Reviewerly/exHarmony huggingface dataset:
Online Self Assessment and Peer Assessment of Students Teamwork: Evidence from Accounting Information System Discipline

The main objective of this paper is to investigate the impact of the investment environment on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the Republic of Kosovo, by employing IV-GMM times series estimator, where Control of Corruption and Political Stability, Absence of Violence/Terrorism and Distance to frontier score (Doing Business) are used as main variables, while as pull factors are used GDP per capita, unemployment rate and profit tax rate.Further, The empirical findings reveal that Control of Corruption and Political Stability and Absence of Violence/Terrorism have positive and significant effect on attracting FDI flows, while Distance to frontier score (Doing Business) has shown negative effect on FDI flows in the case of Republic of Kosovo for the time period 2009q1 -2016q4.Furthermore, This paper for the first time tries to address the Kosovo case, using the IV-GMM estimator method and handling the above mentioned variables over this time period, presenting a unique case with regard to the Republic of Kosovo because, from our best knowledge, has not been addressed before such nexus for the case of Kosovo.In addition, This paper will also contribute to the existing literature rather than solving the existing debate among scholars, by using these measures to investigate their impact on attracting FDI in a transition country such as the Republic of Kosovo.
A Privacy-Protecting and Resource-Saving Scheme for Data Sharing in Smart Home

With the development of the Internet and communication technology, people have requirements for smart home automation, the flexible control of home devices and the convenient access of security data in home network. However, the data’s address paths of data are exposed by the frequently access operations that the same or similar data in data storage servers has been required by users. Besides, the content of encrypted data which is based on the accessed address sequence can be inferred by the malicious servers. Thus, how to protect the privacy data during data sharing and save the resources in servers are challenges to be settled in smart home. In this paper, an efficient and security oblivious random access memory (ORAM) structure scheme is proposed to achieve data sharing in smart home, in which the privacy data can be protected by combining the doubly-linked circular info table with confusion operation. In addition, the proxy re-encryption technology implements data sharing between multi-users. The security analysis shows that the proposed scheme meets the security requirements of ORAM and is secure for data sharing in smart home. The performance analysis shows that the structure effectively reduces the communication overhead.
Alone But Together: Exploring the Possible Barriers Impacting Learners’ Feeling of Belonging in a Further Education Networked Learning Group

This interdisciplinary study uses the lenses of post-structuralism and anarchism to reconsider the issues of belongingness within a further education networked learning group.This is because post-structuralism problematises the notion of belongingness from the stance of group representation which may well imply that the 'self' is fragmented; In fact, post-structuralism considers the idea of group representation to have been misconstrued from the dimension of a linguistic construct.Similarly, anarchism rejects the idea that part of a group can represent the whole of the group; individual autonomy is paramount than group autonomy and the former shapes the latter.A narrative inquiry was used to explore the barriers and how conflicting ideas about the 'self' in group representation evolves and survives or how the 'self' struggles and dies.The experiences of four lecturers were collected and analysed and an argument was put forward towards a critical ethical consideration regarding the notion of networked learning and learners feeling of belonging.The emphasis was not to attempt to generalise, but to typicalise certain issues that should not be accommodated within the utopian notion of online learning groups and communities.
INTEGRATED APPROACH TO THE ORGANIZATION OF STATE REGULATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN RUSSIA: SOCIAL NEEDS, DIRECTIONS OF DEVELOPMENT, TECHNOLOGIES, CHALLENGES OF IMPLEMENTATION

Abstract. In the modern world, much attention is paid to the creation of integrated conditions for interaction and to the change of the approach to the organization of higher education. Actual methodologies and technologies are also developed and introduced in the Russian system of state regulation at all levels of education. Social needs are measured objectively, new programs are developed to deal with children, youth and adults, and these programs are adequately needed to organize the educational process. In fact, it is not possible to introduce and implement everything. No secret that the key topical trend nowadays is the principle of building open educational content and global university programs. The primary objective is to establish unified standards for world-class education. Systems for assessing the quality of education, methods of providing broader access to high-quality education and lifelong learning have been developed and introduced. Meanwhile, it is important to note that while carrying out this process in the Russian Federation it is essential to take account of multiple factors such as special region-specific features of Russian regions, social needs, demands from the economy and the manufacturing sector, counterbalance against foreign experience, infrastructure, mobile resources and human capital. The positive experience of successful partnership and operation among university teams towards the execution of the mechanisms and technologies for standardizing higher education exists. The authors of the article present some results of their positive experience gained during the execution of projects in the field of the integrated approach to the implementation of components for the state regulation of education, and propose the scientific community to get to know socio-political criteria to make the introduction of these approaches in modern Russia more efficient. Keywords: state system of education, integrated approach, state regulation, policy, educational system in the Russian Federation, inclusive education, social policy.
LOW COST COLLISION AVOIDANCE SYSTEM ON HOLONOMIC AND NON- HOLONOMIC MOBILE ROBOTS

