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Extension of Maximum Autocorrelation Factorization: With application to imaging mass spectrometry data

Multivariate images are built up by measuring multiple features or variables simultaneously while recording a measurement’s location. An example of such images is Imaging Mass Spectrometry (IMS) data. IMS is a technique for recording the mass-over-charge ratio of molecules in (biological) samples while also recording the molecules’ spatial location. High dimensionality in multivariate images (e.g. many recorded features per pixel) often makes direct human interpretation infeasible and computational analysis impractical. For this reason, unsupervised and data-driven factorization is often applied prior to any exploration of the data, with the goal of reducing its dimensionality. However, one of the more promising factorization methods for multivariate images, Maximum Autocorrelation Factorization (MAF), still depends on some input from the user. Unlike most factorization methods, that focus solely on the spectral content of the observations, MAF also utilizes the spatial structure of the input data to generate matrix factors that try to capture both spatial and spectral patterns in the data. The factors of MAF represent the content of a matrix, ranked according to spatial autocorrelation, i.e. how rapidly they vary spatially. The idea for application of MAF in a bioimaging context is that naturally occurring, signals tend to form larger, more uniform areas and therefore change more slowly spatially, compared to noisy, non-biological measurement patterns. Since MAF factors are ordered according to autocorrelation, noisy measurement (with low autocorrelation) tend to get demoted in the order of factors, effectively separating them from biological data components (with positive autocorrelation). The goal of this thesis is to build upon the MAF algorithm and remove the current need for user input, making an extension of MAF. This novel factorization method is named Extended Maximum Autocorrelation Factorization (EMAF). Similarly to MAF, EMAF is invariant to linear transformations, utilizes spatial and spectral information of the dataset to determine its factors, and produces uncorrelated factors at all distances under certain conditions. The EMAF algorithm is fully unsupervised and produces factors ranked according to spatial autocorrelation. Unlike MAF, EMAF does not unnecessarily promote spatial artifacts oriented in one particular direction over other directions. The exact formulation of EMAF, derivations of the mentioned traits, and practical examples of EMAF are found in the following thesis. Preliminary experiments show that EMAF returns factors of improved quality compared to MAF.
The Implementation of Genre-Based Approach to Improve Students’ Writing Skill on Narrative Text at Second Grade of Senior High School.

This was an action research study which consisted of two cycles. The procedures of the research were planning, action and observation, and reflection. The researcher collaborated with the English teacher. The subjects of the research were XI MIA-A students of MAS Al-Washliyah 22 Tembung in the academic year of 2019/2020. The class consisted of 40 students. The data were obtained by observing the teaching and learning process, interviewing the students and collaborators, giving tests, and taking pictures. The instruments used in this research were observation checklist, interview guidelines, and scoring rubrics. The data from the observation and interview were analyzed by making qualitative descriptions while the data from the pre-cycle test, Cycle I, and Cycle 2 were analyzed by comparing the mean score of the students’ writing scores. The result showed that the students’ writing ability especially in narrative text could be improved through the implementation of the Genre based approach. The students’ attitude toward learning English was also improved in a positive way proven by the improvement of their classroom participation. Scores of the students’ writing performance also indicate an improvement in the students’ writing skill. The students’ mean scores gradually increased from 52.35 in the pre-cycle test to 69.75 by the end of Cycle I and to 82.15 by the end of Cycle II
Use of learning resources in teaching English to the third graders

There is a lot of talk about learning English at a young age, about its positive and negative sides due to having English as an optional subject in the 1st grade of elementary school and as a mandatory subject in the 2nd grade. Because of these early starts of learning English it is important that teachers choose the right methods and ways of working with students and the right learning resources that will help children understand new meanings. The learning resources must be concrete, interesting and fun. They have to encourage children and help them with learning and remembering. Learning resources have a big role in teaching English to young learners and that is why we decided to explore the use of learning resources in the 3rd grade of elementary school and the teachers’ and students’ opinions of them. In the empirical section we will present the results of a quantitative research we conducted to find out which teaching resources Slovenian teachers use in teaching English in the 3rd grade of elementary school, in which part of the learning process they use them, in combination with which forms of teaching they use them, how they acquire the teaching resources, which is the most motivating resource to use in class in their opinion, for development of which linguistic skill they use a certain resource and what the positive aspects and problems of using a certain resource are. We will also find out what the students think of a certain resource and if they prefer to work with the resource alone or they would rather see the teacher to work with it. We asked 80 Slovenian teachers, who teach English in the 3rd grade and 80 students of the 3rd grade to complete the questionnaire. The research will give us an insights into the use of resources in teaching English in the 3rd grade of elementary school and the teachers’ and students’ opinions of them. The findings can serve as help and recommendation to educational programmes and teachers of English in choosing the right teaching resources.
Improving The Students’ Ability in Writing Descriptive Text Through Five Senses Technique at Eighth Grade of MTs Cerdas Murni Tembung.

