Reviewerly/exHarmony huggingface dataset:
Super-resolution in Music Score Images by Instance Normalization

The performance of an OMR (Optical Music Recognition) system is usually determined by the characterizing features of the input music score images. Low resolution is one of the main factors leading to degraded image quality. In this paper, we handle the low-resolution problem using the super-resolution technique. We propose the use of a deep neural network with instance normalization to improve the quality of music score images. We apply instance normalization which has proven to be beneficial in single image enhancement. It works better than batch normalization, which shows the effectiveness of shifting the mean and variance of deep features at the instance level. The proposed method provides an end-to-end mapping technique between the high and low-resolution images respectively. New images are then created, in which the resolution is four times higher than the resolution of the original images. Our model has been evaluated with the dataset “DeepScores” and shows that it outperforms other existing methods.
Names in Aotearoa: A Personal Reflection on the National Library of New Zealand [Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa’s] Experiences with the NACO and SACO Programs

The National Library of New Zealand joined the NACO program in 2000, learning to navigate new oceans of metadata from our harbor city of Wellington. Our PCC participation enables us to contribute our knowledge of local names, subjects, and agents to international authority files, and share the workload of authority control with institutions around the world. This paper reflects on our NACO journey, exploring the tensions between following international standards and meeting the needs of diverse communities. Recording indigenous names poses particular challenges, and we are increasingly aware of privacy issues in the context of sharing data. The new Resource Description and Access (RDA) Toolkit may help us create authority metadata that fits local needs while complying with global requirements.
L’essere molteplice. Macunaíma tra interferenza e indifferenza

Abstract – A citational and at the same time very original work, Macunaima o heroi sem nenhum carater represents the (auto)ironic and, at the same time, (self)compliant mirror in which a Brazilian identity reflects itself - a longly sought for identity, at least since the second decade of the nineteenth century. Therefore, a fatally modernist text, yet stuffed with different and distanced times and places: a work that combines the archaic and the present in an inextricable mixture that demarcates, as a lower limit – although not datable –, the dimension of the Contemporary English.
A Study of Directions for Improving the Liberal Education Subject ‘Practical Writing of NCS’ : Focused on Students’ Efficacy Beliefs

In this study, the following discussion was conducted for the liberal education subject, ‘Practical Writing for NCS’ at Dongguk University Gyeongju. First, the current status of development and operation of liberal education subjects related to NCS communication skills of universities was presented. Second, the results of the ‘Practical Writing for NCS’ survey of students who took the second semester of 2018 were analyzed and the results of the ‘Practical Writing for NCS’ learner were analyzed to enhance the plan for improving the subject. During these discussions, the students
Child Development Application (Toddler) Based on Android

Infants under five years old or commonly called “toddlers” always experience changes in terms of growth and development from birth to adolescence. Here the role of both parents in the process of growth and development of children is very necessary in order to monitor every change that occurs. But sometimes parents experience problems or because there is no accurate record of toddler growth and development, so the observation of development is not optimal. With the current technological advances that are increasingly rapid with the many uses of Android mobile devices can make a way to develop an application that is able to facilitate parents in observing their toddler growth. Therefore researchers designed and made an application for information systems development of toddlers with the aim to support and facilitate parents in observing the process of developing toddlers and make it easier for parents to get knowledge about health in infants. The development of this information system uses the waterfall method. The method begins with analysis, design, coding and then testing the application. Application testing is done using the blackbox test and the test results show that the process in the system has run smoothly. User test is done by giving questionnaires to prospective users and the results show that the user agrees and argues that this information system is useful for parents in observing the growth of toddlers. Respondents of users agree that the Android-based Toddler Development Information system can be used as one of the media to find information about toddler health and can be used to record the progress of toddlers.
La scienza come “motore” del biodiritto: diritti, poteri, funzioni

The paper starts from the assumption of recognising science as potential driving force of the evolution of biolaw. After having clarified the need for a functional connection between scientific and constitutional dimension, the propulsive function of science is analysed with regard to the effective protection of fundamental rights, the impact over the characteristics of the law-making process and constitutional justice.
한문과 교과서 방향 탐색

