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Drexel Researchers Will Develop Artificial Intelligence Technologies for Adult Learning and Online Education as Part of $220 Million NSF Initiative
Researchers in Drexel University's College of Computing & Informatics, who are studying artificial intelligence as a tool for teaching, have been selected to join a $220 million National Science Foundation initiative to expand the use of AI technology in areas ranging from agriculture and food supply chains to adult and online learning. Drexel's team will join AI researchers from around the country in an effort to use the technology to make education more accessible for Americans who are adapting to rapidly changing workplaces. The NSF's Adult Learning & Online Education (ALOE) Institute will be supported by $20 million over five years.
Heard Around Campus — July
Learn more about when TIAA will become Drexel's single retirement plan record keeper and how you can visit the Gateway Garden for fun activities with food, drinks and arts and crafts.
Deadline Approaches for Proof of Vaccination
A message to students, faculty and staff about the approaching deadline to submit proof of vaccination, reiterating the vaccine and masking policies and recommending that fully vaccinated people also wear masks inside University facilities due to the COVID-19 Delta variant circulating in Philadelphia.
New Grant Program to Support Paid Nonprofit Co-op Opportunities for Dragons
Forman Arts Initiative and Philadelphia Foundation have launched Arts Works, a $3 million grant program for local community-based organizations and emerging artists, with additional funds to support co-op positions at recipient organizations starting next year.
Drexel University and University of Arizona Partner for Collaborative Complementary and Integrative Health Degree and Certification
Drexel University's College of Nursing and Health Professions announced that it will offer a collaborative degree and certification program in Complimentary and Integrative Health with The Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine (AWCIM) at the University of Arizona starting Fall 2021. The Complementary and Integrative Health (CIH)/ Integrative Health or Wellness (IHW) Coaching Pathway Program is designed for qualified students who wish to pursue a Master of Science (MS) in Complementary and Integrative Health at Drexel, while concurrently pursuing an Integrative Health or Wellness Coaching certification from AWCIM.
Athletic Director Emeritus Reflects on 23 Years in College Athletics
Eric Zillmer, PsyD, shared some of what he saw and experienced during his run of more than 23 years at the helm of collegiate sports for the University — and what comes next.
Senior Vice President for University Communications Lori Doyle to Retire
Lori Doyle, who has successfully led university-wide communication efforts over the last decade, will retire effective Dec. 31.
Drexel Student Named Miss Philadelphia 2021
Elaine Ficarra, a rising third-year biology major and Pennoni Honors College student, earned the title of Miss Philadelphia after competition was postponed due to the pandemic last year, and placed third runner up at the Miss Pennsylvania competition in June.
Drexel Student Wins $25,000 Scholarship from Guy Fieri's 'Restaurant Reboot'
Fourth-year culinary arts student Charmaine Patterson received a $25,000 scholarship live on Guy Fieri's "Restaurant Reboot" on June 12. In this Q&A with DrexelNow, she reveals her hopes for fall term and the future as well as the hardships she and the food industry endured during the pandemic.
Drexel Medicine Resumes Management of Internal Medicine Practice and Student Health Center
The Drexel Internal Medicine practice at 219 North Broad Street and Drexel University's Student Health Center have rejoined the clinical practices of the College of Medicine. Previously managed by Tower Health Medical Group, the practices returned to Drexel effective July 1, which ensures continuation of these needed services and reflects Drexel's mission-driven approach to student and population health in Philadelphia.
50th Anniversary Celebration Honors WKDU's History of Engagement
As part of a week-long event already underway, student and alumni DJs are coming together to share and play music, and support to the student radio station's future.
COVID-19 Vaccine Policy, Procedures and Exemption Process
A July 12 message sent by Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer Megan Weyler detailed deadlines, procedures and resources for faculty and professional staff related to the return to campus.
Public Safety & U — July
In this month's feature, learn more about cool tips to avoid heat exhaustion and some of the services provided at the Drexel University Police Department's headquarters.
President John Fry To Serve As the CAA Representative on the NCAA Division I Board of Directors
Colonial Athletic Association Commissioner Joe D'Antonio has announced that Drexel University President John Fry has been selected as the Conference's representative on the NCAA Division I Board of Directors.
Eco-Passionate Students Find Outlet, Experience Through Climate and Sustainability Working Group
As plans for a centralized sustainability office at Drexel continue to formulate, students seeking climate and sustainability impact opportunities have found a home working with Drexel's cross-functional and interdisciplinary working group started last spring in conjunction with the University's "Climate Year" initiative.
Drexel Helps Set Climate Resilience Research Agenda for Philadelphia
A new collaboration between the University, Academy of Natural Sciences, City of Philadelphia, DVRPC and local organizations will ultimately create a research agenda to help make the region more climate resilient.
Becoming a Drexel Student Ambassador
DrexelNow followed rising second-year student Esta Jacob through her month-long training process to become a student ambassador, a paid campus position which helps the University grow and thrive through ambassador-led campus tours and their sharing of knowledge and personal experiences with prospective students.
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Locarno Voices: Good Manners and Le Fort des Fous
By Ela Bittencourt on September 1, 2017
Good Manners screens April 5 and April 6 at New Directors / New Films 2018.
Following the more realist Hard Labor, which premiered at Cannes in 2011, Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra's new fiction feature is a rapturous, at times freewheeling tale that mixes social drama, horror, and even a touch of musical. In Good Manners, rich white socialite Ana (Marjorie Estiano) moves to São Paulo, pregnant and alone. She hires the taciturn Clara (Isabél Zuaa), who is black, to be her live-in nanny once she gives birth. But when Ana develops mysterious symptoms—violent pain, sleepwalking, and a ravenous appetite for raw meat—what looks like a faintly moralistic tale of two women's budding love across class and racial divides turns into something much more complicated, and darkly fun.
"Our generation grew up on the video store, and I always found it funny that while the stores had all those genres [for foreign films]—horror, suspense, science-fiction, musical, even porn—our own cinema was always grouped as 'national,' as if we were undefined," Dutra said in an interview at this year's Locarno Festival, where Good Manners had its world premiere. "So now we have new Brazilian filmmakers who don't accept any limits and are very open to playing with genres."
Dutra cites a number of Brazilian films—Kleber Mendonça Filho's Neighboring Scenes and Green Vinyl, Davi Pretto's Rifle, Adirley Queiros's White Out, Black In and There Was Once Brazilia (which also premiered at Locarno in August)—as examples of how genre elements ranging from dream sequences to entire fantastical scenarios can enhance cinema's evocative power. In Rojas and Dutra's case, the genre link goes deep into film history: their inspirations range from Jacques Tourneur (particularly his Hollywood horror films, Cat People, I Walked with a Zombie, Night with the Demon, and A Leopard Man), Hitchcock, Mary Poppins, and Disney's fairytales.
"We watched his films with our art director and director of photography to see his aesthetic solutions. Particularly the shadows and the rhythms of his montage," Rojas says of Tourneur. Dutra adds: "His films had small budgets and so he needed to be very efficient. A shadow requires just an object and light. It isn't very complex to create phenomenal effects. Tourneur's films were also made in a studio, which gives them a sensation of artificiality and helps make his world seem detached from reality. This was very inspiring for us."
In Good Manners, as Ana's stomach swells and her nocturnal, subconscious aggression increases towards all living things, including Clara, the color palette darkens, from bluish grays to luscious indigoes and emerald-greens. By the time Ana delivers a monstrous werewolf-boy, Joel, the leap into fantasy is complete. To emphasize it, Rojas and Dutra use the classical Hollywood technique of matte painting. Delicately rendered by Brazilian artist Eduardo Schaal, portions of certain backdrops are painted by hand, creating an eerie, fable-like feel. Quaint instruments on the soundtrack, such as a harp combined with a flute and, in the end, a chorus, augment the ominous effect.
Good Manners might have ended there, on a Rosemary's Baby note. Yet Rojas and Dutra boldly skip the story ahead seven years, shifting the focus entirely to Clara as a surrogate mother to Joel and an embattled protective figure. As Clara slowly and painfully comes to terms with the boy's true nature despite all attempts to shield him from himself, she must confront her community's angry reaction to the boy—and by extension, at her.
"We always knew that conflict would be part of the film's structure. That is why we shift [the action] from São Paulo's Expanded Zone, which looks like Dubai, full of shiny new buildings, to the periphery. We want viewers to face Brazil's social abyss, with class and racial conflicts, and conservatism in politics. At the same time, our vision isn't entirely negative," Dutra said. Rojas adds: "In the end, our protagonists become conscious of who they truly are. They take a stand."
Indeed, by the film's conclusion, Clara and Joel fully reclaim their roles as outcasts and form a pact—not of blood but of profound empathy.
Le Fort des Fous
Narimane Mari's approach to cinema is straightforward yet ingenious: we cannot speak of the past without speaking about memory. And memory, for Mari, is an active intervention, an opportunity not just to recall the facts and events but also to reshape them.
This dialectic is in play in Mari's Le Fort des Fous ("Madmen's Fort"), a meditation on Algeria's violent colonialist past and on today's generalized, global strife. (Her first feature, Bloody Beans in 2013, was a response to other Algerian filmmakers struggling to deal with the past.) To organize a theme so vast, Mari breaks her film into three parts. In the first, she films young Algerian men she cast via Facebook on the grounds of her old school, which, ironically, was once the Algerian house of Charles de Gaulle; in the second, shot on a rocky dreamlike beach, she films a group of disparate acquaintances whom she has invited to a Greek island, to create an imaginary escapist commune for two weeks; and finally in the third, she interviews Greek political activists.
"My film is about power and domination, but also about transgression," Mari said in Locarno. Transgression is particularly important in the first part of Le Fort des Fous: the men play French colonial cadets who break up their training with trivial pursuits, such as taking pictures. "The French made a lot of propaganda pictures," Mari explains. "So I invented a story of a young man who transgressed by making selfies with both Algerians and the French, creating his own community. The boy's freedom is important; it shows his overturning order. My idea is that transgression is important, because you cannot stop it from happening."
While not directly linked, the film's second and third parts close the cycle of violence begun in part one with the war, while also revealing how transgression is reinterpreted in each social context. In the second part, Mari shares a utopian vision of escaping reality, while part three brings us face-to-face with the question of whether in today's world it is possible to turn a blind eye, or for how much longer the answers to the global crises can be postponed.
"My movie isn't violent, but our current political situation is," Mari said. "In my film, the activist I interview says, 'Peace is only for the people who have security.' He also says, 'What I want is not what I hope,' expressing the idea that sometimes war is necessary to destroy power. A lot of people don't want to listen to this sentence, because it's horrible. We can't hear it, because we want to stay safe. But can we stay safe?"
Mari has a keen visual sense that leans towards theatrical. Hence the first part, saturated with deep marine colors and drenched in scorching light, contains many memorable tableaux: portraits of young men, their crisp blue-red uniforms a vision out of a Delacroix painting. And then there are the more absurdist touches, such as when, in one scene, the trainees dance with the life-size stuffed dolls that they had just stuck their bayonets into in training. When a young woman stitches up these same dolls, they lie strewn about the floor like corpses.
The fragmentation and repurposing extends to the soundtrack. In part one, Mari uses snippets from colonialist speeches, whose sounds are scrambled to resemble gibberish (the text is readable in subtitles), and links them to more current ones by Nicolas Sarkozy and Emmanuel Macron that betray a colonialist mindset. "I use this discourse," Mari said, but then: "I want to remind ourselves that we are flesh, blood, eyes, and love. We possess the freedom not to be slaves of ideology, or order. That's part of my dream, tu vois?"
Le Fort des Fous walks a fine line between fiction and nonfiction. In one scene, the Algerian boys talk, while playing fictional soldiers, about polishing foreigners' shoes, the work they may very well take up today.
"My actors don't go to school. So my message is really to the Algerians: why aren't they in school? They want to learn," Mari said. "I always work with my actors outside the film. I want to know what they think. They tell me that the Europeans and Americans look at them as if they were terrorists, or garbage. They know humiliation."
As in Bloody Beans, there is an eerie sense of displacement in this scene—and in the entire film—between the past and present. In this sense, Algeria's woes emerge as devastatingly persistent. Yet while the Shakespearean notion of "Blood will have blood" could neatly express the decades of conflict expressed in Mari's two features and in the Greek activist's ominous prognostication for the world, there is a deep humanist hope that even most vicious cycles get broken.
Ela Bittencourt works as a critic and programmer in the U.S. and Brazil and is a member of the selection committee for It's All True International Documentary Film Festival.
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Hockey Hall of Famer meets Toronto podiatrist at baseball game - Toronto, Ontario Podiatrist - Sheldon H. Nadal D.P.M.
On the evening of July 6, 2013 I went to the SkyDome to see the Blue Jays play the Minnesota Twins.
It has been a disappointing season for Blue Jays fans, but tonight, in addition to watching the Blue Jays win, (for a change), I ran into one of my childhood heroes.
As I was walking up the stairs, to get an ice cream, I said hello to Shelly, a friend of mine who sits a few rows behind me. He was sitting with an older gentleman who looked vaguely familiar to me, but I could not place him.
As I was walking back to my seat, I noticed his hat and immediately realized who he was. I said hello to him, told him how much I admired him, and he was kind enough to let me take a picture with him.
He played on two different NHL teams, and according to Wikipedia, played on 8 Stanley Cup winners during his NHL career which began in 1947 and ended in 1967.
He entered the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1969.
He will turn 85 on July 27.
He played defence and centre.
Toronto hockey fans of a certain age (of which I am one) love him.
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/**
@file SoundSystem3D.h

