A Preliminary Study for Literary Rhyme Generation based on Neuronal Representation, Semantics and Shallow Parsing

In recent years, researchers in the area of Computational Creativity have studied the human creative process proposing different approaches to reproduce it with a formal procedure. In this paper, we introduce a model for the generation of literary rhymes in Spanish, combining structures of language and neural network models The results obtained with a manual evaluation of the texts generated by our algorithm are encouraging.

Gerundialne jednostki tekstu prawnego – problem identyfikacji

This text is an attempt to apply the concept of a legal text unit to the description of strictly defined structures of legal texts, namely the gerund strings. The main attention is focused on the methods used to identify multi-segment terminological structures and on distinguishing them from strings that constitute a combination of linguistic expressions. The overall conclusion of such analysis is based on the indication of the mechanism used for connecting and limiting gerund structures in this scope. Therefore, this work includes, among others, the formal procedure of verification, which allows for distinguishing, with significant precision, the syntactic constructions with gerund forms and similar sequences of terms.

Technocratic internationalism

This chapter is dedicated to the guiding concept of the book and its grounding in social theory. Technocratic internationalism, it is suggested, should be understood with the help of modernization theory, in general, and Max Weber’s account of the expert bureaucracy, in particular. Weber’s theory of universal rationalization is associated with the advance of explicit rules, formal procedure, technical expertise, and disciplined communication in governing modern societies. These elements come together in Weber’s concept of the modern expert bureaucracy that is technically superior to pre-modern forms of public administration. The historical evidence shows that Weber feared bureaucratic modernization, because it eroded individual liberty and creativity. These internal tensions and ambiguities of technocratic modernity are a recurring theme in this book. The second part of the chapter explores the construction of an intellectual tradition. It clarifies how technocratic internationalism is a concept introduced ex post for analytical purposes: a heuristic tool that renders a strand of international theory visible, simply by giving it a name and suggesting that writings from different historical periods have enough traits in common to form such a tradition. The chapter also elaborates on the selection of authors and writings included in this volume.

Exploration of conflict resolution benefits among Nigerian construction professionals

Conflict resolution in the construction industry is the informal or formal procedure that two or more construction professionals use to find a peaceful solution to their misunderstanding. The resolution of conflict can be beneficial to construction professionals, if it is resolved or managed appropriately. Therefore, this study aimed to examine various benefits of conflict resolution among construction professionals in Nigeria. On the research methodology used in this research, a quantitative research method was used. A total number of 150 questionnaires were sent out and 135 were received back from the construction professionals in Nigeria. The construction professionals are quantity surveyors, architects, builders, construction managers, civil engineers, and project managers. The research data that was collected underwent cleaning and screening before the commencement of the analysis. Also, the data collected pertaining to this study was analysed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS version 21). This research made use of descriptive and exploratory factor analysis. The study found that conflict resolution could assist in the generation of new insights and perception. This was ranked the highest followed by other benefits of conflict resolution like: reduction in tension, helps professionals to accomplish their ambitions, improves workplace conflicts, and reduces task ambiguity of professionals for construction professionals to enjoy the benefits of conflict resolution they must resolve conflicts among themselves as early as possible.

Zum Begriff des Wertes in der Ethik Immanuel Kants

The reference to “values” as normatively guiding structures is widespread in contemporary political and societal discussions. Values are expected to improve stability and provide ethical orientation in modern civilizations which are shaped by manifold cultural influences. At the same time values are often underdetermined, not well legitimized and difficult to interpret in concrete cases. The article takes up such appeals to “values” and contrasts them with Kant’s concept of moral value (in the singular). Moral value, according to Kant, remains dependent on the moral law as a formal procedure. Key issues for the understanding of moral value in Kant refer to overdetermined action and to the acquisition of maxims in life practice. An analysis of these aspects comes to the conclusion that the Kantian concept of moral value bypasses problems associated with the appeal to “values” and is promising for dealing with moral conflicts in modern societies.

