nils-herrmann/clean_scirepeval huggingface dataset:
Design and Implementation of a Diacritic Arabic Text To Speech System

The absence of the diacritical marks from the modern Arabic text generates a significant increase of the ambiguity in the Arabic text, which can cause confusion in the pronunciation of a written word. Despite the fact that the reader with a certain level of Arabic knowledge can easily recover the missing diacritics by: using the words context, the morphology and the syntax knowledge of the Arabic language. This paper describes a design and implementation of a Text To Speech system for a diacritic Arabic text. The goal of this project is to obtain a set of high quality speech synthesizer based on unit selection using a bi grams model taking into account the particularities of the language. It takes a diacritic Arabic text as input and produces corresponding speech; the output is available as male voice. The evaluation of our TTS system is based on subjective and objective tests. The final evaluation of GArabic TTS system, regarding the intelligibility, naturalness aspects (listening) and the quality (PESQ) is jugged successful.
Automatic segmentation of Arabic speech signals by HMM and ANN
Venue: 2016 International Conference on Electrical Sciences and Technologies in Maghreb (CISTEM)

In this paper, we propose an automatic segmentation system of speech into phonemes for the Arabic language. This segmentation is based on two different techniques Hidden Markov Models (HMM) and Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) Both systems were used to classify the speech signals, extracted from ALGASD corpus (ALGerian Arabic Speech Database) into five classes fricatives, plosives, nasals, liquids and vowels. These methods achieve important performances with advantage of ANN.
TEORI PEMBELAJARAN MATEMATIKA MENURUT ALIRAN PSIKOLOGI BEHAVIORISTIK (TINGKAH LAKU)

Learning theory is an attempt to describe how people learn, thereby helping us understand the complex process of learning. Learning theory concerned with how a person influences others to enable the learning process. Bruner in Degeng suggests that learning theory is prescriptive, while learning theory is descriptive. Prescriptive means, the goal of learning theory is a set of methods learning strategies in order to obtain optimum results match In other words, the theory of learning to deal with attempts to control specific variables in the theory of learning in order to facilitate learning. While the descriptive meaning, the purpose of learning theory is to explain the process of learning. Learning theory concerned with how people learn. The theory of learning behavior (behavioristik) include, among others: Thorndike theory, skinner theory, the theory of Ausubel, Gagne Theory, Theory Pavlov, Theory Baruda and mental exercise flow. Thus mathematics teacher who studied this theory is very useful to improve her skills as a professional math teacher because by mastering this material and its application will improve also the insight ability to implement mathematics learning activities in the classroom.
Assessment of smartphone applications for total body digital photography guided skin exams by patients.
Venue: Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

The process of total body digital photography (TBDP) optimizes image quality with the use of a single lens reflex (SLR) camera, professional lighting, and a contrasting background to obtain 20 to 50 standardized photographs prints and/or a CD of digital versions) that are used as a baseline to compare against when checking for new or changing pigmented skin lesions. Patients, however, often express concern that others may find and view their printed photographs, and that they would like to magnify images. Even using a CD of digital photos can be cumbersomewhen trying to position a
Perceived Online Education Barriers of Administrators and Faculty at a U.S. University in Lebanon.

The purpose of this quantitative study was to identify the perceived barriers obstructing the implementation of online education by administrators and faculty at the School of Arts and Sciences of a U.S. university located in Lebanon. The aim of this study was to offer a solution to the most important perceived barriers to online education that informs administrative decisions concerning the appropriate modalities of online instruction that may be implemented at the university. The exploratory factor analysis identified 8 factors out of 35 possible perceived barriers to online education. Faculty and administrators perceived the structural barriers and the pedagogical barriers as very important. Faculty also perceived technical barriers as very important. As a first step toward offering online instruction, the university leadership could offer blended traditional and online education instruction for suitable courses in the School of Arts and Sciences with the goal of assessing feasibility and acceptance. The implementation of this solution may be smoother if facilitated using various leadership styles. In this article, the transformational leadership style is used for implementing the solution to the problem. The findings of this research may be beneficial for other universities in Lebanon and other nations that may be considering the implementation of online education.
Administrators' and Faculty's Perceived Online Education Barriers and The Role of Transformational Leadership at a U.S. University in Lebanon

