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Journal articles on the topic "Topic adaptation"
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Tang, Lei, Huan Liu, Jianping Zhang, Nitin Agarwal, and John J. Salerno. "Topic taxonomy adaptation for group profiling." ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data 1, no. 4 (January 2008): 1–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1324172.1324173.
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Javeline, Debra. "The Most Important Topic Political Scientists Are Not Studying: Adapting to Climate Change." Perspectives on Politics 12, no. 2 (April 4, 2014): 420–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1537592714000784.
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Few, if any, political scientists currently study climate change adaptation or are even aware that there is a large and growing interdisciplinary field of study devoted not just to mitigating greenhouse gas emissions but to reducing our vulnerability to the now-inevitable impacts of climate change. The lack of political science expertise and research represents an obstacle for adapting to climate change, because adaptation is fundamentally political. Technical advances in adaptations for infrastructure, agriculture, public health, coastal protection, conservation, and other fields all depend on political variables for their implementation and effectiveness. For example, adaptation raises questions about political economy (adaptation costs money), political theory (adaptation involves questions of social justice), comparative politics (some countries more aggressively pursue adaptation), urban politics (some cities more aggressively pursue adaptation), regime type (democracies and authoritarian regimes may differently pursue adaptation), federalism (different levels of government may be involved), and several other fields of study including political conflict, international development, bureaucracy, migration, media, political parties, elections, civil society, and public opinion. I review the field of climate change adaptation and then explore the tremendous contributions that political scientists could make to adaptation research.
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Smith, Catherine L. "Searcher adaptation: A response to topic difficulty." Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 45, no. 1 (2008): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/meet.2008.1450450381.
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Ahmed, Syed Toufeeq, K. Selçuk Candan, Sangwoo Han, and Yan Qi. "Topic development pattern analysis-based adaptation of information spaces." New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia 15, no. 1 (April 2009): 73–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13614560902803562.
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Lesnikowski, Alexandra, Ella Belfer, Emma Rodman, Julie Smith, Robbert Biesbroek, John D. Wilkerson, James D. Ford, and Lea Berrang‐Ford. "Frontiers in data analytics for adaptation research: Topic modeling." Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change 10, no. 3 (February 27, 2019): e576. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/wcc.576.
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Park, Seungmi, and Jung Lim Lee. "Research trend analysis of Korean new graduate nurses using topic modeling." Journal of Korean Academic Society of Nursing Education 27, no. 3 (August 31, 2021): 240–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.5977/jkasne.2021.27.3.240.
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Purpose: The aim of this study is to analyze the research trends of articles on just graduated Korean nurses during the past 10 years for exploring strategies for clinical adaptation. Methods: The topics of new graduate nurses were extracted from 110 articles that have been published in Korean journals between January 2010 and July 2020. Abstracts were retrieved from 4 databases (DBpia, RISS, KISS and Google scholar). Keywords were extracted from the abstracts and cleaned using semantic morphemes. Network analysis and topic modeling were performed using the NetMiner program. Results: The core keywords included ‘education’, ‘training’, ‘program’, ‘skill’, ‘care’, ‘performance’, and ‘satisfaction’. In recent articles on new graduate nurses, three major topics were extracted by Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) techniques: ‘turnover’, ‘adaptation’, ‘education’. Conclusion: Previous articles focused on exploring the factors related to the adaptation and turnover intentions of new graduate nurses. It is necessary to conduct further research focused on various interventions at the individual, task, and organizational levels to improve the retention of new graduate nurses.
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Sosnovsky, Sergey, and Peter Brusilovsky. "Evaluation of topic-based adaptation and student modeling in QuizGuide." User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction 25, no. 4 (July 10, 2015): 371–424. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11257-015-9164-4.
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Kluger, MJ. "Fever: A Hot Topic." Physiology 1, no. 1 (February 1, 1986): 25–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/physiologyonline.1986.1.1.25.
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Fever is the regulation of body temperature at an elevated "set point." Contact with a variety of pathogens, such as viruses or bacteria, will result in the release of a small protein, endogenous pyrogen or interleukin 1, from the host's white blood cells. This protein circulates to the brain where it is thought to raise the temperature set point via the production of a prostaglandin. Fevers occur throughout the vertebrates. The cold-blooded vertebrates (fishes, amphibians, reptiles) raise their body temperature by behaviorally selecting a warmer microhabitat. Warm-blooded vertebrates (birds and mammals) use both physiological and behavioral means to raise core temperature. Over the past decade data from both in vitro and in vivo studies support the hypothesis that moderate fevers are beneficial to the host;that is, fever as evolved as an adaptation to reduce the severity of infection.
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Vieira do Nascimento, Daniele. "Exploring climate finance for tourism adaptation development: an overview." Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes 8, no. 5 (October 10, 2016): 593–605. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/whatt-06-2016-0036.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the links between climate finance and tourism adaptation development. Besides increasing adaptation and mitigation efforts to limit greenhouse gas emissions, climate change remains a major challenge in the twenty-first century and beyond especially for tourism which is highly climate sensitive. Hence, it is necessary for tourism to adapt to survive. The aim of the study is to provide a systematic overview of the topic to offer a foundation for better understanding different ways of integrating climate finance initiatives with tourism. Design/methodology/approach The research focused on the top-ranked, peer reviewed journals of each of the two selected research fields. To address this topic, an in-depth systematic literature review in the fields of climate change finance and tourism adaptation development was conducted. Furthermore, because it is a relatively new research topic, conference proceedings were also explored. To guarantee wide coverage of the literature, a query of the following scholarly databases was considered: Elsevier, ScienceDirect and Web of Science. Findings Based on the analyses of the literature available on the topic, the paper highlights the main research trends and conclusions. It is argued that there is imbalance of knowledge on climate change finance as it relates to tourism. To date, there have been relatively few published articles on this topic in the context of tourism. Based on the findings, promising areas for future research were identified, and in particular for small island communities and recommendations for future research are outlined. Research limitations/implications The paper is limited by the scope of the literature review accessed by the researcher. The results of this review may vary according to the databases used. Originality/value Currently, there is no extensive review of articles on climate finance and tourism adaptation. This paper aims at reviewing climate finance studies published in English language to explore knowledge gaps in tourism adaptation. Sets of themes being advanced are also highlighted. Recommendations for future research are provided.
