Compilation Of List Research Articles

In the melting pot of web‐crawled texts: The challenges of extracting English words from Croatian corpora

AbstractThe focus of this paper are English words and phrases used in Croatian which, unlike loanwords, have not undergone major adaptations at the orthographic, phonetic, or other levels apart from being influenced by the inflectional system of the recipient language. A list of English words in Croatian corpora was compiled using automatic algorithm extraction, corpus query language in Sketch Engine, and manual word list evaluation with the end goal of publishing the first comprehensive online database of English words in Croatian. The ENGRI corpus of Croatian was created by web crawling procedure and used together with the existing Croatian hrWaC 2.2 RFTagger corpus to produce a list of English words and phrases. In this paper, word list compilation issues are discussed in relation to both general issues encountered in the study of interlingual lexical types (such as false cognates, antonomasia, and polysemy) as well as Croatian‐specific language properties such as its inflectional system and diacritical marks. In conclusion, we propose that manual evaluation is an indispensable method and a necessary complement to computational linguistic tools in the creation of word lists and databases of foreign words in other languages.

The Risk Management Methodology of the Quality Reducing Process of Enterprise Management Information Systems Service Support

the main subject of the article is process of risk management of the support services in the information management systems of the enterprise, on the base of the quality management system, that consist of three stages: to score the service quality, based on a tree-like scheme of indicators, to schedule an action plan for the year with the help of a 20 Keys Kaboyasi adapted program and to analyze the features of the services.In the article we analyze features of the work, identifie the main goals, roles and functions of key employees of the organization in the context of risk management, present the process of risk management of reducing the quality of the service. We choose the main stages as: identification of risks, compilation of the General list, qualitative analysis, compilation of the list of actual risks, assignment of roles, method of response, action plan and monitoring.

«Словарь редкой лексики по произведениям школьной программы»: методика составления словника и основные принципы лексикографического описания

Given the current multi-faceted crisis of the reading culture, a crisis to which the secondary education system is especially sensitive, it is crucial to foster a culture of fiction reading. The fact that most literary works in the school curriculum were written more than 100 years ago impedes their understanding by contemporary young readers. This is a situation that can be improved by the very mobile technologies which have become an integral part of our lives. This article describes the basic principles applied during the compilation of the Dictionary of Rare Words from the Literary Works Covered by the School Curriculum (hereinafter the Dictionary). The Dictionary is designed as a part of a cross-platform mobile application which should increase motivation for learning and the efficacy of secondary education. The Dictionary is easy to use due to its integration into the electronic library of works covered by the school literature curriculum according to the basic component of the Federal State Educational Standard. The word list for the Dictionary was compiled using the tools of corpus linguistics that allowed us to contextualise the work and to include all the necessary semantic components of the lexeme into the dictionary entry. After comparing the concordance based on the corpus of Russian literature for school education with the word list of The New Colloquial Dictionary of Russian Vocabulary by O. N. Lyashevskaya and S. A. Sharov, we identified more than 20,000 lexical units not included into the colloquial dictionary that would therefore benefit from lexicographic description. Nouns, which numbered about 9,500 entries in this list, were chosen to be the first part-of-speech described in the Dictionary. During the word list compilation, certain principles were employed to reduce the number of nouns. More than 3,100 words belonging to various semantic groups were selected for lexicographic description. The word list includes not only obsolescent words, but also low-frequency lexemes, including proper names and occasional words. This approach contributes to students learning a larger number of terms, develops a culture of reading literary texts among students and broadens their horizons. The Dictionary is based on the principles of educational lexicography. The purpose of a dictionary entry is not just to clarify the meaning of a word and provide information about its correct use but, above all, to create an image of the described realia in the reader’s imagination. To do this, the authors, if necessary, provide amplifications and elements of encyclopaedic information. Numerous images illustrate the content of the dictionary entries.

