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Information and Communication Technology and Intra-Regional Trade in the Economic Community of West African States: Ambivalent or Complementary?

This paper analyzes the effect of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) on intra-regional trade in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) over the period 1994 to 2014. We use an augmented gravity model which controls for bilateral, exporter-year and importer-year fixed effects. To carry out our estimations, data is obtained from the World Bank, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development as well as the Center for Prospective Studies and International Information (CEPII). The main findings suggest: (i) the presence of both the bilateral and export-year fixed effects; (2) the aggregate ICT index related significantly with intra-regional trade only for importing counties for the Fixed Effect (FE), Random Effect (RE) and Hausman-Taylor (HT) estimates unlike the Poisson pseudo maximum likelihood (PPML) estimates which shows a negative and significant relationship for the exporting country and a positive and significant for the importing country; (3) disaggregated results for the ICT variable-internet mimics those for the aggregate ICT index whereas finding for mobile phone and fix phones rather suggest that the relationship between the ICT and intra-regional trade was positive for both exporting and importing countries. As policy suggestion, we purport that investing in ICT infrastructure that particularly encourage the usage of mobile and fixed phones encourage intra-regional trade for both exporting and importing countries.
IMPACT OF MEDIA ON CHILD EDUCATION

Media has made much impact on education, because in ancient times it only be the great tool for communication. Many themes on commercial television program are removed from children’s experience and Understanding. The television does not help children cater their developmental needs instead they are imitative rather than being creative. Technology plays a vital role in education and it helps the students to reline their understanding and provides feedback based on the knowledge acquired. Before we provide knowledge through computer related technologies, we should have to create knowledge on media education and its usage to the rural school students. Due to the lack of awareness in the field of media, rural students are not shown interest in the computer based education. The academicians believe that workshop, training camps and seminars conducted by experts would help the teachers to implement new technology oriented strategies
Opportunities of Digital Educational Technologies in the Practice of University Education

The article is devoted to the inclusion of Russian universities in the practice of digital education.This article considers specifics of various digital educational technologies in distance learning and identifies the main directions of their use in the educational process of the university.The purpose of the publication is to present and generalize the possibilities of digital educational technologies and electronic educational environment in the space of university education.The features of the electronic course in the discipline "Astronomy" in the distance learning environment Moodle for undergraduate and graduate students in the direction of preparation for Pedagogical education are revealed.From the point of the practical importance of using digital educational technologies, the presented electronic course on the discipline "Astronomy" (section "Small bodies of the Solar System") can be useful for teachers working with undergraduate and graduate students.
Integration of Business and Higher Education: Application of Experience of World Universities

The subject of this article is the tools of interaction between educational institutions and business structures, which are the stepping stone for the training of sought-after specialists for a business that needs innovative developments, new ideas and highly qualified employees. Purpose. The purpose of the article is to improve the tools of interaction between universities and business in a modern innovative economy. Methods. In the course of work, the methods of dialectical cognition were used, which made it possible to conduct a comparative analysis and synthesis of theoretical and practical material; and the methods of empirical research (data comparison, collection and study). The grouping methods and the systematic approach were used for information processing and systematization. Results. The need for the integration of education and business is substantiated; general trends in the interaction of universities and private corporations in foreign countries are identified; barriers to cooperation between universities and business in the Russian Federation are systematized; clarifications are proposed in the documents of strategic planning of the Russian Federation, in particular, in the state program Education Development. The author concluded that the implementation of the training process should meet the challenges of the modern innovative economy, consider the trends of digitalization and changing needs of business structures in the qualifications of employees. Relevance. The practical relevance of the work lies in the possibility of using the results obtained in the activities of federal executive bodies when specifying the target indicators and key activities of the state program Education Development, in the higher education institutions in order to ensure the interaction with business structures.
The Implementation of Jigsaw Technique with Musical Background in Comprehending Reading Text

