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Multichannel color image denoising based on multiple dictionaries learning

Dictionary learning for sparse representation has attracted much attention among researchers in image denoising. However, most dictionary learning-based methods use a single dictionary which has limitation in sparse representation ability. To improve the performance of this methodology, we propose a multichannel color image denoising algorithm based on multiple dictionary learning. Compared with a fixed dictionary, multiple dictionaries have more powerful representation ability. The algorithm first uses a Gaussian mixture model to model the generic patch prior of an external natural color image dataset. Then, the multiple orthogonal dictionaries are initialized with the generic prior by applying singular value decomposition to the covariance matrix of each Gaussian component. The sparse coding coefficients and the multiple dictionaries are alternately updated for better fitting the desired image. Considering the difference of the noise levels in RGB channels, we use a weight matrix to adjust the contributions of different channels for the denoised result. The desired image is estimated based on maximum a posteriori framework. The extensive experiments have demonstrated that our proposed method outperforms some state-of-the-art denoising algorithms in most cases.
Teaching Of Mother Tongue In 3d Virtual Environment

E-learning in 3D virtual environments became an educational tool at many universities but the real impact on the learning outcomes is not fully known yet. So the aim of our research was to answer the following research question: For what part of the mother tongue teaching is it useful to use a 3D virtual environment and what are the views of students on it?The partial aims of our study were: 1) to find out if there were better educational outputs of respondents who were taught in 3D virtual environment comparing to the control group of respondents who were taught with textbook and 2) to explore the views of respondents on 3D virtual environment.The mixed research design was use to explore the results in educational outputs of experimental and control groups in quantitative part, depending on the type of teaching chosen. In the qualitative part, we searched for the views of the experimental group about the presented educational tool and their attitude to it when teaching and learning mother tongue.The research provided in 2014-2017, during which a total of 303 respondents were included, showed statistically significant better overall results in control group (p = 0,006). Only in literature teaching part, the experimental groups results were statistically significant better comparing to control group (p 0,0001) in questions detecting the role of visualisation in teaching.3D virtual environments can be used in the learning situations requiring the visualisation for better understanding or memorisation comparing to the textbooks or presentations..
The Difference between Male and Female Language Style of Students at FKIP UHN Pematang Siantar

This research studies the difference between male and female language style of students at FKIP UHN Pematangsiantar.This research focused on what language style are used by male and students of at FKIP UHN Pematangsiantar the differences of male and female students language style at FKIP UHN Pemtangsiantar.This research applies descriptive qualitative research, aimed at describing language style of eight grade students at FKIP UHN Pematangsiantar.The subject of this study are 10 students, consists of 5 male students and 5 female students.The data were collected through recording and observation.The method covers research design, the subject, the object, the instrument, the technique of collecting data and the technique of analyzing data.The result of this research shows that there are two language style that used by male students, three language styles used by female students.The difference language style between male and female students found that intimate style used by female students but male students didn't used intimate language style.Finally, from the result of the data analysis, the writer found that every students have different language style.Male and female students at FKIP UHN Pematangsiantar used three types of language style from five language style.Formal and casual style used by male students and formal, casual and intimate style used by female students.
STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE (SOP) PENERIMAAN TAMU (Studi Kasus Politeknik Negeri Bengkalis)

This research aims to design and create a Standard Operating Procedure SOP or reception at checkpoints guards of State Polytechnic. The method used is descriptive qualitative, method of data collection in the form of observation, the study of the literature and interviews. The results of this research is the SOP or Standard Operating Procedure reception at State Polytechnic Bengkalis which can be used by default. SOP type created is formats technical an form of format combinations.
Traditions And Innovations In The Sphere Of Upringing: Prospects And Risks

The article presents the research results on the influence of traditions and innovations in sphere of upbringing on the development of this sphere. It is obvious that for the development of upbringing it is important both to introduce innovations and to preserve traditions, so it is important to study their role in upbringing, as well as the conditions under which they become mechanisms of its development. The article highlights the following issues relevant to sphere of upbringing: under what circumstances traditions and innovations in upbringing transformed into effective mechanisms for development of this sphere? Which traditions and innovations are useful for upbringing of modern students? In the course of the research collective work on these issues, traditions and innovations were analysed in the framework of the main aspects of upbringing: goal-value, organizational-managerial, methodological. The role of traditions and innovations in the development of the sphere of upbringing in educational organizations is revealed. Their positive role in student‘ upbringing, and the risks associated with them were characterized also. The results of this research will help to implement innovative processes in the sphere of upbringing, minimizing the risk of destabilization of this sphere and the disorientation of the teaching staff caused by them. They will help to preserve well-established traditions in the field of upbringing, while minimizing risks of non-reflexive use by teachers of these traditions, inertness in work, closeness to truly productive innovations and, as a result, transformation of traditions into a retarding factor of upbringing.
reative Personality of N. P. Koshetz in the Context of Performance Specifics of Vocal and Opera Art