In the subject education, textbooks are the substance of implementing the curriculum. Academia has constantly studied how textbooks are organized whenever the curriculum changes. Based on the research outcomes, this paper analyzed current textbooks to explore the direction of desirable Korean Classical Chinese Education textbooks. The composition of current textbooks usually consists of the original text, the solution to it, the grammar theorem and other words and stories. In this structure, it is thought that it is very inadequate to teach prose and the whole sentence, and that it is not easy to attract students. Thus, this study proposed focusing on small units in the direction of new textbooks, not suggesting newly learning Chinese characters, but learning the characters in the text, and making and presenting a table of basic Chinese characters for education, selecting the appropriate materials for the student's eye level, in case of long sentences, summarizing the contents back and forth to present the text so that students can see the full context of the sentence, and presenting words, idioms, sentences, and learning terms all in one unit to make effective use of limited space, etc. It is thought that there is no easy and fun way to teach Chinese characters. However, it is important to make it rough for teachers to teach Chinese characters, to make it easy for students to reach out to them, and to attract students' interest.
Development Of Cultural Competence Of Modern Russian Youth Through Project Activities

This article is devoted to the issues of the value of cultural competence among todays youth. This study was carried out on the basis of the analysis of modern foreign and Russian Cultural and Social studies. At the beginning of the article the author presents the basic concepts of cultural competence. The author analyzes the work of Kolosovsky, Mosakvoski, Lynch and Hanson, Raven, Flier - researchers of this theoretical problem in the Russian and European Humanities. The author analyzes the problems of formation of cultural competence in the field of secondary and further education of children and the youth. The main input of the article is to study the cultural competence within the framework of socio-cultural projects. In the article the results of research how to improve the cultural competence among students, pupils and teachers were described. The experience of the project “The world in the palm” of the Centre for Work with Gifted Children “Dar” is described. This project is being implemented in Rostov-on-Don in 2012 and is aimed at the formation of cultural competence and cross-cultural communication skills among the youth. The project promotes the development of international cultural cooperation based on the principles of respect for identity, diversity and mutual enrichment of cultures.
Library: Finding and reusing research datasets: Chemistry

Guide on finding secondary data for reserach and identifying suitable data archives for research dataset deposits.
RESTRUCTURING NON-FORMAL EDUCATION FOR THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS IN NIGERIA

Education is an indispensable tool for individual and national development. It is mandatory for every nation to provide quality education at all levels of education for the citizens. Acquisition of quality basic education is supposed to be free and compulsory for all school aged children in a formal school setting. All attempts by the Nigerian government to achieve this goal has not yielded the expected results as there are over 10 million school aged children that were reported by UNICEF to be out of school in Nigeria. It is observed that the formal school system alone might not be able to meet up with the challenge of providing basic education for all out-of-school children and youths. Hence, the need to restructure the non-formal education to provide alterative learning activity that will complement the formal setting and lead to acquisition of basic education in order to achieve the 2030 target of sustainable development goal 4. This paper defined the concepts of basic education, non-formal education, restructuring and sustainable development. It looked at the areas of the non-formal education that need to be restructured and gave recommendations which include; restructuring the curriculum to lead to award of Basic Education Certificate instead of the Primary School Leaving Certificate; adequate funding to meet up with the provision of physical and material resources needed for quality teaching and learning; enough qualified facilitators school be recruited on permanent appointment and be well remunerated.
A Review of Techniques Used For Automated Scoring

This paper shows the importance of Automated Scoring (AS) that has a better degree of reproducibility in comparison to human evaluators.  It basically presents a comparative study of some of the techniques used to achieve the automated scoring and the limitation of the respective techniques. The paper goes through the literature survey, valid findings have been concluded out on various issues in existing systems. It reviews the features used in the existing Automated Answer Scoring system and efforts to develop a new semantic features for Automated Scoring System.
UX Design Evaluation and its Approach to Mobile Applications for Smart Appliances

