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Financial Openness and Poverty Level: The Empirical Investigation in Nigeria

This study examined the effect of financial openness on poverty level in Nigeria from 1981 to 2018, using Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) technique.The study found that the lagged value of poverty has a positive and significant relationship with itself.This buttresses the point that poverty in the previous period's filters directly into the present period.Again, the study found that financial deepening has an inverse and significant effect on poverty, while financial openness was found to have a positive and significant impact on poverty.Finally, the lagged value of growth rate, investment, inflation and institutional quality has an inverse and significant effect on poverty.
On the Innovative Strategies for Optimizing the Teaching Structure of English Class in Higher Vocational Education

The popularity of higher education is getting higher and higher, and higher vocational education has also received widespread attention. However, under the circumstances of high attention, it has also exposed many problems in its education. As a compulsory course in higher vocational colleges, English can not only improve the language environment of students, but also a medium for understanding the culture of another country. But the most important point is that higher vocational English teaching should help students find employment, reach the level required by employment standards, and enhance its competitiveness in the market. This article analyzes the characteristics and current situation of higher vocational English teaching in today’s society, explains the significance of higher vocational English teaching reform, and conducts a detailed research on this curriculum system, excavates its potential problems, and proposes reform methods for higher vocational English teaching.
Role of Hybrid Level Set in Fetal Contour Extraction

Image processing technologies may be employed for quicker and accurate diagnosis in analysis and feature extraction of medical images. Here, existing level set algorithm is modified and it is employed for extracting contour of fetus in an image. In traditional approach, fetal parameters are extracted manually from ultrasound images. An automatic technique is highly desirable to obtain fetal biometric measurements due to some problems in traditional approach such as lack of consistency and accuracy. The proposed approach utilizes global &amp; local region information for fetal contour extraction from ultrasonic images. The main goal of this research is to develop a new methodology to aid the analysis and feature extraction.
REPRESENTATION OF MEDIA NEWS INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT IDENTITY AGAINST HOAX NEWS

This article presents the results of research on the theme of social media and hoaxes.The purpose of this research is to describes the identity representation of users of the newsmedia instagram account, especially in the city of Solo, in fighting hoax news.Hoax is news that is not true or has invalid sources that disturbs and disturbs the distribution of information in the community.Instagram is one of the media for spreading hoaxes.This social media with minimal filtering, personal, easy, fast and free information mechanisms becomes an easy arena for hoax news to spread.In addition, Instagram users can freely represent themselves according to what they want to show and even become a completely different identity.Hoaxes on Instagram are mostly spread by Instagram newsmedia accounts that focus on sharing the latest news.The theory used for analysis is the theory of representation by Stuart Hall and Manuell Castells' theory of identity.The research method uses qualitative methods with a case study approach.Data collection techniques are carried out through observation and interviews, and documentation.The research location is in the city of Solo within the scope of Instagram newsmedia users and followers.The results of this study indicate that the Instagram newsmedia account under study consists of a solo solo info agenda, solo discounts and solo roaming.The identity of newsmedia accounts is distinguished by the type of information presented, including information content, news, culinary, tourist locations, entertainment and discounts.Representation according to Stuart Hall is reached through the process of forming mental systems and language systems.Mental systems are concerned with the process of building concepts and language systems related to the use of signs and symbols to represent a meaning.The representation at the mental system stages is related to knowledge of the Instagram algorithm, the process of interaction and information content, the mental system allows accounts to recognize hoaxes, namely information or news with unclear sources and provocative tendencies.Representation of identity in the language stage is carried out by presenting signs, symbols, colors to represent meaning, so that it can display information according to categories and is credible.Efforts to represent identity in propagating hoaxes are carried out in several ways including validating information through the Guyub Admin community, waiting for press releases from the mass media, validating original sources, and working with followers to verify.Through the representation of the newsmedia account's identity in fighting hoaxes, the existence of their account will get a positive response from followers and increase interaction traffic.
Check This Out Lending Laptops and Other Technology

Figuring out how and which pieces of equipment to circulate has stymied many a Technology Services department. How do you decide what types of equipment to check out? Which brands/models to purchase? How long should it go out? How do you keep things in working order? How do you remedy the situation if someone damages, loses, or refuses to return something?
CLAMGen: Closed-Loop Arm Motion Generation via Multi-view Vision-Based RL