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Kaplan, Sarah. "Cognition in Firm Environments: A Topic Modeling Approach to Organizational Adaptation." Academy of Management Proceedings 2016, no. 1 (January 2016): 14415. http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2016.14415symposium.
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Matsushita, Hitokazu. "Data Selection using Topic Adaptation for Statistical Machine Translation." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2015. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5781.
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Statistical machine translation (SMT) requires large quantities of bitexts (i.e., bilingual parallel corpora) as training data to yield good quality translations. While obtaining a large amount of training data is critical, the similarity between training and test data also has a significant impact on SMT performance. Many SMT studies define data similarity in terms of domain-overlap, and domains are defined to be synonymous with data sources. Consequently, the SMT community has focused on domain adaptation techniques that augment small (in-domain) datasets with large datasets from other sources (hence, out-of-domain, per the definition). However, many training datasets consist of topically diverse data, and not all data contained in a single dataset are useful for translations of a specific target task. In this study, we propose a new perspective on data quality and topical similarity to enhance SMT performance. Using our data adaptation approach called topic adaptation, we select topically suitable training data corresponding to test data in order to produce better translations. We propose three topic adaptation approaches for the SMT process and investigate the effectiveness in both idealized and realistic settings using large parallel corpora. We measure performance of SMT systems trained on topically similar data and their effectiveness based on BLEU, the widely-used objective SMT performance metric. We show that topic adaptation approaches outperform baseline systems (0.3 – 3 BLEU points) when data selection parameters are carefully determined.
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Hasler, Eva Cornelia. "Dynamic topic adaptation for improved contextual modelling in statistical machine translation." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/10522.
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In recent years there has been an increased interest in domain adaptation techniques for statistical machine translation (SMT) to deal with the growing amount of data from different sources. Topic modelling techniques applied to SMT are closely related to the field of domain adaptation but more flexible in dealing with unstructured text. Topic models can capture latent structure in texts and are therefore particularly suitable for modelling structure in between and beyond corpus boundaries, which are often arbitrary. In this thesis, the main focus is on dynamic translation model adaptation to texts of unknown origin, which is a typical scenario for an online MT engine translating web documents. We introduce a new bilingual topic model for SMT that takes the entire document context into account and for the first time directly estimates topic-dependent phrase translation probabilities in a Bayesian fashion. We demonstrate our model’s ability to improve over several domain adaptation baselines and further provide evidence for the advantages of bilingual topic modelling for SMT over the more common monolingual topic modelling. We also show improved performance when deriving further adapted translation features from the same model which measure different aspects of topical relatedness. We introduce another new topic model for SMT which exploits the distributional nature of phrase pair meaning by modelling topic distributions over phrase pairs using their distributional profiles. Using this model, we explore combinations of local and global contextual information and demonstrate the usefulness of different levels of contextual information, which had not been previously examined for SMT. We also show that combining this model with a topic model trained at the document-level further improves performance. Our dynamic topic adaptation approach performs competitively in comparison with two supervised domain-adapted systems. Finally, we shed light on the relationship between domain adaptation and topic adaptation and propose to combine multi-domain adaptation and topic adaptation in a framework that entails automatic prediction of domain labels at the document level. We show that while each technique provides complementary benefits to the overall performance, there is an amount of overlap between domain and topic adaptation. This can be exploited to build systems that require less adaptation effort at runtime.
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Kim, Sara. "International Students' Cross-cultural Communication Accommodation through Language Approximation and Topic Selection Strategies on Facebook and Its Relationship to the Students' Acculturation Attitude, Psychological Adjustment, and Socio-cultural Adaptation." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/596088.
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Language use and communicative behaviors are important indicators of sojourners' adjustment. The current research was conducted to understand international students' communication behavior on Facebook during their adjustment period in the US and its relationship to the students' acculturative attitude (identification with heritage and mainstream culture), current psychological adjustment level, socio-cultural adaptation level, and target audience on Facebook. Two main theories provided the theoretical framework of the study: Giles' communication accommodation theory (1973) and Berry's acculturation model (1984). Snowball and convenience samples were used to recruit 178 international students from different universities across the US. A mixed approach of online survey and content analysis was used to test the hypotheses and research questions. The results showed that during the stay in the US, international students accommodate their language and topic choice towards their American peers on Facebook. Particularly, it was found that language accommodation levels increase as the students' length of stay in the US increases. The results also demonstrate that international students use Facebook mainly to communicate with friends who reside in the US. When students had higher levels of mainstream identification, they were likely to target American friends as their audience on Facebook and thus have more language and topic accommodation. Additionally, acculturation attitude (heritage and mainstream identification) predicted the students' language accommodation level. Lastly, the study showed that there is a positive relationship between language accommodation and sociocultural adjustment. The findings of the study not only expand the scope of communication accommodation theory and acculturation model, but also enhance understanding of international students' online communication patterns, their purposes, and practical consequences upon their adjustment in the US. This is important because it can be useful in finding ways to improve the students' experience in the US.
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New, Nelda F. "The development and outcomes of a co-created diabetes self-management education intervention : a pilot study /." Connect to full text via ProQuest. Limited to UCD Anschutz Medical Campus, 2007.