The purpose of this quantitative study was to identify the perceived barriers obstructing the implementation of online education by administrators and faculty at the School of Arts and Sciences of a U.S. university located in Lebanon. The aim of this study was to offer a solution to the most important perceived barriers to online education that informs administrative decisions concerning the appropriate modalities of online instruction that may be implemented at the university. The exploratory factor analysis identified 8 factors out of 35 possible perceived barriers to online education. Faculty and administrators perceived the structural barriers and the pedagogical barriers as very important. Faculty also perceived technical barriers as very important. As a first step toward offering online instruction, the university leadership could offer blended traditional and online education instruction for suitable courses in the School of Arts and Sciences with the goal of assessing feasibility and acceptance. The implementation of this solution may be smoother if facilitated using various leadership styles. In this article, the transformational leadership style is used for implementing the solution to the problem. The findings of this research may be beneficial for other universities in Lebanon and other nations that may be considering the implementation of online education.
Blended E Learning Constraints from the Viewpoint of Faculty Members

This research aims to identify obstacles to the use of blended e learning in Al Balqa Applied University through the viewpoint of faculty members. This research also aims at finding out the constraints that this type of e learning and finding appropriate solutions for these constraints in the future. The results of this research will also offer proposals and recommendations that will increase the effectiveness of this type of e learning. Furthermore, the research also aims to find out the best method of training faculty members on how to use blended e learning. The study used a descriptive analytical through the review of the literature on the subject of the study to determine the factors influencing the phenomenon of study. A questioner was then developed to collect the necessary data. After analysis, the results showed that the constraints relating to the University support cited the most relating to faculty members. This was followed by constraints involving students and finally constraints related to infrastructure were ranked last. Training and workshops were shown to be the best methods to develop skills for e learning systems for faculty members. One of the main recommendations of this study was there needs to be attractive incentives for faculty members to be motivated and provide introductory course in e learning for students. and provide adequate support for content development and the involvement of faculty members in designing the content and Exchange of experience between faculty members in the University with the support of the Ministry of higher education, and Increase the number of laboratories dedicated to blended e learning that is available to students outside lecture times.
The Implementation Of E learning Strategy

This paper examines the implementation of e learning strategies, from the perspective of four common objectives: To increased capacity and capability for e learning applications and looking ahead to a new learning technologies and their applications, To provide a quality information to applying the e learning strategy To Develop quality of training materials or reuse others that have been created, which apart from the specific content of the course material the research methodology is the theoretical research based on the literature review the research consist of discussion between the previous studies.
A Balanced Scorecard of Sustainable Management in the Taiwanese Bicycle Industry: Development of Performance Indicators and Importance Analysis

The main purpose of this study is to investigate the development of the performance indicators of sustainable management in the Taiwanese bicycle industry and to perform an importance analysis. Based on the Balanced Scorecard concept, the framework of sustainable management is added. Ten experts evaluated the performance indicators of a sustainable Balanced Scorecard in the Taiwanese bicycle industry using five major categories: (1) Financial, (2) Customer, (3) Internal Business Processes, (4) Learning and Growth, and (5) Sustainable Development, and a total of 21 performance indicators were used. The analytic network process (ANP) was used to perform an importance analysis of the various performance indicators. Most of the experts suggested that for the introduction of a sustainable management strategy into the bicycle industry in Taiwan, it is necessary to include the definition of sustainable management and to improve five performance indicators: innovation process, customer satisfaction, operations process, after sales service, and market share. According to the analysis results, this study proposed relevant management definitions and suggestions to be used as important references for decision makers to understand the introduction of sustainable management strategies to the current bicycle industry in Taiwan.
Cultural (in)visibility and identity dissonance: Queer Iranian American women and their negotiation of existence

This qualitative study explores the narratives of 12, first generation, queer, Iranian American women to understand (a) how Iranian cultural, familial, and relational discourses influence feelings of "belonging" for queer Iranian American women, and (b) how queer Iranian American women cope with the challenges of being both LGBTQ and Iranian American. Online interviews were analyzed using grounded theory analysis, revealing that queer Iranian American women experience feelings of cultural isolation as a result of the homosexual identity delegitimization that is often perpetuated within the Iranian community. Participants cope by creating cultural distance between themselves and the Iranian community when they experience this isolation.
Trust as indicator of robot functional and social acceptance. An experimental study on user conformation to iCub answers
Venue: Comput. Hum. Behav.

