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Produktivnost i učinkovitost nizozemskih ministarstava u razdoblju 2012. – 2019.
No full textProfesor Jos L. T. Blank s nizozemskog Delft University of Technology i predsjednik zaklade Instituta za učinkovitost javnog sektora (IPSE) održao je 30. studenoga 2023. predavanje o produktivnosti i učinkovitosti nizozemskih ministarstava na temelju članka objavljenog u časopisu Public Sector Economics.
Kako bi izmjerili produktivnost, Blank i njegovi koautori – Alex A. S. van Heezik i Bas Blank – procijenili su funkciju prosječnog troška na temelju podataka nizozemskih ministarstava tijekom razdoblja 2012. – 2019. Rezultati pokazuju da postoje velike razlike u učinkovitosti ministarstava, a s vremenom ne dolazi do velikih promjena, vjerojatno zbog nedostatka inovativnosti, neefikasne birokracije i sve složenije papirologije.
Prezentaciju je moderirao Branko Stanić, istraživač s Instituta za javne financije
Letter, [Author unclear] to Paulina T. Merritt
No full textHandwritten letter to Paulina Merritt from an unknown author, October 1, 1876.
Fearful faces shorten the perceived blank duration
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PURPOSE: Numerous studies had generally found that the perceived durations of fear-relevant stimuli were judged longer than those of the neutral ones. However, in our previous study, we found the blank durations presented before the fearful IAPS images were judged shorter than those of the neutral ones. Different from the emotional scenes, emotional faces contain more social information. In this study, we tried to investigate that whether the blank durations followed by fearful faces were perceived shorter than the neutral ones as the fearful scenes did.
METHODS: The fearful and neutral faces were selected from the Nimstim Face Stimulus Set. Twenty participants were allowed to judge the longer one in a pair of durations of the blank which were followed by a fearful face or a neutral face. One of the durations before faces (fearful or neutral) was randomly selected as the standard duration and presented for 1000 ms, and the other could be displayed for 400,600,800,1000,1200,1400,1600 ms. The results from the two-alternative forced-choice were fit with a function for each observer, and mean PSE (point of subjective equality) were calculated as the indicator of temporal compression or dilatation.
RESULTS: One sample t tests revealed a significant positive PSE [t(19) = 2.49, p < .05], suggesting that the blank durations followed by fearful faces were perceived shorter compared to neutral ones.
CONCLUSIONS: According to the SET model, the present study may reflect that the memory stage of timing was disturbed by fearful faces, and the pulses in working memory could not get access to comparator, leading to an underestimation of the blank durations relative to neutral faces.</p
Arthur T. Blank U.S. Army photograph
No full textBlack & white US Army portrait photograph of Edith father\u27s Arthur T. Blank. He was in the 89th infantry division and served in France during WWII. The 89th infantry helped liberate a concentration camp. [The Camp referred to is presumably Ohrdruf, a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp, which was liberated by the 89th Infantry on On April 4, 1945. The 89th Infantry Division\u27s nickname, the "Rolling W," is based on the division\u27s insignia (on left sleeve of jacket)]
Moodle Template Course for the T@SK Project
No full textThis file is a course blank template example designed for the T@SK Project.
Is a Moodle course with all the activities and resources explained. It also includes teaching, students and a general Moodle guidelines (for 3.7 version).This is part of the T@SK PROJECT (TOWARDS INCREASED AWARENESS, RESPONSIBILITY AND SHARED QUALITY IN SOCIAL WORK). Founded by the EACEA with the ID 585626-EPP-1-2017-1-IT-EPPKA2-CBHE-J
Multi-blank Transducers for Speech Recognition
No full textThis paper proposes a modification to RNN-Transducer (RNN-T) models for
automatic speech recognition (ASR). In standard RNN-T, the emission of a blank
symbol consumes exactly one input frame; in our proposed method, we introduce
additional blank symbols, which consume two or more input frames when emitted.
We refer to the added symbols as big blanks, and the method multi-blank RNN-T.
For training multi-blank RNN-Ts, we propose a novel logit under-normalization
method in order to prioritize emissions of big blanks. With experiments on
multiple languages and datasets, we show that multi-blank RNN-T methods could
bring relative speedups of over +90%/+139% to model inference for English
Librispeech and German Multilingual Librispeech datasets, respectively. The
multi-blank RNN-T method also improves ASR accuracy consistently. We will
release our implementation of the method in the NeMo
(https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo) toolkit
Order Blank
No full textOrder form blank for Psychiana written materials with retail, cost, and profit columns
Ursachen nationaler Identität in Ost- und Westdeutschland. Ein empirischer Theorienvergleich zur Bedeutung von Autoritarismus, Anomie und generellem Selbstwertgefühl
No full textBlank T. Ursachen nationaler Identität in Ost- und Westdeutschland. Ein empirischer Theorienvergleich zur Bedeutung von Autoritarismus, Anomie und generellem Selbstwertgefühl. In: Blank T, Reinecke J, eds. Angewandte Sozialwissenschaften. Mannheim: FRG; 2002: 193-232
A cycle of life of T cell activation
No full textOratie uitgesproken door Prof. C.U. Blank MD bij de aanvaarding van het ambt van Bijzonder hoogleraarInterne Geneeskunde aan de Universiteit Leiden op vrijdag 14 oktober 2022Oratie uitgesproken door Prof. C.U. Blank MD bij de aanvaarding van het ambt van Bijzonder hoogleraar
Interne Geneeskunde aan de Universiteit Leiden op vrijdag 14 oktober 2022LUMC / Geneeskund
Range Reporting for Time Series via Rectangle Stabbing
No full textWe study the Fréchet queries problem. It is a data structure problem for range reporting, where we are given a set S of n polygonal curves and a distance threshold ρ. The data structure should support queries with a polygonal curve q for the elements of S, for which the continuous Fréchet distance to q is at most ρ. Afshani and Driemel in 2018 studied this problem for two-dimensional polygonal curves of constant complexity and gave upper and lower bounds on the space-query time tradeoff. We study the case that the ambient space of the curves is one-dimensional and show an intimate connection to the well-studied rectangle stabbing problem. Here, we are given a set of hyperrectangles as input and a query with a point q should return all input rectangles that contain this point. Using known data structures for rectangle stabbing or orthogonal range searching this directly leads to a data structure with size in (n log^{t-1} n) and query time in (log^{t-1} n+k), where k denotes the output size and t can be chosen as the maximum number of vertices of either (a) the stored curves or (b) the query curves. Note that we omit factors depending on the complexity of the curves that do not depend on n. The resulting bounds improve upon the bounds by Afshani and Driemel in both the storage and query time. In addition, we show that known lower bounds for rectangle stabbing and orthogonal range reporting with dimension parameter d = ⌊t/2⌋ can be applied to our problem via reduction
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