3,053 research outputs found
Ma Huan (original author), Wan Ming (ed.) Ming chaoben " Yingya shenglan " jiaozh
No full textPtak Roderich. Ma Huan (original author), Wan Ming (ed.) Ming chaoben " Yingya shenglan " jiaozh. In: Archipel, volume 71, 2006. Autour de la peinture à Java. Volume II. pp. 240-244
Revisiting the Mitra-Wan Tree Farm.
No full textThe tree-farm model of T. Mitra and H. Wan (1985) contains novelties: a continuum of optimal cycles appear for small discounting and the cyclicality survives perturbations. To isolate the source of novelties, the author studies the simplest case: trees live naturally for two periods. This model specializes the general theory of multisector development under four conditions. It becomes a Ramsey type model, augmented by a cross-vintage constraint: the present acreage under trees, age n, must not be less than the acreage under trees age n + 1, one period hence. Novelties emerge when this constraint bounds the graph of the state-to-control correspondence. Copyright 1994 by Economics Department of the University of Pennsylvania and the Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association.
A Knowledge Distribution Model to Support an Author in Narrative Creation
No full textAdjusting the knowledge of characters and the reader is a critical task for an author in narrative creation. Throughout a narrative, both characters and the reader experience events according to their own timelines and perspectives. They interpret information accumulated through their experience and update knowledge to the narrative-world which the author constructed. In this paper, we present a Knowledge Distribution Model which supports an author in finely controlling the knowledge of characters and the reader. Within the model, the Knowledge Structure is constructed by connecting event, information, and knowledge. The Knowledge State is evaluated as the degree of belief under the knowledge structure. We adopted a probabilistic reasoning model to calculate the knowledge state. The change in knowledge state, defined as Knowledge Flow, is visually presented to the author. We designed a GUI prototype to implement the proposed modeling process, and demonstrated the knowledge flow with an actual cinematic narrative
Identifying Author Fingerprints in Texts via Graph Neural Networks
No full textThe world is generating more and more network data in many different areas (e.g., sensor networks, social networks and even text). A unique characteristic of these data is the coupling between data values and underlying irregular structure on which these values are defined. Thus, researchers developed Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to use deep learning approaches on these irregular network data. GNNs developers tried to replicate the recent success of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and developed its graph counterpart Graph Convolutional Neural Network (GCNN) and more different variations of GNNs (e.g. EdgeNet). However, all these architectures are relatively young, and the impact of different parameters to classification result is not well researched compared to regular neural network architectures. To address this issue, we propose to use authorship attribution problem to research the impact of different architectures and their variations to classification accuracy and how GNNs can be used to improve on authorship attribution task compared to the baseline architectures. Explicitly, we define the dataset which is going to be used throughout the experiments and the method to convert text excerpts of authors into the network that can be classified with GNNs (called WAN). WAN is as a network that captures unique author fingerprint. We also define the set of GNN architectures (and different combinations and variations of them), baseline architecture (SVM) and experiments that are used with those architectures. This experiment setting allows us to compare different GNN architectures among themselves and the baseline architecture. Also, we define a method to reduce the dimensions of author fingerprints (WANs) and use these sparse author fingerprints for the same experiments with the same architectures. Numerical results show the improvement over the baseline architectures in nearly all defined experiments. Also, we found that more complex GNN architectures (e.g. EdgeNets) are superior to shallower architectures with more laborious experiments (e.g. classification by gender). More complex architectures also require hyperparameter re-tuning in order to achieve optimal results. Furthermore, experiments with sparse author fingerprints showed that we could achieve comparable results to standard fingerprints with faster training times and significantly reduced dimensions. GNN architectures used with sparse author fingerprints were usually superior to baseline architectures
Student Expectations in the New Millennium
No full textHigher education has experienced vast changes as a result of global political and economic developments. Cultural and social changes in the last decade have also added to the continuing evolution of higher education. These changes inevitably lead to changing expectations of students entering higher education. An adequate understanding of student expectations is crucial in ensuring a good fit between higher educational institutions and their students. This study attempts to carry out a baseline descriptive-quantitative research on student expectations in the higher education of Hong Kong. Four scales have been developed to measure students’ attitude toward: 1. job-oriented curriculum design, 2. user-friendly course delivery method, 3. opportunities for lifelong learning, and 4. student consumerism. Students’ priority of what makes a good university, their reasons for going to university, and their self-perception of ability to cope with university life are also explored. The Student Expectations Questionnaire (developed by the author) was used to gather data from 857 first-year undergrads from nine institutions of higher education in Hong Kong. Analyses include, among others, gender, age, major of study as well as institution comparisons
Regionalism and the Rest of the World: The Irrelevance of the Kemp-Wan Theorem.
No full textMany commentators purport to use the Kemp-Wan (1976) theorem to discuss the effects of regional integration schemes on nonmember countries and to operationalize the theorem in terms of the share of member countries' imports coming from nonmembers. The author shows that Kemp and Wan say nothing about changes in nonmember welfare and that the latter is more closely related to nonmembers' imports than to their shares of members' markets. The author suggests that a new approach to this issue is required. Copyright 1997 by Royal Economic Society.
