646 research outputs found
Barron Prize Award Nominations
No full textThe Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes, founded by young adult author T.A. Barron, seeks nominations for its 2006 awards
Towards the exploitation of statistical language models for plagiarism detection with reference
No full textTo plagiarise is to robe credit of another person's work. Particularly, plagiarism in text means including text fragments (and even an entire document) from an author without giving him the correspondent credit. In this work we describe our first attempt to detect plagiarised segments in a text employing statistical Language Models (LMs) and perplexity. The preliminary experiments, carried out on two specialised and literary corpora (including original, part-of-speech and stemmed versions), show that perplexity of a text segment, given a Language Model calculated over an author text, is a relevant feature in plagiarism detection
Editorial
No full textThis article presents information on the August 2003 issue of the "Journal of Hospitality & Tourism." One of the aims of the journal is to provide a link between the hospitality, tourism, leisure, travel and event industries and academia. As in previous years, the author had attempted to achieve this aim by using the mid-year issue of the journal to disseminate research from recent academic conferences to a wider audience. An understandable criticism of academic research, and the usefulness of the information generated, centres around the length of time research results take to filter through to industry. Academic conferences have traditionally been the forum where university academics present findings from recently completed research or present a synopsis of work completed to date in the form of work in progress abstracts. The focus of this issue is to develop a closer relationship between industry and academia through the publication of papers from two recent hospitality and tourism research conference
Editorial
No full textThe article presents an introduction to the vol. 11 of the "Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management." The author feels the need for a platform to publish articles and contemporary research in the areas of hospitality, travel, tourism, leisure and event management. The article presents brief information about some of the articles published in the issue. The first article is by Tim Lockyer entitled "Weekend Accommodation-The Challenge: What are the Guests Looking for?," it reports on the means of improving weekend occupancy in hotels. The second article is by Tim Lockyer and M. Tsai titled "Dimensions of Chinese Culture Values in Relation to the Hotel Dining Experience." In this article the authors examine their dining experience in a 5-star hotel in Taiwan. Another article is "Predicting Job Retention of Hourly Employees in the Lodging Industry," by Ady Milman and Peter Ricci. This article focuses on the data of hourly paid employees working in small or medium sized hotels in the United States
At the going down of the sun
No full textAudio recording of Pat Barron's November 2001 presentation to the Nanaimo Historical Society about his memoir, "At The Going Down of the Sun" which was published in 2000.https://library.viu.ca/libinfo/harmfullanguagestatemen
Ode 1943 Sheet Music
No full textSheet music titled Ode 1943 . Written and performed by Barbara Bartlett and Phyllis Barron.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/giguere-early-life-and-education/1064/thumbnail.jp
Overview of the author identification task at PAN 2014
No full textThe author identification task at PAN-2014 focuses on author verification. Similar to PAN-2013 we are given a set of documents by the same author along with exactly one document of questioned authorship, and the task is to determine whether the known and the questioned documents are by the same author or not. In comparison to PAN-2013, a significantly larger corpus was built comprising hundreds of documents in four natural languages (Dutch, English, Greek, and Spanish) and four genres (essays, reviews, novels, opinion articles). In addition, more suitable performance measures are used focusing on the accuracy and the confidence of the predictions as well as the ability of the submitted methods to leave some problems unanswered in case there is great uncertainty. To this end, we adopt the c@1 measure, originally proposed for the question answering task. We received 13 software submissions that were evaluated in the TIRA framework. Analytical evaluation results are presented where one language-independent approach serves as a challenging baseline. Moreover, we continue the successful practice of the PAN labs to examine meta-models based on the combination of all submitted systems. Last but not least, we provide statistical significance tests to demonstrate the important differences between the submitted approaches
Reflections [Complete issue : 1990 Fall] Vol 16
No full textPublishing History: Print issues of Reflections magazine were published from 1975 to 1999 and its successor, Reflections on Nursing Leadership (RNL) began publication in 2000. RNL migrated to an online format, http://www.reflectionsonnursingleadership.org, in 2006 and continues today.
RNL is a member benefit of the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI). The historical print issues have been made openly available.
Publishing Frequency: Quarterly until its transition to online. It’s now updated virtually every day.
Format: Print, 1975 - 2005; Online, 2006 - present
Feature Articles in this Issue: Ethical Decision-making in Occupational Settings, Barbara Sachs, Joyce Verran
Research Report, Ada Lindsey
Violence Against Women: Implications for Research and Practice, Angela Barron McBride
This issue of Reflections thirty-two pages in length and contains information of interest to STTI members
Barron\u27s How To Prepare For The TOEFL (Test of English As a Foreign Language) -10/E.
No full textStudents getting ready to take the Test of English as a Foreign Language will find comprehensive preparation from Barron\u27s. The manual presents eight full-length model TOEFL exams that reflect the current computer-based TOEFL format. All tests come with answers and explanations. The author also offers test-taking advice and extra English-language practice material
A Fond Farewell (Barbara Barron)
No full textOriginally published in The Classmate Magazine (1961-2001), initially a publication of the Naval Postgraduate School's Officer Students' Wives' Club
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