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Assessment of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Literacy of Librarians in National Root Crop Research Institute, Library

The study examined the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) literacy of Librarians in National Root Crops Research Institute (NRCRI), Library. The design adopted for the study is descriptive survey. The population of the study consists of 10 library and information professionals in National Root Crops Research Institute, Umudike. Total enumeration technique was adopted for the study, since the population size is small, manageable and accessible. The instrument for data collection used for the study is questionnaire. The data collected was presented using frequency distribution table, percentage, and mean. The findings revealed that, computers, mobile phones, television, Internet, Library oriented software, CD-ROMs, flash drive, digital camera, among others are available in the library. Also, Librarians in NRCRI possess such ICT literacy skills as Computer operation, Uploading and downloading file from the web, Digital scanner to scan document, picture etc. Save/ delete file on computer, Internet navigation, Together with Send and receiving of email, Send/receive text, audio, video using social media sites, Online Chatting, and Software for data collection and analysis. The study identified workshop, Self-study, Presentation, Organizing Conferences and seminars, Notice board, On-the-job training, Departmental lecture series, Classroom/lecture method, Institute lecture series, Television broadcast, Learned societies groups, Coaching and mentoring, and Industrial attachment as the method of acquiring ICT Literacy among Library Information Professional in NRCRI, Library. The study revealed such challenges as Inadequate funding, Inadequate ICT facilities, Low internet bandwidth, Lack of sponsorship to both national and international conference, seminar, workshop, etc, Lack of ICT policy, Lack of Internet infrastructure, Lack of Internet infrastructure, Erratic power supply, Over dependency on donor support, Inadequate ICT training of staff, and Technophobia as the challenges inhibiting the acquisition of ICT literacy skills among Library and Information Professionals in NRCRI, Library. The study recommended that, National Root Crops Research Institute should sponsor librarians to both national and international seminars and conferences to further training and development. Also, ICT facilities used for security of resources should be acquired and installed in the library as noon was available during the researchers visit.
Models of Cryptography Transformations Based on Quasigroups.

It is intuitively obvious, that usage of unknown cryptographic transformations should be more secure against breaking, than usage of known ones. Modern cryptography approaches alters that statements reasoning, that the transformation infeasibility of breaking should be visible for customers for the verification sake. Consequently, the task of this transformation modeling to find the way out of the contradictive conditions arose.
Indigenous Data Sovereignty: Moving towards CARE

Indigenous Data Sovereignty: Moving towards CARE was presented by Randall Akee (UCLA), Jane Anderson (NYU), Stephanie Russo Carroll (University of Arizona), Helena Cousijn (DataCite), Laure Haak (ORCID), Maui Hudson (University of Waikato), Katharina Ruckstuhl (University of Otago), and Shawna Sadler (ORCID) on May 28, 2020 via webinar.
Library at UCC: Streaming Video: Collections

This guide provides resources for finding and using streaming video materials. Links to Library's streaming video subscriptions and non-Library links.
An Empirical Study on the Effect of the Role of Instructors During Teacher Training On Education Service Quality, Recommendation, and Course Repetition : Focused on Korea Polytec College

Recently, along with the era of the 4th Industrial Revolution, education trends are rapidly changing. Education focused on the role of first movers based on creative ideas and on how to respond in new environment changes is necessary. This study examines the role of instructors in the field of education and identifies the direction of training for teachers that is fit for the changing times. This is done by empirically grasping the effect of the role of instructors on educational service quality, recommendation, and course repetition through the implementation of the development of faculty member competency. As a result of this study, it is found that the role of the instructor, seen from the perspective of a user, has a close direct and indirect effect on the education service quality, recommendation, and intention for course repetition. The obtained result was that the quality of education for learners should improve through the individual competency improvement of the instructors and that resources should be devoted to improving competency in order to cultivate talented students that match the flow of the times. It is hoped that this could be an opportunity to realize once again that education and its results can be different depending on the efforts of the instructor.
LibGuides: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Getting Started

Diversity and Inclusion resources available via University of South Florida Libraries and beyond
My Journey from Research to Product

After 11 years working in Microsoft Research studying technology use in homes and building technologies for families, in January 2016 I took a leap and joined the Microsoft Cortana product team with the goal of shipping the technologies I had been researching. For Cortana, I’ve helped drive far-field speech interaction experiences, ship Microsoft’s Cortana Invoke speaker and led Microsoft’s multi-assistant strategy including connecting Cortana and Alexa. I’ll share the lessons I have learned in my journey from doing research to being part of a team shipping features used by millions of people including some surprising similarities between working in research and product development as well as unanticipated differences. With the rapid adoption of digital assistants from a range of companies on many different hardware form factors this is an exciting time to be working on speech interaction and digital assistance.
NON-LITERAL SPEECH ACTS ANALYSIS ON INSTAGRAM COMMENT BY SHAWN MENDES’ ACCOUNT

