Numbers Game Research Articles

#ESHREjc report: Catch 22-is PGT a number game? Efficacy of PGT and the importance of counselling.

#ESHREjc report: Catch 22-is PGT a number game? Efficacy of PGT and the importance of counselling.

A Numbers Game? Statistics in Public Law Cases: ALBA Annual Lecture, 5 July 2021

A Numbers Game? Statistics in Public Law Cases: ALBA Annual Lecture, 5 July 2021

The Number Game: Counting Kangaroos

The Number Game: Counting Kangaroos

An Investigation of Media communication

This study investigated Pakistani English newspapers headlines to explore distinctive ideologies. It focuses on; how different perspectives can be manipulated with the language of newspapers headlines by using various discursive techniques and how they can be affected by the mindset of the target readership. Therefore, the present study aimed to explore the bottom meanings merged into the headlines. Data have been collected from 'Dawn' and 'Daily Times' newspapers dated from 1st December 2019 to 31st March 2020. To carry out this research, the researcher employed techniques of thematic analysis. A frequency of themes in both newspapers has been drawn in diagrams. Some themes are on low percentile ratio with disseminated ideology, and those are: Sports, Religious, Feminism, Terrorism and Economics and some are high in percentage with disseminated ideology in both English newspapers are Politics, National and International. The highly used discursive techniques in ‘Dawn’ newspaper are Actor Description, Authority, Consensus, Evidentiality, Hyperbole, Irony, National Self-Glorification, Polarization, Presupposition, Victimization, Acronym, Abbreviation, Generalization, and Preposition. On the other side, in the ‘Daily Times’, the highly used discursive techniques are Categorization, Consensus, Lexicalization, National Self-Glorification, Number Game, Polarization, Vagueness, Punctuation, Abbreviation, Euphemism etc. Therefore, ‘Dawn’ used twenty-six discursive strategies and ‘Daily Times’ used twenty-four discursive strategies in four months on the front-page main headlines. The findings revealed that ‘Dawn’ used more discursive techniques for ideological manipulation in its headlines than ‘Daily Times'. The results showed that the words, sentences, phrases, and sentences significantly indicate the ideological intention hidden in headlines.

The Numbers Game: Substantiality and the Definition of Genocide

ABSTRACT Substantiality is an important but misunderstood part of the concept of genocide. One problem is that substantiality holds different meanings within law and sociology. Legally, substantiality is connected to the difficulty of proving there is “intention to destroy” in the absence of a specific plan. Substantiality in this sense is a marker of the level of death and destruction required to support an inference of intent. Sociologically, substantiality is connected to popular understandings of genocide that link the gravity of the crime to the volume of destruction. Substantiality in this latter sense has been problematized by scholars who point out that genocide does not necessarily entail a greater level of harm and destruction than other atrocities, which might fall under the label of war crimes or crimes against humanity. This article examines the concept of substantiality with a view to illuminating the tension that exists between legal and sociological understandings of genocide. The article uses the alleged genocide of the Rohingya in Myanmar as a case study to demonstrate the complexity and contradictions of legal and sociological applications of the concept of substantiality. The article concludes that problems with substantiality reflect deeper problems with the recognition and articulation of the particular wrong inherent in the crime of genocide.

Neutralizing Antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 Selected from a Human Antibody Library Constructed Decades Ago.

Combinatorial antibody libraries not only effectively reduce antibody discovery to a numbers game, but enable documentation of the history of antibody responses in an individual. The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) pandemic has prompted a wider application of this technology to meet the public health challenge of pandemic threats in the modern era. Herein, a combinatorial human antibody library constructed 20 years before the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic is used to discover three highly potent antibodies that selectively bind SARS‐CoV‐2 spike protein and neutralize authentic SARS‐CoV‐2 virus. Compared to neutralizing antibodies from COVID‐19 patients with generally low somatic hypermutation (SHM), these three antibodies contain over 13–22 SHMs, many of which are involved in specific interactions in their crystal structures with SARS‐CoV‐2 spike receptor binding domain. The identification of these somatically mutated antibodies in a pre‐pandemic library raises intriguing questions about the origin and evolution of these antibodies with respect to their reactivity with SARS‐CoV‐2.

Publishing, identifiers & metrics: Playing the numbers game

The number of scientific articles published each year is rapidly growing and so is the number of academic journals. This makes it impossible for an individual practitioner or researcher to keep track of all research published in their own field or sub-discipline. With the growing amount of publications, it is also becoming more difficult to distinguish between similar papers published on the same topic, in the same journal, or by the same researchers (or research team). This perspective paper could support students and novice researchers, outlines the difference between the unique identifier for: (1) you as the researcher, (2) a specific paper; and (3) a specific journal. This paper further outlines the various numerical identifiers associated with academic publishing to help demystify academic publishing.

