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Uses the story of Albert the tortoise to explain the principles of teamwork within an organization. Shows the benefits of this to the organization as a whole, and to Albert the tortoise, the embodiment of the steady worker.

The purpose of this paper is to build a better question answering (QA) system that can furnish more improved retrieval of answers related to COVID-19 queries from the COVID-19 open research data set (CORD-19). As CORD-19 has an up-to-date collection of coronavirus literature, text mining approaches can be successfully used to retrieve answers pertaining to all coronavirus-related questions. The existing a lite BERT for self-supervised learning of language representations (ALBERT) model is finetuned for retrieving all COVID relevant information to scientific questions posed by the medical community and to highlight the context related to the COVID-19 query.

This study presents a finetuned ALBERT-based QA system in association with Best Match25 (Okapi BM25) ranking function and its variant BM25L for context retrieval and provided high scores in benchmark data sets such as SQuAD for answers related to COVID-19 questions. In this context, this paper has built a QA system, pre-trained on SQuAD and finetuned it on CORD-19 data to retrieve answers related to COVID-19 questions by extracting semantically relevant information related to the question.

BM25L is found to be more effective in retrieval compared to Okapi BM25. Hence, finetuned ALBERT when extended to the CORD-19 data set provided accurate results.

The finetuned ALBERT QA system was developed and tested for the first time on the CORD-19 data set to extract context and highlight the span of the answer for more clarity to the user.

THERE WAS A TIME, gentle reader, and not so very long ago either, when the lubricant business was very much simpler than it is to‐day ; or at least as we understand it to be from our reading of the technical press. Our childlike and trusting mind is often puzzled, by the amount of erudite scientific effort devoted to problems which we, in our happy ignorance, believed to have been solved long before either we or the boffins were born. And if the years have not brought wisdom we have at least acquired a certain low cunning, whereby we usually manage to get by. Alas, this was not so with our well‐meaning, bright eyed, clean‐souled little friend Albert at the time of which we write.

Albert Smith, ace salesman of the Oilier Oil Company, has been hanging around Manlidale like a bad smell, for years. Incredible though it may seem he has peddled the firm's repulsive wares in mill and machine shop with undoubted success and with the passing of time, his rough mannered but good hearted northern customers have accepted him as a gormless but harmless chap, whose regular visits enliven the working day. Time has somewhat tempered his initial, boyish exuberance but has left his pathetic trust in the OOCo lubes unimpaired; and, we fear added little to his initial ignorance of the strange machines with which the many and myterious Manlidalian products are manufactured. Mercifully our benign editor only inflicts Albert on subscribers once a year; at Xmas time when, imbition being at a maximum, his ridiculous and lubricious adventures may appear tolerable.

IT WAS a typical mid‐December afternoon for that part of the world; that part of the world being the countryside north of Manlidale. The overcast sky pressed low over the foothills, it was the colour of a dirty dishcloth and gave every promise of fouler weather to follow. But the weather could not damp Albert's spirits; he was feeling very pleased with himself. (older readers will wearily recognise that this was no new thing for our hero; he usually was. But let's be fair, he generally had as much reason for it as most of us. He was a good lad on the whole; served the Oilier Oil Co. devotedly and, despite the occasional boob, was well thought of by his numerous customers. He was a devoted husband and seldom deserted Bessie for the many delectable boozers with which Manlidale abounded).

ALTHOUGH little mention has been made of it the Oilier Oil Co. were not the only oil merchants operating in Albert's territory. Indeed there wore many but the main rival of the OOCo. was Phocal Lubricants Ltd.

This study aims to enhance the classification and processing of online appeals by employing a deep-learning-based method. This method is designed to meet the requirements for precise information categorization and decision support across various management departments.

This study leverages the ALBERT–TextCNN algorithm to determine the appropriate department for managing online appeals. ALBERT is selected for its advanced dynamic word representation capabilities, rooted in a multi-layer bidirectional transformer architecture and enriched text vector representation. TextCNN is integrated to facilitate the development of multi-label classification models.

Comparative experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach and its significant superiority over traditional classification methods in terms of accuracy.

The original contribution of this study lies in its utilization of the ALBERT–TextCNN algorithm for the classification of online appeals, resulting in a substantial improvement in accuracy. This research offers valuable insights for management departments, enabling enhanced understanding of public appeals and fostering more scientifically grounded and effective decision-making processes.

This paper discusses the role of Albert O. Hirschman as a founder of development economics in the postwar years. Although Hirschman maintained a strong interest in development matters throughout his entire professional career, his major contributions to development economics took place between the mid-1950s and the late 1960s. The paper examines Hirschman’s innovative contributions to the new discipline. When, in the 1950s, development economics gravitated around the concept of “balanced growth,” Hirschman opened new vistas with a theory of “unbalanced growth.” In the early 1960s, Hirschman focused on reformist political approaches to development, against the opposed extremisms of reaction and revolution. Finally, in the late 1960s, Hirschman opened new perspectives on the importance of detailed analysis of development projects, against the theoretical drift of early development economics.

The discussion of Hirschman’s development career is also an opportunity to observe the gap between theoretical debates and development policies. Whereas development economists often clashed on theoretical issues, their views were remarkably closer on practical questions.

As a pioneer of development economics, Hirschman sought to establish it as a discipline theoretically distinct from mainstream economics. By the 1980s, this project had collapsed, and the development question was reabsorbed by the economic mainstream. This article, however, argues that current development debates remain deeply indebted to Hirschman’s contribution. His reformist vision, rejection of one-size-fits-all solutions, his insistence on the ineluctable role of uncertainty, and his search for country-specific, incremental, and evolutionary policies make his approach central to current development discourse.

ALBERT was by no means his cheery self, indeed Albert was a very worried young man and let this be the excuse—if indeed one is needed—for his presence, at an unusually early hour of the December evening, moodily supping a tankard of well brewed hops and malt in the saloon bar of the Tacklers Arms. Our hero brooded over his beer while all around early drinkers, websters and slubbers, weft scroddlers and tacket fitters held decorous wassail.