EDGAR: a database of Disease-Gene Associations with annotated Relationships among genes

BackgroundGenetic investigations, boosted by modern sequencing techniques, allow dissecting the genetic component of different phenotypic traits. These efforts result in the compilation of lists of genes related to diseases and show that an increasing number of diseases is associated with multiple genes. Investigating functional relations among genes associated with the same disease contributes to highlighting molecular mechanisms of the pathogenesis.ResultsWe present eDGAR, a database collecting and organizing the data on gene/disease associations as derived from OMIM, Humsavar and ClinVar. For each disease-associated gene, eDGAR collects information on its annotation. Specifically, for lists of genes, eDGAR provides information on: i) interactions retrieved from PDB, BIOGRID and STRING; ii) co-occurrence in stable and functional structural complexes; iii) shared Gene Ontology annotations; iv) shared KEGG and REACTOME pathways; v) enriched functional annotations computed with NET-GE; vi) regulatory interactions derived from TRRUST; vii) localization on chromosomes and/or co-localisation in neighboring loci. The present release of eDGAR includes 2672 diseases, related to 3658 different genes, for a total number of 5729 gene-disease associations. 71% of the genes are linked to 621 multigenic diseases and eDGAR highlights their common GO terms, KEGG/REACTOME pathways, physical and regulatory interactions. eDGAR includes a network based enrichment method for detecting statistically significant functional terms associated to groups of genes.ConclusionseDGAR offers a resource to analyze disease-gene associations. In multigenic diseases genes can share physical interactions and/or co-occurrence in the same functional processes. eDGAR is freely available at: edgar.biocomp.unibo.it

Q&A: The ICRC's engagement on the missing and their families

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has a long history of working with missing persons and their families. Based on its statutory mandate as enshrined in the 1949 Geneva Conventions, their 1977 Additional Protocols, the Statutes of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and resolutions of the International Conferences of the Red Cross and Red Crescent,1 the ICRC has worked to prevent people from going missing and has facilitated family contact and reunification. It has also worked to clarify the fate and whereabouts of missing persons since 1870, during the Franco-Prussian War, when it pioneered the compilation of lists of prisoners of war and the introduction of “the wearing of a badge so that the dead could be identified”.2The ICRC promoted and strengthened its engagement towards missing persons and their families when it organized the first ever International Conference of Governmental and Non-Governmental Experts on Missing Persons in 2003.3 Today, the ICRC carries out activities in favour of missing persons and their families in around sixty countries worldwide. In 2018, it embarked on a new project setting technical standards in relation to missing persons and their families, together with expert partners and a global community of practitioners who have a shared objective – preventing people from going missing, providing answers on the fate and whereabouts of missing persons, and responding to the specific needs of their families.This Q&A explores the ICRC's current work on the issue of the missing and will, in particular, explore the ways in which the ICRC's Missing Persons Project aims to position the missing and their families at the centre of the humanitarian agenda.

Reflections on the anticipated mass deportation of Soviet Jews

This paper investigates questions surrounding a purported plan (believed to have been interrupted and not resumed after Stalin’s death in March 1953) for the mass deportation of 2 million Soviet Jews from the European part of the country to desolate areas of Siberia, Kazakhstan, and the Arctic North. More specifically, it asks: (1) Was there such a plan, orchestrated by Stalin? (2) Were preparations undertaken to implement the plan, particularly the compilation of lists of potential Jewish deportees, assembly of cattle car echelons for their transportation, and construction of barracks at destinations? The author begins by briefly tracing the history of Stalin’s anti-Semitic campaign after World War II, summarizing the liquidation of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee and the Doctors’ Plot in light of the mounting anti-Semitic campaign in the country, which reached alarming proportions during the “seven-week” period prior to Stalin’s last days. In addition to an in-depth review of Russian-language sources, the paper also is based on contacts with authors and observers with access to state archives and a private archival collection. The latter, still in a state of relative disorganization, could become a link to resolving the question of whether the plan and preparations for the anticipated mass deportation had taken place.

