Reviewerly/exHarmony huggingface dataset:
Efficient Pre-Designed Convolutional Front-End for Deep Learning

This paper introduces a hierarchical learning paradigm based on a predesigned directional filter bank front-end analogous to the energy model for complex cells. The filter bank front-end is designed to extract common primitive features such as orientations and edges. Each energy response is subjected to a shunting inhibition operator to enhance contrast and reduce the effects of illumination variations. This is followed by a divisive-normalization, which bounds the responses of the feature maps. The normalized responses are then propagated through a two-layer convolutional neural network (CNN) back-end for classification. The efficiency of the proposed approach is demonstrated using the CIFAR-10 dataset, and its performance is compared against that of the DTCWT ScaterNet front-end.
An Analysis of School-Level Factors Affecting Teachers’ Professional Development Activities: Focusing on Korea and Japan

[연구목적] 본 연구는 한국과 일본을 중심으로 교사의 전문성 개발 활동에 미치는 학교수준 요인을 밝히고자 하였다. [연구방법] 이러한 목적을 달성하기 위하여 교사 전문성 개발 활동으로 참여 활동의 다양성(참여한 활동종류의 수)과 참여시간을 설정하였으며, 교사집단, 교장, 시스템이 라는 세 가지 측면에서 영향요인을 분석하였다. 분석대상은 OECD가 주관하는 TALIS (Teaching and learning International Survey) 2018 데이터 중 한국 중학교 150개교 및 2,542명의 교사와 일본 중학교 191개교 및 3,175명의 교사이다. 분석은 교사-학교의 2수준 다층모형을 적용하였으며 분석결과는 다음과 같다. [연구결과] 주요 연구결과는 첫째, 기술통계 분석결과 교사전문성 개발 활동의 다양 성과 참여시간 모두 한국이 일본보다 더 높은 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 교사전문성 개발에 있어 다양성에 영향을 미치는 요인은 한국과 일본 모두 교사집단의 혁신성이 긍정적인 것으로 나타났다. 셋째, 교사전문성 개발에 참여한 시간의 경우 한국은 교사의 혁신 성이, 일본은 시스템상의 자율성이 정적 영향을 미치고 있었다. [결론] 본 연구 결과에 따른 한국과 일본의 교사 전문성 개발의 차이를 기반으로 각국의 특수성을 반영한 정책적 시사점을 제안하였다.Purpose: This study analyzed the factors within schools in South Korea and Japan, including teacher groups, principals, and systems, which affect teachers’ professional development activities. Methods: This study employed a two-level HLM approach to analyze data from the 2018 Teaching and Learning International Survey 2018. The sample was comprised of 150 South Korean middle school principals, 2,542 South Korean middle school teachers, 191 Japanese middle school principals, and 3,175 Japanese middle school teachers. Results: First, Korean teachers were found to participate in more diverse professional development activities and spend longer on them than their Japanese counterparts. Second, the innovation level of the teacher group seemed to affect the number of professional development activities the teachers completed positively in both Korea and Japan. And third, in terms of hours spent on professional development activities, the innovation level of the Korean teacher group and the autonomy level in the Japanese group had positive impacts. Conclusion: Based on the differences in the professional development of teachers in Korea and Japan in this study, education policy implications were discussed based on the specific educational characteristics of each country.
Open Textbooks: університетські бібліотеки і відкрита освіта

The current model of textbooks is recognized as unstable all over the world. One of the main reasons for this (against the background of higher tuition fees) is the high cost of textbooks, which creates problems for students, teachers, and libraries alike. This problem can be solved by university libraries that are developing digital library publishing (DLP) as a new service based on open access to knowledge. Creating high quality digital content that meets the requirements of institutions to support research, teaching and learning is an important task for libraries. Providing free textbooks (Open Textbooks) makes it possible to: 1) save money for students; 2) improve student information practices, especially for persons with disabilities; 3) save money for the libraries and support services for persons with disabilities; 4) promote high quality teaching and open resources for teachers; 5) obtain reputational benefits for the university.
Analisa Dan Perancangan Sistem Manajemen Arisan Berbasis Android

Abstract — Arisan is an activity of some people who collet money regularly with the same nominal, then draws between members to determine who the winner is. Where is arisan activities are carried out manually, namely by writing the names of members in a paper, put in a straw, then placed in a container, then drawn to determine the winner. Therefore, to provide convenience in conducting arisan activities which have been carried out manually, information technology is implemented by building a social gathering management system. At the beginning of this study a process of analysis and design of the social gathering management system will be carried out by approaching through PIECES needs analysis (Performance, Information, Economics, Control, Efficiency, Service) in finding the subject matter. The results of this study are a mock up or design of an arisan management system according to needs and based on the application of the methods used. From the results of this analysis and design it can then become a reference for making applications or developing social managementKeywords—arisan, management, draw
Memes that make me forcefully exhale through my nose (due to cultural and personal reasons) The moderating effects of personality traits and cultural values on reacting to different humour styles in memes

