Reviewerly/exHarmony huggingface dataset:
Directional Constraint Evaluation Solves the Problem of Ties in Harmonic Serialism

This squib examines the problem of tied candidates in Harmonic Serialism and presents directional constraint evaluation as a solution. Under standard evaluation, constraints report how many loci of violation a candidate contains and, as a result, cannot differentiate two candidates with equal numbers of violations. Under directional evaluation, constraints report where loci of violation occur and are thus able to distinguish candidates with distinct loci of violation. Alternative tie-breaking mechanisms either fail to solve ties in general or introduce unwanted typological predictions.
Last Utterance-Context Attention Model for Multi-Turn Response Generation

Recently, conversation response generation task is attracting the attention of more and more researchers. Different from single-turn response generation, multi-turn response generation not only focuses on fluency, but also needs to make use of contextual information. Therefore, we believe that an appropriate response should be coherent to the last utterance, and take conversation history into consideration at the same time. We propose a Last Utterance-Context Attention model. The last utterance attention calculates each word in last utterance and form them as a vector. Representation of each utterance is processed by the context attention and formed as a vector as well. Then the two vectors are concatenated as a context vector for decoding the response. In addition, we also apply the multi-head self-attention mechanism to focus more on the key words in each utterance. Both automatic and human evaluation results show that our model outperform baseline models for multi-turn response generation.
A new approach to regular &amp; indeterminate strings

In this paper we propose a new, more appropriate definition of regular and indeterminate strings. A regular string is one that is "isomorphic" to a string whose entries all consist of a single letter, but which nevertheless may itself include entries containing multiple letters. A string that is not regular is said to be indeterminate. We begin by proposing a new model for the representation of strings, regular or indeterminate, then go on to describe a linear time algorithm to determine whether or not a string $x = x[1..n]$ is regular and, if so, to replace it by a lexicographically least (lex-least) string $y$ whose entries are all single letters. Furthermore, we connect the regularity of a string to the transitive closure problem on a graph, which in our special case can be efficiently solved. We then introduce the idea of a feasible palindrome array MP of a string, and prove that every feasible MP corresponds to some (regular or indeterminate) string. We describe an algorithm that constructs a string $x$ corresponding to given feasible MP, while ensuring that whenever possible $x$ is regular and if so, then lex-least. A final section outlines new research directions suggested by this changed perspective on regular and indeterminate strings.
Informational mathematical competence as a predictor of critical thinking of students of pedagogical directions

Abstract The aim of the research is to modernize the structure and content of the information and mathematical competence (IMC), as well as design a model of its development among students of pedagogical directions. By the method of theoretical analysis, the concept of information and mathematical competence was clarified, its characteristic features and structural components were determined. It is proposed to design a model for the development of an IMC based on the principles of compliance with the key competencies of the future, the requirements of the federal state educational standard and the corresponding professional standards. Thus, this model includes target, meaningful, technological and effective components. The target component actualizes the IMC development as a readiness to apply mathematical knowledge, skills and abilities, as well as ICT tools for searching, critical analysis and synthesis of information, solving complex problems in professional and subject areas. The content component reflects the invariant and variable components of the curriculum, which are revealed in the disciplines of the compulsory part and the part formed by the participants in educational relations. The technological component reveals methods and technologies, as well as forms and means of teaching. The effective component is presented in three aspects: motivational-value, emotional-strong-willed, reflexive. By the means of a pedagogical experiment, the effectiveness of the designed model in the point-rating system was assessed and a hypothesis was put forward about the predictive role of the IMC in the development of critical thinking of students.
RAP-method (random perturbation method) for minimax <i>G</i>-filter

Abstract The spectral equations for the minimax estimates of the parameters of some systems are obtained.
Co-Varying Collexeme Analysis of Chinese Classifiers 棵 <i>kē</i> and 株 <i>zhū</i>

The numeral classifier is a grammatical category in plenty of East Asian languages, with Modern Standard Chinese being one of the most widely reported. In Chinese, there are many classifiers that are near-synonymous, meaning that certain classifiers may be interchangeable in certain contexts. However, these classifiers are used with semantically similar nouns, and as a result, the distinction between the various usages is not always clear. In view of this issue, we propose to study near-synonymous classifiers using the co-varying collexeme method and the Euclidean distance, illustrating with 棵 kē and 株 zhū . We report results that not only partially confirm but also complement what has been found in previous raw-frequency-based research.
Arduino Based Digital Desk Nameplate Design Using Android Controls Based on Arduino

