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HOW RURAL INSTRUCTOR IMPLEMENTS ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES (ESP): INSTRUCTOR’S PERCEPTION

Teaching ESP is necessary to be designed by the ESP instructors because one of the teaching ESP requirements is the instructors must prepare the suitable precision of English materials for the ESP students. Hyland (2008:113) states that “designing lesson plan is one of the performing abilities to describe the instructors’ beliefs, interest, and values of the students’ needs about teaching, language, and language”. From several chronological descriptions, the researcher conveys that he applies the qualitative study as his approach to the study. As follows; (1) semi-structured interview, (2) nonparticipant observation, and (3) documentation. Indeed, the three techniques mostly are usually used by the researcher in order to cover the completely problematical statements in this study. The data were gathered by employing semi structured interview which were like the ESP instructors’ perception, opinion, and assumption. The result of data indicated that there were several the fact assumptions that the ESP instructors were mostly always implementing the suitable lesson for teaching which were; (1) doing the needs analysis, (2) setting the instructional goals, (3) selecting the materials, (4) selecting the teaching techniques, (5) preparing the teaching media, (6) doing the teaching activities, and (7) adapting the learning sources. Furthermore, the semi structured interview showed that the ESP instructors have described the chronological problems and solutions when they have designed and implemented lesson plan such as; The problems in selecting the properly real ESP material, in order to solve that the ESP instructors proposed the phenomenal perception that they mostly used the communicative language teaching to encounter the fact problems. Finally, the purpose of this study is to develop the way ESP instructors can evaluate their teaching application and learning process so that they can change their perception in implementing a teaching plan.
An Intermediate Mapping Layer for Interactive Sequencing

The definition of mapping strategies between input devices and sound generating algorithms is an essential process in computer music. Traditionally, mapping has been considered in the context of digital musical instruments where the control of low level sound features (note articulation, timbre) is the goal. This paper describes the motivation, implementation and example application of an intermediate mapping layer for interactive sequencing. Building upon the mapping literature, we expand it by exploring the control of predefined musical sequences, focusing on the ability to make spontaneous musical decisions, creative exploration by browsing, and easy mapping between devices. It involves a parameterization of rhythm, melody, and harmony along with collaborative mappings in both libmapper and Ableton Link.
Dark Matter Phenomenology at Colliders

Dark Matter candidates are required in physics beyond the Standard Model. The preferable models should not only explain the observed phenomena, but also be testable by experiments including direct detection, indirect detection, and collider searches. In this thesis, we focus on simplified Dark Matter models, and try to combine the experiments at colliders with non–collider data to scrutinize such models. On the theoretical side, the models considered in this thesis are the simplified Dark Matter models containing spinor or scalar Dark Matter particles and a massive vector mediator, which couples to both Dark Matter and Standard Model particles including quarks and leptons. On the experimental side, recent collider analyses related to the simplified Dark Matter models are mainly from ATLAS and CMS collaborations at LHC. Nevertheless, we also apply some old LEP data at e+e- collider to probe the parameter region where the LHC data are insensitive. The analyses used in this thesis cover collider signatures with mono–jet + missing energy, di–jet + missing energy, di–jet resonance, 4–jet, di–lepton + missing energy, and multi–lepton final states. However, the published analyses are not always well designed for the selected models related to Dark Matter. Therefore, we further study the optimization for the signal–to–background ratio and the selection efficiency for Dark Matter models, in order to improve the results from published analyses through both the cut based methods and the Machine Learning based algorithms.
Vertical surface contact with a Micro Air Vehicle

In this work, we present a novel design for vertical surface contact using a two degree of freedom robotic arm attached to a Micro Air Vehicle. To achieve this, we propose a controller based on a G...
A Human Target Infrared Image Segmentation Approach Based on Convolution Neural Network

Abstract In order to effectively segment the human target under complex background constraints, we present an infrared target segmentation method based on deep convolution neural network, and proposes the loss function based on the intersection-over-union for network optimization. Firstly, we design the network architecture which consists of a contracting path to capture the feature content and a symmetric expanding path that enables precise localization. And then rely on the powerful data amplification technology to effectively train the available sample data. The experimental results show that the network can make full use of the prior information of the data to study the characteristics of the human target, which can use less training data for end-to-end training in the human body target infrared image segmentation. And segmentation effect is superior to the traditional image segmentation algorithm. In addition, the network segmentation speed is very fast, 320 ×256 size image segmentation takes less than 0.2 seconds, to meet the human body target image segmentation of the effectiveness and real-time needs.
Pattern Recognition Using Hybrid Meta-Heuristic