사용자 기대에 부응하는 UX 디자인 구현 여부가 스마트 가전의 차별화를 결정짓는 중요 변수가 되었다. 본 연구는 스마트 가전의 모바일 애플리케이션 개발과정에서 UX 디자인 평가 문제를 다루었다. 최근 수요가 급증하고 있는 <스마트 레인지 후드>의 모바일 애플리케이션에 대한 UX 디자인 평가 내용을 실험연구 대상으로 설정하였다. 연구목적은 스마트 가전 애플리케이션의 UX 디자인 사용자 평가 방법의 의의를 탐색하고 더불어 정량적·정성적 평가 방법의 혼용이 UX 디자인 개발 과정에 어떻게 도움이 되는지를 제안하는 것이다. 주요 발견점은 다음과 같다. 첫째, 사용자 평가를 통해 UX 디자인 개선 방향이 구체화될 수 있음을 발견하였다. UX 디자인 개발 과정에서 사용자 평가가 실질적으로 도움이 됨을 확인하였다. 둘째, UX 디자인 평가에서 ‘정량적 방법’과 ‘정성적 방법’의 혼용이 상호 보완적으로 효과가 있음을 발견하였다. 연구 시사점은 다음과 같다. UX 디자인 평가 과정에서 정량평가와 정성평가의 역할을 구분하여 접근하면 효율적이다. 예컨대, ‘허니콤 모델’ 등의 정량평가를 통해 <사용자 경험 촉진/저해 발생 속성>을 ‘탐색적’으로 파악하고, ‘사용자 심층 인터뷰’ 등의 정성평가를 통해 <사용자 경험 촉진/저해 발생 속성 가운데 구체적인 서비스 기능 문제 요소>를 ‘측정’하고 ‘검증’하는 것이 가능하다.Implementing UX design that meets user expectations has become an important variable that determines the prominence of smart home appliances. This study addresses the UX design evaluation issues in mobile application development of smart home appliances. As an experimental research subject, the UX design evaluation contents were set up for the mobile application of <smart range hood>, the demand of which is surging recently. The purpose of the research is to explore the significance of the UX design user evaluation method in smart home applications, and to suggest how to achieve the mixing of quantitative and qualitative evaluation methods. The main findings are as follows. First, we found that user evaluation can positively impact the direction of UX design. Secondly, we found that the mixing of ‘quantitative’ and ‘qualitative’ methods works complementarily to UX design evaluation. Research implications are as follows. The UX design evaluation process can be performed efficiently as long as we distinguish between the roles of quantitative evaluation and qualitative evaluation. For example, through qualitative evaluation such as Honeycomb model , <attribute of promoting/inhibiting user experience> can be identified in terms of ‘exploratory’, and through qualitative evaluation such as in-depth user interview , <the specific service function elements in the attributes of promoting/inhibiting user experience> can be identified in terms of assessment and validation .
e-UDA: Efficient Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Cross-Site Medical Image Segmentation

In medical imaging, the heterogeneity of multi-centre data impedes the applicability of deep learning-based methods and results in significant performance degradation when applying models in an unseen data domain, e.g. a new centreor a new scanner. In this paper, we propose an unsupervised domain adaptation framework for boosting image segmentation performance across multiple domains without using any manual annotations from the new target domains, but by re-calibrating the networks on few images from the target domain. To achieve this, we enforce architectures to be adaptive to new data by rejecting improbable segmentation patterns and implicitly learning through semantic and boundary information, thus to capture disease-specific spatial patterns in an adversarial optimization. The adaptation process needs continuous monitoring, however, as we cannot assume the presence of ground-truth masks for the target domain, we propose two new metrics to monitor the adaptation process, and strategies to train the segmentation algorithm in a stable fashion. We build upon well-established 2D and 3D architectures and perform extensive experiments on three cross-centre brain lesion segmentation tasks, involving multicentre public and in-house datasets. We demonstrate that recalibrating the deep networks on a few unlabeled images from the target domain improves the segmentation accuracy significantly.
Pedagogical Potential In Future Teacher`s Professional Self-Development

This article is aimed at revealing the essence of the pedagogical potential in the professional self-development of the future teacher in the conditions of educational institutions of various types. The leading method in the study of this problem was the method of questioning conducted among 180 teachers and revealing the content of the pedagogical potential of an educational institution that ensures successful professional self-development of the future teacher. The article reveals that modern pedagogical potential brings the students professional self-development to a new level. It was clarified that the pedagogical potential of an educational institution is the established traditions, real possibilities and trends in the development of pedagogical education. The factors of pedagogical potential are revealed and justified. It is proved that the students professional self-development is promoted by the integration of the capacities of educational institutions, immersion into the professional environment in which interaction with practicing teachers is organized. The materials presented in the article demonstrate the formation of the qualities necessary for the successful implementation of conscious professional activities aimed at self-improvement in accordance with professional requirements. The model developed by the authors of the interaction of practicing teachers and students, focused on joint professional self-development in the process of professional activity, contributes to the formation of motivation, the development of initiative, creativity, info-communicativeness of students and is a targeted process of professional self-development.
Comparison of Classification Algorithms on Optical Burst Switching Network Data

