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Bringing Analysis Closer to Data: Developing a Visualization Tool for L2 Earth Science Satellite Data

Earth Science satellite missions provide a unique opportunity for scientists to visualize complex and multifaceted observations projected geospatially across maps of the Earth. While visualization tools can help scientists comprehend, analyze, and share data, visualizing Level-2 Earth Sciences data poses its own specific set of challenges. Since the geospatial information in Level-2 data files is stored as independent variables, the plotting process involves matching dimensional information from latitude and longitude with a desired variable. Variables are stored in different ways across various Earth Science data file formats, which complicates the process of extracting data and plotting variables from a given file without requiring extensive user input and prerequisite familiarity with the file type variable structure. In coordination with NASA’s Goddard Earth Sciences Data Information Services Center (GES DISC), the team developed a Level-2 Earth Science data visualization tool that aims to address some of the complexities associated with plotting Level-2 data. This tool offers command-line and user interface support for file and variable selection to accommodate varying use cases and degrees of user familiarity with the structure of a given file. The visualization tool is written in Python 3 and utilizes a modular approach to facilitate continued expansion and reuse. In addressing some common complications involved in plotting Level-2 Earth Sciences data, the tool aims to help to link the process of analysis more directly with data acquisition and visualization, bringing analysis closer to data across levels of processing.
"U" Won't Get a Response: Community College Students Preference for Institutional Text Messages

Although institutions of higher education have started engaging students and prospective students via text messages, no extant research has addressed student preferences for receiving text messages. Elaborating upon Castleman and Page's (2016) and Taylor and Serna's (2019) work, a large, metropolitan community college system surveyed 123 community college students to learn more about how a community college should text their students. Data from this study suggest that community college students prefer text messages that omit slang or textese (i.e. u instead of you, 2 instead of two), text messages with exclamation points versus periods, text messages with hyperlinks, and mention the student's name, the sender's name, and their institution.
Internal Security and National Development in Nigeria: Challenges of Manpower in Nigeria Police

Safeguarding citizens and providing their welfare needs are functions of government across the globe. When citizens are faced with dwindling security, they lose confidence and hope in such government. In Nigeria, the 1999 Constitution recognised the police as the lead agency for internal security architecture. However, the narrative in recent time has been on the staggering manpower shortage of the police causing its inability to curb the flurry incidence of kidnapping, armed robbery, herdsmen carnage, and terrorism among other security challenges threatening the people and proper functioning of the country. The paper examined the implication of the police manpower shortage on security and national development. Data were obtained from relevant journals, textbooks, newspapers, and other publications. Analysis of the data gathered was done through descriptive method. Using the structural functionalism theory as the theoretical framework, the federal government is identified as principal agent of the state with functions to superintend and maintain the police system for proper functioning. The paper found a strong correlation between police manpower shortage and development challenges of Nigeria especially in the fourth republic. It argued among others that failure of the federal government to equip the police with adequate manpower is responsible for decline of development in Nigeria. The paper concluded that there will be no hope of security and progress for a country that is operating a defective police system. Therefore, there should be a reform of the police to improve on the manpower strength.Keywords: Internal Security, Police, Manpower, National Development, Government
MODE: A Multi-Objective Strategy for Dynamic Task Scheduling through Elastic Cloud Resources

Cloud computing is introduced as a high-performance computing environment that manages a variety of virtualized resources. One of the major aspects of cloud computing is its dynamic scheduling of great number of task requests that are submitted by users. Cloud data centers in addition to implementing these tasks, should meet the conflicting multiple requirements of different users. Minimizing makespan and deadline violation on a great number of tasks are difficult while costs are reduced. Therefore, in this paper, a multi-objective strategy for dynamic task scheduling through elastic cloud resources (MODE) is proposed, where an algorithm is proposed to construct individual non-dominated sets of new received tasks. These non-dominated sets are sorted in different levels through a new crowding distance of the individuals. In addition, an elastic resource provisioning based on the maximum available VMs’ load is proposed to provide resources in a dynamic manner. The total cost, makespan, and the deadline violations are reduced by 85.84%, 58.03%, and 47.77%, respectively, and the utilization of virtual machines is increased up to 53.2% through this strategy when compared to its counterparts.
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LA ORIENTACIÓN ENTRE LA PANDEMIA Y EL FUTURO

