Reviewerly/exHarmony huggingface dataset:
SSNet: Learning Mid-Level Image Representation Using Salient Superpixel Network

In the standard bag-of-visual-words (BoVW) model, the burstiness problem of features and the ignorance of high-order information often weakens the discriminative power of image representation. To tackle them, we present a novel framework, named the Salient Superpixel Network, to learn the mid-level image representation. For reducing the impact of burstiness occurred in the background region, we use the salient regions instead of the whole image to extract local features, and a fast saliency detection algorithm based on the Gestalt grouping principle is proposed to generate image saliency maps. In order to introduce the high-order information, we propose a weighted second-order pooling (WSOP) method, which is capable of exploiting the high-order information and further alleviating the impact of burstiness in the foreground region. Then, we conduct experiments on six image classification benchmark datasets, and the results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed framework with either the handcrafted or the off-the-shelf CNN features.
Implementation of Literacy Programs in Basic High School Class

Literacy programs develop the language skills of high-class students, especially reading and writing skills.For this reason, good understanding and the optimal role of all elements are needed so that the program can be further developed in a variety of meaningful activities.This study aims to describe the understanding of teachers, the condition of students and the supporting and inhibiting factors for the implementation of literacy programs in high school elementary schools.The results of the study indicate that the understanding of high-class teachers in the three primary schools is categorized as good.This can be seen from the fact that the literacy program in the high class has been carried out in activities that are diverse and meaningful both independent and integrated with learning.The condition of students has increased in terms of reading interest and language skills especially reading and writing.There are supporting factors such as reading angles in each class as well as donations of books from parents and inhibiting factors such as the diversity of reading interests and students' reading comprehension abilities.Based on the results of the study, it can be concluded that the Literacy Program in schools becomes an inseparable part in an effort to prepare high-class students to become candidates for class VII students with a strong reading comprehension ability.For this reason, all elements are obliged to make the program successful in order to be more optimal.
Hand/Cup/Stone

This article takes a look at notions of agency as experienced by the author in her sound art practice. Primarily a personal reflection on creative practice rather than a theoretical or scholarly piece, the author reviews difference stages of the compositional process and considers where agency lies - with her as composer, with the objects she manipulates, with the electronics that animate those objects, or with the audience / viewers / participants that ultimately experience the work? Landing ultimately on an idea of the agency of imagination, the article also explores ideas of direct, shared, artificial, prosthetic and relational agency. The case study most consistently referred to is Ficarra's work Piano Bench Variations, which premiered at 1078 Gallery in Chico California in January 2019 as part of the Broken Open collaborative exhibit.
Geovisual Analytics of Spatio-Temporal Earthquake Data in Indonesia

Indonesia is one of the nations located in the Ring of Fire. Indonesia has a high level of geodynamic activities so that it's often earthquake tectonics. The earthquakes are caused by Indonesia position located in the confluence of four main plates. At present, the history of earthquake data in Indonesia has been accessible by the public. However, general visualization which can present history earthquake in the form maps and summary statistics have not been available. Therefore, this research aims to visualize the history of earthquake data interactively combining spatial data and temporal data. The data used for this research was obtained from BMKG website. The data variables used in this research include CORS stations and history of earthquake phenomenons between 2004 and 2019. The earthquake phenomenon consists of occurrence time, coordinate position, depth and magnitude. The data are processed using Ms Excel and ArcGIS Online Map then are visualized by Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS. The results of the data processing are maps presented in a dashboard with time-series animation and widgets features. We performed maps, graphics and time-series animation as interactive visual interfaces and matched the tasks to visual analytics techniques that are capable to support them. In this paper, we introduce the relationship between variables and present the visual analytics techniques using several example scenarios of Spatio-temporal earthquake data.
Music as Polylogue of Cultures in Modern Global World in Context of Formation of Polycultural Competence of Future Teachers of Musical Arts

