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BlackboxBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark of Black-box Adversarial Attacks

Adversarial examples are well-known tools to evaluate the vulnerability of deep neural networks (DNNs). Although lots of adversarial attack algorithms have been developed, it is still challenging in the practical scenario that the model's parameters and architectures are inaccessible to the attacker/evaluator, i.e., black-box adversarial attacks. Due to the practical importance, there has been rapid progress from recent algorithms, reflected by the quick increase in attack success rate and the quick decrease in query numbers to the target model. However, there is a lack of thorough evaluations and comparisons among these algorithms, causing difficulties of tracking the real progress, analyzing advantages and disadvantages of different technical routes, as well as designing future development roadmap of this field. Thus, in this work, we aim at building a comprehensive benchmark of black-box adversarial attacks, called BlackboxBench. It mainly provides: 1) a unified, extensible and modular-based codebase, implementing 25 query-based attack algorithms and 30 transfer-based attack algorithms; 2) comprehensive evaluations: we evaluate the implemented algorithms against several mainstreaming model architectures on 2 widely used datasets (CIFAR-10 and a subset of ImageNet), leading to 14,106 evaluations in total; 3) thorough analysis and new insights, as well analytical tools. The website and source codes of BlackboxBench are available at https://blackboxbench.github.io/ and https://github.com/SCLBD/BlackboxBench/, respectively.
Local certification of unitary operations and von Neumann measurements

In this work, we analyze the local certification of unitary quantum channels and von Neumann measurements, which is a natural extension of quantum hypothesis testing. A particular case of a quantum channel and von Neumann measurement, operating on two systems corresponding to product states at the input, is considered. The goal is to minimize the probability of the type II error, given a specified maximum probability of the type I error, considering assistance through entanglement. We introduce a new mathematical structure q-product numerical range, which is a natural generalization of the q-numerical range, used to obtain result, when dealing with one system. In our findings, we employ the q-product numerical range as a pivotal tool, leveraging its properties to derive our results and minimize the probability of type II error under the constraint of type I error probability. We show a fundamental dependency: for local certification, the tensor product structure inherently manifests, necessitating the transition from q-numerical range to q-product numerical range.
Robust Multi-Modal Image Stitching for Improved Scene Understanding

Multi-modal image stitching can be a difficult feat. That's why, in this paper, we've devised a unique and comprehensive image-stitching pipeline that taps into OpenCV's stitching module. Our approach integrates feature-based matching, transformation estimation, and blending techniques to bring about panoramic views that are of top-tier quality - irrespective of lighting, scale or orientation differences between images. We've put our pipeline to the test with a varied dataset and found that it's very effective in enhancing scene understanding and finding real-world applications.
Generalizable Visual Reinforcement Learning with Segment Anything Model

Learning policies that can generalize to unseen environments is a fundamental challenge in visual reinforcement learning (RL). While most current methods focus on acquiring robust visual representations through auxiliary supervision, pre-training, or data augmentation, the potential of modern vision foundation models remains underleveraged. In this work, we introduce Segment Anything Model for Generalizable visual RL (SAM-G), a novel framework that leverages the promptable segmentation ability of Segment Anything Model (SAM) to enhance the generalization capabilities of visual RL agents. We utilize image features from DINOv2 and SAM to find correspondence as point prompts to SAM, and then SAM produces high-quality masked images for agents directly. Evaluated across 8 DMControl tasks and 3 Adroit tasks, SAM-G significantly improves the visual generalization ability without altering the RL agents' architecture but merely their observations. Notably, SAM-G achieves 44% and 29% relative improvements on the challenging video hard setting on DMControl and Adroit respectively, compared to state-of-the-art methods. Video and code: https://yanjieze.com/SAM-G/
Digital Competences of English University Teachers at Universidad Americana of Costa Rica

