Reviewerly/exHarmony huggingface dataset:
Symmetric Wasserstein Autoencoders

Leveraging the framework of Optimal Transport, we introduce a new family of generative autoencoders with a learnable prior, called Symmetric Wasserstein Autoencoders (SWAEs). We propose to symmetrically match the joint distributions of the observed data and the latent representation induced by the encoder and the decoder. The resulting algorithm jointly optimizes the modelling losses in both the data and the latent spaces with the loss in the data space leading to the denoising effect. With the symmetric treatment of the data and the latent representation, the algorithm implicitly preserves the local structure of the data in the latent space. To further improve the quality of the latent representation, we incorporate a reconstruction loss into the objective, which significantly benefits both the generation and reconstruction. We empirically show the superior performance of SWAEs over the state-of-the-art generative autoencoders in terms of classification, reconstruction, and generation.
ENT 530 Social Media Portfolio: Carya Cosmetics / Aina Zulaikha Amri

This assignment focuses on CC Beauty Sdn Bhd, a health and beauty business based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia which produces makeup products to their targeted customers. To date, the company has relied exclusively on Facebook as marketing channel. The purpose of this report is to find a relationship between the usage of copywriting as marketing tools in persuading the customers to buy the products. According to Jiane Regala, copywriting is a strong and productive marketing technique that uses words to build customer relationships, while improving customer's loyalty and driving sales. This report will highlight the most useful marketing promotion to be used in Facebook which includes the teaser before launching a product, copywriting of hard sell and copywriting of soft sell. Other than that, this report will also includes the importance of frequency posting on Facebook.
The study of housing preferences of the Seletar community in Johor Bahru, Malaysia

Johor Johor Bahru, in the state of Johor, is located at the southern tip of Peninsular Malaysia and considered to be one of the most rapidly developing cities in Asia. The land resources of Johor Bahru is financially attractive to both local or foreign investors because of its emergent economic corridor, that is being led by the Iskandar Regional Development Authority (IRDA). The impacts of rapid development in this economic corridor has affected some of its Indigenous community groups, especially the Orang Seletar community. The Orang Seletar people, sea nomads of the Tebrau Strait shores, have been particularly exposed to cultural decay due to the surrounding rapid urbanization. This paper aims to consider the Orang Seletar’s culture and housing typology preferences to inform options for their future housing design consideration and to ensure their cultural sustainability. The first objective of the research is to examine culture and daily activities that were and continue to be practiced by the Orang Seletar, who used to live in houseboats and thus integral to their sea nomadic lifestyle. The second objective is to investigate the typology of the housing settlement patterns of the Orang Seletar community, and the third objective is to assess the housing settlement preferences of the Orang Seletar community. This research uses both qualitative and quantitative approaches, where content analysis of literature is utilised to achieve the first objective. Field observation and survey questionnaires techniques were used to achieve the second objective, and a structured interview was carried out to achieve the third objective. Three types of houses were identified in eight selected villages studied including: single storey landed brick houses that are built on the land by government; houses on stilts that are made of timber; and, lastly, raft houses that float on sea and reverine water. Based on this comparative study, it is concluded that the Orang Seletar people preferred to continue to live on raft houses.
Problematiche traduttive dei nomi in “novelle per un anno”

This study deals with the linguistic analysis of some translation problems in the short story collection Novelle per un anno by the author Luigi Pirandello, translated into Arabic by the Libyan linguist Khalifa Tillisi. The aim of the thesis is to highlight the lexical linguistic difficulties encountered and the translation procedures used in the translation, from Italian into Arabic, by the translator during the translation process, trying to find more suitable and convenient alternatives. The research is divided into introduction, chapter and conclusion. In the introduction I will deal with the concept of semantics and its importance in translation, especially the literary one. Then in the research itself I will throw light on the semantic problems concerning the translation of the names manifested in the Arabic version. Then, in the conclusion, the results of the research will be presented. I hope with this study that I can contributed at least in part to clarify to the reader of translations what must be taken into account in order to avoid the translation problems encountered in the translation of names in a certain context.
A Novel Cross Channel Self-Attention based Approach for Facial Attribute Editing

Although significant progress has been made in synthesizing visually realistic face images by Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), there still lacks effective approaches to provide fine-grained control over the generation process for semantic facial attribute editing.In this work, we propose a novel cross channel self-attention based generative adversarial network (CCA-GAN), which weights the importance of multiple channels of features and archives pixel-level feature alignment and conversion, to reduce the impact on irrelevant attributes while editing the target attributes.Evaluation results show that CCA-GAN outperforms stateof-the-art models on the CelebA dataset, reducing Fréchet Inception Distance (FID) and Kernel Inception Distance (KID) by 15~28% and 25~100%, respectively.Furthermore, visualization of generated samples confirms the effect of disentanglement of the proposed model.
SISTEM PENDUKUNG KEPUTUSAN PEMBERIAN BEASISWA PADA SMP NEGERI 10 KABUPATEN MUARO JAMBI MENGGUNAKAN METODE SMART

