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STRATEGI PENDIDIKAN KARAKTER DI PERGURUAN TINGGI MELALUI PENERAPAN ASSESSMENT FOR LEARNING BERBASIS HIGHER ORDER THINKING SKILLS

Abstrak: Era globalisasi yang diiringi era pengetahuan dan perubahan dunia yang cepat berimplikasi pada berbagai bidang kehidupan. Menghadapi hal tersebut pendidikan di perguruan tinggi harus mampu menyiapkan generasi penerus yang memiliki kemampuan dan kebiasaan berpikir kritis, meneliti, memecahkan masalah, membuat keputusan, dan karakter yang baik. Untuk mencapai itu, perlu dikembangkan strategi pendidikan karakter yang terintegrasi dalam pembelajaran secara terencana dan terprogram dengan baik sehingga dapat menghasilkan lulusan yang cendekia, berkarakter, dan mampu tampil kompetitif dalam pergaulan internasional sesuai yang diharapkan. Salah satu strategi pendidikan karakter yang bisa ditempuh adalah dengan menerapkan sebuah model penilaian yang terintegrasi dalam pembelajaran sebagai assessment for learning (AFL) berbasis higher order thinking skills (HOTS) bagi mahasiswa. Model ini diharapkan mampu meningkatkan kualitas pembelajaran, good character yang mencakup motivasi untuk selalu belajar, jujur, mandiri, disiplin, percaya diri, tanggungjawab, dan kemampuan bernalar yang tercermin dalam HOTS mahasiswa. Kata Kunci: pendidikan karakter, perguruan tinggi, assessment for learning (AFL), higher order thinking skills (HOTS)
Traffic Monitoring Using Video Analytics in Clouds

Traffic monitoring is a challenging task on crowded roads. Traditional traffic monitoring procedures are manual, expensive, time consuming and involve human operators. They are subjective due to the very involvement of human factor and sometimes provide inaccurate/incomplete monitoring results. Large scale storage and analysis of video streams were not possible due to limited availability of storage and compute resources in the past. Recent advances in data storage, processing and communications have made it possible to store and process huge volumes of video data and develop applications that are neither subjective nor limited in feature sets. It is now possible to implement object detection and tracking, behavioural analysis of traffic patterns, number plate recognition and automate security and surveillance on video streams produced by traffic monitoring and surveillance cameras. In this paper, we present a video stream acquisition, processing and analytics framework in the clouds to address some of the traffic monitoring challenges mentioned above. This framework provides an end-to-end solution for video stream capture, storage and analysis using a cloud based GPU cluster. The framework empowers traffic control room operators by automating the process of vehicle identification and finding events of interest from the recorded video streams. An operator only specifies the analysis criteria and the duration of video streams to analyse. The video streams are then automatically fetched from the cloud storage, decoded and analysed on a Hadoop based GPU cluster without operator intervention in our framework. It reduces the latencies in video analysis process by porting its compute intensive parts to the GPU cluster. The framework is evaluated with one month of recorded video streams data on a cloud based GPU cluster. The results show a speedup of 14 times on a GPU and 4 times on a CPU when compared with one human operator analysing the same amount of video streams data.
Satellite communications at KU, KA, and V bands: Propagation impairments and mitigation techniques

This article surveys the alternative fade mitigation techniques for satellite communication systems operating at Ku, Ka and V frequency bands. The specific phenomena influencing the propagation of radiowaves on Earth-space links are also overviewed. Emphasis is placed on modeling, experimental work carried out in the past, and practical implementations related to each mitigation technique.
Tropical winter habitat limits reproductive success on the temperate breeding grounds in a migratory bird