Technological advancement in industries necessitates development in autonomous mobile robots with obstacle avoidance for applications in industries, hospitals and educational environment. Holonomic motion allows the mobile robots to move instantaneously in any direction with no constraints while non-holonomic motion restricts the motion in limited directions. This study presents the comparison of obstacle avoidance performance using low cost sensors on holonomic and non-holonomic mobile robots. The robot prototypes are developed and implemented with stable control system for better mobility. Experimental results show that the omnidirectional mobile robots avoid collisions with limited space and less time while non-holonomic mobile platforms exhibits reduced computational complexity and efficient implementation. The developed mobile robots can be used for diverse task specification applications.
Let's Build a Terrible Search

In which I build a very slow searching algorithm and compare it to the built-in Python searching algorithm.
LibGuides: Web Content for Everyone Symposium: Breakout Sessions

Accompanying guide for the Web Content for Everyone Symposium held at Ferris State University on May 15, 2019. Slides and other supporting content from breakout presenters
Magnetic Materials: Rapid, High‐Resolution Magnetic Microscopy of Single Magnetic Microbeads (Small 18/2019)

In article number 1805159, David A. Simpson and co-workers mount magnetic microbeads (grey: helium ion microscopy) on a diamond with a nitrogen vacancy sensing layer, which reveals the resulting magnetic field (blue-red). This enables rapid magnetic characterization of bead samples on the individual level, as well as an illumination-free localization method for biocompatible microbeads.
The Quality for Service Protocol

This memo describes an application level protocol for thecommunication of end-to-end QoS compliance information based on theHypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and the Session DescriptionProtocol (SDP). The Quality for Service Protocol (Q4S) provides amechanism to negotiate and monitor latency, jitter, bandwidth, andpacket, and to alert whenever one of the negotiated conditions isviolated. Implementation details on the actions to be triggered uponreception/detection of QoS alerts exchanged by the protocol are out ofscope of this document, it is application dependent (e.g., act toincrease quality or reduce bit-rate) or network dependent (e.g.,change connection's quality profile). This protocol specificationis the product of research conducted over a number of years, and ispresented here as a permanent record and to offer a foundation forfuture similar work. It does not represent a standard protocol anddoes not have IETF consensus.
LibGuides: Web Content for Everyone Symposium: Usability and Readability

Accompanying guide for the Web Content for Everyone Symposium held at Ferris State University on May 15, 2019.
Use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Teaching and Learning in Nepalese Classroom: Challenges and Opportunity

In post-modern era Information and Communication Technology (ICT) plays arduous role to make teaching and learning activities more meaningful and efficient.It is one of the most efficient tools as well as source of knowledge for advancing knowledge and skills.TPACK model are used for quality enhancement both in teachers and students in education at both schools and universities in Nepal.This paper presents the concepts of ICT and its roles for quality education at all level education in Nepal.It highlights the challenges facing in use of ICT in classroom of both schools and universities .It suggests how ICT can be used as a tools as well as source of knowledge to enhance education quality in classrooms.Problems such as lack of resources (viz.qualified teachers, hardware, software, electricity etc.) and poor program implementation strategies militate against these efforts.This paper recommends that both the government and non-government organizations should support in developing skilled human resources, providing electricity, and providing hardware and software resources to enhance the use of ICT as well as to produce knowledge at schools and universities of Nepal.
The open e-library for science and education in Orenburg region is an integral part of the national information resource

