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A Comparison Study of Deep Learning Techniques to Increase the Spatial Resolution of Photo-Realistic Images

In this paper we present a perceptual and error-based comparison study of the efficacy of four different deep-learned super-resolution architectures, ESPCN, SRResNet, ProGanSR and LapSRN, all performed on photo-realistic images by a factor of 4x; adapting some of the current state-of-the-art architectures using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). The resultant application and the implemented CNNs are tested with objective (Peak-Signal-to-Noise ratio and Structural Similarity Index) and perceptual metrics (Mean Opinion Score testing), to judge their relative quality and implementation within the program. The results of these tests demonstrate the effectiveness of super-resolution, showing that most network implementations give an average gain of +1 to +2 dB (in PSNR), and an average gain of +0.05 to +0.1 (in SSIM) over traditional Bicubic scaling. The results of the perception test also show that participants almost always prefer the images scaled using each CNN model compared to traditional Bicubic scaling. These findings also present a look into new diverging paths in super-resolution research; where the focus is now shifting from solely error-reduction, objective-based models to perceptually focused models that satisfy human perception of a high-resolution image.
Dynamic Evaluation Model of Intelligent Gymnasium Service Resources Based on Big Data

In order to improve that dynamic evaluation and the sharing capability of the intelligent stadium service resource, a dynamic evaluation model design method of the intelligent stadium service resource based on large data is proposed, and an information fusion model for dynamic evaluation of the service resources of the intelligent stadium is constructed, The distributed storage structure of the intelligent stadium service resource is analyzed, the large database reconstruction of the intelligent stadium service resource is realized by adopting the cloud computing method, a characteristic reconstruction method is adopted to carry out the dynamic evaluation design of the intelligent stadium service resources, And a cloud computing model for dynamically evaluating the service resources of the intelligent stadium is established. By adopting the method of large data fusion to realize the dynamic evaluation of the service resources of the intelligent stadium and the stadium, the dynamic correlation dimension extraction of the intelligent stadium service resource information base is realized by combining the self-correlation characteristic matching method, and the optimization design of the intelligent stadium service resource dynamic evaluation platform is realized. The simulation results show that the method can be used to evaluate the dynamic evaluation of the intelligent stadium service resources, and the accuracy of the evaluation is higher, and the dynamic evaluation ability of the intelligent stadium service resources is improved.
Technical Efficiency of African Public Universities: A Data Envelopment Analysis

Using the Data Envelopment Analysis techniques, the study examines the relative technical efficiency of 15 African public universities using 2000-2007 data set.The operating environment is adjusted to ascertain the extent to which it affects the relative efficiency scores of the universities.The universities post mean technical efficiency scores of: 0.886, 0.900 and 0.971 for the general model, teaching-only and research-only model, respectively.African public universities are hence more efficient in their research function than in their teaching function.The productivity gains of the universities are attributed more to embracement of technological advancements in both their teaching and research function rather than to improvements in the efficiency of their internal processes.
Using Think-Pair-Share (TPS) Technique in Improving Students’ Reading Skill at Seventh Grade Of Junior High School at SMPN 6 Panyabungan in Academic Year 2019/2020.

This research was aimed to find out the usability of TPS technique in teaching reading skill. This research was conducted by using Classroom Action Research (CAR). The subject of this research was seventh grade students of SMPN 6 Panyabungan in academic year 2018/2019 which consisted of 24 students. The objective of this research was to know the improvement of students’ reading skill through TPS technique. This research was conducted in two cycles which each consists’ of planning, acting, observing, and reflecting. The data were gathered through quantitative and qualitative data. The result of this research showed that there was increasing of students in reading. The mean of pre-test was 51.7. The mean of post-test 1 was 64.2. The mean of post-test 2 was 74.8. It indicated that the scores and the mean in second cycle were better than the first cycle. The percentage of students who got point >70 also grew up. In the pre-Test, the students who got point >70 up were 2 students (8.3%). In the post-test of cycle 1 students who got point >70 up were 10 students (41.7%). The post-test of cycle 2, students who got point >70 were 21 students (87.5%). In other words, the students’ are more interest and enthusiast in reading the text during teaching and learning process by used TPS technique. It showed that that the students’ reading skill have increasing in the first meeting to the last meeting by used TPS technique.
We Don't Practice in a Vacuum

Dr. Chescheir is the Editor-in-Chief of Obstetrics & Gynecology; email: [email protected]. Photo of Dr. Chescheir is courtesy of the Central Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, 2016. Financial Disclosure The authors did not report any potential conflicts of interest.
Exploring Multicore Architectures For Streaming Applications