Design of Admission Medication Reconciliation Technology: A Human Factors Approach to Requirements and Prototyping

Our objectives were to (1) develop an in-depth understanding of the workflow and information flow in medication reconciliation, and (2) design medication reconciliation support technology using a combination of rapid-cycle prototyping and human-centered design. Although medication reconciliation is a national patient safety goal, limitations both of physical environment and in workflow can make it challenging to implement durable systems. We used several human factors techniques to gather requirements and develop a new process to collect a medication history at hospital admission. We completed an ethnography and time and motion analysis of pharmacists in order to illustrate the processes used to reconcile medications. We then used the requirements to design prototype multimedia software for collecting a bedside medication history. We observed how pharmacists incorporated the technology into their physical environment and documented usability issues. Admissions occurred in three phases: (1) list compilation, (2) order processing, and (3) team coordination. Current medication reconciliation processes at the hospital average 19 minutes to complete and do not include a bedside interview. Use of our technology during a bedside interview required an average of 29 minutes. The software represents a viable proof-of-concept to automate parts of history collection and enhance patient communication. However, we discovered several usability issues that require attention. We designed a patient-centered technology to enhance how clinicians collect a patient's medication history. By using multiple human factors methods, our research team identified system themes and design constraints that influence the quality of the medication reconciliation process and implementation effectiveness of new technology. Evidence-based design, human factors, patient-centered care, safety, technology.

FINDING PERSISTENT SOURCES WITH THE BeppoSAX /WIDE FIELD CAMERA: AN IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS

During the operational life of the Italian/Dutch X-ray satellite (1996-2002), BeppoSAX, its two Wide Field Cameras performed observations that covered the full sky at different epochs. Although the majority of analysis performed on BeppoSAX WFC data concentrated on the detection of transient sources, we have now applied the same techniques developed for the INTEGRAL/IBIS survey to produce the same work with the BeppoSAX WFC data. This work represents the first unbiased source list compilation produced from the overall WFC data set optimised for faint persistent sources detection. This approach recovers 182 more sources compared to the previous WFC catalogue reported in Verrecchia et al. (2007). The catalogue contains 404 sources detected between 3-17 keV, 10 of which are yet to be seen by the new generation of telescopes.

Do Jurors Discriminate? Evidence from State Juror Selection Procedures

It is commonly argued that racial discrimination in the judicial system contributes significantly to the observed discrepancy in incarceration rates for whites and African Americans. This paper uses a series of changes in state laws governing the compilation of lists of eligible jurors to attempt to identify the impact of increasing the participation of African Americans and other minorities in jury service on the racial composition of admissions to prison. Between 1976 and 1999, 12 states passed laws requiring that lists of eligible jurors for state trials be created by selecting at random from publicly available lists such as lists of registered voters and drivers, harmonizing state laws with the 1968 Federal Jury Selection and Service Act. These laws limited the discretion of jury commissioners to select lists that were not representative of the general population and often wholly excluded African Americans from jury service. Evidence exploiting the variation in timing of these law changes suggests that the reforms resulted in a 5 to 6 percentage point drop in the share of new admissions to prison accounted for by non-whites. This finding is consistent with the existence of racial discrimination in the deliberation of criminal cases.

風工学用語集の編集作業を終えて

風工学用語集の編集作業を終えて

Pretesting the Likely Efficacy of Suggested Management Approaches to Data‐Poor Fisheries

