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The Application of Blended Teaching Mode to Higher Vocational English Teaching

Vocational English is a common compulsory course, which plays a key role in cultivating the comprehensive quality of students from higher vocational education and improving their sustainable development of career. According to the Education Informatization 2.0 Action Plan, an open resource sharing of MOOC should be built to improve the service of MOOC，which brings new life and vigor into higher vocational English education. In this paper, the situation and problem of vocational English teaching is explored and the new online education platform: The Smart Tree and smart classrooms on campus are used as teaching tools. It is also discussed that how to establish a Blended teaching mode catering to the learning needs of students from higher vocational education--- that is the English MOOC. And at the same time, the English MOOC is adjusted based on the learning feedback of the students so as to enhance the Blended teaching mode of higher vocational English education.
Towards a Comprehensive Standard Model of Human-Like Minds

The Standard Model of particle physics has been an effective framework for describing entities of the domain relative to each other and thereby predicting missing particles. In this sense, it plays a similar role to the periodic table of the elements. Could something analogous work for AI? In this paper, we propse a dozen elements of a standard model of the mind and characterize their interrelationships. Naturally, this set reflects our own experience and biases and is not exhaustive. We also describe some of the ways in which this apporach to a standard model differs from that in physics and suggest some limitations.
Bayesian analysis of risk- and ambiguity aversion in two information sampling tasks

Abstract to academic presentation at the virtual conference 53rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Psychology (MathPsych2020), arranged by Society for Mathematical Psychology, online 20.07.20 - 31.07.20. http://www.mathpsych.org/conferences/2020/. The presentation is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZE-WpqzQXw.
Delirium : Constructing a Narrative : An investigation into compositional technique

This thesis explores the topic of narrative in the context of musical composition. Narrative based music will be presented in relation to three ethical questions of Criticism, Commonality and Metap ...
A comparison of different R-tree construction techniques for range queries on neuromorphological data

The brain is the most complex organ in the human body, and there are many reasons to study it. One way of studying the brain is through digital simulations. Such simulations typically require large ...
UofL Libraries: Lateral Reading: Activity

Practice “lateral reading,” a strategy used by professional fact-checkers to investigate the reliability of online sources.
Studying Multi-Dimentional Signals Throught Their Space Frequency Representation

In previous works, the analysis of one-dimentional signals can be per-formed by exploiting the theory of image processing of time-frequency representations. Therefore, in our paper we generalize the previous work for studying multi-dimensional signals through their space frequency representations, which is the Wigner Ville Distribution. Indeed, we show that the Wigner Ville distribution of 2D images is a 4D space frequency representation thatcan be considered as a color image. In this way, we could confirm if we could analyze two-dimentional images by exploiting the theory of color images processing of space-frequency representation, in order to find applications, which can serve medicine domain (synthetic and biomedical images).
THE EFFECT OF USING PPP METHOD ON STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILL

The purpose of this research to know whether or not there is an effect of using Presentation, Practice, and Production method on students’ speaking skill. Quasi experimental was the method of this research research with the pre-test, post-test control group design. All the students at the eighth grade of SMP N 4 Bintan was the population of this research and the sample of this research was 60 pupils. VIIIA with 30 pupils as the control class and VIIIB with 30 pupils as experimental class. The sample was taken by a group randomly by using Cluster Random Sampling. Experimental class was taught by using Presentation, Practice, and Production method and the control was taught by using Grammar Translation Method. The research instrument was oral test. Data were analyzed by using t-test by using Minitab17. The results showed that the average of experimental class in posttest was 77.33 and the pretest was 41.33. The average of control class in posttest was 67.33 and the pretest 40.66. The students’ mean scores of the experimental class was higher than the control class. In Man Whitney test the researcher got the significance value 0.000 was lower than significance level 0.05 (0.000 < 0.05). The df was 28 in experiment class and df in control class was 28. And the SD in experiment class was 10.48 and SD in control class was 9.44. Based on the result of the analysis, it was concluded that Presentation, Practice, and Production method was effective on students’ speaking skill.
Secure Information consume in Distributed Computing Utilizing Revocable Capacity Uniformity Based Encryption

Cloud computing provides a flexible and way that is convenient data sharing, which brings various benefits for the society and people. But there is certainly a resistance that is natural users to directly outsource the shared data into the cloud server considering that the data often contain valuable information. Thus, it is crucial to position access that is cryptographically enhanced from the shared data. Identity-based encryption is a promising cryptographical primitive to construct a practical data system that is sharing.
Amplifying Impact: How Policies That Combine Investment in English Language Skills with Digital Learning Pay off for Workers and Businesses.