Decision Support System for Awarding Scholarships at SMP Negeri 10 Muaro Jambi District Using the SMART Method is a Decision Support System to assist schools in making decisions in scholarship selection. SMP Negeri 10 Muaro Jambi which is located at Km.15 Tri Jaya Hamlet, PondokMeja Village is one of the state junior high schools. The purpose of making this Job Training is the creation of a Web-Based Scholarship Decision Support System. Making this application is done by collecting data, system planning, system analysis, system design and database. Making application programs developed with PHP. The database used is MySQL. Input requirements for the Scholarship Award Decision Support System are student data, criteria data, and sub-criteria data. The process requirements required are: the assessment process, the process of printing scholarship recipient data, and the process of input, update and delete. The resulting expenditure data is in the form of information that will be displayed, among others: student data reports, and data reports per semester. With the new system that has been designed and created by researchers, it can help facilitate the parties involved in selecting scholarships.
India’s Rank and Global Share in Scientific Research: How Data Sourced from Different Databases Can Produce Varying Outcomes?

India is emerging as a major knowledge producer of the world in terms of proportionate share of global research output and the overall research productivity rank. Many recent reports, both of commissioned studies from Government of India as well as independent international agencies, show India at different ranks of global research productivity (variations as large as from 3 rd to 9 th place). The paper examines this contradiction; tries to analyse as to why different reports places India at different ranks and what may be the reasons thereof.  The research output data for India, along with the ten most productive countries in the world, is analysed from three major scholarly databases- Web of Science, Scopus and Dimensions for this purpose. Results show that both, the endogenous factors (such as database coverage variation and different subject classification schemes) and the exogenous factors (such as subject selection and publication counting methodology) cause the variations in different reports. This paper reports first part of the analysis, focusing mainly on variations due to use of data from different databases.  The policy implications of the study are also discussed.
STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION ON THE INFLUENCE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICT) IN SCIENCE TEACHING AND LEARNING (SED209 &amp; SED317) ON THEIR ICT AND TEACHING SKILLS

Purpose: The purpose of this paper was to explore students’ perception on the influence of ICT in science teaching and learning (SED 209 and SED 317) on their ICT and teaching skills.&#x0D; Methodology: The study employed a qualitative study design as a means of carrying out the research. The population consisted of all 300 level and graduating students in the Department of Science Education of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko. Three research questions were designed to guide the study.The sample of the study was made up of 31 respondents from Science Education Department of the University which were selected using purposive sampling technique. Interview schedule was used to collect data from the respondents. Data collected was analyzed using content analysis.&#x0D; Results: Findings revealed that the two ICT courses influence ICT skills of science education students. Findings also revealed that the knowledge gained from the two courses have really influenced students’ teaching skills during teaching practice.&#x0D; Unique Contribution to Theory and Practice: Based on the findings of this study, it was recommended that parent should encourage their children to develop their ICT skills before getting admission so as to enhance learning while taking SED 209 and 317. It was also recommended that government should sanction budgets in ICT head available for students to facilitate teaching and learning of science subjects
Improving Factual Consistency of Abstractive Summarization on Customer Feedback

E-commerce stores collect customer feedback to let sellers learn about customer concerns and enhance customer order experience. Because customer feedback often contains redundant information, a concise summary of the feedback can be generated to help sellers better understand the issues causing customer dissatisfaction. Previous state-of-the-art abstractive text summarization models make two major types of factual errors when producing summaries from customer feedback, which are wrong entity detection (WED) and incorrect product-defect description (IPD). In this work, we introduce a set of methods to enhance the factual consistency of abstractive summarization on customer feedback. We augment the training data with artificially corrupted summaries, and use them as counterparts of the target summaries. We add a contrastive loss term into the training objective so that the model learns to avoid certain factual errors. Evaluation results show that a large portion of WED and IPD errors are alleviated for BART and T5. Furthermore, our approaches do not depend on the structure of the summarization model and thus are generalizable to any abstractive summarization systems.
La inclusión como paradigma fundamental de la educación universitaria significa construir oportunidades para todos

