Although transfer learning has been shown to be successful for tasks like object and speech recognition, its applicability to question answering (QA) has yet to be well-studied. In this paper, we conduct extensive experiments to investigate the transferability of knowledge learned from a source QA dataset to a target dataset using two QA models. The performance of both models on a TOEFL listeni...

The relationship of various irrational beliefs to alcohol dependence, urges to drink, anxiety and drinking after treatment was investigated for 63 male alcoholics, using Jones' Irrational Beliefs Test (IBT). Alcohol dependence was most strongly associated with problem avoidance. Urges to drink, anxiety and difficulty during alcohol-related role-plays were strongly correlated with problem avoida...

This research aimed to know the language learning strategies that used by successful TOEFL test-takers of English Education Department UIN Alauddin Makassar. The design this study is descriptive qualitative. subject consisted 5 students academic year 2015. In determining research, researcher criteria must achieve score 500 undertaken once or twice. interview instrument with supporting data from...

This paper presents a simple unsupervised learning algorithm for recognizing synonyms, based on statistical data acquired by querying a Web search engine. The algorithm, called PMI-IR, uses Pointwise Mutual Information (PMI) and Information Retrieval (IR) to measure the similarity of pairs of words. PMI-IR is empirically evaluated using 80 synonym test questions from the Test of English as a Fo...

The Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) contains a direct writing assessment, and examinees are given the option of composing their responses at a computer terminal using a keyboard or composing their responses in handwriting. This study sought to determine whether examinees from different demographic groups choose handwriting versus word-processing composition media with equal likeli...

PURPOSE To calculate radiation doses to intraocular tissues in iodine brachytherapy (IBT) for large uveal melanoma, to study their relationship to ocular complications, and to assess a modified plaque design to reduce doses to the macula and optic nerve. METHODS Ninety-six patients with a uveal melanoma, classified as large according to the Collaborative Ocular Melanoma Study criteria, underw...

Kegiatan Pengabdian Kepada Masyarakat ini merupakan salah satu bagian dari Tri Dharma Perguruan Tinggi yang harus dilaksanakan oleh civitas akademika, khususnya para dosen Universitas Bumigora. berangkat permasalahan – permaslahan dihadapi mitra terutama pada saat menghadapi tes TOEFL, mereka belum memahami sepenuhnya cara atau trik untuk meningkatkan sckor nilai test TOEFL karena itu kami beri...

We studied the diagnostic accuracy of a rapid immunochromatographic test (ICT) for detection of IgM against scrub typhus (ST ICT) and an immunoblot test for the detection of IgM against murine typhus (MT IBT) by using admission serum samples from 1,030 febrile patients in Laos. Sensitivity and specificity for the ST ICT determined by using the diagnostic criteria of a four-fold increase in IgM ...

Having implemented discrete stationary wavelet transform (DSWT) to an image, combining generalized cross validation (GCV), noise is reduced directly in the high frequency sub-bands which are at the better resolution levels and local contrast is enhanced by combining de-noising method with in-complete Beta transform (IBT) in the high frequency sub-bands which are at the worse resolution levels. ...