Summary: Introduction, Method, Results and Discussion and Conclusions and Recommendations. How to cite: Alpízar, M. (2023). Digital Competences of English University Teachers at Universidad Americana of Costa Rica. Revista Tecnológica - Espol, 35(3), 193-210. http://www.rte.espol.edu.ec/index.php/tecnologica/article/view/1080 Technology has come to society bringing with it an endless number of new applications and accessories that have facilitated the daily life of many at work, school and family level. These technologies have impacted all spheres of society, so the process of education is permeated by these changes, and therefore all levels of education. In the case of university teaching, the role of the teacher is in a period of change, in which the teacher must have the adequate and effective technological knowledge and skills. So, the objective of this study is to identify the digital competences of university teaching staff, in this case, the teachers of the English Language Teaching major of Universidad Americana, through an interpretative qualitative study. It was intended to know through an in-depth interview applied to the English teachers, about the knowledge on the use of new technologies in their courses. Within the results, it can be ascertained that English Language teaching staff of Universidad Americana of Costa Rica have an appropriate level of digital teaching competences despite the fact that they have obtained through empirical means, with a self-taught attitude and with their own experimentations in the teaching and learning process. Among the recommendations, it can be mentioned that the use of ICT leads to a process of constant updating of new applications, devices and software, which should be a teaching commitment to be carried out for life.
A threshold panel model for exploring the nonlinear connection between entrepreneurship and economic growth

The paper examines the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic growth, specifically focusing on the role of financial development as a factor that can influence this relationship. The authors employ the panel transition regression (PTR) model to analyze data from 96 countries spanning the years 2003 to 2020. The analysis reveals the presence of a threshold that determines the impact of entrepreneurship on economic growth. In the first regime, characterized by a lower level of financial development, the study finds no statistically significant influence of increased entrepreneurial activities on economic growth. This suggests that below a certain level of financial development, entrepreneurship alone may not contribute significantly to economic growth. However, in the second regime, which corresponds to a higher level of financial development, the study demonstrates a positive effect of increased entrepreneurial activity on economic growth. In this regime, an expansion of entrepreneurial endeavors leads to a beneficial impact on the overall economic growth of a country. These findings imply that there exists a minimum threshold of financial development required before it starts significantly contributing to economic growth. Once this threshold is surpassed, with the presence of adequate financial development, an increase in entrepreneurial activity can have a positive and substantial effect on a country's economic growth.
LEADERSHIP AS AN INDICATOR OF SUCCESS IN PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

Currently, significant political and socio-economic transformations taking place in society require changes in all spheres of life. The leaders assume the opportunity to carry out qualitative transformations in the country, to manage the process of innovation. An important aspect of the strategy in the field of youth policy is the training of leaders of a new formation, who are characterized by: enterprise, communication skills, mobility, the ability to work in a team, capable of cooperation. Leaders who can make decisions independently and predict the possible consequences of decisions made. The subject of the study is the factors and ways of forming a person's personality, as a leader in individual and collective activities. All theories about leadership focus on personality traits and situational processes in which they manifest themselves. Leadership qualities allow a person to set new tasks for himself, form the ability to flexibly and promptly respond to changing demands of society, as well as to global modern trends. The authors of the article believe that the process of personality formation is based on purposeful, consistent activities that contribute to the development of professional, cultural value orientations, in accordance with social, gender attitudes, which in turn lead to continuous self-education and self-development.
TRAINING STUDENTS IN THE METHODOLOGY OF CONDUCTING ECOLOGICAL AND CLIMATOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN THE PROCESS OF LEARNING

This article presents the research works of fourth-year students of the educational program 6B01514-Geography on acquiring the necessary competencies and skills during the learning process by developing a project with an analysis of local climatological features and environmental factors using the Sokol-1M small weather station. The objective of this paper is to shape students' understanding and knowledge regarding the distinct characteristics and primary features of ecological and climatological factors in the region under study. It also emphasizes teaching analytical, synthetic, and summarizing skills, problem identification, and comparison, all within the context of developing students' cognitive abilities during their learning process.Taking into account current educational needs, the concept of teaching aidshas become firmly established in the modern educator's mindset. Thus, the traditional teaching model, where professors or lecturers, responsible for the development of the course curriculum, play a central role, is being replaced by an approach that prioritizes student learning and practical skills. Upon concluding their study of the topic, students presented the project on the climatic characteristics of any given area and substantiated their findings based on the knowledge gained during their practical training on the subject. An analysis of the importance of the project development method leads to the conclusion that students' project work contributes to the activation of cognitive activities, the development of creative abilities, the cultivation of professional competencies, the fostering of independence, the enhancement of research skills, and the development of personal qualities.
Assessing the impact of Rwanda trade integration on inclusive growth