The article deals with the analysis of the role of music and musical education in the context of a polylogue of cultures in the modern global world in connection with the solution of the problem of formation of polycultural competence of future teachers of musical arts. The author arrives at the conclusion that there is a strong necessity to understand the value of the musical and educational processes; to acknowledge the phenomenon of polyculturalism as a historically preconditioned natural manifestation of musical creativity; to become aware of the urgent need to penetrate into a collective and individual (author’s) musical creations; to encourage the emotional and intellectual spheres in a man’s search for original ways of finding the integral picture of musical and cultural reality; to implement a dialogical (polylogical) paradigm into the process of acquiring and reproduction of the national and universal values of the musical culture. It is worth mentioning that the national and cultural interaction makes it possible to integrate all the achievements of the past and the present in the musical and educational process, to encourage the polycultural ability of a man’s mind ready to transform the surrounding musical world, thus providing its gradual progressive development.
Modelling Of A Specialist Within The Multi-Paradigm Educational Process

The article deals with specialist modelling in the context of global social changes in the poly-paradigm educational process. The authors analyze the dynamics of paradigm changes in the Russian and world educational processes, and identify features of educational paradigms and pedagogical models using a historical approach. The article justifies relevance of the competence-based educational model, continuity and polyparadigm of the combination of educational dominants. The article analyzes the concepts "competence" and "key competencies".Development of the post-industrial information society generated a need for a new type of personality, identified competence elements of the new educational model. Much attention is paid to the special modelling. Various modelling approaches are being developed. The researchers emphasize the need to form a special professionally oriented educational environment integrating information-technological components.The specialist model reflects the scope and structure of professional and socio-psychological qualities, knowledge, and skills which form generalized characteristic of a member of society. Development of the educational environment through integration of professionally oriented educational technologies is being intensified. The article concludes that it is necessary to develop universal educational approaches to key competencies developed in young professionals who are in demand in the labor market.
Am I a Technophile? the Narrative Study of Teachers’ Belief about Digital Literacy

The aim of the study is to explore teacher’s belief and practice about the use of digital literacy in the EFL classroom. The framework of Borg (2006) about teacher beliefs is used as a theoretical framework for collecting and analyzing data. This study explores how teacher beliefs affect the use digital literacy. The participants of the study were two senior high school teachers in Indonesia. Researchers conducted interviews, classroom observation, and document analysis such as lesson plans, syllabi, and student assignments. The results of the study showed that it was fully crucial to provide a professional development course which was ready-to-use and met the student’s and teacher’s need because in-service teachers have lack of knowledge and experience about digital literacy from their formal learning context. The support of school communities in term of regulation, discussion, sharing experience, and technical aid. Moreover, promoting technology-rich environment also facilitate the use of digital literacy in the classroom in which the technology adopted should be in accordance with digital competence and the needs of students and teachers.
Different Models of Random Walk

This paper is devoted to studying what call irregular random walk on the non-negative integers. The random walk plays an essential role in different areas of applications. It models many problems in a way to make it easier to handle and study. A random walk, in general, is a sequence of partial sums of independent identically distributed random variables. The type which well be considered in is partial sums of random variables that are not necessarily independent or identically distributed. The type of random walk of being transient or recurrent is one of the most important concepts to be studied. The random walk is said to be recurrent if the walker starts at some state and the return time to the starting state is finite almost surely, and transient if there is a positive probability of not returning to the starting state. The recurrent random walk is positive if the mean return time is also finite, and it is null recurrent otherwise.
Privacy and Security in Requirements Engineering: Results from a Systematic Literature Mapping

Computing has been revolutionizing the way people communicate, share, and access information. Consequently, concerns about privacy and security are increasing. In this scenario, the literature reports that it is necessary to address privacy and security from the Requirements Engineering (RE) phase. This paper presents the results of a Systematic Literature Mapping, covers the period from 2000 to 2016, whose goal is to understand the current state of approaches concerning privacy and security in RE domain. We divided the results into research topics, research methods, types of study, research problems, and indications of future works regarding the eld of privacy and security in RE.
Hadoop-based Parallel Algorithm for Data Mining in Remote Sensing Images

As a typical distributed parallel computing model, cloud computing can greatly reduce the execution time of computing tasks.Remote sensing image data mining, an important part of data mining, plays a significant role in meteorological analysis and earthquake prediction.By constructing a Hadoop cloud computing platform, this paper studies the Hadoop-based parallel algorithm for remote sensing image data mining.In accordance with the Hadoop distributed computing framework, the parallel algorithm for remote sensing image data mining is realized through data preprocessing, image feature extraction, and clustering analysis.The main work of this paper includes image preprocessing, Hadoop-based parallelization of remote sensing image feature extraction, and a Hadoop-based parallel algorithm for remote sensing image data mining.
A User-Based Method To Test The Usability of University of Zakho Website

