Reviewerly/exHarmony huggingface dataset:
INTERFERENCES INVOLVING ALBANIAN LEARNERS OF ENGLISH IN AN ITALIAN CLASSROOM CONTEXT

A lot of comparative studies regarding the learning of two or more languages have shown that learning a second language cannot be done independently from the first one. During the intermediate phase (interlanguage), when languages are relatively similar to each other, there are a lot of transfers from the first language to the second one. However only a few studies are dealing with the interferences between foreign languages. In this research paper we present some findings regarding the transfers from English (first foreign language) to Italian (second foreign language). We are searching some answers regarding the following questions: Does the English language interfere with the Italian language? If so, which of the grammatical structures (morphology, syntax, lexicology and phonetic) are the most affected ones? Are these transfers positive or negative; temporarily or do they last long? The data used are obtained primarily from the student’s writing papers (as objective indicators) and observations throughout a full academic year. Having concluded that our target group does not have a strong English accent, only a few data are acquired from the student’s oral presentations. The questionnaires are another useful tool; these were used to collect information regarding the student’s awareness on the transfers that their English language has on the Italian language. Although the interferences between English and Italian can slow down the communication in the latter one, we can conclude that in most of the cases, they are not serious enough to affect it. Key words: language interferences, language transfers, English language, Italian language, communication.
To Flip or Not to Flip: The Benefits and Challenges of Using FlippedClassroom in the Use of Library Skills Lectures in Evangel University, Akaeze– Nigeria

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Towards Usability in Private Data Analytics

Private data analytics systems preferably provide required analytic accuracy to analysts and specified privacy to individuals whose data is analyzed. Devising a general system that works for a broad range of datasets and analytic scenarios has proven to be difficult.Despite the advent of differentially private systems with proven formal privacy guarantees, industry still uses inferior ad-hoc mechanisms that provide better analytic accuracy. Differentially private mechanisms often need to add large amounts of noise to statistical results, which impairs their usability.In my thesis I follow two approaches to improve the usability of private data analytics systems in general and differentially private systems in particular. First, I revisit ad-hoc mechanisms and explore the possibilities of systems that do not provide Differential Privacy or only a weak version thereof. Based on an attack analysis I devise a set of new protection mechanisms including Query Based Bookkeeping (QBB). In contrast to previous systems QBB only requires the history of analysts’ queries in order to provide privacy protection. In particular, QBB does not require knowledge about the protected individuals’ data.In my second approach I use the insights gained with QBB to propose UniTraX, the first differentially private analytics system that allows to analyze part of a protected dataset without affecting the other parts and without giving up on accuracy. I show UniTraX’s usability by way of multiple case studies on real-world datasets across different domains. UniTraX allows more queries than previous differentially private data analytics systems at moderate runtime overheads.
A Control System for Assessing Commercial Face Recognition Software for Racial Bias

Depending on how algorithms are trained, they could be significantly more accurate when identifying white faces than black ones.It has recently been shown that algorithms trained with biased data result in algorithmic discrimination.During training, an algorithm is given pairs of face images of the same person, and it learns to pay more attention to features that strongly indicate that the two images represent the same person.Recently, with facial recognition becoming more prevalent in law enforcement and consumer products, there is increasing concern that such systems are ominously less accurate for people with black skin.In this work, a database of still images is created with a total of 132 black-faces representing 22 individuals, having images cropped to pixel sizes of 100x100, 80x80, 60x60 and 40x40 respectively.Two separate face recognition algorithms are also developed using Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA).Performance indices of the PCA and LDA algorithms are assessed in terms of the recognition rate, error rate, false rejection rate (FRR), and false acceptance rate (FAR).The objective of this research is to provide a control measure for testing racially-biased error rates in commercially available face recognition software.
Learning local descriptors with latent hard sample mining

Recent researches on learning local descriptor are mainly based on Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), including loss function, network architecture, sample mining, etc. In this paper, we investigated the existing datasets and difficult sample mining methods for learning local feature descriptor. And we find that the samples in the train set are often not enough for various situations. Because the changes in illumination and view are continuous, but the samples are discrete. In the meanwhile, current sample mining ways only excavate existing data of train set, which is not optimal. So we proposed a new sample mining fashion, called latent hard sample mining, which can utilize potential samples for learning. This method can mitigate the influence of inadequate training samples. We compare our approach to recently introduced convolutional local feature descriptors on Photo-tour and Hpatches dataset with different losses, and demonstrate the advantages of the proposed methods in terms of performance.
University Postgraduate Research Programmes: Digitization (ICT), Innovations and Applications