The present work appears as a result of some questions emerging at the guidance field in times of the deep changes due to the pandemic caused by COVID-19. Some considerations revealed by national and foreign intellectuals related to the preventive and compulsory social isolation were selected. In view of consultations on guidance specific issues, two analysis levels have been taken into account: A) The future choices of the young, or of population groups who are in the position to choose; and how to support them in making personal, educational, labor and social projects. B) The differences between communication and information technologies and what we have called disruptive virtuality. Regarding this second topic, it arises as a consequence of the confinement and care that in this case implies the isolation and other ways of cultural, academic and political interventions due to the COVID-19 effects. In other words, it is about the massive inclusion of educational, professional, training and consumer activities through the web. Considering this modality, the main way of communication and interaction is through virtuality, generating a new way of inclusion which is diverse in itself.An analysis of both mentioned topics is performed, taking into account their positive and negative aspects which give arise to the final conclusions of this work.
A PICTURE OF THE ABILITY TO WRITE A JOURNAL DAILY BY STUDENTS OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

ABSTRACT Producing a good writing needs methods and strategies that can help authors to develop their ideas and then train them continuously to produce good writing and systematic compilation according to rules applied. The purpose of this research is to know the development of writing skill in the students of English Department after using daily journal method. This research was conducted by using Journal Writing method written by 25 participants. All participants are the students of the English Department Faculty of Letters of Pamulang University who are studying in the third semester writing class. The instruments used for this study are the paragraphs written by the participants every day for 4 months. All writings are identified and checked to know the progress of their writing  for a semester. This research is intended to explain how the students are able to write according to the target language, and can write paragraphs with various topics. This issuet is useful for lecturers as it  provides information about common problems in writing that can be useful guides in effective writing materials for students. Keywords: writing, paragraphs, methods, strategies, and daily journals
VIDEO STABILIZATION BY MOBILE SENSOR FUSION

As processing capacity is increasingly usable, the robotics system switches away from active sensors for the perception of the world and turns into passive vision sensors. With the advent of teleportation and real time video monitoring of complex environments, the need for onboard mobile robots to stabilize video has become more prevalent. Many of todays handheld video capture systems uses a rotating shutter camera, such as a smartphone. The footage is taken from a handheld camera, resulting in moving point or targeted image blur as well as frame to frame jitters. The typical way to protect the footage is with the use of additional hardware including tripod stand. This paper introduces an algorithm of optical stabilization that combines inertial fusion adaptive low pass filters. Using picture processing with rolling shutter camera correction, the suggested method uses accelerometer and gyroscope to approximate camera orientation by picture distortion caused by video recording system motion. Adaptive filter algorithms can be used to create a smooth camera movement, and frame to frame jitters can be minimized using smoothing camera movement. For every android smartphone that has been built in accelerometer and gyroscope, the suggested program can be introduced.
IV Semana Nacional do Arquivos:Empoderando a Sociedade do Conhecimento

Abstract: The 4th edition of the event aligns with the theme proposed by the International Council of Archives (ICA) for the International Day of Archives (June 9): Empowering the Knowledge Society. The theme connects to Artificial Intelligence, Digital Preservation, Emerging Technologies and also about sustainable knowledge. How can we better explain and defend the essential role played by archivists and information professionals in the 21st century Knowledge Society? From paper to digital, how are institutions empowering the Knowledge Society with their work? Within this proposal were offered nine virtual lectures that were broadcast live on the youtube channel of the Central Archive of UFSC.
Knowledge of places: an ontological analysis of the social level in the city

In this paper we develop an investigation about geographical places as complex spatial environments. The approach we explore is based on ontological analysis. We aim to integrate a cognitive stand within the traditional analytical and organizational views of complex spatial environments. Our focus is about facilitating decision-making processes.The introduction of ontological levels is rather useful for organizing the modelling of complex systems. The levels we elicited are informative, anyway our understanding of space cannot lack the contextual perspective of every single place and of any single individual. Our research is still ongoing, and following researches are needed to develop a formal framework that can completely integrate standard and ontological methodologies for a general contextual knowledge.
Musica per percussioni intonate