Websites developed for an organisation, especially a university, always need maintenance and improvements to increase user satisfaction and to provide an environment that provides up-to-date information and services in efficient ways. Unfortunately, academic websites are often designed depended on the structure and objectives of an organisation, rather than on whether students, lecturers, and administrative staff find the website usable. This leaves the website users’ needs and expectations unsatisfied. The University of Zakho (UoZ), a public university in the Kurdistan Regional Government, is developing its website to include most of the information required. However, the usability of this website still needs to be checked to know whether or not it satisfies users. This study employs a user-based method to get the rate of usability satisfaction from the perspective of students and academic staff, and it investigates whether the occupation has significant impacts on usability satisfaction. This method is achieved by using a Website Analysis and Measurement Inventory (WAMMI) questionnaire, which is including five factors: attractiveness, controllability, helpfulness, efficiency, and learnability. The study offers recommendations and suggestions to the UoZ web developers for improving the website during the maintenance period. Further, this study proposes ways to enhance the academic websites usability.
Assessment Models in Early Childhood Based on Android to Increase Competency of Pedagogic Teachers of Kindergarten

Assessment activities are important in the learning process in kindergarten.The results of the preliminary study were mostly carried out manually and limited to certain assessment techniques.This study seeks to draft a technology application for assessment in kindergarten.The purpose of this study is to help kindergarten teachers conduct assessments easily and interestingly and can communicate directly with parents through the android online application.This study developed a draft assessment model for early childhood development based on online android "MATAGURU".The Android-based early childhood development assessment model was developed through the development of a model by Borg and Gall (2003).This assessment model includes several assessment techniques that can record all aspects of early childhood development.Through this application, can be recorded quickly about early childhood development, accurately and comprehensively.Subsequent research will be tested on the effectiveness of the child development assessment model with the application of "MATAGURU" in the DKI Jakarta Kindergarten, Indonesia.
Incubation publication model for quality improvement of scientific book: A case study of books on functional food

Background of the study: Lack of information on functional food ingredients in book form has encouraged LIPI Press to create an incubation scheme for scientific publications that can Accelerate the process of publishing scientific texts, roommates are always constrained by the halt of creative ideas from the authors.Purpose: The concept of implementing a scientific publication incubation scheme involves the process of transfer of knowledge and learning is a complex process and involves many parties, from the stage of ideas (ideation) until the book becomes available and is worth reading by the target reader.Method: The novelty aspect of research in the context of this activity is the implementation of the book publishing scheme (scientific), thus the need to establish an appropriate model.Findings: The concept of this the model emphasizes the aspects of knowledge management and communication between actors in publications items, namely, writers, experts, and publishers (editors).Conclusion: In this case, knowledge management will identify the most influential factors in supporting the incubation modeling of book publications so that the acceleration of the publication process can be optimized.
The Information Behavior of Mothers: Instinct as Information

Previous research on the information-seeking behaviour of parents is extremely narrow in scope, focusing on parents whose children have medical or psychological concerns. This research hopes to share the information-seeking behaviours of a broader population, parents of adolescents (children between 10-19 years old). Using the Information Horizon Method (Sonnenwald 1999), this research project incorporates semi-structured interviews with three mothers who currently have two adolescent children each. The interviews contained neutral questions regarding information resources used by parents when determining general information regarding their children’s lives. The findings show that there is a great preference for interpersonal resources, with the most attended to and preferred ones being the resources inside the home, which include spouse, the child, or the child’s sibling. It is only if they are not satisfied with the information gathered from those resources that the parents would go outside the home, at which point the resources are chosen based on the situation. Certain resources that parents are attempting to have in their information horizon are social media and internet use. Parents use different techniques to access information on their children’s social media accounts or look at friends’ private profiles. They also incorporate techniques with computers in general, such as allowing them only in open spaces, where parents are able to quickly glance at screens. Lastly, all parents depicted an indescribable embodied knowledge that concerned the state of their children. This intuition was the starting point of all information-seeking processes depicted in this research project. They called this intuition maternal instinct.
“Connecting a Different Reading Public: Compiling 美国文学大辞典"