Contiene la declaración del componente emisor de sonidos 3D. Puede contener más de un sonido.

@see Logic::SoundSystem3D
@see Logic::IComponent

@author Alberto Martínez
@date Marzo, 2015
*/

#ifndef __Logic_SoundSystem3D_H
#define __Logic_SoundSystem3D_H

#include "Logic/Entity/Component.h"
#include "Logic/Maps/EntityFactory.h"
#include "Logic/Entity/Entity.h"

namespace Sounds
{
	class CSound3D;
}

//declaración de la clase
namespace Logic
{
	class SoundSystem3D : public IComponent, public CEntityTransformListener
	{
		DEC_FACTORY(SoundSystem3D);
	public:

		/**
		Constructor por defecto; en la clase base no hace nada.
		*/
		SoundSystem3D();

		virtual ~SoundSystem3D();

		/**
		Inicialización del componente usando la descripción de la entidad que hay en
		el fichero de mapa.
		*/

		virtual bool OnSpawn(const Map::CEntity *entityInfo);

		virtual bool respawn(const Map::CEntity *entityInfo);

		virtual bool activate();

		virtual void deactivate();

		/**
		Método llamado en cada frame que actualiza el estado del componente.

		@param msecs Milisegundos transcurridos desde el último tick.
		*/
		virtual void onTick(unsigned int msecs);

		/**
		Este componente acepta mensajes de tipo PLAY, STOP, SET_PARAMETER.
		*/
		virtual bool accept(const std::shared_ptr<Logic::IMessage> &message);

		/**
		Procesamiento de mensajes
		*/
		virtual void process(const std::shared_ptr<Logic::IMessage> &message);

		///Método de escucha de la posicion de la entidad
		void OnEntitySetTransform(const Matrix4 &transform);

	protected:

		void setSoundTransform(const Matrix4 &transfomr);

		void play(const std::string &sound);

		void stop(const std::string &sound);

		void setParameter(std::string &sound, std::string &parameter, float value);

		std::vector<std::string> _startedSounds;

		std::vector<std::string> _soundsStrings;

		typedef std::map<std::string, Sounds::CSound3D*> TSoundMap;
		TSoundMap _sounds;

	}; // class SoundSystem

	REG_FACTORY(SoundSystem3D);