To investigate the functional and social acceptance of a humanoid robot, we carried out an experimental study with 56 adult participants and the iCub robot. Trust in the robot has been considered as a main indicator of acceptance in decision making tasks characterized by perceptual uncertainty (e.g. evaluating the weight of two objects) and socio cognitive uncertainty (e.g. evaluating which is the most suitable item in a specific context) and measured by the participants' conformation to the iCub's answers to specific questions. In particular, we were interested in understanding whether specific (i) user related features (i.e. desire for control) (ii) robot related features (i.e. attitude towards social influence of robots) and (iii) context related features (i.e. collaborative vs. competitive scenario) may influence their trust towards the iCub robot. We found that participants conformed more to the iCub's answers when their decisions were about functional issues than when they were about social issues. Moreover, the few participants conforming to the iCub's answers for social issues also conformed less for functional issues. Trust in the robot's functional savvy does not thus seem to be a pre requisite for trust in its social savvy. Finally, desire for control, attitude towards social influence of robots and type of interaction scenario did not influence the trust in iCub. Results are discussed with relation to methodology of HRI research.
A block oriented C programming environment
Venue: 2016 International Conference on Applied System Innovation (ICASI)

This paper is aimed at developing a block oriented C programming environment called Blockly C based on Google Blockly. In this environment, programming beginners can easily write C programs by drag and drop visual blocks while they need not be familiar with the complex statement syntax of C language. Because of friendly interface, they can effectively increases their effect and interest on learning C programming with the support of Blockly C.
Object Oriented Programming and its Concepts

Object Oriented Programming (OOP) utilizes an alternate arrangement of programming language than old procedural programming dialects (C, Pascal, and so forth. It is a methodology which is essentially centered on the way objects collaborate to convey and share the data. It changed the utilization of procedural oriented programming, where the attention was on the methodology of execution. The object oriented methodology brought another way, giving more significance to the items. There are four basic concepts which are to be emphasized. The first concept is that of an Object. It is the basic building block of any programming language. It represents the way you can describe anything in the programming world. The next is Class; a class in OOP is the principle body of any system. The classes frame the fundamental improvement unit of any system. Third factor is Inheritance, where we can create a new class known as derived class from the parent base class. This helps in reducing the time for coding and the derived class is error free. The last factor is Polymorphism, which means the capacity to ask for that the same operations be performed by an extensive variety of diverse sorts of things.
Seismic Performance and Retrofitting of Open Ground Storey Buildings with Floating Columns

Floating columns, columns which rests on beams and does not have any foundation, are common in many of the multi storey buildings which are proposed to accommodate parking at ground floor or open halls. An attempt is made here to analyse the seismic performance of open ground storey buildings with floating columns and to suggest the best retrofitting method to strengthen the building. G+15 building models are considered for the study. Effect of position of floating column is also studied. 5 methods of retrofitting are compared to find out the best one among them. Analysis is done by using ETABS 2015 software. The results show that, lower the position of floating column, the worse is the response of building. From the study it has been found that infill walls can be used as the most effective retrofitting method to strengthen the floating column buildings.  Floating column, Open ground storey, Retrofitting, Storey displacement
Seismic Evaluation of RC Unsymmetrical Building with Floating Columns Soft storey Considering Different Configuration

Open first story and Floating columns are typical features in the modern multi storey constructions in urban India.This paper deals with the study of architectural drawing and the framing drawing of the building having Floating columns Soft storey. Existing commercial building comprising of G+ 7 structures has been selected for carrying out the project work. The building was modelled as per plan and the plan was remodified in different ways so that total twelve models are carried out in this study.In the present work, the recommendations such as the effect of Infill, Bracings and Shear wall are introduced in the building in order to improve the seismic performance.The structural action of masonry infill panels have been taken into account by modelling them as diagonal struts.Equivalent static and response spectrum methods are used for analysis by ETABS 15.2.0 software. The structure was assumed to be situated in earthquake Zone III V on a medium soil (type II) The parameters evaluated were displacement, storey drift, storey shear, and storey stiffness of all models are compared and significant co relationship between these values are established with graphs.
El caso DMG: responsabilidad del Estado susceptible de indemnizacion por accion de grupo

Analisis de la vulneracion de la confianza legitima de los tarjetahabientes que invirtieron sus dineros en la Comercializadora DMG y que lo hicieron basados en la confianza legitima que les inspiraba el que el presidente de la Republica los instara en dos Consejos Comunales y a que uno de sus hijos hiciera parte de una de las firmas del holding empresarial. Al producirse la intervencion estatal, por la fuerza del Grupo Aval y su presidente, y negarse el Estado a devolver la totalidad de sus inversiones y reditos, existe una responsabilidad estatal susceptible de indemnizacion por medio de la accion de grupo.
Factors Affecting Job Satisfaction of Immigrant Korean Nurses
Venue: Journal of transcultural nursing official journal of the Transcultural Nursing Society