The article is devoted to the stages of creative activity of outstanding opera singer of the first half of twentieth century N. P. Koshetz (1894–1965), in context of performance specifics of vocal and opera art. Considerable attention in the publication is paid to identify the most important factors that influenced the process of formation of the opera singer and her ascent to the top of performance mastery. The analysis carried out in the article gives us grounds to attribute N.P. Koshetz to the number of outstanding musicians of the first half of twentieth century.
Digital humanities for minority languages – against a couple of odds

Presentation given at UiT Digital Humanities Conference 2017
Technological Approaches in Applied Social learning

Industry 4.0 covers the readiness of achieving expertise that impacts the society, strategy, talent and technology. Individual, social and economic demands pose ever-changing challenges for education and training even in today’s world. In spite of the shrinking rapidity, which progressively affects the cognitive, biological, and information offerings into the new insights on people learning, for an effective reformation to an even more miniature of scientific and technological connect, ultimately on the knowledge content. Today’s students will compete in a technological, diverse, multi-cultural world and must be prepared to thrive in that futuristic environment; therefore, it is vital that today’s pedagogy produce lifelong learners, who can succeed in a global arena. To ensure our educational technology progresses at the rate demanded by today’s ubiquitous digital learners, we are reviewing emerging technologies and traditional teaching methods and propose desirable changes. Further enhancement in student learning and outcomes through technology enabled learning builds alliances among institutional units, employers, community partners and provides the effective delivery of learning services and opportunities to students. Technology depends on the cleverness and the innovative application of theoretical tools from control and estimation for scalability through hierarchy and multi-modality. Educational technology enhances the learning experience for students, faculty, the university and community at large. Hence, to develop a richer context for student learning, covering societal inadequacies, injustices in empowerment to learning access among students, cross-cultural involvements, and opportunity to learn, we deliberate on the latest trends in pedagogy - intelligent tutoring systems and ICT integration that can be modified during their implementation to suit future needs for industry 4.0 requirements.
The Role of Money Supply in Economic Growth Enhancement: The Case Study of Nigeria

The study examines the role of money supply in boosting economic growth in Nigeria.The objective of the study is to establish the individual influences of money supply components on economic growth in Nigeria.The study employs data from 2009 to 2018 and uses Ordinary Least Squares regression technique for analysis of the data.The findings reveal that broad money supply (M2) has an insignificant negative influence on RGDP, while M3 and credit to private sectors (CPS) exert insignificant positive influence on RGDP.The study among others suggests that the Monetary Authority in the country should come up with monetary policies that will help drive the economy better and such policies should include reduction of interest rates on credits given to the private sectors.This measure will go a long way to expand private sector businesses and create jobs.
Omission: Common Simple Present Tense Errors in Students' Writing of Descriptive Text

This research is aimed to determine and to describe the errors in using simple present tenses in writing descriptive texts made by students, especially in the class D of sixth semester of English Education Department at IAIN Palopo. The data were obtained by conducting a test and using a checklist. Then, the writing products were analyzed using Surface Strategy Taxonomy by Dulay (1982). The result of this research was presented descriptively. From the result, the omission errors were found as the highest of occurrence, which was about 47,05% which revealed that in the class D of sixth semester in English Education Department at IAIN Palopo, still made errors in using simple present tense in writing descriptive text. The errors that are mostly made by students were errors of omission. It is in line with Dulay (1982) which stated that errors of omission are found in greater abundance during the early stages of second language acquisition.
WarSampoFinnish - WW II on the Semantic Web

Presentation given at UiT Digital Humanities Conference 2017
Transformational Leadership Style and Employee Engagement on Role-Based Performance among Selected Civil Servants in Jos