This research was aimed to find out the implementation of five senses technique to improve the students’ writing ability in writing descriptive text. The subject of this study were 32 students at VIII grade of MTs Cerdas Murni Tembung. This research was conducted by using Classroom Action Research. The qualitative data were obtained from observation sheet and interview sheet. The quantitative data were obtained from test which carried out at the end of every cycles. the tests were given to the students in pre-test, post-test I and post-test II. The result of data analysis showed that the students’ score increased from the first test, post-test of cycle I to the post-test of cycle II. It could be seen from the mean of pre-test was 56,68. There were 21,88% (7 students) who passed the Minimum Passing Grade (MPG). In the post test of cycle I, the mean was 71,84. There were 56,25% (17 students) who passed MPG. In the post test of cycle II, the mean was 77,78. There were 78,13% (23 students) who passed MPG. It indicated that was improvement of the students’ ability in writing descriptive text through Five Senses Technique.
Students’ Perception Of Lecturers’ Role In Enhancing Efl learners’ Communication Ability (A Study At Eight Semester On Academic Year 2018 In IAIN Curup)

The main goal of this study was to investigate about lecturer’s role in teaching speaking for enhancing students’ communication ability. The researcher employed descriptive quantitative method which was to know the students’ perception on lecturers’ roles to achieve students’ communication ability. Then, the researcher chose three lecturers of speaking subject to know about students’ perception on lecturers’ roles in enhancing EFL learners’ communication ability as the purpose of teaching speaking skill. The result shows that the majority of students’ perception was in positive category when the lecturers play the various roles in assisting students to improve their communication ability. However, Lecturer “A” still need to be more maximize his role as need analyst and Lecturer “B” also need to consider his role as manager in teaching speaking, because both of lecturers got neutral perception. Thus, the lecturers’ role is crucial for improving students’ communication ability.
Efficient public integrity auditing with secure deduplication in cloud computing

With the rapid development of cloud computing, storing data to cloud server becomes an increasing trend which promotes integrity auditing and data deduplication to be two hot research topics. Recently, some existing schemes addressed a problem about integrity auditing with deduplication. However, these schemes did not support aggregating authentication tags of different users in the integrity auditing process, which caused a heavy computation cost to the third party auditor TPA, especially in the batch auditing process. In this paper, we propose an efficient public auditing with secure deduplication scheme using the idea of aggregate signature, which makes the TPA verify the correctness of integrity proof generated by the cloud service provider with a constant computation cost. Our scheme can also efficiently support batch auditing, whose auditing complexity on the TPA is independent of the number of auditing tasks. Finally, we prove that our scheme is secure and efficient through security analysis and performance evaluation.
Foreign Exchange Rate and Economic Growth Nexus: New Evidence from Nigeria (1981 to 2017)

The paper estimates the impact of foreign exchange rate on economic growth of Nigeria.The study makes used of Autoregressive Distributed Lag model (ARDL) on time series Data, for the period 1981-2017.The data set on real effective exchange rate, inflation rate, money supply, lending interest rate, real GDP and foreign direct investment, oil revenue and trade openness (% of GDP) were tested for stationary using ADF and PP tests and established stationarity at I (1) for five variables and I (0) for two variables.The correlation test result shows that the highest correlation is between money supply and oil revenue while the lowest correlation is between inflation rate and foreign direct investment.The ARDL Co-integration test revealed the existence of long-run relationship among the variables.ARDL test results reveal that real effective exchange rate is negatively and significant in explaining economic growth in Nigeria in the long-run.In the short-run, the lag value of real effective exchange rate is insignificant in explaining the changes in the current rate of economic growth.in the same period, the lag value of money supply is negative and significant in explaining GDP.But in the long run it is positive and significant in explaining economic growth in Nigeria.The rate of inflation both in the short run and long run is negatively and significant in explaining GDP.The Error Correction Term value of 20.7% shows the speed of adjustment toward long-run equilibrium The findings of the study imply that interest rate in Nigeria is inflationary.Meaning that increase in the rate of interest rate will lead to an increase inflation rate.Therefore, the research study concludes that the impact of foreign exchange rate on the economic growth of Nigeria is negative and significant and that the monetary authorities should adopt flexible exchange rate in Nigeria.
InfoGuides: SPAN 470 Hispanic Studies Beyond Graduation- Professor Lila McDowell Carlsen: MLA Citation 8th edition

