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Artificial Adjudication and Fundamental Human Rights : A study of artificial intelligence as a judge in light of the right to a fair trial of Article 6 ECHR

Artificial Adjudication and Fundamental Human Rights : A study of artificial intelligence as a judge in light of the right to a fair trial of Article 6 ECHR
Improving Semantic Search in the German Legal Domain with Word Embeddings

This thesis investigates the use of word embeddings (word2vec, FastText, GloVe) to improve semantic search in legal documents. Word embeddings are successfully applied to find potential synonyms. Word embeddings also allow to perform query expansion for small text segments without maintaining a thesaurus which leads to better performance than traditional TF-IDF. A user study shows that a natural language search can be used as a complementary search method to traditional keyword search.
Now I'm Digital, Where Is My Ritual?: Exploring Postdigital Performance Objects as Totems for Agency and Ritual

The author argues that significant aspects of electronic music performance have been diminished in the rush to incorporate the latest, often discreet (as in intentionally unobtrusive) technologies. He identifies these aspects as agency, ritual and, to a lesser extent, serendipity and mess. Using references to his own work, he suggests that applying an understanding of how actors create totems to present agency and affordance is essential to regain, and possibly acclimate, these tools and practices so they are relevant to live electronic music performance practice in a contemporary technology environment.
Geometric progressions in vector sumsets over finite fields

Given two subsets A,B of the d dimensional vector space over the finite field Fq of q elements, we show that the sumsetA+B={a+b|a∈A,b∈B} contains k distinct vectors of the form (v1λ1j,…,vdλdj), where j=0,…,k−1, with nonzero vectors (v1,…,vd),(λ1,…,λd)∈Fqd, whenever#A#B⩾cq2d(1−1/k), for some constant c>0 which depends only on k. This improves the previous result of O. Ahamadi and I.E. Shparlinski (2007), which has the exponent 2d−2/k.
NASA Maps Surface Changes From California Quakes

NASA's ARIA mission used synthetic aperture radar data to produce a map of damage caused by two strong earthquakes that struck southern California over the weekend.
LSC-CyFair Library Guides: Online Library Introduction (OLI): CONTACT THE LIBRARY

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A Robust Reversible Image Watermarking Scheme Based on Singular Value Decomposition and Quantization Technique

In this paper, we present a robust reversible watermarking scheme, which is capable of embedding both robust and fragile data in one image at the same time. If the image with watermarking is unaltered during transmission, the intended receiver can restore the original copy of the cover image. Otherwise, if the watermarked copy is processed in some way, although we may loss the fragile data, the robust information is still supposed to be recovered. The robustness is achieved by modulating the maximum SVD (Singular Value Decomposition) coefficients of image blocks by QIM (Quantization Index Modulation), and the fragile message for reversibility is embedded using histogram shifting. Compared with the other state-of-the-art schemes, our method has more advantages on robustness and visual quality. The experimental results show that the proposed scheme is robust to a series of attacks.
Anonymization of directory-structured sensitive data

Data anonymization is a relevant and important field within data privacy, which tries to find a good balance between utility and privacy in data. The field is especially relevant since the GDPR cam ...
Voice Biometrics Distinction Between English, French, Arabic and Spanish Using Sound Cleaner Filtering and SpeechPro SIS II Analysis for Same Individual Identification in Multilingual Societies

The purpose of this experiment was to use audio forensics to identify the voiceprint of an individual through comparing it to a known pattern to help determine the identity of the speaker. The problem that we face currently is when the speaker speaks multiple languages. Different speech enhancement programs were used to isolate patterns in the voice of one individual while speaking in four distinct languages. Despite slight differences in tone and pitch, the trends between audio clips were similar and matched up. All in all, this experiment has shown that through the use of voice enhancement and isolation software, the future of forensics will yield better results that will help the advancement of our society and prevent future harmful endeavours from occurring.
PNS18 UNDER Threat of Covid-19, Is IT Against Humanitarianism to Adopt Sealed Management in Public Health Emergencies? a Survey Based on Chinese Public Attitudes Towards the Lockdown of Wuhan, China

In public health emergencies, adopting sealed management to close community or city can effectively prevent spread of epidemics. Some social critics think it's against humanitarianism. Taking case of "lockdown of Wuhan, China", this study investigates Chinese public attitudes to verify if it's against humanitarianism.
Public Key Infrastructure