Without advanced educational research, development will not occur and only technologically educated people can command the skills necessary for sustainable growth and development. However, the current generations of university postgraduate students are ushering in a new paradigm for research. Here, collaboration is made much easier, sharing of research knowledge is instant and the resultant synergies yield huge advances in research productivity and innovation. Therefore, this paper argues that ICT integration and digitization process will help university postgraduate (research) programmes to remain the same while at the same time is influencing it, determining and changing it. And giving that technological change is continuous and frequently disruptive, educational (research) policy planning should be dynamic and integrated within the framework of ecosystem innovation hub.
IMPLEMENTASI KURIKULUM 2013 DI MADRASAH ALIYAH KECAMATAN DUKUHSETI KABUPATEN PATI

The purpose of this research is to examine, analyze the implementation of the 2013 curriculum and see the success of the 2013 curriculum in the implementation of the Computer-Based National Examination (UNBK). The method used is descriptive qualitative, in relevant studies and the results of national examinations. Teachers must have 4 competencies (pedagogical, professional, personality and social competencies) and students are required to be active, creative and innovative to solve their problem learning in madrasa. The value of student’s is not only from test scores but also from the value of politeness, religion, practice, and attitude. These competencies describe the domains of knowledge, skills and attitudes that are appropriate of the functions and objectives of national education. The most interesting in 2013 curriculum is the responsiveness to phenomena and social change. This change can be observed in the implementation of computer-based national exams (UNBK). It requires hardware, internet and local computer networks, so UNBK has the advantage of saving the cost of copying examination items and to easy the distribution it to all of the regions, making it easier to print certificate after the exam. But it also has a disadvantage, namely the lack of providing of computers in madrasa. Keywords: Implementation, 2013 curriculum, Computer-Based National Examination (UNBK)
WRITING PROBLEM IN THE SECOND LANGUAGE: JOURNAL OF TAIWAN BEGINNER BIPA STUDENT

This study aims to determine the ability to write BIPA students from Taiwan at beginner level. Before attending BIPA learning, they experienced difficulties when writing. Based on the placement test, the results of their abilities are beginner level. This research needs to be done because of the increasing interest of Taiwanese students to learn Indonesian. By conducting research, it can provide reference materials in making curriculum, teaching materials, and materials for BIPA students from Taiwan for beginner level. In this study using a type of descriptive qualitative research that examines Taiwanese students who are studying BIPA at the Institute of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, State University of Malang. The results of this study have found data that shows the writing ability of beginner-level BIPA students from Taiwan. Data shows that BIPA students from Taiwan have been able to write sentences using three structural variations, namely 1) S-P, 2) S-P-O, and 3) S-P – OK. Based on the results of the study, it can be concluded that BIPA students from Taiwan level beginners have the ability to write basic sentences with three different structures but the SP structure that is most understood and can be used in writing well. In addition, severalarise problem in the learning process, namely 1) the influence of the first language and 2) minimal mastery of the language structure.
Efficient Robot Path Planning in Crowded Passages

Safe mobile robot navigation is important in human-centered environments. This paper proposes to use fixed external cameras to estimate congestion in different passages. A heat map of the passages is generated for different times. The historical data of congestion is maintained in a database, and the paths are classified into hot regions with large crowd, or cold regions with less crowd, in different times. This enables a robot to estimate the probability of crowd in different passages of the map, at a given time, and plan a path through passages with low probability of dynamic obstacles. Robot uses this information to plan congestion free paths for safe navigation. Results suggests that the proposed algorithm increases the safety of robot navigation by lowering the probability of collision in human centered environments by planning a path through less congested passages.
INTERACTIVE FORMS OF EDUCATIONAL AND PREVENTIVE WORK OF CHILD AND YOUTH COUNSELOR AT SCHOOL

The article focuses on the peculiarities of interactive forms of activities usage at child and youth counselor’s work in order to educate and prevent. It analyzes directions and kinds of interactive forms of work. The paper specifies that with the help of surveys, conversations and content analysis, which interactive forms of work are effective and which difficulties can be encountered when using them, and what forms of work are familiar to students.It is found that in their professional life child and youth counselors use the following interactive forms of educational and preventive work based on the interview: video-lectures, a social advertisement, a training, a dispute, a psychological circle, a flashmob/a photo flashmob, a discussion, debates, a puppet theatre, a forum theatre.According to the content analysis of child and youth counselors annual plans, we have figured out that most often child and youth counselors plan to use the following forms of work: a conversation, a consultation, an educational hour, a training, a meeting with experts, a competition/an exhibition, watching movies.It has been found out that interactive forms of educational work help to prevent such negative social phenomena as: bulling, violence, an internet addiction. It also helps to overcome fears and communication with peers, prevent conflicts, aggression, anxiety, collective thought formation, violence, human trafficking, bad habits and so forth.The use of interactive forms of educational and preventive work has some specificity, which is that the interactive forms contribute to the active interaction of students with each other and with the social educator. Such forms of work for children are more interesting than the traditional, as well as interactive forms require less storytelling, more clarity, and active action. The effective use of interactive forms requires preparation for them, the necessary technical means, etc. The social teacher in his professional activity should use interactive forms of educational and preventive work, because thanks to them both educational and preventive work will be more effective.
I could give a fig - the library’s role in open scholarship

