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This study examines the degree of alignment between instructional practices and national curriculum standards, which may vary as a function of teacher characteristics. Using self-reports from teachers about their experiences teaching the national curriculum standards, the study …

This thesis is dedicated to exploring the potential of the 3D shape of the nasal region for face recognition. In comparison to other parts of the face, the nose has a number of distinctive features that make it attractive for recognition purposes. It is relatively stable over di…

Managerial characteristics have an important influence on strategy implementation. Previous studies have looked at the alignment of managerial characteristics with strategic type and aspects of performance. In all cases, the focus has been on corporate strategy and, predominantl…

Research in sports medicine has focused on identifying the risk factors that tend to increase the risk of knee injury in females compared to males. The purposes of these studies are to (1) compare the effects of gender on lower extremity alignment, (2) compare the effects of gen…

The South Caucasus states of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan have shared, since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, a common strategic environment. To survive as independent states in a turbulent region bordered by Russia, Turkey and Iran, each state has chosen to align themsel…

One of the notable developments in current natural language processing is the practical efficacy of probabilistic word representations, where words are embedded in high-dimensional continuous vector spaces that are optimized to reflect their distributional relationships. For seq…

This work focused on the power estimation of plug load devices, and in particular on Personal Computers. As a result, neural network classification estimated power with less than 5.4% errors. Study showed that internal performance counters properly described the overall system a…

What explains alignment behavior in Syrian foreign policy? Structural realists argue that, like all states, authoritarian states pursue their national interests in an anarchic world by balancing power or threats, informed by the distribution of material capabilities. Hence allia…

In this paper, we present a new sentence alignment system (Canvas), which is a Python implementation of a geometric approach to sentence alignment, based on lexical cues. Canvas system is designed mainly to handle parallel texts exhibiting complex misalignment patterns, namely w…