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Thesis (Ph.D. in Nursing) -- University of Colorado Denver, 2007.Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 154-162). Free to UCD affiliates. Online version available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations;
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Désoyer, Adèle. "Appariement de contenus textuels dans le domaine de la presse en ligne : développement et adaptation d'un système de recherche d'information." Thesis, Paris 10, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA100119/document.
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L'objectif de cette thèse, menée dans un cadre industriel, est d'apparier des contenus textuels médiatiques. Plus précisément, il s'agit d'apparier à des articles de presse en ligne des vidéos pertinentes, pour lesquelles nous disposons d'une description textuelle. Notre problématique relève donc exclusivement de l'analyse de matériaux textuels, et ne fait intervenir aucune analyse d'image ni de langue orale. Surviennent alors des questions relatives à la façon de comparer des objets textuels, ainsi qu'aux critères mobilisés pour estimer leur degré de similarité. L'un de ces éléments est selon nous la similarité thématique de leurs contenus, autrement dit le fait que deux documents doivent relater le même sujet pour former une paire pertinente. Ces problématiques relèvent du domaine de la recherche d'information (ri), dans lequel nous nous ancrons principalement. Par ailleurs, lorsque l'on traite des contenus d'actualité, la dimension temporelle est aussi primordiale et les problématiques qui l'entourent relèvent de travaux ayant trait au domaine du topic detection and tracking (tdt) dans lequel nous nous inscrivons également.Le système d'appariement développé dans cette thèse distingue donc différentes étapes qui se complètent. Dans un premier temps, l'indexation des contenus fait appel à des méthodes de traitement automatique des langues (tal) pour dépasser la représentation classique des textes en sac de mots. Ensuite, deux scores sont calculés pour rendre compte du degré de similarité entre deux contenus : l'un relatif à leur similarité thématique, basé sur un modèle vectoriel de ri; l'autre à leur proximité temporelle, basé sur une fonction empirique. Finalement, un modèle de classification appris à partir de paires de documents, décrites par ces deux scores et annotées manuellement, permet d'ordonnancer les résultats.L'évaluation des performances du système a elle aussi fait l'objet de questionnements dans ces travaux de thèse. Les contraintes imposées par les données traitées et le besoin particulier de l'entreprise partenaire nous ont en effet contraints à adopter une alternative au protocole classique d'évaluation en ri, le paradigme de CranfieldThe goal of this thesis, conducted within an industrial framework, is to pair textual media content. Specifically, the aim is to pair on-line news articles to relevant videos for which we have a textual description. The main issue is then a matter of textual analysis, no image or spoken language analysis was undertaken in the present study. The question that arises is how to compare these particular objects, the texts, and also what criteria to use in order to estimate their degree of similarity. We consider that one of these criteria is the topic similarity of their content, in other words, the fact that two documents have to deal with the same topic to form a relevant pair. This problem fall within the field of information retrieval (ir) which is the main strategy called upon in this research. Furthermore, when dealing with news content, the time dimension is of prime importance. To address this aspect, the field of topic detection and tracking (tdt) will also be explored.The pairing system developed in this thesis distinguishes different steps which complement one another. In the first step, the system uses natural language processing (nlp) methods to index both articles and videos, in order to overcome the traditionnal bag-of-words representation of texts. In the second step, two scores are calculated for an article-video pair: the first one reflects their topical similarity and is based on a vector space model; the second one expresses their proximity in time, based on an empirical function. At the end of the algorithm, a classification model learned from manually annotated document pairs is used to rank the results.Evaluation of the system's performances raised some further questions in this doctoral research. The constraints imposed both by the data and the specific need of the partner company led us to adapt the evaluation protocol traditionnal used in ir, namely the cranfield paradigm. We therefore propose an alternative solution for evaluating the system that takes all our constraints into account
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Neumann, Grit. "Adaptation of bacteria to toxic solvents mechanisms and application /." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2006. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?idn=984448241.
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Das, Manirupa. "Neural Methods Towards Concept Discovery from Text via Knowledge Transfer." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1572387318988274.
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Paris, Josephine Rosanna. "Brown trout and toxic metals : local adaptation to the legacy of Britain's mining history." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/29554.
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The effect of human activity on the natural world is increasingly shaping the evolution of species. The capacity of evolution to occur in individuals of a species, via natural selection acting on the genotypes of local populations through successive generations, is known as local adaptation. In southwest England, historical mining activity has resulted in a patchwork of highly metal-contaminated rivers across the region. Where the ecological diversity in many of these rivers has been decimated, metal-tolerant brown trout (Salmo trutta L.) populations seem to thrive. What are the mechanisms underlying this apparent metal-tolerance? And can it be attributed to processes of local adaptation? This thesis takes a multi-faceted approach in assessing this, by exploring the patterns and processes involved in metal-tolerance in brown trout populations in southwest England. A series of investigations were undertaken, including the use of neutral genetic markers (microsatellites), reduced representation genome sequencing (RAD-seq), common-garden exposure experiments, and genome-wide analysis of hepatic gene expression (RNA-seq). The microsatellite analysis illustrated that metal-tolerant trout have a different genetic architecture compared to fish in clean rivers and, using Bayesian analysis, these demographic differences were correlated with key periods of mining history. We then developed an approach to facilitate robust screening of genome-wide polymorphic loci through a method of parameter optimisation for RAD-seq. This approach formed the basis for identifying loci for investigating the genomic processes of local adaptation in metal-tolerant trout. We present genome-wide (RAD-seq) data highly indicative that neighbouring trout populations, differently impacted by unique ‘cocktails’ of metal pollutants have evolved both parallel and convergent mechanisms of metal tolerance. Through a common garden experiment, exposing metal-tolerant and metal-naïve fish to a mixture of metals, we were able to hone in on the physiological mechanisms underlying metal-tolerance. Finally, through RNA-seq, we observed that metal-tolerant fish showed little to no changes in hepatic gene expression when exposed to metals, pointing to innate mechanisms of metal handling. Together, the marriage of these various investigations showcases the remarkable ability of local adaptation in conferring metal-tolerance to brown trout populations in southwest England, and, importantly, the resilience of species’ in the face of human-altered environments.