Identifying the factors that control population dynamics in migratory animals has been constrained by our inability to track individuals throughout the annual cycle. Using stable carbon isotopes, we show that the reproductive success of a long‐distance migratory bird is influenced by the quality of habitat located thousands of kilometres away on tropical wintering grounds. For male American redstarts (Setophaga ruticilla), winter habitat quality influenced arrival date on the breeding grounds, which in turn affected key variables associated with reproduction, including the number of young fledged. Based on a winter‐habitat model, females occupying high‐quality winter habitat were predicted to produce more than two additional young and to fledge offspring up to a month earlier compared with females wintering in poor‐quality habitat. Differences of this magnitude are highly important considering redstarts are single brooded, lay clutches of only three to five eggs and spend only two‐and‐a‐half months on the breeding grounds. Results from this study indicate the importance of understanding how periods of the annual cycle interact for migratory animals. Continued loss of tropical wintering habitat could have negative effects on migratory populations in the following breeding season, minimizing density‐dependent effects on the breeding grounds and leading to further population declines. If conservation efforts are to be successful, strategies must incorporate measures to protect all the habitats used during the entire annual cycle of migratory animals.
Turning Fords into Lincolns: Reminiscences on Teaching and Assessing Writing

At age 90 I feel lucky to have seen and helped evaluate more high school teaching of reading and writing in all parts of the country than anyone else I know. Soon after I began teaching, I became a member of the Evaluation Staff of the Eight Year Study of the Progressive Education Association (1933-41). This was an attempt to free progressive high schools from what these schools regarded as the domination of their curriculum by college requirements and examinations. Over 300 colleges agreed to admit graduates of thirty respected high schools without regard to prescribed subjects or College Board Examinations but on evidence of fitness for college work submitted by these schools. It was hoped that the success of these students in college, as compared with that of matched students from traditional schools, would convince colleges that they need not worry about what would happen if they stopped telling high schools what to teach. So it did, as shown in the report of a follow-up study conducted by six college deans. By that time we were involved in World War II, and colleges were admitting all the students they could get, so there was no obvious relaxation of control. But ever since that time, high schools have enjoyed more freedom to reconstruct their curricula than they know what to do with. One principal lamented, "We have grown to love our chains! " But although the same subjects are still taught, and grades in these subjects count toward admission to selective colleges, we may be thankful that we do not all have to teach the same literary works at the same time of year and submit to examinations imposed by our Department of Education in Washington. Some of our NATO allies are not so fortunate.
Duygusal Zeka Mizah Tarzı ve Yaşam Doyumu:Üniversite Öğretim Elemanları Üzerine Bir Araştırma

The aim of this research was to examine if the academicians’ emotional intelligence ability predicts their humor styles and life satisfaction and if academicians’ emotional intelligence ability, humor style and life satisfaction differs with regards to academic degree variable in significant levels. For data collection, Bar-On EQ Inventory, Humor Style Scale, Life Satisfaction Scale and Personal Information Form were used. The participants were 362 academicians from different faculties of Cukurova and Selcuk University, 134 female and 228 male. For statistical analysis, one-way Anova, Tukey test, Kruskal Wallis H-Test, Mann-Whitney-U test and multiple regression analysis were used. Whereas academicians’ emotional intelligence ability was investigated with regards to their academic degree, significant difference was seen in interpersonal relation skills, adaptation and coping with stress subscales and there was not any significant difference in personal skills and general psychological situation subscales. When academicians’ humor styles were investigated with regards to their academic degree, aggressive humor style grades of research assistants were higher than lecturers, assistant professors, associate professors and professors in significant level. When academicians’ life satisfaction were investigated with regards to their academic degree, professors’ life satisfaction levels were higher than research assistants’, lecturers’, assistant professors’ and associate professors’ in significant level. It was seen that the academicians’ emotional intelligence ability explains and predicts their humor styles and life satisfaction in significant level.
Auditory Imagery Modulates Frequency-specific Areas in the Human Auditory Cortex

