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Human-in-the-loop multimodal intent detection
Get PDFMultimodal intent recognition, as a key research topic in human-computer interaction, aims to construct precise human intent understanding models by fusing heterogeneous data streams including speech, text, gestures, and facial expressions. However, existing multimodal methods require complex feature extraction and fusion strategies. Current approaches exhibit numerous limitations when processing multimodal fusion in complex scenarios, such as high computational complexity in feature extraction and difficulties in bridging the semantic gap between modalities. Furthermore, multimodal datasets in real-world scenarios often present class imbalance and long-tail distribution characteristics, which further exacerbate the learning challenges for models. To address these challenges, We introduce MMIU, a unified framework for ID classification and OOD detection that synthesizes pseudo-OOD examples by convexly mixing in-distribution data and then learns multimodal representations at two levels. At the coarse level, it enforces a binary separation between ID and OOD; at the fine level, it refines ID-class boundaries by assigning confidence scores that reflect each sample’s difficulty and by applying instance-level contrastive learning to pull similar examples together and push dissimilar ones apart. A human-in-the-loop active-learning module further allows experts to label challenging unlabeled samples during training, triggering iterative retraining and yielding more accurate, robust models. This research will: evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of the new algorithm, reveal the technical challenges and theoretical significance in this research field, and provide new research paradigms and methodological insights for the academic community
Using Industry-level Characteristics to Assess the Degree to Which Interventions Engage An Employee Population
Get PDFParticipation is an essential component in workplace health and safety programs or interventions. While those who conduct interventions often report participation rates among the overall organization, it could be useful to compare participants to industry statistics, given that health and safety risks can diverge widely among industries. Research students from Kennesaw State University analyzed a sample of published papers that focus on occupational health psychology interventions. This narrative review analyzed existing studies to look for similarities or dissimilarities between a sample of intervention participants and employees of their industry as a whole. The students considered demographic, socioeconomic, job-related, and health-related characteristics. Incomplete reporting of sample characteristics was found to be common among the articles coded but was most common for demographic characteristics (comparison was possible in approximately 86% of samples). Samples tended to be similar to industry characteristics in age (65% coded as similar when comparison was possible), dissimilar in terms of gender, with trends of male and female overrepresentation both being common (42% and 38%, respectively when a comparison was possible) and dissimilar in terms of race, which samples being more White/Caucasian than the industry as a whole (66% when a comparison was possible). The findings of this study could encourage more complete reporting norms when describing the samples of workplace interventions, benefiting both research and practice
Treasures of God: The Fur Trade as a Motivating Factor of the Swedish Crusades
Get PDFThe Fur trade was one of Medieval Europe’s most profitable industries. The Republic of Novgorod in the north of Russia was one of this industry\u27s chief suppliers. Swedish expansion into Finland increasingly brought it into competition with Novgorod who had interests in the Karelians tribe of the region. The Swedes would justify their actions as a series of crusades. However, their actions and words often betrayed their true intentions, repeatedly seeking to seize control of Novgorodian trade as well as the Novgorodian fur tribute. Significant studies have been made of both the Russian fur trade and the Swedish expansion eastwards, yet these two subjects have rarely been combined. This paper seeks to analyze the interconnection of both the Medieval Russian fur trade and Swedish eastern expansion
Extractivism and water crisis in the Moroccan Draa Oasis: Global South reflections on responsibility and resistance
Get PDFAbstract. The Draa Oasis in southeastern Morocco is experiencing severe water scarcity, driven by climate change and intensified by the expansion of watermelon agribusiness and desert tourism. This article explores how external investors, empowered by national agricultural policies, have disrupted traditional water governance systems rooted in collective management. Through ethnographic fieldwork involving interviews, focus groups, and spatial mapping, the study examines the socio-environmental consequences of groundwater depletion and land commodification. It argues that investors fail to assume ethical accountability for the ecological degradation they cause, despite being aware of the oasis’s fragile ecosystem. Meanwhile, local communities and civil society actors resist the erosion of communal rights, advocating for sustainable resource use and environmental justice. The paper calls for urgent policy interventions that center local knowledge, reinforce collective rights, and regulate capitalist land and water exploitation in arid regions
Makayla Evans, Soprano
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Dr. Eric Jenkins, Pianohttps://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/musicprograms/2910/thumbnail.jp
Luke Whitney, Violin
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Eric Jenkins, Pianohttps://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/musicprograms/2909/thumbnail.jp
Evan Skrip, Alto Saxophone
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Jihye Song, Pianohttps://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/musicprograms/2897/thumbnail.jp
Brandon Lewis, Piano
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Symphony Orchestra
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featuring Helen Kim, Violinhttps://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/musicprograms/2931/thumbnail.jp
A Travel Ban is Nothing New: Moral Panic, Moral Entrepreneurs, and Immigration Policy
Get PDFThe U.S. travel ban on Muslims was part of a historical pattern to curb immigration. In this paper, we take a historical-comparative approach to analyze two cases: The Chinese Exclusion Act and the Muslim Ban. We show how moral panics fueled by moral entrepreneurs led to immigration policies banning both groups and how historical events were important in the process. In the Chinese case, cultural stereotypes and competition with other immigrant groups led to the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act. In the Muslim case, 9/11 led moral entrepreneurs to associate all Muslims with terrorism, setting the stage for moral panic and the 2017 Muslim ban. While specific events differed, we find that the process of moral panic and the role of moral entrepreneurs were similar in both cases, as moral entrepreneurs played a similar role in both cases of fomenting fear and encouraging discrimination to further their personal and political ends