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A Media Discourse Analysis on the Discourses of Fairness of the College Admission Systems in South Korea

The purpose of this study was to reveal the discourses of fairness germane to the college admission systems. To do so, the study paid close attention to the comprehensive student record screening (the so-called Hakjong in Korean), a revised version of the college admissions officer system in South Korea. To analyze the varigated public opinion son fairness entwined deeply in the college admission systems, I conducted a critical discours eanalysis (CDA) of newspaper articles published in South Korea. In so doing, I illustrated three interrelated discourses: (a) the evaluations of students’ potentials, (b) the competitions for various qualifications (i.e., spec, a widely used term in South Korea) to get admissions from the highly selective colleges, and (c) the Hakjong (the comprehensive student record screening) versus the CSAT (the College Scholastic Ability Test). Furthermore, the order of discourses of fairness overarching these interrelated discourses is intimately attached to powerful ideologies (e.g., neoliberalism and meritocracy) in, but not limited to, Korean society/societies. Based upon CDA, this study articulates a crucial point: the order of discourses of fairness germane to the college admission systems serves crucial roles to (re)shape unequal relations of power that perpetuate social inequality in South Korea. This work, by doing so, offers insights to address various critical issues related to the fields of education as well as the college admission systems in South Korea.
A Study on the Design of Secondary School ‘Music Video Making' Based on Backward Design

The purpose of this study is to design music video making classes in secondary music and creative areas based on backword design. To this end, McTai and Wiggins' backword design techniques were reviewed according to the literature research method, and based on this, a three-step procedure was devised to make music videos in the creative area for secondary learners. The implications of this study are as follows. First, it is possible to secure the essence of important music curriculum content that can be hidden by video production activities. Second, evaluation criteria are clearly set even in situations where creative areas and media utilization are mixed. Third, the nature of process-oriented evaluation is very prominent. Fourth, for the purpose of achieving and transferring learners, consideration of evaluation evidence, that is, the results of activities, is conducted in various ways in depth. Finally, in establishing a 'goal-evaluation-activity plan', the organicity of each stage is strengthened and integration is possible. It is hoped that this study will be of methodological help to music creation classes using media.
The Influence of Teachers’ Instructional Styles as Hidden Curriculum on Building Children’s Sense of Community

The formation and enhancement of children’s sense of community was specified in the revised curriculum in 2009, and creative experiential activities as well as subjects are being utilized in schools’ intentional plans. However, not all learning occurs through deliberate planning; unintended hidden curriculum may exist. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of teachers’ permissive and authoritarian instructional styles based on children’s sense of community as hidden curriculum and the interacting effects of children’s home background and instructional styles. This study set up a research model based on the emergence process o fthe self and mind, i.e., the sense of community presented in Mead's symbolic interaction theory. This study uses longitudinal data from the 4th and 6th grades of elementary school to control the endogeneity of instructional styles measured through children’s responses, and the fixed effect model was applied to increase the possibility of causal explanations. The analysis in this study shows that a teacher’s permissive instructional style significantly improves the child’s sense o fcommunity, and there is a significant interaction effect between a teacher’s permissive instructional style and the child’s social background. However, an authoritarian instructional style was found to significantly reduce a child’s sense of community. The building of children’s sense of community by the teacher’s choice of instructional styles is not perceived by the teacher because it is not intended, and therefore, it can be said to be a hidden curriculum. The results of this study were interpreted based on the symbolic interaction theory.
REGIS: Refining Generated Videos via Iterative Stylistic Redesigning

Abstract In recent years, generative models have made impressive advancements towards realistic output; in particular, models working in the modalities of text and audio have reached a level of quality at which generated text or audio cannot be easily distinguished from real text or audio Despite these revolutionary advancements, the synthesis of realistic and temporally consistent videos is still in its inception. In this paper, we introduce a novel approach to the creation of realistic videos that focuses on improving the generated video in the latter steps of a video generation process. Specifically, we propose a framework for the iterative refinement of generated videos through repeated passes through a neural network trained to model the spatio-temporal dependencies found in real videos. Through our experiments, we demonstrate that our proposed approach significantly improves upon the generations of text-to-video models and achieves state-of-the-art results of the UCF-101 benchmark; removing the spatio-temporal artifacts and noise that make synthetic videos distinguishable from real videos. In addition, we discuss the ways in which one might augment this framework to achieve better performance.
An Action Research on Improving Flexible Teaching – Learning Delivery in Maritime Administration (MARAD) 206 Through Continuous Improvement Process

