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KRMARO: Aerial Detection of Small-Size Ground Moving Objects Using Kinematic Regularization and Matrix Rank Optimization

Detecting moving objects has been well studied in the past due to its importance in computer vision applications. Nevertheless, in aerial imagery, the small sizes of moving objects and the camera motion present challenges to existing well-known detection methods. Most moving object detection methods have reported either high true detection rates associated with high false-detection rates, or low false-detection rates at the expense of lowering true detection rates. This paper proposes a novel method, Kinematic Regularization and Matrix Rank Optimization (KRMARO), to achieve high true-detection rates and reduce false-detection rates significantly. KRMARO introduces a formulation of the moving objects detection problem that integrates a novel kinematic regularization into the principal component pursuit. This formulation models moving objects as sparse, which is located in regions exhibiting unique kinematic properties, while the background is modeled as a low-rank matrix that is corrupted by this sparse. To solve the former formulation accurately, KRMARO proposes a solution based on the inexact Newton method and the inexact augmented Lagrange multiplier with backtracking behavior. The robustness of KRMARO is verified through testing on DARPA VIVID, UCF aerial action, and VIRAT aerial data sets and then comparing the results with relevant state-of-the-art methods.
Temporary Measures: Canadian Refugee Policy and Environmental Migration

In 2010, 42 million people worldwide were displaced from their homes as the result of environmental factors. These “environmental migrants” lack international recognition and have no recourse to the protections of the international refugee regime. Given Canada’s history of international refugee resettlement, this paper examines Canada’s past and potential response to environmental migrants. Evidence reveals that the Canadian government relies on ad hoc, temporary measures, and that clear, long-term policy measures for issues surrounding forced migration due to environmental events are unlikely. The implications of this outcome are discussed, providing observations and lessons for researchers and advocates of migration rights. En 2010, 42 millions de personnes a travers le monde on ete deplacees pour des causes environnementales. Ces «migrants environnementaux» ne sont pas reconnus sur le plan international et n’ont donc pas de recours possi- ble en vertu du regime international des refugies. Compte tenu de l’histoire canadienne en matiere de reinstallation de refugies au niveau international, cet article examine les reactions canadiennes passees et futures a la migration environnementale. Les donnees montrent que le gouvernement canadien se fie sur des mesures temporaires, ad hoc , et qu’il est peu probable qu’il mette en place des mesures et des politiques a long terme repondant aux problemes lies a la migration environnementale forcee. On y discute des implications de ces resultats, tout en offrant des observations et des conclusions pouvant interesser les chercheurs et les avocats en droit de la migration.
Speech-Language Pathologists' Attitudes Toward Aging and the Elderly

1092-5171/03/3002-0146 ABSTRACT: The purpose of this study was to describe speech-language pathologists’ (SLPs’) knowledge of and attitudes toward aging and the elderly and to evaluate relationships between knowledge, aging, and other characteristics of the SLPs. Eighty-three SLPs who work in health care settings reported their knowledge and attitudes toward aging and the elderly using the Facts on Aging Quiz 1 (FAQ1). They also completed a survey in which they provided information regarding their personal background, education, caseload, social experience with older individuals, and professional interest in working with the elderly. The SLPs in this study had knowledge of aging scores that were similar to those reported for students in communication disorders (CDIS), students in other professions, and some other health care professionals. The SLP participants reported a negative bias toward aging and the elderly. This is consistent with other studies of health care I Speech-Language Pathologists’ Attitudes Toward Aging and the Elderly
ICT Competencies among School Teachers: A Review of Literature

The rapid development of information and communication technology (ICT) in education has attract the interest of the Malaysia's Ministry of Education. Ministry aims to have all teachers received ICT training and to integrate ICT in teaching and learning in the classroom. Teachers as the driving force for ICT literate society must prepare themselves with knowledge and skills in ICT. Different competency among teacher in mastering the skills and knowledge of ICT requires a benchmark to help them to know their personal ability. National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers (NETS-T) recommended by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) is a benchmark that can support and enhance teaching and learning in education. This paper attempts to examine the relevant literature review of ICT competency of teachers in the country and abroad. Teachers who successfully meet NETS-T should be a guide to others while any criticism should make changes for the better.
Desain Handout Multimedia Menggunakan 3D Pageflip Professional untuk Media Pembelajaran pada Sistem Android