The current problems of open access to science and education information and international visibility of regional open e-libraries (repositories) are discussed. The foreign and national experience in developing regional e-libraries, their status and dynamics are analyzed. The authors argue that accessibility of open electronic libraries are the must for science, education and culture; these libraries provide unlimited access to scientific and learning resources, as well as to the local materials. E-libraries integration between different systems and sectors makes one of the stages in the transition to the open digital resources. The authors emphasize that Orenburg region has got every prerequisite for building its single open information space. The characteristic features of scientific and education open e-library in Orenburg region are revealed. Special attention is given to selecting soft- and hardware for building the open electronic library. The leading role of academic libraries in scientific, educational and local content building tailored to regional features is emphasized.
Preface

The Editors in Chief of the JAISE journal reflect on the evolution of the technical area and the scientific community the publication has been serving for a decade.
Building concept maps by adapting semantic distance metrics to Wikipedia

Building and checking concept maps is an active research topic in visual learning. Concept maps are intended to show visual representations of interrelated concepts in educational and professional settings. For the last decades, numerous formulas have been proposed to compute the semantic proximity between any pair of concepts in the map. A review of the employment of semantic distances in concept map construction shows the lack of a clear criterion to select a suitable formula. Traditional metrics can be basically grouped depending on the representation of their knowledge source: statistic approaches based on co-occurrence of words in big corpora; path-based methods using lexical structures, like taxonomies; and multi-source methods which combine statistic approaches and path-based methods. On the one hand, path-based measures give better results than corpora-based metrics, but they cannot be used to process specific concepts or proper nouns due to the limited vocabulary of the taxonomies used. On the other side, information obtained from big corpora – including the World Wide Web – is not organized in a specific way and natural language processing techniques are usually needed in order to obtain acceptable results. In this research Wikipedia is proposed since it does not have such limitations. This article defines an approach to adapt path-based semantic similarity measures to Wikipedia for building concept maps. Experimental evaluation with a well-known set of human similarity judgments shows that the Wikipedia adapted metrics obtains equal or even better results when compared with the non-adapted approaches.
GLI SCRITTI ‘ITALIANI’ DI MANUEL LASSALA

This essay inquires the influence exercised by Italian language and cul-ture on the works in verse and in prose written by the author, long lived in our countryas an exile.
Differential Item Functioning in Grade 8 Math Using Logistic Regression, Mantel-Haenszel and Logical Data Analysis

This study identified biased test items through DIF analysis using Logistic Regression and Mantel-Haenszel Statistic.Biases were confirmed using LDA based on FGD's and interviews with teachers and students.The study made use of test scores from 99 male and 101 female grade 8 students to which 108 students were classified as low ability and 92 as high ability students based on their current English grades.A researcher-constructed and validated Statistics Achievement Test was used as research instrument based on Grades 7 and 8 Philippine K-12 competencies.The results from the two methods were compared, and it was found that sex and English ability bias exist.LDA reveals that bias favors females and high ability group in English which is associated with their capability of memorization and retention of topics taught procedurally.Recommendations include (1) incorporation of DIF analysis in test development; (2) the use of at least two methods in item bias detection; (3) the conduct of LDA or the qualitative component of DIF analysis is vital in understanding DIF to account for context specificity; and (4) for future research, the need to incorporate classroom observation as basis for LDA in DIF justification.
E-Marketing Framework for Effective Promotion of Educational Services

Web technologies and e-marketing provide universities new opportunities to organize more effective interactions with consumers of educational services. The educational portal of the university becomes a single point for the interaction of the university with all categories of interested persons. Modeling of the educational web portal structure based on the analysis of user behaviors, perceptions and preferences become especially relevant. The aim of the study is to analyze the processes of the effective functioning of educational portals of higher education institutions, to model their structure, and to study the possibilities of using them to improve the quality of educational services promotion. A set-theoretical approach and Web Mining technics were used for evaluation of the educational web portal abilities for effective promotion of educational services.
Applying Learning Equipment of Games Method with Snakes-And-Ladders’s Aid Media in Lines and Angles Study