Neural responses in early sensory areas are influenced by top–down processing. In the visual system, early visual areas have been shown to actively participate in top–down processing based on their topographical properties. Although it has been suggested that the auditory cortex is involved in top–down control, functional evidence of topographic modulation is still lacking. Here, we show that mental auditory imagery for familiar melodies induces significant activation in the frequency-responsive areas of the primary auditory cortex (PAC). This activation is related to the characteristics of the imagery: when subjects were asked to imagine high-frequency melodies, we observed increased activation in the high- versus low-frequency response area; when the subjects were asked to imagine low-frequency melodies, the opposite was observed. Furthermore, we found that A1 is more closely related to the observed frequency-related modulation than R in tonotopic subfields of the PAC. Our findings suggest that top–down processing in the auditory cortex relies on a mechanism similar to that used in the perception of external auditory stimuli, which is comparable to early visual systems.
Association of general and abdominal obesities and metabolic syndrome with subclinical atherosclerosis in asymptomatic Chinese postmenopausal women

Objective: This study aimed to investigate the relationships between obesity, especially abdominal obesity, andmetabolic syndrome (MS) with carotid intima-media thickness (IMT) and plaque, markers of subclinical atherosclerosis, in asymptomatic Chinese postmenopausal women in Hong Kong. Design: A total of 518 postmenopausal women aged 50 to 64 years were recruited through random telephone dialing. Body mass index (BMI), waist circumference, waist-to-hip ratio, sociodemographic characteristics, blood pressures, medical, biochemical and lifestyle factors were obtained. MS was defined on the basis of the National Cholesterol and Education Program, Adult Treatment Panel III criteria. Subclinical atherosclerosis was determined by measuring IMT and plaque using high-resolution B-mode ultrasonography. Results: Women with a BMI of 25 kg/m2or greater, a waist circumference of 80 cm or greater, a waist-to-hip ratio of 0.85 or greater, or MS were observed to have higher IMT values and prevalence of plaque. Multivariate analyses revealed that waist circumference was significantly associated with IMT independent of age, hormone therapy, lifestyle and sociodemographic factors, and BMI (P < 0.05), whereas a waist-to-hip ratio of 0.85 or greater was significantly associated with plaque (odds ratio = 1.7; 95% CI: 1.0-2.8) after controlling for age, hormone therapy, lifestyle and sociodemographic factors, BMI, and the traditional cardiovascular risk factors. MS was also associated with IMT after adjustment for age, hormone therapy, lifestyle and sociodemographic factors, and BMI (P < 0.05), whereas its association with plaque was also significant (odds ratio = 1.7; 95% CI: 1.0-2.6) after controlling for age. Conclusions: Abdominal obesity and MS are independent of general obesity markers of subclinical atherosclerosis in Chinese postmenopausal women.
Adaptive Nonlinear Model Predictive Path Tracking Control for a Fixed-Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

This paper presents an adaptive Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC) for the path tracking control of a fixed-wing unmanned aircraft. The objective is to minimize the mean and maximum error between the reference trajectory and the UAV. Navigating in a cluttered environment requires accurate tracking. However linear controllers cannot provide good tracking performance due to nonlinearities that arise in the system dynamics and physical limitations such as actuator saturation and state constraints. NMPC provides an alternative since it can combine multiple objectives and constraints which minimize the objective function. However, computational complexity is a major barrier to the real time implementation of the NMPC. An indirect approach which uses gradient descent methods can speed up the optimization but it is difficult to specify a proper termination condition of the optimization. If a decreasing cost metric is used, it can cause control input oscillations. We propose a new optimization termination metric which can remove the control input oscillations. This can be achieved by adding the actuator slew limit to the optimization termination requirement in addition to the cost monotonocity. In addition, we propose an adaptive NMPC which varies the control horizon according to the path curvature profile for tight tracking. Simulation results show that the proposed optimization algorithm can remove control input oscillations and track the trajectory more accurately than the conventional fixed horizon NMPC.
GDoF of the MISO BC: Bridging the Gap between Finite Precision and Perfect CSIT

