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Finite-State Vector Quantization Techniques for Image Compression

Different techniques of Finite-State VectorQuantization, in the image coding framework are investigated in this paper.Introduced in this paper are two FSVQ designs, conventional vector quantization and sidematch vector quantization.Convention Vector Quantization divides an image into K-dimensional blocks where each vector x is mapped to its corresponding code vector from a codebook of size N.It exploits the correlation between adjacent pixels within a block of pixels.The encoder of a vector quantizer uses the previously encoded blocks to make a selection from a family of codebooks.Although vector quantization provides an acceptable visual quality of the compressed image, it does it at the cost of increased bit rate.The Side Match Vector Quantization reduces the bit rate required for storage and transmission of the image and provides a good visual quality image.SMVQ requires creating its own state codebook for each block for encoding as well as decoding.SMVQ takes advantage of the spatial contiguity of pixel vectors by exploiting the correlations of the nearest neighboring blocks.They try to minimize the granular noise that causes the annoying effect of visible pixel block boundaries in conventional VQ.Since the conventional method for the generation of state codebook for SMVQ is time consuming, the method of rapid generation of state codebook proposes a fast method for codebook generation.In this paper, different image compression techniques of vector quantization, side-match vector quantization and rapid generation of state codebook method will be implemented to evaluate the best possible method.Although each technique is an improvement over the other, the proposed method for rapid generation of state codebook is faster than the others and without any loss of perpetual visual quality.The Linde-Buzo-Gray algorithm, also known as LBG algorithm, is used for the generation of codebooks.
CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION AND PEDAGOGICAL PRACTICES OF THE TEACHER OF THE 1ST CYCLE OF BASIC EDUCATION

A.S. Costa, A.P. Cardoso, J. RochaEscola Superior de Educação, CI&DEI, Instituto Politécnico de Viseu (PORTUGAL)
Circling the drain – contemporary jewellery and the tale of the New Zealand Grayling

Report from the Art+Water, art and science project 2019.By combining art and science, and producing artworks that demystify and inform, it is possible to take scientific research further than science circles alone and allow the narrative to become part of the public vernacular. The intention is to foster interest, to communicate research findings, to raise questions, to become conversation starters, and to be triggers for further research or behavioural change. This interpretation of specialised scientific data allows for the information to be passed on, releasing the research so it can be understood through the objects themselves, with little or no background knowledge necessary.Contemporary jewellery, as an art form, is well positioned to do this. As a way of connecting people, jewellery can be a powerful means for mobilizing change.1 Once attached to a human host, jewellery has great potential for impact. From the origins of humanity, it has played a role of connectivity through symbolic representation. Its logical connection to the body gives the medium potential to speak of important issues within society.2My work examines how jewellery can act as a form of communication and an agent for change. It shows that the framework of contemporary jewellery has great potential to speak of issues within society and the environment.
PHILOSOPHICAL REVELATION OF NON-ACADEMIC EDUCATION FORMS

The non-academic education as the development of socio-cultural experience that takes place outside the pedagogically organized process is considered in the article. The freedom of human cognitive activity, the expansion of the range of his hobbies, the enrichment of the spiritual world is ensured through a network of institutions of non-academic education. Non-academic education institutions transfer the knowledge and skills necessary in the field of work, which does not belong directly to the scientific content of professional activity. The term “non-academic education” is not yet widespread, it is used mainly by practitioners in the field of solving general problems of education, based on human educational needs. However, the reality it reflects is well known to all, it is learning in the process of daily life. In essence and content, it is the same process of acquiring knowledge and skills, deepening worldview and enriching personal potential, which is in academic education. The difference is that it takes place outside the walls of institutions that are part of the education system. Non-academic education takes place in social institutions that perform other functions in the social division of labor: in the family, in the field of work, in various formal and informal groups and associations. A clear training goal is not necessary. Non-academic education is spontaneous, without time limits, not certified, unlike academic. Non-academic education may have some kind of documentary evidence, albeit of a non-state type. A teacher in academic education is necessarily an employee of an educational institution, and in non-academic education it is an employee, a coach, and a teacher. Training in non-academic education can be carried out on the educational portal through social services, distance learning courses of various organizations, mass open courses.
THE ELEMENTARY TEACHER AS A MANAGER IN THE CLASSROOM