AbstractThis article have a purpose to introduce media form of handout multimedi’s base and describe how to make handour multimedia’s base use 3D Pageflip Professional with a look at the end of that can be accessed through the computer and android. In design for handout multimedi’s base use 3D Pageflip Professional need a handout in PDF format as background of making a handout multimedi’s base. In application 3D Pageflip Professional can load a media as complement such as picture, animation, flash, video, audio, etc, so it would be more attractive at the time reading this handout. The result of the project that you develop, publish with 3DP format that can be read with 3D Paageflip Reader that can istalled in OS android.Keywords: Multimedia Base Handout, 3D Pageflip Professional, 3D Pageflip Reader Android. AbstrakArtikel ini bertujuan untuk mengenalkan media pembelajaran berupa handout berbasis multimedia dan menggambarkan cara membuat handout berbasis multimedia menggunakan 3D Pageflip Professional dengan tampilan akhir yang dapat diakses melalui komputer dan android. Dalam merancang handout berbasis multimedia menggunakan 3D Pageflip Professional membutuhkan handout dalam format PDF sebagai dasar pembuatan handout berbasis multimedia. Pada aplikasi 3D Pageflip Professional dapat memuat media sebagai pelengkap seperti gambar, animasi, flash, video, audio, dll, sehingga akan lebih menarik pada saat membaca handout ini. Hasil dari project yang anda buat, publish dengan format 3DP agar dapat dibaca dengan 3D Pageflip Reader yang bisa diinstall dalam OS android.Kata-kata kunci: Handout Multimedia, 3D Pageflip Professional, 3D Pageflip Reader Android.
Energy conservation techniques for GPU computing

The emerging general purpose graphics processing units (GPGPU) computing has tremendously speeded up a great variety of commercial and scientific applications. The GPUs have become prevalent accelerators in current high performance clusters. Though the computational capacity per Watt of the GPUs is much higher than that of the CPUs, the hybrid GPU clusters still consume enormous power. To conserve energy on this kind of clusters is of critical significance. In this thesis, we seek energy conservative computing on the GPU accelerated servers. We introduce our studies as follows. First, we dissect the GPU memory hierarchy due to the fact that most of the GPU applications are suffering from the GPU memory bottleneck. We find that the conventional CPU cache models cannot be applied on the modern GPU caches, and the microbenchmarks to study the conventional CPU cache become invalid for the GPU. We propose the GPU-specified microbenchmarks to examine the GPU memory structures and properties. Our benchmark results verify that the design goal of the GPU has transformed from pure computation performance to better energy efficiency. Second, we investigate the impact of dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS), a successful energy management technique for CPUs, on the GPU platforms. Our experimental results suggest that GPU DVFS is still promising in conserving energy, but the patterns to save energy strongly differ from those of the CPU. Besides, the effect of GPU DVFS depends on the individual application characteristics. Third, we derive the GPU DVFS power and performance models from our experimental results, based on which we find the optimal GPU voltage and frequency setting to minimize the energy consumption of a single GPU task. We then study the problem of scheduling multiple tasks on a hybrid CPUGPU cluster to minimize the total energy consumption by GPU DVFS. We design an effective offline scheduling algorithm which can reduce the energy consumption significantly. At last, we combine the GPU DVFS and dynamic resource sleep (DRS), another energy management technique, to further conserve the energy, for the online task scheduling on hybrid clusters. Though the idle energy consumption increases significantly compared to the offline problem, our online scheduling algorithm still achieves more than 30% of energy conservation with appropriate runtime GPU DVFS readjustments.
The Development of an Inclusive Model to Construct Teacher’s Professional Knowledge: Pedagogic content knowledge for sound-based music as a new subject area

This article outlines a systematic process for developing the different knowledge domains required for teaching sound-based (electroacoustic) music as a new subject area. As a new area within the discipline of music, teachers are novices to the field. This requires epistemological deconstruction of what knowledge teachers need in this new field. Then the analysis outlines how to develop teachers’ new knowledge, which can be constructed as subject content knowledge (SCK), pedagogic content knowledge (PCK) and technology pedagogic content knowledge (TPACK). This epistemological analysis informed our creation of teaching materials that develop these different knowledge domains and take account of the complex interplay between them. This process was demonstrated through the ElectroAcoustic Resource Site Projects, which first built subject content knowledge and then created teacher’s packs to build pedagogic content knowledge, and a bespoke CPD programme, which embedded their inter-relationships and built technology pedagogic content knowledge. Most importantly, creating the teacher’s packs employed a user-centred design approach, putting teachers and pupils in the centre of the development process, thereby giving them voice. Voice is an integral part of empowerment in our model, which disrupts the hegemonic grip of the academic curriculum dominated by the traditional music canon. This article adds to the knowledge-base regarding how to develop the different domains required for teaching a new subject. We argue that sound-based music is accessible to all teachers and learners, thereby increasing inclusivity. This in turn can radically disrupt ways of teaching music in schools and the model created provides the necessary scaffolding for a paradigm shift in music teaching on an international level.
Application of Protection Motivation Theory to the Study of the Factors Related to Skin Cancer Preventive Behaviors in Students

