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A Simple Geometric Method for Cross-Lingual Linguistic Transformations with Pre-trained Autoencoders

Powerful sentence encoders trained for multiple languages are on the rise. These systems are capable of embedding a wide range of linguistic properties into vector representations. While explicit probing tasks can be used to verify the presence of specific linguistic properties, it is unclear whether the vector representations can be manipulated to indirectly steer such properties. For efficient learning, we investigate the use of a geometric mapping in embedding space to transform linguistic properties, without any tuning of the pre-trained sentence encoder or decoder. We validate our approach on three linguistic properties using a pre-trained multilingual autoencoder and analyze the results in both monolingual and cross-lingual settings.
PENINGKATAN HASIL BELAJAR TEMA 7 MELALUI PENERAPAN MODEL PROBLEM BASED LEARNING PADA SISWA KELAS IV

THE IMPROVEMENT OF LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THEME 7 BY USING PROBLEM BASED LEARNING MODEL IN GRADE IV STUDENTS This research is motivated by the low learning outcomes of four grade Empang 2 elementary school students in theme 7. Only 60% of the total number of students in the class achieved KKM. This is caused by students tend to be passive in learning as well as conventional learning models which are less uplifting and students learning interested to understand the material comprehensively. To overcome these problems researchers provide a solution by implementing the Problem Based Learning model in the learning process. This study aims to improve learning process and learning outcomes of students in theme 7 grade IV elementary school through the PBL model. The research method used was classroom action research with Kemmis and MC Taggart models conducted in 2 cycles. The participants of this study were grade IVA students in Empang 2 elementary school Bogor totaling 24 students. Data was collected using an observation sheet and also a worksheet. The results showed that the average value of students' learning outcomes increased from 74.8 in the first cycle to 83.1 in the second cycle. Likewise with students' mastery learning, in the first cycle 45.80% increased significantly to 91.7% in the second cycle. In addition learning process in first cycle to second cycle had been improvement significantly, this can be seen from the activeness of students during learning process is very high. The data above shows that the application of the PBL model is effective for improving learning outcomes of students in theme 7 grade IV in elementary school.
Ανάπτυξη σε RDBMS βάσης δεδομένων και θεματικών χαρτών (topic maps) των Φιλοσοφικών Σχολών της Ελληνιστικής περιόδου (3ος π. Χ – 5ος μ. Χ) με σκοπό την εξαγωγή ενδεικτικών θεματικών ομοιοτήτων και αλληλεπιδράσεων μεταξύ τους

The current thesis is an indicative structural analysis of a broad philosophical period, that of Hellenistic Philosophy. Birth of a turbulent era, Hellenistic Philosophy tried to define man’s position in an alienated world and to make Eudaimonia matter of his personal responsibility. Stoics, Epicureans and Sceptics, with their similarities and differences, have influenced deeply the evolution of human thought and their teachings continue to shine till nowadays. The thesis is consisted of two parts: a theoretical one, concerning the philosophical analysis of the three Hellenistic Schools, and a practical one, which includes the implementation of a database and, in its context, the creation of three topic maps that depict the relations among Schools’ core concepts. The composition of the two parts is judged as a modern approach to a traditional field of knowledge.
Product-sum photonic integrated circuit based on microring resonators and MMI coupler on SOI

A product-sum photonic integrated circuit consisting of SOI-based cascaded microring modulators and a 4×1 multimode interference coupler is proposed for CNN computing. A basic product-sum operation is numerically demonstrated for 2×2 matrix.
Study on Total Variational Denoising Algorithm Based on Penalty Term of Exponential Function

To solve the problem of signals denoising with continuous and large jump of peak values, a new penalty term based on total variation denoising algorithm is proposed in this paper. The exponential function is used to exert the penalty property for better restrain the noise with large amplitude. The effect of denoising is improved by introducing the exponential function into the cost function. The new penalty term, which could make the denoising signal smoother and the disturbance fluctuation smaller, can effectively reduce the noise of the interference signal with discontinuous point. The experimental results show that, compared with the optimal minimum algorithm, the proposed method improves the denoising accuracy of the signal with fluctuation and peak jump in a large range.
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The Search for Novel Superconductivity in Inhomogeneous Materials using Magnetic Field Modulated Microwave Spectroscopy