} // namespace Logic

#endif // __Logic_SoundSystem3D_H

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GAFAM and Industry : The Discrete Conquest Strategy
Marketing March 11, 2020
Relatively little publicized, the place of GAFAM in the industry of the future is already significant. Building on their strengths, these U.S. technology leaders have turned it into a strategic diversification strategy. At the risk of one day causing their dismantling for abuse of dominant position?
The observation is widely shared: the industry of the future – or industry 4.0 – will be the key to the competitiveness of tomorrow. This concept covers the rapid digitization of production tools, which takes place before our eyes, on a forced march. Clearly, the factory of the future performing will be the one that, by combining services and automation throughout the value chain, will master massive data management, distribution channels and all-round interconnection.
But who will be the masters? We think primarily of the traditional industrial partners of large industrial firms, the best placed, a priori, to deploy and accompany their customers towards this inevitable transformation driven by digital.
Nothing is less certain. Because if we think of big data, the applications of tomorrow driven by artificial intelligence, the networks of connected objects, the eyes begin to turn to the… GAFAM (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft), which are already well ahead in these areas. With technological resources and almost limitless financial power.
Therefore, it is tempting to look at their initiatives and their already acquired positions which, in order not to be as visible as those directly related to the Internet, are nevertheless already impressive.
For Google, Cloud Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian recently unveiled a strategy based on the systematic use of artificial intelligence to develop solutions for the industrial world. "We are not looking to replace existing logistics, supply chain or ERP solutions for which heavy investments have already been made, but to use our AI technologies to extract data much smarter solutions than existing ones," he said. Using the example of existing customers such as brewer AB InBev, which uses Google Cloud's iA to optimize its beer filtration processes. Or UPS managed, thanks to the same technologies, to reorganize in a few minutes a delivery fleet when a vehicle breaks down, whereas it used to take several hours. The new CEO of Google Cloud assures that the californian firm's cloud solution is gaining market share because it knows how to integrate Google's global expertise in artificial intelligence not only in its commercial offering but also Big Data from Machine Learning or even Analytics.
Considered one of the world's leading cloud computing drivers, with the AWS offering, Amazon is also making strong progress in the 4.0 industry market. "The industry is still collecting only a small amount of data that it could use to make production units more efficient," Amazon's CTO Werner Vogels said recently. And of course he gives as an example his own organization, such as fully automated control centers, to show the way forward, pointing out that an increasing number of industrial companies are moving away from internal servers to using the cloud Computing and related integrated management services.
In fact, last March, Volkswagen announced that it was choosing Amazon Web Services to collect real-time data from the automotive group's 122 global plants. Expected improvements include better analysis of market forecasts and trends, while Amazon's Machine Learning tools will help optimize plant equipment. In the long term, AWS is expected to enable VW to manage more than 30,000 sites and 1,500 suppliers and partners worldwide.
Dismantling or not?
A little more unexpected is the role that Apple also plays in the evolution towards industry 4.0. In 2017, the inventor of the iPhone entered into a global agreement with General Electric (GE) to develop new industry applications for GE's IoT platform in Apple's IOS environment. An alliance that goes far beyond the borders of the American industrial group since it has an impact on all its customers, whether in energy, chemistry or automotive. Apple has also entered into equivalent agreements with Cisco in the retail sector and with IBM (Mobile First for IOS), which is in application in several industrial sectors. The Apple-based firm has also allied itself with several enterprise software and service specialists, such as Salesforce and Accenture. As a result, the world's most discreetly, thousands of proprietary applications are now operational among some of the world's largest industrial companies. As Apple is also a specialist in big data, artificial intelligence and cloud computing, its diversification efforts in Industry 4.0 are far from complete.
Finally, contributions from Facebook and Microsoft (the latest letters of the acronym GAFAM) can also be mentioned, although they seem to have less impact, for now. The first relies on Nokia (acquired in 2013) to combine a cloud computing platform, Azure, which is an undeniable global success, with 5G communications services developed by the communications firm. BT, the UK telecoms operator, announced at the end of 2019 that it would be among the first users of such a platform.
For its part, Facebook focuses mainly on open source tools to accelerate the use of big data. Mark Zuckerberg's firm is also heavily involved in artificial intelligence, particularly in optimizing corporate data, including industry.
In total, while the efforts and positions of these different players are still relatively unseen, they have clearly decided to make it an important diversification axis for their future growth. How far will they go?
The market may not be the only justice of the peace. The new European Commissioner, Thierry Breton, while still PD-G of the ATos IT group, believed that GAFAM, capturing more and more value, would not escape one day to a stronger regulation than today. Without ruling out the spectre of dismantling, due to the creation of rents of situation falling under the American law against the abuse of dominant position.
From this point of view, however, the nearest example, which dates back to the 1990s, does not encourage optimism. While the U.S. Department of Justice sued Microsoft for such acts, the lawsuit ultimately resulted in only a measure restricting the publisher's monopoly power, now prohibiting PC manufacturers from denying access to other operating systems than Windows. A half-measure that has only paid off – that is, limiting Microsoft's omnipotence, thanks to the gradual decline of the PC…
Could the U.S. government one day be more aggressive towards GAFAM? Would Europe have equivalent means of coercion? Or, on the contrary, will the inevitable rise of Chinese actors equivalent to GAFAM dampen the ardour of Western governments?
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Alex Trebek's 'Jeopardy!' wardrobe donated to charity
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The story of 'Jeopardy!' host Alex Trebek
By Stephen Iervolino
Video by Chris Cirillo
Hundreds of pieces of clothing that made up the late Alex Trebek's wardrobe are being donated for a good cause.
The wardrobe articles from the late "Jeopardy!" host were donated to The Doe Fund, a charity that provides, "work, housing, vocational training, continuing education and comprehensive social services to underserved Americans with histories of addiction, homelessness and incarceration."
Trebek lost his battle against pancreatic cancer last November. He was 80.
MORE: Ken Jennings reflects on one of his final conversations with Alex Trebek
Much of the collection donated by his family and the quiz show -- 14 suits, 58 dress shirts, 300 neckties, 25 polo shirts, 14 sweaters, 9 sports coats, 9 pairs of dress shoes, 15 belts, 2 parkas and 3 pairs of dress slacks, specifically -- will be given to the organization's Ready, Willing and Able program.
The program provides clothing for those who need to look their best for job interviews. The donation came at the suggestion of Trebek's son, Matthew.
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Matthew Trebek and Jeopardy! Costumer, Steven Zimbelman, pack Alex Trebek's wardrobe for donation to The Doe Fund.
Trebek's widow, Jean, shared a note about the significance of the donation -- and Matthew's contributions -- on Tuesday.
"I sincerely appreciate my son, Matthew, and his great idea to donate his Dad's suits to @thedoefund," she wrote. "I had never heard about this amazing organization until Matt brought it to my attention… it truly is so wonderful. It warms my heart to know that Alex's suits will be donated to such an important cause."
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In a press release from "Jeopardy!" Productions, Mike Richards, the executive producer of the show, also shared, "During his last day on set, Alex extolled the virtues of everyone opening up their hands and their hearts to those who are suffering. Donating his wardrobe to those who are working to rebuild their lives is the perfect way to begin to honor that last request."
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Harriet McDonald, president of The Doe Fund, expressed how useful Trebek's donation will be in another statement.
"We are so grateful for Jeopardy! and the Trebek family's commitment to lifting up the most vulnerable among us," she shared. "The men in our career training programs are always in need of professional attire, so they can shine in their job interviews and work with confidence once they're hired..."
Trainees from The Doe Fund's "Ready, Willing & Able" program, (r-l) Michael Smith, Joseph Calhoun and George Thomas, receive donated wardrobe items worn by the late Alex Trebek.
Grieving the recent loss of her husband and the founder of the charity, George McDonald, Harriet McDonald also noted, "This generous gift honors the legacies of both men, and I know they're smiling down on us."
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places and things that are cleansed, pure, clear, and untainted.
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than October 1, you'll be preparing to glide back into Stage 1 again.
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objective perspective about them and treat them with respect.
seemingly irrational impulses, or weird fantasies that arise in you.
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Home News Gold Gold Fields' shares expected to lag until management vacuum filled say analysts
Gold Fields' shares expected to lag until management vacuum filled say analysts
SHARES in Gold Fields are forecast to underperform owing to management and strategic uncertainty following the shock resignation of CEO since April 2021, Chris Griffith last year.
Martin Preece, GM of the firm's South Deep mine, is the interim CEO until a replacement is found – a process that could take up to six months, according to Gold Fields chairman, Yunus Suleman.
The company will also lose a significant portion of its executive team with heads of legal and strategy expected to follow through on earlier decisions to resign. The vacuum in senior skills from April adds "another layer of strategic uncertainty at the firm," said analysts at RMB Morgan Stanley in a report last year.
Griffith left the company following the failure to secure the takeover of Yamana Gold. Suleman said Griffith had decided to take the failure on the chin and enable Gold Fields to move on.
"We expect this development to create uncertainty that would weigh on the valuation until the CEO role has been filled on a permanent basis," said Arnold van Graan, an analyst at Nedbank Securities. He advised clients to prefer shares in AngloGold Ashanti until Gold Fields' future was clearer.
AngloGold itself spent part of 2021 without a full time CEO following the surprise resignation of Kelvin Dushnisky. During that time, shares in the company heavily underperformed the market. AngloGold also received an informal approach from Sibanye-Stillwater regarding a possible three-way tie up that included Gold Fields.
Is Gold Fields in play? "I don't think so," said Suleman last year. "We are comfortable there won't be any gap in the strategy. In essence, we are in a strong position; we have a strong board and a strong executive team; and the company is performing very well," he said.
"Can anyone really buy Gold Fields," said Jamie Sherman, a portfolio manager at Kite Lake Capital Management in the UK. "The government will hate the deal and the buyer will inherit a ton of South African political risk, not only from the listing but from a deep mine (South Deep)," he said.
Shares in Gold Fields are 8.7% higher since Griffith announced his resignation on December 13, largely in response to the gold price which is 3.5% higher on the same period. In comparison though, shares in AngloGold Ashanti and Newmont are 11% and 11.7% higher respectively since December. Shares in Barrick Gold are a shade higher than Gold Fields, gaining some 9% since December 13.
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A complete, functional, fast and simple Node.js threading module.

`safe-instances` was developed by Oratio.io for Oratio.js's Module System.
It's based on children pools, allowing you to

**NOTE:** With release 2.0, sending file names when doing `new Child()` is **DEPRECATED**. You must do `new ChildFile()`, as explained in the quick-start tutorial.

