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The U.S. Navy's aviation safety program: a critical review.
(2007)Safety research has shown that human error, as opposed to mechanical failure, is a major causal factor in accidents in high reliability organizations. In U.S. Naval aviation, human error accounts for more than 80% of ... -
ULD@NUIG at SemEval-2020 Task 9: Generative morphemes with an attention model for sentiment analysis in code-mixed text
(International Committee for Computational Linguistics, 2020)Code mixing is a common phenomena in multilingual societies where people switch from one language to another for various reasons. Recent advances in public communication over different social media sites have led to an ... -
Ultra-fast machine learning classifier execution on IoT devices without SRAM consumption
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2021-05-25)With the introduction of edge analytics, IoT devices are becoming smart and ready for AI applications. A few modern ML frameworks are focusing on the generation of small-size ML models (often in kBs) that can directly be ... -
'The UN "Beijing Platform for Action" 1995-2005: Local Global Political Spaces, NGO Advocacy, and Governmental Responses in the Republic of Ireland',
(Routledge, 2005)Introduction September 2005 marks the tenth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing 1995) and the adoption of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPFA) by 189 governments, including Ireland. From February ... -
UN peacekeeping mission to Haiti leaves controversial legacy
(RTE Brainstorm, 2017-09-12)UN military peacekeepers are withdrawing from Haiti after 13 years. The mission (known as MINUSTAH) has been marred by controversy involving allegations of sexual abuse and human rights violations. Operations began in ... -
Uncovering semantic bias in neural network models using a knowledge graph
(ACM, 2020-10-19)While neural networks models have shown impressive performance in many NLP tasks, lack of interpretability is often seen as a disadvantage. Individual relevance scores assigned by post-hoc explanation methods are not ... -
Understanding Agility in Software Development through A Complex Adaptive Systems Perspective
(2009)Agile software development methods have emerged in recent years and have become increasingly popular since the start of the century. While much research claims to study agile methods, the meaning of agility itself in ... -
Understanding Contributor to Developer Turnover Patterns in OSS Projects: A Case Study of Apache Projects
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2014-01-19)OSS projects are dynamic in nature. Developers contribute to a project for a certain period of time and later leave the project or join other projects of high interest. Hence, the OSS community always welcomes members who ... -
Understanding eGovernment implementation from an NPM strategic reform perspective
(Association for Information Systems, 2010)New Public Management (NPM) is a set of private sector management principles which have had a significant impact in the shaping of policy reform agendas in many governments. This article seeks to understand the influence ... -
Understanding Linked Open Data as a Web-Scale Database
(2010)While Linked Open Data (LOD) has gained much attention in the recent years, requirements and the challenges concerning its usage from a database perspective are lacking. We argue that such a perspective is crucial for ... -
Understanding my city through dashboards. How hard can it be?
(International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government (JeDEM), 2019-09-02)This paper describes research into how current city dashboards support users' sensemaking processes. It uses criteria identified in previous research concerning visualisation and applies these to a number of city dashboards ... -
Understanding net benefits: a citizen-based perspective on e-government success
(2009)eGovernment promises more efficient services and a more responsive government. Despite substantial investment, increasing failure rates have prompted critics to argue that policy makers are not achieving this vision. ... -
Understanding the ethical requirement for parental consent when engaging youth in research
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Understanding the Maturity of Sustainable ICT
(Springer, 2012)Sustainable ICT (SICT) can develop solutions that offer benefits both internally in IT and across the extended enterprise. However, because the field is new and evolving, few guidelines and best practices are available. ... -
Understanding Youth Civic Engagement:Debates, discourses and lessons from practice
(Unesco Child and Family Research Centre, 2012)This paper outlines key definitions and typologies that help to distinguish youth civic engagement activities from other forms of youth activity. It identifies five discourses that create a rationale for youth civic ... -
UniStore: Querying a DHT-based Universal Storage
(2007)In recent time, the idea of collecting and combining large public data sets and services became more and more popular. The special characteristics of such systems and the requirements of the participants demand for ... -
Unsupervised deep language and dialect identification for short texts
(International Committee on Computational Linguistics, 2020-12)Automatic Language Identification (LI) or Dialect Identification (DI) of short texts of closely related languages or dialects, is one of the primary steps in many natural language processing pipelines. Language identification ...