Reviewerly/exHarmony huggingface dataset:
A threshold segmentation method for non-uniform illumination image based on brightness equalization

Abstract In the process of image acquisition, non-uniform illumination images are common due to poor lighting, surface reflection, or a combination of these two factors. In order to improve the quality of image segmentation, an image threshold segmentation method is proposed for non-uniform illumination images. First, the brightness of different regions in the image is compensated to make the brightness background of the whole image consistent. Second, the gradation histogram of the processed image is obtained and simulated into Gaussian distribution curve, then the inflection points of the curve are calculated. Finally, the two inflection points are set as thresholds to segment the image after brightness equalization. This method eliminates the influence of non-uniform illumination to a certain extent and gets a better segmentation effect. Experiments were carried out on images containing several different types of non-uniform illumination. The results demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms the compared enhancement algorithms in threshold segmentation.
A Study on the Development of a Diagnostic Tool for the Assessment Professionality of Specialized Subject Teachers

최근 성취평가와 같은 역량 중심으로 평가의 패러다임이 변화함에 따라 학교 현장에서 교사의 평가 관련 역량 향상에 요구가 높아지고 있다. 이는 평가가 단순히 학생의 학업 성취를 평가하는 것 이상으로 교사의 수업 개선에 따른 학교교육 내실화 등 교육 전반에 영향을 미치기 때문이다. 하지만 현재 전문교과 교사의 평가와 관련된 연구는 상대적으로 적으며, 특히 전문교과 교사의 평가와 관련된 역량을 진단하고, 이를 기반으로 전문가로서의 교사 역량을 향상시키도록 정보를 제공할 수 있는 진단도구 개발과 관련된 연구는 거의 이루어지지지 않았다. 본 연구는 전문교과 교사 역량 중 ‘평가 전문성’에 기반을 두고 4가지 영역(평가 계획, 평가 수행, 평가 결과 활용, 평가 관련 윤리), 20개 문항으로 구성된 진단도구를 개발하였다. 그리고 타당도를 검증하기 위하여 2018년 12월 31일(월)부터 2019년 1월 15일(화)까지 전문교과 교사 75명을 대상으로 설문조사를 실시하고, MINISTEPS와 SPSS 24.0을 활용하여 그 결과를 분석하였다. 첫째, 본 연구에서 개발된 진단도구의 문항에 대한 차원성 검증 결과, 일차원성 가정을 충족하고, 각 문항에 대한 내적합도/외적합도 지수 뿐 아니라 문항 신뢰도가 적합한 것으로 나타나 해당 문항 모두 타당성과 신뢰성을 확보하였음을 확인하였다. 둘째 ‘문항×피험자 분포도’를 통해 문항 곤란도와 응답자 개인의 속성을 파악한 결과, 문항곤란도의 경우 평균을 중심으로 몰려있는 반면, 응답자 개인 속성의 경우 그 분포가 상대적으로 넓게 분포된 것으로 나타나 현재 ‘평가 전문성’ 관련 개인 속성이 매우 높거나 낮은 응답자를 진단할 수 있는 문항이 상대적으로 부족한 것으로 나타났다. 셋째, 5점 평정척도로써의 응답 범주의 적절성을 분석한 결과, 척도 점수에 대한 내/외적합도 지수가 타당하였고 단계조정값 역시 척도 점수와 비례하여 증가한 것으로 나타나 5점 평정척도를 활용한 설계가 적절함을 확인하였다. 또한 응답 확률 곡선에서 각 반응 범주의 곡선 간 겹쳐지는 지점인 경계모수가 뚜렷하게 구분된다는 점에서도 5점 평정 척도를 활용한 설계의 적절함을 확인할 수 있었다. 본 연구에서 개발된 ‘전문교과 교사의 평가 전문성 진단도구’는 특성화고등학교와 산업수요맞춤형 고등학교와 같은 직업계고등학교의 전문교과 교사의 자기계발 기회 제공 및 전문교과 교사의 평가 전문성 향상을 위한 기초 자료로 활용될 것으로 기대된다. 그리고 궁극적으로 직업계고등학교 학생의 학업 성취 뿐 아니라 교실 수업의 질 제고와 직업교육의 목적을 달성하는 데 긍정적인 기여를 할 것으로 기대된다.This study conducted a survey related to the Diagnostic Tool for the Evaluation of Specialized Subject Teachers, composed of four categories and 20 items, targeting total 75 specialized subject teachers. The results of analyzing the survey results by using the MINISTEPS and SPSS 24.O are as follows. First, in the results of verifying the dimensionality of the scale items developed by this study, on top of meeting the unidimensional assumption, all the results of internal/external goodness-of-fit indexes of each item and the reliability of items were also suitable, so that all the relevant items secured the validity and reliability to measure the assessment professionality of specialized subject teachers. Second, in the results of understanding the attributes of individual subjects and item difficulty through the item-subject distribution chart, the distribution of item difficulty was concentrated in the mean. Regarding the attributes of individual subjects, however, the distribution was relatively wide, which means the shortage of items suitable for the subjects who currently have very high or low personal attributes. Thus, it would be necessary to additionally develop the relevant items in the future. Third, in the results of analyzing the validity of response category as 5-point scale, the internal/external goodness-of-fit indexes of scale point were valid, and the phase adjusted value also increased in proportion to the scale point, so that the design using the 5-point scale was verified as suitable. As the threshold parameter which was the overlapped point of curves of each response category was clearly divided in the response probability curve, the validity of 5-point scale was verified.
Intelligent Situation Assessment to Secure Smart Cities with Cryptography