# Installation

`npm install safe-instances`

# Getting Started

``` javascript
var Child = require('safe-instances');
var pool = new Child.Pool(3); //Creates pool with 3 processes

var child = new Child('process.handle("randomMessage", function(value, callback){ callback(value) })', pool, 3 * 60);
child.start();

child.contact('randomMessage', 'myValue') //NOTE: You might pass a third callback argument, too.
.then(function(value){
  console.log(value); //<- "myValue"
});
```

Need to send file locations instead of strings when creating new script? Do:

``` javascript
var Child = require('safe-instances');
Child.File.usesCache = false; //Default: true. Caches scripts for being re-used.

var child = new Child.File(__dirname + 'script.js', 3 * 60);
child.start();
[...]
```

# API Documentation

## Child properties
### Child.Adapter
Adapter for child.

### Child.logs
Boolean. Default: `true`. If the `console.log`s running on the child process appear on the parent process, too.

### Child.allowsRequire
Boolean. Default: `false`. If `require()`s are allowed in the child process. Only accept this if the source is trustable.

## `new Child(code, pool, timeout)`

### Child#start()
Function for starting children.

### Child#timeout
Returns timeout passed on start. Can be changed, but only before `Child#start()` is called.

### Child#code
Returns code passed as the first argument. Can be changed, but only before `Child#start()` is called.

### Child#kill(signal)
Kills child process. A new process is automagically created by the pool.

### Child#contact(handler, message)
Return Promise.
Contacts child. Example:
``` javascript
// Parent
child.contact('database query', 'SELECT * FROM Table')
.then(function(rows){
  console.log(rows); //Yay! Did a query in a child process!
}).catch(function(error){
  console.error(error); //Query error.
});

//Child
process.handle('database query', function(argument){
  return db.query(argument); //Can even be synchronous, we're on a child process.
});
```
Please note that if there's a fatal contact failure, an error will be actually thrown, so there's no need to handle `safe-instances` errors in the returned promise.

## `Child.File(location, pool, timeout)`
Shares API with `Child`. Getting Started guide already covers everything.


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\section{Introduction}

Weighted finite-state automata provide a compact representation of hypotheses in speech recognition and text processing applications \citep[e.g.,][]{Mohri1997b,Mohri2002a,RoarkSproat2007,FSTP}.
Under a wide set of assumptions,
weighted finite-state lattices allow for efficient polynomial-time decoding via shortest-path algorithms \citep{Mohri2002b}.
However, when weights of a lattice are defined over non-idempotent semirings,
there is no guarantee that a shortest path exists.
However, in non-idempotent semirings admitting an order satisfying a monotonicity condition,
the notion of \emph{shortest string}
is well-defined.
We show below that it is still possible to efficiently determine the shortest string for such lattices.
This study proposes a simple algorithm which finds the shortest string of automata over non-idempotent monotonic negative semirings such as the plus-times and log semirings.
The algorithm uses shortest-path search with the A*~queue discipline \citep{Hart1968}
and \say{on the fly} determinization \citep{Mohri1997b}.
After providing definitions and the algorithm,
we describe an implementation and evaluate it using speech recognizer word lattices.

\section{Definitions}

Before we introduce the algorithm we provide brief definitions of key notions.

\subsection{Semirings}

Weighted automata algorithms operate with respect to an algebraic system known as a \emph{semiring}, defined by the combination of two \emph{monoids}.

\begin{definition}
A \emph{monoid} is a pair $(\ensuremath{\mathbb{K}}, \bullet)$
where $\ensuremath{\mathbb{K}}$ is a set
and $\bullet$ is a binary operator over $\ensuremath{\mathbb{K}}$
with the following properties:
\begin{enumerate}
\item \emph{closure}: $\forall a, b \in \ensuremath{\mathbb{K}} : a \bullet b \in \ensuremath{\mathbb{K}}$,
\item \emph{associativity}: $\forall a, b, c \in \ensuremath{\mathbb{K}} : (a \bullet b) \bullet c = a \bullet (b \bullet c)$, and
\item \emph{identity}: $\exists e \in \ensuremath{\mathbb{K}} : e \bullet a = a \bullet e = a$.
\end{enumerate}
\end{definition}

\begin{definition}
A monoid is \emph{commutative} in the case that $\forall a, b \in \ensuremath{\mathbb{K}} : a \bullet b = b \bullet a$.
\end{definition}

\begin{definition}
\label{d:semiring}
A semiring is a five-tuple $(\ensuremath{\mathbb{K}}, \oplus, \otimes, \ensuremath{\bar{0}}, \ensuremath{\bar{1}})$ such that:
\begin{enumerate}
\item $(\ensuremath{\mathbb{K}}, \oplus)$ is a commutative monoid with identity element $\ensuremath{\bar{0}}$,
\item $(\ensuremath{\mathbb{K}}, \otimes)$ is a monoid with identity element $\ensuremath{\bar{1}}$,
\item $\forall a, b, c \in \ensuremath{\mathbb{K}} : a \otimes (b \oplus c) = (a \otimes b) \oplus (a \otimes c)$, and
\item $\forall a \in \ensuremath{\mathbb{K}} : a \otimes \ensuremath{\bar{0}} = \ensuremath{\bar{0}} \otimes a = \ensuremath{\bar{0}}$.
\end{enumerate}
\end{definition}

\begin{definition}
A semiring is \emph{zero-sum-free} if non-\ensuremath{\bar{0}}~elements cannot sum to \ensuremath{\bar{0}};
that is, $\forall a, b \in \ensuremath{\mathbb{K}} : a \oplus b \implies a = b = \ensuremath{\bar{0}}$.
\end{definition}

\begin{definition}
A semiring is \emph{idempotent} if $\oplus$ is idempotent;
that is, $\forall a \in \ensuremath{\mathbb{K}} : a \oplus a = a$.
\label{d:idempotent}
\end{definition}

\begin{definition}
A semiring has the \emph{path property} if  $\forall a, b \in \ensuremath{\mathbb{K}} : a \oplus b \in \{a, b\}$.
\label{d:path}
\end{definition}

\begin{remark}
If a semiring has the path property it is also idempotent.
\end{remark}

\begin{definition}
The \emph{natural order} of an idempotent semiring is a boolean operator $\preceq$
such that $\forall a, b \in \ensuremath{\mathbb{K}} : a \preceq b$ if and only if $a \oplus b = a$.
\end{definition}

\begin{remark}
In a semiring with the path property, the natural order is a \emph{total} order.
That is, $\forall a, b \in \ensuremath{\mathbb{K}}$, either $a \preceq b$ or $b \preceq a$.
\end{remark}

\begin{definition}
A semiring is \emph{monotonic} if $\forall a, b, c \in \ensuremath{\mathbb{K}}$, $ a \preceq b$ implies:
\begin{enumerate}
\item $a \oplus c \preceq b \oplus c$,
\item $a \otimes c \preceq b \otimes c$, and
\item $c \otimes a \preceq c \otimes b$.
\end{enumerate}
\end{definition}

\begin{definition}
A semiring is \emph{negative} if $\ensuremath{\bar{1}} \preceq \ensuremath{\bar{0}}$.
\end{definition}

\begin{remark}
In a monotonic negative semiring, $\forall a, b \in \ensuremath{\mathbb{K}} : a \preceq \ensuremath{\bar{0}}$
and $a \oplus b \preceq b$.
\end{remark}

Some examples of monotonic negative semirings are given in \autoref{t:semirings}.

\begin{table*}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{l r cccccc}
\toprule
            && $\ensuremath{\mathbb{K}}$                         & $\oplus$        & $\otimes$ & $\ensuremath{\bar{0}}$   & $\ensuremath{\bar{1}}$ & $\preceq$ \\
\midrule
Plus-times  && $\ensuremath{\mathbb{R}_+}$                          & $+$             & $\times$  & $0$       & $1$    & $\geq$ \\
Max-times   && $\ensuremath{\mathbb{R}_+}$                          & $\max$          & $\times$  & $0$       & $1$    & $\geq$ \\
Log         && $\ensuremath{\mathbb{R}} \cup \{-\infty, +\infty\}$ & $\oplus_{\log}$ & $+$       & $+\infty$ & $0$    & $\leq$ \\
Tropical    && $\ensuremath{\mathbb{R}} \cup \{-\infty, +\infty\}$ & $\min$          & $+$       & $+\infty$ & $0$    & $\leq$ \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\caption{Common monotonic negative semirings; $a \oplus_{\log} b = -\ln(e^{-a}+ e^{-b})$.}
\label{t:semirings}
\end{table*}

\begin{definition}
The \emph{companion semiring} of a monotonic negative semiring $(\ensuremath{\mathbb{K}}, \oplus, \otimes, \ensuremath{\bar{0}}, \ensuremath{\bar{1}})$ with a total order $\preceq$ is the semiring $(\ensuremath{\mathbb{K}}, \widehat{\oplus}, \otimes, \ensuremath{\bar{0}}, \ensuremath{\bar{1}})$ where $\widehat{\oplus}$ is the minimum binary operator for $\preceq$:

\begin{equation*}
    a~\widehat{\oplus}~b = \begin{cases}
        a & \textrm{if } a \preceq b \\
        b & \textrm{otherwise} \\
    \end{cases}
\end{equation*}
\end{definition}

\begin{remark}
The max-times and tropical semirings are companion semirings to the plus-times
and log semirings, respectively.
\end{remark}

\begin{remark}
By construction a companion semiring has the path property and natural order $\preceq$.
\end{remark}

