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A Study of High School English Listening Assessment Items Based on a Discriminant Analysis

The purpose of this study is to investigate what types of listening assessment items take an important role in identifying high school student’s English listening ability, and to explore teacher’s considerations about designing and modifying the types of items. 187 high school students participated in this research and took an English listening test made up of twenty multiple-choice items. Each student’s score was unpacked by discriminant analysis, and it was investigated what types of items made a difference when the students were classified into three English listening levels; high, intermediate or low. Two types that had a key role on distinguishing high level listeners from the others were “to identify the other person's response” and “to infer what one asks the other.” In contrast, low level listeners responded appropriately to such types as “to find out main idea of a dialogue” and “to guess character’s following response after a dialogue.” Based on the findings from this research, the English teacher can identify a high or low level listener easily and correctly based on the above four types of listening test items. In addition, the English teacher should ensure the validity and reliability of the items, and modify them properly considering a student’s cognitive and affective development, listening strategies and learning motivation in order to construct the effective listening assessment system.
Alcune riflessioni sull’uso dei nuovi media in psicoterapia

Technological progress has a wide range of consequences over all aspects of peoples’ daily lives. This article synthetically discusses the principal repercussions of this evolution on psychotherapy, and in particular over the technique of analysis and the ways in which patient and therapist interact. The risks and benefits of long-distance therapy sessions are discussed and illustrated by means of clinical material.
Hittepå - Samspelet mellan förutbestämdhet och intuition vid skapandet av ett album

The purpose of this study is to increase my knowledge of my personal creation process behind a musical album. What does the relationship between me as a music composer and my fellow musicians look like? How are my intentions balanced with their creativity? How can this interaction be formulated and characterized? What does the compositional interaction look like between predetermined musical structures and more intuitive and improvisational approaches related to my own creation process?The study was conducted through documentation of my musical thoughts and ideas in an artistic logbook and through video recording of the album’s recording sessions. The result of the study is the finished product, ie. the sounding material from the album. The conclusion that can be drawn from the study are that most of the creation process has occurred through careful planning and structuring, which has created the conditions for the intuitive ideas that have emerged both with the participating musicians and with me, both before and during the recording sessions. Thus, the predetermined structures have been crucial prerequisites for the intuitive ideas to have emerged and manifested in the album.
School Financing Strategies in Quality Improvement (Case Study at Sambas 2 State Junior High School)

Financing education in schools is an important thing in effort to improve the quality of education. This study aims to (1) Planning financing strategies in improving school quality; (2) Implementation of financing strategies in improving school quality; and (3) Evaluation of financing strategies in improving school quality. The research approach used is qualitative research with a type of case study research. Data obtained through observation, interviews, and documentation in obtaining data. The stages carried out in the research are the stages of preparation, implementation, and reporting. Data were analyzed by analyzing data, compiling data, synthesizing, looking for patterns, finding out what was meaningful, what was researched and decided to be reported systematically. The results obtained from this study are (1) Planning strategies for improving the quality of Sambas 2 State Junior High School compiled and outlined in the form of RKS and RAPBS; (2) Implementation of financing strategies in Sambas 2 State Junior High School using economic unit strategies, donations of school committee funds and parents of students, submitting proposals to the government and school committees and BOS; (3) Evaluation of financing strategies in improving the quality of education in Sambas 2 State Junior High School is carried out through four stages: evaluation of results of activities for a year/semester and/or quarterly, evaluation of employee performance results through programs, evaluation carried out in accordance with organizational mechanisms, and evaluation analysis SWOT includes the results of internal and external analysis; (4) Evaluation of financing strategies at Sambas 2 State Junior High School is done by making school financial reports which are divided into several items according to the technical reporting guidelines. Based on the results of the study stating that the implementation of the quality improvement strategy through financing strategies at Sambas 2 State Junior High School has been running very well and is in accordance with the principles of financial management and the process of improving the quality of the institution.
Differences between static and dynamic elastic moduli: Importance of experimental methods