ABSTRACTLimaysari, Nur. 2020. NON-LITERAL SPEECH ACTS ANALYSIS ON INSTAGRAM COMMENT BY SHAWN MENDES ACCOUNT. Graduating paper. English Education Department of Teacher Training and Education Faculty State Institute for Islamic Studies (IAIN) Salatiga. Counselor: Norwanto Ph.D.Keywords: Pragmatic, Speech Act, Non-literalThe objectives of the study are (1) to know how many utterance of non-literal speech acts in the comment section of Shawn Mendes’ Instagram account?. (2) What are the meaning of non-literal speech acts in the comment section of Shawn Mendes’ Instagram account?.The method of this research was a qualitative approach and descriptive-analytic. The data were analyzed using several theories ,namely the theory of non-literal speech act study. The object of this study were words, phrases, clauses, and/or sentences on the comment section of Shawn Mendes’ Instagram account which discussed the failure of the Shawn Mendes concert in Brazil. The result of the research shows that there were 11 utterances which contains non-literal speech act and the clarification process in the comment section of Shawn Mendes’ Instagram account. The person expressed their disappoinment through compliment, so that someone can say a compliment which is intended to criticize through non-literal speech act.
Loss, Gain, and Chromosomes : Readability and Translation Shifts in Medical Information for Families of Children with 10q25/10q26 Deletions

The purpose of this thesis for the degree of Master, one year, is to investigate the translation of medical information from British English into Swedish. The analysis is concerned with readability ...
Immersive Storytelling for Environmental Communication

As one of the earliest attempts to apply immersive technology in environmental communication, this design research project tries to answer the following research question: how do we communicate the ...
LibGuides: Getting Started with Archives: About

This guide serves as an introduction to locating and evaluating collection description, and beginning archival research at NYPL
An Implementation of Neural Network with Evolutionary Algorithm in Gaming Application

This paper focusses on Artificial Intelligence which is recently growing in many areas. We see various developments for technical systems, image processing and multimedia solutions. We can find applications of intelligent technologies for smart management of energetic systems and simulation models in thermal sciences also gaming industry is using various aspects of intelligent technologies. There are many interesting system models which support interactions in real time. Also computer systems support interesting application of gamification ideas. Among techniques of artificial intelligence very high impact is visible from evolutionary methods. Algorithms are based on various models of life from animals, insects or other. Systems which use various models seen in nature are used in image processing to track points of interest over images. Artificial intelligence (AI) techniques have been proven highly successful at the problems of navigation, task prioritization, and problem avoidance. Traditionally, humans have encoded rule-based AIs to create the behavior necessary to allow an automaton to achieve a specific task or set of tasks. Genetic programming (GP), however, has been proven to allow a computer to create human-competitive results. This thesis report is about artificial intelligence implementation in the famous game- “Snake”. This application is implemented with the help of artificial intelligence by using Genetic Algorithm and Artificial Neural Network.The Genetic Algorithm (GA) is a stochastic global search method that mimics the metaphor of natural biological evolution. Genetic Algorithms operate on a population of potential solutions applying the principle of survival of the fittest to produce (hopefully) better and better approximations to a solution. At each generation, a new set of approximations is created by the process of selecting individuals according to their level of fitness in the problem domain and breeding them together using operators borrowed from natural genetics. This process leads to the evolution of populations of individuals that are better suited to their environment than the individuals that they were created from, just as in natural adaption.
A pilot study: development of pre- literacy skills assessment checklist

Introduction: Emergent literacy refers to skills and knowledge serving as prerequisites to reading and writing. The emergent pre –literacy skills are print awareness, phonological awareness, letter knowledge, vocabulary and narration are the skills that lay foundation for later reading skills. This study focuses on development of a pre -literacy skills assessment checklist. Aim: Development of Pre-literacy skills assessment checklist for children between 4 to 7 years of age. Method: The checklist was developed which consists of 5 major domains. It was administered in 77 typically developing 4to7 years’ school children. Result and discussion: 77 children data was tabulated and SPSS software was used to find out the reliability. Cronbach’s alpha test was used to administer the internal consistency and overall reliability. (r= 0.830) which reveals that the checklist has very good accuracy. Conclusion: Results reveals very high internal consistency Standardization & validation of this tool can be done on larger population.
QoE Performance Evaluation by Introducing Video Freeze on Mobile Multimedia

