This article is about the global importance of English language,its place in the past and present and how important it is for present and future generation. NIYOZOVA ...

There are big barriers to open access in the social sciences and humanities – cultural resistance, publisher concerns, funding inadequacies, ignorance of e-resources, to name a few. But things are ...

With the capability of modeling bidirectional contexts, denoising autoencoding based pretraining like BERT achieves better performance than pretraining approaches based on autoregressive language ...

The Leontief matrices of inter-industry transactions are large, a row for each industry in a nation. It would be desirable to invert such matrices of an order of from 100 to 200. The present paper ...

This paper describes the Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS), its accompanying documentation and some of its applications. It reviews the MODS user guidelines provided by the Library of Congress ...

This article develops a conceptual framework for advancing theories of environmentally significant individual behavior and reports on the attempts of the author's research group and others to develop ...

Legislation underpins board-level employee representation in 18 European Union member states and Norway, but its characteristics vary greatly, restricted in some countries to the state sector and ...

"we ind that evaporation rates can be considerably slowed upon deposition of relatively small amount of hydrophylic coverage"; "since a density profile associated with surface drying may contain a ...

Proceedings of the dependable systems and networks 2004 workshop on assurance cases ...

The application of boundary conditions and other constraints to the stiffness matrix and load vector is an integral part of any finite element code. This process is usually trivial but can present ...

The Asian Summer Monsoon: Characteristics, Variability, Teleconnections and Projection focuses on the connections between the Indian Summer and East Asian Summer Monsoons, also including the South ...

GPS receivers must perform a two-dimensional sequential search process for the GPS signals. The two-dimensional search pattern consists of discrete search cells with each cell representing one code ...