&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;The differences between static and dynamic elastic moduli remain a controversial issue in rock physics. Various empirical correlations can be found in the literature. However, the experimental methods used to derive the static and dynamic elastic moduli differ and may entail substantial part of the discrepancies observed at the laboratory scale. The representativeness and bias of these methods should be fully assessed before applying big data analytics to the numerous datasets available in the literature.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;We will illustrate, discuss and analyze the differences inherent to static and dynamic measurements through a series of triaxial and petroacoustic tests performed on an outcrop carbonate. The studied rock formation is Euville limestone, which is a crinoidal grainstone composed of roughly 99% calcite and coming from Meuse department located in Paris Basin. Sister plugs have been cored from the same quarry block and observed under CT-scanner to check their homogeneity levels.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;The triaxial device is equipped with an internal stress sensor and provides axial strain measurements both from strain gauges glued to the samples and LVDTs placed inside the confinement chamber. Two measures of the static Young's modulus can thus be derived: the first one from the local strain measurements provided by the strain gauges and the second one from the semi-local strain measurements provided by the LVDTs. The P- and S-wave velocities are measured both through first break picking and the phase spectral ratio method, providing also two different measures of the dynamic Young's modulus.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;The triaxial tests have been performed in drained conditions and the measured static elastic moduli correspond to drained elastic moduli. The petroacoustic tests have been performed using the fluid substitution method, which consists in measuring the acoustic velocities for various saturating fluids of different bulk modulus. No weakening or dispersion effects have been observed. Gassmann's equation can then be used to derive the dynamic drained elastic moduli and the solid matrix bulk modulus, which is otherwise either taken from the literature for pure calcite or dolomite samples, or computed using Voigt-Reuss-Hill or Hashin-Shtrikman averaging of the mineral constituents.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;For the studied carbonate formation, we obtain similar values for static and dynamic elastic moduli when derived from careful lab experiments. Based on the obtained results, we will finally make recommendations, emphasizing the necessity of using relevant experimental techniques for a consistent characterization of the relation between static and dynamic elastic moduli.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;
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ANALYSIS OF EMPLOYEE ATTRITION AND IMPLEMENTING A DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM PROVIDING PERSONALIZED FEEDBACK AND OBSERVATIONS

Employees are every organization‟s precious assets. So, if they left jobs suddenly, any company might incur huge costs. Since new hires not only absorb resources and energy but it will also take time for the newly recruited workers to make the respective company profitable. However, this paper proposes a decision support system that gives a deep insight into employee‟s behavior and whether he is willing to work in the organization or not. The attrition of the employees given in the open-source IBM dataset is predicted using three machine learning algorithms viz. Logistic Regression, Random Forest and Artificial Neural Networks.
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Micro-seismicity of the Northern Sea of Galilee - Before and During the July-August 2018 Seismic Swarm

&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;This study presents observations and analysis from a high-sampling-rate micro-seismic network, located at the north of the Sea of Galilee, Israel. Stations&amp;amp;#8217; locations were chosen following the seismic swarm at the North of the Sea of Galilee, in October 2013, aiming to perceive a better understanding of the seismicity and structure of this area, in light of that anomaly seismic swarm, and of the seismic activity along the Dead Sea Fault. The micro-seismic network was active between May 2016 to August 2018, with six stations altogether, in distances of 3-5km around the northern Sea of Galilee.&amp;amp;#160; Each of the micro-seismic stations had two collocated sensors: 1) GS-1 Geospace, 1 Hz vertical seismometers, sampled at 500 samples per second, and 2) 3-channel Episensor embedded in a Rock+ Kinemetrics datalogger, sampled at 200 samples per second. Towards the dismantling of the network, another swarm, stronger in magnitude, and longer in duration, has occurred in July-August 2018, roughly at the same location. Meanwhile, a significant upgrade of the Israel Seismic Network (ISN) was taking place, also densifying the number of stations around the Sea of Galilee.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;The seismic processing presented here has many steps of verification, at all levels: detection, association, and location.&amp;amp;#160; Processing begins with the local high-sampling-rate micro-seismic stations, tuning the most appropriate micro-seismic detectors, and association, location and magnitude parameters. Then this new generated micro-seismic catalogue is used to reveal lower magnitude events within the ISN stations, followed by relocation and re-magnitude estimations, done to those events that have additional information from the ISN stations. Running this process for increasing time-windows, it is demonstrated how the use of micro-seismic instrumentation can increase the seismic catalogue by an order of magnitude, providing higher resolution of the seismicity, both in space and time.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;These efforts, of increasing the seismic catalogue, and improving their locations, are utilised for two main goals: a) obtaining a clearer picture of the seismicity and structure in the area before and during the seismic swarm of July-August 2018, b) Zooming into the interesting micro-seismic activity just before the initiation of the swarm.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;
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Material Process in Mechanical Engineering Texts: Systemic Functional Linguistics Perspectives

