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Demo Abstract: UnseenCode: Invisible On-screen Barcode with Image-based Extraction (Demo)

In this demo, we present UnseenCode, an invisible on-screen barcode scheme. We borrow inter-frame embedment method from VLC-based screen-camera communication techniques to achieve invisibility. Unlike existing VLC-based methods, UnseenCode does not require video-based extraction which is more unreliable and computationally expensive on off-the-shelf smartphones when compared to image-based extraction of traditional barcode methods. We design a delicate image-based barcode extraction method based on cross-component correlation of color images. Our demo implementation includes a transmitter running on desktop computers, and a scanner application running on any off-the-shelf Android smartphones. We would like to exhibit the applicability of UnseenCode in the real world.
Using Hierarchical Temporal Memory to Detect City Infrastructure Anomalies

Cities today utilize a wide range of sensors to monitor the status of various utilities such as water distribution and the electricity grid. The gathered data can be analyzed in real-time to detect anomalies, allowing the city to rapidly identify and resolve the issue. Currently existing anomaly detection methods such as operate on the assumption of a static source environment [1, 2]. However, sensitivity of the sensors may degrade with time and background noise levels may vary as well. This leads to the generation of costly false positives and negatives, which we aim to minimize through the use of Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM). HTM is particularly suited for anomaly detection due to its ability to recognize patterns in a chronological stream of values [1]. In this paper, we analyze the efficacy of HTM anomaly detection for a series of 5 angular sensors measuring the alignment of a well. Additionally, we compare the results of feeding raw versus delta values from our sensors into an HTM algorithm, finding that the delta values produced a more consistently accurate result. Finally, we discuss recommendations for the applications of HTM in real city infrastructure situations.
Crack Monitoring in Resonance Fatigue Testing of Welded Specimens Using Digital Image Correlation

A procedure using digital image correlation (DIC) to detect cracks on welded specimens during fatigue tests on resonance testing machines is presented. It is intended as a practical and reproducible procedure to identify macroscopic cracks at an early stage and monitor crack propagation during fatigue tests. It consists of strain field measurements at the weld using DIC. Images are taken at fixed load cycle intervals. Cracks become visible in the computed strain field as elevated strains. This way, the whole width of a small-scale specimen can be monitored to detect where and when a crack initiates. Subsequently, it is possible to monitor the development of the crack length. Because the resulting images are saved, the results are verifiable and comparable. The procedure is limited to cracks initiating at the surface and is intended for fatigue tests under laboratory conditions. By visualizing the crack, the presented procedure allows direct observation of macrocracks from their formation until rupture of the specimen.
LibGuides: Research: List of Library Guides

Starting research can be difficult. These resources are specifically built and provided to help you become a better researcher and find what you need.
Prototype Development and Pre-Commercialization Strategies for Mobile Based Property Analytics

No wadays, the government agencies are looking for strategies to strengthen their newly implemented policies for the nation building. The grassroots or the customer’s sentiments is very important to develop an inclusive policy with a mixed of bottom-up approach to incorporates the customer’s opinion. However, due to the unique political landscape and multiracial in Malaysia, current commercial off-the-shelf Social Analytics are irrelevant to capture the sentiments of multilingual characteristic for Malaysian native speakers. Current Social Analytic tool are lacking the quality of analysis for foreign languages such as Malay which limits the businesses to localize advertisement for a specific geographical area. Hence, this research is proposed to develop a real-time social media analytics tool with sentiment analysis specifically in Malaysian context in order to engage and analyze the customer reviews and opinions. The main purpose of this paper is to demonstrate our approach to utilize data from social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter in gaining valuable insights to drive and improve marketing strategy in property industry. This research developed a tool namely Property Analytics to assess public sentiments on specific property project or services. The methodology and approach to enhance from lab scale to pre-commercialization activities are outlined in this paper. It is anticipates that our work is relevant to real world application, improve stakeholder’s decision making and people’s quality of life.
중소기업의 생산성 성과 요인에 관한 구조적 분석: 생산성경영시스템(PMS) 인증 제조업을 중심으로

