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Tina Key\u27s Parody of Sarah Palin
No full textDuring the 2008 Presidential election, Saturday Night Live {SNL) increased viewership by putting a humorous spin on the campaign season and candidates. Governor Sarah Palin, however, was under the most scrutiny by SNL. Through the use of Robert Hariman\u27s theory of parodic artistry, this paper rhetorically analyzes how Tina Key\u27s portrayal of Sarah Palin impacted public perception. The analysis determines that by offering a portrayal just authentic enough to the original. Fey created a powerful coimter narrative regarding Palin\u27s identity, and in doing so, the audience may not completely dismiss the ridicule placed on Palin
Coastal erosion at Hai Hau beach in the Red River Delta, Vietnam
No full textMany coastal areas in Vietnam suffer from erosion. One of the worst affected areas is the Hai Hau beach, located in the Red River delta in northern Vietnam. Over the last hundred years, vast parts of the beach have eroded at an average rate of approximately 25 m per year. Important agricultural land has vanished into the sea and families have been forced to abandon their houses because of the erosion is not explained but suggested reasons are for example dam construction, weak dikes and unfavourable hydrodynamic conditions The wave climate, and thus the sediment transport, in northernVietnam is highly dependent on the two main wind directions from the northeast and the south, because of the winter and ) summer monsoon, respectively . Vietnam is also.subject to sporadic typhoons that cause great damage when they strike the coast, especially in combination with storm surges. Based on a 20-year long wind record from 1976 to 1995, obtained from two islands outside the coast of northern Vietnam, the longshore transport rate over these years was determined by a one dimensional numerical wave model. The model consists of three independent parts: offshore waves, nearshore waves and -longshore sediment transport. This model indicates a southward-directed transport along the Hai Hau beach. In addition, sea maps and satellite photos from the 20th century were compared in order to find out the historic shoreline development generally. The main protection method that is generally used in Vietnam, as well as in Hai Hau district, is sea dikes. These dikes consist of an earth core covered by a revetment layer of cobbles. Unfortunately, these dikes are not strong enough to withstand the impact of harsh waves for any longer periods. Historically, a line of sea dikes has been destroyed at least once every decade. A couple of hundred meters behind the front sea dike typically lies another dike, ready to meet the waves when the first one breaches. Consequently, this defence arrangement is often recognized as a double dike system, but also as a retreat strategy since the erosion problem is not solved, just slowed down. The major cause of erosion is likely not due to human activities (such as dam buildings,or river cut-offs), instead because of the natural properties of Hai Hau coastal area, seasonally bounded longshore currents in combination with weak sea dikes favour erosion.KWP-collectio
Fingerprints of AMOC Decline Are Sensitive to External and Mechanistic Forcing
No full textThe Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) plays a crucial role in past, present, and future climate, and there is substantial interest in using sea surface temperature (SST) as a fingerprint of past AMOC strength. Using a hierarchy of climate model ensembles, we find that the decline in AMOC, and its SST fingerprint within the North Atlantic warming hole region, are sensitive to external forcing level and wind driven ocean forcing. Once external forcing reaches a level at which sea ice melt increases the Labrador Sea vertical salinity gradient, localized cooling and resulting expansion of the sea ice edge decrease vertical mechanical stirring. Under greenhouse gas only forcing, this mechanism plays a large role and under SSP3.70 forcing, it plays a relatively minor role due to larger buoyancy forcing. This implies that an AMOC fingerprint developed from one simulation or external forcing level cannot be applied to other scenarios
Towards Minimal Necessary Data: The Case for Analyzing Training Data Requirements of Recommender Algorithms
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178606.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)FATREC’17: Fairness, Accountability and Transparency in Recommender Systems, 31 August 2017, Como, Ital
Multimedia informed consent tool for a low literacy African research population: development and pilot-testing
No full textA model driven IDE for M-industries’ Alan