We propose a vision-based reinforcement learning (RL) approach for closed-loop trajectory generation in an arm reaching problem. Arm trajectory generation is a fundamental robotics problem which entails finding collision-free paths to move the robot’s body (e.g. arm) in order to satisfy a goal (e.g. place end-effector at a point). While classical methods typically require the model of the environment to solve a planning, search or optimization problem, learning-based approaches hold the promise of directly mapping from observations to robot actions. However, learning a collision-avoidance policy using RL remains a challenge for various reasons, including, but not limited to, partial observability, poor exploration, low sample efficiency, and learning instabilities. To address these challenges, we present a residual-RL method that leverages a greedy goal-reaching RL policy as the base to improve exploration, and the base policy is augmented with residual state-action values and residual actions learned from images to avoid obstacles. Further more, we introduce novel learning objectives and techniques to improve 3D understanding from multiple image views and sample efficiency of our algorithm. Compared to RL baselines, our method achieves superior performance in terms of success rate.
Rancang Bangun Sistem Informasi Pengarsipan di Perpustakaan Universitas Lancang Kuning

Lancang Kuning University Library is one of the libraries that provide services for students, lecturers and other staff. In the implementation of business processes filing incoming letters from other agencies, as well as letters issued from the library itself. The problem is that when the library receives an incoming letter, they archive it in hard copy, this results in damage to the letter. Furthermore, in making the letter out here there is no format for making letters so that the library slows down in the process of making letters. For the above problems, a solution is obtained, namely the letter filing information system for the Lancang Kuning University library. This information system can manage incoming and outgoing mail, besides this system also provides information to the head of the household if there is an incoming letter. To develop this information system UAT testing is also carried out using the blackbox method with 100% results. Furthermore, a system interview was conducted to find out how useful the system was built for the Lancang Kuning University library. Based on the results of these tests it can be concluded that the information system built for the yellow lancing library has been running well and has also helped the yellow lancing library in the management of incoming and outgoing mail. Keywords: Information Systems, UAT, Archiving, Letters.
Self-Correction in Writing Skill (A Paragraph)

Abstract: A paragraph is a subject that consists of developed related statements by a writer. In writing a paragraph the students make sure their paragraph is in correct format. This study describes students’ writing development in a paragraph and the impact of self-correction. The participants of the study were the 15 students in basic writing class second semester at English Education Department. This study was a quantitative research and used written test. The tests implemented were pre-test and post-test after 5 meetings treatment. In the treatment the students gave feedback about the paragraph, punctuation, capitalization, simple sentence, compound sentence, complex sentence, and compound complex sentence. The results showed that self-correction benefited students’ writing skill and there was a development in their writing skill. This study suggested that self-correction was an effective method and shown to be the best method for student as a feedback.
TYPES OF MANAGERS IN EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS BY THEIR LEADERSHIP POSITIONS: RELATIONS WITH ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE AND PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS

The article, basing on the empirical research, describes statistically significant correlations between the types of managers in educational organizations by their leadership positions (“leadership”, “managerial”, “harmonious”) and psychological characteristics of their organizations (“organizational development”, “performance of the teaching staff”). The “Managerial” type correlated with lowered “organizational development” of the educational organization. The “Leadership” type was related directly with such factors of team development as “preparedness for activity”, “organized nature” and “activity”. The study results give grounds to say that managers with “Leadership” and “Harmonious” types had innovative management styles. “Managerial” managers, most likely, used traditional management approaches. There were statistically significant correlations between the leadership types of educational managers and organizational and functional factors (“a period of organization existence”, “a status of the organization in the city (region) educational system”, “innovations in an organization”). Positive statistically significant correlations were between educational managers’ self-development and traditional and innovative management styles (the higher self-development was, the more willingly did educational managers use innovative management styles) and a negative correlations was with creative potential. The obtained data indicate that, during managers’ psychological training, a special attention should be paid to different managerial types in educational organizations in order to promote innovative management styles.
Controls and Novelty on Digital Platforms: Two Case Studies

Software system projects face challenges to rapidly meet user requirements while adding novel values to the application domain. Value appropriation focuses on exploiting existing knowledge to develop software that meets market requirements. Value creation focuses on exploring the solution space to innovate and attract new customers. In this pilot research, we study the tension between software project controls and the goal of novelty in the software product. Two case studies provide preliminary evidence that a well-balanced portfolio of controls can result in the design and implementation of novel product features. We position the case studies in the context of digital platforms to bound our definitions of control mechanisms and novelty. Based on analysis of data collected from two case studies, we find that formal and informal control modes can positively influence novelty in software applications on digital platforms. We conclude with a discussion on implications for software development and future research directions.
Technological Design of Gliding Arc (GA) Power Supply for Biomedical Applications