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Rohling, Katie. "A changing climate: a review of the accommodation and communication methods, for discussing complex, scientific topics, in county extension in Kansas and Oklahoma." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/32593.
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Master of ScienceDepartment of Communications and Agricultural Education
Lauri M. Baker
Peter J. Tomlinson
The purpose of this study was to determine specific communication accommodations used by county agricultural and natural resource agents/educators when discussing complex, scientific topics like climate change. Four research objectives were used to determine 1) background and experience of agents/educators, 2) how agents/educators are communicating on complex, scientific topics, 3) climate-change information received and preferred method of receiving future training, and 4) agents’/educators’ communication adjustment. This study was guided by Communication Accommodation Theory to understand how agents/educators are adjusting their communication when speaking to producers with varying education levels, grammar usage, and seeking different types of climate information. This study utilized a mixed method, quantitative and qualitative, survey (n = 42). Extension in Kansas and Oklahoma had not publicized an organizational stance on climate change. Kansas agents and Oklahoma educators had access to climate-change information through a variety of internal and external sources. Agents/educators had a strong background in agriculture and varying ranges of experience in the position. The main communication channel producers utilized to contact agents/educators was the telephone (52.24%). Both states indicated they are conducting an average of five on-farm visits a month. Over half (25) of agents/educators indicated they had received some form of climate-change information since becoming an agent/educator. Agents/educators indicated they received this information from sources external to Extension in Kansas and Oklahoma. They also indicated future training should be interactive and close to home. This study found agents/educators are accommodating in their responses to agricultural producers’ requests for climate-change information, but also showed nonaccommodating tendencies. Agents/educators were viewed as nonaccommodating when they used improper grammar, improper email format, or told the producer there was no need for concern on their perceived climate issue. Agents/educators offered to make site visits to the producers’ field, referred to specialists, and worked to establish credibility. This study determined agents/educators have the background and information sources to adequately and effectively answer producers’ questions about climate change. It was determined the reason agents/educators do not want climate-change conversations is because of a lack of formal training on the matter, and they do not feel comfortable. This study recommends Extension provide communication and climate-change training for agents/educators. It also recommends agents/educators continue to conduct on-farm visits as they are vital to interpersonal communication with agricultural producers. Extension should take steps to reach a younger audience and help young people become involved in agriculture.
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Chen, Jennifer C. "Autonomic Imbalance - a Precursor to Myopia Development?" Queensland University of Technology, 2003. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/15803/.
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While prolonged nearwork is considered to be an environmental risk factor associated with myopia development, an underlying genetic susceptibility to nearwork-induced accommodative adaptation may be one possible mechanism for human myopia development. As the control of accommodation by the autonomic system may be one such genetically predetermined system, this research sought to investigate whether an anomaly of the autonomic control of accommodation may be responsible for myopia development and progression. The emphasis of this work was determining the effect of altering the sympathetic input to the ciliary muscle on accommodation responses such as tonic accommodation and nearwork-induced accommodative adaptation in myopes and non-myopes. The first study of the thesis was based on observations of Gilmartin and Winfield (1995) which suggested that a deficit in the sympathetic inputs to the ciliary muscle may be associated with a propensity for myopia development. The effect of ß-antagonism with timolol application on accommodation characteristics was studied in different refractive error groups. Our results support the previous findings that a deficit of sympathetic facility during nearwork was not a feature of late-onset myopia. However it was found that classifying myopes according to stability of their myopia and their ethnic background was important and this allowed differentiation between accommodation responses and characteristics of the ciliary muscle autonomic inputs, with the greatest difference observed between Caucasian stable myopes and Asian progressing myopes. Progressing myopes, particularly those with an Asian background, demonstrated enhanced susceptibility to nearwork-induced accommodative adaptation and this was suggested to result from a possible parasympathetic dominance and a relative sympathetic deficit to the ciliary muscle. In contrast, stable myopes, particularly those with an Asian background, demonstrated minimal accommodation changes following nearwork (counter-adaptation in some cases), and increased accommodative adaptation with ß-antagonism, suggesting sympathetic dominance as the possible autonomic accommodation control profile. As ethnic background was found to be an important factor, a similar study was also conducted in a group of Hong Kong Chinese children to investigate if enhanced susceptibility to nearwork-induced changes in accommodation may explain in part the high prevalence of myopia in Hong Kong. Despite some minor differences in methodology between the two studies, the Hong Kong stable myopic children demonstrated counter-adaptive changes and greater accommodative adaptation with timolol, findings that were consistent with those of the adult Asian stable myopes. Both Asian progressing myopic children and adults also showed greater accommodative adaptation than the stable myopes and similar response profiles following ß-adrenergic antagonism. Thus a combination of genetically predetermined accommodation profiles that confer high susceptibility and extreme environmental pressures is a likely explanation for the increase in myopia over the past decades in Asian countries. The hypothesis that a sympathetic deficit is linked to myopia was also investigated by comparing the effect of â-stimulation with salbutamol, a ß-agonist, on accommodation with that of ß-antagonism using timolol. It was hypothesized that salbutamol would have the opposite effect of timolol, and that it would have a greater effect on subjects who demonstrated greater accommodative adaptation effects, i.e. the progressing myopes, compared to those who showed minimal changes in accommodation following nearwork. Consistent with the hypothesis, the effect of sympathetic stimulation with salbutamol application was only evident in the progressing myopes whom we hypothesized may have a parasympathetic dominance and a relative sympathetic deficit type of autonomic imbalance while it did not further enhance the rapid accommodative regression profile demonstrated by the stable myopes. Characteristics of the convergence system and the interaction between accommodation and convergence were also investigated in the Hong Kong children. No significant differences in response AC/A ratios between the emmetropic, stable and progressing myopic children were found and it was concluded that elevated AC/A ratios were not associated with higher myopic progression rate in this sample of Hong Kong children. However, ß-adrenergic antagonism with timolol application produced a greater effect on accommodative convergence (AC) in stable myopic children who presumably have a more adequate, robust sympathetic input to the ciliary muscle, but had little effect on AC of progressing myopic children. This finding again points to the possibility that the autonomic control of the accommodation and convergence systems may be different between stable and progressing myopia. The primary contribution of this study to the understanding of myopia development is that differences in the autonomic control of the ciliary muscle may be responsible for producing anomalous accommodation responses. This could have significant impact on retinal image quality and thus results in myopia development. This knowledge may be incorporated into computer models of accommodation and myopia development and provides scope for further investigation of the therapeutic benefits of autonomic agents for myopia control.
