Commerce and Sentiment in Tales of Barbary Encounter: Cathcart, Barlow, Markoe, Tyler, and Rowson by Andrew S. Gross

“…This essay sketches the history of the Barbary conflict and considers three fictionalized accounts of Barbary encounter as secular conversion narratives, two of the three demonstrating how even despotic slaveholders could learn to embrace commerce and sentiment.  Peter Markoe’s novel The Algerine Spy in Pennsylvania (1787), Royall Tyler’s The Algerine Slave (1797), and Susanna Rowson’s drama Slaves in Algiers (1794) suggest a certain openness to religious and national difference; however they are clearly about American concerns and, in fact, more committed to secularized Christian norms than their praise of common sentiment would suggest.  …”
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The role of the Internet in the modern life of children and teenagers: analysis of a sociological survey by S. E. Titor

“…The information environment affects children’s upbringing, as they spend a lot of time online and, by using this opportunity to play and learn, become exposed to negative content. One of the consequences of informatisation has been the increasing role of mass media in the life of both national societies and the global community as a whole. …”
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Anomaly detection model for multivariate time series based on stochastic Transformer by Weigang HUO, Rui LIANG, Yonghua LI

“…Aiming at the problem that the existing multivariate time series anomaly detection models based on variational autoencoders could not propagate long-term temporal dependencies between stochastic variables in latent space, the stochastic Transformer for MTS anomaly detection (ST-MTS-AD) model which combined Transformer encoder with VAE was proposed.In the inference network of the ST-MTS-AD, the MTS long-term temporal dependent features generated by Transformer encoder and the sampled values of the stochastic variables at the previous moment were inputted into the multilayer perceptron, the approximate posterior distribution of the stochastic variables at the current moment was generated by the multilayer perceptron, and the temporal dependencies between stochastic variables were realized.The gated transition function(GTF) was used to generate the prior distribution of stochastic variables.The generation network of the ST-MTS-AD reconstructed the distribution of the MTS values at each moment by the multilayer perceptron whose input was the MTS long-term temporal dependent features generated by the inference network and the approximate posterior sampling values of stochastic variables.The distribution of normal MTS dataset was learned by the variational inference technology, and the abnormal MTS segment was determined by the log-likelihood of the reconstruction probability.Experiments on four public datasets show that the ST-MTS-AD model significantly improves the F1 score over the typical baseline models.…”
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BAYESIAN FINITE ELEMENT MODEL UPDATING BASED ON MARKOV CHAIN POPULATION COMPETITION by YE Ling, JIANG HongKang, ZOU YuQing, CHEN HuaPeng, WANG LiCheng

“…The traditional Markov Chain Monte Carlo（MCMC） simulation method is inefficient and difficult to converge in high dimensional problems and complicated posterior probability density.In order to overcome these shortcomings，a Bayesian finite element model updating algorithm based on Markov chain population competition was proposed.First，the differential evolution algorithm was introduced in the traditional method of Metropolis-Hastings algorithm.Based on the interaction of different information carried by Markov chains in the population，optimization suggestions were obtained to approach the objective function quickly.It solves the defect of sampling retention in the updating process of high-dimensional parameter model.Then，the competition algorithm was introduced，which has constant competitive incentives and a built-in mechanism for losers to learn from winners.Higher precision was obtained by using fewer Markov chains，which improves the efficiency and precision of model updating.Finally，a numerical example of finite element model updating of a truss structure was used to verify the proposed algorithm in this paper.Compared with the results of standard MH algorithm，the proposed algorithm can quickly update the high-dimensional parameter model with high accuracy and good robustness to random noise.It provides a stable and effective method for finite element model updating of large-scale structure considering uncertainty.…”
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THE STUDY OF ENGLISH PHONOLOGICAL ERRORS OF ADVANCED SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNERS IN PRONOUNCING SIMILARLY-SPELLED WORDS by Dangin Dangin, Nurvita Wijayanti

“…The participants of the study were Indonesian college students who learned English at the advanced level. In order to get the data, they were given word lists that contained a number of words and then asked to pronounce them. …”
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Surveying the application of elements of vulgar culture (folklore) in story works of Sadegh Hedayat by عبدالله حسن زاده میرعلی, مهدی احمدی لفورکی

