Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Beyond the Boundaries: A Sharing of Power in Processes of Public Education Decision-Making and Planning

In the absence of court-ordered desegregation processes, districts have resorted to other methods of comprehensive public education planning. The student assignment and school boundaries review process for the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS), conducted in Washington, DC in the fall of 2013, is a prime example of such an activity. The last review of this process was undertaken in 1968, and since that time over 50 DCPS schools have closed. Over many years, there was a steady decrease in the city’s population and the rise of a separately governed system of public charter schools. In the last few years, the population has increased. The goal of the most recent review process was to engage communities in conversations about not only particular boundary proposals but also deeper policy conversations focused on equal education opportunities and issues regarding a need for responsiveness to the changing demographics of the city. This dissertation study examines how a sharing of power, between administrators and the public, in decision making can work to ease the inherent tensions between bureaucracy and democracy. Using a unique dataset, the researcher examines a singlecase study, of Washington, DC, to explore a process representative of ‘shared decision-making’ between citizens and government and discusses how processes designed to be deliberative and inclusive not only encourage participation but ultimately have a vital role in creating a sense of legitimacy and ownership of a process. From these findings through the theoretical frameworks of coproduction and inclusion, the researcher hopes to glean insights that can contribute to how shared decision-making processes, through the actions of the public manager, play a role in addressing public education issues. Beyond the Boundaries: A Sharing of Power in Processes of Public Education Decision-Making and Planning Faith Gibson Hubbard GENERAL AUDIENCE ABSTRACT This researched is focused on how public managers, bureaucrats, can show responsiveness to the needs and wants of the citizens they serve through authentically including citizens in the process of decision-making. To examine this topic, this research reviews a process of public decision-making regarding how revisions were made to public school boundaries in Washington, DC. The findings from this research showed that the inclusion, and authentic partnership, of citizens throughout the process lead to greater outcomes, which the citizens felt were reflective of their participants and feedback.
“It’s a new game out there”: e-commerce in internationalising retail SMEs

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how market factors (pertaining to institutions, competition and resources) shape the international strategies of an online retailer. Design/methodology/approach A single qualitative case study research design is employed to conduct in-depth analyses of a Swedish internationalising small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME) in the retail business. Findings The findings show that online retailers can use partnerships to tackle industry dynamics and break into foreign markets. This type of “piggy-back internationalisation” can be an effective strategy of handling foreign market dynamics in the entry phase: that is to say, the short term. Reliance upon relationships, however, may paradoxically inhibit retailers’ abilities to stay competitive in the post-entry phase (i.e. the long term) since they become cut-off from the first-hand market learning. Research limitations/implications The authors provide propositions based upon the findings to support further research in the international marketing and international retailing literature. Practical implications The findings enhance the understanding of how electronic commerce affects SME internationalisation. They also generate new insights into the use of possible international expansion strategies for managers in retail SMEs. Originality/value This study introduces a new theoretical perspective to build upon international retail research and contributes to the international retail literature with relevant insights into both advantages and disadvantages of using partnerships to overcome challenges related to international online retailing.
Speech Features Extraction Techniques for Robust Emotional Speech Analysis/Recognition

Speech is the most natural and convenient way of human communication. The speech represents not only a sequence of steady states of some sounds which are abruptly changing from one to another or a sound signal which can be ignored after perceiving or hearing it. But human Speech is a unique signal which carries and conveys multiple levels of knowledge source, linguistic and non-linguistic information. Speech signals are the information bearing signals which are evolved as functions of a single independent variable like time. Speech is a complex acoustic wave resulted as output of speaker’s effort. Speech serves to communicate from speaker to one or more listeners. The typical sound is called phone and it is produced when a phoneme is articulated. Most of Indian languages have 20-50 phonemes which constitute an alphabet of sounds to describe the different words in that language. Generally the speech is composed of sentences made of words. Usually words are composed of phoneme sequences called syllables. Speech analysis plays a vital role in speech recognition and synthesis. Speech analysis is also known as feature extraction or as speech signal front ends.
Advances in Research of Stereo Vision Odometry

Stereo vision odometry technology is becoming a main implementation method for mobile robot navigation and location in unstructured environments.In this paper,the research status of stereo vision odometry technology in robot navigation applications is analyzed.The current main research contents and methods of stereo vision odometry technology are summarized.Advantages and disadvantages of the various technical methods are reviewed.At last,the development of stereo vision odometry is prospected.
Software Migration,Binary Translation and Development of Domestic Processors

Binary translation is an important form of software migration. It plays an important role in processor development. Its implementation is closely associated with the processor architecture. The development of domestic general-purpose processor is an effective means of breaking the foreign chip makers in the field of monopoly. The combination of binary translation technology and domestic general-purpose processor will speed up and improve the ecological environment of domestic generalpurpose processor. It is significant for promoting the development of domestic processors.
THE PATTERNS OF INTEGRATED REPORTING: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF COMPANIES LISTED ON THE JOHANNESBURG STOCK EXCHANGES AND INDONESIA STOCK EXCHANGES