Books on the topic "Topic adaptation"
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Ditton, Mary J. A psychological/medical method to help people cope with adversity: Nine case studies of self-defining stories. Lewiston: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2014.
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Reproduction and adaptation: Topics in human reproductive ecology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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Evolution in a toxic world: How life responds to chemical threats. Washington: Island Press, 2012.
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Gregory, Christie, ed. Richard Wright and the library card. New York: Lee & Low, 2000.
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Fortescue, Michael. "Switch reference anomalies and ‘topic’ in west greenlandic." In Levels of Linguistic Adaptation, 53. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/pbns.6.2.05for.
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Lu, Shixiang, Wei Wei, Xiaoyin Fu, Lichun Fan, and Bo Xu. "Learning Latent Topic Information for Language Model Adaptation." In Communications in Computer and Information Science, 143–53. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34456-5_14.
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Aouadi, Hatem, Mouna Torjmen Khemakhem, and Maher Ben Jemaa. "An LDA Topic Model Adaptation for Context-Based Image Retrieval." In Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, 69–80. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27729-5_6.
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Yao, Liang, Mengyi Liu, Yu Hong, Hao Liu, and Jianmin Yao. "Topic Model Based Adaptation Data Selection for Domain-Specific Machine Translation." In Communications in Computer and Information Science, 162–71. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2993-6_14.
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Kaji, Nobuhiro, and Sadao Kurohashi. "Lexical Choice via Topic Adaptation for Paraphrasing Written Language to Spoken Language." In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 981–92. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11562214_85.
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Gichuhi, Getrude, and Stephen Gitahi. "Sustainable Urban Drainage Practices and Their Effects on Aquifer Recharge." In African Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation, 1–19. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42091-8_67-1.
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AbstractBetween 1994 and 2006, an 18% increase of freshwater flow into the earth’s ocean was recorded, as well as extreme weather events such as prolonged drought and intense floods. Following this period was an era of increased evaporation from oceans and seas, which heightened global warming in Africa. This chapter proposes the use of man-made aquifers recharge processes as methods of draining water into the soil before the runoff water reaches water bodies. Source control involves controlling the volume of water entering drainage systems or rivers by cutting off runoff water through storing for reuse or evapotranspiration as seen in green roofs. Pre-treatment is the use of trenches to filter and remove contaminants from water before getting to water bodies. Retention systems on the other hand is controlling the rate at which water is discharged to waterways by providing water storage areas such as ponds, water retention areas, etc., while Infiltration Systems are areas that allow natural soaking of stormwater runoff to the ground naturally recharging the water table. The proposed methods will see replenishing of the water table, a great leap in the efforts of curbing global warming. This practice can easily be adopted by both individuals and government as we build more and more buildings creating a balance between the need for human settlement and the natural way of water replenishing itself. The methods do not introduce extra costs to an already existing budget. In some cases, the methods help to reduce the costs of projects especially in urban areas. Africa which hosts many of the growing countries sees and will continue to experience surges in urbanization. For such, these methods presented in this topic will be, if implemented, a best method to solve the urban drainage problems before this even occurs.
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Gichuhi, Getrude, and Stephen Gitahi. "Sustainable Urban Drainage Practices and Their Effects on Aquifer Recharge." In African Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation, 809–27. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45106-6_67.
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AbstractBetween 1994 and 2006, an 18% increase of freshwater flow into the earth’s ocean was recorded, as well as extreme weather events such as prolonged drought and intense floods. Following this period was an era of increased evaporation from oceans and seas, which heightened global warming in Africa. This chapter proposes the use of man-made aquifers recharge processes as methods of draining water into the soil before the runoff water reaches water bodies. Source control involves controlling the volume of water entering drainage systems or rivers by cutting off runoff water through storing for reuse or evapotranspiration as seen in green roofs. Pre-treatment is the use of trenches to filter and remove contaminants from water before getting to water bodies. Retention systems on the other hand is controlling the rate at which water is discharged to waterways by providing water storage areas such as ponds, water retention areas, etc., while Infiltration Systems are areas that allow natural soaking of stormwater runoff to the ground naturally recharging the water table. The proposed methods will see replenishing of the water table, a great leap in the efforts of curbing global warming. This practice can easily be adopted by both individuals and government as we build more and more buildings creating a balance between the need for human settlement and the natural way of water replenishing itself. The methods do not introduce extra costs to an already existing budget. In some cases, the methods help to reduce the costs of projects especially in urban areas. Africa which hosts many of the growing countries sees and will continue to experience surges in urbanization. For such, these methods presented in this topic will be, if implemented, a best method to solve the urban drainage problems before this even occurs.