Technically Representing Clinical Knowledge for Rehabilitation Care

Providing a suitable rehabilitation after an acute episode or a chronic disease helps people to live independently and enhance their quality of life. However, the continuity of care is often interrupted in the transition from hospital to home. Virtual coaches (VCs) could help these patients to engage in personalized home rehabilitation programs. These coaching systems need also to be fed with procedural precepts in order to work as intended. This, in turn, relates both to properly represent the clinical knowledge (as the VC somehow replaces the formal caregivers that cannot be fully present) as well guide the patient correctly (in order to follow the medically desired procedures given the need for personalisation according to individual needs). Therefore, we outline our technical approach to deal with this. In particular, clinical pathways in terms of semi-formal procedure models in combination with machine learning components processing and powerful user interfaces providing these pathway information and feeding the VC are presented. The system is currently under testing in a participatory design phase called Living Lab. Thus, initial user feedback for further improvements is about to come.

A liberal narrative

This chapter unpacks a liberal narrative of democracy. It grounds and locates the ways that many aid workers in Myanmar understood and communicated about democracy. The chapter outlines three elements of this narrative. First, most international aid workers involved in the research pointed toward the challenge of ethnic and religious divisions in the country. These aid workers described how divisions in Myanmar were perpetuated by a personalised political culture where formal institutions of democracy were insufficiently embedded. Second, aid agency representatives often expressed a vision of a formal procedure-based democracy supported by liberal values of human rights, pluralism and the protection of minorities. This vision also had a future orientation, where proponents of this narrative saw Myanmar’s democratisation as being set within the context of other transitional countries around the world – moving away from traditional systems toward a democratic future. Third, many aid workers emphasised a strategy of government and civil society capacity building led by international aid agencies.

“JUDICIAL INVESTIGATION” IN CIVIL AND ARBITRATION PROCEDURE

In modern conditions, the abundance of various open sources of official information (mainly on the Internet) makes legally significant information on the case available to an indefinite circle of people. In the current reality, obtaining evidentiary information of this kind does not seem to be excessively labor-intensive for the court. The article discusses whether it is advisable to artificially restrict the court in obtaining this information only for doctrinal reasons of presenting evidence by persons participating in the case, and whether it is unacceptable for the court to collect evidence on its own initiative. The existing restriction seemed to be relevant in conditions where the evidentiary information was of an exclusive nature, and it was associated with certain efforts for the parties to obtain it. At the moment, the court is able to conduct a kind of “judicial investigation”, which is aimed at both discovering new information and verifying the information provided by the parties. By “judicial investigation” the author does not mean any formal procedure integrated into civil or arbitration proceedings, but rather a functional, cognitive aspect of judicial activity. Through “judicial investigation”, the court acquires a powerful tool for establishing and verifying the facts alleged by the parties. Considering possible arguments “for” and “against” such an investigation, the author leans in favor of its admissibility, despite the fact that it does not have a general character, does not turn into a purposeful search and collection by the court of information about the parties to the process and the case on the Internet, but turns into a targeted means of checking individual legally significant circumstances of the case.

Performance Evaluation: A Glimpse of Its Prominence in This Modern Globalised Economy

Nowadays, performance evaluation has become an inevitable factor in the field of all sectors. It has become a formal procedure in measuring the progress of employee’s work scales. It is an important procedure in measuring the growth of work progress and it promotes the promotion of the employees. Performance evaluation helps in grading the employees annually and aids in salary raises. Further, it also enhances the quality of work progress, provides useful feedback regarding the work performed. This paper tries to investigate the importance of performance evaluation and its importance in the organisatinal sector. Further, this paper tries to underline the need for a performance evaluation system in the field of work in this present globalized technological world.

Some theoretical aspects of reprogramming the standard genetic code

Reprogramming of the standard genetic code to include non-canonical amino acids (ncAAs) opens new prospects for medicine, industry, and biotechnology. There are several methods of code engineering, which allow us for storing new genetic information in DNA sequences and producing proteins with new properties. Here, we provided a theoretical background for the optimal genetic code expansion, which may find application in the experimental design of the genetic code. We assumed that the expanded genetic code includes both canonical and non-canonical information stored in 64 classical codons. What is more, the new coding system is robust to point mutations and minimizes the possibility of reversion from the new to old information. In order to find such codes, we applied graph theory to analyze the properties of optimal codon sets. We presented the formal procedure in finding the optimal codes with various number of vacant codons that could be assigned to new amino acids. Finally, we discussed the optimal number of the newly incorporated ncAAs and also the optimal size of codon groups that can be assigned to ncAAs.