Integrated reporting is considered as the new format of financial reporting that provides users with more comprehensive and concise information. However, the format of integrated reporting is still developing that lead companies implementing integrated reporting with different level of information. This study aims at investigating the integrated reporting patterns of companies from two different reporting regimes (mandatory vs voluntary). Using annual reports of companies listed on the JSE and IDX, this study find that there are differences in seven of nine dimensions of integrated reporting among companies listed in the two markets. The only dimensions of integrated reporting with the similar patterns between the two regimes are ethical leadership and compliance with laws, codes, rules, and standards. The study contributes to the need for considering the institutional differences in studying integrated reporting issues and provide the regulators with the need for preparing relevant standards as a guidance for integrated reporting implementation
Toward Open and Programmable Wireless Network Edge

TOWARD OPEN AND PROGRAMMABLE WIRELESS NETWORK EDGE Mostafa Uddin Old Dominion University, 2016 Director: Dr. Tamer Nadeem Increasingly, the last hop connecting users to their enterprise and home networks is wireless. Wireless is becoming ubiquitous not only in homes and enterprises but in public venues such as coffee shops, hospitals and airports. However, most of the publicly and privately available wireless networks are proprietary and closed in operation. Also, there is little effort from industries to move forward on a path to greater openness for the requirement of innovation. Therefore, we believe it is the domain of university researchers to enable innovation through openness. In this thesis work, we introduces and defines the importance of open framework in addressing the complexity of the wireless network. The Software Defined Network (SDN) framework has emerged as popular solution for the data center network. However, the promise of the SDN framework is to make the network open, flexible and programmable. In order to deliver on the promise, SDN must work for all users and across all networks, both wired and wireless. Therefore, we proposed to create new modules and APIs to extend the standard SDN framework all the way to the end-devices (i.e., mobile devices, APs). Thus, we want to provide an extensible and programmable abstraction of the wireless network as part of the current SDN-based solution. In this thesis work, we design and develop a framework, weSDN 1 (wireless extension of SDN), that extends the SDN control capability all the way to the end devices to support client↔network interaction capabilities and new services. weSDN enables the control-plane of wireless networks to be extended to mobile devices and allows for top-level decisions to be made from a SDN controller with knowledge of the network as a whole, rather than device centric configurations. In addition, weSDN easily obtains user application information, as well as the ability to monitor and control application flows dynamically. Based on the weSDN framework, we demonstrate new services such as application-aware traffic management, WLAN virtualization, and security management. Pronounced as ‘wee-SDN’
Workforce scheduling and planning : a combinatorial approach

This thesis investigates solution methodologies for concrete combinatorial problems in scheduling and planning. In all considered problems, it is assumed that the available information does not change over time; hence these problems have a deterministic structure. The problems studied in this thesis are divided into two groups; \workforce scheduling" and \planning". In workforce scheduling, the center problem is to build a schedule of tasks and technicians. It is assumed that the time line is split into workdays. In every workday, tasks must be grouped as sequences, each being performed by a team of technicians. Skill requirements of every task in a sequence must be met by the assigned team. This scheduling problem with some other aspects is di? cult to solve quickly and e? ciently. We developed a Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) based heuristic approach to tackle this complex scheduling problem. Our MIP model is basically a formulation of the matching problem on bipartite graphs and it enabled us to have a global way of assigning technicians to tasks. It is capable of revising technician-task allocations and performs very well, especially in the case of rare skills. A workday schedule of the aforementioned problem includes many-to-one type workforce assignments. As the second problem in workforce scheduling, stability of these workforce assignments is investigated. The stability de? nition of Gale-Shapley on the Marriage model is extended to the setting of multi-skill workforce assignments. It is shown that ? nding stable assignments is NP-hard. In some special cases stable assignments can be constructed in polynomial time. For the general case, we give linear inequalities of binary variables that describe the set of stable assignments. We propose a MIP model including these linear inequalities. To the best of our knowledge, the Gale-Shapley stability is not studied under the multi-skill workforce scheduling framework so far in the literature. The closed form description of stable assignments is also the ? rst embedding of the Gale-Shapley stability concept into an NP-complete problem. In the second problem group, two vehicle related problems are studied; the "dial a ride problem" and the "vehicle refueling problem". In the former, the goal is to check whether a list of pick-up and delivery tasks can be achieved under several timing constraints. It is shown this feasibility testing can be done in linear time using interval graphs. In the vehicle refueling problem, the goal is to make refueling decisions to reach a destination such that the cost of the travel is minimized. A greedy algorithm is presented to ? nd optimal refueling decisions. Moreover, it is shown that the vehicle refueling problem is equivalent to a ow problem on a special network.
TRANFORMASI SISTEM PEMBAYARAN ELEKTORNIK DI INDONESIA DAN IMPLIKASINYA TERHADAP KEMAJUAN BISNIS KREATIF BERBASIS DARING DI WILAYAH EKS-KERESIDENAN BESUKI