This paper analysed the impact of trade integration on inclusive growth in Rwanda using time series data from 1992 up to 2022. This study used the Fully Modified Least Squares approach to internalise the problem of endogeneity due to omitted variables and feedback effect. This study revealed evidence of deep connection between the five independent variables (trade integration, Import duties, foreign direct investment, Exchange rate, CPI inflation) and the inclusive growth of the Rwandan economy. Besides, these results indicated that an increase in trade integration is expected to increase inclusive growth in the economy of Rwanda.
Primary school of Ukraine in conditions of cognitive war: search for new ideas (from insight to technology)

The given article deals with the problems and challenges of the primary education of schoolchildren under cognitive war conditions. It carries out interdisciplinary neuro-psychological and pedagogy approaches to education, training and upbringing of young children in the context of overcoming the barriers of stress, moral losses, bombing, destruction, etc. caused by the war. The theoretical and methodological issues of distance and mixed educational process of primary schoolchildren were analyzed: goals, principles, structure of educational trajectory, technology, study and teaching strategies, expected outcomes for further development of pupils were also identified. With this paper, we aimed to identify patterns and trends in research on distance education of schoolchildren (aged 6-9 years old) during the war escalation. We synthesized the evidence for a range of less probed and researched psychological and methodological tools in our practical work focused on formation of competencies of creative perception and methods and techniques of associative thinking of younger generation in a cognitive fight in Ukraine.
Innovative methods of teaching physical and mathematical disciplines in institutions of Higher Education during the war

The article is devoted to studying innovative technologies for teaching physical and mathematical disciplines in higher education institutions of Ukraine in the conditions of war. The study aims to consider and develop innovative approaches to teaching physical and mathematical disciplines in higher education institutions, taking into account martial law. The study’s relevance is due to the limitations in the educational process due to the war, which requires the use of not only distance technologies but also a comprehensive solution to the problem of providing quality education in Ukraine. It is essential when teaching physical and mathematical disciplines that can become the basis for the further development of the defense industry of Ukraine. For the purpose of the study, the methods of general scientific knowledge were used, which include the analysis of scientific literature, synthesis of information, and grouping of data, which eventually allowed to identify the problems of teaching physical and mathematical disciplines and to propose directions for their solution using the method of induction and deduction. The results of the study show that the main innovative approaches to teaching physical and mathematical disciplines are distance education, the organization of a single knowledge base, and the use of a problem-based method of teaching physical and mathematical disciplines. Today in Ukraine, there is no single platform that higher education institutions can use for effective student learning. Therefore educational institutions use existing international and domestic platforms to organize and ensure communication processes between teachers and students, a platform for assessing knowledge, and a platform for storing lectures and other teaching materials. It is recommended to improve the approach to teaching physical and mathematical disciplines, taking into account the relevance of military topics, which would allow to educate the population, to form qualified labor resources in various sectors of the economy that would contribute to the development of the defense sector. The practical significance of the study lies in the possibility of its use in improving the methods of teaching physical and mathematicaldisciplines by higher education institutions during the war and in the period of post-war reconstruction.
Estimation and Analysis of Global Solar Radiation in Bangkok, Thailand

Estimations of direct, diffuse and global solar radiation were analytically and numerically achieved via Paltridge and Sabbage methods, yielding the profiles of solar irradiance for Bangkok, in March and April 2009. Both models have different advantages and complications; i.e., eight parameters of cloud and astronomical data were required for running PM and so 15 meteorological parameters were for SM. Daily and monthly solar radiations for 61 consecutive days, representing summertime, were calculated and profiled, together with the statistical tests by RMSE and MABE. Results show that PM was able to provide reasonable predictions of diffuse solar radiation with the RMSE and MABE in a range of 0.18–0.69 and 0.18–0.64 in March, equally for both values around 0.17–0.68 in April. These also showed good agreement with the data from pyranometer (MS 802) measurement. Daily global solar radiation determined by SM indicated similar trend with the actual data. Iest values were in a range of 21.46–29.27 MJ/m2/day with the RMSE and MABE = 6.61 in March and 21.63–29.43 MJ/m2/day with RMSE and MABE = 5.78, respectively. Moreover, the AODs were achieved at 0.05–0.17 and 0.07–0.75 for the PM and SM, respectively. In summary, the estimations of solar radiation based on computational modeling and empirical equations could practically provide reliable and instantaneous values of solar irradiation components for any location without any constraint of instrumentation or weather condition, meriting the further investigation and challenge in future research.
Interaction and Verisimilitude. How Narration Can Foster the Design Process

