Recycling Today

Southeast Asia has recovered paper examples to consider

Paper recycling consultant Bill Moore says several countries have enacted policies that can boost recovered paper collection rates in nations with developing economies. Industry consultant Bill Moore ...
IEEE

Query-by-Example Spoken Term Detection using low dimensional posteriorgrams motivated by articulatory classes

Abstract: This paper addresses the problem of Query-by-Example Spoken Term Detection (QbE-STD). Posteriorgrams have been widely used in the research on QbE-STD. Features based on articulatory classes ...
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Trump wants a third term as president. Here's how he could actually get it

The US constitution says no president may serve for a third term. But Donald Trump has a 'plan' to get around it US President Donald Trump is already thinking about how he could be re-elected for an ...
Inside Higher Ed

A Final Project That Can Bring Joy and Meaning

For decades now, professors have been complaining about the futility of asking students to write term papers, otherwise known as a research paper. In theory, research papers teach students how to ...
The New York Times

Fraudulent Scientific Papers Are Rapidly Increasing, Study Finds

A statistical analysis found that the number of fake journal articles being churned out by “paper mills” is doubling every year and a half. By Carl Zimmer For years, whistle-blowers have warned that ...
New York Post

6 in 10 teachers use AI to grade papers, write lessons — but say it’s making their students stop thinking

For her 6th grade honors class, math teacher Ana Sepúlveda wanted to make geometry fun. She figured her students “who live and breathe soccer” would be interested to learn how mathematical concepts ...
Frontiers

The financing sustainability of long-term care insurance: an example from Nanning, China

Objective: With accelerated population aging in China, older adult services and long-term care for people with disabilities are becoming serious problems. Currently, mobilizing and allocating social ...
The Daily Signal

Leading by Example, Freshman Senator Introduces Term Limits Resolution

Jacob Adams is a journalism fellow at The Daily Signal. Send an email to Jacob. Freshman Sen. Dave McCormick, R-Pa., is already taking aim at the Washington establishment by teaming up with Rep. Brian ...
PNAS

Short-term exposure to filter-bubble recommendation systems has limited polarization effects: Naturalistic experiments on YouTube

An enormous body of literature argues that recommendation algorithms drive political polarization by creating “filter bubbles” and “rabbit holes.” Using four experiments with nearly 9,000 participants ...
IEEE

A fast query-by-example spoken term detection for zero resource languages

Abstract: This paper presents a novel two-pass dynamic time warping (DTW) approach to build Query-by-Example Spoken Term Detection (QbE-STD) system for Zero Resource Languages. An ...
withinnigeria.com

Commercial Paper – Meaning, Features, Advantages and Examples

You’re sitting in a finance meeting when the topic of commercial paper comes up. You nod along, not wanting to seem ignorant, but find yourself wondering, “What exactly is commercial paper?” Don’t ...