Author(s): Caro, Emanuele | Abstract: This music score was submitted for the Kaleidoscope 2020 Call for Scores, an open access collaboration with the UCLA Music Library.
Building the Next Generation of Security Focused NVX Systems: Overcoming Limitations of N-Variant Execution

Author(s): Voulimeneas, Alexios | Advisor(s): Michael, Franz | Abstract: N-Variant Execution (NVX) systems utilize artificial diversity techniques to enhance software security. The general idea is to run multiple different variants of the same program alongside each other while monitoring their run-time behavior. If a malicious input causes the execution paths of the diversified variants to diverge, the monitor can detect divergences, e.g. at the system call level, and take defensive action.Several NVX systems have been proposed over the last two decades, providing different security/performance characteristics. In general, security-oriented NVX systems greatly degrade performance, while high performance NVX systems have two disadvantages; they significantly increase the size of the Trusted Computing Base (TCB) or sacrifice security. In this dissertation, we want to investigate if it is possible to build an alternative NVX design that unifies the strengths of existing approaches.Security-oriented NVX systems are considered strong defenses that protect against a variety of attacks. However, a subset of modern attacks have the potential to bypass existing NVX systems. We identify limited available diversity as the main reason for that. Existing NVX systems execute diversified program variants on a single host. This means that the level of inter-variant diversity will be limited to what a single platform can offer.The main focus of this dissertation is to investigate the possibility of building the first distributed heterogeneous NVX system that executes program variants across multiple heterogeneous hosts. This approach can increase the level of internal diversity between the simultaneously running variants that can be supported, encompassing different instruction sets, endianness, calling conventions, system call interfaces, and differences in hardware security features. We expect that new challenges will arise from the distributed and heterogeneous nature of this design, however we believe that we will be able to provide sufficient solutions.
Subject-Oriented Differentiation of Higher Mathematics Course at the University

Subject-oriented differentiation of learning courses seems relevant in the context of increased competition between educational institutions and growing demands for graduates in the labor market. Based on the professionally oriented integrative approach, an innovative didactic system for subject-oriented differentiation of student math training is developed, where generalized mathematical methods of studying socio-economic and manufacturing processes are basic sources of knowledge. The purpose of the study is to improve vocational education of university students through the subject-oriented differentiation of the content-methodological lines of the mathematics course. Research results can be used during the student math training in the system of ongoing vocational education. The authors have developed the curriculum and educational plans, textbooks, methodological guidelines for professionally-oriented courses and a standardized program for experiment data processing.
BLOCKCHAIN BASED SECURE DATA STORAGE AND ACCESS CONTROL SYSTEM USING IPFS

Todays cloud storage is completely dependent exclusively on large storage providers. These storage providers act as un trusted third parties, which transacts the data for storing, sending and receiving the data from an organization.Thistypeofmodelpossessesanumberofissueslike high operational cost, data availability and datasecurity. Inthispaper,weintroduceaprototypeofmulti-usersystemfor access control to datasets that uses blockchain technology to provide a secured distributed data storage. The system allows the data owner to upload the data through a Web Portal. So, the user who has the secret key of particular data which was uploaded on Cloud in the encrypted form can only access the file. Finally, the system supports the privacy of data by ensuringtheimmutabilitypropertyoftheblockchainbystoring them on cloud. We proposed blockchain based secure data storage and access control system to harden the security of cloud storage
Comparison of Electric Universe Hypothesis & TGD

Electric Universe scenario in its extreme form postulates that electromagnetic fields are enough to explain gravitation and even nuclear fusion. From TGD viewpoint this vision is unrealistic. Wes Johnson however gave links to two Youtube videos related to Electric Universe telling about extremely interesting physical findings providing applications for TGD if take seriously. The first video was about the anomalies related to the craters of the Moon and second describe the claimed findings of SAFIRE team having a nice interpretation in TGD framework using the notions of monopole flux tubes and dark matter as hierarchy of phases of ordinary matter with non-standard value of Planck constant implying that electromagnetism has deep implications in arbitrarily long scales. The question in TGD is therefore not about whether electromagnetism (of gauge interactions in general) or gravitation is enough to understand cosmology and astrophysics: both are needed and in the sense of TGD.
Skap-ord, ord som kan ha många betydelser -En studie om skap-avledningar i nusvenska samt avledningsmorfems betydelse isvenskklassrummet

