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Against Augmentation

This article originated from a conversation between John Richards and Tim Shaw. The conversation is a response to the journal’s theme, Augmented Instruments. Instead of focusing on just one instrument, the authors decided to talk more generally about their overall aesthetic and process of making performance-installations. The conversation touches on augmentation, DIY instruments, unpredictability, and offers the reader examples of their own self-made musical devices. The discussion concludes with three emergent themes: Reductionism, Raw Materials, and Fields of Influence. They hope this transcribed conversation provides a useful starting point for readers interested in Richards’ and Shaw’s experimental approach to electronic music and idiosyncratic instrument design.
Geometry Aware NMPC Scheme for Morphing Quadrotor Navigation in Restricted Entrances

Geometry-morphing Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) are gaining more and more attention lately, since their ability to modify their geometric morphology in-flight increases their versatility, while expanding their application range. In this novel research field, most of the works focus on the platform design and on the low-level control part for maintaining stability after the deformation. Nevertheless, another aspect of geometry morphing MAVs is the association of the deformation with respect to the shape and structure of the environment. In this article, we propose a novel Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC) structure that modifies the morphology of a quadrotor based on the environmental entrances geometrical shape. The proposed method considers restricted entrances as a constraint in the NMPC and modifies the arm configuration of the MAV to provide a collision free path from the initial position to the desired goal, while passing through the entrance. To the authors' best knowledge, this work is the first to connect the in-flight morphology with the characteristics of environmental shapes. Multiple simulation results depict the performance and efficiency of the proposed scheme in scenarios where the quadrotor is commanded to pass through restricted areas.
A Lattice Linear Predicate Parallel Algorithm for the Dynamic Programming Problems

It has been shown that the parallel Lattice Linear Predicate (LLP) algorithm solves many combinatorial optimization problems such as the shortest path problem, the stable marriage problem and the market clearing price problem. In this paper, we give the parallel LLP algorithm for many dynamic programming problems. In particular, we show that the LLP algorithm solves the longest subsequence problem, the optimal binary search tree problem, and the knapsack problem. Furthermore, the algorithm can be used to solve the constrained versions of these problems so long as the constraints are lattice linear. The parallel LLP algorithm requires only read-write atomicity and no higher-level atomic instructions.
Fair Attribute Classification through Latent Space De-biasing

Fairness in visual recognition is becoming a prominent and critical topic of discussion as recognition systems are deployed at scale in the real world. Models trained from data in which target labels are correlated with protected attributes (e.g., gender, race) are known to learn and exploit those correlations. In this work, we introduce a method for training accurate target classifiers while mitigating biases that stem from these correlations. We use GANs to generate realistic-looking images, and perturb these images in the underlying latent space to generate training data that is balanced for each protected attribute. We augment the original dataset with this perturbed generated data, and empirically demonstrate that target classifiers trained on the augmented dataset exhibit a number of both quantitative and qualitative benefits. We conduct a thorough evaluation across multiple target labels and protected attributes in the CelebA dataset, and provide an in-depth analysis and comparison to existing literature in the space.
Arabic Dialect Identification Using BERT-Based Domain Adaptation

Arabic is one of the most important and growing languages in the world. With the rise of social media platforms such as Twitter, Arabic spoken dialects have become more in use. In this paper, we describe our approach on the NADI Shared Task 1 that requires us to build a system to differentiate between different 21 Arabic dialects, we introduce a deep learning semi-supervised fashion approach along with pre-processing that was reported on NADI shared Task 1 Corpus. Our system ranks 4th in NADI's shared task competition achieving a 23.09% F1 macro average score with a simple yet efficient approach to differentiating between 21 Arabic Dialects given tweets.
Accelerated Primal-Dual Algorithm for Distributed Non-convex Optimization

This paper investigates accelerating the convergence of distributed optimization algorithms on non-convex problems. We propose a distributed primal-dual stochastic gradient descent~(SGD) equipped with "powerball" method to accelerate. We show that the proposed algorithm achieves the linear speedup convergence rate $\mathcal{O}(1/\sqrt{nT})$ for general smooth (possibly non-convex) cost functions. We demonstrate the efficiency of the algorithm through numerical experiments by training two-layer fully connected neural networks and convolutional neural networks on the MNIST dataset to compare with state-of-the-art distributed SGD algorithms and centralized SGD algorithms.
Exploiting Degeneracy in Belief Propagation Decoding of Quantum Codes

