Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Competency Capacity Building Needs of Agricultural Science Teachers in Utilization of School Farm for Skill Acquisition among Secondary School Students

This study sought to identify the competency capacity building needs of teachers of agricultural science in the utilization of school farm for skill acquisition among secondary school students in Ondo State, Nigeria). Four research questions guided the study. The study adopted the survey research design. The population used was 422, made up of teachers of agricultural science in senior secondary schools in Ondo State and 46 lecturers of agricultural education in tertiary institutions in Ondo and Ekiti States. The entire population was used for the study, hence there was no sampling. A - 33 competency items questionnaire was developed and used for data collection. The questionnaire was validated by three experts from the Department of Vocational Teachers Education (Agricultural Education Unit), University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Cronbach alpha reliability method was used to determine the internal consistency of the instrument. A reliability coefficient of 0.81 was obtained. 422 copies of the questionnaire were administered on the respondents and 406 copies were retrieved and analyzed using weighted mean and improvement need index (INI) to answer the research questions. It was found out that teachers of agricultural science in Ondo State needed capacity building in all the 33 competency items identified in the following areas, planning and organizing school farm, implementing school farm practical, coordinating and evaluating school farm practical. It was recommended, among others, that the competencies identified in this study should be utilized in organizing retraining programmes inform of seminars, workshop or long vacation courses for teachers of agricultural science in secondary schools in all states of the federation.
El rigor científico en el vídeo online. La percepción de los expertos sobre los vídeos de contaminación del aire en Youtube

Este articulo tiene por objetivo evaluar el rigor cientifico de los videos online sobre contaminacion del aire, difundidos en la plataforma Youtube y publicadas en portugues y espanol en 2014. Se trata de una investigacion realizada en colaboracion con 17 cientificos de Brasil y Espana, que evaluaron el rigor cientifico de una muestra de 100 videos, 50 en espanol y 50 en portugues. Los resultados indican que, segun los cientificos, los videos sobre contaminacion del aire publicados en Youtube, tanto en espanol como en portugues, tienen un bajo nivel de rigor cientifico.
An Experimental Investigation into Queueing Behavior

We conduct an experiment meant to explore the factors driving customers' decisions in a queueing system. Under different time allowance conditions, the experimental subjects are asked to join one of two queues that differ in their length, server speed, and entry fee. We investigate some aspects of a queue on which subjects base their decision and what is the effect of time pressure on their decision criteria. We find that only a proportion of subjects behave rationally and use the relevant information efficiently. The size of this proportion increases when time limitation is relaxed. The rest of the subjects seem to adopt a rule of thumb that ignores the information on server speed and follows the shorter queue. Consequently, these subjects use less time than rational types when making their decisions. Furthermore, time pressure harms decision performance since the presence of time limitation stresses a great deal of subjects and causes them to use time inefficiently.
Conducting Research in Educational Contexts

Introduction: Passionate enquiries Part 1: Getting Started 1. Research Paradigms and Approaches: Choosing models and traditions 2. Designing the Project: Preparing the groundwork 3. Issues in Research: Moral, authentic and trustworthy investigations Part 2: Gathering Data 4. Questionnaires: The strength of numbers 5. Interviews: The beauty of verbal interaction 6. Observation: The charm of gathering data in situ 7. Documents: Exploiting records of social phenomena Part 3: Making Sense of Data 8. Quantitative Data Analysis: Seeking breadth and generalisability 9. Qualitative Fata Analysis: Achieving depth and richness 10. Writing Up: The potency of written argument References Index.
Language and Machines: Computers in Translation and Linguistics

Foundation on research and development in the general field of mechanical translation of foreign languages. We quickly found that you were correct in stating that there are many strongly held but often conflicting opinions about the promise of machine translation and about what the most fruitful steps are that should be taken now. In order to reach reasonable conclusions and to offer sensible advice we have found it necessary to learn from experts in a wide variety of fields (their names are listed in Appendix 21). We have informed ourselves concerning the needs for translation, considered the evaluation of translations, and compared the capabilities of machines and human beings in translation and in other language processing functions. We found that what we heard led us all to the same conclusions, and the report which we are submitting herewith states our common views and recommendations. We believe that these can form the basis for useful changes in the support of research aimed at an increased understanding of a vitally important phenomenon—language, and development aimed at improved human translation, with an appropriate use of machine aids. We are sorry that other obligations made it necessary for Charles F. Hockett, one of the original members of the Committee, to resign before the writing of our report. He nonetheless made valuable contributions to our work, which we wish to acknowledge. brief statement of the support needs for computational linguistics, as distinct from automatic language translation. This request was prompted by a fear that the committee report, read in isolation, might result in termination of research support for computational linguistics as well as in the recommended reduction of support aimed at relatively short-term goals in translation. Dr. Pierce's recommendation states in part as follows: The computer has opened up to linguists a host of challenges, partial insights, and potentialities. We believe these can be aptly compared with the challenges, problems, and insights of particle physics. Certainly, language is second to no phenomenon in importance. And the tools of computational linguistics are considerably less costly than the multibillion-volt accelerators of particle physics. The new linguistics presents an attractive as well as an extremely important challenge. There is every reason to believe that facing up to this challenge will ultimately lead to important contributions in many fields. A deeper knowledge of language could help: 1. To teach foreign languages more effectively. 2. To teach about the nature …
Professional Competencies among Librarians and Information Professionals in the Knowledge Era.