This course will connect Hispanic Studies with other fields of study and the professional world.
LibGuides: 2020 Battle of the Books: Home

On March 6th 2020, upper Elementary Students from International Schools in Shanghai will meet all day on Shanghai American School's Pudong Campus to participate in the 2020 Battle of the Books
Stuck state avoidance through PID estimation training of Q-learning agent

Reinforcement learning is conceptually based on an agent learning through interaction with its environment. This trial-and-error learning method makes the process prone to situations in which the a ...
Cultural Background and First Language Acquisition as the Errors Interfere in Second Language Acquisition : a Case Indonesian EFL Writing

Abstract : Error Analysis is one of the major topics in the field of second language acquisition research. The learner of English as a second language is unaware of the existence of the particular system or rule in English language. The learner’s errors have long been interested for second and foreign language researchers. Some factors contributes in error of second language acquistion are habit formation relates to cultural background which bound their backgorund in education and another aspects. This paper attempts to investigate the notion of cultural background as the factors of errors in SLA which is the result of interference L1. The method that the researcher used is case study qualitative research, in which studying a phenomenon over time within its natural setting in one or a few sites. The result of the study indicates that cultural background, the society and education takes the big role in second language acquisition. The students with some English experiences even not native language, more adequate in comprehend the written form. Keywords : Error analysis, interference, second language acquisition
A Metrics-based Framework for Estimating the Maintainability of Object-Oriented Software

Time, effort and money required in maintaining software has always been considered greater than its development time.Also, its ambiguity in forecast at early stage of software development makes the process more complicated.The early estimation of maintainability will significantly help software designers to adjust the software product, if there is any fault, in early stages of designing.By doing this; time, effort and money required in maintaining software will be lessened.Although Object Oriented Software Development (OOSD) approach is equipped for enhancing software maintainability, a method for finding out if the required level of maintenance is being achieved amid the development process is required.This can be accomplished through measurement.This paper outlines the need and importance of maintainability at design phase and develops a Metrics-Based Maintainability Estimation Framework for Object-Oriented software(MEFOOS) that estimates the maintainability of object oriented software components in regard of their Understandability, Modifiability and Portability-which are the sub-attributes of maintainability.
Perfil del aprendiz estratégico para el estudio de Cálculo Diferencial mediado por las TIC

This article presents an approximation to the characterization of the strategic student profile for the Differential Calculus course. According to the problem and the objectives that were proposed, an investigation with descriptive exploratory scope was considered, with a non-experimental type design. The results of this research helped to propose, for the future, the development of other studies linked to the implementation of the proposal of the pedagogical and didactic model mediated by information and communication technologies (ICT) that allow for the promotion of the dynamic role of the student in his/her learning process, as well as a new configuration of the teaching role from the pedagogical posture framed in teaching and strategic learning.
Partial pose estimation of 3D rigid object system using outer box method

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;This article introduces a novel approach for identify partial pose estimation using template matching method. The algorithms performs 2D correlation matching on tested image to CAD database by using regional shape representation in order to get the similar object pose in CAD database. The descriptor named outer box method, it is useful for rescale or aligning object size in both different images of tested image and CAD database image and also provide interest point for segmentation in image registration stage. The proposed algorithm were experimentally shown to be robust to apply on scale changes, various complex shape, unstructured CAD database and mixed CAD model database. Last part, the identified pose and its retrieved pose angle was calculated and achieved high accuracyin range ±0.388˚ to ±1.471˚.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
The Use of Authentic Materials In “Cambridge Primary English Stage 4 Learner’s Book” to Teach Reading (A Case Study)