For the $K=2$ user MISO BC, i.e., the wireless broadcast channel where a transmitter equipped with $K=2$ antennas sends independent messages to $K=2$ receivers each of which is equipped with a single antenna, the sum generalized degrees of freedom (GDoF) are characterized for arbitrary channel strength and channel uncertainty levels for each of the channel coefficients. The result is extended to $K>2$ users under additional restrictions which include the assumption of symmetry.
Discourse constraints on ‘it'and ‘that': a study of language use in career-counseling interviews

education 1985 Ph.D., Linguistics, University of Chicago; Thesis: Discourse Constraints on `It' and `That': A Study of Language Use in Career Counseling Interviews. Committee: Jerrold Sadock, David McNeill, Michael Silverstein 1976 M.A., Linguistics, University of Chicago; Thesis: A Study of Early Linguistic Development. Supervisor: Victor Yngve 1974 B.A. with honors, Linguistics, University of Chicago
DAMP Signaling is a Key Pathway Inducing Immune Modulation after Brain Injury

Acute brain lesions induce profound alterations of the peripheral immune response comprising the opposing phenomena of early immune activation and subsequent immunosuppression. The mechanisms underlying this brain-immune signaling are largely unknown. We used animal models for experimental brain ischemia as a paradigm of acute brain lesions and additionally investigated a large cohort of stroke patients. We investigated the inflammatory potency of HMGB1 and its signaling pathways by immunological in vivo and in vitro techniques. Features of the complex behavioral sickness behavior syndrome were characterized by homecage behavior analysis. HMGB1 downstream signaling, particularly with RAGE, was studied in various transgenic animal models and by pharmacological blockade. Our results indicate that HMGB1 was released from the ischemic brain in the hyperacute phase of stroke in mice and patients. Cytokines secreted in the periphery in response to brain injury induced sickness behavior, which could be abrogated by inhibition of the HMGB1-RAGE pathway or direct cytokine neutralization. Subsequently, HMGB1-release induced bone marrow egress and splenic proliferation of bone marrow-derived suppressor cells, inhibiting the adaptive immune responses in vivo and vitro. Furthermore, HMGB1-RAGE signaling resulted in functional exhaustion of mature monocytes and lymphopenia, the hallmarks of immune suppression after extensive ischemia. This study introduces the HMGB1-RAGE-mediated pathway as a key mechanism explaining the complex postischemic brain-immune interactions.
High Resolution Ultrasound and Photoacoustic Imaging of Orthotopic Lung Cancer in Mice: New Perspectives for Onco-Pharmacology

Objectives We have developed a relevant preclinical model associated with a specific imaging protocol dedicated to onco-pharmacology studies in mice. Materials and Methods We optimized both the animal model and an ultrasound imaging procedure to follow up longitudinally the lung tumor growth in mice. Moreover we proposed to measure by photoacoustic imaging the intratumoral hypoxia, which is a crucial parameter responsible for resistance to therapies. Finally, we compared ultrasound data to x-ray micro computed tomography and volumetric measurements to validate the relevance of this approach on the NCI-H460 human orthotopic lung tumor. Results This study demonstrates the ability of ultrasound imaging to detect and monitor the in vivo orthotopic lung tumor growth by high resolution ultrasound imaging. This approach enabled us to characterize key biological parameters such as oxygenation, perfusion status and vascularization of tumors. Conclusion Such an experimental approach has never been reported previously and it would provide a nonradiative tool for assessment of anticancer therapeutic efficacy in mice. Considering the absence of ultrasound propagation through the lung parenchyma, this strategy requires the implantation of tumors strictly located in the superficial posterior part of the lung.
Attacking Cloud through cache based side channel in virtualized environment

Emerging trends in computation such as cloud computing require that computation be carried out in remote and hostile environments, where attackers have unlimited access to the devices, the data and the programs. Recent exploration into the unique security challenges of cloud computing have shown that when virtual machines belonging to different customers share the same physical machine, new forms of side channel communication appears. The flexibility of virtual machines running on a cloud service, presents a variety of security concerns. However, by only allowing service-provider VMs and enforcing rigorous management of VM images, many of these challenges can be overcome. However, the handling of security incidents in the cloud seems much more challenging as desires of the customers investigating a security breach run contrary to the privacy interests of the cloud service provider. In this paper, we explore cache base side channel attacks on cloud along with few security challenges.
Check-up and cardiovascular risk progression: is there a room for innovation?