Under both WIOA and HEA, the primary delivery mechanism for English classes has been a traditional in-person classroom format. However, even before the pandemic, select adult and higher education p...
The role of education technologies in Colombia

According to the UNESCO, the COVID-19 outbreak has forced millions of students to take virtual classes. For that reason, more than 80% of Higher Education institutions expect a big disruption in the sector in the next five years and 60% of them in the next 24 months (Holon IQ,2020). In Colombia, the big disruption is much needed. Currently, Physical Higher Education holds the lead regarding the performance of its students measured in the results of the Saber Pro test of 2018. However, this performance is strongly connected to the socioeconomic conditions of the students. On the other hand, the students that take Virtual Education programs perform in average 10% worse than students from Physical Educational Institutions. This study provides insights, using an OLS regression, about the socio-economic conditions that are affecting the learning outcomes of students from Physical, Virtual, and Blended Higher Education Institutions in Colombia. It demonstrates the responsibility that education technology has in the country to expand the good quality education of physical educations to more students and to improve the quality of education of virtual institutions. In addition, it opens the discussion to use a transition framework to understand the way in which this big disruption could take place. (Less)
Intensive and Extensive Reading in Improving TeachingReading Comprehension

The research investigated the implementation of Intensive Reading (IR) and Extensive Reading (ER) that is suitable for English class in Polytechnic that focuses on the ability of English practice. This research is a Classroom Action Research (CAR), which consists of three stages, namely pretest, treatment, and posttest. Based on the results of the pretest, it can be concluded that reading skill of the second semester students from Computer andNetworking Engineering study program before the implementation of IR and ER method were still relatively low, in the classification of poor (25%) represented by 11 students and in very poor classification (18.2%) achieved by 8 students. After three times cycles oftreatment by using three different articles for English reading text, the reading skill of students increased significantly in the presence of 2 students (4.5%) in the classification of very good and there were only 6 students were in poor and very poor classification.Based on post test result, reading skill of students IR and EF managed to enhance teaching reading comprehension significantly with 5 students (11.4%) were in verygood classification.
A New Method for Constructing Digital Signature Algorithm based on a New Key Scheme

E-governance is the latest trend in many countries in which the government is using the online system for delivering government services to citizensand the Digital Signature is used to validate contents and authorize users who are involving in the E-governance system. Although there are many digital signature schemes currently known as: RSA, Elgamal,... the approach of improving the safety level of digital signature schemes based on the hardness of solving simultaneous difficult assumptions has still remained underdeveloped and attracted rising attentions from researchers. In this research, with the target to improve safety level of digital signature algorithms, we present the proposed method for constructing digital signature algorithms which is based on a new key scheme. This new key format is constructed using a new difficulty problem without high-efficiency solution and it can be applied to construct digital signature algorithms. According to this research, a high-security digital signature class can be construct by the proposed method in some actual situation.
Understanding Neural Machine Translation : An investigation into linguistic phenomena and attention mechanisms

In this thesis, I explore neural machine translation (NMT) models via targeted investigation of various linguistic phenomena and thorough exploration of the internal structure of NMT models, in par ...
DEVELOPING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILL OF GRADE XI AT SMAN 2 TOLITOLI BY USING DESCRIBING PICTURE

This study is about the use of describing picture as method to develope students’ speaking skill of the eleventh grade students of SMA Negeri 2 Tolitoli in the 2016/2017 academic year. The design of this research is pre experimental research. The sample of this research is the eleventh grade students that consist of 31 students. The data obtained from pre test and post test. In the pre test it is found that mean score of the student are 34,19 and in the post test are 69,67. Computation of the data t count results is 19,86 which means higher than t table is 2,042. The result indicates that there is an improvement in students’ speaking ability by using describing picture. It can be concluded that improving speaking skill by using picture is effective. Key word : Developing, Speaking Skill, Describing Picture
LibGuides: Open Access Publication Policy: Home

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Latent Variable Models: Maximum Likelihood Estimation and Microbiome Data Analysis

