Explicit versus Latent Concept Models for Cross-Language Information Retrieval

Cimiano P, Schultz A, Sizov S, Sorg P, Staab S. Explicit versus Latent Concept Models for Cross-Language Information Retrieval. In: Boutilier C, ed. IJCAI 2009, Proceedings of the 21st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press; 2009: 1513-1518

Evan S. Tyler Papers, 1877-1919

Fargo real estate agent responsible for the Park Board acquiring Oak Grove Park and the establishment of Island Park

The COVID-19 Pandemic and Japan’s Anxiety-Suppression Society: Anxiety, Self-Restraint, and Solidarity in a Disaster Community

In this article, I analyze the Japanese government’s response and public discourse during the early part of the COVID-19 pandemic, a period covering the onset of the pandemic, the declaration of a state of emergency, and the decline in the second wave of infections by mid-October 2020. Assessing that the virus was highly contagious but not particularly fatal, the Japanese government adopted a policy focusing on the prevention of large-scale clusters of infections and treatment of severe cases, calling for the public to practice of “self-restraint” in avoiding the “three C’s” of closed spaces, concentrations of people, and close contact. The goal of this measure was to minimize the pandemic’s socioeconomic impact and sustain the health care system. It was successful in terms of infection and fatality rates. Particularly after the state of emergency was lifted on April 7, Japan began to garner global attention as a model for containing the pandemic without coercion. Behind Prime Minister Abe’s resignation, however, lay the “failure” of Japan’s COVID-19 response. The Japanese people lost faith in the government’s response owing to its perceived harm to publicness, as symbolized in the “Abe-no-mask” incident. Japanese society is a “disaster community,” sharing in the anxiety over the experiences and memories of disasters occurring over the past twenty-five years, including the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake in 1995 and Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011. Japan has thus experienced COVID-19 as a part of a greater, more complex chain of disasters. The response to COVID-19 in the form of the request for self-restraint was also rooted in such communal solidarity. Controversy over PCR testing policies or “optimistic” government perceptions pertaining to COVID-19 evince the present state of the disaster-nation that is Japan as it endeavors to suppress anxiety and maintain daily life as usual. I conceptualize Japanese society in this situation as an “anxiety-suppression society.

Landscape Urban Structure Design - S. Romão Sportive Park, Leiria Polis, Portugal

It is due to the modern movement the loss of both landscape and open spaces multifunctionality. Consequently, it merges the term of “green spaces” amorphous and residual, often void and without any appropriation, so characteristic of the contemporary city. This study is a reflexion about and a practice result of the return to these spaces multifunctionality through a landscape structure on the urban space. We want this structure to be continuous, structuring and assuring biologic processes and fluxes that occur in the landscape systems. We present the casestudy of S. Romão Sportive Park included in Polis Program of Leiria City, in Portugal. It is a system of open spaces that constitutes itself as a landscape structure, continuous and multifunctional

Valuing Environmental Services Using Contingent Valuation Method

This paper presents the results of two studies in Lao PDR that assessed people's willingness to pay (WTP) using the Contingent Valuation Methodology (CVM). The first study investigated the WTP of residents for the sustainable development and maintenance of urban parks in the city using Saysetha Park as the case study. In this study residents expressed that urban parks are very important to them as they are areas for relaxation and areas to conserve urban biodiversity. The WTP survey revealed that the residents' mean WTP is 10,741kip/month/household. With this amount, it was estimated that a monthly water bill surcharge of 3,000/kip/month/household may be recommended to maintain urban parks. The second study assessed the WTP for biodiversity conservation and sustainability in the Houay Nhang Protected Area. Using CVM, the WTP responses showed that the monthly contribution that would be acceptable to the people is 5,000 kip. The logit regression shows that this WTP value is influenced by bid prices, gender, and educational levels. The respondents recognized the importance of the protected area for environmental and biodiversity protection.contingent valuation, Lao PDR

American Image of President Park Chung-hee of the Republic of Korea: Park Chung-heeas Death and American Newspapers

South Korea s President Park Chung-hee was still a controversial figure in Korean history He was a man who achieved the economic miracle of South Korea while adopting repressive measures to suspend the democracy and human Korea The nostalgia of Park s era also remains Park receives fairly good evaluations from the world American newspapers at the death of Park Chung-hee provided the objective views on Park Chung-hee Throughout the newspapers editorials Park was the man who brought the economic miracle of South Korea and a good ally for the U S at the time of Cold War On the other hand he was another dictator who enjoyed autocratic rule under the U S protection The American views provide the foundation to evaluate Park Chung-hee of toda

Relevance, Resonance, and Historiography: Interpreting the Lives and Experiences of Civil War Soldiers

Carmichael shares his experiences of portraying Corporal Bobby Fields at Appomattox Court House National Historical Park in the summer of 1985. He uses Fields as a conduit to explore the scholarship pertaining to the common soldier of the Civil War and how material culture can provide a new window into understanding of making the battlefield come alive for visitors

Una nueva especie del género Stilobezzia del Parque Nacional Nahuel Huapi, Argentina (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)

A new species of Stilobezzia (Acanthohelea), collected in the Nothofagus forests of the Nahuel Huapi National Park (Argentina), is described, phopographed and illustrated based on the examination of  male and female adults. The new species can be easily recognized by the elongate and narrow posteromedian projection of the male sternite 9; it is compared with S. (A.) hirsuta Ingram & Macfie. A new species, Stilobezzia (Acanthohelea) longisternalis, collected in the Nothofagus forest of the Nahuel Huapi National Park (Argentina) is described, photographed and illustrated based on the examination of male and female adults. The new species can be easily recognized by the elongate and narrow posteromedian projection of the male sternite 9; it is compared with S. (A.) hirsuta Ingram & Macfie.Fil: Cazorla, Carla Gisela. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo. División Entomología; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Spinelli, Gustavo Ricardo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata. Instituto de Limnología "Dr. Raúl A. Ringuelet". Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo. Instituto de Limnología; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo. División Entomología; Argentin