Digital table signboard is a collection of LEDs (Light Emitting Diode) arranged tightly with certain patterns so as to produce the appearance of light that can make certain writing that can be used as information media. Digital media as one solution to an announcement or information that can change without changing the hardware. Setting a digital desk nameplate by using a PC connection (personal computer), the disadvantage is that it is too much trouble when you want to replace text or text on a digital desk nameplate, so you need a solution to facilitate the programming of text on a digital desk nameplate. One solution is to use Bluetooth as a wireless connection. By using Bluetooth communication can be used as a data transfer media on digital devices. The android operating system is found on Smartphones that apply practical principles in every application that has facilitated Bluetooth as a data transfer media. Therefore the digital table nameplate problem that is currently experiencing problems in its settings, then by utilizing Bluetooth communication contained in an Android-based smartphone system design is needed, the end result is designing an Arduino-based digital desk nameplate using Android control.
Content, form and realizations of Upper German case marking

This article discusses the application of the Paradigm Function Morphology (PFM) approach when modelling data from Upper German case marking. Building on a corpus-based study, it highlights the relevant aspects – the word forms, case marking types and patterns – which shape the Upper German case marking system. In a second step, it discusses pressing issues in modelling these aspects in PFM, focusing on the issue of modelling the case marking types. In the Upper German data, these types show gradual behavior in non-concatenative structures, which cannot be adequately accounted for using the PFM approach. In addition, the article highlights the issues in modelling case marking patterns based on the phonological surface structure – a level which involves a great amount of variation.
High Throughput Secure MPC over Small Population in Hybrid Networks (Extended Abstract)

We study secure multi-party computation (MPC) among small number of parties, in partially synchronous and completely asynchronous settings. Prior works have only considered the synchronous setting. The setting considered in this paper is that of $$n=4$$ parties with $$t=1$$ corruption. In this setting, we present the following results.
Methodical constructor for the use of a group form of education at a higher education institution (in terms of legal training of future pedagogues)

In accordance with the Federal State Educational Standard of VO 3 ++, students who have mastered the main educational programme for training bachelors in the direction of "Pedagogic education (with two training profiles)" must have a set of universal, general professional and professional competences that ensure the performance of general labour functions established by professional standards. As an effective form of organising students' educational activities, contributing to the solution of educational tasks declared by the Federal State Educational Standard of Higher Education 3 ++, the author analyses teaching in small groups. In the process of group work, the maximum activation of educational communication takes place, ensuring the development of both cognitive and activity, and value, and reflexive components of competences. The article presents the experience of using group forms of education in teaching legal disciplines, describes the forms of group interaction, gives recommendations for the design of educational tasks, and proposes a methodological constructor for using methodological techniques for organising collective interaction.
Sustainability of Public Communication Networks in Globalization Era

This article considers the qualitative transformation of public communication networks and the associated systemic changes to the notion of sustainability, its indicators, and support approaches under the globalization of national information resources and telecommunications.
Tagged Back-translation Revisited: Why Does It Really Work?

In this paper, we show that neural machine translation (NMT) systems trained on large back-translated data overfit some of the characteristics of machine-translated texts. Such NMT systems better translate human-produced translations, i.e., translationese, but may largely worsen the translation quality of original texts. Our analysis reveals that adding a simple tag to back-translations prevents this quality degradation and improves on average the overall translation quality by helping the NMT system to distinguish back-translated data from original parallel data during training. We also show that, in contrast to high-resource configurations, NMT systems trained in low-resource settings are much less vulnerable to overfit back-translations. We conclude that the back-translations in the training data should always be tagged especially when the origin of the text to be translated is unknown.
Video steganography algorithm based on trailing ones modification combined with n-dimensional cubic coding

Aiming at the problem that the existing video steganography algorithm modifies the carrier too much during the embedding process, this paper proposes a new video steganography algorithm based on the tailing ones and N-dimensional cubic coding. First calculate the N-dimensional cubic eigenvalues of the tailing ones and modify them according to the specific embedding mechanism. When blindly extracting, receiver only need to obtain the tailing ones of the embedding block and recalculate its N-dimensional cubic encoding eigenvalues. Converting the obtained value into binary is the embedded secret information. Experimental results show that the algorithm has higher invisibility and lower modification rate, while the bit rate increases less, and the anti-steganalysis ability is better.
Handwriting Based Text Steganography Using Universal Languages