Role-based performance covers not only the scope of job but also aspects of employee work behaviour involved in performance.&#x0D; Aims: The present study therefore examined influence of transformational leadership style and employee engagement on role-based performance.&#x0D; Study Design: The study adopted a correlational research design.&#x0D; Place and Duration of Study: Government Ministries and Parastatals in Jos, capital of Plateau State, Nigeria. October 2016 to June 2017.&#x0D; Methodology: Using survey method in which 137 civil servants were purposively drawn as participants. Their age range was from 28 to 65 years with 74 (54%) male participants and 63 (46%) female participants. This study utilised role theory and personal engagement theory, while standardised psychological scales which are role-based performance scale, multifactor leadership questionnaire and intellectual social affective engagement scale were used. Data collected were analysed using regression analysis.&#x0D; Results: The findings indicated that transformational leadership style significantly explained 35% variance in role-based performance. Employee engagement significantly explained 22.9% variance in role-based performance.&#x0D; Conclusion: There is significant influence of transformational leadership style on role-based performance of civil servants. There is significant influence of employee engagement on role-based performance of civil servants.
Video Watermarking System for Copyright Protection based on Moving Parts and Silence Deletion

In recent years, video watermarking has emerged as a powerful technique for ensuring copyright protection.However, ensuring the lowest level of distortion, high transparency and transparency control, integrity of the watermarked video, and robustness against attacks that can be applied to destroy the embedded watermark are important properties that should be satisfied in a watermarking system.In this paper, we propose a video watermarking system that hides a watermark in both the visual and audio streams to ensure the integrity of the watermarked video.Specifically, we propose the moving block detection (MBD) algorithm for hiding the watermark in the moving parts of the original visual stream of the video.The MDB algorithm ensures that a minimal amount of distortion is caused by embedding the watermark.The MBD uses entropy to find the moving parts of the visual stream to hide the watermark.The process of hiding in the visual stream is performed using DWT to ensure both transparency and resistance against attacks.We employ the power factors of DWT to control the level of transparency.In addition, we propose the silence deletion algorithm (SDA), which generates a pure original audio stream by removing the noise from the original audio stream to form the hiding place of the watermark within the audio stream.DCT is employed to hide the watermark within the pure original audio stream to ensure resistance against attacks.Under a threat model, which includes bilinear, curved, and LPF geometric attacks and compression and Gaussian noise nongeometric attacks, the experimental results demonstrated that the proposed system outperformed four similar systems: keyframe-, I-frame-, spread-spectrum-, and LBS-based systems.
A Two-step Sequential Extraction for Analyzing Hardly Accessible Precious Metals in Sulfide Ore-bearing Sedimentary Rocks

The work concentrates on extraction of precious metals (Au, Ag, Pd, Pt) and As, Sb, Cu, Pb, Zn, and Fe which are bound to sulfide-ore minerals in sedimentary rocks, using a two-step sequential extraction experiment with two chemical reagents (hydrogen peroxide and aqua regia) on three rock specimens from the black shale formation in Bakyrchik gold-sulfide deposit in North-East Kazakhstan.The experiment allows to determine the speciation of hardly accessible precious metals and to identify the most productive ore-forming stage from the three identified ones.Analytical methods are used for determining polysulfide mineral textures (optical microscopy), mineralogical (XRPD) and chemical compositions (XRF), and for measuring extracted metals concentrations (ICP-OES) in experimental procedures.The analytical results show that the first stage is more productive in gold (total extraction 2.8 ppm) than others and the second stage is more productive in Ag (total 1.6 ppm) and Pd (total 0.01 ppm), while the last stage is more productive in Pt (0.019 ppm) in the deposit.
The philosophy of triple strategic perception (Thinking - thinking - thought)

This research formed of introduction, three axes, conclusion and epilogue as follows: first axis: philosophy's cognition, second axis titled: Ramp's cognition, and third axis contents programming cognition, and the research finalized with a list of conclusions which aligned and fortified that mental philosophy, for example: the thinking is a result of meditation and the industry of thought, it is only a mental innovative industry depends on possession the information's and analytical ability of image in mental memory. And the mental philosophy establishes a mental reference which basis on mental rationality and the changes of performance and it's continuous re-generations (because of mental ability's elements ) has its effects on wording the thinking and deliver the thought. And re-programming it responding to changes, and the thought is synthesis of thinking. Finally, the cognition is the base of thinking and theorizing is the base of thought
Pragmatic Politeness in the Local Election: An Analysis of the Defeat of Agus-Silvy in 2017 DKI Jakarta Gubernatorial Elections