Industrial training report: Keepers Management Property / Wan Nur Husnina Athirah Wan Ismail
No full textThis report is prepared for the subject course code HRM666 (Human Resource Internship) which required in Bachelor of Business Administration (Hons.) in Human Resource Management. The internship report highlights the author's most important achievements from both academic and non-academic perspectives. This document's purpose is to identify, describe, and highlight the intern's achievements while gaining her experience.
This author had chosen Keepers Management Property, Pulau Pinang as her internship placement. This internship report stresses the work experience the author have gathered as an Intern in Admin and Operative Assistant of Keepers Management Property from 14 August 2023 until 02 February 2024. Keepers Management Property is a property management company which the main role is to focus in dealing with clients from various site assigned and also dealing with the service provider to handle the property.
In this report, the author explained her responsibilities assigned to her throughout her 6 months internship period. As for the author's job scope, she needs to handle admin's work such as issue payment receipt, handle issues from client, preparing newsletter for monthly update, preparing notice when any issue rise up, to engage with client via e-mail or WhatsApp and to assist other admin while settling their work. Furthermore, she also assist operation team in site inspection, dealing with site contractor, and assist manager to site visit for a meeting/handover.
The author's gladly mentioned that she's unable to conclude all her experiences as text where she gained from internship. She had high hopes that the internship skills are vital for her career path
ANALISIS DAN PERANCANGAN WIDE AREA NETWORK (WAN) BERBASIS IP VPN PADA PT. AUTOCOMP SYSTEMS INDONESIA
No full textThe purpose of this research is to analyze and design an IP VPN-based Wide Area Network (WAN) at PT. Autocomp Systems Indonesia to facilitate employees in accessing a centralized information system quickly, stably and securely. The company currently uses a Leased Line-based WAN network, but there are many disadvantages such as high costs and low bandwidth capacity. so the authors try to solve this problem. The methodology used in this research is NDLC (Network Development Life Cycle). The NDLC method consists of Analysis, Design, Simulation Prototyping, Implementation, Monitoring and Management. To design this network the author uses GNS3 simulation software (Graphical Network Simulator-3).The conclusion obtained from this study is that IP VPN-based WAN networks can reduce costs and provide higher network speeds than Leased Line-based WAN networks
A study on usage of index among UiTM Kedah students / Wan Nur 'Afifah Wan Yahya
No full textIndex is a guide to the contents of a knowledge record. It is a systematic analysis of such records, arranged in an organized way. A list bibliographic infonnation arranged in order according to some specified datum such as author, subjects or topic keyword (Cleveland, 2001 ). The purpose of this study is to know the relationship between awareness, need and library perfonnance with usage of index among students. This study was conducted among UiTM Kedah students. Questionnaire has been used as the instrument and methodology in gathering the data from respondents. Researcher was used Statistical Packaging for the Social Science (SPSS) version 18. 0 to analyzed the data collected. The finding of this study is there are no relationship between awareness, need and library perfonnance with usage of index among students
[[alternative]]Spatial and temporal variations of phytoplankton composition in the Nan-Wan Bay, Southern Taiwan
No full text[[abstract]]The purpose of this thesis is to study the spatial and temporal variations of the phytoplanktonic composition and to understand the potential regulatory factors that effect on species composition of phytoplankton in the Nan-Wan Bay, Southern Taiwan. The Nan-Wan Bay, a semi-closed bay, has been recorded a local upwelling for a long time. In general, the seasonal or climatic upwelling lifts the deep-nutritional water to the surface layer of ocean; in addition, this upwelling is likely to change the growth and the composition of phytoplankton. Samples were collected on board R/V Ocean Research I and Ocean Research III during November 2002 to June 2003. Composition of phytoplankton was distinguished by using the pigments. Other measured variables including temperature, salinity, dissolved inorganic nutrients, particulate organic carbon (POC), dissolved organic carbon (DOC), as well as bacterial production (BP). Results showed that the major pigments of phytoplankton, except Chlorophyll a, in the Nan-Wan Bay are Chlorophyll b, Zeaxanthin, Fucoxanthin, and 19’-hexanoyloxyfucoxanthin, which stand for Chlorophyceae, Cyanophyta, Bacillariophyta, and Prymnesiophytes, respectively. Seasonally, concentration of Chl a was the highest in winter with mean ± sd values of 0.44 ± 0.04 mg Chla m-3, intermediate in autumn (0.30 ± 0.06 mg Chla m-3) and in summer (0.30 ± 0.08 mg Chla m-3), and the lowest values in spring (0.19 ± 0.08 mg Chla m-3). As for phytoplankton composition, previous four classes of phytoplankton almost contributed equally in biomass in autumn. The highest composition ratio of phytoplankton was found in Chlorophyceae (33%), intermediate in Prymnesiophyceae (27%) and in Baciliariophyta (23%), and the lowest ratio in Cyanophyta (16%). Cyanophyta, however, contributed more than 58% of phytoplankton composition in spring. In summer, the composition ratio of Chlorophyceae, Cyanophyta, Prymnesiophyceae, and Bacillariophyta was 39 %, 34%, 19%, and 8%, respectively. Further analyses suggested that growth and composition of phytoplankton might be affected by nutrients and temperature. Besides, significant relationships were observed between phytoplankton biomass versus POC and DOC. Since bacterial production was significantly related with organic carbon, it suggests that BP might be affected indirectly by phytoplankton in the Nan-Wan Bay.
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