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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
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
How Catholic and how charismatic are the followers of Bishop Barron? A study in personality theory
No full textThe mission and ministry of the Word on Fire Institute and of Bishop Barron focus interesting questions regarding the ongoing connection between Catholic identity and charismatic influence. The present empirical enquiry, rooted in personality theory and the psychology of religious orientation, explored the profile of 490 participants attending an event in central London animated by Bishop Barron. Participants completed measures of Catholic orientation and charismatic orientation alongside the Francis Psychological Type and Emotional Temperament Scales. The data demonstrated that the majority of participants were firmly rooted within the Catholic tradition, with a minority also rooted in the charismatic tradition. For these participants the two streams were complementary and mutually supportive. Charismatic predisposition was associated with emotional stability, with a preference for feeling (rather than thinking), and with a preference for perceiving (rather than judging). Attention is drawn to ways in which preferences for feeling and perceiving may be perceived by those who prefer thinking and judging
How Catholic and how charismatic are the followers of Bishop Barron? A study in personality theory
No full textThe mission and ministry of the Word on Fire Institute and of Bishop Barron focus interesting questions regarding the ongoing connection between Catholic identity and charismatic influence. The present empirical enquiry, rooted in personality theory and the psychology of religious orientation, explored the profile of 490 participants attending an event in central London animated by Bishop Barron. Participants completed measures of Catholic orientation and charismatic orientation alongside the Francis Psychological Type and Emotional Temperament Scales. The data demonstrated that the majority of participants were firmly rooted within the Catholic tradition, with a minority also rooted in the charismatic tradition. For these participants the two streams were complementary and mutually supportive. Charismatic predisposition was associated with emotional stability, with a preference for feeling (rather than thinking), and with a preference for perceiving (rather than judging). Attention is drawn to ways in which preferences for feeling and perceiving may be perceived by those who prefer thinking and judging
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
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