At the end of 2015, ten years after the project was initiated, A Companion to American Literature was finally published by Commercial Press in Beijing.This was the first attempt in Chinese academia at compiling a large-scale handbook covering foreign literature published in China and in Chinese.The Companion provides readers in China with easy access to sources in order for them to gain a better understanding of three hundred years of American literature.It includes well-known authors and their major works, literary historians and critics, literary journals, awards, organizations and movements, as well as terminologies such as "tall tale" and "minstrel show" that are unique to American literature.We started in a small way in 2003 after a suggestion from Fudan University Press that we provide a handy companion on American literature for Chinese undergraduates and graduate students.
Uso de Metodologias Criativas no Processo de Ensino da Disciplina Engenharia de Requisitos

Developing the ability to define the requirements of a system is one of the core competencies and objectives of the Requirements Engineering course. Several traditional teaching methods are used by the academy for this purpose, also trying to support experiences closer to reality and the generation of solutions more in line with the demands of stakeholders. However, they do not seem to meet the students' learning needs, who show a growing interest in more creative, interactive, engaging and participatory approaches. This paper evaluates the perception of graduate students in Software Engineering about creative teaching methodologies in the discipline of Requirements Engineering. For this purpose, an exploratory-descriptive study was carried out, where a questionnaire was applied to the students. The results show a favourable perception of the involved students in applying creative techniques.
Effectiveness of Reading Aloud Strategies for Inferential Reading Comprehension Skills and Text Difficulties of Saudi Students at University Level

Reading comprehension is the ability to process text. It is an essential part of learning for university students. A lot of strategies are used for reading. Among them, reading aloud strategies are vital reading strategies. Saudi Arabia is a country where English is to be spoken as a second language. Due to weak school basal reading, the Saudi students have problem with reading text level where they are failed at university learning material for high-level reading skills such as inferential, evaluative, and critical reading. However; in this study, a survey was distributed among 27 students to know their opinion about the effectiveness of reading aloud strategies for inferential reading comprehension skills and text difficulties of Saudi students at the university level. Convenience sampling was used as both the researchers were from the same place. The study was conducted at the Department of English. College of Arts, King Faisal University, Alhasa. SPSS descriptive statistics were used for analysis by using SPSS version 21. Atlas-ti 8 reports were also used for the elaboration of major themes during the literature review from previous research studies. The findings showed reasonable effectiveness of these strategies. These strategies were also recommended for future research on inferential reading comprehension skills and the solution of difficult text by having the present set up of strategies being used by Saudi university level students.
Optimizing the Performance of Convolutional Neural Networks on Raspberry PI for Real-time Object Detection

Deep learning has facilitated major advancements in various fields including image detection.This paper is an exploratory study on improving the performance of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) models in environments with limited computing resources, such as the Raspberry Pi.A pretrained state-of-art algorithm for doing near-real time object detection in videos, YOLO ("You-Only-Look-Once") CNN model, was selected for evaluating strategies for optimizing the runtime performance.Various performance analysis tools provided by the Linux kernel were used to measure CPU time and memory footprint.Our results show that loop parallelization, static compilation of weights, and flattening of convolution layers reduce the total runtime by 85% and reduce memory footprint by 53% on a Raspberry Pi 3 device.These findings suggest that the methodological improvements proposed in this work can reduce the computational overload of running CNN models on devices with limited computing resources.
A Novel Multitexton Histogram to Identify the Human Parasite Eggs Based on Textons of Irregular Shape

This paper proposes a method based on Multitexton Histogram (MTH) descriptor to recognize and classificate eight different human parasite eggs: Ascaris, Uncinarias, Trichuris, Hymenolepis Nana, Dyphillobothrium-Pacificum, Taenia-Solium, Fasciola Hepática and Enterobius-Vermicularis identifying textons of irregular shapes in their microscopic images.This proposed method could be used for diagnosis of Parasitic disease and it can be helpful especially in remote places.This paper includes two stages.In the first a feature extraction mechanism integrates the advantages of co-occurrence matrix and histograms to identify irregular morphological structures in the biological images through textons of irregular shape.In the second stage the Support Vector Machine (SVM) is used to classificate the different human parasite eggs.The results were obtaining using a dataset with 2053 human parasite eggs images achieving a success rate of 96,82% in the classification.