Abstract The role of narrative in the construction of an interaction design project is relevant since the very beginning of the discipline, when scholars in the 1990s pointed out how the whole dialogue between human and computer was developed like a theater work. Actually, the use of narrative was, and still is, focused on the unfolding of the user experience with a product/service, following the story arc and using analysis and prediction tools like journey maps. If this approach corresponds to the state of the art for many scholars and practitioners, there is a large debate on in the process that involves storytelling techniques, especially during the concept generation and the branching of the interactions between people and artifacts’ system. In particular, design fiction and speculative design give a strong relevance to the creation not only of a story line but, above all, of the world building, where people and artifacts interacts inside a sketched out future scenario, letting the audience free to speculate, for example, on impacts on the society, ethical issues, acceptance levels. In this situation the narrative approach can be included into the interaction design process during all the phases, in order to foster designers to generate future-able artifacts strictly connected to Personas depicted as they were characters, placed in verisimilitude-based worlds. The paper will describe the results of this methodological experimentation focusing on the differences occurred to two different projects: basic research, research for a company.
The Ukrainian experience of implementing innovative practices in experimental educational institutions in the wartime conditions

The article analyzes that in the conditions of the martial law in Ukraine, which began on February 24, 2022, Ukrainian science and education need to enter the European sociocultural area as soon as possible. This process involves not only the implementation of a broad program of activities aimed at creative cooperation, but also the openness of the country to economic, information, cultural and educational investments. The successful solution of such tasks provides for, on the one hand, the purposeful formation of universal Euro-Atlantic values and sociocultural orientations in the mass consciousness, and on the other hand, the preservation of Ukrainian national identity and uniqueness. They are revealed in the consideration of education as a way of promoting Ukrainian interests through the dissemination of Ukrainian cultural and educational experience and a means of conquering one’s own intellectual niche. Attention is drawn to the fact that innovative educational activity allows to identify problems of the development of social and personal competences of students and teachers, which are connected both with the need to outline the value and meaning content, and with the risks of informational, political and military confrontation. The article emphasizes that the difficulty of implementing innovative educational activities in educational institutions under the conditions of martial law in Ukraine is that a teacher must analyze the general social, political, economic and cultural signs of Ukrainian unity and represent the national area.&#x0D;
PeaceTech Technologies

This chapter sets out the key PeaceTech technologies and considers the drivers of PeaceTech as an area of activity.
Technicolor Creative Studios: Pioneering Immersive Experiences in the Media and Entertainment Industry

In the ever-evolving landscapemedia and entertainment industry of immersive technologyimmersive technology/immersive technologies, the intersection of technologytechnology, storytellingstorytelling, and consumer engagementconsumer engagement is at the forefront of business innovation. This chapter delves into the profound implications of immersive technologyimmersive technology/immersive technologies in enhancing consumer experiences, with a particular emphasis on the groundbreaking contributions from Technicolor Creative StudiosTechnicolor Creative Studios, a pioneer in the field. Through a series of case studies, we explore how immersive technologyimmersive technology/immersive technologies transforms consumer engagementconsumer engagement and its tangible business implications.
An Analysis of Teachers' Strategies in Teaching English in Blended Learning Situations to Eleventh-Grade Students of SMAN 4 Palu

This research discussed an Analysis of Teachers’ Strategies in Teaching English in Blended Learning Situation at Eleventh Grade Students of SMAN 4 Palu. The research question of this research are: (1) what strategy do teachers use in teaching English in a blended learning situation to eleventh-grade students of SMAN 4 Palu? (2) how is the implementation of the strategies in teaching English in blended learning situations to eleventh-grade students of SMAN 4 Palu?. In this research, the researcher used qualitative descriptive research, with case study research type. Technique of data collection through (1) observation, (2) interview, (3) questionnaire, and (4) documentation. Technique of data analysis are data collection, data reduction, data display, and conclusion. Checking data validity was conducted with (1) credibility, (2) transferability, (3) dependability, and (4) confirmability (Objectivity). The results of this research showed that the strategy that teachers use in teaching English in blended learning situations in class XI is vocabulary building, cooperative learning, and students chosen text. Based on the results of the questionnaire given to students, by using the Likert scale technique, about 77% category agree or good. It means the students’ response to the teacher in teaching English in blended learning situation at eleventh grade students of SMAN 4 Palu is good and able to help students in learning English. Students like the way of teaching of the English teachers.