A creative clause is a type of clause operating either on the material process of doing or material process of happening. Since both material process types may occur in creative clauses, this study aims to investigate what verbs realize each of material process in creative clauses occurring in Mechanical Engineering texts and what verbs may realize both of the material process types in Mechanical Engineering texts. Therefore, this study employed the Systemic Functional Linguistic (SFL) framework to analyze the qualitative data obtained from an introductory textbook of Mechanical Engineering. The results showed that verbs  create, form, make, produce, and develop  realize the material process of doing while verbs  appear, grow, occur,  and  develop  realize the material process of happening. It implies that only one verb may realize both material process types.
ASSESSMENT OF ADULT LITERACY FACILITATORS’ RECORD KEEPING EFFICIENCY IN KANO METROPOLIS, KANO STATE, NIGERIA

The study assessed how efficient adult literacy facilitators in Kano metropolis are in keepings adult literacy centres records using descriptive research design. A sample of 112 adult literacy facilitators was selected using simple random technique. A 10 item Facilitators’ Record Keeping Efficiency Scale (FRKES) was used to collect data in respect of adult literacy facilitators’ record keeping efficiency in Kano metropolis literacy centers. The instrument was validated by experts in the areas of Adult Education, Educational Management and Test and Measurement. The Scale has 0.87 reliability index. The data generated from Facilitators Record Keeping Efficiency Scale (FRKES) were statistically analyzed using descriptive statistics of Mean to answer research question one and t-test statistics was used to test the two hypotheses. The findings revealed that adult literacy facilitators are very poor in record keeping irrespective of their gender and length of services. The study recommended that opportunities inform of workshop and seminar should  be organized by Kano State Agency for Mass Education in order to equip the facilitators with knowledge and skills on recordkeeping.
Correction to: A Comparison Between SWIFT and Blockchain from a Cyber Resiliency Perspective

Reference 26 of this paper has been updated. The authors were unaware that [1] had almost fully plagiarized [2] and wish to give full credit to the original authors. [1] RETRACTED ARTICLE: Dheeraj, J., Gurhubaran, S.: DDoS mitigation using blockchain. Int. J. Res. Eng. Sci. Manag. 1(10) (2018). [2] Rodrigues, B., Bocek, T., Lareida, A., Hausheer, D., Rafati, S., Stiller, B.: A blockchain-based architecture for collaborative DDoS mitigation with smart contracts. In: Tuncer, D., Koch, R., Badonnel, R., Stiller, B. (eds.) AIMS 2017. LNCS, vol. 10356, pp. 16–29. Springer, Cham (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60774-0_2 .
Introducing Artistic Research to Georgia

Artistic research researches the creative process resulting into an art work. It shares the aim of any scientific research, contributing to accumulation of knowledge in a given field, though it frees a researcher from excessive formalities (such as obligatory research outcomes stated in a written form – this function could be taken over by a piece of art), building the knowledge upon the practice. The notion of artistic research is a relatively new one. However, it has already been implemented at the academic level in several countries. Artistic research has never been conducted in the Republic of Georgia. Though, Tbilisi State Conservatoire offers to performers and composers’ special doctoral programs that give doctoral students opportunities to examine issues related to performance and composition practice, based on theoretical and practical knowledge. The dissertations written in the framework of the programs to some extent relate to artistic research, though, they differ from artistic research in various aspects. The paper aims to reveal similarities and differences between those research forms and to present a research project Development of Artistic Research Methodology on the Example of Exploration of the Piano of the 21st Century and its Future Perspectives. The project aims to enrich the given doctoral programs with elements of artistic research and later to contribute to implementation of artistic research on the academic level in Georgia. This experience could be taken into consideration by other countries that are on the way of implementing artistic research in their educational systems.
Emotion Detection for Afaan Oromo Using Deep Learning

