On the Relation between Syntactic Divergence and Zero-Shot Performance

We explore the link between the extent to which syntactic relations are preserved in translation and the ease of correctly constructing a parse tree in a zero-shot setting. While previous work suggests such a relation, it tends to focus on the macro level and not on the level of individual edges---a gap we aim to address. As a test case, we take the transfer of Universal Dependencies (UD) parsing from English to a diverse set of languages and conduct two sets of experiments. In one, we analyze zero-shot performance based on the extent to which English source edges are preserved in translation. In another, we apply three linguistically motivated transformations to UD, creating more cross-lingually stable versions of it, and assess their zero-shot parsability. In order to compare parsing performance across different schemes, we perform extrinsic evaluation on the downstream task of cross-lingual relation extraction (RE) using a subset of a standard English RE benchmark translated to Russian and Korean. In both sets of experiments, our results suggest a strong relation between cross-lingual stability and zero-shot parsing performance.

Human-Model Divergence in the Handling of Vagueness

While aggregate performance metrics can generate valuable insights at a large scale, their dominance means more complex and nuanced language phenomena, such as vagueness, may be overlooked. Focusing on vague terms (e.g. sunny, cloudy, young, etc.) we inspect the behavior of visually grounded and text-only models, finding systematic divergences from human judgments even when a model's overall performance is high. To help explain this disparity, we identify two assumptions made by the datasets and models examined and, guided by the philosophy of vagueness, isolate cases where they do not hold.

Variation in framing as a function of temporal reporting distance

In this paper, we measure variation in framing as a function of foregrounding and backgrounding in a co-referential corpus with a range of temporal distance. In one type of experiment, frame-annotated corpora grouped under event types were contrasted, resulting in a ranking of frames with typicality rates. In contrasting between publication dates, a different ranking of frames emerged for documents that are close to or far from the event instance. In the second type of analysis, we trained a diagnostic classifier with frame occurrences in order to let it differentiate documents based on their temporal distance class (close to or far from the event instance). The classifier performs above chance and outperforms models with words.

Space as an Arbiter of Cyborg Psychosis in Margaret Cavendish’s The Convent of Pleasure

This article addresses the role of space in re-imagining a case of essentialist society as collective gender paranoia of biological reconciliation, as presented in Margaret Cavendish‟s The Convent of Pleasure (1668). Using the institution of the Roman Catholic convent, Cavendish‟s play interrogates biological polarity and disavows establishing reversed gender hierarchies of empowerment and subservience. To this effect, the play suggests a communal psychosis, being delusively constructed by antagonistic biological differences that generate both sexes‟ denial of cyborg or hybridized dualism in their gender identification. In this regard, the presented argument addresses several critical lacunae in the scholarship of The Convent of Pleasure.

Love In Feuerbach Philosophy

Feuerbach tried to make the power of love a kind of power that cannot be matched with any other power as love defeats all his opponents even if God is one of them. Love is always victorious. That's what made the concept of love in Feuerbach’s ideas a distinguished and unprecedented concept comparing to all concepts handled by those philosophers before him. This kind of love dominates the body and soul together and it is inseparable from our body, may not live outside our soul, it is the basis of the body and the essence of the spirit. Feuerbach wanted to make love a link between a mankind and another so there is no love if one existence and the other is absent. Feuerbach doesn’t limit himself at this point but goes on to ignore the existence of human being without being in love or loved by other person. That who does not love does not exist, even religion has neither benefit nor importance if it is not based on love because love is the reason and core in other words love is the reason behind the existence of religion.

Monitoring the response of natural stands of Cedrus libani A. Richard in Syria to climatic variables by MODIS NDVI

This study was analyzed the temporal variation of Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) of natural stands of cedrus libani in the northern humid part and eastern exposure of the Syrian coastal mountains (Slenfeh, Jawbat Burghal), and its correlation with climatic variables (temperature and precipitation) during the period of 2004-2014. We examined the interannual and seasonal variation in NDVI values of Cedrus stands, and accumulative effects of climatic variables (temperature and precipitation) on stands using simple linear regression and correlation (Pearson). The NDVI values of Cedrus libani stands showed significant increase in Slenfeh and Jawbat Burghal (0.006, 0.004 /year) respectively. We found that the annual mean NDVI was significantly correlated with annual mean precipitation in Jawbat Burghal (R = 0.689).The significant increase trend of seasonal mean NDVI was in Slenfeh summer and Jawbat Burghal winter (R = 0.638, R = 0.724) respectively. The results showed, there were accumulative effects of temperature on Cedrus libani in Slenfeh and Jawbat Burghal in autumn and winter, while the accumulative effects of precipitation in autumn and summer were noted.

The Role of Accounting Political Lobby in Issuing American Accounting Standards and its Effect in Issuing International Accounting Standards

This paper reports on the relationship between political Interests and the process of issuing international accounting standards. The basic hypothesis of the paper is proved by taking the situation of USA and the effect of political interests in the Financial Accounting Standard Board (FASB) directly and in the International Accounting Standard Committee (IASC) indirectly as well. The (IASC) tried to eliminate differences and deepen similarities through propose many alternatives. Instead, it had started decrease alternatives, which reflects the political dimension. Besides getting the international feature. On the other hand, all IASs, historically, had come after Putting both findings together, (IAS) and (US GAAP) do not appear to be substantially different; rather they seem to be of similar quality. differently issuing American accounting standards which strength the basic hypothesis of this research and reveal the effect of American interests in issuing (IASs) and forbid undeveloped countries to utilize accounting as a tool serving economic development The paper provided results and recommendations in this record.

Definition of Fiber, Bundle and Yarn Strength And Studying Relationship Between them, and Estimation of yarn Density

research The aim of this is to find an explicit relationship between the strength of fibers, bundle and yarns. The CV values of the strength are given as well. This provides a relatively simple method for estimation of staple yarn strength, while avoiding some difficulties of an empirical method. The effects of important factors such as fiber length and thickness, twist and count of yarn are considered. The results are verified by published data in Mechanical Engineering of Textile Industries and Their Technologies, Faculty of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Damascus University. and also in Al-Kumasiah company in Damascus city. This research provides suggestions if we apply it it will help in estimating directly the yarn strength without manufacturing and suitable testing of the yarn.

In Vitro Comparative Study of Color Difference of Two Types of Ceramometal after Repeated Firing

Color stability is an important factor to ensure the long-term of esthetic success of ceramic restoration, there are several factors affect color stability, such as repeated firing. Aim of Study: Color Difference comparison between two types of ceramic fused to metal after repeat firing by using spectrophotometer (Vita Easy Shade).

تأثير الاختلاف المركزي في تراوح السرعة في الكامات القرصية ذات التوابع الترددية

إن المصدر الرئيسي لتراوح السرعة هو عدم التوافق بين خصائص التحميل و مميزات أداء وحدة تزويد القدرة و قوى العطالة المؤثرة في المجموعة الديناميكية, مما يسبب عدة مشكلات تكنولوجية, لعل أهمها الاهتزازات و ظهور الاجهادات. إن موضوع هذا البحث هو إجراء دراسة تحليلية لتحديد القيمة المثلى للاختلاف المركزي في تركيبة الكامة التي توفر أقل قيمة ممكنة لمعامل تراوح السرعة لمحور الدوران. و يعود ذلك إلى أن تغير الاختلاف المركزي يؤدي إلى تغيير القدرة الحركية و العزم المقاوم المحصل المؤثر في تركيبة الكامة مما ينتج تغير معامل تراوح سرعة عمود الدوران.