The Development of Mathematical Model Consciousness in Junior Secondary Students: A Lesson Study of the Instruction of Congruent Triangles

The Compulsory Education Course Standards for Mathematics 2022 have highlighted the educational objectives of junior secondary mathematics by emphasizing the development of mathematical competence and practical learning. Model consciousness, as one of the fundamental mathematical competencies to be developed at the junior secondary level, can facilitate students’ comprehension of the universal application of mathematics. Teachers of mathematics in junior high school should construct effective classroom activities based on the cognitive qualities of their students in order to enhance their mathematical model consciousness and comprehension of the substance of mathematics knowledge. This paper is a lesson study of the education of Congruent Triangles, and its purpose is to investigate strategies for fostering mathematical model consciousness among junior high school pupils

A Study on the Effect of Metaphor Awareness Raising on Chinese EFL Learners’ Vocabulary Acquisition and Retention

The research investigates the vocabulary acquisition and retention effect of raising learners’ metaphor awareness on EFL learners (non-English majors) of intermediate-low English proficiency level. The subjects are first-year non-English college students in a vocational college. The pre-test, immediate post-test and delayed post-test experiment lasted for a whole semester and the data collected at the tests were processed with SPSS Windows 13.0. The result shows that in EFL class, organizing metaphorical expressions along their metaphorical theme is more effective in enhancing EFL learners’ vocabulary retention. Accordingly, efforts to raise learners’ metaphor awareness should be made in classroom-based EFL teaching and the considerations should be given in teaching treatment to achieve a better effect in EFL vocabulary teaching and learning.Keywords: metaphorical theme/source; domain metaphor awareness; Vocabulary acquisition; vocabulary retention   Résumé:  La recherche étudie l'effet  de la sensibilisation à la métaphore sur l'acquisition et la mémorisation de vocabulaire chez les étudiants chinois EFL (spécialité non-anglais) qui ont un niveau d'anglais intermédiaire-faible. Les sujets d'études sont des étudiants en première année dans une école professionnelle non-anglaise. Le pré-test, le post-test immédiat et le post-test différé ont duré un semestre entier et les données recueillies lors des tests ont été traitées avec SPSS Windows 13.0. Le résultat montre que dans la classe EFL, l'organisation des expressions métaphoriques le long de leur thème métaphorique est plus efficace dans l'amélioration de la mémorisation de vocabulaire chez les apprenants EFL. En conséquence, les efforts visant à sensibiliser la conscience des apprenants sur la métaphore doivent être réalisés dans l'enseignement EFL basé sur des cours en salle de classe et les considérations devraient être y accordées pour atteindre un meilleur effet dans l'enseignement et dans l'apprentissage de vocabulaire anglais .Mots-Clés:  Thème métaphorique ; sensibilisation à la métaphore ; domaine source; acquisition de vocabulaire; mémorisation de vocabulair

SIMULATION METAMODELING AND OPTIMIZATION WITH AN ADDITIVE GLOBAL AND LOCAL GAUSSIAN PROCESS MODEL FOR STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS

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Unsupervised Extractive Summarization with Learnable Length Control Strategies

Unsupervised extractive summarization is an important technique in information extraction and retrieval. Compared with supervised method, it does not require high-quality human-labelled summaries for training and thus can be easily applied for documents with different types, domains or languages. Most of existing unsupervised methods including TextRank and PACSUM rely on graph-based ranking on sentence centrality. However, this scorer can not be directly applied in end-to-end training, and the positional-related prior assumption is often needed for achieving good summaries. In addition, less attention is paid to length-controllable extractor, where users can decide to summarize texts under particular length constraint. This paper introduces an unsupervised extractive summarization model based on a siamese network, for which we develop a trainable bidirectional prediction objective between the selected summary and the original document. Different from the centrality-based ranking methods, our extractive scorer can be trained in an end-to-end manner, with no other requirement of positional assumption. In addition, we introduce a differentiable length control module by approximating 0-1 knapsack solver for end-to-end length-controllable extracting. Experiments show that our unsupervised method largely outperforms the centrality-based baseline using a same sentence encoder. In terms of length control ability, via our trainable knapsack module, the performance consistently outperforms the strong baseline without utilizing end-to-end training. Human evaluation further evidences that our method performs the best among baselines in terms of relevance and consistency.Comment: accepted by AAAI202

A comparison of electronic health records at two major Peking University Hospitals in China to United States meaningful use objectives

BACKGROUND: In accordance with the People’s Republic of China’s (China) National Health Reform Plan of 2009, two of the nation’s leading hospitals, located in Beijing, have implemented electronic medical record (EMR) systems from different vendors. To inform future EMR adoption and policy in China, as well as informatics research in the US, this study compared the United State’s Hospital Meaningful Use (MU) Objectives (phase 1) objectives to the EMR functionality of two early hospital EMR adopters in China. METHODS: At both hospitals, the researchers observed a physician using the EMR and noted MU functionality that was seen and functionality that was not seen yet was available in the EMR. The information technology department was asked about the availability of functionality neither observed nor known to the physician. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: Approximately half the MU objectives were available in each EMR. Some differences between the EMRs in the study and MU objectives were attributed to operational differences between the health systems and the cultures in the two countries

Enhancing Coherence of Extractive Summarization with Multitask Learning

This study proposes a multitask learning architecture for extractive summarization with coherence boosting. The architecture contains an extractive summarizer and coherent discriminator module. The coherent discriminator is trained online on the sentence vectors of the augmented textual input, thus improving its general ability of judging whether the input sentences are coherent. Meanwhile, we maximize the coherent scores from the coherent discriminator by updating the parameters of the summarizer. To make the extractive sentences trainable in a differentiable manner, we introduce two strategies, including pre-trained converting model (model-based) and converting matrix (MAT-based) that merge sentence representations. Experiments show that our proposed method significantly improves the proportion of consecutive sentences in the extracted summaries based on their positions in the original article (i.e., automatic sentence-level coherence metric), while the goodness in terms of other automatic metrics (i.e., Rouge scores and BertScores) are preserved. Human evaluation also evidences the improvement of coherence and consistency of the extracted summaries given by our method.Comment: 11 pages, 4 figure