Learning equipment is one of the most prominent things in learning process. One component that should be paid attention in developing learning equipment is selecting the best learning media. However based on analysis found that there is not yet exist learning equipment of games method with snakes-and-ladders’s aid media. This study aims to develop and to bring learning equipment of games method with snakes-and-ladders more valid, practical and effective. This type of research is development research and using the development model of ADDIE (analysis, design, development, implementation and evaluation). The subject of research trial is student of grade VII Junior high school Kemala Bhayangkari. Based on validator’s comment, the research found that learning equipment of games method with snakes-and-ladders’s aid is meet the valid criteria and also supported by analyzes carried out in this development research. This learning tool also fulfills practical and effective criteria based on the validator's recommendation that the game learning method with the help of snakes-and-ladders can be used with a slight revision, the tendency to increase formative scores, observers and students to respond positively to the use of learning equipment with the game of snakes-and-ladders, the average activity of students and the implementation of learning process are in good category. Based on the results of this development study as the whole learning equipment with the game method and  the help of snakes-and-ladders can already be used in lines and angles learning.
Identifying LCF-DLT approach and educating engineering students to learn foreground perception in video surveillance

Real world actions occur often in crowded and dynamic environments. In this present world, surveillance plays a vital role in many applications. Here this paper proposed an intelligent surveillance for detecting moving objects extraction in indoor and outdoor environment using Likelihood Chain Follow algorithm. This signifies that the proposed method is easy to be scrutinized and can recognize the shadow inclination adaptively, which extracts shadow from moving object accurately. This method can be adapted to a more challenging domain like understanding pupil behaviour becomes essential in ambient assist living field especially for monitoring college learner’s especially young students community where motion significantly shows more assorted occurrences in much wider area. It also helps to recognise that campus security cameras are capable of monitoring campus activities, to ensure that policies are properly followed in engineering colleges especially in electrical, communication and computer departments.
Automated identification of sulphides from drill core imagery

Quantification of mineral concentrations is crucial for planning efficient and economical ore extraction, metals processing and mine waste management (Berry et al., 2016). Several analytical methods are available to automatically identify minerals, including sulphides, e.g. Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Laser Raman Spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction (XRD). These methods operate at microscopic scales and require samples to be prepared prior to analysis, hence, they can be time consuming to carry out and problematic when scaled to represent mining ore and waste materials (Goodall et al., 2005; Berry et al., 2016). The use of visible and near infrared (VNIR), shortwave infrared (SWIR), and more recently thermal infrared (TIR) scanning systems for mineral identification are well established and offer rapid, cheap and non-destructive methods for characterising rock mineralogy drill core scales (Schodlok et al., 2016). Despite their advantages, VNIR (450-1100 nm), SWIR (1100–2500 nm) and TIR (1.1-14.5 μm) systems are only useful for the identification of minerals that are active in these portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. Sulphides, which are economically and environmentally important minerals, typically do not have characteristic absorption features in VNIR, SWIR and TIR wavelengths (Bolin and Moon, 2003; Merrill et al., 2016). Nevertheless, recent research suggests that TIR wavelengths of around 7.6 μm can be used to identify sulphide minerals (Merrill et al., 2016). Furthermore, iron-sulphides have been identified from hyperspectral drill core images (across VNIR wavelengths) using supervised classification (Bolin and Moon, 2003). This approach exploited ironsulphide mineral colour and albedo to distinguish them from other minerals. In this study, red-green-blue (RGB) images of drill core in combination with hyperspectral data are used as input into a Random Forests supervised classification algorithm in order to discriminate ironsulphides from other minerals.
LibGuides: GOBI: How to request titles for purchase (For faculty): How to request a title for purchase

A guide for History & Political Science faculty on requesting books through GOBI. Faculty in other subject areas should consult with their liaison.
Survey On E-Voting using Block Chain Technology

The inflaming use of current digital technology has transformed the life of people. Unlike the current electoral system, there are various applications as such. Security is an outmost priority which is predominant in the election with the offline system. The existing electoral system still uses a Centralized system in which an organization has full access grant. The problems encountered are mostly due to outdated electoral systems with the organization that has total control over the system as well as the database. Database tampering is a major reason which causes huge problems in the system. Our answer to this problem is Block Chain Technology. Block chain Technology is an ideal solution as it holds a decentralized system and the database is owned by various users. Examples like Bit coin can be taken as a good example of Block Chain Technology application as it uses a decentralized bank system. By applying the concept of block chain in the existing electoral system, it can reduce the deceitful sources of database action. Our project aims to apply voting results using block chain algorithms from all place of election. Unlike Bitcoin, this process based on a pre-set turn on the system for each node in the built of block chain.