Objective: There are few reliable quantitative methods to clinically evaluate healing of chronic leg ulcers, a type of wound that affect 2% of the world population.When non-healing, the presence of complications such as infection may not be visible in the wound.The use of artificial intelligence (AI) through deep machine learning holds promises in augmenting clinical assessment, and advancements using artificial neural networks are emerging in wound healing science specific to detection of inflammation and infection.Here, the authors present a proof-of-concept protocol to determine the degree to which inflammatory biomarker concentrations, as measured by a novel nanofiber composite biosensor, can be combined with thermal and visible light photographic wound images to form a wound healing classification ('healing' or 'non-healing) in patients with chronic venous leg ulcers. Methods:The protocol recommends that the chronic wounds of 10 patients receiving care in an outpatient wound clinic will be investigated in this longitudinal observational study during weekly clinical, imaging and biosensing wound assessments conducted over 4 continuous weeks of care.Through deep-machine learning, predictive models will be generated connecting sensor data and thermal image data as inputs for wound healing (or non-healing) classification with respect to the Bates-Jensen wound assessment criteria.Three models (image data only, sensor data only, and fusion of both image and sensor data) will be generated and corroborated with clinical assessment findings to determine whether the models accurately reflect wound healing status.The protocol was approved by the institution's review board.
Guides: Etextbooks: Accessing etextbooks

During August 2021-July 2022 we are piloting access to a range of etextbook titles alongside our existing ebook collections. The What are etextbooks section explains how these texts differ from ebooks and can benefit your online learning experience.
Development of Creatively Active Students on the Way to Staff Formation of all Spheres of the Economy

The article is aimed at researching, studying and substantiating the advantages and problems regarding the creativity of students in the process of obtaining professional education. In accordance with the aim of the research, the following tasks are set: to define the concept of «creativity», the prerequisites for the emergence of creative abilities; to characterize the conditions for stimulating the creative abilities of students; to identify obstacles and reasons for the lack of a creative component in the process of higher education; to build up an algorithm for the development of creative abilities in students; to outline the conditions for creating a favorable environment wherein the student’s creative inclinations will be manifested. The object of research is the processes of reforming higher education in the direction of compliance with modern European trends in education development; formation of an environment favorable for the development of creativity of student in the process of obtaining higher education through the algorithm of purposeful pedagogical activity. The subject of the study are theoretical and applied provisions on the formation of an environment favorable for the development of the student’s creativity in the process of obtaining higher education. The scientific novelty of the research consists in the formation of a single aggregate concept of creativity of students and in the formation of ways to overcome problems in the process of developing the creativity of students in obtaining professional education. The practical implementation of the research results will allow reforming higher education in the direction of forming a creatively active environment for teachers and students; will allow to bring the system of national education closer to the formation of such specialists in the labor market, which will be in high demand among domestic and foreign employers.
ВЗАИМОСВЯЗИ МЕЖДУ УРГЕНТНОЙ АДДИКЦИЕЙ, СИНДРОМОМ ЭМОЦИОНАЛЬНОГО ВЫГОРАНИЯ И ПРОКРАСТИНАЦИЕЙ У УЧИТЕЛЕЙ

The article is devoted to the current problem of the impact of urgent addiction, emotional burnout on procrastination among teachers. The empirical study compared the nature of the relationship between urgent addiction, burnout syndrome, and procrastination among teachers from urban and rural schools. It was found that rural and urban teachers differ at a significant level in the nature of the relationship between urgent addiction, burnout syndrome and procrastination.
Why We Fear Genetic Informants: Using Genetic Genealogy to Catch Serial Killers