In this interview, Dr. Fernando Tauber –Chairman of the Universidad Nacional de La Plata- shares reflections about university management regarding the challenges of the pandemic. From the conception of higher education as a social public good, proposes access to education as a right, broadening the traditional pillars of the university environment: teaching, extension and research to deepen the notion of knowledge put at the service of the needs of the society as a model of inclusion and construction of opportunities for all.
SpeakEasy Pronunciation Trainer: Personalized Multimodal Pronunciation Training

Author(s): Tyler, Jeramey; Braasch, Jonas; Si, Mei | Abstract: The primary goals of computer-assisted pronunciation training (CAPT) systems are to provide a personalized interactive environment and to accurately diagnose mispronunciations. Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems have been shown to be an effective tool for diagnosing mispronunciations. While the data ASR systems output can be difficult for the layperson to understand, presenting it in a multimodal fashion can make it easier and feeding it into an automated narrative system can produce personalized feedback. In the absence of native speech examples, synthetic examples produced by text-to-speech (TTS) engines have proven to be an adequate substitute, making data collection easier and allowing for larger CAPT systems. In this work we present the SpeakEasy pronunciation trainer, a CAPT system that leverages ASR, TTS, automated narrative systems, and multimodal data representation to provide a personalized interactive environment that tracks a user's progress over time.
Results from a second longitudinal survey of academic research computing and data center usage: expenditures, utilization patterns, and approaches to return on investment

Availability of cloud-based resource delivery modes is transforming many areas of computing. Academic research computing and data (RCD) support largely remains based on on-premises delivery and has adopted commercial clouds more slowly than the private sector for a variety of stated reasons including factors related to cost efficiency, return on investment, institutional requirements, high costs for bulk commercial cloud computing usage, and funding patterns. Other factors involved in selection of computing resource delivery modes include capabilities and applications that are available only in or best adapted to specific computing environments. It is important for the higher education and research communities to be able to learn from each other as institutions and individuals to make optimum use of appropriate modes of delivery for RCD resources. This paper reports an overview of results from the second annual community-wide survey conducted by the Coalition for Advanced Scientific Computation on patterns of funding, usage, and return on investment for academic research computing and data resources. The results show that on-premises delivery continues to remain the preferred mode for RCD resources for most responding institutions as found in the first survey, but that commercial cloud usage is beginning to be reported for production use by a small number of respondents to the survey. Reasons for these preferences are further explored in the survey and initial high-level results are reported here.
Language- and spatially-mediated attention in toddlers

Author(s): Sucevic, Jelena; Plunkett, Kim | Abstract: Selective attention involves attending to task-relevant information and inhibiting task-irrelevant information. While spatial priming is known to efficiently shape selective attention, the nature of language-mediated effects on selective attention is not well-understood, particularly in young toddlers. We com- pare the impact of language-mediated and spatially-mediated attention in an eye-tracking paradigm in which two objects are presented in one of four possible locations and one of the objects is highlighted. The impact of labelling on attention orienting during a prime phase was tested in a subsequent probe phase, where either the identity, location or both were manipulated, and compared to the impact of spatial priming. To elucidate the role of development on these effects, the study was conducted with 18- and 26-month-old toddlers. The results revealed that both language-mediated and spatially-mediated priming lead to attention orienting during the probe phase: at- tended information during the prime phase facilitates attention during the probe phase while ignored features are inhibited. However, in contrast to spatially-mediated attention during the prime phase, language-mediated attention can override these inhibitory effects. The impact of language on overcoming inhibitory effects is particularly noteworthy in the older age group.
Kajian Prioritas Penanganan Drainase Kota Lhokseumawe

Urban drainage has a function to prevent inundation flooding due to rain that occurs in a city or residential area. This urban drainage often does not function or in other words, inundation floods still occur due to technical and social factors. Low community participation in maintaining drainage systems which causes garbage to pile up and wild plants grow in it. Lhokseumawe City as one of the regencies / cities in Aceh Province also experienced problems in its drainage system. In an effort to improve drainage system services in Lhokseumawe City, a comprehensive and integrated drainage system planning effort is needed. To support this plan, an inventory of drainage channels is needed to determine the exact position and condition of the draianse channel. Therefore this study will analyze the drainage conditions of Lhokseumawe City which focus on the central location of Lhokseumawe City based on the results of an inventory of Facilities around the drainage channel, dimensions, type of drainage. From the inventory results it is found that the dimensions / size of these channels vary from channels with a width of 1 m up to 9 meters with channel height is 1-3 meters. Land use around this channel varies, consisting of public facilities (mosques, markets, offices, dormitories, schools, terminals), shops and fields with good conduit conditions, damaged, accumulation of garbage, the presence of plants, there are buildings on the drianse and sediments with thickness of 5 cm to 25 cm. Based on the weighting results obtained first rank and also become the first priority in handling channel problems is the primary channel reservoir 2 followed by the primary channel reservoir 1 and reservoir 3 in the third sequence.
Central Louisiana Technical Community College Library: Drafting and Design Technology: Library Resources: Electronic Books (eBooks)