The action research was carried out to investigate the areas for improvement in the delivery of Flexible Learning to the School of Graduate Studies in Maritime Administration 206 as students are experiencing disruption of classes due to COVID-19 pandemic. Voice of the customers was obtained through series of structured interviews conducted to the six participants of the study via MS Teams and via Facebook. Two major questions were provided: one on the areas for improvement on the delivery of Flexible learning and the other question on the suggestions on the continual improvement of the process. Thematic Analysis which is adaptable to qualitative research to generate themes was used and four themes that needs improvement with corresponding suggestions were identified such as: a) module content; b) monitoring and supervision of students; c) student’s outputs; and d) mode of delivery. The results suggested that module content must be aligned with the STCW standards and provide more examples; on the other hand, there should be immediate and reasonable feedback in terms of the submitted outputs, flexibility on the submission is likewise requested on monitoring and supervision of students. Relative to student’s outputs, adequate support from the faculty members and the SGS were suggested. Relative to mode of delivery, distance learning with the available technology was highly recommended specifically for those students who are onboard but should have a clear policies and guidelines.
Leadership In Education

Leadership is a most important factor in education. It is a central concept of understanding and organizing in educational institutions. Its promoting team spirit and developing a healthy and positive work climate for better effective performance. Educational leadership is the act of influencing others in educational setting and the need for some type of actions to achieve goals. When they play a deputed responsibility concerning that responsibility, they are affected and they are leading. Though educational leadership abstractly done responsibility, in practice it is not necessarily the responsibility for the functioning of the educational system in which influenced is exercised. They develop and support teachers, create positive working environment, formulate appropriate organizational policies and system of improve quality education. Educational leadership is primarily associated with enhancement of student learning and their growth and development.
Digital Resources: What academic libraries need to know and how important they are

New technologies have always piqued the interest of libraries because they can improve service quality and operational efficiency. Public, academic, and special libraries alike are currently eager to embrace new technologies, particularly the usage of e-resources, as they provide the opportunity to lower operating costs and enhance administration of users and collections. Electronic copies of books, journals, and other reading materials that have been digitized so that computers can read them are known as e-resources. These days, a large number of library resources are available electronically and online. Anytime, anywhere, around the clock, everyone can get the information they need.
Humanising Online Teaching and Learning in the BEd. Foundation Phase Programme: Moving Beyond Covid-19

Covid-19 brought unforeseen and unpredicted challenges to higher education institutions (HEIs). In this paper, we recount the authors' experiences of exploring a humanising pedagogy as a way of practising social justice during online learning. Our Bachelor of Education, Foundation Phase (FP) classes consist of students from predominantly rural and urban low socioeconomic environments. The primary focus of this study was to explore the experiences of lecturers who teach a humanising pedagogy-embedded programme in the FP at an HEI through online learning in a highly under-resourced context. The study further focuses on technological strategies and pedagogies used in HEIs, issues related to lecturers' inclination and adaptation to technology, the digital divide, and barriers to online learning. This study resides within a critical transformative paradigm, and uses humanising pedagogy principles as a lens. We draw on our lived experiences and engage in dialogue to make sense of the process of online learning. In this qualitative research, we engage in narrative freewriting to gather data. Thematic analysis was used to reduce the data and to identify common themes. The two themes that emerged, and are discussed in this paper, are mutual vulnerability and lecturer resilience and collaboration. The findings of the study encouraged lecturers to critically reflect on the challenges and opportunities that Covid-19 presented, and to incorporate some of the practices that enabled better delivery of teaching in a humanising way.
Humour without Pathos of Internet Memes in the Context of Online Visual Communication

In this article we focus on internet memes that have become an important genre of online communication, as internet users have created a new visual language: not only in form, but also in meaning (often very satiric). Internet memes relate to the Web 2.0 phenomenon, where users can access hundreds of meme templates, images, or short videos, and can assign them a specific meaning. The aim of this article is to theoretically define the “memetic visual language” with specific background, forms, and rules for creating and decoding it. In the empirical part of paper, we present a selection of examples put forward by the Slovak project ZOMRI, meant to demonstrate without pathos, but with humour, the power of internet memes to depict the personality of Slovak president Zuzana Caputova.
The Relationship of Emotional Intelligence and Self Esteem with Self-Efficacy in College Students

