Reviewerly/exHarmony huggingface dataset:
Improving Students’ Achievement in Writing Recount Text through Picture Series Strategy

Abstract—Students in Indonesia have been taught writing since they were in the first class of Junior High School and it was continued until the third class of Senior High School. However, students still faced some difficulties in writing. This matter also happened to the students in SMAN 10 Bandarlampung especially when they write recount text. This picture series strategy has been chosen to solve this problem. The aim of this study was to find out whether or not there was an improvement of students’ ability of writing recount text through picture series. This research was a quantitative research. The data are collected by using tests (pretest and posttest). The subjects of this research were 36 students of SMAN 10 Bandarlampung in academic year 2019/2020 at the second semester. The result shows that the mean score of students pretest was 58.98 and the mean score of the posttest were 70.34. It means that there is statistically significant improvement of students’ writing achievement on recount text written by the students after they were taught through picture series technique that analyzed by using paired samples t-test in SPSS ver. 20. The findings show that picture series technique enables students’ to improve their ability of writing recount text. In addition, all aspects of writing improved regarding to the results, but content improved the most and mechanics improved the least. Based on the result, it can be concluded that teaching writing recount text through picture series is effective in increasing students’ writing achievement of recount text and all aspects of writing.Keywords: writing, recount text, picture series technique.
Scaling Up: The Challenges of eHealth Systems in Developing Countries

Clinicians want a very useful, portable, and handy tool to use in their practice, which improves workflow and becomes a convenient connectivity channel for applications and information resources. Mobile devices respond to this need by allowing physicians anywhere and anytime, but there are few guidelines to help decide on the acquisition and implementation of large-scale technology in healthcare systems. Upon review of the literature on eHealth, a critical question is raised: why has eHealth projects not been scaled-up across several developing countries? Although research has established that eHealth tools have the potential to affect the healthcare outcomes positively. Using the case of Mobile Technology for Community Health (MOTECH) in Ghana, a theoretical model is used to appraise the critical factors affecting the scalability of eHealth systems. This study focused on the problems from medical officers, community health nurses, volunteers and beneficiary patientsâ€™ perspective and tried to bring out the issues that are fundamental in rolling out a successful eHealth solution to the public. The study did not focus only on the technological aspect, but also on the behavioural aspect of eHealth technology, in which the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) was extended to appreciate the challenges. The model identified technical support, resistance to change and financial constraints as the main obstacles to the adoption and scalability of eHealth systems. The research contributes to the literature by identifying important areas where results can have a positive effect or can be used by health policymakers in Ghana and other developing countries. This can help them understand their concerns and weaknesses when planning the adoption and implementation of e-health systems.
Diphthongs of Pakistani English: An acoustic study

The slogan that English is the language of those who speak it, has changed the whole spectrum of English studies. It led to the concept of World Englisheswith the idea of many non-native varieties of English. The current study is an acoustic investigation into the diphthongs of Pakistani English (PakE) with the question whether PakE has different set of diphthongs from Standard British English (SBE). The study explored the number of diphthongs of PakE, and any changes in the realization of diphthongs as compared to SBE. The participants (25 male and 25 female), with Punjabi as their L1,were chosen from among the undergraduates of English studies of University of Sargodha Pakistan. The word list containing diphthongs (adapted from Wells Lexical set) was prepared and the participants were asked to speak each word using a carrier phrase please say ________ loudly. The sounds were recorded using high-tech equipment of VoV FM Radio station of the University. Praat was used for acoustic analysis. Formant frequencies F1 and F2 were measured at two different positions (i.e. onsetand offset) of each sequence to observe trajectory of each vowel. The duration of the vowel tokens was also recorded. The formant frequencies and the duration were statistically processed applying ANOVA usingTukeys HSD Test to examine whether the differences of F1 at onset and offset and F2 at onset and offset, are significant. The findings revealed that PakE speakers realized only six diphthongs i.e. /iə/, /eə/, /uə/, /ɔi/, /ai/ and /au/. Two diphthongs i.e. /ei/ and /əu/ were monophthongised, as no glide or trajectory was observed on the Praat spectrogram, and they were articulated in relatively less amount of time as compared to other vowels. Hence, it is concluded that PakE is a different variety of non-native Englishes with its unique characteristics.
Calibrated Peer Review (CPR) Method: Improving Student Descriptions Writing Skills in Madrasah Ibtidaiyah