“…Stories of Sadegh Hedayat are an emerging point for many elements of vulgar culture as the most important part of his works, and are considered as cultural examples which by investigating and studying them, we can learn about cultural memoir of Iranians besides the cognition of their believes. …”
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Microbial community diversity in the soil of Barrientos Island estimated by RAPD and Biolog Ecoplate methods by Learn-Han Lee, Vengadesh Letchumanan, Nurul-Syakima Ab Mutalib, Yoke Kqueen Cheah

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Within-domain and across-domain compensation: a systematic review, integrative framework and future research agenda by Rui Wang, Chao Tian

“…Researchers, marketers, and advertisers can learn about the latest research related to compensatory consumption strategies in this article.…”
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COLLABORATION AND LONG-TERM RELATIONSHIPS IN CONSTRUCTION by Calistus AYEGBA, Xebiso B KAMUDYARIWA, David ROOT

“…The findings indicate that top management commitment, a willingness to learn from and to support the parties, mutual trust, complete integration of project team members, and efficient and open communication are some of the requirements for CLR. …”
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A Review of Our Experience in Trans Obturator Tension Free Vaginal Tape Surgery in 16 Patients by Kadir Bakay, Davut Güven

“…CONCLUSION: TOT is described as a minimally invasive procedure that can be performed even under local anesthesia to an outpatient which is an effective and easy to learn surgical technique. …”
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Probiotics in Depression Management: Efficacy, Mechanisms and Future Directions by Learn-Han Lee

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Frequencies and functions of vocalizations and gestures in the second year of life. by Megan M Burkhardt-Reed, Edina R Bene, D Kimbrough Oller

“…Now we bring longitudinal data on the second year (13, 16 and 20 mo), showing again that vocalizations predominated, and especially in conventional (learned) communication; > 9 times more spoken words were observed than gestures that could be viewed as functionally equivalent to words (i.e., signs). …”
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The Impact of Antidepressants on Gut Microbiome and Depression Management by Ee-Kit Tang, Ke-Yan Loo, Angel Yun-Kuan Thye, Jodi Woan-Fei Law, Loh Teng-Hern Tan, Malarvili Selvaraja, Sivakumar Thurairajasingam, Learn-Han Lee, Vengadesh Letchumanan

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الصورة الذهنیة لبنک المعرفة المصرى by د. محمد سعید محمد سعید

“…The Ministry of Education should include how to use the knowledge bankwithin the content of the curriculum (library education) for primary schoolstudents in order to learn from a young age to research it and get used tousing it2. …”
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Petrochemical Equipment Detection by Improved Yolov5 with Multiscale Deep Feature Fusion and Attention Mechanism by Zhenqiang Wei, Shaohua Dong, Xuchu Wang

“…Furthermore, the multiscale deep feature is fused with a bottom-up feature pyramid structure to learn the features of equipment with extreme sizes. …”
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HISTORICO-LEGAL AND SOCIOCULTURAL CAUSES AND THE IMPLICATIONS OF PEASANTS’ REVOLT AGAINST TAXATION IN IBADAN, WESTERN NIGERIA by Oyesola Animashaun

“…Similarly, the different levels of governments in the Nigerian federation should learn from this experience in the formulation of current and future tax policies. …”
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Dental Approach to Craniofacial Syndromes: How Can Developmental Fields Show Us a New Way to Understand Pathogenesis? by Inger Kjær

“…How can the initial malformation sites in these syndromes be studied and what can we learn from it? In this section, deviations observed in syndromes prenatally will be highlighted and compared to the normal human embryological craniofacial development. …”
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Speaking Truth or Power? Issues in Translation of South African Children’s Picture Books by Jade Smith, Ralph Adendorff

“…Through these stories, children learn how their society expects them to look and behave. …”
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Identifying and Applying a Strength-Based Research Approach in Indigenous Health by Laurie-Ann Lines, Cynthia G. Jardine

“…We share challenges and lessons learned from exploring a strength-based approach in health research and provide insights for researchers interested in applying a strength-based approach to research, particularly in Indigenous health.…”
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Impact of an Educational Film on Parental Knowledge of Children with Cerebral Palsy by Shilpa Khanna Arora, Anju Aggarwal, Hema Mittal

“…Majority (94.3%) found the film useful and 96.2% learned how they could help in the management of their children. …”
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