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EDUCATIONAL TRAJECTORIES OF RUSSIAN SCHOOL STUDENTS AFTER 9TH GRADES BETWEEN 2000-2014: TYPES OF REGIONAL SITUATIONS

This study examines territorial differences in Russian students' choice of educational trajectory after secondary school in 2000 – 2014 years between regions in various socio-economic and cultural contexts. Russian case might be interesting for the social and economic gap between Russian provinces, which is comparable to between-countries differences: some regions equal to Singapore or Netherland in GDP per capita, while other are similar to Honduras or Bolivia [Worldbank, 2018]. These differences in economic development, among other things, are also associated with the gap in human capital [Benhabib, Spiegel 1994, Becker et al 1990], which is traditionally measured through the level of education of the population. In Russian system of education the actual choice of educational trajectory takes place at the end of the secondary school, when children should choose between academic track, which presumes admission to the high school and university after that, and vocational track, which includes admission to college. Since 2000 year, the proportion of secondary school graduates, who chose academic track, has been declined in most of Russian regions, despite growing access to higher education thanks to the raise in the number of universities in 2000-2008 with simultaneous demographic decline. With the dynamic time warping algorithm and time series cluster analysis [Sakoe 1990, Paparrizos, Gravano 2017] there were identified six different types of regional situations in the dynamics of the percentage of students who chose an academic track after secondary school. In general, in the most economically advantaged regions with the developed infrastructure of higher education the popularity of the academic trajectory remains at the same high level. But also there were some decreases in 2009 and 2013, that could be the consequence of world economic crises in those years. These crises became some sort of the additional signals on the regional level for the families in more developed territories to re-evaluate their children's chances for higher education and the associated costs. At the same time, the proportion of students on academic track in more economically disadvantaged regions with lower access to higher education has gradually decreased since 2000. These students have been receiving a “double fine” because they had to plan their education strategy taking into account higher competition for places in universities or moving to other regions for entering educational institutions there, which is also associated with growing costs. In this situation, the vocational track becomes a more affordable alternative for students from regions with lower level of economic and social development. As the result of the analysis, there is possible to determine some sort and long term prerequisites for further growth in human capital gap between Russian regions and, consequently, enlarging differences in economic development.
UNDERSTANDING THE USE OF DIGITAL RESOURCES IN THE PLANNING OF TEACHING PRACTICE: THE CASE OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

The aim of this paper is to analyze how an interdisciplinary group of undergraduate students, while studying discipline that integrates digital technology and teaching, understands the use of digital resources in the planning of teaching practice. The fragmentation of knowledge and the underuse of digital technologies are considered the main problems in teacher training. The research is characterized as qualitative based on Case Study. The unit of analysis corresponds to an interdisciplinary group of five undergraduates which were enrolled in the Technoteaching discipline, in the second semester of 2018. The research is subdivided into three stages: planning, data collection and analysis. In the first stage, the strategies, protocols, instruments and information storage policy are prepared. In the second stage, it is performed the data collection related to the development of Material Autoral Digital Educacional (MADE) [Digital Authorial Educational Material] by the undergraduates and the development proposed of a lesson plan that will utilize the MADE. In the third stage, the data are analyzed by the interpretation of the discourses of the interdisciplinary group, which are explicit in the script of MADE and in the lesson plan facing a methodological triangulation. It was found that the most used digital resources were audiovisual in partnership with analog resources, musical instruments, mixing the possibilities of resources to be used in teaching practice. It was verified that the undergraduates initially opted for a content presentation, and then expanded the lesson proposal to student participation through the construction of knowledge. It is intended to continue this research about the use of digital technologies in an interdisciplinary teaching context with undergraduate students on the subsequent semesters.
Mechanical design of an autonomous mobile robot

This thesis regards the development of a mobile assistant robot working at San Diego International Airport. The project is run by Innotech, a newborn start up based in San Diego, CA. An overview of similar case studies and the description of the whole project is provided in the first chapters, where the system architecture is analysed. The main features covered by the project are: SLAM, mechanical design, object detection and system interface. Afterwards, a deeper focus on the mechanical design is presented from three points of view: a comparison between different wheel configuration led to the choice of a differential drive; the power train design involved the selection of the motors, gearboxes and encoders; the CAD modelling in Solidworks of the whole structure has been carried on in order to 3D print the models and finally rapid prototyping the robot.
What practices need to know about cyber insurance