Perkembangan tekhnologi digital tidak bisa terbendung seiring dengan berkembangnya jaman, merambah dari sektor industri pengolahan hingga industri di sektor keuangan. Tingginya persaingan menuntut banyak pihan untuk saling mendorong memajukan beberapa sektor lainnya juga melakukan transformasi secara besar-besaran. Tujuan dalam penelitian ini pertama, Menjabarkan perkembangan pembayaran elektronik selama periode tahun 2015 hingga tahun 2018. Kedua, Mengeksplorasi dampak perkembangan pembayaran elektronik terhadap kemajuan UMKM di wilayah Eks-Keresidenan Besuki. Ketiga, yaitu mendifinisikan Implikasi digitalisasi pembayaran terhadap kemajuan sistem pembayaran di masyarakat khususnya di Kabupaten Situbondo. Penelitian dilaksanakan menggunakan metode pendekatan deskriptif kualitatif dan deskriptif kuantitatif. Wilayah penelitian meliputi Eks-Keresidenan Besuki yaitu Kabupaten Situbondo, Kabupaten Bondowoso, Kabupaten Banyuwangi dan Kabupaten Jember. Beberapa Hasil riset menunuukkan bahwa 56.80% responden baru memiliki kartu uang elektronik selama satu tahun atau kurang sedsngkan 42.43% responden merasa uang elektronik telah membantu mereka lebih mengendalikan pengeluaran mereka. Jika dipantau terdspat beberapa jenis layananan pembayaran elektronik di Indonesia saat ini dianatranya Emoney yang meliputi Flazz BCA, Tap Cash BNI, Brizzi BRI dan E-Money Mandiri. Sedangkan untulayanan E-Wallet terdiri dari E-Cash Bank Mandiri, T-Cash Telkomsel, Rekening Ponsel Bank CIMB Niaga dan Go-Pay. Saat ini juga mata uang digital Cryptocurrency juga menjadi populer dimasyarakat, namun seiring perjalannya Pemerintah Indonesia resmi melarang mata uang ini dikarenakan tidak adanya lembaga yang menjamin keamanan transaksinya. Implikasi terhadap Kemajuan Bisnis Kreatif Berbasis Daring Di Wilayah Eks-Keresidenan Besuki tentu akan terasa dengan mudahnya akses pemasaran untuk mendapatkan konsumen baru secara luas. Disamping itu semakin canggihnya tekhnologi saat ini khususnya sitem transaksi, penipuan sudah mulai turun sejak munculnya perugeseran sistem transaksi online dari tahun 2015 dimana berawal dari social media ke e-commerce platform. Terbukti jumlah UMKM bari di wilayah Eks-Keresidenan Besuki terus mengalami peningkatan luar biasa pada saat ini, dengan menawarkan berbagai jenis produk kreatif di beberapa platform ecommerce di Indonesia.
Discovering Spanish Voices Abroad in a Digital World

This case study describes and assesses the Open Practice module Discovering Spanish Voices Abroad in a Digital World, one of the pedagogical applications of the JISC project OpenLIVES, which digitised Oral History interviews of Spanish migrants in the HumBox repository. This case study pays specific attention to learner production of Open Educational Resources. Through the process of production, learners developed their critical and practical understanding of Oral History and Migration by working with OpenLIVES interviews and other OER. Learners also carried out interviews with new research informants, produced their own audio documentaries on Spanish migration based on old and new interviews and finally published their outputs as OER. This case study demonstrates how the learners fulfill a virtuous circle of skills acquisition, meaningful learning and knowledge transfer, as they reuse OER and share their own research data, insights and knowledge with the open global community in OER repositories. Student generated materials were then added to the original collection of resources. The teacher offers a scaffolding of learning activities, team-work, support and feedback that enables the learners to make the most of this real life and ethical experience, whilst benefiting the wider community and giving the narratives of the migrants the credit they deserve.
Automatic music classification with jmir