\subsection{Weighted finite-state acceptors}

Without loss of generality,
we consider single-source $\epsilon$-free weighted finite-state acceptors.%
\footnote{
    The definition provided here can easily be generalized to automata with multiple initial states,
    with initial or final weights,
    or with $\epsilon$-transitions
    (e.g., \citealp[~ch.~1]{RoarkSproat2007},
    \citealp{Mohri2009},
    \citealp[~ch.~1]{FSTP}).
}

\begin{definition}
A \emph{weighted finite-state acceptor} (WFSA) is defined by a five-tuple
$(Q, s, \ensuremath{\Sigma}, \omega, \delta)$
and a semiring $(\ensuremath{\mathbb{K}}, \oplus, \otimes, \ensuremath{\bar{0}}, \ensuremath{\bar{1}})$
where:

\begin{enumerate}
\item $\ensuremath{Q}$ is a finite set of states,
\item $s \in \ensuremath{Q}$ is the \emph{initial state},
\item $\ensuremath{\Sigma}$ is the \emph{alphabet},
\item $\omega \subseteq \ensuremath{Q} \times \ensuremath{\mathbb{K}}$ is the \emph{final weight function}, and
\item $\delta \subseteq \ensuremath{Q} \times \ensuremath{\Sigma} \times \ensuremath{\mathbb{K}} \times \ensuremath{Q}$
is the \emph{transition relation}.
\end{enumerate}
\end{definition}

\begin{definition}
An WFSA is \emph{acyclic} if there exists a \emph{topological ordering},
an ordering of the states such that if there is a transition from state $q$ to $r$
where $q, r \in \ensuremath{Q}$, then $q$ is ordered before $r$.
Otherwise, the WFSA is \emph{cyclic}.
\end{definition}

\begin{definition}
A WFSA is \emph{deterministic} if,
for each state $q \in \ensuremath{Q}$,
there is at most one transition with a given label $z \in \Sigma$ from that state,
and \emph{non-deterministic} otherwise.
\end{definition}

\begin{remark}
For every non-deterministic, acyclic WFSA (or NFA)
over a zero-sum-free semiring,
there exists an equivalent deterministic WFSA (henceforth, a DFA).
However, a DFA may be exponentially larger than an equivalent NFA.
\end{remark}

\autoref{f:motivating} gives an example of an NFA and an equivalent DFA.

\begin{figure*}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{l c l}
\includegraphics[width=.2\linewidth]{figures/motivating.png} && \includegraphics[width=.21\linewidth]{figures/motivating-determinized.png}
\end{tabular}
\caption{
State diagrams showing a weighted NFA (left) and an equivalent DFA (right).
}
\label{f:motivating}
\end{figure*}

\subsection{Shortest distance}

\begin{definition}
A state $q \in \ensuremath{Q}$ is \emph{final} if $\omega(q) \ne \ensuremath{\bar{0}}$.
\end{definition}

\begin{definition}
Let $F = \{q \mid \omega(q) \ne \ensuremath{\bar{0}}\}$ denote the set of final states.
\end{definition}

\begin{definition}
A \emph{path} through an acceptor $p$ is a triple consisting of:

\begin{enumerate}
\item a {state sequence} $q[p] = q_1, q_2, \ldots, q_n, \in \ensuremath{Q}^n$,
\item a {weight sequence} $k[p] = k_1, k_2, \ldots, k_n \in \ensuremath{\mathbb{K}}^n$, and
\item a {string} $z[p] = z_1, z_2 \ldots, z_n \in \ensuremath{\Sigma}^{n}$.
\end{enumerate}
subject to the constraint that $\forall i \in [1, n] : (q_i, z_i, k_i, q_{i + 1}) \in \delta$.
\end{definition}

\noindent
That is, each transition from $q_i$ to $q_{i + 1}$
must have label $z_i$ and weight $k_i$.

\begin{definition}
Let $P_{q \rightarrow r}$ be the set of all paths from $q$ to $r$ where $q, r \in \ensuremath{Q}$.
\end{definition}

\begin{definition}
The \emph{forward shortest distance} $\alpha \subseteq \ensuremath{Q} \times \ensuremath{\mathbb{K}}$ is a partial function from a state $q \in \ensuremath{Q}$ that gives the $\oplus$-sum of the $\otimes$-product of the weights of all paths from the initial state $s$ to $q$:

\begin{equation*}
\alpha(q) = \bigoplus_{
p \in P_{s \rightarrow q}} \bigotimes_{k_i \in k[p]} k_i  .
\end{equation*}
\end{definition}

\begin{definition}
The \emph{backwards shortest distance} $\beta \subseteq \ensuremath{Q} \times \ensuremath{\mathbb{K}}$ is a partial function from a state $q \in \ensuremath{Q}$  that gives the $\oplus$-sum of $\otimes$-product of the weights of all paths from
$q$ to a final state, including the final weight of that final state:

\begin{equation*}
\beta(q) = \bigoplus_{f \in F} \left( \bigoplus_{p \in P_{q \rightarrow f}} \bigotimes_{k_i \in k[p]} k_i \otimes \omega(f) \right).
\end{equation*}
\end{definition}

\begin{definition}
The \emph{total shortest distance} through an automaton
is given by $\beta(s)$.
\end{definition}

\subsection{Shortest path}

\begin{definition}
A path is \emph{complete} if
\begin{enumerate}
\item $(s, z_1, k_1, q_1) \in \delta$, and
\item $q_n \in F$.
\end{enumerate}
\end{definition}

\noindent
That is, a complete path must also begin with an arc from the initial state $s$ to $q_1$ with label $z_1$ and weight $k_1$, and halt in a final state.

\begin{definition}
The weight of a complete path is given by the $\otimes$-product of its weight sequence and its final weight

\begin{equation*}
\bar{k} = \left(\bigotimes_{k_i \in k[p]} k_i \right) \otimes \omega(q_n).
\end{equation*}
\end{definition}

\begin{definition}
A \emph{shortest path} through an automaton is
a complete path whose weight is equal to the total shortest distance $\beta(s)$.
\end{definition}

Note that automata over non-idempotent semirings need not have a shortest path as defined here
\citep[322]{Mohri2002b}.
Consider for example the NFA shown in the left side of \autoref{f:motivating}.
Let us assume that $k \oplus k \preceq k < k'$.
Then, the total shortest distance is $k \oplus k$ but the shortest path is $k$.
Definitionally, a non-idempotent semiring does not guarantee these two weights will be equal.
In that case, no shortest path exists because no complete path with the weight of the total shortest distance exists.

\begin{remark}
It is generally impossible to find the shortest path efficiently over non-monotonic semirings.%
\footnote{
    See \citet{Mohri2002b} for general conditions under which the shortest path can be found in polynomial time.
}
\end{remark}

\subsection{Shortest string}

\begin{definition}
Let $P_z$ be a set of paths with string $z \in \Sigma^*$,
and let the weight of $P_z$ be

\begin{equation*}
\sigma(z) = \bigoplus_{p \in P_z} \bar{k}[p] .
\end{equation*}
\end{definition}

\begin{definition}
A \emph{shortest string} $z$ is one such that $\forall z' \in \Sigma^*, \sigma(z) \preceq \sigma(z')$.
\end{definition}

\begin{lemma}
In an idempotent semiring, a shortest path's string is also a shortest string.
\end{lemma}

\begin{proof}
Let $p$ be a shortest path. By definition, $\bar{k}[p] \preceq \bar{k}[p']$ for all complete paths $p'$. It follows that $\forall z' \in \Sigma^* :
\sigma(z[p]) = \bigoplus_{p \in P_z} \bar{k}[p] \preceq \sigma(z'[p']) = \bigoplus_{p' \in P_z} \bar{k}[p']$ so $z[p]$ is the shortest string.
\end{proof}

\begin{lemma}
\label{lem:shortest-string-det}
In a DFA over a monotonic semiring, a shortest string is the string of a shortest path in that DFA viewed as an WFSA over the corresponding companion semiring.
\end{lemma}

\begin{proof}
Determinism implies that for all complete path $p'$, $\bar{k}[p'] = \sigma(z[p'])$.
Let $z$ be the shortest string in the DFA and $p$ the unique path admitting the string $z$.
Then $\bar{k}[p] = \sigma(z) \preceq \sigma(z[p']) = \bar{k}[p']$ for any complete path $p'$.
Hence $\bar{k}[p] = \widehat{\bigoplus}_{p' \in P_{s \rightarrow F}} \bar{k}[p']$.
Thus $p$ is a shortest path in the DFA viewed over the companion semiring.
\end{proof}