An increasing number of foreign born nurses are working in the United States. Nurses' job satisfaction is a critical issue for quality patient care. The purpose of this study was to examine factors affecting the job satisfaction of immigrant Korean nurses.  We used a cross sectional mailed survey design. A convenience sample (n 105) of members of the Greater New York Korean Nurses Association currently working or had previously worked in the United States completed the questionnaires. We used hierarchical regression to test the effects of acculturation and life satisfaction on job satisfaction.  Most participants were female (n 98, 93.3% aged 27 to 70 years (mean 52.27 years, SD 10.67) In the regression model, life satisfaction, self esteem, and perceived stress predicted job satisfaction (F 5.127, p .001) and explained 44.5% of the variance of job satisfaction.  U.S. nurses need to gain insight into factors influencing job satisfaction in Korean nurses to promote retention and quality care.
Prevalence and Predictive Factors of Depression in Community Dwelling Older Adults in South Korea
Venue: Research and Theory for Nursing Practice

The aims of the study were to investigate the levels of depression and to identify the predictors of depression among older adults in 3 different environments based on their primary place of leisure time activity, including their homes, small community halls, and senior welfare centers. A convenience sample of 833 older adults participated in the study. Instruments for measuring functional independence, social support, life satisfaction, and depression were used. The data were analyzed using a one way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and multiple hierarchical regressions. The level of depression in older adults at home was significantly greater than the level of depression in those in both small community halls and senior welfare centers. Life satisfaction was the strongest negative predictor of depression in older adults both at home and in senior welfare centers, whereas employment status was the one in those in small community halls. Across the 3 groups, poor subjective health was the strongest positive predictor of depression. The levels of depression and predictors differed among the settings. Nurses should have a thorough understanding of these differences when planning effective strategies for managing depression in older adults.
The mediating role of spirituality on professional values and self efficacy: a study of senior nursing students.
Venue: Journal of advanced nursing

The aim of this study was to identify the significance of spirituality in enhancing self efficacy related to professional values in senior nursing students.  Self efficacy can predict job satisfaction and performance as professional nurses in clinical settings. Senior nursing students should have the level of self efficacy that enables them to perform professional roles based on professional values, because they will enter clinical settings immediately after graduation. Spirituality may help senior nursing students during the transition to professional life to reflect on their skills, knowledge and situations to enhance self efficacy based on professional values.  An exploratory, cross sectional design was used in this study.  A total of 194 senior nursing students in South Korea were recruited in 2014. They completed self reported questionnaires consisting of demographic questions, Spiritual Assessment Scale, Self Efficacy Scale and Nursing Professional Values inventory. A Sobel test was done to determine the mediating effect of spirituality on the relationship between nursing professional values and self efficacy.  The findings showed a positive correlation between professional values, spirituality and self efficacy in nursing students. According to the Sobel test, spirituality had a mediating effect on the relationship between professional values and self efficacy in senior nursing students.  Spirituality can be a foundation that provides senior nursing students with higher self efficacy so that they are able to perform their professional roles based on their professional values. The findings can guide nursing educators to include spiritual development of nursing students to enhance the self efficacy of senior nursing students, the future of the nursing profession.
Institutional development and bank competitive transformation in late industrializing economies: the Spanish case

This paper explores the contribution of national institutions to the competitive transformation of big commercial banks in late industrializing countries through the analysis of the Spanish case. The paper uses a comparative historical analysis to establish that strategic coordination between the state and large banks is a structural feature of the banking sector but may be articulated differently depending on the balance of power between states, banks and industry, the preferences of these actors, and their resources. Using evidence from Spain since the late 1970s, the paper argues that in this country, state bank coordination was articulated as a non hierarchical system of negotiated interactions and mutual exchanges of benefits between small groups of decision makers at the government, the central bank, and big banks. Under the Spanish model, large banks contributed to the fulfillment of public policy objectives to develop the central bank's capacity to conduct monetary policy, strengthen supervision of the banking system, and modernize the financial sector. In exchange, big banks benefited from a favorable regulation that enabled them to restructure, consolidate the leadership of a new generation of bankers, and reach the efficiency frontier of their industry. The paper contributes to the literature of institutionalism by questioning the traditional dichotomy between market and strategic coordination. It also contributes to the literature of competitiveness by stimulating debate about the role of the state in supporting the transformation of big business.