The present work seeks to answer what are the appropriate tools for an effective organization for carrying out a creative learning process. A thorough and critical analysis is made on the functions of the teacher, as the latter is considered from the position of a manager in the study (class) room. Emphasis is placed on the study of the process of adaptation to the school environment, as well as the possible consequences of not implementing that same process. The new social role of a child at school is preceded by a series of attractive external stimuli (clothing, knapsack, textbooks, exercise books, school building), which through their family and kindergarten orient them in the forthcoming comprehensive change of their lives. These external stimuli are not enough for a child to adapt quickly to the rights and obligations at school, as well as to the changed evaluation criteria of their activity, mainly learning.
UNDERSTANDING THE PROBLEMS OF TEACHING FUTURE ENGINEERS TO THINK GLOBALLY AND ACT LOCALLY: GLOCAL PROJECT

D. Gawryluk1, M.A. Flórez de la Colina2, D. Krawczyk1, P.C. Izquierdo Gracia2, D. Jankauskienė3, E. Brezgyté3 1Politechnika Bialostocka / Bialystok University of Technology - BUT (POLAND) 2Universidad Politécnica de Madrid - UPM (SPAIN) 3Klaipedos Valstybine Kolegija/ Klaipeda State University of Applied Sciences - KVK (LITHUANIA)
Structural and Functional Model of Pedagogical Support for the Part-time Post-graduate Training via the Moodle System

The relevance of the study is determined by the insufficient development of theoretical, content-technological and methodological aspects academic training part-time students through e-learning (Avdeyuk, 2011; Mozhaeva, 2013; Babanskaya, Mozhaeva, Serbin, & Feshchenko, 2015; Ignatova, 2017). The purpose of the article is to develop a structural and functional model of pedagogical support for the part-time post-graduate training via the e-learning. The basis of the strategy in constructing the structural and functional model of pedagogical support of academic training for the part-time post-graduate training via the Moodle system was the competency-based approach. The leading research method for this problem is pedagogical modeling. The article presents a structural and functional model of organizational and pedagogical support of the preparatory course for part-time post-graduates in the Moodle system, which includes target, content, functional and assessment components and reveals their particular characteristics.The article surveys the experience of the Institute of Psychology and Education at Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russian Federation. The result of testing the structural and functional model of pedagogical support for the part-time post-graduate training via e-learning is the Designing a Preschool Organization Brand electronic course designed by the authors using the Learning Management System (LMS) Moodle (Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment). The model is aimed at adapting post-graduates - the future managers of preschool organizations - to the new conditions of professional activity in the era of global digitalization of education. The results of the study can be applied in training full-time and part-time undergraduate and postgraduate students to obtain a degree in various majors and specialties at a teacher-training university.
Constrained stochastic blackbox optimization using a progressive barrier and probabilistic estimates

This work introduces the StoMADS-PB algorithm for constrained stochastic blackbox optimization, which is an extension of the mesh adaptive direct-search (MADS) method originally developed for deterministic blackbox optimization under general constraints. The values of the objective and constraint functions are provided by a noisy blackbox, i.e., they can only be computed with random noise whose distribution is unknown. As in MADS, constraint violations are aggregated into a single constraint violation function. Since all functions values are numerically unavailable, StoMADS-PB uses estimates and introduces so-called probabilistic bounds for the violation. Such estimates and bounds obtained from stochastic observations are required to be accurate and reliable with high but fixed probabilities. The proposed method, which allows intermediate infeasible iterates, accepts new points using sufficient decrease conditions and imposing a threshold on the probabilistic bounds. Using Clarke nonsmooth calculus and martingale theory, Clarke stationarity convergence results for the objective and the violation function are derived with probability one.
An online Master's Degree in acoustics from Penn State

In addition to the doctoral and master's degrees offered to resident students, the Graduate Program in Acoustics at Penn State offers online access to graduate level courses leading to the M.Eng. degree in Acoustics. Lectures are broadcast live to students scattered around the world, while archived recordings allow working students to access lectures at their convenience. Students earn the M.Eng. in Acoustics degree by completing 30 credits of coursework and writing a capstone paper. Since 1987, more than 175 distance education students have completed the M.Eng. in Acoustics degree. Many other students take individual courses as non-degree students. Courses offered online include: elements of acoustics and vibration, elements of waves in fluids, electroacoustic transducers, signal processing, acoustics in fluid media, structural acoustics, digital signal processing, aerodynamic noise, acoustic measurements and data analysis, ocean acoustics, architectural acoustics, noise control engineering, nonlinear acoustics, outdoor sound propagation, computational acoustics, biomedical ultrasound, flow induced noise, spatial sound and 3-D audio, and the acoustics of musical instruments. This poster describes the distance education experience leading to the M.Eng. degree in Acoustics from Penn State and showcases student demographics, capstone paper topics, enrollment statistics and trends, and the success of our graduates.
Prologue for Teaching Software Documentation