AbstractThe thrust of this paper is that decision rules for the management of data‐poor fisheries cannot be based on expert judgment alone. Such rules need to specifically link management responses to the values of the indicators available for the fishery and their trends. Prior simulation testing is needed to confirm that the application of any rules suggested is likely to achieve the objectives sought for the fishery. The management procedure (MP) approach (also called management strategy evaluation), which provides a framework for such testing, is summarized briefly. How this approach could be used to develop a decision rule for a fishery for which the only indicator available is the mean length of the catch is presented as an example. The extent to which the ability to meet management objectives could be improved if an unbiased index of relative abundance were available, and an MP based on a fitted population model applied, is illustrated. An MP developed for the fishery for Patagonian toothfish Dissotichus eleginoides off the sub‐Antarctic Prince Edward Islands is summarized. This illustrates how the MP testing framework can be used in circumstances in which the available indicators conflict, leading to considerable uncertainty about the present resource status. The information content of indicators is closely related to the extent to which they vary about trends in the underlying resource attributes (e.g., catch per unit effort and underlying abundance). The compilation of lists of the statistical properties (such as the coefficients of variation and autocorrelations) of the residuals about detrended time series of the indicators, together with their likely relationships to the underlying attribute, for fisheries worldwide is suggested. This would provide a sound basis for specifying error structure in the simulation tests advocated for both generic and case‐specific decision rules for data‐poor fisheries.

Do Jurors Discriminate? Evidence from Changes in State Juror Selection Procedures

Racial discrimination appears to contribute signicantly to the observed discrepancy in incarceration rates for whites and African Americans. This paper assesses the role of procedural reforms accompanying broader non-discrimination mandates in addressing discriminatory practices in courts and criminal adjudication, using a series of changes in state laws governing the compilation of lists of eligible jurors to attempt to identify the impact of eorts to increase

Grocery lists: connecting family, household and grocery store

PurposeThis paper aims to investigate grocery list use in the lives of participant families in a study on decision making about food choices and eating practices.Design/methodology/approachA total of 46 families from three ethno‐cultural groups living in two regions in Canada participated in the study: in British Columbia, 12 Punjabi Canadian and 11 European Canadian families; in Nova Scotia, 13 African Canadian and ten European Canadian families. In each family, at least three individuals over the age of 13 years, one of whom was a woman between the ages of 25 and 55 years, were interviewed. Researchers participated in a meal and accompanied each family on a grocery trip.FindingsMost family members contributed to a grocery list. The shopper(s) in the family may take the written list with them, have the list in memory, use a combination of both memory and written list, or shop without a list. Finds the articulation of taken‐for‐granted, intersecting knowledge about family, household and grocery store, necessary to the compilation of a list, were largely unseen, unrecognised, and undervalued.Originality/valueStudies on grocery lists have focused on who uses lists, how they are used, and what their use says about consumers. In the literature, non‐list use is conflated with the absence of a tangible grocery list. Shows that lack of a tangible list does not mean absence of a list in all cases. Further, extends and contextualises existing literature, showing that grocery list compilation relies upon interrelated knowledge of family, household and store.

In Retrospect: Ernest McClintock Dix and the first book printed in Dublin

Introduction When Ernest McClintock Dix (Plate I) published his discovery of fragments of Dublin's first printed book in the Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy in 1909 he was already a well-established bibliographical scholar with a substantial publishing record.1 Born in 1857 Dix practised as a solicitor in Dublin until his death in 1936. Dix and his wife, both Protestants, were active in the Irish cultural revival of the late ninteenth and early twentieth centuries.2 He was taught Irish in Galway and gaelicised his name on a number of occasions in life. This concern with Irish culture manifested itself early in his career through an interest in antiquarianism and he published a number of papers on subjects as diverse as Newgrange, Edmund Burke's birthplace and the smaller castles of Co. Dublin. It appears to have been the work of a Cambridge bibliographer with strong Irish connections, Henry Bradshaw, that inspired Dix to turn his attention to the history of printing in Ireland and in particular to the compilation of lists of works published in individual Irish towns. Between 1 898 and 1912 Dix produced his first substantial work, a monumental five-part listing of books printed in seventeenth-century Dublin. The material for this came from a wide range of libraries as well as Dix's own extensive collection of Irish printings, which he had assembled from auctions and other sources. In March 1908 he was elected