This research studies the impact of the implementation of the Jigsaw technique with a musical background to comprehend reading at Senior high school in Sidrap, Indonesia. This research uses a quasi-experimental method to answer the question, "is the use of Jigsaw with a musical background as a technique able to improve the reading comprehension of senior high students at senior high school? This research also uses a random sampling technique to select the sample in the experimental and control class. The data is analyzed by using descriptive statistics. The result of the calculation of students' scores from the post-test indicates that there is a significant improvement in students' comprehension achievement before and after learning reading by using the Jigsaw technique with background music. The result of this research finally shows that the use of the Jigsaw technique with background music improves the reading comprehension of the eleventh-grade students of senior high school in Sidrap, Indonesia. It is proved by the students' comprehension in the reading text that was 42.3 in their pre-test, but increasing in the post-test by mean score was 63.35. It means that the alternative hypothesis is accepted, which the t-test value is more significant than the t-table value. In the post-test, the t-test value is 11.92, while the t-table value is 2.042. Based on the result of data analysis, the writer concludes that using the Jigsaw technique with background music is useful to improve the reading comprehension of the student in reading text.
Musical abilities in professional activity of the specialist of the social and cultural sphere

The article presents the authors' opinion on the problem of training future specialists in the socio-cultural sphere, the relevance of which is increased in connection with the new requirements for University graduates identified in the GEF IN 3++. The practice of the educational process on the example of training students of the direction of training 51.03.03 Socio-cultural activities of the two profiles "Management of socio-cultural activities" and "Socio-cultural animation and recreation". The review of the literature on the issue of graduates ' readiness for professional activity allowed the authors to formulate the main theoretical provisions and determine the importance of musical abilities of students - future specialists in the social and cultural sphere. Theoretical analysis of psychological and pedagogical literature on the problem under study, as well as experimental work confirmed the importance of musical training of students in the direction of Socio-cultural activities, the need for the formation of their musical abilities that are needed in the implementation of various projects, activities, programs, as socio-cultural developments, projects are impossible without musical accompaniment. The musical Outlook of the specialist of the social and cultural sphere promotes development of musical culture, increase of level of professional training of graduates. The study clarified the basic concepts of "professional activity", "profession", "musical abilities". The authors described the basic skills necessary for specialists in the socio-cultural sphere; disclosed qualification requirements, employers ' requests, as well as the requirements of the GEF IN 3++ related to professional skills and abilities of future specialists in the socio-cultural sphere. The authors paid special attention to the experiments and the results of the study; the data obtained in the course of the survey of students in the field of socio-cultural activities on the importance of musical abilities for their activities are presented.
지리교육에서 심상지도(mental map)의 활용: 초등 사회과 4학년 단원을 사례로

The purpose of this study is to suggest the practical application of mental maps in the area of geography education. In the 2015 revised social studies curriculum, new achievement criteria related to drawing mental maps have been added, but there are not many studies on how to use mental maps in actual classes. In this regard, this study devised elementary social class design using mental maps of the region where students live for unit of 4th graders. In particular, we tried to enhance the educational effect based on mystery storytelling. In order to include the content elements of the lesson in the story, the map elements, place information, and central figure information were presented as main contents to be included in the story. It is expected that students will develop core competencies, such as problem solving and creative thinking, which are emphasized in the 2015 revised social studies curriculum.
Speech Summarization using Essence Vector Modeling

Speech is the most natural and effective method of communication between human beings.It is not easy to review and retrieve the information present in the spoken document instantly when the speech is recorded and stored as an audio signal.Speech summarization extracts important information and saves time for reviewing speech documents and improves the efficiency of document retrieval.Representation learning and paragraph embedding methods have emerged as new active research subjects because of their excellent performance in many applications.In this research, we have implemented an unsupervised paragraph embedding method called Essence vector (EV) modeling for Speech Summarization, which strives at distilling the most characteristic information from a paragraph and also includes the general background information to produce a more informative low-dimensional vector representation of the input.Speech is converted into text and provided as a high dimensional vector input to the Essence Vector (EV) model which in turn summarizes the input in a low dimensional space.We have enhanced the performance of the EV model by using LSTM, a state-of-the-art neural network architecture, to handle the imperfect and erroneous Speech conversions made by the speech to text module and also added Attention mechanism to the EV model to obtain a better and relevant summary.The proposed method is evaluated using ROUGE metrics against a summarization corpus.
LibGuides: Unlocking Local Public Library Collections: Home

This guide will walk you through signing up for an e-library card from NYPL, BPL, and QL, and will highlight a number of online resources as well as Grab & Go services available now from each library system.
Digitalization of Education Management Processes on Municipal Level: Characteristic of Processes