Real time video streaming through mobile Internet is increasing day by day and the video  quality can be affected  very badly by network performance issues. Video freezing and video  jumping are on ...
Encryption and Decryption of Vital Signs Information through a Symmetric based Cryptography Algorithm

The key factor of safe data transfer is through thorough data security. One way of securing data is through encryption. Data encryption is necessary for sensitive data like medical information. This study focuses on symmetric-key algorithm which is one of the many data encryption algorithms. This algorithm shares a single symmetric key that is used for encryption and decryption of data. Compared to asymmetric-key encryption, symmetric-key encryption is less complex, therefore-, would perform faster and may lessen the delays of processing data. The objective of this study was to encrypt and decrypt vital signs information using symmetric-key algorithm. The study also created an algorithm that generates a symmetric-key for both encryption and encryption. After implementation, the performance of this algorithm was measured in seconds and compared to the performance of asymmetric-key algorithm. After data analysis and statistical treatment using t-test, the results showed that the application of symmetric-key algorithm is faster than asymmetric-key algorithm which implied that symmetric-key algorithm can indeed lessen the delays in processing data.
Development of STAGE-GATE based Evaluation Index for the Improvement of Design Quality of Plant Material

Worldwide plant market keeps maintaining steady growth rate and along with this trend, domestic plant market and its contractors also maintain such growing tendency. However, in spite of its external growth, win-win growth of domestic material industry that occupies the biggest share in plant industry cost portion is extremely marginal in reality. Domestic plant material suppliers are required to increase awareness of domestic material brand by securing quality and reliability of international standard through improvement of design quality superior to that of overseas material suppliers. Improvement of design quality of plant material becomes an essential element, not an option, for survival of domestic plant industry and its suppliers. Under this background, in this study, priority and importance by each evaluation index was analyzed by materializing plant design stage through survey of experts and defining evaluation index by each design stage and based on this analysis result, evaluation index of stage-gate based decision-making process that may improve design quality of plant material was suggested. It is considered that by utilizing evaluation index of stage-gate based decision-making process being suggested in this study, effective and efficient decision-making of project decision-makers would be enabled and it would be contributory to improve design quality of plant material.
Percepciones docentes de las didácticas en el entorno virtual

Currently, the teaching-learning processes are deeply mediated by a virtual environment, which has posed a challenge in terms of the change in didactics and the development of digital skills that are used. In this sense, the present research that aims to understand teachers' perceptions of didactics   in  the  virtual   environment  takes  on  importance.  Through mixed sources: live  and documentary through the use of document review techniques, design and application of instruments (surveys), the teachers' perception of the didactic techniques used in the virtual environment was evaluated, the skills digital in relation to the use of instrumental tools, streamlining management and communication, and the type of digital content currently used. In this way, the analysis of the results expressed that the teachers' perception about the management of the virtual environment is carried out in a measure of support for the classroom, since the importance of these virtual strategies is not denoted and the techniques are valued passive didactics rather than active ones; faced with the competences, it was determined that the teachers themselves are in the process of training in terms of access to virtual tools, as well as recognizing communication in virtuality as a fundamental axis as it is fluid in teacher-student interaction, enabling the strengthening of the teaching-learning processes. Therefore, it is concluded that the teachers' perception of virtual environments and the teaching-learning process shows the importance that must exist in the foundation of praxis, aiming to build more dynamic and collaborative training processes.
SIFT BASED QLRBP LOCAL DESCRIPTOR FOR COLOR IMAGES

Image descriptor is an active research topic in the fields of image processing, computer vision, and pattern recognition. In the area of image processing, many descriptors for color images have been developed. Main types are Global descriptor, which consider the entire image at a time, and Local descriptor, which describes only small part within an image such as patch. Whole color characteristics along with structural properties are not considered yet. Quaternionic representation is used incase to include the color characteristics. Structural properties of an image can be included using the SIFT descriptor. Color image descriptors can be used in applications such as person reidentification, face recognition etc.
Information and education environment as a condition of senior students’ cognitive activity growing using ICT