Background : Self efficacy It is very important to fulfill life's obligations, until results are achieved. Emotional intelligence is the ability to recognize our own feelings and the feelings of others, the ability to motivate ourselves, and the ability to manage emotions well. Self esteem the higher the higherself efficacy career decision making.Research purposes :to find out the relationship between emotional intelligence andself esteem withself efficacy on Yatsi Madani University students. Research methods :This research uses quantitative methodscross sectional, plansnon probability sampling dno onerandom sampling, population 699 respondents. Number of samplesfall down5% of 118 respondents.Research result:It is known that 120 respondents were 70 respondents (58.3%) medium, 43 respondents (35.8%), high 16 respondents (13.3%) low, using the testchi-square, markp-value 0.004 &lt; 0.005 (HA) is accepted. 120 respondents 70 respondents (58.3%) high, 43 respondents (35.8%) moderate, and 7 respondents (5.8%) haveself efficacy andself esteem markp value 0.000&lt;0.005 (HA) is accepted.
Transdisciplinary Principles of Consolidation

One of the problems of Big Data is described, namely the consolidated use of network narratives. There is currently no technological solution of this problem. For its implementation, it is necessary to identify a set of semantic connections of particular contexts from different narratives. Such a process is transdisciplinary in nature, because the types of these contexts are different. And their semantic equivalence and correlations can be detected only on the basis of the interpretation of the properties of their concepts. And already on its basis, it is possible to organize them in a form of interaction scenarios in a certain logical order. The article describes the concept of implementing the consolidated use of network narratives based on the ontological representation of their structures. Concept contexts of ontologies are represented as terms with holes in Lambda calculus notation. These ontologies are presented in the format of Böhm’s trees. Further, on their basis, reduction chains are formed, which are interpreted as a narrative discourse. Thus, the narrative discourse determines the technological basis of consolidation, as a cognitive and communicative act of intercontextual interaction of the narratives used. On the basis of a transdisciplinary approach to the consolidation of network narratives, a portal for the study of historical and cultural heritage was formed. The tools that were created according to the given concept ensured the consolidated use of various forms of display of museum exhibits and corresponding historical narratives as passive knowledge systems. Based on the transdisciplinary principles of consolidation of network narratives, the user is provided with mechanisms for their full-scale linking based on the semantic proximity of their detected contexts. This implements the processes of automatic formation of fully connected context-oriented information environments based on a set of concepts operated by the user.
gmcoda: Graphical model for multiple compositional vectors in microbiome studies

Abstract Motivation Microbes are essential components in the ecosystem and participate in most biological procedures in environments. The high-throughput sequencing technologies help researchers directly quantify the abundance of microbes in a natural environment. Microbiome studies explore the construction, stability, and function of microbial communities with the aid of sequencing technology. However, sequencing technologies only provide relative abundances of microbes, and this kind of data is called compositional data in statistics. The constraint of the constant-sum requires flexible statistical methods for analyzing microbiome data. Current statistical analysis of compositional data mainly focuses on one compositional vector such as bacterial communities. The fungi are also an important component in microbial communities and are always measured by sequencing internal transcribed spacer instead of 16S rRNA genes for bacteria. The different sequencing methods between fungi and bacteria bring two compositional vectors in microbiome studies. Results We propose a novel statistical method, called gmcoda, based on an additive logistic normal distribution for estimating the partial correlation matrix for cross-domain interactions. A majorization–minimization algorithm is proposed to solve the optimization problem involved in gmcoda. Through simulation studies, gmcoda is demonstrated to work well in estimating partial correlations between two compositional vectors. Gmcoda is also applied to infer cross-domain interactions in a real microbiome dataset and finds potential interactions between bacteria and fungi. Availability and implementation Gmcoda is open source and freely available from https://github.com/huayingfang/gmcoda under GNU LGPL v3.
Scalability of differential-(quadrature)-phase-shift quantum digital signature

The quantum digital signature (QDS) is a quantum communication technology that distributes authentication keys to candidates of message recipients who will confirm if a message received afterward is the legitimate one, referring to the authentication keys. Although accommodating many recipients may be one of the significant QDS system performances, conventional QDS protocols seem indifferent to this issue. In this study, we investigate the number of accommodable recipients in recently proposed differential-phase-shift (DPS) QDS and differential-quadrature-phase-shift (DQPS) QDS systems. They are unique QDS protocols in which quantum signals are broadcasted to all recipients simultaneously, and there is no post data-processing between the sender and recipients, which is favorable to accommodate a large number of recipients. We analyze the system conditions required to satisfy the QDS criteria, and evaluate the maximum number of recipients. The results indicate that around 100 recipients can be accommodated in a 100-km transmission system.
Tires