In modern market conditions, implementation of digitalization processes affects the increasing number of everyday life areas because it is an efficient tool of any technological process allowing the optimization of numerous tools.The field of education on the municipal level is not an exclusion, and it is also subject to the digitalization process.In conditions of the information society and transfer to the "e-state" system, processes of the municipal education management become especially actual.This paper deals with the issues of digitalization through the example of the Berezovskyi in Sverdlovsk Region.With the purpose of revealing basic causes of the low level of information provision of the municipal administration processes based on Department of Education of Berezovskyi in Sverdlovsk Region, the study with the participation of employees of Department of Education and parents of secondary school students studying in education institutions of Berezovskyi , was carried out.The main directions of the process specified, tasks and main implementation tools were considered.With the purpose of revealing the issues of the insufficient level of information provision of the municipal administration processes based on Department of Education of Berezovskyi in Sverdlovsk Region, the monitoring was carried out, the results of which are also given herein; in addition, these results are the justification of measures offered.In the course of the study, analytical methods, survey and observation were used, and methods of process digitalization optimization were developed...
Considerations on a recent university textbook of Italian linguistics. About L’italiano: strutture, usi varietà, edited by Rita Librandi, Roma, Carocci, 2019

This paper aims to critically highlight the theoretical-terminological framework of an excellent manual of Italian linguistics for students and teachers, which analyzes the national language in both a synchronic and diachronic perspective, i.e. internal and external history, and also interlinguistics, with an adequate exemplification.
LibGuides: Classroom Management: News & Magazines

This guide is for the subject of Classroom Management. It contains resources available in the NCU Library.
Investigating Target Selection and Financial Impact of Service Fraud: An empirical research into criminal activities on underground markets and their implications for businesses

A portion of the digital fraud occurring on the dark web comprises the illegal exchange of vouchers, coupons, and stolen accounts, defined in this research as service fraud. Despite its existence, this type of fraud had not been previously explored. This thesis employs a quantitative approach to examine which company characteristics influence the target selection process, and the financial impact of service fraud, conducted on eight prominent underground markets, from 2011 to 2017. Initial understanding of the matter is provided by mapping out the digital fraud landscape; exploring and classifying into four categories the different types of service fraud. The direct costs of such fraud for the analyzed companies are quantified, showing that the sustained losses are relatively low compared to the figures reported in various resources. Regression analysis is used to model which characteristics make companies more attractive to cyber criminals, and how they influence losses suffered by businesses. Reputation and domain popularity are able to explain to an extent the frequency of being targeted. Furthermore, companies operating locally, as well as smaller businesses seem to experience higher financial losses. The implications of the results for businesses and society are discussed. Expanding the current model with other factors or additional data, such as employed security controls and strategies, as well as using different research methods could enhance this topic and provide more insights.
A low cost visual sensor for gesture recognition via AI CNNS

One of the possible ways that prosthetics can become smarter is with the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI): this area in computer science is growing massively as the number of useful applications that stem of AI are endlessHere we propose an AI intelligent system that react and learn as humans combined with prosthetics: smart prosthetic can recognize (1) hand gesture and (2) daily life objects and react accordingly without the user having to interact with the device through biomedical signals
Machine-Learning Holds Promise for Identifying First-Episode Psychosis

Artificial intelligence combined with electronic health records may detect FEP a year before onset in asymptomatic adults.
Chat Language and the Challenges of Students in Written Composition

With the prevalence of the internet and social network platforms in this digital age, most people opt for text messages as a fast and convenient means of communication and prefer real-time online chats to face-to-face social interactions. The cyber language is replete with writing errors that are not conventionally acceptable in academic writing and which can impede comprehension in some cases. As teenage participation in this new media increases, this study investigated the impact of chat language on the written composition of senior secondary school students who are prospective candidates for O’level and or A’level examinations. Data were generated from the students’ written essay scripts and analysed using Halliday’s Systemic Functional Grammar as the theoretical framework. The study adopted the quantitative and qualitative research methods in which 842 senior secondary 2 and 3 (SS2 and SS3) students of selected schools in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, are the population. The result revealed that online chat language and text-based messages mostly affect students’ writings in mechanical accuracy and expression. The study therefore recommended that the negative effects of the social media on the students’ writings should be checked in schools.
Breast cancer risk prediction in Chinese women based on mammographic texture and a comprehensive set of epidemiologic factors