Author(s): Wampler, James Paris | Advisor(s): Schuller, Ivan K | Abstract: Most major discoveries of high temperature superconductors have not been predicted by theory. While theory can explain experimental findings and motivate ideas of where do search, it does not reliably predict new superconductors. Instead, the best way to find new superconductors is to synthesize many materials and test them. Measuring inhomogeneous samples speeds up this process, allowing the simultaneous testing of several material phases. However, since potential superconducting phases in such samples could be minute, it is necessary to use magnetic field modulated microwave spectroscopy (MFMMS), which is three orders of magnitude more sensitive than conventional magnetometry techniques. MFMMS is used as a first detection method and superconducting samples can be subsequently studied with other measurement techniques. Using MFMMS, superconductivity was detected inside of two meteorite samples and further characterized as an alloy of lead, indium and tin. This is the first detection of extraterrestrial superconducting samples and is significant due to the possibility that these and similar samples could have been superconducting in their natural environment. In addition, MFMMS was used to study chemically doped Sr2IrO4 powder samples. While the superconducting phase detected is likely a known superconductor, SrIr2, this demonstrates this technique’s advantages over conventional magnetometry, which did not measure a superconducting transition. Finally, this dissertation discusses techniques to analyze non-superconducting phase transitions using magnetic hysteresis loops and magnetoresistance measurements. These techniques allows for a more thorough understanding of these transitions, which increases the ability to use MFMMS to characterize unknown phase transitions in homogeneous and inhomogeneous samples.
Design of a Chess Agent Using Reinforcement Learning with SARSA Network

The game of chess has been an intriguing mind sport for humans and difficult to decipher for machines. A chess-playing agent has been seen as a stepping-stone to exploring the depths of artificial intelligence. The recently released agent Alpha Zero has defeated the best-known engine Stockfish. This encouraged the usage of reinforcement learning in training chess agents. This chapter introduces the system used for creating the game-playing model, a chess-playing agent created using reinforcement learning with SARSA network. The aim of this project is to build a chess agent that can plan moves and defeat a single opponent in a regular game of chess. Out of all the possible techniques, the SARSA network has been chosen, which has the ability to learn a game as complex as chess. It is the use of a Monte Carlo tree through which a searching process is used.
Programmes for Remote Counselling of International Students in the Higher Education Institutions of the United States of America

The relevance of the study lies in the necessity of developing the remote forms of counselling work with foreign students during the adaptation period. In this regard, the purpose of the present study is to analyse the programmes of remote counselling of international students at HEIs in the US to determine the potential for extrapolation of foreign experience into the higher education systems of other countries. We applied a number of methods, such as analysis, synthesis, abstraction, the method of moving from abstract to concrete, which enable a comprehensive review of the issue of remote counselling of international students. The article studies the aspects of online counselling of international students. Psychological support has been observed to be an element of the acculturation triad and therefore should be considered in the context of the education process. The article emphasises that since international students are exposed to the negative influence of the phenomenon of “culture shock”, and they should participate in relevant initiatives aimed at the development of skills for overcoming emotional and psychological issues. We have analysed the programmes, courses, and seminars of the University of Minnesota and the Florida International University, which allowed determining the algorithm for the development of the online counselling system, namely providing international students with informational reference materials (including reading materials and videos) for their personal guidance and general understanding of the challenges relevant for foreign students; holding personal meetings between a student and a counsellor via video conferences, which allows discussing the existing psychological issues and build interpersonal relationships. The practical benefits of this study reside in the fact that the development of remote programmes, courses and seminars (with the introduction of foreign experience to such activities) will have a positive impact on the psychological support system at the country level and will facilitate further development of remote education systems and ensure the increased use of modern ICTs in education and other areas
Investigation of the Effectiveness of Cognitive Rehabilitation on Several Kinds of Attention of Third Grade Students with Special Learning Disabilities with a Gender Mediating Role

The present study aims to identify the effectiveness of cognitive rehabilitation on different types of attention in the third-grade students with specific learning disabilities (reading) considering moderating role of gender. As a quasi-experimental research, the study uses pretest-posttest design with control group. Facade testing, a helpful tool to identify the reading difficulties and dyslexia in elementary school, is performed to determine the research sample among the third-grade students in Tabriz. The students who score above average survey response rate are identified as specific learning-disability learners (reading). Among these students, 60 (four groups of 15) are selected by simple random sampling method and randomly divided into two experimental groups (two groups of 15, one group female students and the other male students who received cognitive rehabilitation training program) and two control groups. Cognitive rehabilitation training is delivered through Smart Sound training software (8-level computer-based cognitive rehabilitation in reading disorder). Attention is also measured by focused/sustained attention and scattered attention test designed in Sina Institute. To analyze the data, multivariate analysis of covariance is used. The results indicate cognitive rehabilitation is effective in focused/sustained attention, scattered attention, and reaction time in specific learning-disability students and gender does not have a moderating effect. Accordingly, cognitive rehabilitation does not have meaningful effect in the increase of focused attention, scattered attention and reaction time in male and female students.
Current Situation Analysis on Popularization of Chemistry in Tiktok Short Video