Classification, a model of data mining, is simply to distribute data in defined groups in a data set. Classification algorithms develop a learning model using the training set and then try to classify the data that is not class specific. Therefore, the relationship between the data can be examined more easily. In this study, multilayer perceptron, support vector machines, k - nearset neighborhood, naive bayes, kstar, decision table, random forest classification algorithms performans are evaluated by using optical burst switching algorithms. When data sets are classified by using classification algorithms, accuracy values, which are the ratio of accurate estimates to all estimates during classification, are used as a criterion for evaluating the performance of algorithms.
Smart Technologys In The Process Of Learning Komi In Elementary School

The relevance of the problem under study is determined by the insufficient development of modern textbooks, manuals and electronic educational resources in the Komi language, which would be directed to the formation of communicative, linguistic and informative- communicative competencies (ICT competence) of elementary school students. The purpose of the article is to consider the didactic possibilities of SMART Notebook technology based on the textbook on Komi as a non-native language for first grade students. The leading method of studying this problem is the design of an electronic educational resource based on monitoring of the topic “The implementation conditions of the Ethnocultural Education Concept in the Republic of Komi by ICTs”. The article presents the forms, means, methodological techniques of Smart-technologies based on the subject “Komi as a non-native language”, discloses the practical significance of using this technology and describes the technological features of creating and maintaining didactic units of the textbook. The developed materials can be used by primary school teachers, the Komi language teachers, the teachers of additional education, by parents and methodological services. In the process of creating an electronic educational resource, we solved the problem of an effective combination of didactic tasks and technical solutions. SMART Notebook has virtually unlimited possibilities for preparing complex interactive lesson scripts.
Discovering the IPv6 Network Periphery

We consider the problem of discovering the IPv6 network periphery, i.e., the last hop router connecting endhosts in the IPv6 Internet. Finding the IPv6 periphery using active probing is challenging due to the IPv6 address space size, wide variety of provider addressing and subnetting schemes, and incomplete topology traces. As such, existing topology mapping systems can miss the large footprint of the IPv6 periphery, disadvantaging applications ranging from IPv6 census studies to geolocation and network resilience. We introduce edgy, an approach to explicitly discover the IPv6 network periphery, and use it to find >~64M IPv6 periphery router addresses and >~87M links to these last hops -- several orders of magnitude more than in currently available IPv6 topologies. Further, only 0.2% of edgy's discovered addresses are known to existing IPv6 hitlists.
Siamese Matching Network Based on Robust Feature Representation for Object Tracking

We propose a target tracking method based on siamese matching network for robust feature representation. Our network consists of region proposal layer, convolutional layer and long short-term memory layer. The method proposed in this paper takes advantage of deep learning in feature representation and the hierarchical structure of the convolutional network to extract different levels of information from different layers to obtain richer feature representation. The long short-term memory network is used to encode feature extracted by convolutional layer into a fixed vector, which can remember useful information to better capture the difference between images, so that the obtained feature vectors are more robust. The presented network matches the feature of target object with candidate region in current frame and returns the most similar region for tracking. We use external data sets for pre-training and the proposed method shows competitive performance on the standard tracking benchmarks.
Português Língua de Herança: motivações e perfil sociolinguístico dos falantes de PLH inscritos no curso de PLE nível elementar na Universidade de Milão

Abstract – In the Italian higher education system, the Portuguese language is generally studied by Italian native speakers without prior knowledge of Portuguese, in courses designed for Foreign Language Learners (FLL). However, we may occasionally find that students enrolled have some kind of heritage connection to the Portuguese language, making it necessary to adapt methodologies, contents and materials in order to address the needs of these Heritage Language Learners (HLL) and value their presence in these mixed classes. From our point of view, course design and teaching should therefore take into account both the motivations for learning Portuguese and the sociolinguistic profile of these HLL. This paper presents and discusses the results of a research conducted in a mixed class at the University of Milan aimed at determining 1) the motivations for learning Portuguese of FLL and HLL groups and 2) the Portuguese HLL sociolinguistic profile. In other words, we aim to understand, from a Language Teaching approach, the motivations and the linguistic and cultural identity of these HLL through their own views. Data for this study was collected through two surveys of Portuguese HLL (n=8) and Portuguese FLL/HLL (n=66) enrolled in the academic year 2017/2018. As we adopt, due to the nature of this research, a more sociolinguistic oriented definition of HLL, we present an opening chapter devoted to the discussion about the definitions of Heritage Language. Lastly, we point some preliminary considerations about our experience in a Portuguese FLL and HLL mixed class.