Quantum information needs to be protected by quantum error-correcting codes due to imperfect physical devices and operations. One would like to have an efficient and high-performance decoding procedure for the class of quantum stabilizer codes. A potential candidate is Pearl's belief propagation (BP), but its performance suffers from the many short cycles inherent in a quantum stabilizer code, especially highly-degenerate codes. A general impression exists that BP is not effective for topological codes. In this paper, we propose a decoding algorithm for quantum codes based on quaternary BP with additional memory effects (called MBP). This MBP is like a recursive neural network with inhibitions between neurons (edges with negative weights), which enhance the perception capability of a network. Moreover, MBP exploits the degeneracy of a quantum code so that the most probable error or its degenerate errors can be found with high probability. The decoding performance is significantly improved over the conventional BP for various quantum codes, including quantum bicycle, hypergraph-product, surface and toric codes. For MBP on the surface and toric codes over depolarizing errors, we observe error thresholds of 16% and 17.5%, respectively.
Emotional burning out of the Armed Forces of Ukraine personnel as a challenge to mental health problems in war conditions

The article is devoted to the problems of emotional burnout and excessive professional stress of the Armed Forces of Ukraine personnel in special conditions. Various concepts of emotional burnout are considered. The role and place of excessive professional stress (distress) as a predictor of the development of emotional burnout and other persistent negative manifestations are reflected. The results of a psychological study of military law enforcement officers performing duties in the area of the Joint Forces operation for signs of emotional burnout were analyzed. The general features of the course of phases and symptoms of emotional burnout in servicemen of the permanent staff of the area of the Joint Forces operation (according to the method of diagnosing the level of professional burnout, developed by V. Boyko) are determined. It is noted that the severity and phenomenology of occupational stress is individual in nature, depending on the characteristics of emotional, volitional and personal spheres, individual experience, stress and personal coping mechanisms, and working conditions. The factors of development of emotional burnout in military law enforcement officers during service in special conditions at the present stage are analyzed. Factors of professional activity associated with excessive stress contribute to the development of emotional burnout and is one of the factors in the turnover of professional staff from the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The way to prevent the development of emotional burnout in the early stages can be comprehensive prevention, which will include optimization of external conditions and control of the regime, self-regulation of mental and physical activity, positive interaction in the team. Also, the prospects of further research raised the issue of restoring the mental and physical health of the serviceman's personality after prolonged exposure to traumatic factors and burnout. At the moment, one of the ways out in the deep stages of this process is to change the profession, but this can contradict the vital meanings of the individual and as a result cause a deep personal crisis. When dismissing servicemen, it is advisable to consider more carefully the reasons for dismissal, use other opportunities to retain a specialist in the professional activity by choosing the strategy of career building and redistribution of functions that suit them.
The Effect of CICADA English Youth Magazine on Secondary School Orphans' Vocabulary Mastery

The low English vocabulary mastery has caused Baitul Hijrah Orphanage’s orphans poor achievement of English. Regarding the issue, this research was conducted to find a breakthrough to help the orphans’ vocabulary improvement. In term of boosting their vocabulary need, the researcher explored English youth magazine as a media to be used. Thus, this study was aimed to examine and compare between the effects of using English youth magazine and English textbook on students' vocabulary mastery. This study assigned true-experimental research design to test the hypothesized relationship between variables. The sample of this study was 28 orphans at second grade of senior high school that were divided into control and experimental group by systematic sampling method. Data collection was vocabulary test scores results consisted of 100 multiple choice questions. The result showed that the English youth magazine usage as media could significantly improve vocabulary mastery; thus, students who were taught vocabulary using English youth magazine obtained higher scores than those who were taught vocabulary using English textbook. In conclusion, English youth magazine is a teaching aid that can be used to gain the students' vocabulary mastery.
Developing a Semi-Direct Speaking Test for Fourth Graders Using Video Conferencing

This study aimed to develop alternative English-speaking testing to be used during the COVID-19 pandemic. A semi-direct speaking test for 4 graders was the final product of this study. Cambridge curriculum with the ESL framework (0837) was used to formulate the test. It was designed using steps suggested by (Bachman and Palmer,1996). It also has been reviewed by an expert and a trial group. It asked each test-taker to tell a story using provided picture series, connectors, and past verbs within 5 minutes. A minute was given for them to study the picture series; the rest was to do the test. It was delivered by using video conferencing called Zoom. The result showed that the test developed was a valid, reliable, practical, and authentic measurement. Its reliability was proved by test-retest and interrater results. Its validity, practicality, and authenticity were proved by providing an expert judgement collected through questionnaires.
An investigation of privacy preservation in deep learning-based eye-tracking