Public key infrastructure (PKI) includes elements required to manage digital certificates. In this chapter, you will learn about the various components involved with public key infrastructure and trusted relationships.
Pedagogical conditions of forming leadership qualities of the future pedagogue in the conditions of euro integration

The research considers the theoretical aspects of the problem of forming the leadership qualities of a future preschool teacher in the process of professional training in the institution of higher education. The analysis of scientific approaches to the disclosure of the essence of concepts «leader», «leadership», «leadership qualities» and features of their formation are revealed. The future preschool teacher during his studies at a higher education institution must deeply master a certain set of leadership qualities that will allow him uccessfully realize his creative potential in practice. The components of formation of leadership qualities of the future preschool teacher, namely: theoretical component, organizational-practical and value-oriented, are considered. The pedagogical conditions of formation of leadership qualities of future preschool teachers in the process of professional training are singled out.
Study on Fuzzy Identity Authentication Approach Based on String Matching

In the Internet world, identity authentication is achieved through account number and password, but diverse restrictions have been imposed on password along with the increasing number of websites. However, users find it more difficult to memorize their password due to its complicated structure and too many characters, and often input or remember it incorrectly, which affects their practical experience. Identity authentication technique relates to the account security of users, while the authentication by password makes it impossible for conventional character matching to improve the practical experience of users. After analyzing the existing algorithms for string matching, this paper puts forward an identity authentication approach based on fuzzy string matching. By taking the information of users in a leaked database as the data source in the analysis, this paper reveals that the proposed approach can accurately identify each user's habit of creating a password. After analyzing the string matching technique, an improvement is made to allow users to complete identity authentication when they cannot remember the exact password. The test results show that the proposed approach will not only help complete the identity authentication process, but also effectively protect the password strength and information security of users.
LibGuides: KU Online MGMT 620: Business Communication + Presentation: Finding Articles

A resource guide to connect Kettering University Online students in MGMT 620 to research resources provided by the library.
Optimizing Convolutional Neural Network Architecture via Information Field.

CNN architecture design has attracted tremendous attention of improving model accuracy or reducing model complexity. However, existing works either introduce repeated training overhead in the search process or lack an interpretable metric to guide the design. To clear the hurdles, we propose Information Field (IF), an explainable and easy-to-compute metric, to estimate the quality of a CNN architecture and guide the search process of designs. To validate the effectiveness of IF, we build a static optimizer to improve the CNN architectures at both the stage level and the kernel level. Our optimizer not only provides a clear and reproducible procedure but also mitigates unnecessary training efforts in the architecture search process. Experiments show that the models generated by our optimizer can achieve up to 5.47% accuracy improvement and up to 65.38% parameters deduction, compared with state-of-the-art CNN structures like MobileNet and ResNet.
Educational Writings 1918–1941 (Cont.)

Rabindranath Tagore’s writings on different educational problems during the Visva-Bharati Period, apart from those directly on the Visva-Bharati theme. He, therefore, recommends the system of fact-finding educational projects to be undertaken in various fields of surrounding community-life by the students under the guidance of interested teachers, and mentions two such projects that have been proposed to be started in the neighboring areas. The external source of discontent according to him, arose out of the fact that the existing system of education was no longer adequate either to give suitable employment or to train pupils for the various professions. The aims of our education must be reoriented without any further loss of time. The main function of the educational institutions in India, therefore, is, according to him, to assemble the Hindus, the Buddhists, the Jains, the Muslims, the Sikhs, the Parsees, and the Christians into one vast field of intellectual endeavor for the attainment of truth.
Potential impact of climate change on solar resource in Africa for photovoltaic energy: analyses from CORDEX-AFRICA climate experiments

&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;The development of renewable electricity in Africa could be massive in coming decades, as a response to the rapid rising electricity demand while complying with the Paris Agreements. This study shows that in the high-resolution climate experiments of CORDEX-AFRICA, the annual mean solar potential is expected to decrease on average by 4% over most of the continent by the end of the century, reaching up to 6% over the Horn of Africa, as a direct result of decrease in solar radiation and increase in air surface temperature. These projections are associated with large uncertainties, in particular over the Sahel and the elevated terrains of eastern Africa. While the expected decrease may affect the sizing of the numerous solar projects planned in Africa for the next decades, this study suggests that it does not endanger their viability. At last, this study indicates that the design of such projects also needs to account for the non-negligible uncertainties associated with the resource.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;
Aspect-based opinion mining from product reviews using machine learning.

