CONCEPTION D’UN « CHATBOT » POUR SOUTENIR LES SERVICES D'INFORMATION DANS LES BIBLIOTHÈQUES UNIVERSITAIRES

Cette recherche vise à développer un prototype de smartbot (chatbot) pouvant être utilisé par les bibliothèques pour aider les bibliothécaires à améliorer la qualité de leur service d'information. Cette étude contribuera aux bibliothèques universitaires, en soutenant particulièrement les services d'information et de référence, en fournissant des réponses rapides et précises. Les bibliothécaires bénéficieront de ce prototype pour améliorer leurs offres de services, et il permettra également aux utilisateurs de recevoir des informations rapides et précises de la bibliothèque. La méthode utilisée dans cette étude comprend deux phases : la planification et la conception. Cet article se concentre sur le processus de planification et de conception du prototype de smartbot de bibliothèque. La phase de conception définit les tâches du processus de modélisation et de construction du prototype. Toutefois, il faut rappeler que des études sur l'intelligence artificielle sont rarement menées dans le domaine des bibliothèques, en particulier au Sénégal

CONCEPTION D’UN « CHATBOT » POUR SOUTENIR LES SERVICES D'INFORMATION DANS LES BIBLIOTHÈQUES UNIVERSITAIRES: Design of a “chatbot” to support information services in university libraries

Cette recherche vise à développer un prototype de smartbot (chatbot) pouvant être utilisé par les bibliothèques pour aider les bibliothécaires à améliorer la qualité de leur service d'information. Cette étude contribuera aux bibliothèques universitaires, en soutenant particulièrement les services d'information et de référence, en fournissant des réponses rapides et précises. ce prototype permettra aux bibliothécaires d’améliorer leurs offres de services, et aux utilisateurs de recevoir des informations rapides et précises de la bibliothèque. La méthode utilisée dans cette étude comprend deux phases : la conception et le développement du smartbot. La phase de conception définit les tâches du processus de modélisation et de construction du prototype.  La réalisation et le test du chatbot se sont fait sur la plateforme d’Intelligence Artificielle (IA) conversationnelle : Botpress, qui fonctionne sur la base de la technologie de compréhension du langage naturel (NLU) et qui a été conçue pour la création de chatbots de nouvelle génération tels que ChatGPT, alimentés par OpenAI. Il est à noter que, les études sur l'intelligence artificielle, en particulier sur la mise en place de chatbot pour soutenir les bibliothécaires et les usagers, sont rarement menées dans les bibliothèques au Sénégal.Cette recherche vise à développer un prototype de smartbot (chatbot) pouvant être utilisé par les bibliothèques pour aider les bibliothécaires à améliorer la qualité de leur service d'information. Cette étude contribuera aux bibliothèques universitaires, en soutenant particulièrement les services d'information et de référence, en fournissant des réponses rapides et précises. Les bibliothécaires bénéficieront de ce prototype pour améliorer leurs offres de services, et il permettra également aux utilisateurs de recevoir des informations rapides et précises de la bibliothèque. La méthode utilisée dans cette étude comprend deux phases : la planification et la conception. Cet article se concentre sur le processus de planification et de conception du prototype de smartbot de bibliothèque. La phase de conception définit les tâches du processus de modélisation et de construction du prototype. Toutefois, il faut rappeler que des études sur l'intelligence artificielle sont rarement menées dans le domaine des bibliothèques, en particulier au Sénégal

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Three-dimensional visualization of fossil flowers, fruits, seeds, and other plant remains using synchrotron radiation X-ray tomographic microscopy (SRXTM): new insights into Cretaceous plant diversity

The application of synchrotron radiation X-ray tomographic microscopy (SRXTM) to the study of mesofossils of Cretaceous age has created new possibilities for the three-dimensional visualization and analysis of the external and internal structure of critical plant fossil material. SRXTM provides cellular and subcellular resolution of comparable or higher quality to that obtained from permineralized material using thin sections or the peel technique. SRXTM also has the advantage of being non-destructive and results in the rapid acquisition of large quantities of data in digital form. SRXTM thus refocuses the effort of the investigator from physical preparation to the digital post-processing of X-ray tomographic data, which allows great flexibility in the reconstruction, visualization, and analysis of the internal and external structure of fossil material in multiple planes and in two or three dimensions. A review of recent applications in paleobotany demonstrates that SRXTM will dramatically expand the level of information available for diverse fossil plants. Future refinement of SRXTM approaches that further increases resolution and eases digital post-processing, will transform the study of mesofossils and create new possibilities for advancing paleobotanical knowledge. We illustrate these points using a variety of Cretaceous mesofossils, highlighting in particular those cases where SRXTM has been essential for resolving critical structural details that have enhanced systematic understanding and improved phylogenetic interpretation

Purinergic signalling and immune cells

This review article provides a historical perspective on the role of purinergic signalling in the regulation of various subsets of immune cells from early discoveries to current understanding. It is now recognised that adenosine 5'-triphosphate (ATP) and other nucleotides are released from cells following stress or injury. They can act on virtually all subsets of immune cells through a spectrum of P2X ligand-gated ion channels and G protein-coupled P2Y receptors. Furthermore, ATP is rapidly degraded into adenosine by ectonucleotidases such as CD39 and CD73, and adenosine exerts additional regulatory effects through its own receptors. The resulting effect ranges from stimulation to tolerance depending on the amount and time courses of nucleotides released, and the balance between ATP and adenosine. This review identifies the various receptors involved in the different subsets of immune cells and their effects on the function of these cells