Abstract — In this paper, two optimization algorithms i.e., Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Gravitational Search Algorithm (GSA) are combined to produce a hybrid population-based algorithm PSOGSA. The approach of HPSOGSA is to use the assessment of PSO using the social thinking capability and the manipulation of GSA using the local search proficiency. To increase the performance of HPSOGSA, some benchmark functions are used. Two standard database ORL and YALE is used to assess the classification performance of the proposed method. Classification accuracy is compared for diverse number of training samples per class. Further lead of proposed method is confirmed by analyzing percentage improvement in classification accuracy. With limited accessibility of training sample, percentage enhancement is very successful for face recognition applications. Keywords: Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Gravitational Search Algorithm (GSA), Particle Swarm Optimization and Gravitational Search Algorithm (PSOGSA), Hybrid Particle Swarm Optimization and Gravitational Search Algorithm (HPSOGSA). Cite this Article Purvaa Saxena, Gargi Mishra, Apoorva Aggarwal, Ayush Priyadarshi, Nitin Kumar, Rahul. Pattern Recognition Using Hybrid Meta-Heuristic. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research & Advances. 2019; 6(2): 100–108p.
Internet of Toys for Measuring Development of Ball Handling Skills in Support of Childcare Workers

During childhood, play is important for promoting the mental and physical development of children. For this reason, those involved with childcare (guardians and childcare workers) need to create an environment suitable for child development and provide children with support and guidance. However, because there are unique elements to the development of each individual child, childcare workers caring for large numbers of children, and guardians in remote areas, may struggle to oversee the daily development of the children in their care. In this paper, we propose toys with built-in sensors are used to acquire motion data during play activities, and a system intended to aid in estimating the child development stage by creating a data visualization for childcare workers. To establish the proposed system, a ball-type device was created using a built-in acceleration sensor as a prototype of a toy with a built-in sensor. Using this prototype, we conducted an experiment to verify whether it is possible to discern five types of ball activities when focusing on changes in ball-throwing movements related to child development. As the results based on two types of learning algorithms (SVM and RF) indicate, in each case the activity could be identified with approximately 70% accuracy.
‘Police Scotland mobile working project’: implementation and impact evaluation, and benefits realisation.

Running within the context of the ‘Digitally Enabled Policing Programme’ (DEPP), the ‘Police Scotland Mobile Working Project’ is an on-going project as part of the Police Scotland ‘Serving a Changing Scotland Strategy’. The project seeks to equip operational officers with a digital mobile policing solution to replace the traditional paper notebook system, to provide remote, live access to key policing information systems. Identified long-term potential benefits include: realised time efficiency savings to both police officers and staff; improved officer safety and wellbeing; increased officer visibility; improved detection rates and public confidence, and reduced organisational risk. The national phased roll-out commenced in June 2019, with the distribution of smartphone devices to police officers in five Police Scotland Divisions: initially Tayside (D-Division), and latterly to police officers in the Highlands and Islands and North-East (N and A-Divisions), Greater Glasgow and Renfrewshire and Inverclyde (G and K-Divisions). To date over two thousand officers have been trained in using the device. To ensure a robust evidence base in respect of the realisation of benefits, Police Scotland have appointed Robert Gordon University (RGU) and Abertay University to evaluate the implementation and impact of the national roll-out of digital mobile policing to date, which will also inform the final stages of roll-out to 10000 police officers across Scotland. The research utilises a combined prospective and retrospective approach, an alternative to the predominantly retrospective focused approach employed in the evaluation of the implementation of digital policing. This paper will present an overview of the methods employed to undertake this evaluation. It will illustrate how these methods will effectively assess utilisation of devices where currently deployed and inform the final stages of implementation, and appraise benefit realisation of the deployment of digital policing technology to meet the requirements of contemporary operational policing.
Paul Alivisatos named 2021 Priestley Medalist

The old adage “If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it,” aptly describes A. Paul Alivisatos. The University of California, Berkeley, scientist is the Samsung Distinguished Professor of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology and a professor of chemistry and materials science and engineering, as well as the university’s executive vice chancellor and provost. He is also director emeritus of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the founding editor in chief of Nano Letters, published by the American Chemical Society. Now he can add ACS’s highest honor to his resume. For “foundational contributions to the chemistry of nanoscience, development of nanocrystals as nanotechnology building blocks, and leadership in the chemistry and nanoscience communities,” Alivisatos will receive the 2021 Priestley Medal. Since the early 1990s, Alivisatos has explored the chemical and physical properties of nanosized bits of matter—often colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals—and developed widely used methods for controlling them. He and his
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Learning Support for Career Related Terms with SCROLL and InCircle

