Reviewerly/exHarmony huggingface dataset:
A Novel Method for Banknote Recognition Using a Combined Histogram of Oriented Gradients and Scale-Invariant Feature Transform

Automated banknote recognition systems are essential for people with visual impairments who face challenges distinguishing between different currency denominations. This study presents a novel method aimed at helping blind people identify banknotes from three different countries (Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United States of America) by using a proposed feature detection algorithm. Our proposed system has two main stages: the proposed algorithm uses the Speeded-UP Robust Features (SURF) algorithm for key point detection, as it is fast and robust to variations in geometry and lighting. Then, it extracts features using the scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT) and histogram of oriented gradients (HOG) algorithms, which are scale invariant. This algorithm aims to overcome the limitations of both the SURF and SIFT algorithms and reduce the average response time and computational cost of the SIFT and HOG algorithms. We developed a banknote dataset with 12 classes for three countries. The accuracy of the banknote recognition was 99.2%. The performance of the proposed dataset was compared with that of the global Kaggle Egyptian dataset, resulting in 98.9% accuracy.
Building Competencies for Industry 4.0: Suggestions from Kazakhstan Experience

The article reveals possible recommendations for action on competency development (with a focus on digital competencies), which are caused by the increasing requirements of Industry 4.0 and the rapid growth of digitalization in the economy. In this context, it is important to prepare staff by raising awareness of the ongoing changes and emerging new requirements for skills and competencies.
A Study on the Employee Referral Program with Reference to Alloysys Extrusion

The main objective of this project is to study the employee referral program in “Alloysys Extrusion”. Employee Referral is one of the external sources of recruitment and an internal recruitment method employed by organizations to identify potential candidates from their existing employees' social networks. An employee referral scheme encourages a company's existing employees to select and recruit the suitable candidates from their social networks. As a reward, the employer typically pays the referring employee a referral bonus. The purpose of this study is based on encouraging employees to help the recruitment team in recruiting by referring right candidates.
Theoretical approaches of integralization in the context of the reconceptualization of the learning process

Human knowledge has reached a high level of development, the volume of knowledge can no longer be acquired as easily as in the past. So, the essential problem in ensuring the effectiveness of learning lies in the selection of those knowledge that open the way to a field of culture. In this learning context, integration is necessary to approach phenomen a from different perspectives, to build flexible, dynamic mental structure scapable of supporting the most appropriate decisions.
Motivational determinants in the implemenation of pedagogical innovations

The article considers the issue of motivating teachers for the implementation of pedagogical innovations. The factors that influence the motivation for the implementation of pedagogical innovations are highlighted; the reasons for implementing pedagogical innovations and the stages of motivating teachers to implement innovations are described by correlation with the reactions to innovations and the specific behavior of teachers. Also, the forms of influence and the basic conditions are specified in order to stimulate the motivation of teaching staff for the implementation of pedagogical innovations.
The student profile as a subject of didactic professionalization in higher education

The article is devoted to the issue of initial vocational training of future teachers in the context of Higher Education. The synthesis of the characteristics of the student as a subject of the educational process according to different authors, which are necessary for the formation of a modern specialist, is presented. The results of the empirical study are illustrated. The results demonstrate the appreciations of the characteristics of the student as a subject offered by students and teaching staff.
Morphological Operation-Based Background Subtraction Method for Shadow Removal in Outdoor Video Sequences

The difficult tasks of shadow identification and removal span a wide range of contexts, including computer vision, indoor and outdoor scenarios, and reconnaissance framework. An activity observation framework's performance may suffer if a shadow is incorrectly identified as a foreground object. Although many algorithms are available for removing shadow from images there are some limitations. The goal of this article is to provide a brief overview of the various algorithms used in shadow detection, shadow removal, and ghost elimination, along with their benefits and drawbacks. The article also offered a novel background subtraction-based technique using morphological operation for eliminating shadows from video frames that successfully identifies the shadow region in a frame and eliminates it from the frame. Furthermore, a comparison is made between the proposed method and the existing approaches, and the experimental findings demonstrate its robustness. The experimental outcomes exhibit that the proposed approach shows its effectiveness in terms of an accuracy of 81.37%, precision of 0.81, recall of 0.84, and f1 score of 0.83 compared to other existing approaches.
Metacognitive monitoring and control in distributed cognition