Brands are increasingly making use of social media in order to improve their image and bemore connected to their stakeholders, along with aiming to attract new ones. However, withthis arises potential communication issues that are not present in traditional media forms.Stakeholders now expect eye-catching posts, as well as fast and effective responses frombrands. There is also increasing competition amongst brands. The use of humour is onepossible way to overcome these issues, as it grabs internet users’ attention, and aids inimproving attitudes towards brands. However, using humour can easily backfire or simplybe ineffective if a brand is not aware of its audience. This is potentially because of differentaudiences reflecting different personality traits and cultural values. Even though all humanbeingsuse humour, it can be expressed and received differently depending on these factors.Therefore, this thesis aims to give guidance on this matter, as to how brands can effectivelyuse humour to communicate and improve relations with their stakeholders. Thus, the thesisshall be examining the research question of ‘how do personality and culture influenceindividuals’ reactions to different types of humour?’. In order to answer this researchquestion, an online study was conducted through Qualtrics with a within-subjects design.The Humour Styles Questionnaire was used as a taxonomy for the conditions used in thecurrent study, due to the fact it takes into consideration both benign and malign forms ofhumour, as well as reflecting everyday humour communication. There were four conditions -representing affiliative, self-enhancing, self-defeating and aggressive humour. In order to fitthe context of humour on social media, it was decided to use memes to represent eachhumour style. Items from the five-factor model and GLOBE questionnaires were used inorder to evaluate participants’ personality traits and cultural values. In order to test themoderating effects of personality traits and cultural values on the relation of reactions tohumour styles, several repeated measures ANCOVAs were conducted. The main findingswere that the personality trait extraversion had a significant moderating effect on thisrelation. Furthermore, it was found that gender had a main effect, with females reactingmore positively to all four humour styles.
Exploiting Transfer Learning With Attention for In-Domain Top-N Recommendation

Cross-domain recommendation has recently been extensively studied, aiming to alleviate the data sparsity problem. However, user-item interaction data in the source domain is often not available, while user-item interaction data of various types in the same domain is relatively easy to obtain. This paper proposes a recommendation method based on in-domain transfer learning (RiDoTA), which represents multi-type interactions of user-item as a multi-behavior network in the same domain, and can recommend target behavior by transferring knowledge from source behavior data. The method consists of three main steps: First, the node embedding is performed on each specific behavior network and a base network by using a multiplex network embedding strategy; Then, the attention mechanism is used to learn the weight distribution of embeddings from the above networks when transferring; Finally, a multi-layer perceptron is used to learn the nonlinear interaction model of the target behavior. Experiments on two real-world datasets show that our model outperforms the baseline methods and three state-of-art related methods in the HR and NDCG indicators. The implementation of RiDoTA is available at <uri xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">https://github.com/sandman13/RiDoTA</uri> .
Upshift - en första version av ett pianostycke i projektet "Musiken i Pianot".

Upshift - a first version of a piano piece in the project The Music in the Piano, which is a collaboration with pianist and teacher Eva Lundgren at Malmo Academy of Music.
Blockchain Technology in Logistics

This paper presents the current issues of the logistics and explains how blockchain technology can help to resolve few of them.
Exploring A Visualization System For History Paths

Many business intelligence tools aim to digest data into easy, understandable and visualizable information for helping decision-making, while they are still lack of ability to support visualizing t ...
Image encryption predicated on segmented singular value decomposition using FrFT

The protection of digital information and pictures has an integral function in defense as well as biomedical image handling applications. The formula which is usually to be utilized for the protection of data gives strength from any sort of incorrect supplies to the unwanted consumer. The idea of share matrix S(k;n) m for the creation of shares has been investigated. These types of shares give strength to the security or encryption of confidential information and images. In this article, the paper illustrates the utilization of share generation idea for encryption of the digital pictures in the SVD domain. The singular value of the SVD component functions as a good choice to create the shares of the picture. To bring further improvement in the robustness, we apply the Fractional Fourier Transform (FrFT). The sequence of the FrFT (1; 2) combined with the singular vectors (that is U and V) parts of the initial/base image functions similar to keys. Most of the state-of-the-art techniques are also studied combined with the suggested technique. A variety of quantitative parameters such as for example speed, Number of Pixels Change Rate (NPCR), Unified Average Changing Intensity (UACI), entropy, correlation coefficient, key sensitivity and Mean Square Error (MSE) has been completely researched to examine the overall performance of the suggested technique.We find our suggested technique works more effectively or perhaps comparable sufficiently.
The Moderating Effects of Professor-Student Interaction in the effects of Communication Competence of Chinese Students in Korea on Self-directed Learning Ability