The expanding usage of complex machine learning methods such as deep learning has led to an explosion in human activity recognition, particularly applied to health. However, complex models which handle private and sometimes protected data, raise concerns about the potential leak of identifiable data. In this work, we focus on the case of a deep network model trained on images of individual faces.A previously published deep learning model, trained to estimate the gaze from full-face image sequences was stress tested for personal information leakage by a white box inference attack. Full-face video recordings taken from 493 individuals undergoing an eye-tracking- based evaluation of neurological function were used. Outputs, gradients, intermediate layer outputs, loss, and labels were used as inputs for a deep network with an added support vector machine emission layer to recognize membership in the training data.The inference attack method and associated mathematical analysis indicate that there is a low likelihood of unintended memorization of facial features in the deep learning model.In this study, it is showed that the named model preserves the integrity of training data with reasonable confidence. The same process can be implemented in similar conditions for different models.
On the Complexity of Exact Pattern Matching in Graphs: Determinism and Zig-Zag Matching

Exact pattern matching in labeled graphs is the problem of searching paths of a graph $G=(V,E)$ that spell the same string as the given pattern $P[1..m]$. This basic problem can be found at the heart of more complex operations on variation graphs in computational biology, query operations in graph databases, and analysis of heterogeneous networks, where the nodes of some paths must match a sequence of labels or types. In our recent work we described a conditional lower bound stating that the exact pattern matching problem in labeled graphs cannot be solved in less than quadratic time, namely, $O(|E|^{1 - \epsilon} \, m)$ time or $O(|E| \, m^{1 - \epsilon})$ time for any constant $\epsilon>0$, unless the Strong Exponential Time Hypothesis (SETH) is false. The result holds even if node labels and pattern $P$ are drawn from a binary alphabet, and $G$ is restricted to undirected graphs of maximum degree three or directed acyclic graphs of maximum sum of indegree and outdegree three. It was left open what happens on undirected graphs of maximum degree two, i.e., when the pattern can have a zig-zag match in a (cyclic) bidirectional string. Also, the reduction created a non-determistic directed acyclic graph, and it was left open if determinism would make the problem easier. In this work, we show through the Orthogonal Vectors hypothesis (OV) that the same conditional lower bound holds even for these restricted cases.
Korelasi Jumlah Repositori Karya Akhir pada Repositori Perpustakaan dan Jumlah Artikel di Scopus tentang Perpustakaan

Indonesia has a lower number of research quality than other countries. Repositories of scientific works through university libraries in Indonesia can be an alternative reference for academics in compiling research. Academic writings published by academics of a campus can be a reference for other academics to compile further research. This study aims to analyze whether there is a correlation between the number of scientific papers and publications on Scopus. This study uses quantitative methods with secondary data. The independent variable is the number of scientific works majoring in information science libraries at the Airlangga University library. The dependent variable is the number of publications on the Scopus website. Data were analyzed by simple linear regression method. The data range of this study is for the last five years, namely from 2014 to 2021. The results of this study indicate that the F value is proven to be significant because the P-Value is below 0.05. This proves that the number of theses significantly affects the number of publications on Scopus with topics or majors about libraries. This is because in addition to the campus requires a lot of research outputs, namely publications, there are also many theses that can be developed so that they can be used as good writings, so that they can be published in Scopus indexed journals. Based on the results of the study, it can be concluded that the largest number of theses was produced in 2017, but did not correlate with the number of papers on Scopus in 2017.
Pengendalian Mutu Call Number pada Perpustakaan Umum Kota Jambi

The Jambi City Public Library has been established since 2009 with an average of 30.000 visitors per year, except in the last 2 years due to the Covid-19 Pandemic. The Library has a total collection of 26,703 titles and 59,397 copies. As a public library that routinely serves users, the problem faced by the Library is the order of the call number. Observing this, the Library is trying to control the quality of call numbers so that there is an increase in the quality of service to users. The formulation of the problem in this study is how to control the quality of call numbers at the Library. The purpose of this study is to carry out quality control of call numbers. The methodology used in this research is qualitative descriptive approach. The results of this study formulate call number quality control applying PDCA or the Deming’ Cycle by monitoring and evaluating call numbers using two (2) approaches, (1) quality control during proccesing with stage: total shelving and daily shelving, and selection. (2) quality control of finished goods by means: validation, repair of call numbers. Also, it is necessary to adjust the SOP for Library Material Processing by adding inspection activities to existing collections, especially in the database, to ensure the books have not been processed so that there is no duplication of call numbers. The recommendation of this study is that call number quality control must be continuously implemented so that the maximum quality of user service is obtained.
Pengelolaan dan Pemanfaatan Koleksi Antiquariat di Perpustakaan Pusat Data dan Dokumentasi Ilmiah

