189 research outputs found
"The Author of Alice" by Father Burke-Gaffney : [lecture notes]
No full textFile consists of a lecture notes for a lecture delivered by Father Burke-Gaffney to students in the SMU Adult Education program. The lecture's subject was Lewis Caroll (Charles Dodgson) and the success of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". The lecture notes comprise 25 numbered pages, and one page of extra handwritten notes
Bairdemys GAFFNEY & TONG & MEYLAN 2002, new genus
No full text<i>BAIRDEMYS</i>, new genus <p> TYPE SPECIES: <i>Bairdemys hartsteini</i>, new species.</p> <p>DISTRIBUTION: Miocene of Puerto Rico and Venezuela.</p> <p> DIAGNOSIS: A <i>Shweboemys</i> Group Pelomedusoides (sensu Meylan, 1996) known from skull and shell; secondary palate shorter than in all <i>Shweboemys</i> Group except <i>‘‘Shweboemys’’ gaffneyi</i>; medial edges of palatal cleft curved as in <i>‘‘Shweboemys’’ gaffneyi</i>; ventral convexity on triturating surface larger than in all other <i>Shweboemys</i> Group; eustachian tube separated by bone from rest of fenestra postotica in contrast to all known Podocnemididae; antrum postoticum extremely small and slitlike in contrast to all other <i>Shweboemys</i> Group; frontal and prefrontal strongly convex on dorsal surface in contrast to all other <i>Shweboemys</i> Group; basisphenoid separated from palatines by medially meeting pterygoids as in <i>‘‘Shweboemys’’ antiqua</i>; basioccipital longer than in <i>Shweboemys pilgrimi</i>; jugal­pterygoid contact prevents palatine­parietal contact.</p> <p> INCLUDED SPECIES: <i>Bairdemys venezuelensis</i> (Wood and Díaz de Gamero, 1971), <i>Bairdemys hartsteini</i>, new species (see table 1 for comparisons).</p> <p>ETYMOLOGY: The genus name is in honor of Dr. Donald Baird, a student of fossil turtles and other reptiles, who spent most of his career at Princeton University, and was an</p> <p> TABLE 1 <b> Comparison of <i>Bairdemys</i> species</b> </p> <p>inspiring mentor of both authors. Don is active in many areas of vertebrate paleontology and fossil reptile research and has influenced many young people in paleontology. In 1964, when one of the authors, Gene Gaffney, was a senior at Rutgers University, Don was directly responsible for introducing Gene to fossil turtles. Roger Wood, the other author, as a Princeton undergraduate was also influenced by Don in entering paleontology.</p>Published as part of <i>GAFFNEY, EUGENE S., TONG, HAIYAN & MEYLAN, PETER A., 2002, Bairdemys, a New Side-Necked Turtle (Pelomedusoides: Podocnemididae) from the Miocene of the Caribbean, pp. 1-28 in American Museum Novitates 3359</i> on pages 2-4, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0082(2002)379<0001:GANSNT>2.0.CO;2, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/4712203">http://zenodo.org/record/4712203</a>
Cold & fire
No full text"Cold & Fire", a song by the Australian band Dear Anonymous, was produced as part of the Indie 100 research intensive project within the Independent Music Project (IMP). The IMP is an ongoing, interdisciplinary research arm within QUT. The song's author is Julia Kourtidis
SemEval-2022 Task 8: multilingual news article similarity
No full textThousands of new news articles appear daily in outlets in different languages. Understanding which articles refer to the same story can not only improve applications like news aggregation but enable cross-linguistic analysis of media consumption and attention. However, assessing the similarity of stories in news articles is challenging due to the different dimensions in which a story might vary, e.g., two articles may have substantial textual overlap but describe similar events that happened years apart. To address this challenge, we introduce a new dataset of nearly 10,000 news article pairs spanning 18 language combinations annotated for seven dimensions of similarity as SemEval 2022 Task 8. Here, we present an overview of the task, the best performing submissions, and the frontiers and challenges for measuring multilingual news article similarity. While the participants of this SemEval task contributed very strong models, achieving up to 0.818 correlation with gold standard labels across languages, human annotators are capable of reaching higher correlations, suggesting space for further progress
Cobwebs (Just a Minute)
No full text"Cobwebs (Just a Minute), a song by the Australian artist Charlotte Emily, was produced as part of the Indie 100 research intensive project within the Independent Music Project (IMP). The IMP is an ongoing, interdisciplinary research arm within QUT. The song's author is Charlotte Boumford
Replication Data for Tiplines to Uncover Misinformation on Encrypted Platforms: A Case Study of the 2019 Indian General Election on WhatsApp
No full textMetadata on the times at which text and image messages were submitted to a tipline and public groups along with similarity/clustering data grouping messages. Please see the README file and the published paper for further details. Please cite the following publication if you use this data:
Kazemi, A., Garimella, K., Shahi, G. K., Gaffney, D., & Hale, S. A. (2022). Research note: Tiplines to uncover misinformation on encrypted platforms: A case study of the 2019 Indian general election on WhatsApp. Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review. https://doi.org/10.37016/mr-2020-91
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Claim Detection and Matching for Indian Languages
No full textTwo datasets are included in this repository: claim matching and claim detection datasets. The collections contain data in 5 languages: Bengali, English, Hindi, Malayalam and Tamil.
The "claim detection" dataset contains textual claims from social media and fact-checking websites annotated for the "fact-check worthiness" of the claims in each message. Data points have one of the three labels of "Yes" (text contains one or more check-worthy claims), "No" and "Probably".
The "claim matching" dataset is a curated collection of pairs of textual claims from social media and fact-checking websites for the purpose of automatic and multilingual claim matching. Pairs of data have one of the four labels of "Very Similar", "Somewhat Similar", "Somewhat Dissimilar" and "Very Dissimilar".
All personally identifiable information (PII) including phone numbers, email addresses, license plate numbers and addresses have been replaced with general tags (e.g. , , etc) to protect user anonymity. A detailed explanation on the curation and annotation process is provided in our ACL 2021 paper:
Kazemi, A.; Garimella, K.; Gaffney, D.; and Hale, S. A. 2021. Claim Matching Beyond English to Scale Global Fact-Checking. In Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2021
Curtain of Intrigue
No full textBrief article about the ""Theseus and the Minotaur"" curtain discovered at the Carnegie Museum of Art. The author interviews Loti Falk Gaffney, the widow of Leon Falk who intially bought the curtain from Leonide Massine to get her input
#iranElection: Quantifying Online Activism
No full textIn a retrospective analysis of the Iran national election protests, the meteoric rise of the Twitter platform as a purported tool of dissidence has become a subject of debate and importance in the burgeoning field of online activism. By using methods of data collection novel to Web 2.0 social media applications, can a finer granularity be achieved in directly measuring the impact of the internet on politics and society
The changing face of the Constantia Valley a temporal study of land use change in a heritage landscape
No full textIncludes bibliographical references.The study of land use change and urban morphology requires a multi-layered approach. Case studies are needed to gain an understanding of the local factors that are driving land use change and forming urban landscapes. This study will provide a temporal perspective on land use change in the Constantia Valley, a high income suburb on the outskirts of Cape Town. It will contextualise the efforts to conserve its heritage and, furthermore, attempt to explain the factors underlying the observed changes in the urban form. This study, through the use of Geographic Information System (GIS) mapping and a series of interviews, examines how and why the urban form of the Constantia Valley has changed. Finally, based on the findings the possible future urban form of Constantia will be considered
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