A presentation given at Gregynog 2019 - a colloquium organised for IT and library staff to discuss recent development and exchange experiences.#gregynog2019
Investigation of Effects on Low Cognitive Load Zoom Method Based on Typical Movements during Gazing to Reduce Motion Sickness in Teleoperation of Legged Robots with HMD

Detailed views are necessary for precise manipulation in teleoperation of humanoid robots controlled by the master slave system with head mounted display. Thus, we have proposed an autonomous zoom method based on the positions of the hands, which could increase work efficiency. However, it caused motion sickness and high cognitive load owing to little reflection of operators’ intention. In this study, we thus propose a low cognitive-load zooming interface with little motion sickness. Motion sickness can be reduced by active conditions with manual control rather than passive conditions. Moreover, the interface should let operators reflect their intention to realize a low cognitive load zoom. Furthermore, the interface should be without upper limbs because operators control robots by their upper limbs. Thus, we developed the zoom interface with head movements which are typical movements during gazing. The experimental results suggest that the proposed interface can reduce sickness and cognitive load.
The quality of soil organic matter, accessed by 13C Solid State NMR, is more important than its content concerning pesticide adsorption.

The need for food will increase by 59-98% from 2005 to 2050, and its global growth production has been achieved mainly through the intensive use of inputs such as pesticides and chemical fertilizers. Once released to the soil, sorption (represented by Kd values) and degradation are two governing processes that determine the distribution and persistence of pesticides. In spite of the huge dataset, the only apparent generalization is the high correlation between Kd and soil organic matter (SOM) content. This is because the SOM is the main adsorption site for pesticides. Seeking to normalize the experimental data and to access the pesticides mobility, the KOC value is calculated: Kd normalized by soil organic C content (C).
MODERN FOREIGN APPROACHES TO UNDERSTANDING LEADERSHIP AND UPBRINGING LEADERS

Contemporary foreign approaches to understanding leadership and educa­tion and upbringing future leaders have been considered. It’s been revealed that in the mod­ern foreign organizational psychology, progressive models of leadership, which replace the traditional leader-centered approaches, are becoming increasingly popular. This transfor­mation is primarily conditioned by transition from industrial to post-industrial paradigm of development, which significantly increases the role of information, intelligence and innova­tion in all spheres of life. Progressive leadership concepts are characterized by a number of features reflecting changes in interpretation of this complex phenomenon: considering lead­ership not as an individual influence of a leader on his subordinates, but as a kind of relation­ship in which an important role is assigned to the leader’s followers; transition from compet­itive transactional leadership to cooperative transformative one; enhancement the leader’s educational function. The presence of different views on leadership nature and purpose causes the existence of different approaches to the leaders’ education. The analysis of differ­ences in leadership understanding within traditional and progressive concepts enabled to distinguish between two leader training models – normatively-adaptive and personally-devel­oping, differing in their tasks and methods of implementation. Both models have their ad­vantages and limitations and can be effective under certain conditions. Taking into account specific circumstances, the general strategy lies in finding the optimal balance of norma­tively-adaptive and personally-developing models, making possible upbringing the new gen­eration leaders, who are able not only manage subordinates, but also contribute to their per­sonal growth, bringing them together around common goals, and inspiring for making positive changes in society.
The moral dilemmas of Italian principals

The purpose of this study is to investigate the moral dilemmas faced by a principal. A well-functioning school depends on many factors. Among these factors, the competence of the principal plays an important role. Often this competence, defined as leadership, is understood in a technical way because it is often interpreted as the acquisition of legal and management skills. In contrast, a good school requires strong humanistic competence and, in particular, ethical knowledge. The narratives of the principals reveal the sense of the inadequacy of their role: the administrators declared that they do not have a suitable and complete preparation to manage the complexity of the system. Their primary concerns relate to the evaluation and disciplinary aspects of the students, as well as the sense of responsibility aimed at the training of the entire person, not only his personal education.&#x0D; Keywords: Ethical leadership, Italian principals, moral dilemmas.
Using Moodle Learning Management System In University's Educational Process: Teaching Experience