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Sedrique, Zoyem Tedonfack, and Julius Tata Nfor. "Rainfall Variability and Quantity of Water Supply in Bamenda I, Northwest Region of Cameroon." In African Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation, 713–33. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45106-6_139.
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AbstractBamenda I municipality found in the humid tropic is endowed with a dense hydrological network which makes it a water catchment for the entire region. Paradoxically, the region still suffers problems of water shortage. This is due to the spatial and temporal variability in rainfall that greatly affects water supply through its impacts on surface and groundwater. For this reason, we came up with the research topic “Rainfall variability and quantity of water supply in Bamenda 1, Northwest Region of Cameroon.” The objective of this study is to examine the manifestations of rainfall variability, and how it affects quantity of water supply in the humid tropics. Rainfall data use for this study comprised of annual, monthly, and daily rainfall over a period of 55 years. Water supply data was made of monthly and annual supply. With these data, a Pearson’s correlation was computed, and it gave a value of 0.701, with a rainfall proportion of 49.14% and 50.86% for other factors. The seasonality and the Standardized Precipitation Index were equally analyzed. At the end of the study, results showed that rainfall events in Bamenda I fluctuates with time and in space. It equally presented a reduction in the number of rainy days from 204 days in 1663 to 155 in 2018. This led to a reduction in length of rainy season and in rainfall amounts. In addition, the area has witnessed sedimentation of riverbeds and water reservoirs due to erosion and deposition during high rainfall peaks. Equally, floods observed during high rainfall episodes have become a potential threat to water infrastructures imposing exceptional water shortages during the rainy seasons. Due to these, actors in the water supply sector are putting in measures to remedy the situation.
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Malyse, Majoumo Christelle. "Rainfall Variability and Adaptation of Tomatoes Farmers in Santa: Northwest Region of Cameroon." In African Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation, 699–711. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45106-6_138.
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AbstractThe Santa agrarian basin being one of the main market gardening basins in Cameroon and one of the producers of tomatoes in the country is vulnerable to the impact of rainfall variability. The spatiotemporal variability of rainfall through the annual, monthly, and daily fluctuations has greatly affected the market gardening sector in general and tomatoes production in particular. Thus, given rise to the research topic “Rainfall variability and adaptation of tomatoes farmers in Santa North west region of Cameroon,” its principal objective is to contribute to better understanding of the recent changes occurring in tomatoes production and productivity in Santa. To attain this objective, a principal hypothesis was formulated that rainfall variability instead of unnatural conditions or human constraints justifies changes observed in tomatoes production in Santa and resulting adaptation strategies developed by peasants and stakeholders.Our study came out with several findings, among which includes rainfall events in Santa fluctuate in time and in space with reduction in the number of rainy day and increase in the intensity of rainfall events causing soil erosion, infertility, and frequent crop diseases, insects, and pests. Extreme events such as drought and flooding have equally become frequent in the area especially during the different cycles of tomatoes production disrupting the agricultural calendar and causing crop failure and decrease in yields with Pearson’s correlation of 0.017. This positive value shows that there is a relationship between annual rainfall and tomatoes output in Santa. Tomatoes farmers in Santa are struggling to adapt locally to this situations, but their efforts are still limited especially due to their low level of education and poverty. Finally, it was seen that the output of tomatoes over the years in Santa has a strong correlation with rainfall. Based on the findings of this study, the government is called upon to assist farmers in their adaptation options.
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Van Praag, Lore, Loubna Ou-Salah, Elodie Hut, and Caroline Zickgraf. "Applying Insights of Theories of Migration to the Study of Environmental Migration Aspirations." In IMISCOE Research Series, 17–34. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61390-7_2.
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AbstractThe growing interest in environmental migration has led to a wide range of organisations raising awareness on this topic. Politicians and policymakers, for instance, are using arguments that reference environmental migration in their political discourses or increasingly reflect on how to manage this seemingly emerging trend. The rise of this topic on ‘the agenda’ of policymakers, politicians, non-governmental organisations, and artists, to name a few, immediately calls for some scientific support, framing, or input, which is suddenly in high demand. Also, from a scientific perspective, how people are dealing with ongoing and increasing environmental changes lays bare existing social, ethnic, and gender inequalities. To be specific, when studying environmental changes and disasters, more knowledge can be derived about a society’s social and economic structure, relationship dynamics, and the nature of its adaptation capacity. Additionally, more knowledge can be gained about how external communities or countries are related to the studied society (Oliver-Smith 1999).
Conference papers on the topic "Topic adaptation"
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Taraghi, Mina, and Shahram Khadivi. "Topic adaptation for Statistical Machine Translation." In 2017 Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE). IEEE, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/iraniancee.2017.7985416.
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Zahabi, Samira Tofighi, Somayeh Bakhshaei, and Shahram Khadivi. "Using topic models in domain adaptation." In 2014 7th International Symposium on Telecommunications (IST). IEEE, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/istel.2014.7000763.
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Chatain, P., E. W. D. Whittaker, J. A. Mrozinski, and S. Furui. "Topic and Stylistic Adaptation for Speech Summarisation." In 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. IEEE, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icassp.2006.1660186.
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Hasler, Eva, Phil Blunsom, Philipp Koehn, and Barry Haddow. "Dynamic Topic Adaptation for Phrase-based MT." In Proceedings of the 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Stroudsburg, PA, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.3115/v1/e14-1035.