Author(s): Hong, Chun Yu | Advisor(s): Fithian, William; de Valpine, Perry | Abstract: Data analysis often involves modeling complex relationships among many variables, some of which are unobserved. This type of analysis is usually tackled by latent variable models, which are graphical models consisting of both observed variables and latent variables. In this work, we delve into the computational aspect and the application aspect of latent variable models. On the computational side, we unify and extend stochastic gradient based maximum likelihood estimation methods for latent variable models under a framework called Hierarchical Model Stochastic Gradient Descent (HMSGD). Numerical studies have shown that certain extensions are more computationally efficient compared to the Monte Carlo Expectation Maximization (MCEM) algorithm. On the application side, we develop a non-parametric graphical model for microbiome data, and apply the framework to analyze the statistical properties of rarefaction, a popular normalization technique in microbiome data analysis. We show that rarefaction helps guarantee validity of permutation inference. We introduce the sample rarefaction efficiency index as a preliminary data-driven indicator of statistical efficiency of rarefied data compared to original data. Using the nonparametric graphical model, we propose a rarefaction-based nonparametric statistical testing procedure, the combined correlation permutation test, to assess whether library sizes are associated with microbial compositions conditioning on the grouping variable of interest. Case studies have shown that such associations are not uncommon in practice.
Axially shifted pattern illumination for macroscale turbidity suppression and virtual volumetric confocal imaging without axial scanning

Structured illumination has been widely used for optical sectioning and 3D surface recovery. In a typical implementation, multiple images under non-uniform pattern illumination are used to recover a single object section. Axial scanning of the sample or the objective lens is needed for acquiring the 3D volumetric data. Here we demonstrate the use of axially shifted pattern illumination for virtual volumetric confocal imaging without axial scanning. In the reported approach, we project illumination patterns at a tilted angle with respect to the detection optics. As such, the illumination patterns shift laterally at different z sections, and the 3D sample information can be recovered based on the captured 2D images. We demonstrate the reported approach for virtual confocal imaging through a diffusing layer and underwater 3D imaging through diluted milk. We show that we can acquire the entire confocal volume in ∼1 s with a throughput of 420 megapixels per second. Our approach may provide new insights for developing confocal light ranging and detection systems in degraded visual environments.
High-NOON States with High Flux of Photons Using Coherent Beam Stimulated Noncollinear Parametric Down Conversion

We show how to reach high fidelity NOON states with a high count rate inside optical interferometers. Previously, it has been shown that by mixing squeezed and coherent light at a beam splitter, it is possible to generate NOON states of arbitrary N with a fidelity as high as 94%. The scheme is based on higher-order interference between “quantum” down-converted light and “classical” coherent light. However, this requires optimizing the amplitude ratio of classical to quantum light, thereby limiting the overall count rate for the interferometric super-resolution signal. We propose using coherent beam stimulated noncollinear two-mode down-converted light as input to the interferometer. Our scheme is based on the stimulation of noncollinear parametric down conversion by coherent light sources. We get a better flexibility of choosing the amplitude ratio in generating NOON states. This enables super-resolution intensity exceeding the previous scheme by many orders of magnitude. Therefore, we hope to improve the magnitude of N -fold super-resolution in quantum interferometry for arbitrary N using bright light sources. We give improved results for N = 4 and 5.
USING MATHEMATICAL MODELING METHODS IN DIGITALIZATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION

In this article, priority directions of development of the educational process are determined on the basis of application of digital technologies in the higher education system of the Republic, analysis of their capabilities. There were also suggestions on how and in what form the introduction of digital technologies in higher education can take an important place only in the field of education by studying, systematizing and generalizing existing practices in drawing up evidence-based conclusions.
Recoverability from direct quantum correlations

We address the problem of compressing density operators defined on a finite dimensional Hilbert space which assumes a tensor product decomposition. In particular, we look for an efficient procedure for learning the most likely density operator, according to 'Jaynes' principle, given a chosen set of partial information obtained from the unknown quantum system we wish to describe. For complexity reasons, we restrict our analysis to tree-structured sets of bipartite marginals. We focus on the tripartite scenario, where we solve the problem for the couples of measured marginals which are compatible with a quantum Markov chain, providing then an algebraic necessary and sufficient condition for the compatibility to be verified. We introduce the generalization of the procedure to the n-partite scenario, giving some preliminary results. In particular, we prove that if the pairwise Markov condition holds between the subparts then the choice of the best set of tree-structured bipartite marginals can be performed efficiently. Moreover, we provide a new characterization of quantum Markov chains in terms of quantum Bayesian updating processes.
Does financial development promote export diversification in Sub-Saharan Africa?