ABSTRACT Objective: To evaluate the impact of traditional check-up appointment on the progression of the cardiovascular risk throughout time. Methods: This retrospective cohort study included 11,126 medical records of asymptomatic executives who were evaluated between January, 2005 and October, 2008. Variables included participants’ demographics characteristics, smoking habit, history of cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, dyslipidemia, total cholesterol, HDL, triglycerides, glucose, c-reactive protein, waist circumference, hepatic steatosis, Framingham score, metabolic syndrome, level of physical activity, stress, alcohol consumption, and body mass index. Results: A total of 3,150 patients was included in the final analysis. A worsening was observed in all risk factors, excepting in smoking habit, incidence of myocardial infarction or stroke and in the number of individuals classified as medium or high risk for cardiovascular events. In addition, a decrease in stress level and alcohol consumption was also seen. Conclusion: The adoption of consistent health policies by companies is imperative in order to reduce the risk factors and the future costs associated with illness and absenteeism.
The J-Domain Protein J3 Mediates the Integration of Flowering Signals in Arabidopsis[W]

This study demonstrates that Arabidopsis DNAJ HOMOLOG 3 (J3) responds to various flowering signals and mediates the transcriptional regulation of two major floral pathway integrators, FLOWERING LOCUS T and SUPPRESSOR OF OVEREXPRESSION OF CONSTANS1. J3 mediates this regulation through its interaction with a key flowering repressor, SHORT VEGETATIVE PHASE. The timing of the switch from vegetative to reproductive development in Arabidopsis thaliana is controlled by an intricate network of flowering pathways, which converge on the transcriptional regulation of two floral pathway integrators, FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT) and SUPPRESSOR OF OVEREXPRESSION OF CONSTANS1 (SOC1). SHORT VEGETATIVE PHASE (SVP) acts as a key flowering regulator that represses the expression of FT and SOC1. Here, we report the identification of another potent flowering promoter, Arabidopsis DNAJ HOMOLOG 3 (J3), which mediates the integration of flowering signals through its interaction with SVP. J3 encodes a type I J-domain protein and is ubiquitously expressed in various plant tissues. J3 expression is regulated by multiple flowering pathways. Loss of function of J3 results in a significant late-flowering phenotype, which is partly due to decreased expression of SOC1 and FT. We further show that J3 interacts directly with SVP in the nucleus and prevents in vivo SVP binding to SOC1 and FT regulatory sequences. Our results suggest a flowering mechanism by which J3 integrates flowering signals from several genetic pathways and acts as a transcriptional regulator to upregulate SOC1 and FT through directly attenuating SVP binding to their regulatory sequences during the floral transition.
Progressive simplicial complexes

In this paper, we introduce the progressive simplicial complex (PSC) representation, a new format for storing and transmitting triangulated geometric models. Like the earlier progressive mesh (PM) representation, it captures a given model as a coarse base model together with a sequence of refinement transformations that progressively recover detail. The PSC representation makes use of a more general refinement transformation, allowing the given model to be an arbitrary triangulation (e.g. any dimension, non-orientable, non-manifold, non-regular), and the base model to always consist of a single vertex. Indeed, the sequence of refinement transformations encodes both the geometry and the topology of the model in a unified multiresolution framework. The PSC representation retains the advantages of PM’s. It defines a continuous sequence of approximating models for runtime level-of-detail control, allows smooth transitions between any pair of models in the sequence, supports progressive transmission, and offers a space-efficient representation. Moreover, by allowing changes to topology, the PSC sequence of approximations achieves better fidelity than the corresponding PM sequence. We develop an optimization algorithm for constructing PSC representations for graphics surface models, and demonstrate the framework on models that are both geometrically and topologically complex. CR Categories: I.3. 5 [Computer Graphics]: Computational Geometry and Object Modeling surfaces and object representations. Additional