This research investigated the causal relationship between communication competence and self-directed learning ability and the moderating effects of professor-student interaction in their relationships. To achieve this, a questionnaire survey was conducted on Chinese students studying in Korea from May 20, 2018, and June 20, 2018. A total of 500 copies of the questionnaire were distributed and 490 copies were collected, and finally, 480 copies were used to analyze the questionnaire. Results derived from actual proof analysis are as follows. First, communication competence has a positive(+) effect on self-directed learning ability. Second, demonstrate that sensitivity out of professor-student interaction has a moderating effect on the relationship between creative, open communication and learning plan, self-directed communication and learning implementation, and all sub-factors of communication competence and learning assessment. Next, receptiveness out of professor-student interaction has a moderating effect on the relationship between self-directed ability and learning implementation, and the relationship between understanding from others' perspectives, and learning assessment. Furthermore, accessibility out of professor-student interaction has a moderating effect on the relationship between self-directed ability and the relationship between creative, open ability and learning assessment. Finally, reliability out of professor-student interaction has no moderating effect on the relationship between communication competence and self-directed learning ability. Based on such research results, Korean universities and education institutions should improve the Communication Competence of Chinese overseas students, so as to improve the Self-Directed Learning Ability of Chinese overseas students in learning. At the same time, through the development of Professor-Student Interaction, further strengthen the Communication Competence of Chinese overseas students and the cultivation of Self-Directed Learning Ability.
Harnessing Cloud Computing Paradigm for Virtual Library Adoption in Tertiary Institutions in Nigeria

Virtual library facilities in any University improved information services delivery that supports qualitative learning and research in such institution. However, shortage of skilled manpower to manage and maintain existing ICT Infrastructure and erratic power supply to power the ICT equipment are identified as part of the challenges militating against virtual libraries implementation in Nigerian Universities. These have made it complicated for its effective maintenance and required utility throughput. This situation is further worsened by the increasing need for ubiquitous availability of electronic library services to clients as an inherent characteristic of virtual libraries, resulting to prohibitive establishment and operational cost for the tertiary institutions to meet up. This study tends to address the identified problems by harnessing the benefits presented by open source and cloud computing technologies for the development and management of virtual library in Nigerian tertiary institution. The model presented in this study is based on community cloud model that leverage open source platform as a service (PaaS) and software as a service (SaaS) model to provision and maintain virtual library services.
The Use of Code Mixing by English Teachers at Mts Negeri 2 Deli Serdang.Thesis.Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teachers Training. State Islamic University of North Sumatera Medan 2019.

This research aimed to investigate the use of code mixing by English teachers at MTs Negeri 2 Deli Serdang. This study aims 1) to show the types of code mixing used by the English teachers in the teaching and learning process and type of code mixing that is most frequently used by English teachers. 2) to describe the reasons why the teachers at MTs Negeri 2 Deli Serdang used code mixing. 3) to describe the students' understanding of the use of code mixing by English teachers. The data were analyzed by using qualitative methods. The data were taken from the observation, interview with the teacher and collected the students’ score test to obtain the data regarding students' understanding toward code mixing. The data were analyzed based on the types of code mixing by Hoffman's theory namely: intra sentential code mixing, intra lexical code mixing, and involving a change of pronunciation. The English teachers of MTs Negeri 2 Deli Serdang except teacher 1 used the three types of code mixing. Teacher 1 only used two types of code mixing namely intra sentential code mixing and involving a change of pronunciation. All of the teachers of MTs Negeri 2 Deli Serdang most frequently used intra-sentential code mixing in the teaching and learning process. The reasons for the teachers used code mixing in teaching and learning process were to make students more understand what is said or instructed by the teacher and understand the material explained. The students at MTs Negeri 2 Deli Serdang could understand English lessons taught by teachers by using code mixing which could be seen from the results of their tests which half of the students succesfully reached KKM.
Dave’s Lounge

Havering Children and families department ongoing blog series around best practice and culture change.
The Effect of Estafet Writing on Students’ Writing Descriptive Text for Junior High School of Grade Seven SMP 6 Panyabungan in Academic Year 2018/2019.