\subsection{A*~search}

A*~search \citep{Hart1968} is a common \emph{shortest-first} search strategy for computing the shortest path in a WFSA over an idempotent semiring.
It can be thought of as a variant of \citeauthor{Dijkstra1959}'s (\citeyear{Dijkstra1959}) algorithm, in which exploration is guided by a shortest-first priority queue discipline.
At every iteration, the algorithm explores the state $q$ which minimizes $\alpha(q)$, the shortest distance from the initial state $s$ to $q$, until all states have been visited.
In A*~search, priority is instead a function of $\digamma \subseteq \ensuremath{Q} \times \ensuremath{\mathbb{K}}$, known as the \emph{heuristic}, which gives an estimate of the weight of paths from some state to a final state.
At every iteration, A*~instead explores the state $q$ which minimizes $\alpha(q) \otimes \digamma(q)$.%
\footnote{
    One can thus consider \citeauthor{Dijkstra1959}'s algorithm
    a special case of A*~search with the uninformative heuristic $\digamma = \ensuremath{\bar{1}}$.
}

\begin{definition}
An A*~heuristic is \emph{admissible}
if it never overestimates the shortest distance to a state.
That is, it is admissible if $\forall q \in Q : \digamma(q) \preceq \beta(q)$.
\end{definition}

\begin{definition}
An A*~heuristic is \emph{consistent}
if it never overestimates the cost of reaching a successor state.
That is, it is consistent if $\forall q, r \in Q$ such that $\digamma(q) \preceq k \otimes \digamma(r)$ if $(q, z, k, r) \in \delta$,
i.e., if there is a transition from $q$ to $r$ with some label $z$ and weight $k$.
\end{definition}

\begin{remark}
\label{rem:astar}
If $\digamma$ is \emph{admissible} and \emph{consistent},
A*~search is guaranteed to find a shortest path (if one exists) after visiting all states such that $\digamma[q] \preceq \beta[s]$ \citep[104f.]{Hart1968}.
\end{remark}

\section{The algorithm}

Consider an acyclic, $\epsilon$-free WFSA over a monotonic negative semiring $(\ensuremath{\mathbb{K}}, \oplus, \otimes, \ensuremath{\bar{0}}, \ensuremath{\bar{1}})$ with total order $\preceq$ for which we wish to find the shortest string.
The same WFSA can also be viewed as a WFSA over the corresponding companion semiring $(\ensuremath{\mathbb{K}}, \widehat{\oplus}, \otimes, \ensuremath{\bar{0}}, \ensuremath{\bar{1}})$,
and we denote by $\widehat{\beta}$ the backward shortest-distance over this companion semiring.
We prove two theorems, and then introduce an algorithm for search.

\begin{theorem}
The backwards shortest distance of an WFSA over a monotonic negative semiring is an admissible heuristic for the A*~search over its companion semiring.
\end{theorem}

\begin{proof}
In a monotonic negative semiring, the $\oplus$-sum of any $n$ terms is upper-bounded by each of the $n$ terms and hence by the $\widehat{\oplus}$-sum of these $n$ terms. It follows that:
\begin{equation*}
    \digamma(q) = \beta(q) = \bigoplus_{p \in P_{q \rightarrow F}} \bar{k}[p]
                \preceq \widehat{\bigoplus_{p \in P_{q \rightarrow F}}} \bar{k}[p]
                = \widehat{\beta}(q),
\end{equation*}
showing that $\digamma = \beta$ is an admissible heuristic for $\widehat{\beta}$.
\end{proof}

\begin{theorem}
The backwards shortest distance of an WFSA over a monotonic negative semiring is a consistent heuristic for the A*~search over its companion semiring.
\end{theorem}

\begin{proof}
Let $(q, z, k, r)$ be a transition in $\delta$. Leveraging again the property that an $\oplus$-sum of any $n$ terms is upper-bounded by any of these terms, we show that
\begin{equation}
 \digamma(q) = \beta(q) = \bigoplus_{p \in P_{q \rightarrow F}} \bar{k}[p] = \bigoplus_{(q, z', k', r') \in \delta} k' \otimes \beta(r') \preceq k \otimes \beta(r) =
 k \otimes \digamma(r)
\end{equation}
showing that $\digamma = \beta$ is a consistent heuristic.
\end{proof}

Having established that this is an admissible and consistent heuristic for A*~search over the companion semiring,
a naïve algorithm then suggests itself following Lemma~\ref{lem:shortest-string-det} and Remark~\ref{rem:astar}.
Given a non-deterministic WFSA over the monotonic negative semiring $(\ensuremath{\mathbb{K}}, \oplus, \otimes, \ensuremath{\bar{0}}, \ensuremath{\bar{1}})$, apply determinization to obtain an equivalent DFA,
compute $\beta_d$, the backwards shortest distance over the resulting DFA over $(\ensuremath{\mathbb{K}}, \oplus, \otimes, \ensuremath{\bar{0}}, \ensuremath{\bar{1}})$ and then perform A*~search over the companion semiring using $\beta_d$ as the heuristic.
However, determinization has an exponential worse-case complexity in time and space and is often prohibitive in practice.
Yet determinization%
---and the computation of elements of $\beta_d$---%
only need to be performed for states actually visited by A*~search.
Let $\beta_n$ denote backwards shortest distance over a non-deterministic WFSA over the monotonic negative semiring $(\ensuremath{\mathbb{K}}, \oplus, \otimes, \ensuremath{\bar{0}}, \ensuremath{\bar{1}})$.
Then, the algorithm is as follows.

\begin{enumerate}
\item Compute $\beta_n$ over $(\ensuremath{\mathbb{K}}, \oplus, \otimes, \ensuremath{\bar{0}}, \ensuremath{\bar{1}})$.
\item Lazily determinize the WFSA, lazily computing $\beta_d$ from $\beta_n$ over $(\ensuremath{\mathbb{K}}, \oplus, \otimes, \ensuremath{\bar{0}}, \ensuremath{\bar{1}})$.
\item Perform A*~search for the shortest string using $\beta_d$ as the heuristic over $(\ensuremath{\mathbb{K}}, \widehat{\oplus}, \otimes, \ensuremath{\bar{0}}, \ensuremath{\bar{1}})$.
\end{enumerate}

\section{Evaluation}

We evaluate the proposed algorithm using non-idempotent speech recognition lattices.

\subsection{Data}

We search for the shortest string in a sample of 700 word lattices derived from Google Voice Search traffic.
This data set was previously used by \citet{Mohri2015} and \citet[ch.~4]{FSTP} for evaluating related WFSA algorithms.
Each path in these lattices is a single hypothesis transcription produced by a production-grade automatic speech recognizer, here treated as a black box.
The exact size of each input lattice size is determined by a probability threshold,
so paths with probabilities below a certain threshold have been pruned.
These lattices are acyclic, $\epsilon$-free, on-deterministic WFSAs over the log semiring, a non-idempotent semiring.

\subsection{Implementation}

The above algorithm is implemented as part of OpenGrm-BaumWelch,
an open-source C++17 library released under the Apache-2.0 license.%
\footnote{
   \url{https://baumwelch.opengrm.org}
}
This toolkit includes \texttt{baumwelchdecode},
a command-line tool which implements the above algorithm over the log semiring,
using the tropical semiring as a companion semiring.
This implementation depends in turn on implementations of determinization, shortest distance, and shortest path algorithms provided by OpenFst \citep{Allauzen2007}.
This command-line tool, along with various OpenFst command-line utilities, were used to conduct the following experiment.

\subsection{Method}

We compute the number of states in the non-deterministic (NFA) lattice,
the number of states in an equivalent DFA lattice---created by applying weighted determinization as implemented by OpenFst's \texttt{fstdeterminize} command---and the number of DFA states visited during A*~search as implemented by \texttt{baumwelchdecode}.

\subsection{Results}

Results are shown in \autoref{f:nfa}.
The relationship between the size of the NFA and the number of DFA states visited by the proposed decoding method appears roughly monomial (i.e., log-log linear).
The experiment was repeated by performing weighted determinization on each of the NFA lattices beforehand,
which produces roughly a factor-of-seven increase in the size of the lattice.
Since the increase in state size associated with full determinization is itself linear,
a monomial relation also holds between the size of the DFA and the number of DFA states visited by A*~search.
From these results we infer that the heuristic substantially reduces the number of DFA states visited,
and thus the degree of determinization required,
compared to the naïve algorithm.