This chapter synthesizes the life, work, and philosophy of Mike Reynolds, one-time architect and founder of the Earthship Movement based in Taos, New Mexico. For Reynolds tires are the biggest and the single most ubiquitous natural resource in the world and therefore an effective raw material for Reynolds' off the grid biotecture communities of habitations that are known as ‘earthships.’ This article is a synthesis of the author's interview Reynolds in 2021.
Determination of Temazepam Levels in Urine by Gas Chromatography – Mass Spectrometry

Temazepam is a benzodiazepine drug belonging to a class IV psychotropic. Temazepam provides a sedative-hypnotic effect that can help with insomnia. Thanks to the sedative-hypnotic effect it produces, many people take this drug to treat various sleep problems. However, if misused for a long period of time this drug can cause dependence. Therefore, to determine the level of temazepam in a person's body, a confirmation test of temazepam in the urine is needed. The test uses the gas chromatography - mass spectrometry method, this method is the most widely used method in drug testing with very specific results, so the results are not in doubt. This test begins with sample preparation by taking the extract using the solid phase extraction (SPE) method followed by enzyme hydrolysis, centrifugation and derivatization. Based on the tests carried out, positive results were obtained for temazepam with levels of 4444.9895 ng/mL.&#x0D;
METHODS FOR TREATING WASTEWATER FROM ORGANIC POLLUTANTS

Water pollution by organic and inorganic compounds, heavy metals, dyes, radioactive and pharmaceutical compounds has a significant impact on its use. Globalization, structural changes, economic development around the world-all this contributes to the release of pollutants that cause water pollution. That is why wastewater treatment and recovery, removing pollutants from wastewater and wastewater, is one of the most important issues. This literature review examines the problems of water pollution, its sources and types of pollutants found in water, and also discusses purification methods, including methods of water purification from pollutants, in particular phenol, in the presence of nanocomposite catalysts. Recently, more and more attention has been paid to applied nanotechnology using magnetic and carbon nanocomposites due to the advantages of production cost, high surface area, pore volume and environmental sustainability. The literature review focuses on magnetic nanocomposite catalysts based on alternating and rare earth metals with advantages such as low cost of preparation for water disinfection, high surface area, pore volume and environmental resistance. Magnetic carbon nanocomposites usually demonstrate excellent adsorption characteristics of pollutants from aqueous solutions, therefore, the expansion of the use of nanotechnology in water purification is of great importance.
On Adaptive Stochastic Optimization for Streaming Data: A Newton's Method with O(dN) Operations

Stochastic optimization methods encounter new challenges in the realm of streaming, characterized by a continuous flow of large, high-dimensional data. While first-order methods, like stochastic gradient descent, are the natural choice, they often struggle with ill-conditioned problems. In contrast, second-order methods, such as Newton's methods, offer a potential solution, but their computational demands render them impractical. This paper introduces adaptive stochastic optimization methods that bridge the gap between addressing ill-conditioned problems while functioning in a streaming context. Notably, we present an adaptive inversion-free Newton's method with a computational complexity matching that of first-order methods, $\mathcal{O}(dN)$, where $d$ represents the number of dimensions/features, and $N$ the number of data. Theoretical analysis confirms their asymptotic efficiency, and empirical evidence demonstrates their effectiveness, especially in scenarios involving complex covariance structures and challenging initializations. In particular, our adaptive Newton's methods outperform existing methods, while maintaining favorable computational efficiency.
Pengembangan Aplikasi Kamus Bahasa Melayu Dialek Ketapang dengan Implementasi Algoritma Binary Search

As a country that is rich in ethnic, cultural and linguistic diversity, Indonesia has 668 vernacular languages, one of them is Malay. West Kalimantan is one of the regions in Indonesia where majority of the population is Malay. The population used Malay language with a variety of dialects distinctive regional. The Ketapang Malay dialect is used in Ketapang Regency. Vernacular languages which are inherited from the ancestors should be preserved as an effort to maintain their function and position as ethnic identity, personality, as well as a means to show the variety of regional culture. Unfortunately, along with the times and influx of foreign cultural influences to Indonesia as an impact of globalization, many words of Malay Ketapang dialect underwent changes, developments and displacements, moreover leading to extinction. This research developed an Android-based application of Ketapang Malay Dictionary (KBMK) with the implementation of the binary search algorithm. Application was developed using following method, data collecting, application development, application testing, and system evaluation. Blackbox testing shows that the binary search algorithm is able to search the keyword correctly. Furthermore, the KBMK application was tested using a usability evaluation, evaluation obtained an average score of 4.48 indicating that the application is useful and effective in conducting searches, and providing user satisfaction.