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Interactive Groupwise Comparison for Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

open access: yesComputer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.
The standard RLHF uses pairwise comparisons and therefore requires a large number of comparisons leading to a high workload. The comparison pairs are suggested by the system and cannot be chosen by the user. Our RLHF approach provides more agency to the user and demands less work: we leverage the user's visual abilities to effectively explore the ...
Jan Kompatscher   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cross-cultural adaptation and psychometric evaluation of the Yoruba version of Oswestry disability index

open access: yesbioRxiv, 2019
Introduction Low Back Pain is a common public health problem worsened by maladaptive beliefs and incongruent back pain behaviour. It is imperative to develop outcome measures to assess these beliefs among patients with chronic LBP.
C. Mbada   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Governing Supply Chains for Societal Impact: What Can We Learn From Indigenous African Philosophies?

open access: yesJournal of Supply Chain Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Africa's growing role in global supply chains presents an important opportunity for more socially grounded and context‐sensitive research in supply chain management (SCM). Despite its economic and demographic significance, African contexts remain underrepresented in mainstream SCM scholarship, which limits understanding of the continent's ...
Sherwat Elwan Ibrahim   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The context of children in Yoruba popular culture

open access: yesGlobal Studies of Childhood, 2018
The Yoruba of Southwestern Nigeria describes children as the heritage of the society because children occupy a special place in societal survival and continuity. Children are esteemed and appreciated.
A. O. Omobowale   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Dread in the Homeland: Symbolic Politics and Ethnonationalist Struggles for Self‐Determination in Nigeria

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The revival of Biafran separatism in contemporary Nigeria is often explained with three leading theoretical frameworks: relative deprivation, political economy and state repression. Whereas relative deprivation and political economy perspectives posit that the resurgent separatism derives from the perception and empirical reality of ...
Promise Frank Ejiofor
wiley   +1 more source

Validity and reliability of a Nigerian-Yoruba version of the stroke-specific quality of life scale 2.0

open access: yesHealth and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2017
BackgroundPsychometric evidence is necessary to establish scientific integrity and clinical usefulness of translations and cultural adaptations of the Stroke-Specific Quality of Life (SS-QoL) scale.
M. Odetunde, A. Akinpelu, A. Odole
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Surviving the Post–Biafran War by Navigating the Igbo People's Igba‐Boi Apprenticeship Model of Entrepreneurship

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT After the Nigerian Civil War, the Biafrans started from scratch through trades, mostly adopting the igba‐boi apprenticeship system in Nigeria. This paper examines the impact of the igba‐boi entrepreneurship system in post‐Biafra for the survival of the Igbo identity.
Chiemela Victor Amaechi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Restoring tone-Marks in Standard YorùBá Electronic Text: Improved Model

open access: yesComputer Science, 2017
Diacritic Restoration is a necessity in the processing of languages with Latinbased scripts that utilizes letters outside the basic Latin alphabet used by English language. Yoruba is one such languages, marking underdot (dot-below)on three characters and
Franklin Oladiipo Asahiah   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

TEAM‐UP: Mixed‐Methods Data for Understanding Traditional and Modern Contraceptive Use Dynamics in Four Sub‐Saharan African Countries

open access: yesStudies in Family Planning, EarlyView.
Abstract This Data Article describes a novel dataset from the “Re‐Examining Traditional Method Use” (TEAM‐UP) project, which systematically collected data on the measurement of and motivations for use of non‐modern (traditional and folkloric) contraceptive methods and/or modern methods, in four sub‐Saharan African countries: the Democratic Republic of ...
Nurudeen Alhassan   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Diaspora Theatre and the Yoruba Sacred Tradition: Aimé Césaire‘s A Tempest [PDF]

open access: yesCultural Intertexts, 2017
Poet and playwright, Aimé Césaire occupies a prominent place in the history of Caribbean literature generally, and postcolonial Shakespeare adaptation scholarship in particular. His adaptation of Shakespeare‘s The Tempest, entitled A Tempest, described
Lekan BALOGUN
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