Background: The identification of the factors related to adoption of skin cancer preventive behaviors in adolescents plays a significant role in the appropriate design and implementation of relevant educational approaches. Objectives: The aim of present study was toinvestigate the factors associated with skin cancer preventive behaviors in the male high school students of Isfahan, using the protection motivation theory (PMT). Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted on 311 male high school students of Isfahan in 2018. A reliable questionnaire was used for data collection, whose validity and reliability had been confirmed before. The data were analyzed, using the SPSS software (version 20), Pearson’s correlation coefficient, multiple linear regression, one-way ANOVA, independent t test, and Spearman’s correlation coefficient. Results: Pearson’s correlation coefficient indicated that the score of skin cancer preventive behaviors was inversely associated with response cost score (P < 0.001), while it was directly related to perceived susceptibility, perceived severity, self-efficacy, response efficacy, fear, and protection motivation (P < 0.001). The multiple linear regression model showed that among the constructs of the PMT, the scores for self-efficacy, response cost, and perceived susceptibility were significant predictors of skin cancer preventive behaviors, respectively, in order of importance. Conclusions: This study showed that the PMT constructs were associated with the skin cancer preventive behaviors, which could be promoted by designing and implementing educational studies based on the constructs.
Entry and Stability of Cross-National Marriages in the United States

As more and more people move across borders, marriage is becoming an increasingly global affair. Yet cross-national marriage (CNM) migration has not received the scholarly attention it deserves. The present study examines the characteristics and marital stability of unions between U.S. nationals and their foreign-born (FB) spouses residing in the United States. Two data sources were used in the analysis—the American Community Survey (ACS) and the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP). Our results indicated that, after controlling for race/ethnicity, socioeconomic background and marital history, marriages between U.S. nationals and their FB spouses who entered the United States as adults were less stable than unions between two native-born (NB) spouses. Compared with non-Hispanic Whites, Asian and Hispanic U.S. nationals were more prone to marry FB spouses. We also found that husband NB–wife FB marriages seemed to fare better than wife NB–husband FB types.
Are corpus-based predictions mirrored in the preferential choices and ratings of native speakers? Predicting the alternation between the Estonian adessive case and the adposition peal ‘on’

Recent work in usage-based linguistics stresses the importance of combining corpus-based analyses with experimental studies. A number of studies have compared the performance of a corpus-based statistical model against the behaviour of native speakers in a linguistic experiment. The present paper takes this line of analysis further by combining corpus-based work with two sources of experimental data. A mixedeffects logistic regression model is fitted to the corpus data of the Estonian adessive case and the adposition peal ‘on’ in present-day written Estonian. In order to evaluate the goodness of the corpus-based model, its performance is compared to the behaviour of native speakers in a forced choice task and a rating task. Kokkuvote. Jane Klavan ja Ann Veismann: Kas keelekasutajate valikud ja hinnangud peegeldavad korpuspohiseid toenaosushinnanguid? Eesti keele adessiivi ja kaassona peal kasutus tanapaeva kirjakeeles. Tanapaevases kasutuspohises keeleteaduses rohutatakse vajadust kombineerida korpusandmetele toetuvat analuusi katseliste uuringutega. Mitmed uurimused on vorrelnud korpusel pohineva statistilise mudeli headust emakeelsete konelejate kaitumisega keelelistes katsetes. Kaesolev artikkel jatkab seda uurimisliini, pannes vordlusesse korpusandmetega kaks keelelist katset. Artiklis hinnatakse korpuspohise segamudeli headust, vorreldes seda eesti keelt emakeelena konelejate kaitumisega sunnitud valiku katses ja hinnangukatses. Uuritavaks nahtuseks on eesti keele adessiivi ja kaassona peal roopne kasutus kohasuhete valjendamisel tanapaeva kirjakeeles. Votmesonad : konstruktsioonilised alternatsioonid; korpuslingvistika; sunnitud valiku katse; hinnangukatse; statistiline mudeldamine; eesti keel
A Case Study of a Worksite Wellness Program that Incorporates Physical Activity