Writing descriptions is a skill that has been taught in grade VI elementary schools such as MIN 6 Cilacap. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of the Calibrated Peer Review (CPR) method in students' writing learning. To answer the stated objectives, the research method used was pre-experiment using one class as the sample. The number of research samples was 40 students consisting of 21 male students and 19 female students. To see the effectiveness of the method in learning, researchers used the pre-test as a first step to measure students' abilities then post-test after giving the treatment. The results showed a significant effect on the pre-test and post-test scores where the initial score was a mean of 65.3 and the final score was an average of 72.5. There was a good effect on the results of learning to write student descriptions because of any significant development in teaching. Thus, the CPR method is effective in students' writing learning
ICT skills in collaborative age: An assessment of library and information science professionals working in the college libraries affiliated to University of Delhi

The paper explores the ICT skills in a collaborative age through the use of Web 2.0 tools by the LIS professionals working in the college libraries affiliated to the University of Delhi. The present study, the data was collected from the respondents through a structured questionnaire using the survey method. The questionnaires were distributed among 171 LIS professionals of 74 college libraries affiliated to the University of Delhi through visiting and personal meetings and email eliciting a response of 87.1 percent. A five-point Likert scale was used to assess respondents’ Web 2.0 competencies. The findings showed that the majority of LIS professionals were aware generally of what Web 2.0 tools were, but the use of Web 2.0 tools in the college library was not satisfactory and did not connect with users and also not providing Web 2.0 based-services to users. Hence, LIS professionals must update their skills and competencies in Web 2.0 technologies to collaborate and empower the users, improve their library services, and ensure information and resources. The authors advocate that college libraries have to cross alongside technological adjustments that are taking place to continue to be relevant in including value to establishments of higher learning. It is additionally necessary to continue constructing the potential of LIS Professionals to ensure that they proceed to add value in college libraries.
A Conceptual Investigation: Towards an Integrative Perspective of Risks in Information Systems Development & Usage

A review of existing literature in academia and in profession, along with real cases, reveals a fragmented approach to risk identification and management in information systems development and usage (ISDU). Such a disjointed approach to risk management fails to consider critical threat components and under evaluates the maximum potential risks involved in a situation. The present study argues that ISDU Risks need to be expansively identified and perceived in an integrative manner. The views generally exercised by IS researcher's, within the limited attention provided to risk, are segmented and microscopic with no defined risk ecosystem to place them in . So also, practitioner groups have been individualistically producing IS artifacts for risk mitigation with a primary purpose of creating significant ROI, adding to fragmented perspectives on ISDU risks. We observe significantly high failure rates for IS projects, in spite of the claims of the application of highly advanced risk management models. In any domain, the presence of an abnormally high rate of failure would imply an absence of successful risk management and imply that not all significant risks have been accounted for. The present study identifies various cross-domain risk measures and risk constructs with macro-level relevance to the ISDU ecosystem. Based on literature review and observational reflections, a taxonomy for the classification of types of risks is presented. The present paper is an attempt at expanding the portfolio of risk concepts associated with ISDU and posits an early stage high-level integrative risk perception framework that will represent various cross-domain measures and dimensions of risk in an integrative manner. This theoretical contribution and its continued development is expected to initiate additional scholarly work on integrative perspectives on risks and new dimensions of risks associated with IS, open up a new stream of risk-related research in IS and lead to the development of enhanced risk management models.
A Case Study of Efficacy and Challenges in Practical Human-in-Loop Evaluation of NLP Systems Using Checklist

Despite state-of-the-art performance, NLP systems can be fragile in real-world situations. This is often due to insufficient understanding of the capabilities and limitations of models and the heavy reliance on standard evaluation benchmarks. Research into non-standard evaluation to mitigate this brittleness is gaining increasing attention. Notably, the behavioral testing principle ‘Checklist’, which decouples testing from implementation revealed significant failures in state-of-the-art models for multiple tasks. In this paper, we present a case study of using Checklist in a practical scenario. We conduct experiments for evaluating an offensive content detection system and use a data augmentation technique for improving the model using insights from Checklist. We lay out the challenges and open questions based on our observations of using Checklist for human-in-loop evaluation and improvement of NLP systems. Disclaimer: The paper contains examples of content with offensive language. The examples do not represent the views of the authors or their employers towards any person(s), group(s), practice(s), or entity/entities.
Image denoising via patch based L1-norm principal component analysis

Patch-based image denoising approaches have gained popularity recently. We propose an image denoising approach using subspaces that are fit using an L<sub>1</sub>-norm criterion. This new approach is competitive with existing approaches in terms of objective error metrics and visual fidelity, and has the added benefit that it can be implemented in parallel for large-scale applications.
Aplikasi Jasa Wedding Organizer Berbasis Web Di Kota Pagar Alam

