Translating and Evolving: Towards a Model of Language Change in DisCoCat

The categorical compositional distributional (DisCoCat) model of meaning developed by Coecke et al. (2010) has been successful in modeling various aspects of meaning. However, it fails to model the fact that language can change. We give an approach to DisCoCat that allows us to represent language models and translations between them, enabling us to describe translations from one language to another, or changes within the same language. We unify the product space representation given in (Coecke et al., 2010) and the functorial description in (Kartsaklis et al., 2013), in a way that allows us to view a language as a catalogue of meanings. We formalize the notion of a lexicon in DisCoCat, and define a dictionary of meanings between two lexicons. All this is done within the framework of monoidal categories. We give examples of how to apply our methods, and give a concrete suggestion for compositional translation in corpora.Comment: In Proceedings CAPNS 2018, arXiv:1811.0270

Predictive Diagnostics for Pump Seals: Field Trial Learnings

Case Stud

Foot Traffic\u27s Impact on Corn Maze Compaction and Soil Organic Matter

Soil samples and compaction readings were taken from a corn maze site at Murray State University Pullen Farm. The scope of this project was compare the years of overlap with the different designs in the corn maze. This foot traffic compaction can be relayed back to the affect of livestock in fields

AAT/WFI observations of the Extragalactic H I Cloud HIPASS J1712-64

AAT/WFI optical images of a candidate extragalactic HI cloud, HIPASS J1712-64, are presented. The g and r-band CCD mosaic camera frames were processed using a new data pipeline recently installed at the AAO. The resultant stacked images reach significantly deeper levels than those of previous published optical imaging of this candidate, providing a detection limit M_g -7 at a distance of 3Mpc, the inferred distance to HIPASS J1712-64. However, detailed analysis of the images fails to uncover any stellar population associated with the HI emission. If this system is a member of the Local Group then it is pathologically different to other members. Hence, our observations reinforce earlier suggestions that this HI cloud is most likely Galactic in origin and not a Local Volume dwarf galaxy.Comment: 8 pages, accepted for publication in PASA (Figures reduced in resolution, please contact gfl if you wish the higher resolution versions

Pumpkin Cultivar Production & Quality Evaluations — 2014

This is a compilation of 30 research trial reports from four land-grant universities in the Midwestern United States. Crops include cantaloupe, pickling cucumber, pepper, potato, pumpkin, summer squash and zucchini, sweet corn, tomato, and watermelon. Somecrops were evaluated in high tunnels or hoophouses. Most trials evaluated different cultivars or varieties. One report addressed plant spacing for sweet corn and one addressed soil block for production of tomato seedlings. A list of vegetable seed sources and a list of other online sources of vegetable trial reports are also included

Cosmology on a Mesh

An adaptive multi grid approach to simulating the formation of structure from collisionless dark matter is described. MLAPM (Multi-Level Adaptive Particle Mesh) is one of the most efficient serial codes available on the cosmological 'market' today. As part of Swinburne University's role in the development of the Square Kilometer Array, we are implementing hydrodynamics, feedback, and radiative transfer within the MLAPM adaptive mesh, in order to simulate baryonic processes relevant to the interstellar and intergalactic media at high redshift. We will outline our progress to date in applying the existing MLAPM to a study of the decay of satellite galaxies within massive host potentials.Comment: 3 pages, 2 figures, to appear in the proceedings of "The IGM/Galaxy Connection - The Distribution of Baryons at z=0", ed. M. Putman & J. Rosenber

Making Connections and Shifting the Educational Paradigm: One school\u27s struggle to empower students through transforming the educational process

According to Elliot W. Eisner of Stanford University, education reform efforts for American schools have not exactly been ”a novel enterprise. In the late 1950s, the Space Race pressured Congress to turn to American education to help regain and maintain our technological superiority. The result was the curriculum reform movement of the 1960s. In the 1970s accountability became the central focus of reformers. Then, in April of 1983, A Nation at Risk was published only to give way, by the close of that century, to America 2000, the reform agenda of the Bush Administration, which aimed to do what all the previous movements were unable to accomplish. Yet even today, with Clinton\u27s Goals 2000 promoting improved national standards, little more than the face of reform has changed. As Eisner surmises, We seem to latch on to approaches to reform that are replays of past efforts that themselves failed to come to grips with what it is that makes school practices so robust and resistant to change. (Eisner, pp. 758-759) In a small, rural Whatcom County high school a localized attempt to break the national mold of ineffective education reform has taken place. The offspring of teacher concern and collaboration and not of a national or state-mandated agenda, the impetus for change was familiar, disturbing trends in student performance and student disconnection from school. The changes, however were unique and, in the view of many, too radical. What follows is a documentation, though not completely thorough, of one high school\u27s attempt to revolutionize school practices in order to engage and empower students toward meaningful learning and academic success. Their efforts have brought them face to face with powerful forces which make school practices so robust and resistant to change. The lessons afforded by their experience can be appreciated by those involved in public education, for sure, but also by anyone who may at some time have the courage to be an instrument of change, however unpopular