The Numbers Game: How Local Newspapers Used Statistics and Data Visualizations to Cover the Coronavirus Pandemic

Data and visualizations are an important part of local health news. Systematic data sourced from credible sources provide context to stories and educate audiences. Data visualizations help simplify complex statistical information and increase audience interactivity. Journalists associate statistics with objectivity, and use them to quantify risk in crisis situations. This study explores how local news used data to cover the coronavirus pandemic. We examined 170 data-driven articles published in the Dallas Morning News and the Houston Chronicle to examine the predominant data sources, data-driven narratives, and use of interactive elements. Results indicate reliance on government sources, prevalence of hard news stories, localization of statistics, contextual presentation of data, and abundant use of visualizations. However, the coverage lacked human-interest stories, interactivity in infographics, and failed to adequately reflect the diversity of the communities covered by the two newspapers. Data-driven stories did not always provide access to the underlying databases; nor did they always explain the methodology used to gather and analyze the data. While the readable format of the articles and the updates on infection rates can inform audiences, we argue that coverage that ignores broader data trends can cause readers to feel negative, which can push them toward news avoidance.

Http://habibiaislamicus.com/index.php/hirj/article/view/145

The main theme of this study is to evaluate the concept of national education in Pakistan, investigate its prevailing situation and discuss its consequences .The study based on qualitative approach and critically review of the related literatures. No doubt the system of education reflect the philosophy of the nation and a country. It is also reflect the culture, customs, values, language as well as the ideology of life and death. These elements lead the name the national to the top of the world or to bottom. Literature and its related observations revealed that the government of Pakistan spent billions of dollar for the promotion and development of education, several policies and plans were made, several initiatives and task forces are formed but all of these efforts are just of number game no real changes have been observed in the prevailing system of education but in other side its worst consequences have been seen in all areas of Pakistan. Pakistan as a country not only left behind in science and technology but also weak in social and ethical values only because of the the absence of ideological base National Education.

Improving Performance of The Genetic Algorithm on NP-Complete Problem

Non-Deterministic Polynomial Complete Problem is the most challenging problem and also engaging in algorithm strategy. One representation of this problem is the sudoku numbers game. To fill an empty sudoku puzzle, a specific formula does not apply, but filling in sudoku is a matter of decision. So it takes a special algorithm and strategy to solve it. As such, the case of the sudoku numbers game has been widely praised as the topic of finding the best results. One of the methods used is a genetic algorithm. However, due to many processes and data used in the implementation of genetic algorithms, the results obtained are often not optimal. This research will introduce a special strategy in implementing genetic algorithms in NP-Complete problems, namely by optimizing the genetic algorithm in the process of population formation. From the test results, it is found that the application of the genetic algorithm with optimization results in smaller time data and test data compared to the algorithm without optimization.

Myosin Modulation in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy and Systolic Heart Failure: Getting Inside the Engine.

Myosin Modulation in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy and Systolic Heart Failure: Getting Inside the Engine.

A Critical Discourse Analysis of Covid-19 in Iranian and American Newspapers

The policies and ideologies of countries are reflected in the propagated media of that country, and newspapers are no exception. Covid-19 has affected the lives of people all around the world. The present study investigated the ideological differences in reporting the news related to Covid-19 in light of Van Dijk’s ideological square framework. To do so, a representative sample of 56 news articles was chosen over a period of one year (from January 2020 to the end of January 2021) from one Iranian and one American newspaper, the Tehran Times and The New York Times. Overall, 2,977 clauses were analysed both qualitatively, to find out the reason of occurrence, and quantitatively, to determine the frequency of occurrence for each micro-strategy. Evidentiality, Hyperbole, Metaphor, National Self-Glorification, Negative Lexicalisation, and Number Game were the most frequent micro-strategies. Such high frequencies of the strategies can make for effective discursive apparatus to make readers believe what news articles claim is true. The most salient implication of this study would be raising readers’ and academics’ awareness of the need to view news articles critically to avoid negative ramifications of ideological propagandas. In the same vein, newspapers need to be cognizant of the micro-strategies they consciously or sub-consciously employ since certain micro-strategies can be used to manipulate readers’ minds and help news agencies to feed their readers certain ideological and political agendas. Keywords Covid-19; Critical Discourse Analysis; Ideological Micro-strategies; Newspapers; Van Dijk

Dynamic analysis of scoring performance in elite men's badminton according to contextual-related variables

The scoring performance in badminton can reveal important stages during the match and different characteristics according to notational, temporal and contextual-related variables. The aim of the present study was to: (i) analyse the scoring performance dynamics of men's badminton players according to tournament stage (group stage, knockout stage), game number (game 1, game 2, game 3) and game half (before and after the mid-game break when the leading player reaches 11 points); (ii) identify the persistency trends of point outcome and temporal-related variables in male badminton players; and (iii) establish the relationships between players’ scoring coordination and point outcome entropy with temporal-related variables. Thirty-one games and 1,080 rallies were analysed from 14 matches played by the tournament medallists from Rio 2016. The main finding shows that at the beginning of game (until 11 points) the players are less coordinated (anti-phase) and, in the second half (11-21 points) the players are more coordinated (in-phase) with a similar scoring performance for both players. The results showed a stronger coordination in the scoring process in the knockout phase compared to the group stage and entropy showed less variability at the beginning of the second half but high variability in the first half. In conclusion, these results can contribute to a better understanding of the dynamics of elite badminton matches.