Wedding Organizer is a service that provides special services to the bride and groom in the planning to the implementation of a series of wedding parties according to the schedule and budget that has been set by offering a variety of wedding concepts. The current system is still manual because visitors must come directly to the salon to see or order marital problems. The proposed system is making a web-based wedding organizer service application. There will be seven research sites, namely Borry salon, Damori salon, Borryz salon, Dwi Anggon wo, Dian bridal, Rizki jhava,Minhar salon, and Darmawansyah salon. Data collection methods used are observation, interviews, and literature study. The system development method uses the waterfall method with stages of analysis, design, coding, and testing. This system was developed using Adobe Dreamweaver, PHP, Mysql, and Xampp applications. Preliminary results for now in the form of a web-based wedding organizer services in the city of Pagar alam.
The Realistic Dilemma and Construction Exploration of Youth Social Organizations Participating in Social Governance

With the rapid development of the times, youth social organizations play an important role in various fields of society and become an important carrier for the majority of young people to participate in social governance.This article uses qualitative research methods to find that in the face of the reality of society and in the process of participating in social governance, youth social organizations are facing poor results in driving their own development by participating in government public service purchases, limited initiative of the subject, and insufficient professional service capabilities and other dilemmas.This article proposes building measures such as improving the basic cultivation policies that promote the growth of youth social organizations, optimizing the government's policy system for purchasing youth social organization services, and attaching importance to the construction of organizational systems and organizational culture.
Towards Expanding WordNet with Conceptual Frames.

The paper presents the project Semantic Network with a Wide Range of Semantic Relations and its main achievements. The ultimate objective of the project is to expand Princeton WordNet with conceptual frames that define the syntagmatic relations of verb synsets and the semantic classes of nouns felicitous to combine with particular verbs. At this stage of the work: a) over 5,000 WordNet verb synsets have been supplied with manually evaluated FrameNet semantic frames, b) 253 semantic types have been manually mapped to the appropriate WordNet concepts providing detailed ontological representation of the semantic classes of nouns.
Research on the Application of Youmooc V8 Combined with Tencent Classroom in Higher Vocational English Teaching

Since novel coronavirus broke out worldwide in the beginning of 2020, colleges and universities adopted online teaching methods.In this paper, 300 freshmen in Shandong Vocational College of Industry are taken as the experimental subjects and the author designed a college English teaching mode combining Youmooc V8 with Tencent Classroom Then a questionnaire survey of course satisfaction is launched to the students in the early and middle stages of the study, aiming to analyze the effect of this teaching mode through the questionnaire.It can be seen from the data that most students' attitude towards online teaching has changed from initial doubt to satisfaction, and they approve online teaching.
PENGARUH BAHAN AJAR KETERAMPILAN BERBICARA TERHADAP KESANTUNAN BERBAHASA MAHASISWA UNIVERSITAS NEGERI MAKASSAR BERDASARKAN PERSPEKTIF LATAR PENDIDIKAN ORANG TUA

Speaking skills and parental educational background are thought to have a strong influence on language politeness in daily communication. The speaking skills and educational background of parents in this study are intended to determine their effect on improving language politeness of Makassar State University students. This study used a pre-experimental method. The instrument used in the study was a test, namely pretest and postest. The results showed that the application of the speaking skills teaching material model can improve language politeness. The results of the second study indicate that the educational background of parents can influence the improvement of students' language politeness. Although, when compared to the increase in test results between groups of students with educational backgrounds of parents who graduated from S1, the effect was not significant.
Effective Reading Strategies to Teach Prose: An Empirical Study

It is found that the ability to read a printed text plays a vital role in developing a student’s comprehension. Many students struggle to comprehend what they read in their class because they lack not only deep involvement with their text but also strategies which help them in understanding a text. Pre, while, and post reading activities assist the learners in successfully reading, understanding, learning, and enjoying a selected text and make reading more communicative. This empirical study emphasizes on pre, while, and post reading activities to teach prose. For this study, two prose lessons of equal complexity were selected and taught to one group. The first lesson was taught using the traditional method, and the second lesson was taught using pre, while, and post reading activities. A questionnaire and a checklist were prepared to evaluate the students’ attitude, and data with written answers was collected. Informal discussions were held after the sessions. The findings of the study revealed that pre, while, and post reading activities helped the students improve their reading skills.
Conclusions: A Lifelong Perspective on Mobile Language Learning