\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics{figures/nfa.png}
\caption{Word lattice decoding with the proposed algorithm.
The $x$-axis shows the number of states in each word lattice NFA; the $y$-axis shows the number of states visited by A*~decoding.
Both axes are log scale.}
\label{f:nfa}
\end{figure}

\section{Related work}

\citet{MohriRiley2002} describe a related algorithm for finding the $n$-best strings over an idempotent finite-state automaton.
Much like the algorithm proposed here, they use A*~search and on-the-fly determinization;
however, they do not consider decoding over non-idempotent semirings.

\section{Conclusions}

We propose a algorithm which allows for efficient shortest string decoding of weighted automata over non-idempotent semirings
using A*~search and on-the-fly determinization.
We find that A*~search results in a substantial reduction in the number of DFA states visited during decoding,
which in turn minimizes the degree of determinization required to find the shortest path.

We envision many applications for the proposed algorithm.
For instance, it can be used exact decoding of lattices scored with interpolated language models \citep[e.g.,][]{JelinekMercer1980}.

\section*{Acknowledgments}

Thanks to Michael Riley, Brian Roark, and Jeffrey Sorensen for discussion and code review.

\bibliographystyle{apalike}

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Q: pyParsing Evaluating Expression After going through several examples of pyparsing and posts from this site, i managed to write the code that will parse the expressions exactly the way i wanted. But now i m stuck with how to evaluate it, and hence seeking your help here.
So when i give this string:  "(Number(3) > Number(5)) AND (Time(IST) < Number(1030))"
the parse will output me:
[[[['Number', [3]], '>', ['Number', [5]]], 'AND', [['Time', ['IST']], '<', ['Number', [1030]]]]]
Number is a custom function that takes int input and returns int.
Time is a custom function that takes string input and returns current system time as int.
Like this i will have many custom functions which will take some inputs and return values.
So can someone please help me to evaluate the parsed out put, so finally I should get a True or a False as final result ?
Here is the copy of my python script:
from pyparsing import (
    CaselessKeyword,Suppress,Word,alphas,alphanums,nums,Optional,Group,oneOf,Forward,infixNotation,
    opAssoc,dblQuotedString,delimitedList,Combine,Literal,QuotedString,ParserElement,Keyword,
    OneOrMore,pyparsing_common as ppc,
)

ParserElement.enablePackrat()

LPAR, RPAR = map(Suppress, "()")

expr = Forward()

alps = Word(alphas, alphanums)

def stat_function(name):
    return (
        Group(CaselessKeyword(name) + Group(LPAR + delimitedList(expr) + RPAR)) |
        Group(CaselessKeyword(name) + Group(LPAR + delimitedList(alps) + RPAR))
    )

timeFunc = stat_function("Time")
dateFunc = stat_function("Date")
numFunc  = stat_function("Number")
funcCall = timeFunc | dateFunc | numFunc

Compop = oneOf("< = > >= <= != <>")

multOp = oneOf("* /")
addOp = oneOf("+ -")
logicalOp = oneOf("and or AND OR")
numericLiteral = ppc.number

operand = numericLiteral | funcCall | alps
arithExpr = infixNotation(
    operand, [(multOp, 2, opAssoc.LEFT),
              (addOp, 2, opAssoc.LEFT),
              (Compop, 2, opAssoc.LEFT),
              (logicalOp, 2, opAssoc.LEFT),
              ]
)

expr <<= arithExpr

s1 = "(Number(3) > Number(5)) AND (Time(IST) < Number(1030))"
result = expr.parseString(s1)
print(result)

A: Having parsed your expression, your work is only half done (if that).
The typical next step, after converting your input string into a nested structure of tokens, is to recursively walk this structure and interpret your markers such as "Number", "AND", etc. and perform the associated functions.
However, doing so will be pretty much just retracing the steps already done by pyparsing, and the generated infixNotation expression.
I recommend defining eval'able node classes for each expression in your grammar, and pass them to pyparsing as parse actions. Then when you are done, you can just call result.eval(). The actual functionality of the evaluation is implemented in each related node class. This way, pyparsing does the construction of your nodes while it parses, instead of you having to do it again after the fact.
Here are the classes for your functions (and I have slightly modified stat_function to accommodate them):
class Node:
    """
    Base class for all of the parsed node classes.
    """
    def __init__(self, tokens):
        self.tokens = tokens[0]

class Function(Node):
    def __init__(self, tokens):
        super().__init__(tokens)
        self.arg = self.tokens[1][0]

class Number(Function):
    def eval(self):
        return self.arg

class Time(Function):
    def eval(self):
        from datetime import datetime
        if self.arg == "IST":
            return int(datetime.now().strftime("%H%M"))
        else:
            return 0

class Date(Function):
    def eval(self):
        return 0

def stat_function(name, eval_fn):
    return (
        Group(CaselessKeyword(name) + Group(LPAR + delimitedList(expr) + RPAR)) |
        Group(CaselessKeyword(name) + Group(LPAR + delimitedList(alps) + RPAR))
    ).addParseAction(eval_fn)

timeFunc = stat_function("Time", Time)
dateFunc = stat_function("Date", Date)
numFunc  = stat_function("Number", Number)
funcCall = timeFunc | dateFunc | numFunc

(I had to guess at what "Time(IST)" was supposed to do, but since you were comparing to 1030, I assumed it would return 24-hour HHMM time as an int.)
Now you can parse these simple operands and evaluate them:
s1 = "Number(27)"
s1 = "Time(IST)"
result = expr.parseString(s1)
print(result)
print(result[0].eval())

The same now goes for your logical, comparison, and arithmetic nodes:
class Logical(Node):
    def eval(self):
        # do not make this a list comprehension, else
        # you will defeat any/all short-circuiting
        eval_exprs = (t.eval() for t in self.tokens[::2])
        return self.logical_fn(eval_exprs)

class AndLogical(Logical):
    logical_fn = all

class OrLogical(Logical):
    logical_fn = any

class Comparison(Node):
    op_map = {
        '<': operator.lt,
        '>': operator.gt,
        '=': operator.eq,
        '!=': operator.ne,
        '<>': operator.ne,
        '>=': operator.ge,
        '<=': operator.le,
    }
    def eval(self):
        op1, op, op2 = self.tokens
        comparison_fn = self.op_map[op]
        return comparison_fn(op1.eval(), op2.eval())

class BinArithOp(Node):
    op_map = {
        '*': operator.mul,
        '/': operator.truediv,
        '+': operator.add,
        '-': operator.sub,
    }
    def eval(self):
        # start by eval()'ing the first operand
        ret = self.tokens[0].eval()

        # get following operators and operands in pairs
        ops = self.tokens[1::2]
        operands = self.tokens[2::2]
        for op, operand in zip(ops, operands):
            # update cumulative value by add/subtract/mult/divide the next operand
            arith_fn = self.op_map[op]
            ret = arith_fn(ret, operand.eval())
        return ret

operand = numericLiteral | funcCall | alps

Each operator level to infixNotation takes an optional fourth argument, which is used as a parse action for that operation. (I also broke out AND and OR as separate levels, as AND's are typically evaluated at higher precedence than OR).
arithExpr = infixNotation(
    operand, [(multOp, 2, opAssoc.LEFT, BinArithOp),
              (addOp, 2, opAssoc.LEFT, BinArithOp),
              (Compop, 2, opAssoc.LEFT, Comparison),
              (CaselessKeyword("and"), 2, opAssoc.LEFT, AndLogical),
              (CaselessKeyword("or"), 2, opAssoc.LEFT, OrLogical),
              ]
)

expr <<= arithExpr

Now to evaluate your input string:
s1 = "(Number(3) > Number(5)) AND (Time(IST) < Number(1030))"
result = expr.parseString(s1)
print(result)
print(result[0].eval())

Prints:
[<__main__.AndLogical object at 0xb64bc370>]
False

If you change s1 to compare 3 < 5 (and run this example before 10:30am):
s1 = "(Number(3) < Number(5)) AND (Time(IST) < Number(1030))"

you get:
[<__main__.AndLogical object at 0xb6392110>]
True

There are similar examples in the pyparsing examples directory, search for those using infixNotation.

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Q: Cannot replace the file name using Angular.js ng-file-upload I am trying to rename the file name after uploading the file using Angular.js ng-file-upload. But what is happening in my case when I am removing ngf-min-height="400" ngf-resize="{width: 400, height:400}" properties. I am providing my code below:
<input type="file"  data-size="lg" name="bannerimage" id="imagefile1"  ng-model="file" ngf-pattern="image/*" accept="image/*"  ngf-max-size="2MB" ngf-min-height="400" ngf-resize="{width: 400, height:400}"   custom-on-change="uploadFile"  ngf-select="onFileSelect($file);" >

My controller side code is given below:
$scope.onFileSelect = function($files) {
         fileURL=$files;
         $scope.imageData='';
    }
var file=fileURL;
var today=(Math.random() * new Date().getTime()).toString(36).replace(/\./g, '');
var newpath=today+"_"+ file.name;
file.name=newpath;

In the above code I am adding a random number to file name and replacing it. In this case it's coming properly, but if I am removing ngf-min-height="400" ngf-resize="{width: 400, height:400}" from file input like below.
<input type="file"  data-size="lg" name="bannerimage" id="imagefile1"  ng-model="file" ngf-pattern="image/*" accept="image/*"  ngf-max-size="2MB"   custom-on-change="uploadFile"  ngf-select="onFileSelect($file);" >

In this case I cannot replace the new file name and I don't need to restrict the file height and width.

