966 research outputs found
Morris H. Turk Correspondence
No full textEntries include a typed letter of presentation from Turk on Williston Church, Congregational, Portland, Maine, stationery and the typed reply of the Maine State library in hopes of biographical information from Turk, presented with a typed transcript of Turk\u27s handwritten inscription for his book They Live -- And Are Not Far Away in the Maine Author Collection
Replication Data for: The Demographic and Political Composition of Mechanical Turk Samples
No full textData combining information from ANES (internet mode) and Mechanical Turk samples
Replication Data for: The Demographic and Political Composition of Mechanical Turk Samples
No full textData combining information from ANES (internet mode) and Mechanical Turk samples
Replication Data for: Mechanical Turk and the "Don't Know" Option
No full textLuskin and Bullock’s (2011) randomized experiment on live-interview respondents found no evidence that ANES or TESS respondents hide knowledge behind the “don’t know” option (DK). We successfully replicate their finding using two online platforms, the Cooperative Congressional Election Study (CCES) and Google Surveys (GS). However, we obtain different results on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk). We attribute this difference to MTurkers’ experience with attention checks and other quality control mechanisms, which condition them to avoid errors. This conditioning leads MTurkers to hide knowledge behind DK in ways not observed on other platforms. Researchers conducting political knowledge experiments on MTurk or piloting surveys on MTurk should take note of these differences
Transcription of the Bleek and Lloyd Collection using the Bossa Volunteer Thinking Framework
No full textThe digital Bleek and Lloyd Collection is a rare collection that contains artwork, notebooks and dictionaries of the earliest habitants of Southern Africa. Previous attempts have been made to recognize the complex text in the notebooks using machine learning techniques, but due to the complexity of the manuscripts the recognition accuracy was low. In this research, a crowdsouring based method is proposed to transcribe the historical handwritten manuscripts, where volunteers transcribe the notebooks online. An online crowdsourcing transcription tool was developed and deployed. Experiments were conducted to determine the quality of transcriptions and accuracy of the volunteers compared with a gold standard. The results show that volunteers are able to produce reliable transcriptions of high quality. The inter-transcriber agreement is 80% for ǀXam text and 95% for English text. When the ǀXam text transcriptions produced by the volunteers are compared with the gold standard, the volunteers achieve an average accuracy of 69.69%. Findings show that there exists a positive linear correlation between the inter-transcriber agreement and the accuracy of transcriptions. The user survey revealed that volunteers found the transcription process enjoyable, though it was difficult. Results indicate that volunteer thinking can be used to crowdsource intellectually-intensive tasks in digital libraries like transcription of handwritten manuscripts. Volunteer thinking outperforms machine learning techniques at the task of transcribing notebooks from the Bleek and Lloyd Collection
Turk Mechanical
No full textTurk Mechanical is a collection of digital literary artifacts created through NEM-0X, a writing machine designed to entangle, render, and instantiate different types of media after enacting a series of algorithmic processes. The artifacts contained in this collection are primarily concerned with exploring multi-scalarity, distributed cognition, relationality, embodiment, affectability, material specificity, and environmental embeddedness.M.F.A.Includes bibliographical reference
MAPTASK-AIX
No full textA set of French dialogues elicited with the MAPTASK protocol.Alignment at the utterance level.The recording and the transcription have been done in the Framework of Corine Astésano's Marie-Curie Fellowship.Astésano, C.; Bard, E.; Turk, A. (2007). Structural influences on Initial Accent placement in French. Language and Speech, 50 (3), 423-446http://las.sagepub.com/content/50/3/423.short?rss=1&ssource=mf
Comprehensive family planning services for Tufts-Delta Health Center North Bolivar County Civic Improvement Association, Inc. and ten local health associations, 1971
No full textThe following proposal, entitled Comprehensive Family Planning Services for Tufts-Delta Health Center North Bolivar County Health and Civic Improvement Association, Inc, and Ten Local Health Associations, Mound Bayou, Mississippi is submitted to the Community Action Programs, Office of Economic Opportunity, Washington, D. C. The chief investigator is Jacqueline Turk. The project is designed for one year and $121,468.90 is requested to fund the project. There will be four full-time professional staff members and one full-time clerical staff member. The project will begin on September 1, 1971 and terminate on August 30, 1972
House of Fairy Tales, Horn of Plenty
No full textThe House of Fairy Tales presents a fundraising exhibition of objects and artworks by international artists, designers and film directors, many of whom have contributed to the Exquisite Trove exhibition currently at The New Art Gallery Walsall or have been part of HoFT’s hugely successful 2009 tour of festivals across the country. List of Artists : Frida Alvinzi, Fiona Banner, Simon Bill, Sir Peter Blake, Jim Bond, Christopher Brown, Ellen Cantor, Spartacus Chetwynd, Natasha Chambers, Cedric Christie, Oliver Clegg, Mat Collishaw, Dexter Dalwood, Adam Dant, Enrico David, Ian Dawson, Jeremy Deller, Tatiana de Stempel, Carol Ann Eason, Phoebe Eason, Rohan Daniel Eason, Jill Tegan Doherty, Rina Donnersmarck, Annabel Elgar, Simon English, Gordon Faulds, Nancy Fouts, Jen Franklin, Maria Teresa Gavazzi, Bert Gilbert, Jeff McMillan, Rob Goodwin, Carolyn Gowdy, Lynn Hatzius, Alice Herrick, Dan Hillier, Georgie Hopton, Jimp, Nicola Jones, Alan Kane, LEO, Damien Meade, Harland Miller, Annie Morris, Richard Niman, Orly Orbach, Cornelia Parker, Simon Periton, Raul Pina, Max Reeves, Paula Rego, David Roberts, Paul Sakoilsky, Elinor Seath, Lindsay Sekulowicz, Jane Simpson, Bob & Roberta Smith, Kiki Smith, Samantha Sweeting, Katherine Tulloh, Gavin Turk, Francis Upritchard, Raisa Veikkola, Julie Vermeille, Jessica Voorsanger, Jon Welsh, Simon Willems, Rachel Whiteread, E C Woodard
Natural disasters in the history of the eastern Turk empire
No full textThis article analyzes the effect of climate extremes on the historical processes that took place (AD 536, 581, 601, 626 and 679) in the Eastern Turk Empire (AD 534–745) in Inner Asia. Climate extremes are sharp, strong and sometimes protracted periods of cooling and drought caused by volcanic eruptions that in this case resulted in a negative effect on the economy of a nomadic society and were often accompanied by famine and illness. In fact, many of these natural catastrophes coincided with the Black Death pandemics among the Eastern Turks and the Chinese living in the north of China. The Turk Empire can be split into several chronological periods during which significant events that led to changes in the course of history of the nomadic state took place: AD 534–545—the rise of the Turk Empire; AD 581–583—the division of the Turk Empire into theWestern and the Eastern Empires; AD 601–603—the rise of Qimin Qaghan; AD 627–630—the Eastern Turks are conquered by China; AD 679–687—the second rise of the Eastern Turk Empire. The research shows that there is clearly-discernable interplay between important historical events and climate extremes in the history of the Turk Empire. This interplay has led us to the conclusion that the climatic factor did have an impact on the historical processes that took place in the eastern part of Inner Asia, especially on the territories with a nomadic economy. © The Author(s) 2019
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