Purpose: This study aims to investigate the factors affecting productivity performance for Korean SMEs of manufacturing which had obtained the certification of Productivity Management System(PMS) that is a Korean assessment program for enhancing maturity of company’s management systems.Methods: The proposed model is based on the PMS model. The valid 759 data registered from 2010 to 2018 year was analyzed using SEM analysis for testing hypotheses.Results: The results are as follows. First, Leadership affects the five core sub-system processes positively, but doesn’t a significant Business Performance directly. Secondly, HRM, Customer & Market Analysis, and Process Management excluding Productivity Development and Measurement Analysis and Knowledge Management have a significant effect on Business Performance. Lastly, when examining the mediation effect, Process Development, Customer & Market Analysis, and HRM have indirectly effect between Leadership and Business Performance.Conclusion: This study results suggest not only the role of leadership to improve productivity performance of SME, but also which core processes are focused and differentiated.
HC Libraries: Current Issues & Hot Topics: Databases

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Use of Transition and Rare Earth Elements in the Evaluation of the Sedimentary Paleoenvironment of Devonian Shales, Brazil

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한국어 어휘 교육에서 품사 정보 학습의 필요성에 관하여

This study argues that when teaching vocabulary in the field of Korean language education, it is essential to learn vocabulary and vocabulary information. It is especially aimed at words that are used as verbs and adjectives, as well as nouns and adverbs. Combining these with grammatical items presented in the textbook looks for errors caused by a lack of information about speech. It also outlines the reduction of grammar-binding errors in Korean learners and the improvement of vocabulary skills taught in class. Therefore, it is important to learn not only meaningful information but also the vocabulary information in the Korean language classroom.
Establishment of Quality Life Evaluation Indicators System of Water Resource Engineering Implementation Community

Liu, Y.; Wang, B., and Liu, J., 2019. Establishment of quality life evaluation indicators system of water resource engineering implementation community. In: Guido-Aldana, P.A. and Mulahasan, S. (eds.), Advances in Water Resources and Exploration. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 93, pp. 320–328. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208.Despite the research on philosophy, limited research has been done on quality life evaluation indicators system of water resource engineering implementation community. This paper aims to establish and optimize such a system. With the literature study approach, this paper selects 32 evaluation indicators and gains original data; it uses correlation analysis with principle component analysis to screen the indicators, and establishes the evaluation indicators system of civil engineering implementation community. By establishing this system, it fills the research gap.
A Study Of Deriving Individual Marks From A Group

Methods of deriving individual marks from a project done by a group of students were studied.The author had conducted a survey on a class of building engineering students.Four students formed a group in a building design project.They were taking up the duties of electrical & mechanical engineer, architect, financial controller and quantity surveyor of a building team.It is hoped that they could learn from the process.Each group was required to submit a set of documents prepared by the group at the end of the academic year for assessment.The documents included a written report, meeting minutes, diary and drawings.An oral presentation was assessed by a group of tutors.The project carried a highly weighted factor for their final year curriculum and lasted for an academic year.The assessment components include writing skills, operational skills, presentation skill, and professional competence.The difficulty of assessment is not only quantity of work, but also quality of work.Literature review has suggested a number of approaches.Common methods are weighting factor, pool of marks, peer-assessment factor (PA) and contribution factor.This paper critically reviews these methods and evaluates the method adopted in the project.It also discusses some observations on peer assessment and raises some issues for debate and future study.The paper had a trial on three methods which have been reported.
Me And Comp Sc (Music, Engineering, And Computer Science)

Indications are that more scientists, mathematicians, and engineers will be needed to compete in the world markets 1, 2 .However, the majority of young people entering the workforce will be women and minorities, who traditionally have not pursued careers in these fields 3 .More recently, a Senate bill passed that provides 600,000 new visas for foreign workers sought by the burgeoning high-tech industry 4 .Clearly we need to nurture the technical interest and achievements of all students.Devising strategies to increase their participation and enjoyment in the use of computers is the impetus for Me and Comp Sc.College students like music and MP3's.They also like technology…cell phones, beepers, computer games, email, and surfing the web.This love of technology cuts across all educational disciplines.A combination demo/hands-on exercise for the MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is under development for inclusion in an introductory computer science course.The purpose of the exercise is to expose students to more than the traditional word processing and spreadsheet exercises and to make them aware of the relationships between computers and music.This project is called Me and Comp Sc.
Severn House to publish new Art Marvik Marine Mystery in the autumn

Severn House Publishers has bought World English language rights to the third in the series of marine crime novels by Pauline Rowson which feature undercover marine investigator, Art Marvik, a former Royal Marine Commando, Special Boat Services Officer. Lost Voyage is to be published in autumn 2017
Transforming Engineering Education For The 21 St Century As An Engineering R&amp;D Work By Using The Systems Approach