The article describes the teachers’ experience of using Moodle learning management system in the university educational process. For this, the relevance of using the Moodle system is justified, the degree of its introduction in the world and in Russia is defined, this system didactic capabilities for managing the educational process are described. The article presents the results of a practical study of the Moodle system implementation at Nizhny Novgorod State Pedagogical University (Minin University). The purpose of the study is to describe the experience of using the Moodle system in the university educational process, as well as to identify problems and prospects for the further this system development. As a result, the degree of Moodle ease of use, the frequency of its use, the most frequently used tools were identified, the effectiveness was assessed, the level of teachers’ competence, their main difficulties, prospects and the desire to use Moodle to improve the educational process were assessed. Conclusions are drawn about the teachers awareness of the Moodle learning management system’s abilities to reduce time costs, control the educational process, replicate content, provide feedback, implement group interaction; lack of teachers’ competence in the development and use of e-courses in the Moodle system, etc. The general conclusion of the work is the confirmation of the need to develop a set of organizational and pedagogical conditions that will increase motivation and strengthen the teachers training to use Moodle.
Applied artificial intelligence as expert system for diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease using fuzzy sukamoto

Alzheimer's disease is indeed difficult to detect at the beginning of an attack because it resembles ordinary senility, but gradually the ability to think and the motoric abilities of sufferers decreases. The peak, sufferers can no longer think normally. In the end the sufferer can experience death after several years because his motoric ability is not functioning. As a solution, technology can help in solving existing problems as early as possible. By using technology information and computers, doctors and paramedics are expected to be able to detect the presence of Alzheimer's disease earlier quickly and easily. One technology that can be used is the Expert System. This expert system will collect the necessary information, then the existing information is processed in a predetermined rule and then draw conclusions from the data obtained. An expert system prototype for the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease, which the author developed is a model to support diagnosis decision making. By using Fuzzy Tsukamoto calculations the results of accuracy are high so that it can help doctors make decisions for patients. The author has tested 25 patients diagnosed samples obtained an accuracy of 0.92. This shows that Fuzzy Tsukamoto has a high level of accuracy to diagnose this disease. As conclution, Fuzzy Tsukamoto's calculation technique is proven to be able to solve the problem of diagnosing Alzheimer's disease quickly and accurately.
Library systems: SaaS or Open Source?

Presentation at University of Maryland Libraries’ Environmental Scan session, 2 October 2019.
Projection in a Description Logic of Context with Actions

Projection is the problem of checking whether the execution of a given sequence of actions will achieve its goal starting from some initial state. In this paper, we study a setting where we combine a two-dimensional Description Logic of context (ConDL) with an action formalism. We choose a well-studied ConDL where both: the possible states of a dynamical system itself (object level) and also different context-dependent views on this system state (context level) are organised in relational structures and can be described using usual DL constructs. To represent how such a system and its views evolve we introduce a suitable action formalism. It allows one to describe change on both levels. Furthermore, the observable changes on the object level due to an action execution can also be context- dependent. We show that the formalism is well-behaved in the sense that projection has the same complexity as standard reasoning tasks in case ALCO is the underlying DL.
Geração de rotas planares com curvaturas contínuas a partir de rotas geradas pelo método dos campos potenciais artificiais

This paper proposes a path generation strategy that yields optimised planar paths with continuous curvatures.Paths free of collisions with static obstacles are generated in the workspace W ⊆ R 2 through the application of the method of the artificial potential fields.Obstacle positions must be known in advance.Such primitive paths are then optimisedlength reduction -and smoothed -reduction of the frequent, sudden direction changes.Lastly, paths with continuous curvatures are built on the optimised and smoothed paths.Such paths are constructed with straight lines connected through pairs of mirror-symmetric twin clothoids.They are of great importance to the mobile robotics area, both terrestrial and aquatic, and allow to reach more ambitious goals, set in the configuration space C ⊆ R 3 -position and orientation (heading) in the plane.Resumo: Este artigo propõe uma estratégia para geração de rotas planares otimizadas com curvaturas contínuas.Em primeiro lugar são geradas rotas livres de colisões com obstáculos estáticos presentes no espaço de trabalho W ⊆ R 2 , cujas posições são conhecidas de antemão, através do método dos campos potenciais artificiais.Essas rotas primitivas são então otimizadas -redução de comprimento -e suavizadas -