The purpose of the current study was to examine into which groups of meaning thederivational morpheme –skap can be grouped in Swedish. 340 Swedish words formed with –skapwere collected from SAOL an ...
Formation of Information Culture of Students as an Integral Component of Educational Activity

In the modern developing knowledge society, the role and importance of information is expanding more and more, information is becoming a key factor in the development of human civilization. Under these conditions, an important place in the structure of the personality belongs to its information culture, which involves the possession of information sources, the ability to search for it and its active use in life processes. An important role in the mastery of information culture by young people belongs to universities and university libraries. The article shows the relevance of the problem, the importance of these factors in the formation of the information culture of young generations during the period of higher education, when the formation of the entire culture of the personality as a whole is in progress. The content of the concept of information culture is revealed, the current state of the formation of information culture in universities of Kyrgyzstan is briefly characterized, the role of university libraries in the education of students’ information culture is determined.
Data-driven urban management: Mapping the landscape

Big data analytics and artificial intelligence, paired with blockchain technology, the Internet of Things, and other emerging technologies, are poised to revolutionise urban management. With massive amounts of data collected from citizens, devices, and traditional sources such as routine and well-established censuses, urban areas across the world have – for the first time in history – the opportunity to monitor and manage their urban infrastructure in real-time. This simultaneously provides previously unimaginable opportunities to shape the future of cities, but also gives rise to new ethical challenges. This paper provides a transdisciplinary synthesis of the developments, opportunities, and challenges for urban management and planning under this ongoing ‘digital revolution’ to provide a reference point for the largely fragmented research efforts and policy practice in this area. We consider both top-down systems engineering approaches and the bottom-up emergent approaches to coordination of different systems and functions, their implications for the existing physical and institutional constraints on the built environment and various planning practices, as well as the social and ethical considerations associated with this transformation from non-digital urban management to data-driven urban management.
Improved Gradient Projection Algorithm for Deblurred Image Application

Abstract For the purpose of reducing the noise of deblurred image, an improved Gradient Projection method by sparse coding Reconstruction (GPSR) algorithm is proposed. Different with the traditional Gradient Projection method for sparse reconstruction code (GPSR) method, the obvious distinctions between the original image and deblurred image are projected onto dimensional projection image value. Thus the picture noise are deleted. The classical Gradient Sparse Projection computing method, searching direction changes time by time. Now we propose the new method by running with fix step. The constraints of searching method is guarantee. We prove the new computing method in theory, and at the same time, we running the method by classical picture. We compare the running results of classic method and the fix step hunt method (FXHM), the running results of two methods are shown in the article, the performance of fix step hunt method (FXHM) is higher than the classic method as possible as it can.
A Low Distortion Image Defogging Method Based on Histogram Equalization in Wavelet Domain

With the development of computer vision, the requirement of image sharpness in production is increasing. Fog, as a common weather phenomenon, will affect the image quality, so it is necessary to defog the image. In the image defogging technology, the image enhancement method based on non-physical model represented by histogram equalization has the advantage of its relatively mature and simple algorithm, but the disadvantage is that, because of the enhancement effect on the image on the global scale, defogging the detail information will also affect the contour information, resulting in distortion.In this paper, an image defogging method with low distortion based on the histogram equalization in the wavelet domain is proposed, which uses the nondestructive and reversible properties of the integer wavelet transform to separate the detail information and contour information of the image. We equalize the histogram generated by the low-frequency coefficient of the image extracted by the integer wavelet transform, then carry out the inverse integer wavelet transform, and fuse the processed low-frequency coefficient with the high-frequency coefficient of the original image to generate the defogging image. Experimental results show that, compared with the common physical model and non-physical model algorithms, the characteristic of our method is that it has low distortion, on the basis of obvious fog removal effect, it retains the contour completely and meets the application requirements.
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Fall, leaves, fall

Author(s): Sgalambro, Alfio | Abstract: This music score was submitted for the Kaleidoscope 2020 Call for Scores, an open access collaboration with the UCLA Music Library.