Cyber insurance covers losses and damages resulting from patient data being stolen, exposed, held for ransom, or improperly shared. Is your practice properly protected?
Subject & Study Guides: Remote Support from the Library: Research and Information Services

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An Effective Personalised Ranking Model via User Information under the GAN Framework

Recently, as the most popular deep network model, Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) has achieved excellent performance in many fields. We have recognized that some pioneer researchers use GAN for personalized recommendation, such as IRGAN and CFGAN. However, we find two limitations about them: these models do not used auxiliary information to alleviate data sparsity problem and do not employed powerful components as basic model. This paper proposes an effective GAN-based personalised ranking model, named as PRGAN that leverages both user behavior information (such as user-item interaction or other implicit feedback) and user demographic information to enhance the recommendation accuracy. Because of data sparsity, we employ extended version of factorization machine i.e. deepFM as the generator. DeepFM not only can be effectively trained in the case of sparse data, but also can learn high-dimensional features. Compared with traditional FM, deepFM utilize user information more effectively to generate accurate user expressions. Furthermore, we employ Bayesian personalized ranking (BPR) as our discriminator. After a minimax iteration game, PRGAN finally generates a high-quality ranking list of items according to user performance. Extensive experiments on two real-world datasets show our model significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art ranking methods and GAN-based model.
LibGuides: Free E-Resources During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Internet service

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"Wallet, laptop, phone, goose-would you miss this?" BU Libraries poster

These posters were created to encourage BU students to utilize resources available to them through BU Libraries.
LibGuides: North Country Library System Virtual Branch: Home

A guide to free activities and learning resources offered by the North Country Library System.
LibGuides: Virtual Library Services During Emergency Campus Closure: Library Resources in Blackboard

Due to the current COVID19 / Coronavirus-related emergency campus shutdown, the library has put together this special guide to virtual library services.
The Effect of Using WH-Questions in Improving Students’ Writing skill at the Second Grade of SMPN 7 Anggeraja

The findings of the research showed that theexperimental classhadscoreon pre-test with the mean score 40.92. After giving treatment, the students’writing skill hadscore with the mean score59.92. The result of the data analysisindicated that therewas an effect of the students’ writing skill after being taughtusingWH-Questions technique. It was proved by the result of the statisticalanalysis of the level significance P = 0.05with thedegree of freedom (df) = 24indicated that the t-test values of thestudents’ writing skill (3.45) was higher thanthe t-table (2.06).
Ηλεκτρονική διαχείριση και διεκπεραίωση εγγράφων

The present work concerns the development of a web platform for electronic document management and processing, aimed at students interested in participating in the Erasmus transnational university program, the Erasmus liaison office responsible for posting and processing certificates and the secretariat that approves or dismisses the corresponding application.The registration begins with the creation of a user account based on the student's registration number and personal email, and continues by highlighting the procedures and forms needed to participate in the Erasmus program, as the student completes the application through a specific number of steps and attaches the necessary files. The application is then forwarded to the Erasmus liaison office where the first authentication and verification is carried out. The office must check if the application is correct and forward it to the secretariat or request a review of the student's documents. If the application meets the requirements, it is forwarded by the liaison office to the secretariat for final verification and finalization (approval or rejection) or for any corrective actions and the student is informed through the application to handle the respective issues.All stakeholders and the student concerned will be able, through the application, to monitor the application development process (successful or unsuccessful) through a friendly and understandable work environment. The student will be able to review all his / her previous applications and choose to create a new application and select the country of interest. Finally, the process of identifying and gathering the necessary supporting documents and files becomes easier for the competent bodies to verify the correctness of the process and carry out the student identification.
PENINGKATAN KEMAMPUAN MEMBACA PEMAHAMAN MELALUI METODE SQ3R (SURVEY QUESTION READ RECITE REVIEW) PADA SISWA KELAS V SEKOLAH DASAR NEGERI KEAGUNGAN 05 PAGI JAKARTA BARAT