The paper justifies that information professionals will be better off to discharge their role as effective knowledge managers in today's knowledge era, provided they are equipped with professional competencies. Illustrating with suitable examples, the paper highlights a set of professional competencies that need to be developed by information professionals in their various areas of operation and service such as, knowledge capture, knowledge processing (and dissemination) and knowledge application.
Metaphor and Corpus Linguistics

Metaphor is a topical issue across a number of disciplines, wherever researchers are concerned with how speakers and writers package and process messages. This book is addressed at readers from diverse academic backgrounds who are interested in ways of researching metaphor from different perspectives, and especially through corpus linguistics. A number of approaches to and exploitations of metaphor, including conceptual metaphor theory and cognitive approaches more generally, text and spoken discourse analysis, and CDA, are discussed, explored and critiqued using corpus data. The book also includes corpus linguistic studies of different aspects of metaphor, which investigate its linguistic and semantic properties and relate them to current theoretical views. The book demonstrates the need for naturally-occurring language data to be used in the development of metaphor theory, and shows the value of corpus data and techniques in this work.
GLUE: A Useful Concept for Eliminating Fragments and Run-Ons.

, some respects, often contains fragments and ribrs. Because these students have no reliable, self-monitoring syst for analyzing their writing and because they believe they are communicatinc effectively, they fail to recognize their difficulties in forming cciplete sentences. This paper discusses a program implemented it an advanced intermediate Est, college composition class. The program proposes that students will be able to monitor thtir writing for' incorrectly formed sentences if given a series of exercises designed to help them analyze their work. The key ccncept is GLUE, a term used for all cionnectoxs, including coordinating and subordinating ccrjunctions and relative pronouns. Using*. a.referenct list of the au! words in English, students first label those they have used and, then, k identify the finite clauses or subject-verb (SV) units. The number of GLU? words and SVs used are ccunted up as the student determines the type of sentence unit s/he has created. A complete sentence requires one more SI than GLUE. In altering their work, students learn to remove an Sr, add a GLUE, or in some other way make the sentence conform to the rule for'a complete sentence. (euthor/JK)
A strategy for interactive exploration of multimodal image collections

La produccion de contenido multimedia incluyendo documentos de texto, imagenes, videos y audio, ha experimentado un crecimiento exponencial producto del desarrollo de los sistemas de computacion y comunicaciones. El proceso de encontrar y acceder este gran volumen de informacion requiere de metodos computacionales efectivos y eficientes. En el caso de texto, una gran cantidad de trabajo se ha realizado por parte de la comunidad de recuperacion de informacion, y gracias a ese esfuerzo, hoy contamos con motores de busqueda de documentos de texto apropiados, los cuales nos permiten facilmente encontrar informacion. Sin embargo, para el caso de otros tipos de informacion multimedia, como es el caso de las imagenes, los resultados no son todavia satisfactorios. Nuevos mecanismos para explorar grandes colecciones de imagenes son necesarios de tal forma que se le ofrezca al usuario diferentes alternativas para acceder y encontrar informacion. La exploracion de colecciones de imagenes es un nuevo mecanismo para acceder grandes repositorios de imagenes de una manera mas eficiente y intuitiva. Este mecanismo esta siendo activamente investigado por la comunidad cientifica. El proceso de exploracion de colecciones de imagenes se compone de los siguientes componentes: (1) Representacion de la coleccion de imagenes; (2) Construccion de resumenes; (3) Visualizacion de colecciones de imagenes; y (4) Interaccion con la coleccion de imagenes. La mayoria de estrategias de exploracion que se encuentran en la literatura usan principalmente contenido visual en cada uno de estos componentes, ignorando otras posibles fuentes de informacion (modalidades) tales como texto, el cual puede complementar cada uno de estos componentes de un sistema de exploracion de imagenes. En esta tesis se estudia como conjuntamente utilizar informacion visual y textual con el fin de modelar de una mejor manera cada uno de los componentes de los sistemas de exploracion. Para alcanzar este objetivo, se propone una familia de algoritmos que fusionan ambas modalidades de diferentes formas utilizando metodos de kernel y analisis de semantica latente.
Consumer demand with social interactions: a simulation study