To provide better quality of life, cities’ general-purpose issues are resolved by smart cities through the deployment of information and communication technologies (ICT). However, challenges still exist to fully exploit ICT benefits for the implementation of smart cities. In this chapter we present smart city architecture and association of architecture layers with security parameters. We discuss how situation assessment and cryptographic techniques can provide security in smart cities.
NCHLT Afrikaans Auxiliary Speech Corpus

The corpus contains orthographically transcribed broadband speech in each of South Africa's eleven official languages. Transcriptions are provided in XML format.
A Journey to the Center of the University: Leganto as a Vehicle for Institutional Connection

Leganto helps library staff meet the immediate need of supporting courses with library materials and services by building and delivering reading lists. Beyond these obvious service-level benefits, adding Leganto to your library’s portfolio of services confers additional organizational benefits that facilitate connection to the larger network and strategic direction of the university. This talk will illustrate how Leganto has helped the University of St. Thomas Libraries build connections with a variety of campus stakeholders such as instructional designers, the office of the general counsel, the bookstore, and the CIO, as well as contribute to teaching and learning through technology integration, learning analytics, and course design collaborations. Hear how gaining trust and credibility through a successful Leganto implementation opens new avenues for collaboration and positions the library alongside other important stakeholders on campus. Libraries gaining respect and being invited to the table can sometimes seem more likely in science fiction than in reality, but with the help of Leganto finding a path to the center of the university is more realistic than ever.
Uma Visão da Comunidade Científica Brasileira com Publicações em Periódicos de Acesso Aberto