This research aims to improve reading comprehension through the SQ3R (Survey Question Read Recite Review) methodon fifth grade student of Keagungan 05 Elementary School in West Jakarta, amounting to 32 students. This research conducted in July 2019 on second semester. The method used was a classroom action research method with Kemmis and Mc.Taggart models. The data was analyzed by reflecting on the activities in each cycle. In the first cycle, students who received score ≥75 were 71,8%, while in the second cycle reached 87,5%. Based on the observations of the learning process, the percentage of teacher’s observation activities was 77% while the students’ observation activities was 75%. In the second cycle,the percentage of teacher’s observation activities increased to 93% and for the students’ observation activities increased to 90%. These results indicate that the use of SQ3R method in learning bahasa can improve the reading comprehension on fifth grade students in Keagungan 05 Elementary School in West Jakarta.The implication of this research is the reading comprehension on fifth grade student of Keagungan 05 Elementary School in West Jakarta can be improved in learning bahasa through the SQ3R method.
Efficient Advanced Encryption Standard with Elevated Speed and FPGA Implementation

Cryptography assumes an imperative part in the security of information transmission. Cryptography can be defined as exploration of scientific strategies recognized with divisions of information security, for example, secrecy, data honesty, substance validation, and also verification of data sources. Communicating information through any media as cryptography is vital when passing on over any conflicting medium, which integrates any framework particularly the web. Advanced Encryption Standard can be customized in programming or worked with unadulterated equipment. Anyway, Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) offer a snappier, more adjustable arrangement. Security is of principle concern while transmitting information over the web. This research work study and analyze various advance encryption standard techniques. The current prospective of our work is to design and implement the proposed framework for improving the security of data transmission. FPGA kits are used to validate the results.
Single Image Dehazing of Railway Images via Multi-scale Residual Networks

In this paper, an end-to-end single image defogging algorithm is proposed which can achieve significant defogging effect under railway conditions. We present a method of fusing multi-scale feature information based on the residual network, which can extract more effective information at different scales. The method uses multi-scale convolution kernels to obtain different scale feature information, but it will increase computational cost and reduce the network depth. By increasing the bottleneck layer, we can deepen the residual network and ensure that the network can achieve better dehazing results. The proposed method can achieve better results than the state-of-the-art algorithms based on synthetic datasets and railway images.
LibGuides: COVID-19 Library Resources: Free Streaming Services

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LibGuides: Open Journal System: OJS Workshop / Digital Publishing Lab

This guide aims to familiarize faculty, student, and staff users to the open journal system (OJS) through a series of tutorials, videos, and links to helpful information on the Web.
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A guide to online music resources available to students and faculty during this period of distance learning.
FORMATION OF HASH CODES BASED ON THE UMAC ALGORITHM ON HYBRID CRYPTO-CODE CONSTRUCTIONS OF McELICE ON DAMAGED CODES

A study was carried out on the use of an improved UMAC algorithm in post-quantum cryptography based on the formation of a substrate on the third layer of the hash code generation by the McElise crypto-code system on elliptic codes. The paper considers a practical algorithm for generating a hash code based on an example implementation of a cascading UMAC hash algorithm with the McElise crypto-code construction on elliptic codes. Using a hybrid crypto-code design allows you to save the universality of the hash code at the output of the algorithm, which allows its use in large databases as an identifier. In addition, in the context of the implementation of a full-scale quantum computer, US NIST experts consider crypto-code systems as one of the effective post-quantum cryptography algorithms. This approach allows you to implement the UMAC modification on various modifications of hybrid crypto-code structures and to ensure the formation of authentication profiles of different strength and length.
Queries on Compressed Data

Author(s): Khandelwal, Anurag | Advisor(s): Stoica, Ion | Abstract: Low-latency, high-throughput systems for serving interactive queries are crucial to today's web services. Building such systems for today's web services is challenging due to the massive volumes of data they must cater to, and the requirement for supporting sophisticated queries (e.g., searches, filters, aggregations, regular expression matches, graph queries, etc.). Several recent approaches have highlighted the importance of in-memory storage for meeting the low-latency and high-throughput requirements, but these approaches are unable to sustain this performance when the data grows larger than DRAM capacity. Existing systems thus achieve these goals either by assuming large enough DRAM (too expensive) or by supporting only a limited set of queries (e.g., key-value stores).In this dissertation, we explore algorithmic and data structure-driven solutions to these system design problems. We present Succinct, a distributed data store that addresses these challenges using a fundamentally new approach --- executing a wide range of queries (e.g., search, random access, range, wildcard) directly on a compressed representation of the input data --- thereby enabling efficient execution of queries on data sizes much larger than DRAM capacity. We then describe BlowFish, a system that builds on Succinct to enable a dynamic storage-performance tradeoff in data stores, providing applications the flexibility to modify the storage and performance fractionally, just enough to meet the desired goals. Finally, we explore approaches that enable even richer query semantics on compressed data, including graph queries using ZipG, a memory efficient graph store, and regular expression queries using Sprint, a query rewriting technique.
Permeability as a Concept for Planning: The Taylor Family Digital Library