Today we experience an ongoing expansion of the range of available information, advanced communication technologies, and an increase in multitasking. This has resulted in a distributed nature of cognitive activity, where external resources, devices and other people are involved. That’s why the development of metacognitive knowledge and strategies is crucial for effective usage of one’s own cognitive abilities, as well as cultural and technological advances. In this review we analyze and describe the specifics of metacognitive monitoring and control in the context of distributed cognition. First of all, we consider different approaches to explaining how metacognitive judgments are formed, we then analyze empirical studies of the involvement of metacognitive judgments in regulation of cognitive performance. The article emphasizes the importance of metacognitive experiences and judgments in prevention and correction of cognitive errors, searching for and integrating information from external sources, and making joint decisions. It has been shown that metacognitive experiences and judgments based on them play a crucial role in building representations of one’s own competence when solving the problem. Metacognitive experiences are also involved in regulating the search for information, initiating cognitive offloading and seeking help from others. They also play an important role in the formation of epistemic trust in other people and accepting their advices, improving effectiveness through social verification of knowledge, and are used as heuristic in joint decisions making.
The practice of intuitive drawing in overcoming the consequences of traumatic stress in combat participants

The conditions of modern professional activity of special units of internal affairs bodies are characterized by a significant intensity of mental stress, as well as a wide variety and heterogeneity of circumstances that can lead a person into a state of affect, complete disorientation in the environment. Employees need to assess the situation impartially and make adequate decisions taking into account its unpredictability. In such conditions, the ability to self-control over your feelings and behavior is very important. A special role in this process is played by the mental state, which is an important part of the regulation of behavior and is significant in any kind of activity. Extreme conditions of service create the need for a psychological study of the emotional states in which the fighters are after participating in hostilities in order to provide them with timely and necessary psychological assistance. The purpose of this work is to find the most effective methods of restoring vital resources, especially in conditions of transformation of society and the growth of social tension. The author adheres to the hypothesis that the art-therapeutic practice of intuitive drawing is effective in the psychological correction of negative states. The proposed experience of working with negative emotions of police officers is effective as a way of expressing personal problems, which makes it possible for a psychologist not only to determine the direction for psychological work, but also to use this practice in correcting the negative mental state of an employee. Art therapy, as a creative process, allows you to feel and understand yourself, express thoughts and feelings freely, get rid of negative experiences. By drawing, the employee gives an outlet to his feelings, desires, dreams, rebuilds his attitude to various situations and traumatic images, and also plunges into positive feelings for a while, distracting himself from negative thoughts and states.
ANALYSIS OF TEACHERS’ LANGUAGE POLITENESS DURING TEACHING ENGLISH

The objective of the study was to express language politeness in teacher-student conversations to the way educating and learning at SMP Negeri 21 Medan. This study makes use of qualitative method. The techniques used in data collection are observation, transcription techniques, and take notes techniques. The target is to find out the use of language politeness principles in learning activities on the choice of words and polite ways of speaking between teachers and students. The outcomes of this study show that use of politeness in language is influenced by teacher’s emotions and there are seven maxims out of ten maxims use used by teacher’s in language politeness namely 1) opinion reticente maxim, 2) agreement maxim, 3) sympathy maxim, 4)generosity maxim, 5) approbation maxim, 6) obligation of S to O Maxim, 7) Tact maxim. In conclusion, the politeness of communication between teacher’s and students tends to use Indonesian rather than English. This is a concern for teachers in teaching in class by speaking polite language.
How renv restores packages from r-universe for reproducibility or production

&lt;strong&gt;What is renv&lt;/strong&gt; RStudio’s renv package is a powerful dependency management toolkit for R. It allows you to create a &lt;em&gt;lockfile&lt;/em&gt; that records the exact versions of R packages used in a given project, and provides tooling to install exactly those same versions on another machine, or at a later point in time. This is very useful to create an isolated project environment for reproducibility or production purposes.
cffr: Create a CITATION.cff File for your R Package

A new R package, cffr, has beendeveloped,peer-reviewed byrOpenSci and accepted by CRAN. Thispackage has a single purpose: to create a valid CITATION.cff file using themetadata of any R package.&lt;strong&gt;CITATION.cff files and why they matter&lt;/strong&gt; A Citation File Format (CFF) is aplain text file with human- and machine-readable citation information forsoftware (and datasets)&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;. Under the hood, a CFF file is a YAML file.
How I Test cffr on (about) 2,000 Packages using GitHub Actions and R-universe

When GitHub announced support for CITATION.cfffiles I though ofcreating a package that would assist R developers in this matter. I was alreadyusing codemetar for most of my packages,so I was familiar with the creation of these kind of metadata files.
Generating and customizing badges in r-universe

&lt;strong&gt;Badges in r-universe&lt;/strong&gt; After creating your personal universe, the dashboard on https://{yourname}.r-universe.dev shows the version and other details for each package in your repository. We have also added a new tab that lists the available badges for the repository.
New package katex: rendering math to HTML and MathML in R