This chapter aims to establish a foundation of assumptions and information necessary for the effective teaching of software documentation. It discusses the genres of products which comprise the field of software documentation, defining the terms and briefly examining the steps which are the foundations of the software systems development and the publications cycles and the relationship. Internal documents relate to the activities within software product development organizations, while external documents relate to the activities of the end users of the software. Technical, internal documents are, in fact, among the source information available to software documenters for creating the nontechnical, external documents. Product genres, development processes, and organizational structures should form the content of the training of people whose careers will be focused on creating software documentation. The challenge for the educator in teaching software documentation is to merge the various theories into meaningful practices which the student can learn in the classroom and successfully transfer to any software development environment.
Penggunaan Model Pembelajaran Snowball Throwing Sebagai Upaya Meningkatkan Prestasi Belajar Agama Hindu

This research is Classroom Action Research. The purpose of this study was to determine the increase in learning achievement of Hinduism in class IX  Gianyar Public Middle School 2 Semester I 2020/2021 Academic Year after the implementation of Snowball Throwing learning model. This research was conducted at Gianyar State Junior High School 2 in class IX , which has a low ability of students to study Hinduism. The number of subjects in this study were 6 students. The data collection method is a learning achievement test. The data analysis method is descriptive. The results obtained from this study are Snowball Throwing learning models can improve student learning achievement. This is evident from the average results obtained initially 70.00 in the first cycle to 74.02 and in the second cycle to 79.58. The conclusion obtained from this study is that the Snowball Throwing learning model can improve the learning achievement of Hinduism students in class IX in the second semester of Gianyar Public Middle School 2.
UNESCO AND ITS FINANCIAL STABILITY AFTER MEMBERSHIP CHANGES

The paper presents an overview of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) describing the current standing of this important international organization in terms of its global competences and performance of specialized activities in the fields of culture, cultural heritage, education, science, scientific cooperation and other areas based on international documents.&#x0D; The paper describes the origin and development of UNESCO and the international documents adopted to regulate its standing and operations. It deals in more detail with the historical establishment and development of this global organization and its activities based on international documents such as the United Nations Charter and the UNESCO Constitution. It compares the long-term objectives of the organization concerning respect for human rights, justice and democracy and the arguments of current and former Member States concerning their fulfilment.&#x0D; The paper also considers the organization’s financial mechanism with special regard for the issue of Member States’ membership fees. In addition to the current state of UNESCO funding, it considers the possible impacts on its activities following membership changes and the withdrawal of some states from the organization and the subsequent decrease in the available funding for its activities.
Who am I? MY name is U_Def: Holistic Reason(s) And Semantics

This article-testimony can be seen as an example of a maybe new discipline that could be called “scientific metaphysics” made of thought experiments, definitions, some proofs, some explanations, some conjectures. Of course, to be called science, the discipline needs some possibility of “verification” too. We will see if it can be considered.
A Comparative Study on Various Approaches and Complexities of Text Summarization

In today’s digitalized world web is having at most information for users, additional to that newspaper, textbook and magazine are offline resource of information. Web consist of million and billions of resources in the form of documentsin additional to that many documents in different domain are adding to it, thus data is growing exponentially. To understand and assimilate this data many applications of natural language processing came to existence namely, Text mining, Information Retrieval, Machine Translation, Question and answering, text summarization and many more. Research on text summarization started over seven decades and till now effective method or system is not available to generate summary as human. In this paper, surveys the recent literature on different automatic text summarization method and propose idea of abstractive text summarization form orphologically rich language, kannada which is still lacking in field of text summarization.
Role of Artificial Intelligence in leadership

AbstractBackground: Leadership is evolving with introduction and inclusion of new Technologies like Artificial Intelligence. Nature and role of leadership seem to be changing. Artificial intelligence is expected to play wider role and grow exponentially in coming years which requires Leaders in Business Organizations to be more prepared, adaptable, updated and aligned with the new technologies such as AI. This Article attempts to analyze how Role and nature of Leadership is going to change with the inclusion of Artificial Intelligence in future to what it is today.Purpose: The purpose of this Article is to study and analyze the Role and Nature of Leadership with inclusion of Artificial Intelligence. To answer the key questions: How Nature and Role of Leadership is going to change with use of AI?What will be new set of competencies required by leaders in coming future?Research Methodology: for appropriate framework of effectiveness was based on scientific literature review in-depth study was done on various studies from journals, Text books, E-books, Reviews.Findings: Role of Artificial Intelligence in Business World is going to grow exponentially in coming years. AI will be Integral part of Leadership, specifically with Cognitive Processes, Decision making. Leadership will require competencies like Emotional Intelligence, Humility, Vision, Adaptability, Motivation. ‘Hard elements’ of AI and ‘Soft Element’ of Leadership will go hand in hand.
PEMBELAJARAN MENULIS CERITA RAKYAT (HIKAYAT) MENGGUNAKAN MEDIA POP UP

