Embodied Multimodal Agents to Bridge the Understanding Gap

In this paper we argue that embodied multimodal agents, i.e., avatars, can play an important role in moving natural language processing toward deep understanding.'' Fully-featured interactive agents, model encounters between two people,'' but a language-only agent has little environmental and situational awareness. Multimodal agents bring new opportunities for interpreting visuals, locational information, gestures, etc., which are more axes along which to communicate. We propose that multimodal agents, by facilitating an embodied form of human-computer interaction, provide additional structure that can be used to train models that move NLP systems closer to genuine understanding'' of grounded language, and we discuss ongoing studies using existing systems.

Studying The Real Branches Of Algebraic Curves In The Approximate Singular Points Using Puiseux Expansion

In this paper, we will study how we find the number of the reals branches of algebraic curve which pass by the approximate singular points using the expansion of Puiseux , the approximating calculations , the Newton's polygon , Gap theory and Test Criterion in the formal series field . Then we will find a good Algorithm .

Economic Possibilities to Achieve Self-sufficiency of Wheat in Syria

The research aimed to identify the current status of wheat in Syria during the period (2000- 2012), and to study the energy of production and consumption, gap size, besides self-sufficiency ratio of wheat, as well as to highlight on the average per capita of the available for consumption, the annual average income per capita, and the annual population increase. The research also indicated the most important factors affecting the production and domestic consumption of wheat. The results had showed that the general trend of total production, cultivated area and productivity is a descending direction during the studied period. Also, the consumed amount of wheat during the studied period increased, with an average of (4084.42) thousand tons annually, while the average of domestic production amounted to about (4008.38) thousand tons for the same period. Besides the food gap of wheat ranged between a minimum value at (17.3) thousand tons in 2000, and a maximum value about 1660 thousand tons in 2009, the year in which consumption reached its maximum value in the time of studied series. The self-sufficiency ranged from (69.04%) in 2009 and (131.03)% in 2007 with an average of about (99.1)% during the period (2000 - 2012).

Equivalent Circuit Using in Microwave Filter Design

In this paper we will study the usage of equivalent circuit; in modeling a round shaped metal cylinder in rectangular waveguide to get filters that can be calibrated and used in the microwave domain. We will study the structure of a rectangular resonant cavity linked stimulatory through thick openings. Also a metal shape to be calibrated in rectangular resonant cavity linked stimulatory through thick openings. We will use matlab for showing transition and reflection factors for the suggested filters.

Study and Design of Microwave Filter Using Iterative Method FWCIP

Recently PGB (photonic band gap) filters show a great development. Here we will present two different PGB filters with lattice etched in the ground plane. The rejection band characteristic is function of the number and shape of elements etched. These filters are modelling by the FWCIP method.

The Relationship between the Classification of Country according to the Innovation Gap and Classified according to the Components of the Framework of the Global Innovation Index GII and its impacts on the Banking Sector

The new global trends Based mainly on innovation, in all industries including the banking industry. This imposes the need to keep abreast of recent developments within the available resources, and it creates a pressure related to many factors that cause the imbalance in innovative performance, which is expressed by term the gap between innovation inputs and outputs. The research aims to study the relationship between the classification of countries according to the innovation gap, and between classified according to the components of the general framework of the Global Innovation Index (input, output, efficiency, innovation), and its impacts on the banking sector. To achieve this goal, data has been collecting from the official reports of the Global Innovation Index for 31 international and Arab countries, as well as the first banks and the most innovative ones, which numbered 17 banks. The results showed that the innovation gap does not evaluate the level of innovation in the country, but links to the value of the input and output and efficiency of innovation, also it does not represent an obstacle to the innovation ability in banks.

Using Iterative Method in Microwave Filter Design, and its Simulation in Matlab

Novel rejected and passed band devices are obtained using techniques in two dimensional Photonic Band Gap microstrip structures. The microstrip is engraved in a PBG dielectric constituted of a via holes array and enclosed in a metallic box. The boundary element method (BEM) and the fast wave concept iterative process (FWCIP) are combined to evaluate the characteristic of this structure.

The Inflationary Recession In The Syrian Economy

The recession or the stopping of the growth accompanied with an increase in the rate of the inflation is considered as one of the damaging situations of the economy and has also been defined as inflation accompanied by an increase in the rate of unemployment and it is used to be an obstacle to the calculations of the policy makers because of its negative consequences on the economy, particularly because of the damage on the expenditure and pushing of the demand backwards. It is believed that the British politician Pan MacLoid is the first person to form the idiom in the speech of the parliament in 1965 when he said that we had an inflation situation on one side and a stopping of the development on the other side, so we were suffering from an inflationary recession. Because of the importance of this phenomenon, the study aims to prove the existence of the inflationary recession phenomenon in the Syrian economy, which doesn’t reach to the level of the entire employment through the collecting of data about this economy during a specific period and analyzing them in order to monitor the indexes and the effects of the recession and the inflation in the Syrian economy during the same period and reveal the role of the government in the emergence of the inflationary recession as a result of the economic, financial and monetary policies followed by the government as well and reveal the procedures which they must follow to remove of the contradiction among the governmental policies to treat the inflationary recession phenomenon, to activate the national economy and to increase the rate of development of the entire local production as well as to reduce the unemployment rates.

Evaluation of Training Programs in Productive Organizations Depending on Requirements of ISO 10015/1999: A Case Study of the General Organization of Tobacco (GOT)

Training is a way of improving the efficiency and effectiveness of organizations. ISO 10015/1999 is concerned with training quality and improving work methods through five stages: (1) identifying training needs, (2) designing training plans, (3) implementation, (4) evaluating the results, (5) and monitoring and improving performance. The purpose of this study is to reveal the extent of standards application (ISO10015/1999) in training programs at Syrian General Organization of Tobacco (GOT) to show the gaps and weaknesses in the training practice at the GOT as per the requirements of the specification to be applied, through a gap analysis to determine the implemented and unimplemented requirements of ISO 10015 standards seeking best performance. This helps to achieve the goals of GOT efficiently. The study concluded that GOT achieves many requirements set out in the specification, with considerable weakness of monitoring and improvement.

An analytical study of the reality of food in Syria during the years 2011-2012 and the prospects for demand for food

The research aims to identify the reality of food in Syria during the 2011-2012 period and compared to the situation before the crisis (2008-2010). The study showed that the total cultivated area in Syria during the crisis amounted to about 4479 thousand hectares, and the total lack of 323 thousand hectares from the pre-crisis period, as well as the decreasing size of the vegetation of agricultural production during the same period increased by 3081.2 thousand tons to score 11021.5 thousand tons, However, the availability of vegetarian food and animal size increased overall during the period of crisis by 923.7 thousand tons to score 18704.1 thousand tons, With regard to per capita food shortage has been during the crisis period by 8 kg to score 864.8 kg while it was before the crisis 872.8 kg, With regard to the value of the food gap turned out to be increased during the crisis by 640.5 million dollars to up to 1727.2 million dollars,. And finally the study showed that the demand for food will increase in Syria during the period 2016-2020, as will 22832.5 thousand tons in 2020, so the size of the domestic production of Syria, to be achieved in 2020 will be 18170.8 thousand tons.