A new rOpenSci package katex is now on CRAN.This package allows for converting latex math expressions to HTML and MathML for use in markdown documents or package documentation.
Behind the magick: updates to imagemagick and beyond

It has been a while since we posted an update about magick, but behind the scenes we are constantly tweaking and improving this package, which has become a very mature and complete toolkit for image processing in R. Over the past year, we did 6 CRAN releases, containing many small features and fixes, but perhaps more importantly, the package is getting betting better due to updates of the underlying ImageMagick library.
Accessing GraphQL from R

&lt;strong&gt;Introduction&lt;/strong&gt; Few months ago, I embarked on a full stack spatial data project at work. The project kicked off amazingly, until I was almost backed to the wall when I discovered that some of the data sources were served via a GraphQL API. Before now, I haven’t worked with GraphQL. But, I have heard a lot about it and how amazing it is for querying data.
Moving away from Travis CI

At rOpenSci, we encourage R package developers to take advantage of Continuous Integration services to automatically check the package on different platforms, with different versions of R. The rOpenSci dev guide dedicates chapter 2 to the topic of &lt;em&gt;Continuous Integration Best Practices&lt;/em&gt;, and recommends a few common CI vendors, including Travis CI. Travis CI has been a pioneer in free public CI services, and made the concept popular in the
Rectifying Hand-Drawn Marks on Maps With the mapscanner Package

&lt;strong&gt;mapscanner&lt;/strong&gt; It is sometimes easy in the midst of the cutting-edge world of uniquesoftware development that is rOpenSci to forget that even though oursoftware might be freely available from anywhere in the world, access toadequate hardware is often restricted.
A better way to manage your Github personal access tokens

We have been working hard behind the scenes on the upcoming release of our new git package named gert, a joint effort from rOpenSci and the Tidyverse team. One of the main features of gert is the out-of-the-box authentication mechanism, which is provided via the new credentials package.
Automatic Code Cleaning in R with Rclean

Leave the code cleaner than you found it. – R.C. Martin in &lt;em&gt;Clean Code&lt;/em&gt; The R language has become very popular among scientists and analystsbecause it enables the rapid development of software and empowersscientific investigation. However, regardless of the language used,data analysis is usually complicated. Because of various projectcomplexities and time constraints, analytical software often reflectsthese challenges.
opentripplanner: Fast and Easy Multimodal Trip Planning in R with OpenTripPlanner

With services like Google Maps, finding the fastest route from A to B has become quick, cheap, and easy. Not just for driving but walking, cycling and public transport too. But in the field of transport studies, we often want not only a single route, but thousands or millions of routes.
2 Months in 2 Minutes - rOpenSci News, December 2019

&lt;strong&gt;rOpenSci HQ&lt;/strong&gt; rOpenSci Announces a New $896k Award From The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to Improve the Scientific Package Ecosystem for R. We’re excited to announce a new member of our team! Introducing Mark Padgham, rOpenSci’s new Software Research Scientist NumFOCUS recognizes Melina Vidoni and Will Landau for their contributions to rOpenSci.
(Re)introducing skimr v2 - A year in the life of an open source R project

Theme song: &lt;em&gt;PSA&lt;/em&gt; by Jay-Z We announced the testing version of skimr v2 onJune 19, 2018. After more than ayear of (admittedly intermittent) work, we’re thrilled to be able to say thatthe package is ready to go to CRAN. So, what happened over the last year? Andwhy are we so excited for v2?&lt;strong&gt;Wait, what is a “skimr”?&lt;/strong&gt; skimr is an R package for summarizing your data.
rOpenSci Announces a New Award From The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to Improve the Scientific Package Ecosystem for R

Today we are pleased to announce that we have received new funding from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. The $894k grant will help us improve infrastructure for R packages and enable us to move towards a &lt;em&gt;science first&lt;/em&gt; package ecosystem for the R community. You may have already noticed some developments on this front when we announced our automated documentation server back in June.
HTTP testing in R: overview of tools and new features

Testing is a crucial component to any software package. Testing makes surethat your code does what you expect it to do; and importantly, makes it safer to makechanges moving forward because a good test suite will tell you if a change has brokenexisting functionality. Our recent community call on testing is a niceplace to get started with testing. One way to make testing even harder is through including HTTP requests.
cran checks API: an update

If you have an R package on CRAN, you probably know about CRAN checks. Each package on CRAN, that is not archived on CRAN&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;, has a checks page, like this one for ropenaq:https://cloud.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_ropenaq.html The table above is results of running R CMD CHECK on the package on a combination of different operating systems, R versions and compilers.
citecorp: working with open citations

citecorp is a new (hit CRAN in late August) R package for working with data from theOpenCitations Corpus (OCC).OpenCitations, run by David Shotton and Silvio Peroni,houses the OCC, an open repository of scholarly citation dataunder the very open CC0 license.
rOpenSci Hiring for New Position in Statistical Software Testing and Peer Review