A: The Upload Service of ng-file-upload has a method for this.
Here is an example:
$scope.$watch('dropFile', function () {
    uploadFile($scope.dropFile);
});

function uploadFile(file) {
  if (!file) {
    return;
  }

  file = Upload.rename(file, "newName.ext");

  Upload.upload({
        url: <api url for upload>,
        data: {file: file}
    }).then(function (resp) {
      //successful
    }, function (resp) {
        //error
    }, function (evt) {
       //progress
    });
}

A: try this code
<input type="file"  data-size="lg" name="bannerimage" id="imagefile1"  ng-model="file" accept="image/*" ng-file-select="onFileSelect($files[0]);" >

$scope.onFileSelect =function(file){
    filename = 'jihin.' + file.name.split(".")[1];
    var imgFile = new File([file], filename, {type:file.type});
    console.log(imgFile);
};


MIDLAND- Even with the best intentions, keeping up with a New Year's resolution can be tough, especially if you are trying too hard or have unrealistic expectations.
"Nothing is going to happen in one week, but what will happen you will probably notice more energy," said Joe Juarez, sales manager and trainer at Gold's Gym.
In order to keep from losing steam, watch for workout pit falls.
"Maybe they're overdoing it, maybe they don't have too much knowledge on how to work out, and so they come in and do just about everything they can think of," said Juarez, who encourages everyone to figure out a plan but to keep it simple.
Juarez recommends realistic goals is key.
"If you are looking to lose say maybe forty pounds in three months, that probably isn't going to happen so you need to set your goals small, because if you don't, you are setting yourself up for disappointment," he said.
So to keep that New Year's resolution momentum from fading, don't be too hard on yourself if the only thing you've dropped since January 1st is sweat.
"It's never too late, no matter how young or how old you are, how you used to look, or how you look now. It's just never too late," said Juarez.
Juarez says a lot of people think they need to completely cut carbs, but he says you need a balanced diet to stay fit.


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La Zicklin School of Business (comúnmente conocida como Zicklin) es la escuela de negocios del Baruch College. Fue fundada en 1919 y nombrada en honor al financista y exalumno Lawrence Ziclin. El decano actual es H. Fenwick Huss, anterior decano de la Escuela de Negocios J. Mack Robinson de la Georgia State University. Zicklin es la única unidad de la Universidad de la Ciudad de Nueva York que está acreditada por la Association to Advance College Schools of Business (AACSB).

Historia

En 1919, el City College of New York fundó una Escuela de Negocios y Administración Cívica, ofreciendo su primer MBA un año después. La escuela fue renombrada en 1953 en honor a Bernard M. Baruch, notable financista y estadista, el cual fue vital en la formación de la escuela. En 1968, después de la adición de los departamentos de artes y ciencias y los programas de pregrado, Baruch se convirtió en un college senior (es decir aquellos donde se realizan los 2 últimos años de estudio para obtener el título de pregrado) al sistema universitario de la Universidad de la Ciudad de Nueva York.

En 1998, la Escuela de Negocios de Baruch fue renombrada como Ziclink School of Business, en reconoimiento por la donación de 18 millones de dólares realizada por Lawrence y Carol Zicklin. Zicklin fue anteriormente el socio gerente de la firma de gestión de inversiones Neuberger Berman.

Aspecto académico

Zicklin ofrece los siguientes programas académicos: Administración de Empresas (BBA), Maestría en Administración de Empresas (MBA y MBA Ejecutivo), Maestría en Finanzas, Maestría en Sistemas de Información, un MBA en Administración en Salud y una Maestría en Relaciones Industriales y Laborales. Tiene programas de doble titulación con otras instituciones, como el programa de derecho / MBA con la Brooklyn Law School o la New York Law School y el Doctorado en Negocios con el CUNY Graduate Center.

Énfasis

El programa de pregrado en Administración de Empresas ofrece los énfasis en Contabilidad, Sistemas de Información, Economía, Finanzas, Psicología Industrial/Organizacional, Negocios Internacionales, Management, Marketing, Bienes raíces y Modelación Estadística y Cuantitativa.

Centro e Institutos

Zickin tiene unos centros especializados inter-disciplinarios e institutos, entre los que se incluyen:
Centro Lawrence N. Field Center de Emprendimiento, que reúne a profesores, estudiantes, asesores, exalumnos y voluntarios para apoyar a las empresas nuevas y establecidas y a las que forman parte de la universidad.
Instituto Steven L. Newman de Bienes raíces, que provee investigación aplicada, educación continuada y conferencias a la industria de los bienes raíces.
Centro de Servicios Financieros Wasserman, que incluye un trading floor con 55 estadioces de trabajo.
Centro Internacional de Negocios Weissman, que da soporte a actividades internacionales, incluyendo pasantías internacionales, programas de estudio en el extranjero y seminarios con ejecutivos internacionales
Centro Robert Ziclin de Integridad Corporativa, que proveer un foro de discusión para temas relacionados con la ética en los negocios.

Referencias

Enlaces externos

The Sustainable Business Club, Baruch's Net Impact Chapter
Sustainable Business Major at Zicklin School of Business
Finance and Economics Society - Bernard M. Baruch College

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Everywhere I looked last night, I saw the colors of Easter… in seashells.
…..and around the palm trees.
As we "hopped" around to the lighthouse beach filling up our Easter shell basket, I ran into sisters Carol and Gail finding goodies for their basket (errr, shell bag ;)).
It was their last night on Sanibel and Carol finally found her first WENTLETRAP at the lighthouse beach. Yippee! Congrats!
I found sweet little LACE MUREX.
And I found this cute little DUSKY CONE on a piece of SEA PORK. It looks like an Easter egg broke and the yoke spilled everywhere, doesn't it?
Then we hopped on over to the beach off Middle Gulf Dr. and met Aimee (too shy to have her picture taken) where she found three of these FIGHTING CONCHS so I added the one furthest down in her palm. Look at how cool it is since it has a "freak" growth pattern.
Even the BANDED TULIPS had a hint of pink for Easter.
Happy Easter! Good wishes for you all to shellebrate the day.
God bless you Pam! And thank you God for the gift of your Son, and for the sea, and the gifts left for us on the shore.
Beautiful photos!! Especially love the sky pictures!! Keep it up; I am enjoying your website so much!!
That sea pork looks just like a broken egg. We need some shell sistah time soon. Aren't y'all running low on sharks teeth yet?
Happy Easter to you too. Looks like you found your basket of goodies on the beach!
thanks once again for your inspirational photos & thoughts. you brighten my days! wishing you and your family a joyous & peaceful Easter.
Great website. It helps keep me in touch with the sun and Florida in the winter months here in Pa.
I'm jelious, I wish I could be at Sanibel all year long.
Love the little lace murex and the dusty cone. And the banded tulip. Well – I love them all!! Happy Easter to you!!!
A lace murex and a wentletrap!!! So beautiful.
Your photos made my day here in chilly Nebraska! What a treat! Thank you and a happy Easter to you.
Thank you and bless you for these beautiful Sanibel colors..
I hope my Mom, "The Mermaid" from your January 25(?) post and my sister, a Sani-Belle you haven't met yet, get to meet up with you on the beach sometime during these next 2 weeks.
Now this is my idea of an Easter Hunt! Thanks for the beautiful pictures!
Sanibel is truly the spot.
I'm just on my way home from St. Pete's/Clearwater. There were plenty of shells–but nothing like Sanibel.
Nice to see someone had a sunny, warm Easter. Wish I was there for the egg hunt. Loved the 'yolk'. Happy Easter to all and to all a 'good night'.
As usual I loved all of your photos. Hope everyone had a nice Easter. Does anyone remember what Pam found last Easter? Check out the whelk she found last April, I believe it was about April 4th. Maybe you found something even better but smaller, say a Junonia.
LOL Yes, I surely remember, CShells! Nah, no junonia this year but thanks for bringing back such a good memory.
Pam, it was such a pleasure to meet both you and "Supersheller" Clark! I was so excited to find my first wentletrap and to make your amazing website. It was the perfect ending to my vacation…..hope you see you again SOON….. Hope you had a great Easter!
Pam, Such gorgeous pictures!! I love seeing them on your site so much!! Thank you!
Awesome job! I absolutely love and enjoy every minute I spend on your site! You brighten gloomy MN days (not today 'cause we have some sunshine of our own for a change)! Thanks for sharing your beach heaven — on Easter and every other day — with us!