Hidden transmission securely over the public media is literally known as Steganography. A widespread dimension of work in this area of research has been recognized by different research group on steganography. In this contribution, a quantum based text steganography mechanism has been considered which can work in numeric handwriting of universal Indian regional languages. The methodology of quantum has been integrated before the algorithm of embedding and a function has been incorporate for encryption as well as decryption procedure with this determination to enrich the level of the security. Text steganography unruffled with a function designed by mathematics & quantum attitude based on the use of handwriting characters in various Indian regional languages with mapping truth table of quantum gate have been developed in this contribution.
Study on Fracture Behavior of Modified Polymer Materials by Digital Image Correlation Method

Digital-image correlation method (DICM) has been developed in this paper. The initial estimates of both displacement and displacements gradients for Newton-Raphson iteration are studied. The new method of initial estimates, a real-time image subtraction scheme, and a micro-motion compensation mechanism being used to take zero as initial estimates are firstly presented and demonstrated. Some problems in the initial estimates and the convergence of Newton-Raphson iteration have been solved. The fracture behavior of PE composites is studied by using DICM.
Technological process of extracurricular individualization of foreign masters training in education management

The paper poses and solves the problem of the technological organization of extracurricular individual activities of foreign undergraduates. The technological effectiveness of the individualized educational process during graduate studies, developing on the basis of the implementation of the capabilities of information and telecommunication technologies, provides faster and better mastery of knowledge, skills and abilities by foreign undergraduates. Information library resources play a significant role in their development, offer great didactic opportunities for individualized training of foreign Masters in education management who do not speak Russian well and, as a result, need tutorial support outside the classroom to process professionally significant scientific information. The authors present a theoretical and methodological substantiation and the results of modeling and testing the technology of extracurricular individualization of foreign Masters training in education management under the guidance of a librarian using a set of information library resources. This technology provides for the interconnected educational and research activities of a foreign undergraduate and the advisory activities of a librarian, implemented during extracurricular times and aimed at the individual processing of professionally significant scientific information in professionally defined situations using a set of information library resources used as means of pedagogical communication to achieve professional goals. The complex of information library resources includes: print collections, electronic catalogs, search platforms and electronic databases and takes into account the direction of training of foreign undergraduates. The technological process of extracurricular individualization provides an algorithm for the interrelated actions of a librarian and a foreign undergraduate in the design, organization, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and diagnosis of educational results and difficulties of extracurricular individual scientific activity. The organizational and pedagogical conditions for the effective implementation of the authors technology are determined and diagnostic tools are developed, including tests and diagnostic criteria for the level of mastery of complex of information library resources. The simulated technology provides individual informational, methodological support to each foreign undergraduate and improves the quality of their research activities, implemented in the virtual educational space of libraries.
BlockJack

We propose "BlockJack", a system based on a distributed and tamper-proof consortium blockchain that aims at blocking BGP prefix hijacking attacks. We implement BlockJack using Hyperledger Fabric Blockchain and Quagga software package and we perform initial sets of experiments to evaluate its efficacy. The Evaluation results show that BlockJack is able to handle multiple attacks caused by AS paths changes during a BGP prefix hijacking. In experiment settings with ten routers, BlockJack takes on average 0.086 (with standard deviation of 0.013 seconds) to block BGP prefix hijacking attacks.
Performance Evaluation in an Architecture which Instance Hybrid Resources in Private Cloud

Cloud computing is a revolutionary paradigm in relation to its characteristics which can be highlighted the high connectivity, elasticity, assignment of measurable services and ease of management. These attributes favor the promotion of this technology, such as the increasing use of virtualization services in public and private institutions. Therefore, part of the efficiency of this service is based on the allocation of virtual resources that enable different configurations in different applications. In relation to this context, this paper aims to present the allocation module of the Architecture Management of Hybrid Resources in Private cloud Architecture (MoHRiPA), which was modeled with the purpose of providing high performance during the allocation of virtual machines. Its architecture and component specification will be presented, with emphasis on the resource allocation module that has hybrid properties, which makes it possible to support the use of different virtualization tools. The results obtained are described by means of a complete factorial planning with their respective more accurate analyzes about the functionalities and peculiarities of the allocation module.
International Intelligent Hospital Information System Based on MVC

