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Constraints and opportunities facing women entrepreneurs in developing countries: a relational perspective
No full textPurpose: this purpose of the paper to examine the interplay of constraints and opportunities affecting female entrepreneurship in developing countries. The paper integrates salient micro- and macro-level perspectives and provides a rounded account of opportunities and constraints as part of a holistic interdependent system.Design/methodology/approach: the paper adopts an integrative multi-level research design and an interpretive research methodology, capitalizing on in-depth interviews with ten women entrepreneurs to explore their perceptions and interpretations of constraints and opportunities facing female entrepreneurship in the Lebanese context.Findings: the findings presented in this paper clearly illustrate the relevance of micro-, meso-, and macro-level factors in entrepreneurship research and the usefulness of integrating multiple lens and units of analysis to capture the complexity of the women entrepreneurship experience in any particular context.Originality/value: the value added of this research lies in adapting a framework recently popularized in the context of diversity management for use in entrepreneurship research, helping to capture in turn the dynamic interplay of multiple levels of analysis and objective/subjective factors influencing female entrepreneurshi
Dima isabellae Dajoz 1973
No full textDima isabellae Dajoz, 1973 Dima isabellae Dajoz, 1973: 103. Type depository. Holotype, female (MHNP?; see the Remark). Type locality. Greece: Euboea, Mt. Dirphys [Ile d'Eubée, mont Dirphys vers 1400 m]. Distribution. Greece. Literature. Dajoz (1973): original description; Chassain (1984): remark; Schimmel (1996a): catalogue; Wurst (1997): remark; Cate (2007): catalogue; Schimmel & Platia (2008): review; Mertlik et al. (2017): revision. Remark. Despite the intensive search by the author RK, A. Mantilleri (MHNP), and several other colleagues, the holotype has not been found in the collection of MHNP.Published as part of Kundrata, Robin, Musalkova, Marketa & Kubaczkova, Magdalena, 2018, Annotated catalogue of the click-beetle tribe Dimini (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Dendrometrinae), pp. 1-75 in Zootaxa 4412 (1) on page 19, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4412.1, http://zenodo.org/record/122188
Formal Safety Assessment Methods in Olkiluoto 1&2 NPP I&C Renewal Project DIMA
No full textFormal languages and methods provide a rigorous and systematic framework for requirement specification and design. A key benefit is the ability to logically prove the correctness of design solutions. TVO operates three nuclear power plants in Olkiluoto, Finland. Units 1 and 2 are BWR type reactors in use since 1979 and 1982. In 2020, TVO started the digital I&C lifetime management project DIMA, where selected I&C systems are renewed using mostly softwarebasedtechnology. In DIMA, VTT has used two different formal, computer-assisted methods to verify the design solutions. First, model checking was used to verify the functional architecture diagrams serving as design input, and then the detailed I&C logic diagrams developed by Westinghouse Electric Sweden. The analyses have revealed several issues related to spurious actuation, contradictory commands, frozen logic, and in general, incorrect response to inputs. Second, on the overall I&C architecture level, an ontology-based Defense-in-Depth (DiD) assessment method was used to perform interface analyses. The work succeeded in identifying violations of communication independence rules between DiD levels and safety classes. For each violation, TVO was then able to prove by their analyses that failure propagation could not cause unacceptable consequences at the plant level. In this paper, we introduce the formal methods used in the DIMA project, describe the scope of their application, and discuss the results
English Compounds Dataset for Compositionality Tests
No full textThe ENglish COMpositionality dataset containing COMpounds (en-comcom) was constructed from two existing compound datasets - the Tratz (2011) dataset and the Ó'Séaghdha (2008) dataset - and a selection of the nominal compounds in the WordNet database.
The Tratz (2011) dataset contains 19158 compounds and is part of the semantically-enriched parser described in Tratz (2011) available at http://www.isi.edu/publications/licensed-sw/fanseparser/
The Ó'Séaghdha (2008) contains 1443 compounds and is available at http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~do242/Resources/1443_Compounds.tar.gz
Additional compounds were collected from the WordNet 3.1 (Fellbaum, 1998) 'data.noun' file. The extracted list contained 18775 compounds.