How do social interactions affect consumer demand? In this paper, I investigate the effects that different social structures have on social welfare and on the budget shares of various categories of goods. A society is modeled in which households' demand for goods is described by a Linear Expenditure System with Social Interactions (LES-SI). In the context of the LES-SI, I find that social interactions can lead to a considerable reallocation of resources over goods. The differences in effect are small for the different social structures. Optimal taxes and subsidies set by a welfare maximizing social planner are explicitly calculated. Interestingly, the budget share and optimal tax rate of the most conspicuous good do not necessarily increase when the degree of interactions increases. The presence of social interactions does not make the tax and subsidy instrument more effective in terms of the increase in social welfare that can be obtained.
Helping Kids Turn Out Queer: Queer Theory in Art Education

This article explores the possibilities of queer theory in art education, and I playfully, perhaps provocatively, ask how art education can help kids turn out queer. Moving away from both victim narratives of queer subjects and the attention on gay artists, who often are the focus of scholarship in art education, I contemplate the ways in which art education researchers address queerness and how those forms of address impact the relations that are (im)possible within the educational dynamic. I ask, “In what ways has queer been addressed in art education research, and how can other scholars push forward with such work to continue queer projects? ” I observe a need to challenge fears around queer topics and contemplate how queerness, embedded in theory and practice, disputes and disrupts art education research.
A Tutorial on Elliptic Pde Solvers and Their Parallelization

From the Publisher: This compact yet thorough tutorial is the perfect introduction to the basic concepts of solving partial differential equations (PDEs) using parallel numerical methods. In just eight short chapters, the authors provide readers with enough basic knowledge of PDEs, discretization methods, solution techniques, parallel computers, parallel programming, and the run-time behavior of parallel algorithms to allow them to understand, develop, and implement parallel PDE solvers. Examples throughout the book are intentionally kept simple so that the parallelization strategies are not dominated by technical details. A Tutorial on Elliptic PDE Solvers and Their Parallelization is a valuable aid for learning about the possible errors and bottlenecks in parallel computing. One of the highlights of the tutorial is that the course material can run on a laptop, not just on a parallel computer or cluster of PCs, thus allowing readers to experience their first successes in parallel computing in a relatively short amount of time. This tutorial is intended for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in computational sciences and engineering; however, it may also be helpful to professionals who use PDE-based parallel computer simulations in the field.
Community Languages: The Australian Experience

List of tables List of graphs Preface 1. Australia between monolingualism and multilingualism 2. Distribution and maintenance of community languages in Australia 3. The use of community languages in Australia 4. Structural and typological aspects of community languages 5. The formulation and implementation of language policies Appendix Glossary Bibliography Index.
Land of Lisp

第１部 ＬＩＳＰは力なり（さあＬｉｓｐを始めてみよう；はじめてのＬｉｓｐプログラム ほか） 第２部 ＬＩＳＰは対称なり（条件と判断；テキストゲームのエンジンを作る ほか） 第３部 ＬＩＳＰはハックなり（ｌｏｏｐコマンドによるループ；ｆｏｒｍａｔ関数でテキストを表示する ほか） 第４部 ＬＩＳＰは科学なり（関数型プログラミングでＬｉｓｐをレベルアップ；ダイス・オブ・ドゥーム：関数型スタイルでゲームを書こう ほか）
Construction of context models for Word Sense Disambiguation ([SemEval-2日本語タスクを中心とする日本語語義曖昧性解消])

This paper presents a study on the use of word context features for Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD). State-of-the-art WSD systems achieve high accuracy by using resources such as dictionaries, taggers, lexical analyzers or topic modeling packages. However, these resources are either too heavy or don’t have sufficient coverage for large-scale tasks such as information retrieval. The use of local context for WSD is common, but the rationale behind the formulation of features is often based on trial and error. We therefore investigate the notion of relatedness of context words to the target word (the word to be disambiguated), and propose an unsupervised method for finding the optimal weights for context words based on their distance to the target word. The key idea behind the method is that the optimal weights should maximize the similarity of two context models constructed from different context samples of the same word. Our experimental results show that the strength of the relation between two words follows approximately a power law. The resulting context models are used in Naive Bayes classifiers for word sense disambiguation. Our evaluation on Semeval WSD tasks in both English and Japanese show that our method can achieve state-of-the-art effectiveness even though it does not use external tools like most existing methods. The high efficiency makes it possible to use our method in large scale applications such as information retrieval.
How New Teachers Use Technology in the Classroom.