Exploration into the quality septet

PurposeThe paper has the objective of finding why the number seven most commonly appears with respect to the number of steps, number of quality tools, and several other quality related topics including personal quality.Design/methodology/approachThe paper relies on the secondary data available through print and electronic media including the world wide web. Though this it is at least ensured to be quite broad based.FindingsNo specific reason could be attributed for using only number seven as no such reasoning was provided anywhere in the literature for the various lists proposed by different authors. However, in an early paper it has been reported that there is a finite span of immediate memory and for a wide range of test materials, this span is about seven items. This postulate has been widely debated and no evidence exists to generalize the issue. Thus, in the opinion of the author that there are no valid or scientific reasons for the issue considered.Research limitations/implicationsSearch is not claimed to be exhaustive as all the lists have not been examined to check the use of number seven.Originality/valueBased on literature review it was found that the question “why number seven?” was not addressed and hence this paper has attempted to answer it. Secondly, no compilation of lists to demonstrate the use of number seven existed and this paper has filled the void.

Ireland's Most Threatened and Rare Freshwater Fish: an International Perspective on Fish Conservation

Ireland's Most Threatened and Rare Freshwater Fish: an International Perspective on Fish Conservation

Transcriptional regulation: a genomic overview.

The availability of the Arabidopsis thaliana genome sequence allows a comprehensive analysis of transcriptional regulation in plants using novel genomic approaches and methodologies. Such a genomic view of transcription first necessitates the compilation of lists of elements. Transcription factors are the most numerous of the different types of proteins involved in transcription in eukaryotes, and the Arabidopsis genome codes for more than 1,500 of them, or approximately 6% of its total number of genes. A genome-wide comparison of transcription factors across the three eukaryotic kingdoms reveals the evolutionary generation of diversity in the components of the regulatory machinery of transcription. However, as illustrated by Arabidopsis, transcription in plants follows similar basic principles and logic to those in animals and fungi. A global view and understanding of transcription at a cellular and organismal level requires the characterization of the Arabidopsis transcriptome and promoterome, as well as of the interactome, the localizome, and the phenome of the proteins involved in transcription.

Parliamentary Party Cohesion and the Scarcity of Sanctions in the Belgian Chamber of Representatives (1991-1995)

Party cohesion is crucial in parliamentary proceedings, for the strength of parties is determined by it. However high levels of party unanimity, parliamentary party cohesion is under no circumstances to be taken for granted. It is the outcome of a persistent struggle. From a rational choice point of view, the monitoring and sanctioning of recalcitrant MPs by the parliamentary party leadership is the condition sine qua non for party cohesion. Yet, rewards and punishments do not seem the cement that holds parliamentary parties together. Preliminary findings for the Belgian Chamber of Representatives, show that ministerial appointment, committee transfers, nor party list compilation are used systematicallyto this purpose.

Failure to Confirm Estrogenic Activity for Benzoic Acid and Clofibrate: Implications for Lists of Endocrine-Disrupting Agents

Earlier reports that benzoic acid is uterotrophic to the rat and mouse and that clofibrate is uterotrophic to the rat have not been confirmed. The studies reported here involved the use of a range of test protocols and dose levels, including the protocols/dose levels used by the original investigators. In addition, both chemicals were inactive in a human estrogen receptor (hERα) yeast estrogenicity assay. It is concluded that benzoic acid and clofibrate are not estrogenic in the assays used here. This conclusion has implications for the compilation of lists of endocrine-disrupting chemicals.

An Application of Mixed Integer Programming in the Direct Mail Industry

The object is to help a mailing list compilation company (M.C.R.B.) to select the most promising types of mailing lists for development and to schedule the development of the selected lists in one of the two available production facilities. A mixed integer programming model is used to perform the selection and the scheduling task. The formulation of the model places the solution technique in the general family of “project selection” models. The problem was solved using CDC's OPHELIE II code. The size of the program is 229 rows by 871 variables of which 65 are zero-one. As a result of the study, management substantially modified the company's product mix and reduced the level of production resources employed. There was a marked improvement in the profitability of the Company.