The Smith Waterman algorithm is used to perform local alignment on biological sequences by calculating a similarity matrix. This process is computation-intensive. Only the elements along the minor diagonal of the matrix can be calculated in parallel, due to the nature of dependencies present in the algorithm. In the past, CPUs, GPUs and FPGAs have been used to implement the Smith Waterman algorithm. While GPUs offer better performance as compared to FPGAs and are easier to program, they have higher power consumption. The FPGA implementations typically employ systolic arrays, which consist of processing elements connected in a regular manner through which data is streamed. Custom designed processing elements for an FPGA implementation entails a lot of effort. In this thesis, we investigate alternative architectures to provide performance with a lower power profile and ease of programmability. We design a systolic array architecture with general purpose processors and map the Smith Waterman algorithm on it. The design of the systolic array consists of scratchpad memories to store intermediate data. Since employing multiple processors is a common method to extract more performance nowadays, we compare our architecture with a multicore architecture. Simulation results show that the systolic array architecture promises more speedup than the multicore architecture, achieving a performance of up to 1.5MCUPS for 16 processing elements, which is 4x times faster than a 16-processor multicore architecture. Moreover the performance of the systolic array architecture scales well with increasing number of processors as compared to the multicore architecture. Mapping the SW algorithm to the systolic array architecture is possible using only 100 lines of code programmed within 2 person-weeks in C which is a standard, familiar language. Our experiences with mapping the algorithm onto the systolic array architecture show that it could result into a CUDA-like programming paradigm.
Frequency lists of word parts from the Gigafida 2.0 corpus

Frequency lists of words split into word parts were extracted from the Gigafida 2.0 Corpus of Written Standard Slovene (https://viri.cjvt.si/gigafida/) using the LIST corpus extraction tool (http://hdl.handle.net/11356/1227). The lists contain all lemmas or lower-case word forms occurring in the corpus, split into their initial or final part (i.e. the initial or final string of 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 characters in the word) and the rest of the word. In addition, the lists also contain absolute and relative frequencies, percentages, and distribution across the text-types included in the corpus taxonomy.The lists were extracted for each part-of-speech category. For each part-of-speech, a total of 20 lists were extracted:1) 10 lists for initial or final word parts extracted from lemmas,2) 10 lists for initial or final word parts extracted from lower-case word forms.In addition, 20 lists were extracted from all words (regardless of their part-of-speech category). For easier processing in statistical analysis software, shortened versions of longer lists were made containing the first 150,000 lines.
When your finger isn't enough : New ways to increase the accessibility of mobile phones

The objective of this study has been to answer three questions. The questions are Can you navigate in a different way than with your fingers, Do you lose any functionality in the application when y ...
Virtual assistant based recommendation system

In the current commercial application, the e-commerce applications give the only recommendation of the particular tastes only when one is interested in a particular item. The recommendation is also very much related to the item the user is interested in. Though this system works well it lacks the personalized experience that the user can get when purchasing an item through an offline vendor. This can be achieved by aggregating the recommendation engine within a virtual assistant. In our proposed system the user will be getting the online e-commerce experience with a personalized buying assistance that one gets while buying through an offline retail vendor.
An Explorative Study of Interaction with Tracked Objects in a Virtual Reality Game

In recent years, Internet enabled objects (Internet of Things) and their augmentation through virtual reality has become both technically possible and increasingly advanced. This paper explores how ...
Современное высшее профессиональное образование: тенденции и перспективы подготовки конкурентоспособного специалиста

Rakhuba Valery Ivanovich; Venskovich Mikhail Stanislavovich; Venskovich Svetlana Vasilievna; Zozulya Oksana Leontyevna; Rezko Petr Nikolaevich. Modern Higher Professional Education: Trends and Prospects of Training a Competitive Specialist
Speaker individuality in the durational characteristics of voiced intervals: the case of chinese bi-dialectal speakers

Temporal organizations of the speech signal are highly individual among speakers of the same language. In the present study, we looked at speech production of bi-dialectal speakers using two varieties of the same language. We aimed at testing whether speaker-specific temporal features present in one dialect remain in another dialect of the same speaker. 20 sentences and one passage in both Mandarin and Danyang Dialect of 14 bi-dialectal speakers were recorded. We measured between- speaker variability of the percentage of voiced interval duration (percentVO) in both dialect conditions using linear mixed effect models. Results revealed that speakers exhibited distinct between- speaker variability when dialect variability and style variability were introduced. However, within-speaker variability was also present and the magnitude of the variability differences varied among different speakers and in different speaking styles. Findings of the current study are particularly relevant for forensic voice comparison tasks when a mismatch in speaking languages in trace and suspect materials is present.
PENGELOMPOKAN KASUS PENYAKIT AIDS BERDASARKAN PROVINSI DENGAN DATA MINING K-MEDOIDS CLUSTERING