In this paper, we describe the support system for job-hunting students to learn job-hunting related terms by using an eBook and a chat system. Job-hunting process is very unique and complicated in Japan. Job-hunting students face difficulties in many phases. Many job-hunting related terms are not used in daily conversation and very new to them. Therefore, it is necessary to support them to learn them. The objectives of this study are (1) to clarify whether there is a positive correlation between active involvement of eBook learning and test performance and (2) to clarify whether the use of our chat system was effective in learning job-hunting related terms. The result of the evaluation showed that as for (1), there was no statistically significant correlation between the two factors. However when focusing on the international students, the correlation coefficient increased. It was aligned with the fact that this system was originally designed to support international students. As for (2), when the comparison was made between with and without InCircle delivery, there was no statistically significant difference between them in terms of Pre- and Post-test improvement. However the students gave the high score when they were asked its helpfulness. The score implies that the students were satisfied with its helpfulness.
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Determinants of Teachers Compliance with Student Human Rights Ordinance

본 연구는 교사들의 학생인권조례에의 순응에 어떠한 요인들이 영향을 미치는지를 실증적으로 분석하기 위한 것이다. 특히 정책순응요인에 대한 선행연구에서 도출해 낸 순응주체의 순응능력과 의지를 중심으로 교사들의 학생인권조례 순응요인을 설정하고자 하였다. 본 연구는 일선교사들과의 인터뷰 결과를 바탕으로 교사의 순응능력을 ‘기본적 자질’ 및 ‘인권관련 외부활동’ 등으로, 교사의 순응의지를 ‘학생인권조례 불필요성 인식’ 및 ‘학생인권조례 부정적 인식’ 등으로 구성하였다. 서울시 및 경기도에 소재하는 중학교 및 고등학교에 재직 중인 일선교사들에 대한 설문조사에 대한 분석 결과를 요약해 보면 다음과 같다. 첫째, 인권관련 외부활동, 학생인권조례 불필요성 인식, 기본적 자질, 담임교사 여부 등이 교사들의 학생인권조례 순응에 통계적으로 유의한 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 교사의 기본적 자질이 다른 요인들보다 상대적으로 더 강하게 학생인권조례 순응에 영향을 미쳤다. 셋째, 학생인권 조례에 대한 부정적 인식은 교사들의 순응에 통계적으로 유의한 영향을 미치지 못하였다. 이러한 연구결과를 바탕으로 본 연구는 교사의 기본자질 변화를 위한 다양한 교육과 외부활동이 필요함을 정책적 제언으로 제시하였다.The purpose of this study is to address the factors influencing on teachers compliance with student human rights ordinance. This study hypothesized that teachers compliance capability and willingness would be likely to influence on their compliance with student human rights ordinance on the basis of literature review. The teachers compliance capability consisted of their fundamental virtue and external activity. Their compliance willingness consisted of their denial of the need and their negative perception of the ordinance. The analysis results of survey administered to teachers in the middle and high schools in Seoul City and Gyeonggi-do are as follows. First, the teachers fundamental virtue, external activity, and denial of the ordinance need influenced on their compliance with student human rights ordinance. Second, their fundamental virtue had a strongest effect on their compliance with student human rights ordinance. Third, their negative perception of the ordinance had no effect on their compliance with student human rights ordinance. This study suggested that various opportunities for external activity should be given to teachers for the improvement in their fundamental virtue and compliance with student human rights ordinance.
ASSESSING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LEADER’S INFORMATION POWER AND EMPLOYEE PRODUCTIVITY AT SELECTED MUSCAT GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS, SULTANATE OF OMAN

The aim of this study is to assess the relationship between Leaders information power and employee productivity at selected Muscat governmental organizations from employees perspective. Information power is derived from the data and information controlled by the manager. A descriptive analytical and quantitative methodology adopted to examine the relationship between information power and employee productivity. A sample of 405 selected from four governmental organization located in Muscat, Sultanate of Oman. The key finding of the study shown that there is a positive relationship between Information Power and employee Productivity at selected Muscat governmental organization. This refers that an efficient increase in using information power by leader will cause an increase on employee productivity. Also, the study indicates employees perspective, actually employees believes that they have productivity ability and acting acceptable level of productivity behaviour from their point of view. In conclusion, the study established two essential conclusions which are (i) Omans Government needs to review organization leaders competencies and (ii) there is a gap between employees goal and organizations goal. Finally, the study end by providing some recommendations to governmental organization leaders to enhance the utilization of information power effectively to enhance the employees productivity and can do so by providing training courses for managers. Also, the policy makers should take into consideration the positive relationship of information power, on enhancing the employee productivity by reforming the job specification of the Managers and leaders and making sure that the selected or promoted leaders are having an effective information power.
A tight uniform continuity bound for the Arimoto-Rényi conditional entropy and its extension to classical-quantum states.

