent, although potentially explosive, alkaline volcanoes located 100 km apart in Northern Victoria Land quite close to three stations (Mario Zucchelli Station, Gondwana and Jang Bogo). The earliest investigations on Mount Melbourne started at the end of the 1960s; Mount Rittmann was discovered during the 1988–89 Italian campaign and knowledge of it is more limited due to the extensive ice cover. The first geophysical observations at Mount Melbourne were set up in 1988 by the Italian National Antarctic Research Programme (PNRA), which has recently funded new volcanological, geochemical and geophysical investigations on both volcanoes. Mount Melbourne and Mount Rittmann are active, and are characterized by fumaroles that are fed by volcanic fluid; their seismicity shows typical volcano signals, such as long-period events and tremor. Slow deformative phases have been recognized in the Mount Melbourne summit area. Future implementation of monitoring systems would help to improve our knowledge and enable near-real-time data to be acquired in order to track the evolution of these volcanoes. This would prove extremely useful in volcanic risk mitigation, considering that both Mount Melbourne and Mount Rittmann are potentially capable of producing major explosive activity with a possible risk to large and distant communities.

scholarly journals Determination of mechanical properties of soil under laboratory conditions

2014 ◽  
Vol 60 (Special Issue) ◽  
pp. S66-S69 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Malý ◽  
M. Kučera
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Penetration Depth ◽  
Measuring Device ◽  
Laboratory Conditions ◽  
Measuring Network ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Different Diameters ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Properties Of Soil

This paper presents the mechanical properties of soil. In order to determine the properties of soil under laboratory conditions, a special measuring device was constructed, viz. a bevameter. Two types of soil with different levels of moisture were examined and their mechanical properties were determined. Measurements were taken of non-compressed soil. A measuring network was set up, consisting of measuring and recording devices. In the course of measuring, the force and penetration depth of the pressing plate were recorded simultaneously. Three different diameters of pressing plate were used, namely 38, 50 and 70 mm. The pressure on the contact area was calculated after completion of the measurements, and the relationships between pressure and penetration depth were presented graphically.

Introduction, Classification and Implementation of Honeypots

2009 ◽  
pp. 371-382
Author(s):  
Miguel Jose Hernandez y Lopez ◽  
Carlos Francisco Lerma Resendez
Keyword(s):  
Information Security ◽  
Computer System ◽  
Computer Networks ◽  
Production Environment ◽  
Modern Computer ◽  
Educational Environments ◽  
Controlled Environments ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Network Administrators ◽  
Different Levels

This chapter discusses the basic aspects of Honeypots, how they are implemented in modern computer networks, as well as their practical uses and implementation in educational environments, providing the reader with the most important points regarding the main characteristics of Honeypots and Honeynets. Honeypots are defined as “closely monitored network decoys” that can be set by network administrators to deal with a wide variety of attacks and interact with users in different levels (Provos, 2004). The implementation of Honeypots provides an answer to a common question posted by the field of information security and forensics: How to dissect the elements that make up an attack against a computer system. The chapter will summarizes the different features and capabilities of Honeypots once they are set up in a production environment to clarify the elements that are needed to be configured in order for a Honeypot to accomplish its main tasks and in order for it to be considered an effective tool. The end of the chapter will shift towards the analysis of virtualization as an important tool that maximizes the practical use of Honeypots in controlled environments that are focused towards the study of attacks, responses and analysis methods.

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