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Fujii, Atsushi, Tetsuya Ishikawa, Katsunobu Itou, and Tomoyosi Akiba. "Unsupervised topic adaptation for lecture speech retrieval." In Interspeech 2004. ISCA: ISCA, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/interspeech.2004-25.
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Dieguez-Tirado, Javier, Carmen García Mateo, and Antonio Cardenal-Lopez. "Effective topic-tree based language model adaptation." In Interspeech 2005. ISCA: ISCA, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/interspeech.2005-19.
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Lee, Eunshil, Jinbeom Kang, Joongmin Choi, and Jaeyoung Yang. "Topic-Specific Web Content Adaptation to Mobile Devices." In 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2006 Main Conference Proceedings)(WI'06). IEEE, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/wi.2006.172.
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Hasler, Eva, Barry Haddow, and Philipp Koehn. "Dynamic Topic Adaptation for SMT using Distributional Profiles." In Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation. Stroudsburg, PA, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.3115/v1/w14-3358.
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Wu, Youzheng, Kazuhiko Abe, Paul R. Dixon, Chiori Hori, and Hideki Kashioka. "Leveraging social annotation for topic language model adaptation." In Interspeech 2012. ISCA: ISCA, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/interspeech.2012-64.
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Mansikkaniemi, André, and Mikko Kurimo. "Unsupervised topic adaptation for morph-based speech recognition." In Interspeech 2013. ISCA: ISCA, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/interspeech.2013-619.
Full textReports on the topic "Topic adaptation"
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Ranger, Nicola. Topic Guide. Adaptation: Decision making under uncertainty. Evidence on Demand, June 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.12774/eod_tg02.june2013.ranger.
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Seymore, Kristie, and Ronald Rosenfeld. Large-Scale Topic Detection and Language Model Adaptation. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, June 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada327553.
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Brinkerhoff, Derick W., and Anna Wetterberg. Governance and Sector Outcomes: Making the Connections. RTI Press, September 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3768/rtipress.2018.pb.0019.1809.
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A critical issue in international development is how donor-funded programs can support sustainable and long-lasting changes in assisted countries. Among the factors associated with sustainability is improved governance. However, many donor-funded initiatives are focused on achieving results in specific sectors, such as health, education, and agriculture. How can how governance interventions contribute to achieving sector-specific results? This brief explores this question and discusses how international development practice has incorporated recognition of the links between governance and sector outcomes. The brief develops a stylized continuum of how governance elements relate to sector interventions and contribute to expected outcomes. We discuss factors that either impede or impel governance integration and close with some observations regarding prospects for integrated programming. The audience for the brief is the international development policy and practitioner communities, and secondarily, academics with an interest in the topic. Key take-aways include: (1) there is ample evidence of positive contributions from improved governance to sector-specific outcomes, but few guideposts exist for practical and effective governance integration; (2) barriers to integration include urgent sector priorities that overshadow governance concerns, requirements to demonstrate progress towards ambitious sector targets, and complex choices related to measurement; and (3) sustainability and self-reliance are major drivers for integration and are facilitated by the flexibility and adaptation that governance integration enables.
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Yatsymirska, Mariya. KEY IMPRESSIONS OF 2020 IN JOURNALISTIC TEXTS. Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, March 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.30970/vjo.2021.50.11107.
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The article explores the key vocabulary of 2020 in the network space of Ukraine. Texts of journalistic, official-business style, analytical publications of well-known journalists on current topics are analyzed. Extralinguistic factors of new word formation, their adaptation to the sphere of special and socio-political vocabulary of the Ukrainian language are determined. Examples show modern impressions in the media, their stylistic use and impact on public opinion in a pandemic. New meanings of foreign expressions, media terminology, peculiarities of translation of neologisms from English into Ukrainian have been clarified. According to the materials of the online media, a «dictionary of the coronavirus era» is provided. The journalistic text functions in the media on the basis of logical judgments, credible arguments, impressive language. Its purpose is to show the socio-political problem, to sharpen its significance for society and to propose solutions through convincing considerations. Most researchers emphasize the influential role of journalistic style, which through the media shapes public opinion on issues of politics, economics, education, health care, war, the future of the country. To cover such a wide range of topics, socio-political vocabulary is used first of all – neutral and emotionally-evaluative, rhetorical questions and imperatives, special terminology, foreign words. There is an ongoing discussion in online publications about the use of the new foreign token «lockdown» instead of the word «quarantine», which has long been learned in the Ukrainian language. Research on this topic has shown that at the initial stage of the pandemic, the word «lockdown» prevailed in the colloquial language of politicians, media personalities and part of society did not quite understand its meaning. Lockdown, in its current interpretation, is a restrictive measure to protect people from a dangerous virus that has spread to many countries; isolation of the population («stay in place») in case of risk of spreading Covid-19. In English, US citizens are told what a lockdown is: «A lockdown is a restriction policy for people or communities to stay where they are, usually due to specific risks to themselves or to others if they can move and interact freely. The term «stay-at-home» or «shelter-in-place» is often used for lockdowns that affect an area, rather than specific locations». Content analysis of online texts leads to the conclusion that in 2020 a special vocabulary was actively functioning, with the appropriate definitions, which the media described as a «dictionary of coronavirus vocabulary». Media broadcasting is the deepest and pulsating source of creative texts with new meanings, phrases, expressiveness. The influential power of the word finds its unconditional embodiment in the media. Journalists, bloggers, experts, politicians, analyzing current events, produce concepts of a new reality. The world is changing and the language of the media is responding to these changes. It manifests itself most vividly and emotionally in the network sphere, in various genres and styles.
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Runyon, Amber, Gregor Schuurman, Brian Miller, Amy Symstad, and Amanda Hardy. Climate change scenario planning for resource stewardship at Wind Cave National Park: Climate change scenario planning summary. National Park Service, July 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36967/nrr-2286672.
