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An exploratory study into automated précis grading

Automated writing evaluation is a popular research field, but the main focus has been on evaluating argumentative essays. In this paper, we consider a different genre, namely précis texts. A précis is a written text that provides a coherent summary of main points of a spoken or written text. We present a corpus of English précis texts which all received a grade assigned by a highly-experienced English language teacher and were subsequently annotated following an exhaustive error typology. With this corpus we trained a machine learning model which relies on a number of linguistic, automatic summarization and AWE features. Our results reveal that this model is able to predict the grade of précis texts with only a moderate error margin

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Improvement of the production line of motor

In company XYZ, numerous products are manufactured. More specifically, for the vehicle, different kinds of wiper motors are manufactured according to customer needs. In the assembly, there are five lines namely Stator, Rotor, Pivot housing, Motor, and Wiper line. Every Motor line is divided into segments. Every segment consists of many workstations. Each workstation consists of many processes. Each segment has its own bottleneck and also takt time. Each workstation has its own cycle time. The current layout used in the Motor line is I shaped layout (I-type layout). Since the length of the line is too long, it creates more trafficking of materials in line thereby resulting in the decrement of production efficiency. Hence, a new type of layout is proposed which is U shaped layout (U-type layout) for preventing the trafficking of materials. The proposed line is designed and implemented not only for avoiding material traffic and better operator ergonomics but also for single piece flow which is the prevention of building up of stacks of inventory between the process steps in workstations. The production line efficiency is calculated for both layout and is compared to observe the increment in production efficiency of U type layout. Also, individual operator efficiency has been calculated for both layout and compared. For further improvement in production, KAIZEN (continuous improvement) has been proposed and implemented in the line for some workstations with the help of Group leader and team member.In company XYZ, numerous products are manufactured. More specifically, for the vehicle, different kinds of wiper motors are manufactured according to customer needs. In the assembly, there are five lines namely Stator, Rotor, Pivot housing, Motor, and Wiper line. Every Motor line is divided into segments. Every segment consists of many workstations. Each workstation consists of many processes. Each segment has its own bottleneck and also takt time. Each workstation has its own cycle time. The current layout used in the Motor line is I shaped layout (I-type layout). Since the length of the line is too long, it creates more trafficking of materials in line thereby resulting in the decrement of production efficiency. Hence, a new type of layout is proposed which is U shaped layout (U-type layout) for preventing the trafficking of materials. The proposed line is designed and implemented not only for avoiding material traffic and better operator ergonomics but also for single piece flow which is the prevention of building up of stacks of inventory between the process steps in workstations. The production line efficiency is calculated for both layout and is compared to observe the increment in production efficiency of U type layout. Also, individual operator efficiency has been calculated for both layout and compared. For further improvement in production, KAIZEN (continuous improvement) has been proposed and implemented in the line for some workstations with the help of Group leader and team member

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Incorporating Digital Technology in the General Education Classroom

The implementation of technology-based pedagogic practices is becoming increasingly significant in higher education as the admission of digital natives increase. This generation of students, so defined as digital natives because they grew up using computers, tablets, smart phones and other digital technology, show a high level of technological competence, but exhibit deficiencies in competencies related to digital academic tools.  A group of activities which supports learning, and facilitates student academic success, were compiled in a 28-item challenge for beginning General Education students, as a part of a Life and Study Skills course. Each challenge invited students to access some aspect of digital technology which has the potential to increase their academic competence. The main aim of the exercise was to increase students’ digital academic literacy, exposing them to applications and ICT skills which would increase their efficiency, self-efficacy and accuracy in executing academic tasks. The technology tools used were aimed at accomplishing tasks such as group formation and communication, notetaking, information capture, summarization, synchronous and asynchronous collaboration on tasks, referencing, formatting, grammar check, plagiarism and assessment. Students were challenged to complete particular tasks using specific applications. A screenshot of each completed activity was submitted as evidence of task completion. Students were given 28 days to complete the tasks, after which they were required to do two quizzes, using learning platforms they were exposed to in the challenge, demonstrating their new found proficiencies

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