Consumer genetics has exploded, driven by the second-most popular hobby in the United States: genealogy. This hobby has been co-opted by law enforcement to solve cold cases, by linking crime-scene DNA with the DNA of a suspect's relative, which is contained in a direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic database. The relative’s genetic data acts as a silent witness, or genetic informant, wordlessly guiding law enforcement to a handful of potential suspects. At least thirty murderers and rapists have been arrested in this way, a process which I describe in careful detail in this article. Legal scholars have sounded many alarms, and have called for immediate bans on this methodology, which is referred to as long-range familial searching (LRFS) or forensic genetic genealogy (FGG). The opponents’ concerns are many, but generally boil down to fears that FGG will invade the privacy and autonomy of presumptively innocent individuals. These concerns, I argue, are considerably overblown. Indeed, many aspects of the methodology implicate nothing new, legally or ethically, and might even better protect privacy while exonerating the innocent. Law enforcement’s use of FGG to solve cold cases is a bogeyman. The real threat to genetic privacy comes from shoddy consumer consent procedures, poor data security standards, and user agreements that permit rampant secondary uses of data. So why do so many legal scholars fear a world where law enforcement uses this methodology? I submit that our fear of so-called genetic informants stems from the sticky and long-standing traps of genetic essentialism and genetic determinism, where we incorrectly attribute intentional action to our genes and fear a world where humans are controlled by our biology. Rather than banning the use of genetic genealogy to catch serial killers and rapists, I call for improved DTC consent processes, and more transparent privacy and security measures. This will better protect genetic privacy in line with consumer expectations, while still permitting the use of LRFS to deliver justice to victims and punish those who commit society's most heinous acts.
EMPOWERING EDUCATORS IN DIGITAL ASSESSMENT

In this paper we analyse the design and implementation of a course based on the DigCompEdu framework and integrated in a European project (e-SLP).The module was designed so that the participants realize how digital technologies can enhance existing assessment strategies, how they can be used to create or to facilitate innovative assessment approaches, and how digital technologies can be used in monitoring learner progress, by facilitating feedback and allowing educators to assess and adapt their teaching strategies.The conceptual framework of the module is based on the ideas of assessment for learning and sustainable assessment, in relation to real and professional life.The study takes a qualitative approach that investigates the work developed by the participants in the module, a group of educators from different countries.Digital evaluation strategies presented in eportfolios are analysed.We examine the diversity of digital technologies that are used, and the proposed strategies in relation to the different educational settings where the participants in the module act as educators (from basic education to non-formal education).Results show that the participants reveal some difficulties in identifying forms of digital assessment appropriate to the pedagogical scenarios they present, namely at the definition of competences and valuation criteria.There is a significant diversity of digital tools proposed.Teacher and peer assessment strategies supported in rubrics are elements that also have a significant presence in the evaluation strategies that are described.These elements reveal that training in the area of digital assessment is really extremely relevant and that teachers need to explore different digital technologies in order to adequate them to the competences to be developed and assessed.
KARUMGA: Perancangan dan Penerapan Sistem Informasi Penggunaan Aset KARUMGA (Kasi Rumah Tangga) Berbasis Website di Pondok Pesantren Nurul Jadid

Nurul Jadid Islamic Boarding School is an Islamic educational institution without having an asset management system. Located in East Java Province with huge numbers of assets, this instituion has been managed without information system of asset control in schools, either formal or non-formal. This study is to design and implement a web based information system namely KARUMGA (Kasi Rumah Tangga) in inputting, editing, and searching the required asset data, making reports of Nurul Jadid’s assets more effective and efficient. The design of an efficient Web Based Asset Management application system is inteded to provide a fast and responsive service to lending pesantren assets.
We Can Do It for Free!

The Free Library of Philadelphia’s online patron engagement has been continuous during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Special Collections Division rushed to generate substantial and engaging online programming using a variety of freeware systems so as not to burden our overworked IT department. We built a sustainable, flexible repository that is populated with videos, podcasts, games, exhibitions, and other activities which can be accessed by patrons of all ages and learning needs. The process has generated opportunities for our staff to interact in new and exciting ways with patrons as programming needs evolve. The model is easily adapted for other groups and institutions and may be a beneficial tool for library workers looking to promote online content. The repository can be found at http://www.bit.ly/FunWithFLPSpecColl.
IMPROVING THE TENTH GRADE STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILLS BY USING DISCOVERY LEARNING WITH ENGLISH SONGS AS MEDIA AT AL IHSAN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, TANJUNG LAGO

The objective of the research was to know how the use of the discovery learning model with songs as media could improve the tenth-grade students’ speaking skills at Al Ihsan Senior High School, Tanjung Lago. The action research model employed Kemmis and McTaggart's. It consisted of four steps which were planning, action, observation, and reflection. The results of the research show that there was an improvement in the students’ speaking skills by implementing the discovery learning and English songs as media. The improvement was also supported by the percentage of students’ average scores. The percentage improvement in the average value of students from cycle1 and cycle2 is 2,46%, from cycle 2 and cycle 3 is 3,45 %. Then from the result of the test that the researcher got in the last cycle, there were 84% of students who got up to minimum criteria score.