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This report explains scenario planning as a climate change adaptation tool in general, then describes how it was applied to Wind Cave National Park as the second part of a pilot project to dovetail climate change scenario planning with National Park Service (NPS) Resource Stewardship Strategy development. In the orientation phase, Park and regional NPS staff, other subject-matter experts, natural and cultural resource planners, and the climate change core team who led the scenario planning project identified priority resource management topics and associated climate sensitivities. Next, the climate change core team used this information to create a set of four divergent climate futures—summaries of relevant climate data from individual climate projections—to encompass the range of ways climate could change in coming decades in the park. Participants in the scenario planning workshop then developed climate futures into robust climate-resource scenarios that considered expert-elicited resource impacts and identified potential management responses. Finally, the scenario-based resource responses identified by park staff and subject matter experts were used to integrate climate-informed adaptations into resource stewardship goals and activities for the park's Resource Stewardship Strategy. This process of engaging resource managers in climate change scenario planning ensures that their management and planning decisions are informed by assessments of critical future climate uncertainties.
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Yatsymirska, Mariya. SOCIAL EXPRESSION IN MULTIMEDIA TEXTS. Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, February 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.30970/vjo.2021.49.11072.
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The article investigates functional techniques of extralinguistic expression in multimedia texts; the effectiveness of figurative expressions as a reaction to modern events in Ukraine and their influence on the formation of public opinion is shown. Publications of journalists, broadcasts of media resonators, experts, public figures, politicians, readers are analyzed. The language of the media plays a key role in shaping the worldview of the young political elite in the first place. The essence of each statement is a focused thought that reacts to events in the world or in one’s own country. The most popular platform for mass information and social interaction is, first of all, network journalism, which is characterized by mobility and unlimited time and space. Authors have complete freedom to express their views in direct language, including their own word formation. Phonetic, lexical, phraseological and stylistic means of speech create expression of the text. A figurative word, a good aphorism or proverb, a paraphrased expression, etc. enhance the effectiveness of a multimedia text. This is especially important for headlines that simultaneously inform and influence the views of millions of readers. Given the wide range of issues raised by the Internet as a medium, research in this area is interdisciplinary. The science of information, combining language and social communication, is at the forefront of global interactions. The Internet is an effective source of knowledge and a forum for free thought. Nonlinear texts (hypertexts) – «branching texts or texts that perform actions on request», multimedia texts change the principles of information collection, storage and dissemination, involving billions of readers in the discussion of global issues. Mastering the word is not an easy task if the author of the publication is not well-read, is not deep in the topic, does not know the psychology of the audience for which he writes. Therefore, the study of media broadcasting is an important component of the professional training of future journalists. The functions of the language of the media require the authors to make the right statements and convincing arguments in the text. Journalism education is not only knowledge of imperative and dispositive norms, but also apodictic ones. In practice, this means that there are rules in media creativity that are based on logical necessity. Apodicticity is the first sign of impressive language on the platform of print or electronic media. Social expression is a combination of creative abilities and linguistic competencies that a journalist realizes in his activity. Creative self-expression is realized in a set of many important factors in the media: the choice of topic, convincing arguments, logical presentation of ideas and deep philological education. Linguistic art, in contrast to painting, music, sculpture, accumulates all visual, auditory, tactile and empathic sensations in a universal sign – the word. The choice of the word for the reproduction of sensory and semantic meanings, its competent use in the appropriate context distinguishes the journalist-intellectual from other participants in forums, round tables, analytical or entertainment programs. Expressive speech in the media is a product of the intellect (ability to think) of all those who write on socio-political or economic topics. In the same plane with him – intelligence (awareness, prudence), the first sign of which (according to Ivan Ogienko) is a good knowledge of the language. Intellectual language is an important means of organizing a journalistic text. It, on the one hand, logically conveys the author’s thoughts, and on the other – encourages the reader to reflect and comprehend what is read. The richness of language is accumulated through continuous self-education and interesting communication. Studies of social expression as an important factor influencing the formation of public consciousness should open up new facets of rational and emotional media broadcasting; to trace physical and psychological reactions to communicative mimicry in the media. Speech mimicry as one of the methods of disguise is increasingly becoming a dangerous factor in manipulating the media. Mimicry is an unprincipled adaptation to the surrounding social conditions; one of the most famous examples of an animal characterized by mimicry (change of protective color and shape) is a chameleon. In a figurative sense, chameleons are called adaptive journalists. Observations show that mimicry in politics is to some extent a kind of game that, like every game, is always conditional and artificial.
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Thompson, Joseph. How WASH Programming has Adapted to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), December 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/slh.2021.001.
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Since first appearing at the end of 2019, the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has spread at a pace and scale not seen before. On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic. A rapid response was called for, and actors across the globe worked quickly to develop sets of preventative measures to contain the disease. One mode of transmission identified early on in the crisis was via surfaces and objects (fomites) (Howard et al. 2020). To combat this, hand hygiene was put forward as a key preventative measure and heralded as ‘the first line of defence against the disease’ (World Bank 2020). What followed was an unprecedented global focus on handwashing with soap. Health messages on how germs spread, the critical times at which hands should be washed, and methods for correct handwashing were shared (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2020). Political leaders around the world promoted handwashing and urged people to adopt the practice to protect against the coronavirus. The primary and secondary impacts of COVID-19 have affected people and industries in a variety of different ways. For the WASH sector, the centring of handwashing in the pandemic response has led to a sudden spike in hygiene activity. This SLH Rapid Topic Review takes stock of some of the cross-cutting challenges the sector has been facing during this period and explores the adaptations that have been made in response. It then looks forwards, thinking through what lies ahead for the sector, and considers the learning priorities for the next steps.