Automatic music classification is a wide-ranging and multidisciplinary area of inquiry that offers significant benefits from both academic and commercial perspectives. This dissertation focuses on the development of jMIR, a suite of powerful, flexible, accessible and original software tools that can be used to design, share and apply a wide range of automatic music classification technologies. jMIR permits users to extract meaningful information from audio recordings, symbolic musical representations and cultural information available on the Internet; to use machine learning technologies to automatically build classification models; to automatically collect profiling statistics and detect metadata errors in musical collections; to perform experiments on large, stylistically diverse and well-labelled collections of music in both audio and symbolic formats; and to store and distribute information that is essential to automatic music classification in expressive and flexible standardised file formats. In order to have as diverse a range of applications as possible, care was taken to avoid tying jMIR to any particular types of music classification. Rather, it is designed to be a general-purpose toolkit that can be applied to arbitrary types of music classification. Each of the jMIR components is also designed to be accessible not only by users with a high degree of expertise in computer-based research technologies, but also by researchers with valuable musical expertise, but perhaps less of a background in computational research. Moreover, although the jMIR software can certainly be used as a set of ready-to-use tools for solving music classification problems directly, it is also designed to serve as an open-source platform for developing and testing original algorithms. This dissertation also describes several experiments that were performed with jMIR. These experiments were intended not only to verify the effectiveness of the software, but also to investigate the utility of combining information from different types of musical data, an approach with the potential to significantly advance the performance of automatic music classification in general.
Customers satisfaction and brand loyalty at McDonalds Maroc

Customer satisfaction is paramount to businesses success. It has been researched in business and marketing since the 1970s. If customer satisfaction is achieved brand loyalty often results. Because of that, brand loyalty has also been heavily researched in the last few decades. The purpose of the current research was to determine the drivers of customer satisfaction and brand loyalty, as well as examining the relationship between the two. Our investigation examined the effects on the marketing mix (the 7 Ps, including price, promotion, place, etc.) on customer satisfaction and brand loyalty at McDonald’s restaurants in Morocco. A quantitative method was used in the study, with a survey research design. The results of the study indicate that the marketing mix does indeed influence customer satisfaction and brand loyalty. Implications of the findings are beneficial for both scholars and practitioners of marketing and business. Key words: McDonald’s, customer satisfaction, brand loyalty, fast food, Morocco, Africa.
The Exchange Visits between LabVIEW and SQL Server

Aiming at the deficiency of LabVIEW in connecting a professional database and manipulating data difficultly, and according to the actual need of a LabVIEW test system in data processing, a method using free saddlebag -LabSQL is applied to realize the exchange visits between LabVIEW and SQL Server, and actualized the exchange visits. Tested by experimentation, the method can be applied easily and improve the speed of exploiture 2-3 times, it would solve the deficiency of LabVIEW in connecting a professional database and manipulating data; and enlargethe application range of LabVIEW test system.
Analysis of the applicability of business models in a recycling market

Organizations’ attention on sustainable development have increased in recent years and societies have become more aware of its importance. To manage this new development, organizations have begun to apply business models to quickly locate new value creation within their strategies. This master thesis aim is to investigate how organizations, with the help of business models, can create new values and circular economies for the residual waste of bottoms ash, which today is handled as end covering material on landfills. Furthermore, the work investigates what actors are relevant for the business model and what barriers they highlight with finding new solutions for the material bottom ash. The study has been finalised with a comprehensive interview study with organizations and authorities whom concern bottom ash. This, to directly get a relevant insertion of the organizations and the authorities knowledge level, concerns and thoughts regarding the bottom ash potential. The results of the interview study have afterwards been used to create a business canvas model with the aim of mapping the most important actors and partners regarding bottom ash as well as other segments that contribute to possible new value creation for the material. Finally, a SWOT-analysis has also been performed with the purpose of further analyse the bottom ash’s strengths and weaknesses based on the results from the interviews. The result showed that the biggest barriers for finding new areas of usage for bottom ash are a large dissemination of knowledge between the various authorities and the companies, but above all a lack of standard from the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency. For a new solution for bottom ash to be accepted, it will be required that the material becomes prioritized among the involved actors so that a common change is formed. The fact that a standard will be needed is also emphasizes in the SWOT-analysis that has been evaluated. But the SWOT-analysis also highlights all the possibilities that bottom ash has, including as a road construction where bottom ash has many common characteristics to be used as an alternative material to create circular economy and thereby, minimize the extraction of new valuable materials.
THE MODEL FOR CHINESE BASENP STRUCTURE ANALYSIS

The paper puts forward a potential dependency relation based model for Chinese baseNP structure analysis, which has the following characteristics: The dependency grammar is integrated into the statistical model so that the baseNP structure can be analyzed under the supervision of dependency grammar. The performance of the model is superior to that of pure statistical model, adjacency model; The proposed acquisition algorithm of potential dependency strength is based on MDL principle, in which both the data fitness and the generality of the model are considered. The performance of the algorithm is superior to that of the traditional ML based algorithm; The acquisition algorithm is implemented on the basis of complex feature set, so that the data sparseness problem is solved successfully. The experiment shows that the proposed model is suitable for Chinese baseNP structure analysis.