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Safer selection and use of pesticides: Integrating risk assessment, monitoring and management of pesticides
Crop Production/Industries,
The Impact of Education on Child Abuse Prevention
This research investigates the impact of education on child abuse prevention in Vietnam by using Vietnamese government's reports (2012 – 2019) on child abuse. In order to analyze the impact of education on child abuse prevention, this study focuses on reviewing the previous policies in preventing child abuse, surveying three main determinants of parents, teachers and children and testing the data collected from the survey. The result shows that education plays an important role in improving the ability to take actions against child abuse. Some recommendations to parents, teachers, children and the government are also proposed for encouraging improvements in child abuse prevention education. Keywords: Child Abuse Prevention, Education, Vietnam DOI: 10.7176/EJBM/12-20-09 Publication date:July 31st 202
AIR QUALITY MONITORING AND ITS EMISSION SOURCES IN HANOI
Joint Research on Environmental Science and Technology for the Eart
Monetary Policy Transmission Through the Rate Channel in Some Countries in ASEAN
Using a quantitative regression of table data through FEM and REM models, the study has measured the extent and direction of exchange rate impacts on the economic growth of five ASEAN countries namely, Vietnam, Indonesia, Singapore, Philippines, Malaysia, in the period of 1985-2015. The estimation results show that for every 1% rise in the real exchange rate, the multilateral force will have a positive impact, since the speed of economic growth of five countries increased by 2.09%. This result is consistent with some previous studies, especially in some developing countries. Further, the thesis has assessed the exchange rate policy in Vietnam and analyzed the situation. As a result, the authors have made some recommendations for exchange rate policy. The recommendations focus on the State’s intervention in adjusting the exchange rate and pay attention to the real exchange rate for policy evaluation. The recommendations of the thesis are consistent with the actual situation in the five ASEAN countries in order to stabilize economic growth
Relative Positional Encoding for Speech Recognition and Direct Translation
Transformer models are powerful sequence-to-sequence architectures that are
capable of directly mapping speech inputs to transcriptions or translations.
However, the mechanism for modeling positions in this model was tailored for
text modeling, and thus is less ideal for acoustic inputs. In this work, we
adapt the relative position encoding scheme to the Speech Transformer, where
the key addition is relative distance between input states in the
self-attention network. As a result, the network can better adapt to the
variable distributions present in speech data. Our experiments show that our
resulting model achieves the best recognition result on the Switchboard
benchmark in the non-augmentation condition, and the best published result in
the MuST-C speech translation benchmark. We also show that this model is able
to better utilize synthetic data than the Transformer, and adapts better to
variable sentence segmentation quality for speech translation.Comment: Submitted to Interspeech 202
Food and biosecurity: livestock production and towards a world free of foot-and-mouth disease
A key challenge for global livestock production is
the prevalence of infectious animal diseases. These diseases
result in low productivity in meat and dairy production, culled
animals, and significant barriers to trade and lost income from
meat and meat products. Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) affects
both developing countries, where it is often endemic and
very costly, and developed countries where incursions result
in considerable economic losses in the order of billions of
dollars per year. In some cases, production levels of pork meat
in developed countries have still not recovered to levels prior
to past disease incursions, more than a decade ago. In developing
countries, the export of animal products has exhibited
sluggish growth for decades, constrained by ongoing animal
disease problems. We make three contributions. First, we provide
an overview of worldwide meat production, consumption
and trade in the context of FMD. Second, we provide insights
into the economics of biosecurity measures and how these
activities should be optimally designed to enhance livestock
production. Third, we analyse a case study of an FMDendemic
country, Vietnam, which has been trying to achieve
FMD-free status for some time. Lessons learnt from this case
study shed light on the challenges in achieving FMD-free
status in developing countries, which is useful for a global
FMD control strategy and the promotion of world food
security.Partial funding from the
Centre of Excellence for Biosecurity Risk Analysis at the University of
Melbourne is also greatly appreciated.
This paper was part of a workshop sponsored by the OECD Co-operative
Research Programme on Biological Resource Management for Sustainable
Agricultural Systems
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