449 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
A Reassessment of Barron’s Classic Sand-Drain Theory Using a Coupled Hydraulic-Mechanical FEM Analysis
No full textIn this paper, the findings presented by Barron (1948) have been corroborated by way of a hydraulic-mechanical coupled finite element analysis. Specifically, the FEM analysis was conducted using a poroelasticity approach in combination with a transient formulation that incorporates Darcy’s law. This study highlights the fact that variations in pore pressure dissipation between the coupled FEM analysis of this study and Barron’s theoretical analysis are minimal. The coupled FEM simulations confirm Barron’s conclusions that, as the well diameter ratio (n) increases, the rate of pore water pressure dissipation decreases. Ultimately, for design purposes, a stress field is also required and consequently, a coupled FEM analysis is necessary. On this basis, results indicate high shear stress concentrations near the upper and lower boundaries, while the mean effective stress decreases from the well bore boundary
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
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
Protected area visitor data collection and management: Emerging issues and gaps in current Australian practices
No full textProtected area agencies are charged with the preservation, conservation and management of areas including wilderness, national parks and forests. These agencies are faced with increasing visitor numbers and decreasing budgets at a time where activities like tourism have to be managed alongside their traditional roles as natural resource managers. This paper reports on the outcomes of the first stage of a research project that seeks to guide a nationally consistent approach to visitor use data collection for protected area agencies. First, the paper provides a background literature review of approaches to visitor use data collection for protected area agencies. Second, the paper outlines the participatory action research approach used in the study where thirteen protected area agencies are collaborators in the research process. This approach ensures that the protected areas agencies data needs are central to the research outcomes and recognises the pragmatic organisational cultural issues associated with visitor data collection, management and use. The research process incorporates organisational networking at all levels from head office, regions, branches and individual parks involving management information systems, interviews, focus groups, presentations, briefings and follow-up contact. Third, the paper then presents the emergent themes that examine the issues and gaps in current visitor data collection, management and use systems. The paper concludes with discussion of the challenges to developing a national system of visitor data collection and use
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
Off the Shelf: Official Newsletter of UWEC Libraries, 40th Anniversary Issue: 1982-2022, Fall 2022
No full textIn This Issue: From the Director's Desk - Around the Libraries: The McIntyre Library Catalog: A Timeline, The Eleanor Jones Papers, 1943-2017 - Let the Music See You Outro - Barron County Library Highlights + Updates - Welcome, Jennifer! - Recent Acquisitions - Protecting Your Right to Read - Save the Date: Toya Wolfe Author Talk - Updates From the Blugold Makerspace - After Dark 2022 - Welcome, Eva! - Welcome, Sarah! - Staff News.The 40th Anniversary Issue of Off the Shelf, Fall 2022, Issue 96
A Hazard Assessment and Application of Loss Control at Jerome Foods Incorporated - Barron, Wisconsin
No full textPlan BJerome Foods Incorporated is part of the meat
and meat products industry. The total corporation employs
680 people , while the processing plant in Barron, Wisconsin
employs up to 450 people and produces 50,000,000 pounds of
processed turkey each year. It is to this particular installation
that attention will be focused. The objective will
be to identify the physical hazards and the hazardous situations
that may cause harm to the employees. Having identified a hazard, suggestions will be presented on
implementing a control or elimination of t he hazard. These
abatement suggestions cannot stand alone in an investigation.
Other alternatives would certainly exist. The suggestions
are t hose of the author, biased by his training as a safety
coordinator and tempered by economic limitations. The actual
implementation will be at the discretion of Jerome Foods
Incorporated and will not be included in this study
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