Considering the rapid rise in breast cancer incidence in China and lack of calibrated breast cancer prediction models for the Chinese female population, developing a breast cancer model targeting the Chinese women is necessary. This study aimed at generating a breast cancer risk prediction model for Chinese women. A total of 1079 (85 images contralateral to a cancer and 994 cases without breast cancer) women were recruited from Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Centre. For each case, we collected sixteen demographic variables such as age, BMI, number of children, family history of breast cancer, and age at menarche. Moreover, the dense tissue was automatically segmented by AutoDensity. A set of quantitative features were extracted from the dense area. Using the 80th percentile of intensity values in the dense area, the segmented area was thresholded again and the second set of computer-extracted features was calculated. The features, i.e. the demographic variables, and texture features extracted from the mammographically dense areas of the image, have been fed into an ensemble of 250 decision trees, whose results were combined using RUSBoost. The classifier achieved an AUC of 0.88 (CI: 0.84 - 0.91) for identifying high-risk images. Therefore, adopting such model might lead to the augmentation of discriminatory power of currently-used risk prediction models. However, it should be noted that the cancer cases were retrieved from the diagnostic environment (not screening) and further validation on a dataset from a screening set-up will be required.
심층 큐 신경망을 이용한 게임 에이전트 구현

The video game Tetris is one of most popular game and it is well known that its game rule can be modelled as MDP (Markov Decision Process). This paper presents a DQN (Deep Q-Network) based game agent for Tetris game. To this end, the state is defined as the captured image of the Tetris game board and the reward is designed as a function of cleared lines by the game agent. The action is defined as left, right, rotate, drop, and their finite number of combinations. In addition to this, PER (Prioritized Experience Replay) is employed in order to enhance learning performance. To train the network more than 500000 episodes are used. The game agent employs the trained network to make a decision. The performance of the developed algorithm is validated via not only simulation but also real Tetris robot agent which is made of a camera, two Arduinos, 4 servo motors, and artificial fingers by 3D printing.
THE CIVIC SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS OF CONTEMPORARY SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN THE ASPECT OF THE HUMANISTIC PARADIGM OF EDUCATION

Civic self-consciousness is a topical issue in present-day Latvia. After regaining of independence and joining the European Union, there appeared an opportunity to ensure real freedom and genuine democracy for all inhabitants in Latvia. Thus, new conditions were created for the development of civic self-consciousness in senior secondary school students. New guidelines are developed in the European system of education according to the new understanding of humanism. The key reference-point is the understanding that the main goal of education is to support the development of personality that will become an EU citizen and a professional. The study established that it is necessary to develop civic self-consciousness so that Latvian secondary school students could become European-type citizens and professionals.The research deals with the analysis of a new model of education, the basis for developing civic self-consciousness in senior secondary school students. The research has determined the structure of civic self-consciousness and demonstrated the interconnectedness of its structural components (tolerance, responsibility and intercultural identity). The aim of the research: to analyse the possibilities of a new model of education in developing the civic self-consciousness of senior secondary school students, to determine its essence, structure and characteristics. The research methods include analysis, survey, testing, conversation, an ascertaining experiment, mathematical statistics. The research results: there was determined the structure of civic self-consciousness as a precondition for the development of civic self-consciousness in senior secondary school students and conducted the analysis of ideas concerning new humanism in education and a new model of education (education – culture – individual).
A Multi-attribute Information Based Method of Material Strength Distribution Fitting

Information fusion technique has been widely applied to a variety of subjects such as fault diagnosis and image identification. Bayes estimation is a special type of information fusion technique applied to parameter estimation for probability distribution of random variable. The present paper presents a new type of information fusion technique for material strength distribution estimation in the situation of small size sample. To precisely describe material strength, three-parameter Weibull distribution is used. To find out a reasonable location parameter in the situation that only a few experimental observations are available, the knowledge and information from different aspects are utilized. First, an empirical shape parameter is chosen with reference to the strength distribution of similar material. Then, a location parameter is assigned to make the estimated material strength variation at a realistic level, by judging the rationality of the location parameter through the strength probability distribution thus estimated. At last, big data technique is applied to further verify the rationality of the estimated material strength distribution by testing the relation between location parameter and the minimum observation in a sample of particular size for a special three-parameter Weibull distribution.