Changes created by globalizationThe paper describes the ongoing R&D work in Finland aimed at developing and implementing a new structure for engineering education (EE).The work is driven by the fundamental changes created by the economic and cultural effects of globalization.At the beginning of the 21 st century, most of the world is moving rapidly towards a global, market-oriented, real-time economy.This accelerating transition has led to a dramatically rising level of know-how and use of technology.Driven by continuing market liberalization, the transition continues at an accelerating rate.The increasing competition between companies forces routine manufacturing to be transferred to countries with low manpower costs.It also forces companies to adopt modern ICT tools (Information and Communications Technology) for automating routine work.At the same time, the global development is progressing towards the fulfillment of the basic human needs and, consequently, to the increasing emphasis of higher individual needs.
Interactive Learning Discrete Time Signals And Systems With Matlab And Ti Dsk6713 Dsp Kit

Discrete time signal and systems courses are a good starting point to study in the electrical and computer engineering program.It is interesting because of the multimedia capability and the ability of the students to make something happen with audio signals.Also, discrete time signals and systems are used increasingly in a wide spectrum of applications, such as; instrumentation, telecommunications, medical, automotive, control, graphics/imaging, military, consumer electronics, industrial, voice/speech etc.This will help students get an idea on how and where they can use it.For that reason it should be introduced to students early because it would help in recruitment and retention of electrical and computer engineering students.To motivate the beginning engineers to the hard work of connecting mathematics and computation, we can teach discrete time signal and systems interactively and visually using some computer tools.In this paper, we present a suite of interactive discrete time signal and systems demonstration modules using MATLAB, Simulink and TI DSK6713 DSP kit.Using some practical applications and simulation, we can make the class more interesting and interactive.Most demos use realworld signals such as speech and music so that the student can appreciate the concepts better.We focus on providing visualization tools that accentuate the intuitive aspects of discrete time signal and systems algorithms.Our goal is to design intuitive and flexible tools that the students could use to experiment freely with signals and algorithms, without getting overly involved in programming.This will guide the students through basic concepts of signal representations, sampling, quantizing, coding, frequency domain representation, impulse response and transfer function, digital filters, and basic filter types.
The scales we need to explain

This book attempts to explain why 'string theory' may provide the comprehensive underlying theory that describes and explains our world. It is an enthusiastic view of how compactified string/M-theories (plus data that may be reachable) seem to have the possibilities of leading to a comprehensive underlying theory of particle physics and cosmology, perhaps soon. We are living in a hugely exciting era for science, one during which it may be possible to achieve a real and true understanding of our physical world.
Information Assurance Student Group: How to Turn a Club into a Valuable Learning Experience for Students

She will graduate with a degree in computer engineering with a focus on secure computing.Her research includes a unique approach to critical infrastructure modeling which provides emergency planners and first responders with resilient and flexible critical infrastructure evaluation in the face of non-recurrent, disruptive events.Her approach creates a new paradigm for modeling critical infrastructure sectors, analyzing real-time physical data, and providing best fit mitigations to impending failures and responses.
Testing theories in physics, including string theories

This book attempts to explain why 'string theory' may provide the comprehensive underlying theory that describes and explains our world. It is an enthusiastic view of how compactified string/M-theories (plus data that may be reachable) seem to have the possibilities of leading to a comprehensive underlying theory of particle physics and cosmology, perhaps soon. We are living in a hugely exciting era for science, one during which it may be possible to achieve a real and true understanding of our physical world.
Interculturality vs. foreign languages learning in a Sudanese context

This article deals with a theoretical perspective which promotes taking into account the specific Sudanese context in experimenting particular methodology of teaching/learning languages. It takes the notion of intercultural as a general framework to propose debates and action leading to some methodological renewal which can possibly go with society needs and motivations and foreign language teaching/learning practice. Hence, we built up our work basically on a literature review lying on the concepts of methods, methodology, culture and intercultural, besides a brief review of Sudanese context and foreign languages. The practical part of this study set out some guidelines that might serve as an experimental work in order to test and emphasize the theoretical pints of view we discussed.
The Virtual Classroom Environment Of A Www Based Autonomous Robotics Laboratory: Factors Affecting Student Participation, Communication, And Performance

He co-invented and co-taught for 19 semesters a highly-successful LEGO-and microcontroller-
Education By Correspondence In Russia: From Roots To The Present