Differential cross section measurements for the production of a W boson in association with jets in proton–proton collisions at √s = 7 TeV

Measurements are reported of differential cross sections for the production of a W boson, which decays into a muon and a neutrino, in association with jets, as a function of several variables, including the transverse momenta (pT) and pseudorapidities of the four leading jets, the scalar sum of jet transverse momenta (HT), and the difference in azimuthal angle between the directions of each jet and the muon. The data sample of pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV was collected with the CMS detector at the LHC and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 5.0 fb[superscript −1]. The measured cross sections are compared to predictions from Monte Carlo generators, MadGraph + pythia and sherpa, and to next-to-leading-order calculations from BlackHat + sherpa. The differential cross sections are found to be in agreement with the predictions, apart from the pT distributions of the leading jets at high pT values, the distributions of the HT at high-HT and low jet multiplicity, and the distribution of the difference in azimuthal angle between the leading jet and the muon at low values.United States. Dept. of EnergyNational Science Foundation (U.S.)Alfred P. Sloan Foundatio

Penilaian Kinerja Keuangan Koperasi di Kabupaten Pelalawan

This paper describe development and financial performance of cooperative in District Pelalawan among 2007 - 2008. Studies on primary and secondary cooperative in 12 sub-districts. Method in this stady use performance measuring of productivity, efficiency, growth, liquidity, and solvability of cooperative. Productivity of cooperative in Pelalawan was highly but efficiency still low. Profit and income were highly, even liquidity of cooperative very high, and solvability was good

Juxtaposing BTE and ATE – on the role of the European insurance industry in funding civil litigation

One of the ways in which legal services are financed, and indeed shaped, is through private insurance arrangement. Two contrasting types of legal expenses insurance contracts (LEI) seem to dominate in Europe: before the event (BTE) and after the event (ATE) legal expenses insurance. Notwithstanding institutional differences between different legal systems, BTE and ATE insurance arrangements may be instrumental if government policy is geared towards strengthening a market-oriented system of financing access to justice for individuals and business. At the same time, emphasizing the role of a private industry as a keeper of the gates to justice raises issues of accountability and transparency, not readily reconcilable with demands of competition. Moreover, multiple actors (clients, lawyers, courts, insurers) are involved, causing behavioural dynamics which are not easily predicted or influenced. Against this background, this paper looks into BTE and ATE arrangements by analysing the particularities of BTE and ATE arrangements currently available in some European jurisdictions and by painting a picture of their respective markets and legal contexts. This allows for some reflection on the performance of BTE and ATE providers as both financiers and keepers. Two issues emerge from the analysis that are worthy of some further reflection. Firstly, there is the problematic long-term sustainability of some ATE products. Secondly, the challenges faced by policymakers that would like to nudge consumers into voluntarily taking out BTE LEI

Search for stop and higgsino production using diphoton Higgs boson decays

Results are presented of a search for a "natural" supersymmetry scenario with gauge mediated symmetry breaking. It is assumed that only the supersymmetric partners of the top-quark (stop) and the Higgs boson (higgsino) are accessible. Events are examined in which there are two photons forming a Higgs boson candidate, and at least two b-quark jets. In 19.7 inverse femtobarns of proton-proton collision data at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV, recorded in the CMS experiment, no evidence of a signal is found and lower limits at the 95% confidence level are set, excluding the stop mass below 360 to 410 GeV, depending on the higgsino mass

Impacts of the Tropical Pacific/Indian Oceans on the Seasonal Cycle of the West African Monsoon

The current consensus is that drought has developed in the Sahel during the second half of the twentieth century as a result of remote effects of oceanic anomalies amplified by local land–atmosphere interactions. This paper focuses on the impacts of oceanic anomalies upon West African climate and specifically aims to identify those from SST anomalies in the Pacific/Indian Oceans during spring and summer seasons, when they were significant. Idealized sensitivity experiments are performed with four atmospheric general circulation models (AGCMs). The prescribed SST patterns used in the AGCMs are based on the leading mode of covariability between SST anomalies over the Pacific/Indian Oceans and summer rainfall over West Africa. The results show that such oceanic anomalies in the Pacific/Indian Ocean lead to a northward shift of an anomalous dry belt from the Gulf of Guinea to the Sahel as the season advances. In the Sahel, the magnitude of rainfall anomalies is comparable to that obtained by other authors using SST anomalies confined to the proximity of the Atlantic Ocean. The mechanism connecting the Pacific/Indian SST anomalies with West African rainfall has a strong seasonal cycle. In spring (May and June), anomalous subsidence develops over both the Maritime Continent and the equatorial Atlantic in response to the enhanced equatorial heating. Precipitation increases over continental West Africa in association with stronger zonal convergence of moisture. In addition, precipitation decreases over the Gulf of Guinea. During the monsoon peak (July and August), the SST anomalies move westward over the equatorial Pacific and the two regions where subsidence occurred earlier in the seasons merge over West Africa. The monsoon weakens and rainfall decreases over the Sahel, especially in August.Peer reviewe