This concluding chapter provides a synthesis and commentary pertaining to the studies presented in this collection and it highlights some of the key opportunities and issues associated with mobile language learning. Five notable themes running through the case studies are identified, namely breaking down barriers; unfettered flow of information; frequent interaction and reflection; enjoyment and perception of personal gains; and finally, multiplicity of technologies, modalities and methods. These themes highlight key strengths of mobile approaches to teaching and learning, with special reference to out-of-class environments where teachers and researchers often have more scope to try out something new. They also draw attention to how these strengths play into lifelong learning. The chapter highlights some emerging trends and possible developments in mobile and ubiquitous learning in a rapidly changing world and in relation to known barriers to the uptake of innovations.
Pyserini: An Easy-to-Use Python Toolkit to Support Replicable IR Research with Sparse and Dense Representations

Pyserini is an easy-to-use Python toolkit that supports replicable IR research by providing effective first-stage retrieval in a multi-stage ranking architecture. Our toolkit is self-contained as a standard Python package and comes with queries, relevance judgments, pre-built indexes, and evaluation scripts for many commonly used IR test collections. We aim to support, out of the box, the entire research lifecycle of efforts aimed at improving ranking with modern neural approaches. In particular, Pyserini supports sparse retrieval (e.g., BM25 scoring using bag-of-words representations), dense retrieval (e.g., nearest-neighbor search on transformer-encoded representations), as well as hybrid retrieval that integrates both approaches. This paper provides an overview of toolkit features and presents empirical results that illustrate its effectiveness on two popular ranking tasks. We also describe how our group has built a culture of replicability through shared norms and tools that enable rigorous automated testing.
Dynamic Load Balancing in Cloud Computing Platform

The cloud computing platform has played significant role behind the exponential growth of modern IT industry. More and more organizations & individuals from various sectors of society are directory or indirectly consuming cloud computing platform. Such rising demand for cloud based computing resources has generated requirement of optimized resource management and load balancing. Extensive research work is taking place for efficient resource management and load balancing.A dynamic approach for virtual machine load balancing is presented here. The load balancing mechanism presented here offers better efficiency due to its multi-threaded approach
TextCycleGAN: cyclical-generative adversarial networks for image captioning

In this study, we approach the problem of image captioning with cycle consistent generative adversarial networks (CycleGANs). Due to CycleGANs’ ability to learn functions to map between multiple domains and use duality to strengthen each individual mapping with the usage of a cycle consistency loss, these models show great promise in their ability to learn both image captioning and image synthesis and to create a better image captioning framework. Historically, cycle consistency loss was based on the premise that the input should undergo little to no change when mapped to another domain and then back to its original; however, image captioning presents a unique challenge to this concept due to the many-to-many nature of the mapping from images to captions and vice-versa. TextCycleGAN overcomes this obstacle through utilization of cycle consistency in the feature space and is, thereby, able to perform well on both image captioning and synthesis. We will demonstrate its capability as an image captioning framework and discuss how its model architecture makes this possible.
THE IMPLEMENTATION OF FRESH TECHNIQUE IN TEACHING WRITING A DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

The objective of conducting this research was to find out whether the use of FRESH technique can improve the students’ writing ability. This experimental research involved one group pretest-posttest design. The participants of the study were first year students of a high school in Banda Aceh. One class was randomly selected from the year one students. To collect the data, the students were asked to take a written test, one before the experiment (pretest) and one after (posttest). The data analysis result showed that the students’ mean score was 24.5 in the pretest and was 71.3 in the posttest. Moreover, the analysis of t-test showed that t score > t table or 20.95 > 1.72 at the level of significance 0.05 with the degree of freedom (df) 19 indicating significant increase in the posttest performance. The most improvement of writing aspect was in organization and content. For other aspects, such as grammar, vocabulary and mechanic were also improved, but not as much as those two aspects. It means that the use of FRESH technique can improve students’ writing ability in descriptive text especially in organization and content aspects. In brief, the application of FRESH technique can be used to improve the students’ writing ability, especially in writing a descriptive text.
Abusive Language Recognition in Russian

Abusive phenomena are commonplace in language on the web. The scope of recognizing abusive language is broad, covering many behaviors and forms of expression. This work addresses automatic detection of abusive language in Russian. The lexical, grammatical and morphological diversity of Russian language present potential difficulties for this task, which is addressed using a variety of machine learning approaches. Finally, competitive performance is reached over multiple domains for this investigation into automatic detection of abusive language in Russian.