Understanding the evolution of the scientific and technological development of a country is extremely important, given that it makes it possible to identify how historically the progress of research in the various areas of knowledge has evolved. In addition, such an understanding allows the identification of the main topics of research, the profile of the researchers, and their scientific collaborations, which can serve as a basis for various policies to promote scientific research. According to several studies digital journals have been growing since the last decade. It can be said that journals in all areas of knowledge have the role of being a filter for the recognition of the works that have been accepted. Despite the many benefits open access journals provide, there is a need for a joint effort to ensure that the main element of the whole process, scientific information, is accessible to all concerned. To this end, some initiatives have already been undertaken, such as the creation of digital repositories to store and organize scientific literature in accordance with international standards of interoperability, and the search for awareness of the main actors involved in the process of producing, publishing and evaluating scientific information to make such content available in digital open-access environments to the general public. In this way, understanding how the publications of a certain set of researchers are being carried out in open access journals allows us to identify a panorama of the current state of this type of communication in Brazil, and also to verify if in certain areas of knowledge, this type of publication tends to be more frequent. Therefore, this work aims to analyze how the Brazilian scientific community is composed of the results of their research in open access journals. For that, all curricula registered in the Lattes Platform of the National Council of Scientific and Technological Development - CNPq were analyzed.
PENGEMBANGAN SISTEM INFORMASI PERPUSTAKAAN PADA UNIVERSITAS TEKNOLOGI SUMBAWA BERBASIS ANDROID

The library is an agency that provides a wide range of reference and collection of information sources. Sumbawa University of technology (UTS) is a private College that is on Sumbawa district, province of West Nusa Tenggara. This research aims to help develop the information system in the management of library data making it easier for UPT. UTS library in managing data library Provide facilities that can make it easier for students, professors, and employees in the process of information collection, the process of borrowing books, as well as the process of applying for membership in the library of the UTS. This research aims to build an android-based information systems, information systems of libraries at the University of technology of Sumbawa. The system was developed using the PHP programming language using MySql as the database and the studio for the making of android User Interface. A method of software development using the Prototype Model. Software testing is done via black-box testing. The instrument of data collection Techniques on research using observation, interviews, documentation and study of the literature. The end result of this research is the android-based library information system to help the University library data processing technology of Sumbawa.
Safety expert shares insights for boosting campus threat assessment, management

In the year and a half leading up to the April 2007 tragedy at Virginia Tech, many members of the campus community had been separately documenting their concerns about the student who eventually killed 32 students and faculty members. But without a central system to gather, track, or communicate these separate documentations, it was impossible to recognize and assess what could've been a preventable threat. But it doesn't have to be that way on your campus.
Generating Syllable Feature Map and Sentiment Analysis based on Convolutional Neural Network

Sentiment analysis is a technique for analyzing subjective attitudes, opinions, and emotions of people in a text. When conducting sentiment analysis understanding the structure of the language used in the text is very important. In this paper, we noted the characteristics of the Korean language that a syllable consists of three elements: Initial sound, Intermediate sound, Final sound. Thus, we compare sentiment classification models that can reflect the characteristics. These models, which expresses syllables by combination of initial sound, intermediate sound, final sound. One of them is improved in classification accuracy over the existing character-level model. But not only that, This model is robust to the misspelled word compared to Syllable-level model and Morph-level model because it uses a character-level representation of a sentence as input.
Rasch analysis polytomy measuring levels emotional intelligence at Indonesian vocational high school students

During this time many people are found to achieve the required high learning achievement of intellectual intelligence (IQ) is also high. However, according to recent research in the field of psychology prove that IQ is not the only factor that affects one's learning achievement, but there are many other factors that affect one of them is emotional intelligence. So that the direction of this research is to measure the level of emotional intelligence vocational high school students. The study involved 101 students in vocational high schools in Indonesia, the data in this study a polytomy of data collected using the instrument of emotional intelligence in the form of Likert models scale and the data were analyzed using the Rasch model approach. These results indicate that most students are at a high level of emotional intelligence. Other than that, there are 10 students who are not appropriate in providing answers or outliers, indicated no trace of fraud or instrument by guessing the answer. The quality of instrument emotional intelligence given to a student's great to identify the condition of emotional intelligence, as seen from the value of the item reliability (.96).
Blockchain Based E-voting System: A Proposal