The opinion mining of statements, which is in the extraction of subjective information from product reviews becomes very important due to the development of information technologies. Identifying and evaluating the positivity or negativity of expressions regarding a particular research object allows you to evaluate the success of the advertising campaing, political and economic reforms; to determine consumer attitude to certain products or services. Consequently, the task of aspect-based opinion mining concerning aspects of goods in the evaluation system adapted to the market is relevant and important.
Automatic transient signal detection and volcanic tremor extraction using music information retrieval strategies

&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Volcanic tremor is one of the most important signal in volcano seismology because of its potential to be a tool for forecasting eruptions and better understanding of underlying volcanic process. Despite different suggested mechanisms for volcanic tremor generation, the exact process of that is not well understood yet. This signal usually comes along with large number of earthquakes happening during unrest period that affect the shape and amplitude of tremor. A delicate signal processing is required to separate earthquakes and other transient signals from seismic waveform to derive a time series of volcanic tremor which can provide a new insight into tremor source investigations. Exploiting the idea of harmonic and percussive separation in musical signal processing we have developed a method to extract volcanic tremor and transient events from the seismic signal. By using the concept of periodicity as underlying generation process of tremor, we are able to extract the volcanic tremor signal based on the self similarity properties of spectra in time-frequency domain. The separation process results in two spectrograms representing repeating (long-lasting) and non-repeating (short-lived) patterns.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;From the spectrogram of the repeating pattern we reconstruct the signal in time domain by adding the original spectrogram&amp;amp;#8217;s phase information, thus creating an modified version of the long-lasting tremor signal.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Further, we can derive a characteristic function for transient events by integrating the amplitude of the non-repeating spectrogram in each time frame. This function has non zero value in transient event instances and zero value in time periods devoid of such events. Considering transient events as earthquakes we apply an onset detector to time first arrivals of the transient signal by using the slope of the function. First we determine local maxima of the function showing good correspondence to even the tiniest transient signals. From the peak locations we calculate the slope of each point within a period of 6 seconds preceding each peak. The uncertainty of positive P peaks is up to 0.32 seconds which is equal to the hope size of the calculated spectrogram. The advantage of timing earthquakes through this method is the ability of detecting very low seismic events, although due to the small window size of short time Fourier transform the process is time consuming. The result of this study is promising, while further testing is on-going to validate the method as well as determine applications and limitations.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;
Decrease of the Cognitive Dissonance of the Foreign Students at the Russian University based on the Extracurricular Activities

This article reviews the various features of the cognitive dissonance state of the foreign students arising at the beginning of their studies at the Russian University.The aim of the study is to identify the features and level characteristics of the cognitive dissonance of the foreign students and reduce this state on the basis of the author's individual trajectory for the implementation of the extracurricular activities at the Pedagogical University.Study participants: the second-year international students studying in the bachelor's degree program (n=149) at the Russian University.The results of the study were processed using (X2) by the Statistical Program SPSS Statistics 20.The experimental intervention included the activation of foreign students in the process of extracurricular activities of the university based on the author's individual trajectory.These students actively participated in social and educational activities that were implemented at the institute.Extracurricular activities at the Pedagogical University were represented by a complex of main areas: the center of student initiatives, the student scientific society, the department of student self-government, the center of leisure and creativity of students, the student sports and fitness club, the department of student teaching teams.Three main indicators of the cognitive dissonance were identified in the study: the level of the sociopsychological maladaptation of the students, neuro-psychiatric instability of the students and the level of their psycho-emotional discomfort.As a result, foreign students who were actively involved in the implementation of extracurricular activities along the author's individual trajectory had a significantly reduced (p<0.01 and p<0.05) state of cognitive dissonance for each indicator from a high to a low level.
NASA Smallsats Can Aid Hurricane Forecasts with GPS

The same GPS signals your phone uses for navigation can reveal winds hidden deep within hurricanes and detect water on land.
CHSH-nonlocality-breaking channels and their activation

We characterize CHSH-breaking conditions for different qubit channels, and demonstrate that certain pairs of CHSH-breaking channels can be activated to become CHSH-nonlocality preserving when used in parallel, thus enabling CHSH-nonlocality distribution through noisy channels.
LibGuides: 2020 Tournament of Books: Elimination Results