The aim of this research is to shows the effectiveness of Estafet writing in teaching writing procedure text which was observed and analyzed from students of seven grade at SMP 6 Panyabungan. The method applied in this research was the quantitative method with the experimental research design. The population of this study was the students at seven grade SMP 6 Panyabungan. This study was conducted with two groups, namely experimental and control class. Then the researcher taught in the experimental class by using Estafet writing and control class taught by using lecturing method, practice, product learning. After treatment, the researcher gave the post-test to both of classes. The score of post-test were collected from written test. After the calculated by using SPSS V 22, tobserved (8.508) which is higher than ttable in the degree significance 5% (1.673). Furthermore, the test of hypotheses showed that sig 2 tailed (p) was 0.000\0 while alpha (α) was 0.05 (0.000< 0.05) meaning that H0 (Null Hypothesis) was rejected and Hα(Alternative Hypothesis) was accepted. It means that there was the effect of estafet writingg on students’ achievement in writing procedure text.
SUPPORT OF PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY OF NOVICE TEACHERS BY MEANS OF THE PROJECT “ADAPTATION OF YOUNG TEACHERS IN A GENERAL EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATION”

The urgency of the problem under study is caused by the need to implement the management of the adaptation process of young teachers in a general education organization and the insufficient development of theoretical, substantive-technological and scientific-methodological aspects of the management of the adaptation process of young teachers in the process of pedagogical activity. In this regard, the article proposes the development, testing and management of an educational project on the adaptation of young teachers in a general education organization, addresses the issues of defining and creating organizational and pedagogical conditions for managing an educational project on the adaptation of young teachers in school. The effectiveness of the created and implemented organizational and pedagogical conditions is considered by the authors through the prism of key functional areas of project management. The purpose of the article is to describe the implementation of a project on the adaptation of young teachers in a general educational organization and an experimental verification of the effectiveness of its management based on the developed matrix of work on the formation of organizational and pedagogical conditions. The main method of studying this problem is design, which allows to consider this problem as a process of purposeful and conscious project management for the adaptation of young teachers in a general education organization.
Extracting Customer Sentiments from Email Support Tickets : A case for email support ticket prioritisation

BackgroundDaily, companies generate enormous amounts of customer support tickets which are grouped and placed in specialised queues, based on some characteristics, from where they are resolved by t ...
Exploring Microstructural Descriptors in Elastomeric Foams Using Digital Image Correlation and Statistical Analysis

In this work, we investigated microstructural features of elastomeric foam with the goal of identifying descriptors other than porosity that have a significant effect on the macroscale mechanical response. X-ray computed tomography (XCT) provided three-dimensional images of several flexible polyurethane foam samples prior to mechanical testing. The samples were then compressed to approximately 80% engineering strain. Stereo digital image correlation was used to measure the three-dimensional surface displacement data, from which strain was determined. The strain data, which were calculated with respect to the undeformed coordinates, were then overlaid on the corresponding surface generated from XCT. Heterogeneities in the strain-field were cross-correlated with topological quantities such as pore size distribution. A statistically significant correlation was identified between the distance transform of the pore phase and strain fluctuations.
Audit the Implementation of Information Technology Governance in Financial Services Company Using COBIT 4.1 Framework

The performance of information technology in company needs to be monitored and evaluated periodically so that all information technology management mechanisms run in accordance with the planning, objectives, and strategic plans set by the company. The purpose of this research is to audit the implementation information technology governance process in BCA Finance and measure maturity level each information technology process using COBIT 4.1. The results of this research show that BCA Finance has gained 3.08 for the average score of all four domains, which means in the defined level. BCA Finance already has standardized procedures, documented and communicated to employee personnel through training but its implementation still depends on individual capability.
Possible Barriers Affecting Implementation of ISO28000 for the Supply Chain

This paper is objective to examine the barrier of ISO28000 implementation. As more and more supply chain process faced disruption and delay due to accident, importance of supply chain security management attract the concern from top management of organization. ISO 28000 is a standard that released in 2007 which specify requirement for security management system for the supply chain. However, there are still many organization didn’t apply for this standard. Therefore, past research results about barrier for related ISO standards are reviewed to assist determine the barrier of ISO 28000 implementation. After evaluate the possible barrier, 16 barriers for ISO28000 implementation is identified and explained.
Evaluation of two vulnerability scanners accuracy and consistency in a cyber range

One challenge when conducting exercises in a cyber range is to know what applications and vulnerabilities are present on deployed computers. In this paper, the reliability of application-and vulner ...
Chromalys - keynote presentation

A first draft of a keynote presentation of a new method of harmonic analysis of tonal music based on colours.