We prove a tight uniform continuity bound for Arimoto's version of the conditional $\alpha$-Renyi entropy, for the range $\alpha \in [0, 1)$. This definition of the conditional Renyi entropy is the most natural one among the multiple forms which exist in the literature, since it satisfies two desirable properties of a conditional entropy, namely, the fact that conditioning reduces entropy, and that the associated reduction in uncertainty cannot exceed the information gained by conditioning. Furthermore, it has found interesting applications in various information theoretic tasks such as guessing with side information and sequential decoding. This conditional entropy reduces to the conditional Shannon entropy in the limit $\alpha \to 1$, and this in turn allows us to recover the recently obtained tight uniform continuity bound for the latter from our result. Finally, we apply our result to obtain a tight uniform continuity bound for the conditional $\alpha$-Renyi entropy of a classical-quantum state, for $\alpha$ in the same range as above. This again yields the corresponding known bound for the conditional entropy of the state in the limit $\alpha \to 1$.
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INFORMATION RETRIEVAL - TECHNIQUES AND STRATEGIES

Information has become the most significant source of our day-to-day life. Information available on internet may create some confusion among its users because of its diversity. In order to get proper and exact information from internet, users need to know the effective techniques and strategies. This paper focuses on the different information retrieval processes and techniques which help users to get the required information and also to save their valuable time.
Appropriateness Analysis on the Subject Matters in Chinese Education Syllabuses ― Focused on Chinese Teaching Universal Curriculum (2014) and Chinese Proficiency Test Syllabus (2015)

Chinese Teaching Universal Curriculum (2014) and Chinese Proficiency Test Syllabus (2015) are the reference standards of Chinese teaching to Korean learners. This research aims at conducting a systematic analysis on the appropriateness of subject matters in the two syllabuses above. The research mainly focuses on the learning subjects on different levels in Chinese education syllabuses, explores the connection among subject matters, and discusses the appropriateness and integrity of subject selection.<BR> First of all, this research compared the two Chinese education syllabuses above with other foreign language teaching syllabuses in order to explore the connection between the learning objectives on different levels and the subjects of studying. Through the analysis, the conclusion was drawn that the continuity of both learning objectives and subject matters were relatively high but the integrity and connection of the two were low.<BR> Secondly, this research divided subjects of studying into general subjects and individual subjects. Then the appropriateness of the selection of subjects was discussed based on the level of learning. In general studying subjects, several subjects repeated on various levels. In individual subjects, similar ranges and matters of a subject also repeated on various levels. This might lead to the confusion in teaching and learning. This research holds the opinion that inappropriateness existed in the selection of subjects on every level and experts should be brought in to examine the appropriateness.<BR>Lastly, in this research, the integrity of the subject matters in Chinese education syllabuses was investigated on different levels. This part of research was conducted from three aspects including the arrangement of subject matters on every level, the integrity of the repeated subject matters, and the integrity based on linguistic knowledge.<BR>The result was drawn that the arrangement of subject matters on every level, the integrity of the repeated subject matters, and the integrity based on linguistic knowledge all showed a high continuity and a low integrity.<BR> In conclusion, different levels of the learning objectives and subject matters in Chinese education syllabuses featured a high continuity and a low integrity. In the future, amendment and complement should be made according to the connection of linguistic knowledge (such as vocabulary and grammar). Besides, opinions from experts must be referred to during the revision of the syllabuses and the appropriateness must be verified. Wish this research could lay a foundation for the future research of subject matter selecting in the Chinese teaching to Korean learners.
AN ANALYSIS OF PARENTAL ENGAGEMENT TOWARD THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE ACQUISITION OF YOUNG LEARNERS

Jariyah, Ainun. 2020. An Analysis of Parental Engagement toward The Foreign Language Acquisition of Young learners. Thesis. English Education Department, Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training, Antasari State Islamic University. Advisors : (I) Hj. Nani Hizriani, MA. (II) Nor Izzatil Hasanah, S.Pd, M.Pd.Keywords: Foreign Language Acquisition, Parental Engagement.Parental engagement is highly relevant to the educational achievement of children, which means the influences of parents has a great influence on the academic success of students and helps students to further improve their foreign language learning. The purpose of this study was to know and analysis of parental engagement toward the foreign language of young learners. The subject of this study is 10 parents of young learners from ages nine to twelve years old, who have different profession. They have children who are interested in foreign language, especially English. The method of this study was qualitative method through descriptive technique. The data were collected from interview and questionnaire about parents’ engagement in English learning process of their children. The result shows that there is 4 roles of parents play in helping their children acquire foreign language, such as be facilitator, motivator, model and monitor. They helped their children in acquired foreign language (English) by being engaged based on these roles. In conclusion, parents’ engagement plays very important roles in improving their children’s skill in English.