The rapid development of short video has changed the way people obtain information.After fully integrating with the characteristics of chemistry, short video on chemistry has become an important way for popularization of chemistry, which has ushered in a new era.This paper analyzes the current situation of popularization of chemistry in short video, including tiktok's content, form and influence, and puts forward some suggestions for the development of popularization of chemistry using short videos, so as to promote the further development of popularization of chemistry in the short video platform.
ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL CONFLICT BETWEEN BLACK AND WHITE SKIN IN NOVEL ‘THE HELP’ WRITTEN BY KATHRYN STOCKETT

The problem statements of the research were: 1) how is the social context of author reflected in novel The Help by Kathryn Stockett; 2) how is the social life happened in the society reflected in novel The Help; 3) how is the social function of novel The Help. The research used descriptive qualitative method by applying sociology of literature approach. The technique of data collecting used note and read techniques. The results showed that there are some conflicts happened in novel The Help: 1) the context of author explained about how black maid was discriminated against by white people in Mississippi. Many kinds of discrimination towards black maids like quote in the novel said that white people assume that blacks were a disease. One of the losers was black and he became depressed because white behavior was very brutal; 2) the social life reflected in society explained about condition in Jackson, Mississippi when black maids felt uncomfortable and treated unfairly with their social life; 3) social function explained about the role of the government. In this case, the government has failed because indirectly they support white people. In Mississippi they did not have black government because they did not need blacks to participate in politics.
ВАЛІДНІСТЬ ПРОГРАМИ ФОРМУВАННЯ ПРОФЕСІЙНОЇ СВІДОМОСТІ МАЙБУТНІХ ФІЛОЛОГІВ

Determining the psychological conditions that influence the content of professional consciousness of students is important for understanding the overall effectiveness of future specialists in carrying out their relevant professional activities. One such condition was the Integrative Program of Psychosemantic Content-forming of the Professional Consciousness of Future Philologists, developed and tested by us.The goal of the study is to experimentally test the effectiveness of the Integrative Program of Psychosemantic Content-forming of the Professional Consciousness of Future Philologists within the conditions of a formative experiment. The program was tested on a sample of students (experimental group – 36 people, control group – 30 people aged 17-19, all first-year students of philological specialties aged 17-19). Considering the number of male and female students within the group, gender criteria were not used as a basis for sampling.Methods. The methods of semantic differential (SD) and “Diagnosis of the Reflexivity Level” (by A.V. Karpov) were used to determine the level of dynamics in the content of professional consciousness before and after the formative influence.Results. Initially, the dynamics of the level of reflexivity in future philologists were revealed in the control and experimental groups, before and after the formative experiment. Following the participation in the Program, a number of positive qualitative changes were detected in two-thirds of the students of the experimental group. Comparison of the data gathered during the initial and repeated measurements according to the Mann–Whitney U-test revealed a statistically significant difference (ρ <0.01), which favors the tested Program.Additionally, the semantics of fulfilling of the factors the “world of philology” concept were evaluated using the method of semantic differential. The world of philology had becоme “bigger”, more “active”, “joyful”, “relaxed”, “safe”, “difficult” and “masculine”, while being less “fast”, “new”, “deceptive”, “chaotic” and “restrained” after the formative influence. Comparisons before and after the formative influence revealed significant shifts in the semantics of factors which reflect the tendency to move away from anxiously indeterminate characteristics – towards the characteristics that indicate greater simplicity, certainty, clarity and positive emotionality of the world of philology. Conclusions. Statistical comparison of the experimental group indicators before and after the formative influence suggests that the application of the Program is effective for the formation of professional consciousness of future philologists.
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An Automated Analytics Engine for College Program Selection using Machine Learning and Big Data Analysis

Because of the differences in the structure and content of each website, it is often difficult for international applicants to obtain the application information of each school in time. They need to spend a lot of time manually collecting and sorting information. Especially when the information of the school may be constantly updated, the information may become very inaccurate for international applicants. we designed a tool including three main steps to solve the problem: crawling links, processing web pages, and building my pages. In compiling languages, we mainly use Python and store the crawled data in JSON format [4]. In the process of crawling links, we mainly used beautiful soup to parse HTML and designed crawler. In this paper, we use Python language to design a system. First, we use the crawler method to fetch all the links related to the admission information on the school's official website. Then we traverse these links, and use the noise_remove [5] method to process their corresponding page contents, so as to further narrow the scope of effective information and save these processed contents in the JSON files. Finally, we use the Flask framework to integrate these contents into my front-end page conveniently and efficiently, so that it has the complete function of integrating and displaying information.
Modeling Individual Differences in Beliefs and Opinions Using Thurstonian Models