Corona XL – listen

Corona XL – listen

Game on: CEO Political Ideology and the Numbers Game

It is commonly known that CEOs manage corporate earnings and thus expose their firm, its shareholders, and stakeholders to potential harm for their personal benefit. To better understand the drivers of such unethical behavior, we take an upper echelons perspective and consider CEOs’ political ideology, i.e., their stance on the liberal–conservative continuum, as a fundamental determinant of personal preference that becomes reflected in firms’ earnings management. Analyzing a panel dataset of 872 S&P 1500 CEOs, we find considerable support for our arguments that more liberal CEOs prefer to improve (and more conservative CEOs to diminish) reported earnings and show how this inclination varies along a set of contextual characteristics demarcating the diverse preferences as CEOs’ dedication to the firm and its performance endures, increases, and escalates.

تطبيق ترتيب أسئلة الاختبار على مهارة اللغة الاستقبالية (الإستماع والقرأة) في مدرسة الإبتدائية المتكاملة إقرأ 2 بنجكولو

This study discusses 1) the preparation of open-minded ability questions (Istima and Qiraah) in grade 1 students of SDIT Iqra 2 Bengkulu city. This research uses descriptive qualitative research methods. Data collection is conducted by interview and observation by telephone directly to the teacher concerned. After the collected data is done using: a) reduction of data, b) presentation of data, c) withdrawal of conclusions. From this study can be known that 1) the evaluation system on the receptive language skills of grade 1 students at SDIT Iqra 2 Bengkulu city was conducted during the teaching and learning process and midterm assessment and final semester assessment. The evaluation implementation model was driven by (1) reciting the vocabulary listened (2) identifying the sound (3) the game consisting of: games that attract focus, number games, and guess words. In the student reading evaluation, the teacher presents the assessment with (1) matching the sound and reading (2) assessing the student's reading ability. Evaluation activities carried out by teachers for grade 1 students still need to be developed, such as textbooks that are not adequate for assessing listening and reading skills and the lack of teacher innovation in developing receptive language skills.

Drug-Receptor Interactions: It is a Numbers Game.

Drug-Receptor Interactions: It is a Numbers Game.

Combination of high-throughput microfluidics and FACS technologies to leverage the numbers game in natural product discovery.

SummaryHigh‐throughput platforms facilitating screening campaigns of environmental samples are needed to discover new products of natural origin counteracting the spreading of antimicrobial resistances constantly threatening human and agricultural health. We applied a combination of droplet microfluidics and fluorescence‐activated cell sorting (FACS)‐based technologies to access and assess a microbial environmental sample. The cultivation performance of our microfluidics workflow was evaluated in respect to the utilized cultivation media by Illumina amplicon sequencing of a pool of millions of droplets, respectively. This enabled the rational selection of a growth medium supporting the isolation of microbial diversity from soil (five phyla affiliated to 57 genera) including a member of the acidobacterial subgroup 1 (genus Edaphobacter). In a second phase, the entire diversity covered by 1071 cultures was used for an arrayed bioprospecting campaign, resulting in > 6000 extracts tested against human pathogens and agricultural pests. After redundancy curation by using a combinatorial chemical and genomic fingerprinting approach, we assigned the causative agents present in the extracts. Utilizing UHPLC‐QTOF‐MS/MS‐guided fractionation and microplate‐based screening assays in combination with molecular networking the production of bioactive ionophorous macrotetrolides, phospholipids, the cyclic lipopetides massetolides E, F, H and serratamolide A and many derivatives thereof was shown.

Losing the numbers game: revisiting quality metrics through the spectrum of Goodhart's law.

Losing the numbers game: revisiting quality metrics through the spectrum of Goodhart's law.

A New Town and a numbers game: Runcorn, Merseyside, and Liverpool

ABSTRACT This paper is skeptical about attributing welfarist motivations to Britain’s second generation of New Tows, initiated in the 1960s. Focusing specifically on the Runcorn New Town in North West England, on the outskirts of Liverpool, the paper examines its designation and development in the context of what scholars have called ‘the numbers game’, referring to the party-political competition that dramatically escalated annual housebuilding targets throughout the early decades of postwar Britain. The first section covers the negotiation of an ‘overspill’ programme for Merseyside in the mid 1950s. The second section covers the sea change that arrived with the ratcheting of the numbers game by Conservative Minister of Housing Keith Joseph in the early 1960s. The third section details the slum clearance programme adopted by Liverpool in 1966. And the final section addresses the consequences of an economic crisis at the end of the decade that brought the numbers game to a close. The paper concludes that Runcorn’s growth was indexed less to a housing emergency than to the coupling of political maneuvering with capitalist logic, and it argues for a revised historiographical perspective in which Runcorn’s decline is read as a consequence of these conditions.