This study examined new teachers' use of technology in the classroom. Data were collected from 28 former elementary and middle school majors who were currently teaching in schools near the university they had attended. Teachers completed a survey instrument, and the researcher visited their classrooms. Very few of the teachers had easy access to technology. Limited computer lab'time for students, absence of technology correlated to objectives and tests for the district, and lack of multiple, up-to-date computers in the classroom challenges most teachers' efforts to integrate technology into the curriculum in a systematic, viable way. While participants reported using traditional technology such as overhead projectors, videos, and laser discs as part of their instructional delivery systems, most felt that the Internet was a more motivating and captivating mode to use with students for a variety of learning activities. Teachers were eager to expand their repertoire of techniques and expressed great interest in finding out what was working for other teachers. (Contains 32 references.) (SM) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. 1 Association of Teacher Educators 2002 Summer Conference
The use and prescription of epicene pronouns: a corpus-based approach to generic he and singular they in British English

In English the personal pronouns are morphologically marked for grammatical number, whilst the third-person singular pronouns are also obligatorily marked for gender. As a result, the use of any singular animate antecedent coindexed with a third-person pronoun forces a choice between he and she, whether or not the biological sex of the intended referent is known. This forced choice of gender, and the corresponding lack of a gender-neutral third-person singular pronoun where gender is not formally marked, is the primary focus of this thesis. I compare and contrast the use of the two main candidates for epicene status, singular they and generic he, which are found consistently opposed in the wider literature. Using corpus-based methods I analyse current epicene usage in written British English, and investigate which epicene pronouns are given to language-acquiring children in their L1 input. I also consider current prescriptions on epicene usage in grammar texts published post-2000 and investigate whether there is any evidence that language-external factors impact upon epicene choice. The synthesis of my findings with the wider literature on epicene pronouns leads me to the conclusion that, despite the restrictions imposed on the written pronoun paradigm evident in grammatical prescriptivism, singular they is the epicene pronoun of British English.
More scalability, less pain : A simple programming model and its implementation for extreme computing.

This is the story of a simple programming model, its implementation for extreme computing, and a breakthrough in nuclear physics. A critical issue for the future of high-performance computing is the programming model to use on next-generation architectures. Described here is a promising approach: program very large machines by combining a simplified programming model with a scalable library implementation. The presentation takes the form of a case study in nuclear physics. The chosen application addresses fundamental issues in the origins of our Universe, while the library developed to enable this application on the largest computers may have applications beyond this one.
Determining Negation Scope in German and English Medical Diagnoses

One aspect of analyzing subjectivity in text is the detection of negation . Considering the case of opinion mining, where the difference between an author giving a positive or a negative judgement is of utmost importance, and this difference is often coded by means of explicit negation. This chapter focuses on application that is concerned with particular diagnoses in medical reports. "Finding negations" means identifying a negation operator and deciding on its scope , or the words representing the material that is being negated. The paper briefly mentions some related work, and introduces the negation annotation guidelines that we devised and the corpus we have built up so far. The chapter describes Negtopus , the implementation. It also takes a brief look at the prospects of using off the shelf syntax parsers for the task of negation detection. The chapter evaluates the approach and compares its performance to NegEx , a prominent competitor. Keywords: medical reports; negation ; NegEx ; Negtopus ; syntax parsers
PENGEMBANGAN MEDIA BELAJAR POP-UP BOOK PADA MATERI MINYAK BUMI

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengembangkan media belajar pop-up book materi minyak bumi untuk peserta didik kelas XI SMAN 11 Banda Aceh. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah penelitian dan pengembangan ( r esearch and development) dengan model ADDIE yang terdiri dari 5 langkah, yaitu: analysis, design, development, implementation dan evaluation. Instrumen yang digunakan adalah lembar angket validasi kelayakan media. Hasil rata-rata angket validasi yang diperoleh dari 5 validator sebesar 92,67% (sangat layak). Hasil yang diperoleh, dapat disimpulkan bahwa media belajar pop-up book materi minyak bumi yang telah dikembangkan layak diuji cobakan lebih lanjut untuk melihat efektivitas dalam pembelajaran.