This work is based on the testing of a remote interpreting (RI) delivery platform conducted a year before the disruptive COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, and aimed at assessing the use and experience of such systems in a university setting. A survey was a
dministered to the different groups of users (interpreters, audience, and speakers) involved in two tests to collect their responses and remarks, and assess trends and perceptions in their experience. According to emerging findings of the research project, RI was already considered to be an indisputable yet burgeoning resource for conference settings with potential convenience and benefits for each group of users. However, participants' remarks early suggested that all the parties involved in the industry need to collaborate to effectively improve and enhance such services. Specific training on RI modalities would also appear to be increasingly necessary for interpreters to adapt to new raising working conditions and meet a thriving demand---and training institutions would ever more have to offer adequate solutions, while this technological shift also requires receptiveness and adaptability to an abruptly diversifying and evolving profession.
Communication between healthcare professionals and deaf patients is challenging, and the current COVID-19 pandemic makes this issue even more acute. Sign language interpreters can often not enter hospitals and face masks make lipreading impossible. T
o address this urgent problem, we developed a system which allows healthcare professionals to translate sentences that are frequently used in the diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19 into Sign Language of the Netherlands (NGT). Translations are displayed by means of videos and avatar animations. The architecture of the system is such that it could be extended to other applications and other sign languages in a relatively straightforward way.
Allowing users to interact with multi-document summarizers is a promising direction towards improving and customizing summary results. Different ideas for interactive summarization have been proposed in previous work but these solutions are highly di
vergent and incomparable. In this paper, we develop an end-to-end evaluation framework for interactive summarization, focusing on expansion-based interaction, which considers the accumulating information along a user session. Our framework includes a procedure of collecting real user sessions, as well as evaluation measures relying on summarization standards, but adapted to reflect interaction. All of our solutions and resources are available publicly as a benchmark, allowing comparison of future developments in interactive summarization, and spurring progress in its methodological evaluation. We demonstrate the use of our framework by evaluating and comparing baseline implementations that we developed for this purpose, which will serve as part of our benchmark. Our extensive experimentation and analysis motivate the proposed evaluation framework design and support its viability.
This research aims at handling the images of natural setting manifested in the Umayyad poetry , especially those reflected throughout the political and social changes of that era, leaving an obvious effect on the poet himself and subsequently on his
creative production and formation of the natural setting . For the poet would take his material out of the static realities of the natural setting, being the setting that has remained intact out of man's hand and formation – which includes deserts , mountains , scenery and rivers … etc – The poet then modefies an image of the natural setting using his imagination in accordance to his sights and mentality .
The setting in novels has captured the novelists' attention in the contemporary literary world. It was considered the link between elements of the novel. It is، after all، the setting of the events، the substantial scope in which characters move and
where all conflicts take place. Thus، the setting، with its different types، has preoccupied modern studies which examined the relation between the setting and the narrative elements، especially the character. Studies have preserved to reflect the relation between setting and character and the effect this relation has on forming the setting and giving it specific characteristics depending upon the case and the reality of the Palestinian movement. This relation between setting and character has acquired much importance due to the mutual relation between the two، to the extent that setting، in some novels، has become a basis for the events، a purpose for forming characters، and a conformation for their identity and existence. This research sheds light on setting in SaharKhalife's novels، its role in personifying the Palestinian reality، and studying its importance in the life of the Palestinian character، in addition to showing the role of description in projecting its indicative features and dimensions.
This research is carried out on a sample of 8 players who are setters selected from the Syrian ladies teams. The researcher used the experiential method because it suits the nature of the research, and divided the sample into two groups: experimental
and control group. The researcher carried out a pre-test on the two groups. Then the experimental program was put into practice for 8 weeks, three training units per week for the experimental group. Later a post–experimental test, similar to the pre-test, was carried out on the two groups, the experimental and control group. The researcher concludes that the exercises that were used in the program had led to considerable improvement of performance by the experimental group.
The ideal goal of periodontal instrumentation is to effectively remove plaque
and calculus without causing root surface damage and various instruments have been designed to achieve
this goal. Root planing aim to create a root surface which is biolo
gically acceptable to surrounding soft
tissues and increase root surface roughness.
Aim of study: To evaluate the increasing of root surface roughness produced by hand curettes and
piezoelectric ultrasonic instrument with different power settings .
The substance, Na٢-EDTA, disodium salt of Ethylene Diamine Tetra Acetic
acid, has big influence on the setting time of both Portland cement, and clinker.
The time of initial, and final setting is remarkably changed in the presence of a
small perce
ntage of Na٢-EDTA (less than ١٪ of the cement weight).
The chemical analysis indicates that the total concentration of calcium in the
aqueous phase of cement increases in the presence of Na٢-EDTA. While, the
concentration of free calcium ions in the aqueous phase decreases as the
percentage of Na٢-EDTA increases. Na٢-EDTA forms chelating complexes with
calcium, and some other metals such as iron and magnesium at high PH values,
as in the case of a mixture of cement and water.