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PROTOTYPING A SYSTEM OF AN EARLY BUILDING DAMAGE ASSESSMENT EFFECTED BY AN EARTHQUAKE

The main purpose of this research is to identify a level of a building damage caused by an earthquake early and in detail by utilizing an information system. Early identification of the building damage will be categorized based on three categories, namely minor damage, moderate damage and major damage. Each classification has standards and calculations set up by the government. To find out the damage categories, a current study was carried out on how to develop an information system that could be used by evaluators in determining conclusions according to observation results. Related to the research and development method, and adapting the Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation and Evaluation (ADDIE) development model, researchers collaborate between the ADDIE model and the standard building damage values decided by the government in a real time. The design of the early damage assessment tool for buildings is still under development and is still a prototype system.Keywords: Buliding Damage, Information System, ADDIE
The First Year Students’ Ability in Making Appointment through Telephone Conversation at The English Department of Bung Hatta University

English is the primary international language for communication. By speaking well we can connect with people from all over the world. English becomes an official language of international relations in this globalization era, because almost important commercial and political leaders prefer to conduct international communications in English. English skill can be a key to social and economic success in some countries (Rico, 2004:4). Relating to this, the reseacher conducted this study on purpose of finding out and describing the first year students’ speaking ability in making appointment through telephone conversation. The population of this research was the first year students at the English Department of Bung Hatta University. The number of population is 39 students. The sample of this research was chosen by using total sampling technique. The data were collected through speaking test. To make the test reliable, the researcher  used inter-rater method. It means that there were two scorers to check the students’ speaking performance. The correlation coefficient of two scores was 0.78. It means that the test was reliable. The result of this research showed that the students’ speaking ability in  making appointment through telephone conversation at the English Department of Bung Hatta University was very good. In general, the students’ speaking ability in making appointment through telephone conversation was classified into very good ability. It was found that 95% students got very good ability. In specific, the students’ speaking ability in making appointment to see a doctor was very good. It was proved by finding that 95% students had very good ability, and the students’ speaking ability in making appointment to meet an office manager was very good, it was proved by finding that 85% students got very good ability. Based on the result of this research, it can be concluded that the first year students’ speaking ability in making appointment through telephone conversation at the English Department of Bung Hatta University was very good. Therefore, the lecturers are suggested to give enrichment for students, in order that the students’ speaking ability will be best, the students are suggested to do more enrichment to improve their speaking ability to become the best, and for the futher reseachers, they are suggested to do related reseach about makin appointment with friends. Key words : Speaking. Ability, Making Appointment, Telephone Conversation.
The Effect of Foreign Debt on Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan African Sub-Regions

The main objective of this paper is to verify the effect of foreign debt on economic growth in sub-Saharan African sub-regions from 1980 to 2017.The paper applies the Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) with robust standard deviations using the Lewbel's estimator (2012).Results indicate that foreign debt significantly enhances growth in four zones (SADC, EAC, CEMAC and ECOWAS) with different bearable thresholds.This seems to suggest that creditors may be aware that countries do not exceed their bearable threshold at least at regional level.
Loma Linda University Libraries: Earth & Biological Sciences Guide: Library Services

A guide to the information resources for students in the Department of Earth & Biological Sciences
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LibGuides: Searching Articles, Books, & More: 4 - Explore Section

This guide gives you basic information about how Summon works to find things owned by University of Rochester Libraries
Achieving Balanced Performance of Service Supply Chain through Structural Capital: Evidence from the Life Insurance Agency in Malaysia

Supply chain performance of a company is determined by its strategic resources. These resources may exist in the form of physical, human and structural resources.  Despite many studies on these resources carried out in the past, structural resource, an element of intellectual capital, is yet to be further explored, particularly in the supply chain of the service sector. Hence, the main aim of this paper is to determine the impact of the structural capital on the Life Insurance Agency performance in Malaysia. A total of 100 respondents of agency managers of life insurance companies in Malaysia was surveyed. A quantitative approach was used and data collection through questionnaire was analyzed using the Smart-PLS 3 software version 3.0. The results indicated the significant element of the intellectual capital focusing only the on structural capital towards agency performance. Overall results revealed that structural capital have a significant influence on agency performance of Life Insurance Agency in Malaysia.
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