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Elegy to My Eyes
This elegiac poem focuses on the speaker\u27s limited eyesight as she wakes up in the morning after letting her contacts dry up overnight
A Study on Agreement in PICO Span Annotations
In evidence-based medicine, relevance of medical literature is determined by
predefined relevance conditions. The conditions are defined based on PICO
elements, namely, Patient, Intervention, Comparator, and Outcome. Hence, PICO
annotations in medical literature are essential for automatic relevant document
filtering. However, defining boundaries of text spans for PICO elements is not
straightforward. In this paper, we study the agreement of PICO annotations made
by multiple human annotators, including both experts and non-experts.
Agreements are estimated by a standard span agreement (i.e., matching both
labels and boundaries of text spans), and two types of relaxed span agreement
(i.e., matching labels without guaranteeing matching boundaries of spans).
Based on the analysis, we report two observations: (i) Boundaries of PICO span
annotations by individual human annotators are very diverse. (ii) Despite the
disagreement in span boundaries, general areas of the span annotations are
broadly agreed by annotators. Our results suggest that applying a standard
agreement alone may undermine the agreement of PICO spans, and adopting both a
standard and a relaxed agreements is more suitable for PICO span evaluation.Comment: Accepted in SIGIR 2019 (Short paper
Impoliteness Strategies Used on Online Comments in an Indonesian Football Website
This research investigates linguistic impoliteness used in online football comments through the examination of impoliteness strategies proposed by Jonathan Culpeper. It examines how impoliteness strategies are used on online comments and what strategy mostly used by Indonesian participants in Okezone, an Indonesian football website. The research uses descriptive qualitative method supported by quantitative data. First, the writer found that Indonesian participants mostly used positive impoliteness strategy to express their negative attitude on giving comments. Second, there are four out of five impoliteness strategies used by Indonesian participants. Withhold politeness strategy is excluded
Field-Induced Breakup of Emulsion Droplets Stabilized by Colloidal Particles
We simulate the response of a particle-stabilized emulsion droplet in an
external force field, such as gravity, acting equally on all particles. We
show that the field strength required for breakup (at fixed initial area
fraction) decreases markedly with droplet size, because the forces act
cumulatively, not individually, to detach the interfacial particles. The
breakup mode involves the collective destabilization of a solidified particle
raft occupying the lower part of the droplet, leading to a critical force per
particle that scales approximately as .Comment: 4 pages, plus 3 pages of supplementary materia
Analytical and experimental study of boiler instabilities due to feed-system - Subcooled region coupling
Instabilities occurring in forced-flow, electrically heated, downflow boiler due to feed system-subcooled region couplin
The Influence of Emotional Intelligence on Leadership Emergence and Leadership Styles
The aim of the current study was to determine the relationship between emotional intelligence and leadership emergence and transformational, transactional, and passive-avoidant leadership styles. Prior research has indicated that emotional intelligence is positively correlated with leader effectiveness. However, the relationship between emotional intelligence and additional aspects of leadership and leadership styles has not been thoroughly investigated. The current study hypothesized that emotional intelligence would be positively correlated with leadership emergence, and transformational and transactional leadership styles, and negatively correlated with a passive-avoidant leadership style. Additionally, it was hypothesized that leadership emergence would be positively correlated with transformational and transactional leadership styles, and negatively correlated with a passive-avoidant leadership style. The 555 full-time employed adults who made up the participants for this study completed surveys measuring their levels on each variable based on their self-reported behaviors. The results suggested that emotional intelligence is positively correlated to leadership emergence, and transformational and transactional leadership styles, and leadership emergence was positively correlated to transformation and transactional leadership styles. Emotional intelligence was also negatively correlated with passive-avoidant leadership style. There was no significant correlation found between leadership emergence and passive-avoidant leadership style. The findings support the use of emotional intelligence scales as a predictor of leadership behavior, and the application of these scales for employee selection and training practices in the workplace. The current study encourages future research into the subtypes of emotional intelligence and their impact on various qualities of leadership
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