No full textWhile software is becoming increasingly important in our world, software development is also advancing with an increasing pace. One of the reasons is the increase in available information, which triggered the birth of a new programming paradigm: Model Driven Development (henceforth MDD). Though this can shorten the development time and make it easier, there is no real support for this method, and also no fully developed environment. This is where M-industries' Alan is key. A new MDD platform, but with no editor support. That was the initial scope of our project: create an editor capable of supporting Alan. This was no easy task, and so some preliminary research was done, which evaluates existing web-based editors based on the requirements set by us. The main development phase consisted of agile programming cycles where the targets and tasks were subject to changes. This enabled us to focus on creating an intrinsically correct system instead of a fully featured one that needs a lot of patching and cleaning. The result was a well rounded, integrated IDE that has powerful Alan specific features, but may lack some more basic editor features. The IDE was not only developed to aid in model driven development, but was actually developed itself in a model driven way, using M-industries' platform. This allowed for a deep integration with Alan, where the language definition became part of the IDE. To do this, the concept of an "editor state" was introduced, which proved to be an essential an powerful concept for creating an editor for model driven development.Software TechnologyElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
Building Public Health Quantitative Methods Capacity and Networks in sub-Saharan Africa: An Evaluation of a Faculty Training Program
No full textIntroduction: There is a shortage of individuals trained in using quantitative methods in biomedical research in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Improving public health in SSA requires new ways to promote quantitative knowledge and skills among faculty in biomedical research and better-integrated network systems of support. Methods: We describe the development, implementation, and evaluation of an innovative faculty training and support program in SSA from December 2017-June 2020, using courses in monitoring and evaluation, data management, and complex surveys as prototypical examples. Indicators were selected to follow the 4 levels outlined in the Kirkpatrick evaluation model: reaction, learning, behavior, and results. We used survey data from faculty fellows and students and reported median change and interquartile ranges (IQR). Results: The training program created an international community of 26 faculty members working collaboratively to lead the training of 3 quantitative methods courses. The program increased faculty members' knowledge of the course content (median increase 17 percentage points [IQR: 0, 20]). Faculty members, in turn, trained 380 students at institutions of higher education in 8 SSA countries (Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda). Conclusion: The program relied on collaborative funding from participating institutions and focused on individual capacity-strengthening. In the future, the program will be scaled to include other emerging areas, such as data science, will integrate institutional support and feedback, and will move some of the training and mentoring activities to an online platform. Finally, to ensure that faculty have both improved confidence and improvement in competence, in future iterations, the program will include competency evaluation at the start and end and pair fellows who need additional training with those who excelled to co-teach.Funding:
This program was supported by funding from Mr. John McGoldrick, ACE-DS through a ACEII World Bank grant, and Partnership for African Social and Governance Research through grants from Strategic Partnerships for Higher Education Innovation and Reform and the United Kingdom Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.
The McGoldrick Professional Development Program in Public Health operates under the aegis of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) in collaboration with the Africa Research Implementation Science and Education (ARISE) Network. We thank the McGoldrick Program, HSPH, and the ARISE network for their support. We also thank the faculty fellows who contributed their time to this program; capacity-building would not be possible without your dedication to teaching. We are also indebted to all the faculty and teaching assistants who supported the faculty training, including Christopher Sudfeld, Anna Gage, Oyetundan Adediran, and Jonathan Oyebamiji Babalola. Programs like this also cannot run without administrative support, and for that we are grateful for Priti Thareja, Megan Scott, Mukamisha Donatienne, and Meskerem Teshome. Thank you to the program mentors and curriculum developers: Bethany Hedt-Gauthier, Wafaie Fawzi, Charles Ruranga, Henry Mwambi, and Dana Thomson. Finally, thank you to Lily Schneider for her support in submitting this article
Catalog Of The Nineteenth-Century British Brass Instruments In The Arne B. Larson Collection Of Musical Instruments.