The authors would like to thank the editors and reviewers for their helpful comments and suggestions. This work has been supported by FCT - Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia, within the Project Scope: UID/CEC/00319/2019.
PERANCANGAN SISTEM INFORMASI PERPUSTAKAAN BERBASIS WEB DENGAN METODE FRAMEWORK FOR THE APPLICATION SYSTEM THINKING (FAST)

To develop reading interest in school students, the school and library must work together to attract students' reading interest. One of them is by providing a library at school. At present many school libraries for management are still manual, such as starting from recording member data, bookkeeping data to other data storage related to transaction processing to report generation, so it is possible when the process takes place there are errors in recording, lack of accurate reports made and delays in searching required data. In addition the library has operational hours so that few students come. Designing a web-based library information system with the FAST method is the best solution to solve problems that exist in this library. With the FAST method makes system design easier and on target. And with the existence of a website-based library information system increases students' interest in reading because they can access anywhere and anytime without limited time, making it easier for officers to manage library data
RPBG: Intelligent Orchestration Strategy of Heterogeneous Docker Cluster Based on Graph Theory

This paper first analyzes the Spread scheduling algorithm of the Docker orchestration engine SwarmKit. For the Spread algorithm to ignore the resource heterogeneity of the node, the application performance is not ideal when the resources are inconsistent. The RPBG strategy with collaborative orchestration is proposed. It mainly combines the steps of collaboratively initializing resource placement, dynamically evaluating dominant resources of service, and automatically adjusting node load to comprehensively consider the heterogeneity of resources such as memory, CPU and network I/O of each node of the cluster and resolve container conflicts based on graph theory. Finally, a series of experiments have been carried out to verify that RPBG is superior to Spread strategy in terms of resource utilization and application performance. The experimental results show that the application performance of the SwarmKit cluster with built-in RPBG strategy is improved by nearly 13% compared to the original strategy.
Long-range Distribution of Multiphoton Entanglement

We show that a long-distance quantum communication can be based on multiphoton bipartite entanglement and photon-number-resolved detection, the resources provided by the current quantum-photonic technology. The protocol is robust to high transmission losses and offers near-maximally entangled states in realistic implementations.
Comprehensive Model for Learning

In this paper we discuss about learning contexts and analyze different aspects or factors which intervene in specific learning processes, so that the learning goals can be achieved effectively.The personalized context and flexibility are characteristics own by personalized learning.However, this can be expensive and inaccessible in practice, but it is argued that technology could provide some support to this personalization of learning.Thus, a comprehensive model to learning is delineated here and some examples of dimension are detailed.
Interprofessional Education: A Comparison of Nutrition Student's Traditional Face-to-Face (F2F) and Virtual Web Conferencing (WC) Participation

To recognize the benefits and challenges of virtual WC interprofessional (IPE) education delivery compared to traditional F2F education.
Концептуальный язык русской философии как инструмент исследования медиареальности

The article is devoted to the search for the potential for reactivalization of a conceptual language that has developed in Russian philosophy, as applied to media realism. Modern media reality in the optics of social institutions that have accumulated previous historical experience is seen as a crisis reality — images, messages, events of this reality represent a world that eludes the definitions of the theory, being too mobile, too paradoxical. Russian philosophy, which declared itself at the turn of the XIX - early XX century, faced the same experience - the experience of deactivating traditional institutions, the experience of technical transformation of the world and human behavior, the experience of the emergence and multiplication of new means of communication, the experience of proliferation of abstract sources in the absence of complete knowledge. A paradox is characteristic of mediareality: the fact that media becomes noise, existence is a hermeneutic situation, and vice versa, what is information for the media — existence is a hermeneutic crisis. Since media open their language not in interpretation, but in a crisis of interaction, in mistakes, when they do not at all what is intended, the theory should come closer to understanding existential practices in media. This article shows how Russian religious philosophy, for the first time in a number of concepts proposed by various thinkers, outlined the possibility of thinking about media, through an analysis of the epistemic and existential potential of technically organized communities and the magical-mystical experience generated by this technical organization
Bridges to Hyku: A Multi-Institutional Effort Towards Migration Tooling