This guide will help you find information on Drafting and Design Technology in print and online. This page will help you locate resources in the library's catalog and databases for your research.
Movie Recommendation System using Content-based Filtering

There is already enough content available on the movie recommendation system. Showing the movie recommendations is essential so that the user need not waste a lot of time searching for the content which he/she might like. Thus, movie recommendation system plays a vital role to get user personalized movie recommendations. After searching a lot on the internet and referring to a lot of research papers, we got to know that the recommendations made using Content-based Filtering are using a single text to vector conversion technique and a single technique to find the similarity between the vectors. In this research work, we have used multiple text to vector conversion techniques and manipulated the results of the multiple algorithms to get the final recommendation list. You can think of it as a hybrid approach using the Content-based Filtering technique only.
NEW TRENDS IN ELT THROUGH DIGITAL DRAMA IN THE CONDITIONS OF LOCKDOWN

The article analyses the digital drama (DD) incorporating into English learning as a step up in creating a positive learning environment. Many education coordinators believe that students' learning conditions in English classes are of paramount importance, and a teacher should change them to the most favorable. The advantages of a theatrical play are apparent not only to the cast members but also to the students who participate as spectators.The author describes DD as a unique method for developing students' emotional intelligence and needs, explaining the algorithm of theatrical techniques in ELT at RUDN University (Russia) in lockdown conditions. Theater practices and methods help students learn English, express themselves and their creative abilities, be more confident and emotionally educated.Besides, the author implicates DD as an influential academic resource that provides additional educational opportunities for students. It is valuable for increasing students' confidence, creativity, and motivation to learn.Another effect of educational drama is its impact on cognitive processes when students generate ideas, share, and implement them. Additionally, some studies show that scene is quite effective in teaching students how to manage interpersonal relationships. The reason is that communication is at the center of the drama. As an art, the scene provides a framework for discussion and mutual understanding in several new ways. Participation in professional activities requires self-control, organization, and discipline to serve students well in all aspects of their future lives. Students will also acquire some practical new skills and competencies: teamwork, collaboration online; listening skills; ability to share, accept opinions, etc.The practice proved that theater activities could give students an outlet for emotions, thoughts, and dreams that they may not have other ways to express. At least for a few moments, the student can become different, explore a new role, experience mixed emotions, and experiment with various personal choices and solutions to genuine problems.DD forces students to deal with various everyday problems, events, and relationships in a fictional situational context. The scene makes language learning more effective and 'brain-friendly.' Students make sense of the world around them by acting and reacting to real and imagined experiences. They verbalize in fictional words, generate, rehearse, and practice the language needed in a safe mythical context. They also experience the emotional thrill of "as if" role-playing. Students' dramatic play stimulates and uses many different parts of the brain, just as drama simultaneously excites visual, auditory, spatial, and motor functions. There is a safe and remote opportunity to learn and talk about emotions together in the theatre, developing the target language.
HUBUNGAN PENGETAHUAN GIZI DAN SIKAP PEMILIHAN MAKANAN JAJANAN TERHADAP KEBIASAAN JAJAN PADA REMAJA DI SMA SEJAHTERA 1 DEPOK

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN NUTRITION KNOWLEDGE AND SNACK SELECTION ATTITUDES TO SNACKING HABITS IN ADOLESCENT AT SMA SEJAHTERA 1 DEPOK Nutrition knowledge is something that known about food in relation with optimal health. The level of nutrition knowledge on adolescents affects their attitude and behaviour in selecting snacks that will influence their nutritional status. Attitudes shows feelings in form of positive values or negative and affecting adolescent to achieve their goals. Snack selection attitude is the most important component that affects them towards their choice of snacks. This study aims to find out the relation between nutrition knowledge and snack selection attitude towards snacking habits in adolescents at SMA Sejahtera 1 Depok. The design used in this study was cross sectional. Sampling method by random sampling system of 77 respondents. The instrument used in this study was questionnaire. Relation analysis used in this study was chi square test. The conclusion of this study is there is no meaningful relation between nutrition knowledge (p=0.426) and snack selection attitude (p=0.056) with snacking habits in adolescents at SMA Sejahtera 1 Depok. Key Words : Nutrition Knowledge, Snack Selection Attitudes, Snacking Habits, Adolescent.