No full textI t is the purpose o f th is d issertation to present the resu lts of a detailed examination made by th is author of fo rty -th re e nineteenthcentury B ritish brass instruments from the C ollection — s lid e trumpets, a hand horn, keyed bugles, an ophicleide, an a l t horn, cornopeans, cornets, a trumpet, a flugelhorn, a French horn, a lto horns, tenor horns, trombones, and tubas — made by the leading nineteenth-century B ritis h makers: Besson, B ilto n , Boosey, G a rre tt, Grayson, Higham, Kohler, M e tzle r, Pace, and R iviere & Hawkes
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No full textIn dit bachelors project hadden wij als doel een gebruiksvriendelijke portal te ontwerpen en te implementeren die het reserveren en betalen voor een ruimte binnen Avaya Engage vergemaklijkt. De opdracht is door het bedrijf als volgt geformuleerd: “Het doel van het project is het ontwikkelen van een portal waarmee gebruikers ad hoc een ruimte kunnen reserveren, betalen en een vergadering kunnen houden zonder tussenkomst van een medewerker. Het product moet klaar voor gebruik worden opgeleverd, en zodanig ontworpen zijn dat het in de toekomst makkelijk aan te passen is.” Deze portal is tijdens dit bachelor project ontwikkeld. Het is een web-based portal dat vrij toegankelijk is voor iedereen die zich (gratis) registreert. Klanten kunnen één van de beschikbare omgevingen reserveren om een vergadering te houden, gasten uitnodigen om deze vergadering bij te wonen en betalen met behulp van credits die via iDeal, PayPal of creditcard kunnen worden gekocht. Bij het maken van het systeem was het van belang dat het bestand was tegen aanvallen, het zeer gebruiksvriendelijk is met een snelle, intuïtieve interface en dat het goed te onderhouden en naar wens uit te breiden is.Technische informaticaSoftware TechnologyElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
Language Models With Meta-information
No full textLanguage modeling plays a critical role in natural language processing and understanding. Starting from a general structure, language models are able to learn natural language patterns from rich input data. However, the state-of-the-art language models only take advantage of words themselves, which are not sufficient to characterize the language. In this thesis, we improve recurrent neural network language models (RNNLM) by training them with additional information. Different methods of integrating the different types of additional information into RNNLMs are proposed in this thesis. All the potential information beyond the word itself that can be used to characterize the language is called meta-information. In this thesis, we propose to use different types of meta-information to represent languages such as discourse level information, which is reflected from the whole discourse, sentence level information which characterize the patterns of sentences and morphological information which represents the word from different perspectives. For example, we consider the following Dutch paragraph. represents sentence beginning. stands for the sentence ending. kan allemaal nog natuurlijk maar ze ontlopen dan de groepswinnaar in elk geval in de kwartfinale en vooral Nederland wil graag in Rotterdam die kwartfinale spelen en dan moet er groepswinst behaald worden anders verhuizen ze naar Brugge en krijgt het Jan Breydelstadion Oranje dus op bezoek we gaan er even uit slotfase zit eraan te komen twee minuten nog tot het einde plus de toegevoegde tijd dat is uh toch nog ook wel een paar minuten denk ik maar de wedstrijd is gespeeld On the discourse level, this paragraph is labeled as “Live commentaries (broadcast)” from the socio-situational setting (SSS) perspective and “sport” from the topic perspective. On the sentence level, each word except for the beginning word and ending word , is annotated with its preceding word information and succeeding word information. For example, we consider word “slotfase” in the following sentence. slotfase zit eraan te komen . This word has preceding information “” and succeeding information “zit eraan te komen ”. On the word level, the word “slotfase” is annotated by a vector containing some of the proposed meta-information. On the discourse level, we investigate classification methods for socio-situational settings and topics. On the sentence level, in this thesis, we focus on information such as succeeding words information and whole sentence information. In this thesis, each word is annotated by a vector containing the meta-information collected. Different methods are proposed in this thesis to integrate the meta-information into language models. On the discourse level, a curriculum learning method has been used to combine the socio-situational settings and topics. On the sentence level, forward-backward recurrent neural network language models have been proposed to integrate the succeeding word information and whole sentence information into language models. On the word level, each word has been conditioned on its preceding words as well as on preceding meta-information. The results reported in this thesis show that meta-information can be used to improve the effectiveness of language models at the cost of increasing training time. In this thesis, we address this problem by applying parallel processing techniques. A subsampling stochastic gradient descent algorithm has been proposed to accelerate the training of recurrent neural network language models.Intelligent SystemsElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
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