Education is a powerful factor not only of the intellectual, spiritual, but also social and economic development of a society.Education today is an effective way of maintenance of survival, safety and transition to a steady development, since only an active role of the person, his culture, ideals and interests in a combination with the achievements of science and technology, appropriate forms of managing are a base of the steady development of the society.The dependence of goods production results of an erudition level of workers has made education all over the world the second-largest, after a military-industrial complex, industry of the XX century, has transformed it into one of significant global factors of the present.The Russian society, when studying ways out of the crisis situation in which it appeared at the end of the XX century, considers the educational sphere as the most effective investment resource -the human potential is created here.In his speech at the session of the State Council, August, 29, 2001, Vladimir V. Putin noted that the development of education is put forward in a number of priority directions of the Russian state policy.The President of Russia emphasized that the state should restore its responsibility and its active role in the sphere of education, being guided by increasing availability, quality and efficiency of the domestic educational system, its conformity to vital needs of the country.Decisions of the State Council have laid a basis of the Concept of the Russian education modernization approved at the session of the Russian government in October, 21, 2001.According to this document, it is necessary to create a mechanism of a steady development of the educational system, which would correspond to requirements of the XXI century, to social and economic needs of the developing country, to inquiries of the person, the society and the state 1 .Now the higher school of Russia experiences a very difficult period of its existence.On the one hand, needs in the higher education in the country continue to remain high.It is due to the fact that under conditions of market economy the presence of higher education increases competitiveness of the person on labour market, forms a basis of social growth and promotion, helps to be guided by and better adapted to varying social and economic conditions.The changes happened in our country in last decade resulted in the situation when many people had to change the character of their labour activity; in this connection, the necessity for additional or second education appeared.On the other hand, already for more than ten years the deterioration of personnel
PENINGKATAN HASIL BELAJAR MATERI INDUKSI MAGNET MELALUI MODEL PEMBELAJARAN TEAM ASSISTED INDIVIDUALIZATION PADA SISWA KELAS XII MIA 3 SMAN 2 PONTIANAK

AbstractThis research was aimed to increase student’s achievement of XII MIA 3 students of SMA Negeri 2 Pontianak on magnetic induction materials. This research consist of 2 (two) cycles with each meeting takes time 3x45 minutes. Each cycle consisted of planning, implementation, observation, and analysis section.To know class management, teacher and student;s observation sheet was used.The results showed that application of cooperative learning model Team Assisted Individualization can improve student’s achievement in class XII MIA 3 SMA Negeri 2 Pontianak on magnetic induction material. It can be seen from the increase in average grade from 67.9 to 76.32 and the percentage of students who pass the tes rosefrom 52.63% in the first cycle becomes 76.32% in the second cycle. Kata kunci: Induksi Magnet, Hasil Belajar, Team Assisted Individualization
The Leadership of Science and Engineering Education in Afghanistan

Managers and leaders, with the required skills and levels of competency are essential for any organization, especially for educational institutions and specifically in countries that have been devastated by decades of war and instability.
Text Books: eBooks or Print

Abstract Text Books: eBooks or PrintAbstractIn this research, the student book buying patterns are studied. ebooks are becoming more andmore common. Based on a research survey, we analyze whether students prefer ebooks or printeditions. Comparisons are done across disciplines, level of the course (freshman to graduate),whether the student owns a laptop / desktop / tablet, student work commitments, financial needs,and age; among other factors. Some professors give the option of using the ebooks, while othersdo not. Students may or may not know about the availability of ebooks for their courses and thismay impact their decision to choose either option. Students may make decisions to purchaseebooks or print edition based on cost, readability, availability, and ability to take notes, impacton the environment, and ease of use, logistics and the level of the usage of the book in a givencourse. Students also take into account the resale value of the book at the end of the semester.These and other factors that lead to the student choice are studied. The goal of this study is tounderstand student book buying behaviors. Authors hope that both students and faculty memberscan be made aware of the various text book options available so they can make the best choicesgiven the individual circumstances.The preliminary results indicate that a large number of students and faculty members are notaware of the eBook option available for their courses. However this trend seems to be changingrapidly. It was also observed that majority of the students’ still preferred printed version of thebook. The top reasons for their preference included availability and ease of use in terms of takingnotes, highlighting, and finding particular sections. Those who preferred eBooks were soinclined because of their low cost; how much the book was actually needed for a given course;and logistics in terms of ease in carrying and access.