This study aims to increase students' interest in learning in class X MIPA 2 SMAN 1 Cipongkor in literary material, namely folklore (saga) using pop up media, and to help students describe the structure of the story such as the background so that it can be better understood by readers using pop up media. This research method uses qualitative descriptions which aim to make natural descriptions of objects accurately. The data collection technique used during the research was test technique. The test aims to be a measuring tool for students' learning success in writing folk tales (saga) using pop up media. The results showed the students who scored on the initial test with an average score of 43 and the final test with an average value of 77.88. Thus, learning to write folk tales (saga) using pop media has increased very well .
How to nudge in cyber security

Network SecurityVol. 2020, No. 11 NewsHow to nudge in cyber securityKaren Renaud, Verena ZimmermannKaren RenaudSearch for more papers by this author, Verena ZimmermannSearch for more papers by this authorKaren Renaud; Verena ZimmermannPublished Online:3 Nov 2021https://doi.org/10.1016/S1353-4858(20)30132-XAboutSectionsView articleView Full TextPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InEmail View article FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails 1 November 2020Volume 2020Issue 11ISSN (print): 1353-4858ISSN (online): 1872-9371 Metrics History Published online 3 November 2021 Published in print 1 November 2020 Information© MA Business Ltd.PDF download
Effect of media on psycho-social interaction among the children with their parents of urban people in Dhaka

Social media has become an important part of our daily life. It has a significance influences on the people who use them in their daily life frequently. The number of people using social network sites has been increasing continuously. For this frequent utilization has started to affect our social life. This study examine whether the use of social network sites affects the psychosocial interaction between children and their parents. At first parents introduce their children to the internet and different type of device in their early childhood. Many parents use device for feeding their children by watching rhyme or cartoon. As a result children are habituate with it
Human-Adaptive Impedance Control Using Recurrent Neural Network for Human-Cooperative Robots

This article proposes a human-adaptive impedance control to achieve human-robot co-manipulation, in which a recurrent neural network (RNN) estimates a human state that is used in improving the contact stability of impedance control. The human sate here is defined as what indicates that the human-arm stiffness becomes harder and the stability of the impedance control is deteriorating. In the proposed method, the human state is estimated from rectified-and-integrated electromyogram (iEMG) signals while the person is manipulating an object with a robot. According to the degree of the estimated human state, the proposed method changes the impedance parameters to be heavier online so as to make the system more stable and then returns the mechanical parameters to be lighter once the stability is restored. The validity of the proposed method is verified by experiments using a commercial-of-the-shelf manipulator. The experimental results showed that the proposed human-adaptive impedance control, which adjusts the impedance parameters online according to the human state, is effective to prevent the human-robot cooperative system from coming unstable.
Trajectory Tracking Control of a Caterpillar Vehicle

This paper presents the experimental results of the tracking control of a Caterpillar Vehicle. The proposed scheme involves three steps: 1, building a model of a Caterpillar Vehicle system with two wheeled vehicle; 2, apply back stepping control method for trajectory tracking of the Caterpillar Vehicle; 3, The model reference adaptive control (MRAC) technique is used to design a controller that ensure the stability of the system. The MRAC technique is used to design a controller that is able to address the effects caused by changes in the desired trajectory reference. The MRAC controller is first evaluated using computer simulations which show that the controller is able to effectively respond to changes in the desired trajectory. The simulation results compare the quality of the two controllers using the back stepping control method and MRAC when the desired trajectory is Straight or curved line. Based on the comparison results, MRAC is proposed to track the desired trajectory.
A General Theory of Contract Conflicts with Environmental Constraints

One advantage of using formal deontic logic to represent and reason about normative texts is that one can analyse such texts in a precise and incontrovertible manner. Conflict analysis is one such analysis technique — assessing whether a number of contracts, or more generally normative texts, are internally consistent, in that they may not lead to a situation in which active norms conflict or even contradict each other. In this paper we extend existing techniques from the literature to address conflicts in the context of environmental constraints on actions regulated by the contract, and which the parties involved can carry out. The approach is logic-agnostic and we show how it can be applied to a service provision contract written in 𝒞ℒ.