&lt;p&gt;This research aimed at: (1) identifying the authentic materials written in “Cambridge Primary English Stage 4 Learner’s Book”; (2) describing how authentic materials are implemented to teach reading; and (3) describing the problems in implementing authentic materials to teach reading and solutions proposed by the teacher. This research was designed as qualitative case study conducted in Islamic International Private Elementary School in Surakarta. The subject of the research was the English teacher who each reading at the fourth grade of international class program (ICP). The research data were collected through observation, interview, teaching learning documents, textbook analysis and were analyzed by using interactive model proposed by Miles, Hubarman, and Saldana (2014). Findings of the research were: (1) the authentic materials used in “Cambridge Primary English Stage 4 Learner’s Book” were: a) posters, b) book covers, c) cards, d) book index, and e) blurb. (2) The implementation of the use of authentic materials in “Cambridge Primary English Stage 4 Learner’s Book” were: a) posters were used to inform the students the elements of the narrative text or story, b) book covers were used to analyse and guess the content of book or story which is included title, character, setting, plot, and mood based on its covers, c) cards were used by to teach descriptive text, d) book index was used to teach ordered information and e) blurb was used to teach how to identify the content of the story book. Most of the authentic materials were used in pre-reading activities. (3) Five problems in implementing authentic materials to teach reading were: a) the students’ understanding of English grammar, b) the content of authentic material, c) comprehensive linguistic competences to write correct sentence was less related to grammar function, d) language focus related the text which the students was going to write, and e) students’ lack of vocabulary mastery. Four Solutions proposed by the teacher were (a) giving new vocabulary and stimulation words, (b) studying the other example of authentic material related to the material discussed, (c) having discussion with students, and (d) improving students’ understanding about the discussed materials. It is recommended to use textbook entitled “Cambridge English Primary Stage 4 Learner’s Book” not only in the school where the researcher conducted the research, but also in other elementary schools emphasing on teaching reading skill by using authentic materials.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Keywords&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;em&gt;Authentic Material, Cambridge English Textbook, Reading Skill.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
SDCC Library: New York Times (NYTimes.com): For Educators: The New York Times in Education

San Diego City College Library now provides full, complimentary access to NYTimes.com, New York Times mobile apps, and New York Times in Education to SDCC students, faculty, and staff. Resource for educators
Increasing Students’ Vocabulary Through Semantic Mapping Strategy at Eleven Years of SMKN 1 Muara Batu Aceh Utara.

This research is aimed to increase the vocabulary of eleven years of SMKN 1 MuaraBatu Aceh Utara through semantic mapping strategy.This study was an action research study. It was done in two cycles, from 14th of march to 12th of april 2018. The steps of the research were reconnaissance, planning, action and observation and reflection. The subjects of this research were 21 students of RPL class. The data were in the form of qualitative and quantitative data. The qualitative data were collected through observing the teaching learning process, interviewing the students and the teacher, holding the discussion with the teacher, and taking photographs of the teaching learning process. The quantitative data were collected from the students’ vocabulary score of pre-test and post-test to see the improvement of the students’ vocabulary mastery. The instruments for collecting data were interview guidelines, observations checklist, field notes, and a camera. The research findings showed that vocabulary mastery of most students increased after semantic mapping strategy was used in the teaching and learning process. It was indicated by the increase of the mean of students’ vocabulary score in the pre-test and post-test (54.2 to 81.4). The students’ involvement and classroom interaction during the implementation of the strategy were improved. It was showed by students’ enthusiasm during teaching and learning process. The strategy and the complementary actions were successful to help the students memorize and understand new words easily. In conclusion, the students’ vocabulary mastery was increased through the implementation of Semantic mapping strategy.
Analysis of Bibliotherapy Based on Virtual Reality

Bibliotherapy uses literature as a medium, and uses reading as a means of health care and auxiliary treatment for diseases.It is a method of maintaining and restoring physical and mental health through the comprehension of the designated literature.Virtual reality is a comprehensive technology integrating computer graphics, simulation, sensing and multimedia.The combination of Bibliotherapy and virtual reality technology is feasible.Virtual reality reading uses sensing, interaction and three-dimensional graphics to create a realistic virtual world of books.Users can read books through various senses such as sight, hearing and touch.Bibliotherapy has the requirements of increasing participation, accelerating the realization of principles, and constructing the environment in virtual reality.Virtual reality Bibliotherapy is based on the goal of readers to drive, therapeutic model can achieve immersive psychological experience and deep virtual interactive experience.The promotion of virtual reality Bibliotherapy can assist the construction of social psychological harmony with low cost.
Diferencias en el nivel de competencia mediática por tipo de sistema educativo

Education in media literacy in Ecuador has gained special relevance in the last decade. Both academics and researchers have pointed out that the country also needs to reduce the digital divide; and train students, teachers and all members of society in the use and consumption of traditional and digital media. Previous studies show that the level of media competency differs by type of education system, whether it is private, co-financed or public. This research determines if the type of education system (regular urban education, regular rural education, and flexible and distance education) is an influential factor in the generation of competencies. Through a ques­tionnaire and the corresponding statistical analysis, it was concluded that students who attended the regular education system within the city demonstrated a higher level of media competency compared to the other participants of the study. Differences were found in gender, age and level of media competency. Applying these results is impor­tant to improve public policies in education, training and access to the Internet and new technologies.