This research aims to analyze factors caused Agus-Sylvi’s losing in 2017 DKI Jakarta Governor election. This research analyzes Agus-Sylvi’s losing not only from politic sides, but also from pragmatics’ politeness. Pragmatic politeness in this research is according to Brown &amp; Levinson’s theory (1987) which is based on the speakers and hearers’ faces. In collecting the data, the reseacher chooses considerably free method and note taking technique. Pragmatic based approach and contextual method are used to analyze the data. From all the data, the researcher had found 83 forms of politeness strategies which showed the form of politeness strategy used by Agus-Sylvi. Those politeness strategies are positive, negative, bald-off record, and across politeness strategies. The use of the most positive politeness strategy, offer and promise, revealed the way of Agus’Sylvi got lost in 2017 governor election of DKI Jakarta. It means that it is not good to use positive politeness too much because the hearers will judge the speakers as a person who loves to boast. The lack of negative politeness and bald-off politeness also revealed that Agus-Sylvi did not respect other participants of Jakarta’s2017 governor election. The non-dominant across politeness strategy proved that Agus-Sylvi could not compete in confessing their meaning pragmatically.
Editorial Welcome to the IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science!

The vision for the IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science (T-BIOM) can be summarized in three words—quality, speed and user-friendly. The quality of papers appearing in T-BIOM should be on par with those appearing in any of the top IEEE Transactions. I believe that each of the five papers appearing in the inaugural issue of T-BIOM easily meets and exceeds this standard. I invite you to examine the papers yourself, and I am sure that you will agree.
Development problems of trusted software applied at critical information infrastructure objects (organizational and methodological aspects)

Due to the increasing complexity of information systems, information security threats associated with the presence of software vulnerabilities used in the information infrastructure systems become relevant. Today in order to protect against this type of threat one usually applies a range of measures implemented in the operation and maintenance of the software. At the same time, to ensure the required level of data protection, it is necessary to implement measures aimed at preventing vulnerabilities during the software life cycle. Secure software development is the basis for trust in information and communication technologies in the context of modern cyber threats. The aim of this paper is to summarize and analyze the problems of creating trusted software used in critical information infrastructure, and to find possible ways to solve them. The organizational and methodological aspects of the creation of trusted software used in critical information infrastructure are discussed, and the main problems, strategies and technologies to ensure the trust for various software components are described. The issue of trust for tools, system-wide and special software is still open both in methodological and organizational terms. To solve these problems, it is necessary to have a long-term state policy, development and clarification of legal documents that define common approaches and specific ways to ensure the reliability and security of the software used in critical information infrastructure, taking into account the actual conditions of their operation.
Modern System Of Russian Higher Education In The Context Of Stratification

The modern system of higher education in Russia is passing through a period of stratification. This calls for studying this phenomenon to develop strategies for minimizing risks in the future. Stratification in the sphere of education is a multidimensional, hierarchically organized educational area consisting of hierarchically located stable strata, by which we mean the aggregate of educational institutions of higher education united by common status indicators. The global trend of stratification of the educational space in the modern educational policy in relation to the system of Russian higher education has a dominant status and is growing, leading eventually to the elitarization of the part of Russian universities. The stratification process of the higher education system in Russia includes the following trends: hierarchization, elitarization, rating, autonomization, specialization, and regionalization. Positive aspects consist in overcoming the infrastructural and technological lag of Russian universities from the leading universities of the world.Negative aspects are serious risks of financial and social imbalance. Reflection of the identified risks of stratification policy of the Russian educational space and prompt response to them creates opportunities for the dynamic development of the domestic higher education system and harmonization in this area the Westernizational-liberal and traditional-conservative strategies for implementing modern educational policies.
Trending Topics on Science, a tensor memory hypothesis approach

The current human knowledge is written.Documenting is the most used manner to preserve memories and to store fantastic stories.Thus, to distinguish the reality from fiction, the scientific writing cites previous works moreover than become form experimental setups.Books and scientific papers are only a small part of the existent literature but are considered more thrust as information sources.It is useful to find more relations and to know where to focus the lookup of a topic using the information about the authors and the keywords on the titles and abstracts.This is possible using relational databases or knowledge graphs, a semantic approach, but with the tensor memory hypothesis, that adds a temporal dimension, is possible to process the information with an episodic memory approach.If well, knowledge graphs are of extended use on question answering and chatbots, they need a previous relational schema generated automatically or by-hand and stored in an easy-to-query file format.I use JATS, a standard format that allows integrating scientific papers in semantic searches but is not spread on all scientific publishers, to extract the markup tags from PDF files, current year journal articles of one particular topic, and then construct the tensors memory with their references to extract relations and predictions with statistical relational learning techniques.