The purpose of the paper is to study the effectiveness of the use of informational and educational environment during the study of students of the training course «Informatics» to enhance their cognitive activity.The use of educational technologies with the use of ICT tools allows you to modify the entire teaching process, implement a model of student-centered learning, intensify classes by improving cognitive activity, and most importantly, improve senior students' self-training.The main tasks of modern pedagogical technologies using ICT tools are the development of interactive environments for managing the cognitive activity process, access to modern information and educational resources (multimedia textbooks, various databases, educational sites and other sources).The informational and educational environment is based on the integration of information on traditional and electronic media, computer-telecommunication interaction technologies, virtual libraries, distributed databases, educational and methodical complexes and an extended didactic device.In the concept of information-educational environment, the pedagogical system and its support are combined.The scientific novelty of the paper includes analysis of the works of scientists on increasing the cognitive activity of students through means of ICT and improving the forms of organizing classes in computer science using ICT tools.The article presents informational and educational environment for the study of computer science in secondary schools, namely Internet portal «Virtual office of computer science and ICT».The purpose of creating an Internet portal is to coordinate the efforts of all participants in the educational process (students, teachers, parents), the organization of educational and non-academic work, as well as the activation of cognitive activity of students during the study of computer science.The practical value of the study is to refine the concepts of «cognitive activity», «educational activity», «cognitive interest», the development and improvement of technology for raising senior students' cognitive activity by solving mathematical problems by means of computer mathematics at computer science lessons.The use of computer mathematics as an educational tool makes it possible to rethink traditional approaches to the study a lot of issues of computer science and mathematics, to increase the experimental activity of students, to bring the learning process closer to the real cognition process.
Embedded SGDE image classification on mobile devices

This thesis describes the integration of the geometry aware sparse grids into the datamining pipeline of the SG++ framework. The datamining pipeline is used to make SG++ easier available and fasten the process of using the framework. Geometry aware sparse grids have a great use in image classification and therefore this thesis is additionally about creating a mobile application that classifies hand drawn numbers using this kind of sparse grids. For this to be done the trained data had to be exported from SG++ and then imported again into the application. Also the evaluation method for sparse grids was implemented into the application. This new evaluation method is then validated by comparing it to the evaluation method of SG++. The outcome of the validation resulted in a high deviation for random datasets and very low deviation for relevant datasets. The high deviation for random datasets can be neglected, since it has no use case in the user application. Finally the application was tested for numbers 0, 2 and 6 with various relevant datasets to calculate the accuracy of the implementation. The tests have shown that by following certain rules while drawing the numbers into the application an average accuracy of 90% could be observed.
IMPROVING STUDENTS’ LISTENING SKILLS USING EdPuzzle E-LEARNING AS A TOOL (A Classroom Action Research for the Seventh-Grade Students of SMP PGRI Ampelin the Academic Year of 2019/2020)

Aula, M. Taufikil. 2020. “Improving Students’ Listening Skills Using EdPuzzle E-Learning as a tool at the Seventh Grade of SMP PGRI Ampel in the Academic Year of 2019/2020”. A graduating paper, English Education Department, Teacher Training and Education Faculty, State Institute for Islamic Studies (IAIN) Salatiga. Counselor: Dr. Mashlihatul Umami, M.A.Keywords: Listening Skills, EdPuzzle, E-LearningThe Objectives of the research are:The objectives of the study are: (1) to describe the implementation of EdPuzzle E-Learning as a tool for students’ listening skills for the seventh-grade students of SMP PGRI Ampel. (2)to find outhow far is the students’ listening skills after usingEdPuzzle E-Learning as a tool for the seventh-grade students of SMP PGRI Ampel. The methodology of this research was Classroom Action Research (CAR). There were two cycles, each cycle contains four steps. They were planning, action, observing, and reflecting. The data collected through observation, pre-test, post-test, and documentation. The implementation of EdPuzzle E-Learning as a tool to improve students’ listening skills was successful.It was analyzed by using students’ observation sheet and average score of students from each cycle. The result of the research shows that the mean of pre-test in cycle I was 57.00 and the mean of post-test in cycle I was 68.00. Meanwhile, the mean of pre-test in cycle II was 69.33 and the mean of post-test in cycle II was 78.00. The percentage of minimum passing grade in cycle I was 33.3% and 60%. In cycle II, the percentage of minimum passing grade was 53.3% and 86.6%. The improvement in cycle I was 26.7% and in cycle II was 33.3%. The result of T-Test in cycle I (5.603) and cycle II (8.381) were higher than T-table (2.145). It means that there was significant improvement of students’ listening skills after useEdPuzzle E-Learning as a tool.
A Study on the Influence of Youth Employment Education Characteristics on Job Seeking Activities through Learning Motivation

The purpose of the youth employment academy is to resolve the occurrence of job miss matches due to college curriculum, which are far from the demand of industrial field. Despite the government's efforts, college students' willingness to get a job has been on the decline recently, making it also important to improve their will to get a job or desire to achieve a job, in addition to delivering expertise to job seekers. Therefore, this study investigated to identify the learning environment characteristics of the youth employment academy and examine which of these factors could improve the performance of job seeking activities by encouraging learning motivation. Therefore, significant implications could be derived through combining the field factors with theory and hypothesis verification.