Emotion detection in text has become more popular due to its various useful applications in a different area, such as tracking product perception, public opinion detection about political tendencies, stock market monitoring, text summarization, information extraction, recommendation system, question answering and etc. However, manually identifying emotion of a million of people and aggregating them towards a rapid and efficient decision is quite a challenging task due to the rapid growth of social media user.  This study aimed to develop Afaan Oromo emotion detection model in order to tackle this challenge.  This study adopts artificial neural network approach. We used python tools with Keras library. We conduct our experiments on five emotion class (anger(arii), love(jaalala), joy(gamachu), disgust(jibba), and sadness(gadda)) by collecting a total of 1005 emotional sentence of Afaan Oromo language that have been manually annotated. The sentence has been scraped from different official Facebook page such as Oromia Broadcasting Network (OBN) pages, Fana Broadcasting Corporation (FBC) Afaan Oromo page, and British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Afaan Oromo pages using Facepager tools by creating Facebook API id. After collecting these data all preprocessing steps like tokenization, stop word removal and normalization have been undertaken. We used word embedding’s for feature extraction of preprocessed data. Subsequently, we have applied three artificial neural network algorithms such as Feed forward neural network, long short-term Memory and Bidirectional long short-term memory for classification purpose of the vectorized sentence into their emotion class. We compared the three artificial neural network algorithms and found out that Bidirectional long short-term memory achieved the best performance. We have achieved an average accuracy of 66%, 78%, 83% using Feed Forward Neural Network, Long Short-Term Memory and Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory respectively. Based on experimental result, the researcher concluded that increasing amount of dataset, tuning hyper parameters properly and trying by different algorithms can, in some case, improve the performance of the model. Keywords : Emotion Identification, Afaan Oromo, Artificial Neural Network, Social Media DOI: 10.7176/NMMC/92-01 Publication date: August 31 st 2020
Prediction Stability: A New Metric for Quantitatively Evaluating DNN Outputs

In many realistic applications, the collected inputs of DNN face a big challenge: perturbations. Although the perturbations are imperceptible, they may cause incorrect prediction results. This paper proposes prediction stability to quantitatively evaluate whether the prediction result of an input is instable and easy to be perturbed. Prediction stability can guide the DNN system to cope with the situation where the prediction result has a high confidence but with a low stability. Experimental result shows that, using the proposed metrics to evaluate the stability of prediction results, over 99.8 cases are consistent with the real stable/instable conditions.
Measuring the Quality of (EBAP) at the Informatics Institutes

There are many complaints from the users and decision-makers towards the electronic information services as well as the delay in these services in the electronic business application programs at the informatics institutes. This indicates the low levels in the quality of performance of business application programs. The study has aimed to define the quality standards for electronic business application programs, to measure the quality levels and the importance of each performance standard, knowing the dissatisfaction of the users about the technical services and applications provided by the application programs, to determine the factors, and the reasons that affect the performance and the lack of user satisfaction, and to identify technical services and applications that are provided by business application programs in informatics institutions.The descriptive approach and the analytical method were adopted in the study, and a set of measurements are used to find out the statistics such as the end central limit theory, and Z and T testes. This paper has adapted new model with seven main standards including sixteen sub-standards to measure the level of the application standard quality of electronic business application programs as well as their importance at work. The results showed that the level of interest was directed to six main criteria with a high degree of importance, such as the criterion of flexibility, reliability, accuracy, speed of response and the criterion of achieving goals, while the criterion of inclusivity has obtained an important level. As for the performance level corresponding to all the criteria, it was low to medium (1-3 of five degrees representing the level of performance for the quality of the systems), with the exception of the reliability and confidence standard of the information provided, which can be approximated to the high performance level, with malfunctions in the electronic work of the systems with attempts to fix the existing malfunction. Finally, a set of recommendations was developed.
Pengembangan Media Digital Game-Based Learning (DGBL) untuk Meningkatkan Kemampuan Berpikir Kronologis Siswa dalam Pembelajaran Sejarah di SMA

Background of the research is not yet providing the media emphasis on the aspect of learning to think chronologically. This research aims to: 1) Developing media DGBL viable and practical learning in history. 2) Reveal the effectiveness of media Digital Game-based Learning (DGBL) in improving the chronological thinking ability of students. This development research using model ADDIE (Analyze, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation). The subject of the trial consists of 29 SMAN 1 Padang Panjang of Class XI of SCIENCES 6. The eligibility test is done through assessment of expert material and 2 media expert. In addition, the test is also done by two people the practicalities of history teachers and 29 students to see the practicality of DGBL media. The results indicate that the feasibility of the development of media based on expert assessment of materials, techniques and instruments of data collection, and data analysis to Digital Game-Based Learning (DGBL) is well worth the use (average score of 4.18 research), while According to a feasibility assessment of media experts that the media very worthy DGBL used (average score of 4.26). Research products are effective in improving students ability to think chronologically with n-gain 0.67 (categorize your medium). Product Media DGBL rated very practical by teachers and students (mean score 4.68 and 4.6).