The combination of compounds from the three sources was additionaly pre-processed and frequency-filtered - details in Dima (2019). The final dataset has 27220 compounds. The train, test and dev splits contain 19054, 5444 and 2722 compounds.
The train/test/dev files have the following format:
modifier head compound (e.g. police car police_car)
For results of compositionality models evaluated on this dataset see Dima (2016), Dima (2019).
Dima, Corina. 2015. Reverse-engineering Language: A Study on the Semantic Compositionality of German Compounds. In Proceedings of EMNLP 2015, Lisbon, Portugal, pp. pp. 1637–1642
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- Dima, C. 2016. On the Compositionality and Semantic Interpretation of English Noun Compounds. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP @ ACL 2016, pages 27–39, Berlin, Germany.
- Dima, C. 2019. Composition Models for the Representation and Semantic Interpretation of Nominal Compounds. PhD thesis. University of Tübingen.
- Fellbaum, C. 1998. WordNet. Wiley Online Library.
- Ó Séaghdha, D. 2008. Learning compound noun semantics. PhD thesis, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge. Published as University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory Technical Report 735.
- Tratz, S. 2011. Semantically-enriched parsing for natural language understanding. PhD thesis, PhD Thesis, University of Southern California.
English nominal compounds - compositional distributional representations - semandtic compositionResearch carried out in work package A03 of the SFB 833
Geological constraints on the urban shape evolution of Ariano Irpino (Avellino province, Italy)
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Teorie şi practică în aplicarea noului Cod Penal şi a noului Cod de Procedură Penală
No full textDIMA – Annotation guidelines for German intonation
No full textThis paper presents newly developed guidelines for prosodic annotation of German as a consensus system agreed upon by German intonologists. The DIMA system is rooted in the framework of autosegmental-metrical phonology. One important goal of the consensus is to make exchanging data between groups easier since German intonation is currently annotated according to different models. To this end, we aim to provide guidelines that are easy to learn. The guidelines were evaluated running an inter-annotator reliability study on three different speech styles (read speech, monologue and dialogue). The overall high κ between 0.76 and 0.89 (depending on the speech style) shows that the DIMA conventions can be applied successfully
Il dubbio e la certezza nella Siria di Dima Wannous
No full textQuesto articolo propone la traduzione dall’arabo all’italiano del contributo letterario “Il dubbio e la certezza” (al-Šakk wa-l-yaqīn) scritto da Dima Wannous in occasione del festival La Milanesiana 2018. Nell’introduzione, si colloca la scrittrice nel panorama della letteratura siriana contemporanea tradotta in italiano. Nel commento critico, invece, si esaminano i nodi tematici del testo – riflettendo sulle parole chiave del titolo in relazione al concetto di identità – e si forniscono alcune riflessioni sul processo traduttivo. Queste ultime riguardano il reperimento delle informazioni di contesto per comprendere i riferimenti politici e culturali, nonché la resa dello stile asciutto ottenuto grazie a scelte lessicali e di ritmo
Attribute Multiset Grammars for Global Explanations of Activities
No full textRecognizing multiple interleaved activities in a video requires implicitly partitioningthe detections for each activity. Furthermore, constraints between activities are impor-tant in finding valid explanations for all detections. We use Attribute Multiset Gram-mars (AMGs) as a formal representation for a domain’s knowledge to encode intra- andinter-activity constraints. We show how AMGs can be used to parse all the observa-tions into ‘feasible’ global explanations. We also present an algorithm for building aBayesian network (BN) given an AMG and a set of detections. The set of labellings ofthe BN corresponds to the set of all possible parse trees. Finding the best explanationthen amounts to finding the maximum a posteriori labeling of the BN. The techniqueis successfully applied to two different problems including the challenging problem ofassociating pedestrians and carried objects entering and departing a building
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