Are you passionate about statistical methods and software? If so we would love for you to join our team to dig deep into the world of statistical software packages. You’ll develop standards for evaluating and reviewing statistical tools, publish, and work closely with an international team of experts to set up a new software review system.
Introducing Open Forensic Science in R

The free online book &lt;em&gt;Open Forensic Science in R&lt;/em&gt; was created to foster open science practices in the forensic science community.
Reading English Poetry for Cultivating Aesthetic Sensitivity Competency: Focusing on William Wordsworth’s “Michael”

This paper explores the pedagogical potential of using William Wordsworth’s “Michael” to teach students about sympathy, imagination, and cultural understanding for the purpose of cultivating “Aesthetic Sensitivity Competency” in the English classroom. As delineated in the 2022 Revised Curriculum, this competency entails the capacity to appreciate life through understanding human experiences with a cultural sensibility, particularly emphasizing sympathy. This paper analyzes how the speaker in the poem, despite only knowing Michael through a tale interwoven with a straggling heap of unhewn stones, demonstrates a sympathetic understanding of him and, by extension, contemplates human life. It is with the role of narrative imagination that the speaker can reinterpret Michael’s story from different viewpoints encompassing the villagers, Isabel, and Michael himself. Students engage with the poem by sequentially considering each viewpoint, allowing them to progressively expand their capacity for sympathy and interpret diverse emotions and perspectives. Through this process, “Michael” offers valuable insights into how students can contemplate the human mind and life itself by reading and interacting with poetry.
On the Structure of Why-VP Questions in English

The aim of this paper is to examine the syntactic structure of why-VP questions in English like Why get vaccinated? Why-VP has been reported to exhibit unique properties: (i) There is no overt subject nor tense marking, (ii) it cannot be embedded, and (iii) it can be used not only as a genuine information-seeking question but also as a rhetorical question. To capture these properties, Zaitsu (2020) recently suggests that why-VP is a projection of why, but it is shown that her analysis of why as a selecting head is not unproblematic. While adopting Zaitsu’s view that why-VP can be ambiguously used, this paper suggests that there is a speech act layer above FP, a projection of F, not of why. With the proposed structure, it is argued that there are two possible positions for why to occur depending on the type of interpretation. When used as a genuine information-seeking question, why is directly merged in IntP, functioning as a question operator (Rizzi, 1997, 2001; Ko, 2005); by contrast, when used as a rhetorical question, it is adjoined to the speech act layer, modifying a speech act. It is then shown that the current analysis can readily explain why why-VP cannot be embedded, how an implicit subject can serve as a local binder, and how the interpretive type of why-VP correlates with the person feature of an implicit subject.
The Perceptions of EFL College Students on Collaborative Writing Activities: Based on PBL Approach

The purpose of this study is to examine the perceptions of EFL college students regarding collaborative writing activities based on the Problem-Based Learning (PBL) approach in their writing class. For this study, 41 students from two classes in the general English course participated. The survey and their reflective journals were employed for data collection. The results showed that students reported a more positive perception of collaborative writing activities than individual writing activities. Additionally, the majority of participants demonstrated that the vocabulary, grammar, and writing structure of their work improved through collaborative writing activities. They were also able to enhance their collaborative, communicative, creative-thinking, and problem-solving skills. Moreover, they reported an increased interest in English writing through mutual interactions during the PBL-based collaborative writing activities. However, several learners admitted to having difficulty negotiating different ideas and taking more time to complete their writing.
An Analysis of Research Trends in English Curriculum in Korea: Focusing on 2009 and 2015 National Curricula

This study investigated the research trends in the 2009 and 2015 National English Curricula through a meta-analysis of the articles published in major Korean ELT-related journals. To this end, 89 academic papers on the English curriculum were selected through the Korea Citation Index(KCI), and they were classified by year of issue, research topics, and research methods. The results of this study revealed that the publication of articles on the English curricula has increased every year since 2010, however, showing a surging increase of the articles from 2019 to 2021. The research topic that has been dealt with the most was an analysis of English textbooks, followed by curriculum development and implementation, and teachers’ expertise in English curriculum. The most frequently used research method was quantitative since the majority of the studies were based on counting the frequency of particular elements in English textbooks or calculating the means of survey results. Theoretical studies were also frequently used to deal with the topic of curriculum development and implementation. Finally, the limitations of the study and the implications for future related research were discussed.