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Introduction : From Fundamentals to Advances in Crowdfunding Research and Practice

2020

AbstractThe chapter introduces the phenomenon of crowdfunding while presenting its definition and main manifestations in recent years. It then discusses the roles played by the various parties to a crowdfunding transaction, as well as the benefits each may gain from such engagement. Overall, it argues for a win-win situation, where all parties become better off from involvement in a responsible crowdfunding engagement. Furthermore, the chapter highlights the process dimension of crowdfunding, as represented through a series of three main stages, which are further specified into a seven sub-stage model. Each stage in the process depends on successful completion of the stage preceding it and …

A word prediction methodology for automatic sentence completion

2015

Word prediction generally relies on n-grams occurrence statistics, which may have huge data storage requirements and does not take into account the general meaning of the text. We propose an alternative methodology, based on Latent Semantic Analysis, to address these issues. An asymmetric Word-Word frequency matrix is employed to achieve higher scalability with large training datasets than the classic Word-Document approach. We propose a function for scoring candidate terms for the missing word in a sentence. We show how this function approximates the probability of occurrence of a given candidate word. Experimental results show that the proposed approach outperforms non neural network lang…

Students' beliefs about themselves as users of Finnish, Swedish and English : analysis of metaphorical constructions

2005

2015

Sir, We read with interest the scientific commentary by Hornberger and Bertoux (2015) on our study on the specificity of prefrontal cortex subregions for strategy use, verbal initiation and suppression (Robinson et al. , 2015). We administered Section 1 and 2 of the Hayling sentence completion task (Burgess and Shallice, 1997) to a large group of frontal and posterior patients. Section 1, assessing verbal initiation, requires the subject to complete sentences with an appropriate word (e.g. ‘ The captain stayed with the sinking …’ could be completed by saying ‘ ship ’). Section 2, assessing inhibition/suppression, requires the completion of sentences with an unconnected word (e.g. ‘ London i…

Hemithyroidectomy versus total thyroidectomy in the intermediate-risk differentiated thyroid cancer: the Italian Societies of Endocrine Surgeons and …

2021

The surgical treatment of the intermediate-risk DTC (1–4 cm) remains still controversial. We analyzed the current practice in Italy regarding the surgical management of intermediate-risk unilateral DTC to evaluate risk factors for recurrence and to identify a group of patients to whom propose a total thyroidectomy (TT) vs. hemithyroidectomy (HT). Among 1896 patients operated for thyroid cancer between January 2017 and December 2019, we evaluated 564 (29.7%) patients with unilateral intermediate-risk DTC (1–4 cm) without contralateral nodular lesions on the preoperative exams, chronic autoimmune thyroiditis, familiarity or radiance exposure. Data were collected retrospectively from the clini…

Priming in word stem completion tasks: comparison with previous results in word fragment completion tasks

2015

This study investigates priming in an implicit Word Stem Completion (WSC) task. A total of 305 participants performed a WSC task in two phases (study and test). The test phase included 63 unique-solution stems and 63 multiple-solution stems. After confirming the presence of priming (mean = 0.22), analysis revealed that it was stronger in the case of multiple-solution stems, indicating that the stems were not a homogeneous group of stimuli. Thus, further analyses were performed only for the data of the unique-solution stems. The correlations between priming and a set of conceptual (familiarity, frequency of use, number of meanings) and non-conceptual (letters/blanks ratio and difficulty of c…

Sociālā tīkla „Facebook” uzdevumi mājasdarbu izpildes sekmēšanai angļu valodas stundās 7. klasē

2015

Diplomdarba autores pieredze liecina, ka ļoti bieži daudzi skolēni neizpilda mājasdarbus, aizmirst tos izpildīt, vai arī skolotājam ir nepieciešams atgādināt, lai mājasdarbs tiktu veikts. Iekļaujot mācību procesā uz internetu balstītas aktivitātes skolēniem, kuri ir digitālās paaudzes pārstāvji, var būt motivējoša metodoloģijas sastāvdaļa. Darba mērķis ir atklāt, kā sociālā tīkla Facebook uzdevumi var palīdzēt veicināt mājasdarbu izpildi 7. klasē. Izvēlētā pētījuma metode ir atsevišķa gadījuma pētījums Rīgas Valsts 3.ģimnāzijā. Datu vākšanas metodes bija 2 anketas 7. klases skolēniem, skolotājas pieraksti ar mājasdarbu nodošanas laiku un biežumu, atgriezeniskās saites veidlapas un intervija…