The purpose of this study was to expand the body of knowledge of organizational wellness programs through the exploration of improving the rate of physical activity by providing the incentives of time and choice. The results of this study may help broaden how organizations view wellness and inspire greater creativity in developing a program that is effective and economical. This study explored the impacts of time and choice on participation in physical activity and the effects of engaging in regular physical activity on presenteeism. Participants engaged in physical activity as part of their regular work schedule for a fourmonth period. Data were collected through interviews and survey instruments. Results indicate that providing time may influence participation in physical activity and contribute towards maintaining or improving the health of employees. Results also support studies in behavior change, which suggest that the success of an organization’s wellness program may be strengthened with strong leadership involvement and support. The outcome of this study warrants application to a larger population and for a longer duration to validate results and possibly strengthen the outcome in other areas of behavior change and presenteeism.
A Correlation Study on EFL Learning Anxiety and Oral Performance

The present study focuses on the correlation between English learning anxiety and students’ oral English performance, and collects data through a questionnaire which is adapted from Horwitz et al’s Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS). Students’ oral test grades in TEM 4 (Test for English Majors-Band 4) are used as a measurement of their oral proficiency. It is found that English-major students commonly have a moderate level of anxiety in their learning of English. Of the four dimensions in FLCAS, communication anxiety is the most intensive among most students, and test anxiety correlates most negatively with students’ oral performance. The possible sources of English learning anxiety are explored and some suggestions are made accordingly after statistical analysis.
The ‘civic premium’ of university graduates: the impact of massification on associational membership

ABSTRACT Considerable attention has been paid to the economic benefits of participating in higher education, particularly the ‘economic premium’ of graduates compared to non-graduates. Although the civic contribution of graduates has been widely acknowledged and discussed, there has been a dearth of empirical analysis that investigates this contribution. Furthermore, the massification of higher education in the UK, US, and many other countries, has had profound impacts on the higher education experience. But little is known about how changes to the form and function of mass higher education have impacted on the civic contribution of university graduates. This research attempts to address this by focussing specifically on associational membership of university graduates during their early adulthood. By calculating the ‘civic premium’ of UK graduates compared to their non-graduate peers over time we are able explore the relationship between associational membership and higher education participation following the massification of UK higher education.
Impact of the Implementation of Security Education Curriculum on Students’ Security Consciousness in Nigeria

The paper examined the impact of the implementation of security education curriculum on students’ security consciousness in Nigeria. Descriptive approach was adopted in carrying out this research work. Two research objectives guided the study: Examining the extent to which security education improves the level of students’ security consciousness and ascertaining the extent of the availability of resources for the implementation of security education curriculum. The target population was comprised of junior secondary school students in Nigeria. Fagge, Nasarawa and Ungwaggo Local Government Areas in Kano State were sampled for this study, using stratified sampling technique. Furthermore, seven secondary schools were randomly selected of which four hundred and thirteen (413) students were randomly selected. The instrument used for data collection was a questionnaire entitled “Questionnaire for the Study of the Implementation of Security Education Curriculum” (QISEC) and the data collected was analysed using descriptive statistics of arithmetic mean. Findings revealed that students of security education curriculum are not security conscious. Moreover, the resources for the implementation of the security education curriculum in junior secondary schools are not adequate. The researcher recommends that seminars/workshops should be organized for security education teachers to enrich their knowledge in the field of security education. Security education should also be introduced as a course at A-level in order to produce professional teachers in the field. Furthermore, the supply of resources for the implementation of curricula in secondary schools in Nigeria needs to be increased.
Experiencing poverty in an online simulation: Effects on players’ beliefs, attitudes and behaviors about poverty

Digital simulations are increasingly used to educate about the causes and effects of poverty, and inspire action to alleviate it. Drawing on research about attributions of poverty, subjective well-being, and relative income, this experimental study assesses the effects of an online poverty simulation (entitled Spent) on participants’ beliefs, attitudes, and actions. Results show that, compared with a control group, Spent players donated marginally more money to a charity serving the poor and expressed higher support for policies benefitting the poor, but were less likely to take immediate political action by signing an online petition to support a higher minimum wage. Spent players also expressed greater subjective well-being than the control group, but this was not associated with increased policy support or donations. Spent players who experienced greater presence (perceived realism of the simulation) had higher levels of empathy, which contributed to attributing poverty to structural causes and support for anti-poverty policies. We draw conclusions for theory about the psychological experience of playing online poverty simulations, and for how they could be designed to stimulate charity and support for anti-poverty policies.
The relationship between ethical leadership and employee voice: The roles of error management climate and organizational commitment

Abstract Studies have shown that voice could be utilized as an effective method to improve organizational effectiveness. This study explores the relationship between ethical leadership and employee voice behavior by focusing on the mediating role of the error management climate and the moderating role of the employee's organizational commitment. Analysis of data collected in three phases in China indicates that the error management climate partly mediates the relationship between ethical leadership and voice behavior. Also, organizational commitment is found to moderate the relationship between the error management climate and voice behavior. Theoretical and practical implications of these results are discussed.