Acommon preprocessing step in many natural language processing tasks is text normalization, wherein words are converted to lowercase, extraneous whitespace is removed, etc. write a function normalize(text) that returns a normalized version of the input string, in which all words have been
converted to lowercase and are separated by a single space. no leading or trailing whitespace should be present in the output.

> > > normalize("this is an example.")
'this is an example.'
> > > normalize(" extra space ")
'extra space'

Consider this data sequence: "3 11 5 5 5 2 4 6 6 7 3 -8". any value that is the same as the immediately preceding value is considered a consecutive duplicate. in this example, there are three such consecutive duplicates: the 2nd and 3rd 5s and the second 6. note that the last 3 is not a consecutive duplicate because it was preceded by a 7. write some code that uses a loop to read such a sequence of non-negative integers , terminated by a negative number. when the code finishes executing, the number of consecutive duplicates encountered is printed. in this case, 3 would be printed. assume the availability of a variable, stdin, that references a scanner object associated with standard input. that is, stdin = new scanner(system.in); is given.

Rafael needs to add a title row to a table that he has inserted in word. what should he do? use the alignment options. use the merge and center option for all the cells in the top row. use the merge and center option on the first two cells in the top row. none of the above

Most shops require the technician to enter a starting and ending time on the repair order to track the actual time the vehicle was in the shop and closed out by the office. this time is referred to as _ time ? a. comeback b. ro c. cycle d. lead