The Impact of Listener Gaze on Predicting Reference Resolution

We investigate the impact of listener’s gaze on predicting reference resolution in situated interactions. We extend an existing model that predicts to which entity in the environment listeners will resolve a referring expression (RE). Our model makes use of features that capture which objects were looked at and for how long, reflecting listeners’ visual behavior. We improve a probabilistic model that considers a basic set of features for monitoring listeners’ movements in a virtual environment. Particularly, in complex referential scenes, where more objects next to the target are possible referents, gaze turns out to be beneficial and helps deciphering listeners’ intention. We evaluate performance at several prediction times before the listener performs an action, obtaining a highly significant accuracy gain.

A Deep Architecture for Non-Projective Dependency Parsing

Graph-based dependency parsing algorithms commonly employ features up to third order in an attempt to capture richer syntactic relations. However, each level and each feature combination must be defined manually. Besides that, input features are usually represented as huge, sparse binary vectors, offering limited generalization. In this work, we present a deep architecture for dependency parsing based on a convolutional neural network. It can examine the whole sentence structure before scoring each head/modifier candidate pair, and uses dense embeddings as input. Our model is still under ongoing work, achieving 91.6% unlabeled attachment score in the Penn Treebank.

Aportes al estudio del cortisol como marcador biológico del trastorno de personalidad antisocial

Fil: Sartori, Maria Soledad. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Psicologia; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas; Argentina

The Verses about Sofei in the Stishnoi Prolog from the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome

This article is a publication, with commentary, of the text about Divine Wisdom from the Stishnoi Prolog, a Synaxarium with verses. It was conserved in the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome (Slavo 5), now in the Vatican Library; the manuscript dates from the beginning of the 16th century, and it originates from Novgorod or Pskov. This codex is well known among Slavists, who have expressed various contradictory judgments about its content. A series of texts—verses and lives of saints—have no analogues in other manuscripts. The source also contains some strange errors, even absurdities. On fol. 185 prayer verses are entered without a title; in other words, they have no relation to any specific event of the Church calendar. The prayer consists mainly of quotations. The first part, which is the beginning of the Great Doxology, does not glorify the Trinity but rather it glorifies Sophia, using the Novgorod masculine form Sofei. The final part of the prayer quotes Ps 146:5 on the greatness of the Lord. The middle part is a free variation on the theme of the paths in Sir 24. A similar text is in one of the manuscripts of Euphrosynus of Beloozero. The prayer can be correlated with the controversy about the nature of Sophia that began in Novgorod at the turn of the 15th–16th centuries and that is most definitely reflected in a later work, the Authentic Story about What Is Sofei, the Wisdom of God. By selecting the “Lords” citations, the author of the prayer seems to argue against the tendency to identify Sophia with Our Lady. In the fragment using the motifs from Sirach, there are grammatical ambiguities that can be interpreted as a desire to avoid the use of the feminine in relation to Wisdom. The cultural status of this text can be compared with paraliturgical inscriptions from Novgorod studied by Tatiana Rozhdestvenskaya.

Some Verbal Forms in the Testament of Vladimir Monomakh to His Children and the Language of Kiev in the 11th Century

This article deals with the specific features of the Old Kievan verbal system (11th–12th centuries) reflected in the Testament of Vladimir Monomakh to His Children, for example, the Old Russian pluperfect in the resultative meaning and the East Slavic pattern of imperfectivization with the -yva-/-iva- suffix.The Testament of Vladimir Monomakh contains the earliest example of the Old Russian colloquial pluperfect bylъ stvorilъ—this form, as the context shows, has the meaning of the resultative state beginning before the point of reference. The comparison of this usage with other early examples of the pluperfect in the Tale of Bygone Years and Monomakh’s Testament itself permits the supposition that in the 11th century in Kiev, literary and colloquial pluperfect forms were synonymous.In the oldest part of the Testament, the specifically East Slavic suffix of imperfectivization -yva-/-iva- is just as frequent as in the Kievan Chronicle of the 12th century. A similar example is in the Russian-translated passage in the Izbornik of 1076, which scholars believe was known to Monomakh himself. These facts show that the -yva-/-iva- pattern of imperfectivization was already in common use in Kiev at the end of the 11th century.

Participants Views of Retention Materials Used in the PLCO Cancer Screening Trial

To obtain information from participants in the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian (PLCO) Cancer Screening Trial regarding their perception of the retention materials employed by the screening centers. Also, to determine the viability of using email or the internet as a data collection tool with an older population.

Dengue & malaria global burden: A cross sectional study of awareness & practice of dengue and malaria & its difference among different age group in Pakistan

Malaria and Dengue both are mosquito borne infections. Malaria is spread by Anopheles mosquitoes. It’s caused by a parasite called Plasmodium. When an infected mosquito bites us this parasite enters in to our body and goes to liver where it affects red blood cells. While dengue is a mosquito borne viral infection it’s also called break bone fever in severe cases it changes in to life threatening dengue hemorrhagic fever, resulting in low level of platelets, low blood pressure and bleeding occurs. This study was conducted based on the awareness of dengue fever and malaria the survey forms were distributed in 100 different age group of people to determine that how much people are aware of these two diseases. In our survey we aimed to determine the awareness between different age groups about dengue fever and malaria. We set three different age ranges first one is between 15-30 years, second one is between 30-45 years and third one is above 45 years. The result of first range for malaria is (72%) and for dengue is (66.42%). The result of second range for malaria is (31.93%) and for dengue is (36.36%) and the result of third range for malaria is (35.56%) and for dengue is (34.60%). By our result we can conclude that the people of first range and third range are more aware of malaria as compare to dengue, while in second range people are more aware of dengue as compare to malaria., Faculty of Pharmacy, Jinnah University for Women, Karachi-74600, Pakistan.

Effective role of progesterone with proven evidence in threaten abortion at public Healthcare sectors

Pregnancy is the occasion of conceiving one or more generation or baby inside female uterus or a state of carrying embryo. The signs and symptoms correlated with pregnancy consist of pelvic girdle pain, back pain, nausea, tiredness, constipation. The danger aspect of pregnancy consist of elevated B.P, high blood sugar, obesity, kidney disease, uncontrolled thyroid disease, and drugs which are contraindicated in pregnancy. Pregnancy can be investigated by physical examination, ultrasound, and ultrasonography. Progesterone is an essential hormone in the procedure of reproduction. It has important role related to the progress of a fetus and it is an endogenous steroid hormone involved also in menstrual cycle. Progestin is a general term for a substance that causes some or all of the biologic effects of progesterone. While abortion is the early or premature ending of pregnancy and it is different from miscarriage. For the purpose of regulating the effective role of progesterone to demonstrate evidence exposed in abortion, a survey was carried out in ordinary areas of Karachi.

Relevance of German Political Foundations for Comparative Educational Research

German political foundations, mainly Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) and Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS), have a long tradition of political activism in Germany as well as internationally.  Founded after the Second World War, their mission was and is the promotion of democracy and civic education.  Likewise, they pursue these educational goals abroad, where they have been active for over 50 years.  But despite many years of experience in the field of political education across borders, the foundations have hardly been noticed in educational research.  Therefore, an international audience shall be made aware of the unique characteristics of the German party related political foundations as actors in the world.  This article will address the international dimensions of these organizations: how they operate across borders and what they offer in their educational dimensions.  This will show their close entanglement with the official German foreign policy and with the political parties to which they are affiliated in Germany.

Isolated Traumatic Proximal Tibio-Fibular Joint Dislocation: Case Report of a Rare Injury