This paper introduces the design and implementation of international intelligent hospital information system. The Internet and digitization have brought about disruptive changes in many industries, including health care. This project combines to build an international business environment, to promote the construction of smart hospital, to improve the application of information system in the process of hospital diagnosis and treatment, and to provide patients with efficient and high-quality medical services. System through the investigation into the hospital after get the user requirements, and use the core Asp.net MVC framework and the Entity framework Entity framework developed, finally through the system test, for the hospital information management provides a visual management interface, easy to use and manage the basic information of the hospital patients, and on the stages in the medical activities of data acquisition, storage, processing, summarizing, form all sorts of information data processing, the desired goal.
Instance Segmentation of Personal Protective Equipment using a Multi-stage Transfer Learning Process

This paper focuses on the instance segmentation of soft attributes on humans such as clothing and personal protective equipment at a hazardous workplace. We propose the use of soft biometric object classes from the Open Images V5 and DeepFashion2 datasets to pre-train a mask segmentation network to detect and segment personal protective equipment in the workplace. Preliminary results of our proposed model achieves a mean average precision, mAP <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">50</sub> , of 61.7% with minimal optimization, resulting in very good segmentation of construction helmets, high visibility vests, welding masks, and ear protection in the workplace. Applications of the results from this paper include improving workplace safety in hazardous industries by providing a tool to ensure proper personal protective equipment usage while maintaining worker anonymity.
Generation and registration of polarization-entangled photon pairs in the presence of the Migdall effect

We present an experimental platform for polarization-entangled photon pairs generation and characterization. The photon pairs are generated using the double-crystal scheme in the presence of the Migdall effect and fully characterized with quantum state tomography. The platform is used to study the dependence of the SPDC polarization on the scattering direction (the Migdall effect). We demonstrate the Migdall effect can significantly decrease the entanglement of produced states. The compensation techniques to overcome the negative action of the Migdall effect and to generate photon pairs in a maximally entangled state are also developed, and 2.7 times entanglement increase is demonstrated.
New Approach for Continuous and Discrete Optimization: Optimization by Morphological Filters

In this paper, we propose a new metaheuristic algorithm called Optimization by Morphological Filters (OMF) and inspired by image processing methods. The OMF algorithm mimics a morphological transformation called functional erosion for searching the global optimum in a multidimensional space. The algorithm was benchmarking using 13 well-know test functions. OMF was validated by comparing its results with those of PSO, GSA, GHS and the results obtained are very convincing. It was also applied to solve integer programming problems, verified using 6 test problems, the proposed approach shows very competitive results which confirm that OMF could have an important place in the set of optimization algorithms.
Introduction of E-learning under corona-crisis 2020 in estimations by professors and students

Abstract The article analyzes the features of education in Russia as a prerequisite of sustainable development under the COVID-19 pandemic, in particular, using the distant learning technologies. The empirical basis of the research is the results of polling of 79 professors and 325 students. Both the professors and students emphasized such negative consequences of the distant format introduction in spring 2020 as the increased methodological and academic load and the increased time for preparation. Both parties of the educational process mark the advantages of the distant learning: saving money for transport and eating out, saving time for getting to and from university, possibility to use various formats of educational resources. 51% of the professors marked a decrease in the quality of students’ preparation in the distant regime; 35% of the students noted a worsened quality of educational services. Most of the professors (81%) and 33% of the students spoke for the combined format of traditional learning and mastering some part of the material with distant technologies. To a large extent, this is due to one of the qualitative differences of distant education from the traditional one–insufficient time and forms of personal communication between the participants of the educational process.
Digraph Modeling of Information Security Systems

When modeling information security systems (ISS), the vast majority of works offer various models of threats to the object of protection (threat trees, Petri nets, etc.). However, ISS is not only a mean to prevent threats or reduce damage from their implementation, but also other components - the qualifications of employees responsible for IS, the internal climate in the team, the company's position on the market, and many others. The article considers the cognitive model of the state of the information security system of an average organization. The model is a weighted oriented graph, its' vertices are standard elements of the organization's information security system. The most significant factors affecting the condition of information security of the organization are identified based on the model. Influencing these factors is providing the most effect if IS level.