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS abbreviated) is a set of symptoms and infections that arise due to the destruction of the human immune system due to HIV viral infection. This study discusses about Rapidminer Application in Grouping Cases of AIDS Disease by Province with K-medoid Clustering Data Mining. The rise of AIDS cases in Indonesia has become a case that never escapes government attention. Attention to the ever increasing rate of death makes people worry about the spread of the AIDS virus. Sources of data and research are collected from the information document Number of Villages Who Have Health Facilities produced by the Social Security Administering Board. The data used in this study is data from 2008-2011 which consists of 34 provinces. Assessment criteria used are 2 ie 1). the average number of AIDS cases and 2). the average number of AIDS cases deaths were managed using 3 clusters ie high cluster level (C1), medium cluster level (C2) and low cluster level (C3). So that the cluster C1 obtained for Cases of AIDS Disease by Province as many as 4 provinces of Papua, DKI Jakarta, West Java and East Java, 9 provinces for cluster C2 and for cluster C3 as much as 20. This can be input to the government, the province of concern in the number of cases of AIDS.Keywords: Maining Data, AIDS Disease, Clustering, K-medoid
Modern education as dialogue of cultures of personality’s formation

The article researches the problem of integrating different approaches to building a general secondary education. Reasonably believe that their productive combination is possible in dialogical interaction of the alternative ideas of personality and its formation, interpreted as the whole pedagogical cultures. From the dialog-culturological approach an author outlined the principles, content and forms of such dialogue as a way of projecting and implementation of modern education.In fact, such reflection is a prerequisite for becoming a culturally oriented activity.  In this regard, the project of the School of Dialogue of Education at the Initial Stage of Comprehensive Educational Dialogue provides a productive “special point of surprise” (along with problematic “riddles” of the number, words, nature object, tools, works of art, etc.) - “riddles of the self-consciousness”.  .  It is in this context that the schoolboy begins to think intensely about the meaning and peculiarities of the image of the preschool and new, student I, old and new way of life, over his own relations with the learning partners, teachers and the subject matter.  Thus, learning under this approach becomes an activity of self-directed - the activity of mental and active self-change, self-formation, creation of self. Desire and ability to it are the main psychological neoplasms of the school period, which should consolidate and take a decisive place in the structure of personality for the subsequent life.
Releasing Fast and Slow: Characterizing Rapid Releases in a Large Software-Driven Organization

The appeal of delivering new features faster has led many software projects to change their development processes towards rapid release models. Even though rapid releases are increasingly being adopted in open-source and commercial software, it is not well understood what the effects are of this practice. This thesis presents an exploratory case study of rapid releases at ING, a large banking company that develops software solutions in-house, to characterize rapid releases. Since 2011, ING has shifted to a rapid release model. This switch has resulted in a mixed environment of 611 teams releasing relatively fast and slow. We followed a mixed-methods approach in which we conducted a survey with 461 participants and corroborated their perceptions with two years of code quality data and one year of release delay data. Our research shows that: rapid releases can be beneficial in terms of code reviewing and user-perceived quality; rapidly released software tends to have a higher code churn, higher test coverage and lower average complexity; rapid releases are perceived to be, and are in fact, more commonly delayed than their non-rapid counterparts; however, rapid releases are correlated with shorter delays (median: 6 days) than non-rapid releases (median: 16 days); challenges in rapid releases are related to managing dependencies and certain code aspects, e.g. design debt. Based on our findings we present challenging areas that require further attention, both in practice and in research, in order to move the practice of rapid releases forward.
REVIEW: Extramural English in Teaching and Learning: From Theory and Research to Practice

English holds a lingua franca status all around the world and with its increasing popularity in almost all fields, efforts to learn English has gained an unprecedented momentum in recent years. Although teaching and learning languages may take place in schools as part of a formal course, this formal training process is mostly not sufficient and satisfying for many learners. Today learners can practice their target language outside the school thanks to the development of technological tools and the ease of access to the opportunities provided by technology. Especially recent trends like Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL), Mobile-Assisted Language Learning (MALL), distance education, and flipped learning are all fruits of technology integration into education and mainly serve to enhance learner autonomy. Under this framework, Extramural English in Teaching and Learning: From Theory and Research to Practice is a recent book that aims to examine the current extramural dimension of teaching and learning English from a theory-practice perspective.
Peningkatan Kemampuan Membaca Melalui Pengintegrasian Sudut Baca Dalam Kegiatan Pembelajaran Di Kelas Iv Sd Negeri Galeh 2 Tahun Ajaran 2019/2020

This study aims to find out the improvement in reading skills and learning outcomes of fourth grade students at SDN Galeh 2 Sragen. This type of research is Classroom Action Research using reading angles as learning facilities. This research was conducted for 2 cycles with the stages of action planning, action implementation, observations and reflections. After the research has been carried out it is proven that the reading angle as a learning facility can improve reading skills and student learning outcomes. Can be obtained percentage of students' reading ability Average reading ability of students from 45% to 75%, increasing learning outcomes from 35% to 70%. Thus it can be concluded that the angle of reading can improve reading skills and student learning outcomes.
LibGuides: Scholarly Publishing: Publishing a Journal in DS@UNLV