Presented by the University of Houston, the University of Victoria, and Texas Digital Library, 2C | Technology & Tools, at TCDL 2019.
Correction to: Education for Practice in a Hybrid Space

In the original version of the book, the following belated corrections are to be incorporated.
Revising the Method of Ensemble Randomized Maximum Likelihood

Summary A popular (iterative ensemble smoother) method of history matching is simplified. An exact relationship between ensemble linearizations (linear regression) and adjoints (analytic derivatives) is established.
РАЦИОНАЛЬНОСТЬ И ИРРАЦИОНАЛЬНОСТЬ В ФИЛОСОФИИ НЕКЛАССИЧЕСКОЙ И ПОСТНЕКЛАССИЧЕСКОЙ НАУКИ

Significant scientific achievements and philosophical studies in the end of the 20th century and the first quarter of the 21st century posed the problem of understanding previous ideas from the position of becoming non-classical and post-non-classical science and a new picture of the world, the characteristic features of which are the idea of global evolutionism and anthropic principle, as well as a revision of the role of reason, cognitive ideals, rationality and irrationality of scientific concepts, philosophies, problems of the development of social systems, the value of valuable landmarks, as well as the prospects for the development of human civilization in conditions of extremely rapid, revolutionary changes and global disasters.
SELECTED SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY E-JOURNAL’S PRICE ESCALATION: A CASE STUDY

Ever increasing electronic journal price is a major concern for libraries. To find best e-journals that disseminate quality information to users is a challenge. An attempt is made in this study to find the price increase in selected e-journals subscription during the period 2015 to 2018. The aim is to understand price increase range over the period and the average percentage of price increase. In the library database, price data of 34 foreign e-journals from the year 2014 to 2018 were obtained; and Excel spreadsheet was used to calculate the increases in subscription price. The analysis found that overall subscription price increase from 2015 to 2018 was about 20.28%. The average increase per year was 5.07%.  The price fluctuation range was from -3.54 to 18.42 percentages. The result of this study helps to estimate the budget requirements and to manage journal subscription and renewal processes effectively.
Update from the UHD Forum

The Ultra HD Forum has now reached four years of age and has already delivered a significant input to the industry. We will try to provide details on the main activities and achievements of 2018 as well as the roadmap for 2019.
Design and Implementation of Safety Hidden Trouble Shooting Management System Based on Cloud Computing in University Experimental Training Sites

Aiming at the current situation that the reliability and intelligence of the security hazard investigation and control system in college experimental training places still need to be improved, a cloud computing-based security hazard investigation and management system for college experimental training places is proposed. The hierarchical operation method is used to describe the operation rules. According to the intelligent protection control topology of college experimental training venues, the cloud computing model is established to realize the intelligent construction of the hidden dangers of the experimental training places in colleges and universities. The actual operation shows that the cloud computing based The safety hazard investigation and control system of experimental training places in colleges and universities can provide accurate and rich verification results for the protection mode arrangement, and ensure the accuracy and safety of the safety hazard investigation and management system in experimental training places in colleges and universities.
Robust Classification of Head Pose from Low Resolution Images

We propose a method for the coarse classification of head pose from low-resolution images. We devise a mechanism that uses a cascade of three binary Support Vector Machines (SVM) classifiers. We use two sets of appearance features, Similarity Distance Map (SDM) and Gabor Wavelet (GW) as input to the SVM classifiers. For training, we employ a large dataset that combines five publicly available databases. We test our approach with cross-validation using the eight databases and on videos we collected in a lab experiment. We found a significant improvement in the results achieved by the proposed method over existing schemes. In the cross-validation test, we achieved a head pose detection accuracy of 98.60%. Moreover, we obtained a head pose detection accuracy of 93.76% for high-resolution and 89.81% for low-resolution videos collected in the lab under loosely constrained conditions.