One common and informative way that people express their beliefs, preferences, and opinions is by providing rankings. We use Thurstonian cognitive models to explore individual differences in naturally occurring ranking data for a variety of political, lifestyle, and sporting topics. After demonstrating that the standard Thurstonian model does not capture individual differences, we develop two extended models. The first allows for subgroups of people with different beliefs and opinions about all of the stimuli. The second allows for just a subset of polarized stimuli for which some people have different beliefs or opinions. We apply these two models, using Bayesian methods of inference, and demonstrate how they provide intuitive and useful accounts of the individual differences. We discuss the benefits of incorporating theory about individual differences into the processing assumptions of cognitive models, rather than through the statistical extensions that are currently often used in cognitive modeling.
Similarity Test: The effectiveness of videos and pocket books on the level of knowledge and attitudes towards stigma people with HIV/AIDS (Nanik Setiyawati, Niken Meilani)

Cases of human imunnodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) in middle and low income countries were very many. One of the biggest obstacles in the prevention of HIV/AIDS is the high stigma people with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA). There are still 34% of health students stigmatizing PLWHA. Appropriate learning media is needed toprovide information about HIV/AIDS to midwifery students. The purpose was to determine the effect videos and pocket books on the knowledge, attitudes towards stigma of PLWHA. This research was a quantitative study with quasi-experimental non equivalent control group design. Theintervention group was given information using video, the control group was given a pocket book. There were 100 respondents participated in this study. Data analysis using t-test and simple linear regression. There is a relationshipbetween the provision of videos and pocket books on the post test knowledge with p=0.002. There is an influence of giving video to attitude with p=0.022 OR 2.731. There was a relationship between the provision of videos and pocket books on the knowledge and attitudes of respondents. There was no relationship between the source of video information on the adequacy of material about HIV AIDS and the experience of meeting PLWHA with the level of knowledge and attitude of respondents.
The Impact Of Foreign Direct Investment And Remittances On Gdp Growth Rate Of South Asian Economies: An Econometric Analysis

The quantitative research study was undertaken to determine the impact of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Remittances, Inflation, Interest Rate and Exchange Rate on GDP Growth Rate of South Asian Economies i.e. Pakistan, India, Srilanka and of Chinaand of which FDI and Remittances were our main interested independent variables whereas Inflation, Interest Rate, and Exchange Rate were used as controlled variables, and GDP Growth Rate was used as a dependent variable .Since FDI and Remittances are the essential macroeconomic variables for determining the GDP Growth Rate of any country, therefore, we took these variables to see their impact on the GDP Growth Rate of South Asian Economies. Meanwhile, we extracted the yearly data of FDI, Remittances of South Asian Economies from 2001 to 2019 time period. Firstly, we performed Unit Root for checking the stationarity of the data and the results of this test revealed that the data was stationary except the data of Remittances which were made stationary after taking its 1st difference. The results of the Co-integration table revealed that there was no long-term relationship between independent variables and the dependent variable, and FDI and Remittances could not explain the long-term relationship with GDP Growth Rates and the results revealed that at 1st and 2nd difference hypothesis were rejected. Lastly, VECM Test (Model) was applied to evaluate the short-term relationship (short-run) that whether relationship and impact existed between independent and dependent variable or not, and the results of table revealed that FDI was significant i.e. FDI had a short-run relationship with GDP Growth Rate while Remittances were insignificant which suggested that there was no shortrun relationship of Remittances with GDP Growth Rate of South Asian Economies.
Re-contextualizing Past Technology for Affordable Living: Live Mpls

Today we have the luxury of hindsight; this allowsfor the truth of past actions to reveal itself tous. We can look back on our shared human historyand recognize the repercussions of certainactions, and it is with this lens humanity must viewthe past; without it, true progress is not possible.The past is, in fact, the key component in inspiringthe future. As the famous George Santayana quotegoes, ?Those who cannot remember the past arecondemned to repeat it.? While this quote has beentwisted thousands of times over to defend a vastarray of arguments, as designers we still havemuch to learn from it. We must take it upon ourselvesto dissect the past?to break it down into itsindividual components. It is only once these uniqueparts are broken down into their fundamentalsthat their true purpose, their true essence, is revealedto us. Once this essence is discovered it isthen possible to re-contextualize the fragments ofold into a design of new. It is this transformationof technology from the past into the new contextof the present that allows for a re-imagining of theworld on a natural and cultural level.