Part of Plenary Session IV: Imagining & Focusing on the Future presented at the Learning Spaces Collaboratory, 2019 LSC National Colloquium November 1-3, 2019 Kansas City, Missouri
"Svepa, svepa, svepa" -En kvalitativ studie om användare av dejtingappen Tinder och deras upplevelse av användandet

The technological development has increased in pace during the recent decades and has as a result in many ways changed society fundamentally, including the way we date. Above all, it is the app Tin ...
Research Guides: PCC Library Technology Certificate Programs: Brochure and Recorded Information Session

A Library Guide for prospective/current/alumni students in the Library Technology, Archives & Digital Collections, and Digitization Certifcate Programs at Pasadena City College
Lectures Retrieval: Improving Students’ E-learning Process with a Search Engine Based on ASR Model

E-lecturing is becoming more and more used over the World Wide Web. What isn’t actually popular and used, is a good user experience for the student, who has just the video provided from the University. It would be useful to be able to search in the video for the word needed, in order to find the subject directly and without substantial time loss. Moreover, the project will develop a speech recognition service from video to text that can be useful for deaf or poor-hearing students, this means that the system can be used from disability centers of many universities.
A Study on the Usage Patterns of the Adverb-Adjective Collocations of the Synonyms for the Adverbs Marking Temporal Continuity in English

The aims of this study are to investigate the usage patterns of the synonym group of English adverbs marking temporal continuity from the British National Corpus Web, and to examine the semantic category and semantic prosody of the adjectives which are collocated with these adverbs. The results of the study are as follows: First, the result showed the highest frequency of the adverb constantly while that of persistently was the lowest. Comparing the frequency of the collocation for adverb+adjective, the adverb consistently is the highest and persistently is the lowest. Secondly, the adverbs continually and constantly had similar distribution of the semantic category and consistently and persistently are similar. Thirdly, considering the semantic prosody of the adjectives, the adverbs continually, consistently, and steadily are collocated with adjectives implying positive meanings, persistently with those implying negative meanings, and continuously and constantly are with those implying neutral meanings. It is expected that the results of the study can contribute to improving the collocation competence of learners and the learning strategies.
Desenvolvimento de um aplicativo de celular para recebimento de atendimentos de emergências junto ao corpo de bombeiros

Telephone 193 is a number reserved for the emergency service here in Brazil, whichis provided by the emergency center of each battalion of the Fire Department. Thetheme addressed in this work revolves around the development of an application thatmay be able to facilitate and expedite the handling of emergency calls, not to mentionthat it would be an alternative channel of communication with the emergency center ofthe Fire Department. That's why the overall development is to develop an applicationfor Android devices that speeds up the location and con-signature of any emergencyevent with the Fire Department. The case study was the methodology chosen to serveas a basis for the planning and development of this work. The application works alongside the client, streamlining emergency calls, and the server-side has an internet platform available to system administrators to control and enforce the application's functionality. Such technology opens the way for expansion to other platforms, such as theIOS system, allowing more people to access the service. In the future, you can createa new version of the application that could also be made especially for firefighters thatwould allow interaction with emergencies that are currently occurring
Teacher Talk in Encouraging Students’ Participation in the EFL Classroom

This research paper presents the investigation on the most teacher talk used in an EFL classroom, how it encourages students’ participation and the students’ perceptions of the teacher talk and their performance. In this research, the writer employed a descriptive qualitative design. The data were gathered from video-recording and interview where the participants were an English teacher and 36 seven grade students in Bandung. The data were analyzed using the context of teacher talk in terms of instructional talk and management by Zulfah et al. (2015) and students’ participation categories modified considering children key learning principles by Cameron (2001). The findings indicated that the most teacher talk used were giving correction, asking instructional questions, giving explanation, giving instruction, asking management questions, encouraging students, and answering management questions. Students’ participations that encouraged the most were participation in class discussion, answering questions when called on, volunteering to answer questions, offering ideas spontaneously, and discussion with partners.
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