This paper examines the effect of financial sector development on export diversification of 41 sub-Saharan Africa countries using data for the period 1995-2013. The empirical results using dynamic panel system generalized methods of moments (System-GMM) estimation technique show that high financial development promotes export diversification in sub-Saharan Africa. The finding underscores the importance of financial sector development policies in sub-Saharan Africa to stimulate export diversification. Specifically, it is necessary to increase the roll out of financial infrastructure across sub-Saharan Africa to widen the extent of financial access. Government should also ensure macroeconomic stability to support financial sector development in the various sub-Saharan Africa countries.
Problem-Based Methods As A Means Of Compositional Thinking Development Of Artist Students

The article discusses the problems of a professional art education, teaching one of the main academic disciplines - composition, which studies the laws of art forms creation using the means of artistic expression, techniques and the organization of image perception. A compositional way of thinking according to the authors is of an artistic and plastic nature and is based on operating the language of art and is aimed at creating a new, holistic, original artistic image. The authors distinguish a compositional thinking as one of the most important professional qualities of the artist, and disclose the methodology of its formation among students of artistic directions. The process of teaching to compose: creation of a picture, a drawing, a sculpture or design an object cannot be built as a simple linear process of teaching image methods, compositional rules and techniques. The author’s methodology is based on the method of problem tasks, which involves setting a creative task, creating a problem situation; comprehension, acceptance and resolution of the problem when students master the generalized methods of artistic and creative activity. Moreover, the creative process is considered as a series of successive stages associated with the work of a productive or creative imagination requiring the provision of visual or other information in the process of work. The article presents the results of the ascertaining and forming stages of experimental work on the development of compositional thinking of artist students in the development of expressive means, as well as compositional techniques and rules.
LibGuides: Discover the Cosmos: Home

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Application of vastu shastra principles in house construction by home dwellers

Vastu Shastra is the Indian system of architecture and design of Vedic origin. In order to provide a useful and authentic guidance to a common a man, the present study was planned and undertaken in 2014 at Udaipur city of Rajasthan state to observe the application of Vastu shastra principles in house construction from selection of plot to Greh Parvesh by home dwellers. It was the first ever research study in the city of Rajasthan on awareness and application of Vastu principles in house construction and interior designing by home dwellers. In this research study 200 home dwellers from newly constructed localities were undertaken to identify their level of faith in vastu use and also to judge the physiological and psychological effects of vastu application on the lives of home dwellers. The purpose of the study was to assess the application and utilization of the Vastu Shastra by the home dwellers in the construction of their houses.
PENINGKATAN KEMAMPUAN GURU UNTUK MENGGUNAKAN MEDIA PEMBELAJARAN DALAM PROSES PEMBELAJARAN MELALUI SUPERVISI AKADEMIK KEPALA SEKOLAH SDN 05/IX JAMBI TULO KABUPATEN MUARO JAMBI

This research was motivated by the low competence of teachers at SDN 05 / IX Jambi Tulo in utilizing media in learning activities. Because of that, this open research was held which aims to help improve the competence of SDN 05 / IX Jambi Tulo teachers in running the media in teaching and learning activities so that students are able to achieve and even meet the minimum completeness criteria of students. As the subject of this school action research, there were 8 teachers from SDN 05 / IX Jambi Tulo, Muaro Jambi Regency. The formulation of the problem of this research is the teacher's ability to use learning media at SDN 05 / IX Jambi Tulo be improved through academic supervision by the principal?. The data technique used in this study was to use observation sheets filled in by the supervisor so that the qualitative data was what determined the research that was deployed if the research result indicators were greater than 75. From the observations in cycle 1 the average score of the participants was 73, categorized as yet. successful, because it is still below the performance indicator which is> 75, while in cycle 2 the average overall score of the participants is 85 with good classification. In cycle 2, the research was said to be successful because 85 were above the performance indicators. The success in cycle 2 was due to the media mastery by the participants in cycle I was still not optimal as in cycle 2. There was an increase in understanding of the use of learning media from cycle I to cycle II. The deficiencies in cycle I were improved in cycle II so that it reached a very good level. So it can be said that the academic supervision carried out by the principal in an effort to improve the ability of teachers of SDN 05 / IX Jambi Tulo, Mauro Jambi Regency in using learning media was successful.