... 18 Activity 3.2: Identifying SourcesofInformation
Exercise 1: Identifying SourcesofInformation
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Develop a list ofsourcesofinformation
1. Review the information in the Ferguson ... study.
2. In the following table, list examples for each source of information. You
will discuss your results in a class discussion.
Sources Examples
Artifacts
1.
2.
3.
4.
...
... it takes ……………to
make coal.
billions of years
millions of years
three millions of years
three billions of years
?
a
b
c
d
1. Ecology is the study of ………………
human beings and animals
the ... alternative resources
human beings and their
environment
?
a
b
c
d
Task 2.listen again to the last
Task 2.listen again to the last
part of the talk and write in the
part of the talk ... air, and water are renewable
resources because there is ……… Supply.
However, this definition may change if people
are not careful with these resources. The amount
of solar energy that reaches...
... alternative limited
unlimited sources energy fuels
We need energy to live and work. Our major source of (1)________
is oil. Oil is (2)___________ kind of fossil fuel. The amount of
fossil (3)_________ ...
must save it, and at the same time, we must find new sourcesof
energy. Geothermal heat and nuclear power are (5)____________
sources of energy. They can give us electricity. Other alternative ... is our major source of energy now?
2. How many sourcesof energy are mentioned in the
reading passage? Which one do you think has the
most potential?
Our major source of energy comes from...
... huge impacts on water resources and is implicated in the disloca-
tion of local communities. Proponents of biofuels, however, point out that while the
production of biofuels does require space, ... grown for biofuels are the most land- and water inten-
sive of the renewable energy sources. In 2005, about 12% of the nation’s corn crop
(covering 11 million acres (45,000 km
2
) of farmland) ... Major Types of Biofuels
(Solid, Liquid, and Gas)?
There are several common strategies of producing biofuels. Each strategy is derived
from growing an “energy crop.” This is a type of plant grown...
... Minimization of
Mutual Information
An important approach for independent component analysis (ICA) estimation, in-
spired by information theory, is minimization of mutual information.
The motivation of ... can be developed using
mutual information, which is a well-motivated information- theoretic measure of
statistical dependence.
One of the main utilities of mutual information is that it serves ... 10
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iteration count
mutual information
Fig. 10.1
The convergence of FastICA for ICs with uniform distributions. The value of
mutual information shown as function of iteration count.
10.5 EXAMPLES
Here...
... the null-hypothesis of the validity of the
instruments this test is distributed χ
2
with (J-K) degrees of freedom, where J is the number of
instruments and K the number of regressors. The second ... the
ratio of government expenditure to GDP as indicators of macroeconomic stability. We use the sum of
exports and imports as share of GDP and the black market premium to capture the degree of
openness ... path of economic progress by affecting the allocation of savings and not necessarily by
altering the saving rate. Thus, the Schumpeterian view of finance and development highlights the
impact of...
... of
their distributions with respect to a presumably
natural class called numericals. Supposing one
of a certain group of characters often occurs as
a neighbor to one of the other groups of ...
how knowing the sort of each character is use-
ful when tokenizing a string of characters into
a string of words and when assigning parts -of-
speech to them, and our method of clustering
characters ... set involving
tens of thousands of characters,
658
We also have c) the necessary decision-trees
for word-splitting and part -of- speech tagging,
each of which contains a set of questions about...
... presence of intensional substitution
failure is one of the important tests of a theory
of propositional attitudes. This mechanism is a
correlate of that of Thomason [1980], with the
addition of ... determine the meanings of the sentences
actually presented to the system.
Dynamic model-theoretic semantics allows the
evaluation of a formula to cause the addition of
information to the model. ... [Moran 19~0].
One of these effects occurs when the
information given by an element of the model is
expanded between the time when that element is
identified as the denotation of a sub-expression...
... teaspoonful of the solution of the chloride in a tumbler
of water, the bad odor of the teeth will be removed.
Rye Tooth Powder.—Rye contains carbonate of lime, carbonate of magnesia, oxide
of iron, ... pound of sweet almonds, one-quarter of a
pound of bread crumbs, one half a pint of spring water, one-half a pint of brandy, and
the yolks of two eggs. Pound the almonds with a few drops of vinegar ... Improve the Skin.—Take two ounces of Venice soap and dissolve it in two
ounces of lemon juice. Add one ounce of the oil of bitter almonds and a like quantity
of the oil of tartar. Mix the whole and...
... person of
a fair trial, information revealing the identity of a confidential source, information
needed to protect the safety of individuals, records of financial institutions, and
geographical information ... The Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act created the Office of Federal
Procurement Policy (OFPP). In 1979 OFPP set up the Federal Procurement
Data Center as a computerized repository of detailed ... resulting from the wide-
spread use of IT, and (4) facilitating the strategic management ofinformation resources
in government and nonprofit settings.
With the passage of IT-related legislation such...