Antiquariat collections for taxonomic researchers are very vital collections because they are used to compare species found in the field. To fulfill this, the LIPI Scientific Data and Documentation Center conducted a survey on the use of antiquariat collections by researchers in the Cibinong area library, Purwodadi area library, Bogor-Cibodas area library, Ambon area library and Jakarta area library. The survey aims to (1) determine the utilization of antiquariat collections available in the library; (2) knowing the management of the types of antiquariat collections available in the library; (3) know the procedures for storing antiquariat collections. The survey was conducted on April 27 to May 31, 2021 using the google form. The survey results state that researchers need antiquariat collections as a source of reference and a source of knowledge in conducting research. The researcher supports the transfer of antiquariat collection media in digital form. The special room for the storage of antiquariat collections has not met the requirements, causing the collections to be easily fragile and damaged. The high intensity of use is one of the factors causing damage to the collection. Media transfer on antiquariat collections needs to be done immediately to prevent damage and facilitate its use by researchers. Based on the facts in the field and the results of the survey, it is recommended to prepare a special storage room for antiquariat collections, immediately carry out the transfer of antiquariat collection media, and procure collections or collaborate on the use of antiquariat collections.
Multimedia writing procedures for musical composition, seven case studies

The purpose of this article is to describe the multimedia writing (MW) procedures that have proven to be effective in resolving some of the difficulties faced by composers in: 1. notation of timbre, 2. notation of new performance modes, 3. notation of new vocal techniques, 4. notation of a tonal language in a score, 5. notation of the instructions for the use of the computer programs contained in the work, 6. synchronization of the oral tradition musicians with the audio recordings, and 7. time reduction during the learning of the work. To address these issues, we used MW in six "experiments" —composition projects designed to answer specific questions about notation. These experiments and other subsequent projects allowed us to confirm our findings. In our experiments, MW was a set of procedures that allowed information to be represented in different ways simultaneously. The information can be text, sound, still or moving images, among others. These procedures can be used to record a message with the aim of saving it and transferring it from the composer to the performer. The results obtained demonstrated the effectiveness of MW in overcoming the current limitations of the Western music writing system (WMWS).
light.void~: An Autographic Case Study on Approaches, Constraints, and Affordances with a Light-dependent Musical Interface.

This paper discusses the strategies, considerations, and implications of designing and performing with a light-dependent digital musical interface (DMI), named light.void~. This interface is introduced as a replica of light thing, an existing DMI designed and popularized by British artist Leafcutter John. The rationale for reproducing this DMI is presented, followed by a discussion around the guiding criteria for establishing data-to-sound mappings, and the kind of affordances that these decisions may bring — including performer control, unpredictability, intentionality, spontaneity, action-sound reactivity, visual interest, and so on. The remainder of the paper focuses on dissecting the nature of this digital musical instrument, using contributions by DMI researchers Miranda and Wanderley as the main analytical framework. The outcome of this process is a semi-improvisational work titled «Umbra», along with the open source documentation for the light.void~ interface. Additionally, some relevant questions emerge with regards to performer expertise, observed vs. unobserved performance, as well as ontological frictions between instrument, composer, performer, designer, and audience.
A Taxonomy of Musical Interfaces for Use in the Classroom

Instrument taxonomies have been a preoccupation throughout history. Musical interfaces which involve the use of a sound engine (which could be a software) to sonify and translate data from a user to produce a sound result, do not fit into traditional instrument taxonomies. Magnusson argues that it is necessary to determine classification principles of musical interfaces because there are clear benefits of such a taxonomy for inventors, performers, musicologists, and composers. We propose that educators are another group of people who can benefit from a taxonomy of musical interfaces which considers classifications relating to educational use. Several researchers have argued that there is a need to evaluate how and why technology is implemented in the music classroom. Previous taxonomies of musical interfaces have focused on design principals and user interaction and have only partially explored educational objectives. In this paper we propose a taxonomy of musical interfaces which builds on previous taxonomies but extends them into the educational field. Throughout four case studies of recent musical interfaces implemented in educational contexts in four continents, we show how this taxonomy can be employed to classify how and why a musical interface is implemented in the classroom to analyze the educational benefits they can promote.