This guide is to help faculty and graduate students with scholarly publishing For UNLV faculty and students and others that are interested in publishing a journal on the Digital Scholarship@UNLV platform.
The Investigation of Multiple Product Rating Based on Data Mining Approaches

Ratings and product reviews could be considered as one of the main features determining the quality of a product in online store systems, especially in deciding whether to place a product as part of an online store's inventory.Online vendors are attracted by product reviews and ratings in order to study on potential products and related predictions.In this way, different machine learning algorithms such as Support Vector Machine, Bayesian Networks, Random Forests and Logistic Regression are investigated.The performance of each model is evaluated using accuracy, sensitivity and F1 score on the data from amazon online store website, 1996 to 2014.It is noteworthy to mention that the results of this paper can be used as an initial input to long-term product rating predictions.
PENGARUH MEDIA IKLAN TERHADAP KEMAMPUAN MENULIS TEKS PERSUASI SISWA KELAS VIII SMP NEGERI 47 PALEMBANG

This research aims to determine the effect of advertising media on the ability to write persuasion text in eightth grade students SMP Negeri 47 Palembang. The research method used in this study is a quasi-experimental method. Sample selection is done randomly, and the sample chosen in this study consisted of two classes namely class VIII.5 which amounted to 27 students as the control class that received treatment using poster media and class VIII.6 which amounted to 27 students as the experimental class that received treatment using advertising media. The data collection technique in this study used test technique and data processing technique used the t-test with SPSS 24 program. The results showed that there were differences in test results between the experimental class and the control class. The experimental class gets the initial test average value 43,15 and the control class obtained the final test grade average score of 40,37. While the average value of the experimental class final test 74,63 and the average value of the final class of the control class 59,44. The data analysis with t-test indicate that t-count > t-table = 6,559 > 2,007 with df = 52 at success rate of 95% (α=0,025), meaning that there are significant differences between the two groups of sample, because t-count is greater than t-table, then Ho is rejected and Ha is accepted, meaning that the experimental class is more significant than the control class. Therefore, advertising media has an effect on the ability to write description text in eightth grade students SMP Negeri 47 Palembang. Keywords: Media, writing, persuasion text
Diksi Dan Sapaan Dalam Berita Bidang Olahraga Di Kompas Edisi Januari-April 2019

This study has three objectives. (1) Translations contained in sports news in the January-April 2019 Kompas newspaper. (2) Greetings used in sports news in the January-April 2019 Kompas newspaper. (3) Implementation of greetings in the learning of negotiating texts. This type of research is qualitative research. Data collection is done by listening and note taking techniques. The method used is the method of covering the basic techniques and advanced techniques. Advanced techniques which include marking reading techniques, equivalent techniques II. Based on the results of the study show (1) Diction contained in sports news in the Kompas newspaper January-April 2019 edition is divided into eight parts, namely the use of the word diction meaning synonymous, the use of the word meaningful denotation, the use of connotational meaningful words, the use of common words, the use of the term foreign, special word usage, scientific word usage, and popular word usage. (2) Greetings used in sports news in the January-April 2019 edition of Kompas newspaper, researchers divided them into five types, namely greetings based on the most dominant nickname found amounting to 26 data, based on self-name abbreviations totaling 7, based on animal names amounting to 5 data, based on the article Si Si amounted to 3 data, based on the name of the city amounted to 2, and based on close relationships only 1 data. Implemented in Indonesian language learning for class X KD 4.11.
The Implementation of RCRR (Read,Cover,Remember,Retell) Strategy to Improve the Eight Grade Students Ability at Reading Descriptive Text at MTS Al Ittihadiyah Lau Dendang Medan.

The research was attempted to improve the students’ reading ability based on Descriptive Text by using RCRR (Read,Cover,Remember,Retell) Strategy for the eight grade students of MTS Al Ittihadiyah Lau DendangMedan.This study was conducted by CAR design in two cycle. The first cycle consisted of two meetings and the second cycle consisted of two meetings. The instruments of collecting data were reading test for quantitative data and observation sheet, interview sheet and diary notes for qualitative data. The subject of this study is the eighth grade students of MTS Al Ittihadiyah Lau Dendang Medan that consist of 24 students. Based on the reading test score, students’ score kept improving in every test. In the pre test the mean was 32,5. In the post test I the mean was 63,83 and the post test II was 73,75. Students were looking active and interested in reading. It means that the Implementation of RCRR Strategy through Descriptive Text are suitable for the eight grade students of MTS Al Ittihadiyah Lau Dendang and it was improve the students’ abilty.