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MUSICAL ART AS A MEANS FOR DEVELOPING EMOTIONAL SKILLS IN CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS
Authors: Marcheva Penka
Published: August 2019

The purpose of this publication is to conduct a theoretical and applied study of some technological practices through which to work on emotional intelligence in terms of musical education with children with special educational needs. The object of our study are some technological practices developing children's emotional intelligence.In the theoretical part are examined views of a number of authors related to the nature of emotional intelligence and the specific features of children with special educational needs. The normative basis for pedagogical interaction in this direction is presented. The views of some authors on the specifics of pedagogical activity related to children with special educational needs are discussed. The main parameters of inclusive education are also outlined.Some of the technological possibilities of musical training have been studied in practical aspects. In contrast to empathy in general, artistic empathy requires a particular art language, comprehensible for the individual. Therefore, in order to develop emotional intelligence of children with special educational needs, it is important that specific technological methods are applied, through which their musical experience is developed. The main focus of the publication is the presentation of a copyright educational training aid, related to the development of emotional intelligence of children with special educational needs through the means of art. Its creation and development is based on the theory of artistic emotions (Holopova, 2009).It is applicable in pedagogical activities with children with special educational needs, both in elementary school and kindergarten. It is possible to work through different types of art - music, literature, fine arts. The publication presents a way to use art based on music.
MOTIVATION IN LEARNING MUSICAL INSTRUMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF SELF-DETERMINATION THEORY
Authors: Mihaylov Anastas
Published: August 2019

The relation between motivation and education is a subject of numerous different researches. In spite of that there is a lack of overall concept giving a solid theoretical foundation for building motivation of learning musical instrument. The aim of the article is to fill the gap presenting an overview of a Self-determination theory (SDT) as an approach to building a stable motivation in music education. As a contemporary macro theory of motivation SDT examines the nature and sources of human motivation. Article describes the key components of the theory- notion of basic psychological needs, the concept of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. Relation of motivation with autonomy, competence and relatedness is also discussed. The study puts accent on transformation of the extrinsic into intrinsic motivation, the stages of that process and the application of Self-determination theory in musical education. Results are presented as the basis for future research in the field focusing on perspectives for creating a model for building a stable motivation of learning musical instrument.
INDICATORS FOR MEASURING DIALOGIC SPEECH AT PRE-SCHOOL AGE
Authors: Chuhovska Delyana
Published: August 2019

One of the most important achievements of child development is the learning of a language and its activation through speech. Ferdinand de Saussure believes that “people use the rules of language to produce speech” [1]. In his essay “Course in general linguistics” he distinguishes between language, speech and speech activity. In his view, language is an element of speech activity, but it itself is an integrality. He describes speech activity as heterogeneous and belonging to both the individual and the social sphere. Saussure defines speech as an individual expression of language. Language is a system; speech - its realization.As means of communication, language can be considered as a social, biological or socio-psychological phenomenon. Itsdevelopment begins with birth and continues throughout life. The most intensive processes are those of its adoption in pre-school age. Through spoken communication, children meet their natural need for self-expression, self-assertion and self-actualization. Through the adopted language knowledge they exchange information and express their needs, thoughts, desires and feelings. This dynamic exchange of personally meaningful information through verbal channels can be defined as a dialogic associated speech.In the second half of the last century ontogenetic psycholinguistics greatly expanded its knowledge of how children master the language system, focusing on the linkage of linguistic ontogenesis with the perceptual and cognitive development of children.Linguistics describes the language system as a complex set of three main components with five distinct areas of linguistic functioning, which are differentiated in accordance to the content. Bloom and Lahey (1978) define the basic components of the language system: “a form, content and use” [2].If we accept Bloom and Lahey’s theory of the basic components of language and Chomsky’s theory (speech is an individual expression of language) when looking for criteria to study the dialogue in children, we can assume that dialogue is a process of dynamic exchange of structured language units of speech united by a mutually recognizable form which is structured in accordance to content.The main problem in exploring dialogic speech is the selection of the indicators with the help of which it will be measured. The factually measurable structures - productivity, autonomy, lexical-grammatical shaping of dialogue and integrity (according to Daskalova) are selected for the purposes of the study.
VISUALLY IMPAIRED STUDENTS EDUCATION THROUGH INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGIES
Authors: Ademi Lindita , Ademi Valbon
Published: August 2019

The problem for developing a TTS (text-to-speech) is a very active field of research. As the Human-Computer Interfaces (HCI) come of age, the need for a more ergonomic and natural interface than the current one (keyboard, mouse, etc.) is being constantly felt. Talking of natural interfaces, what comes to mind, is sound (speech) and sight (vision). These form the basis of many intelligent systems research like robotics. Moreover, speech can also serve as an excellent interface for visually impaired , or people with motor neuron disorders. In this paper we attempt at developing a TTS system for Albanian Language. A lot of commercial systems are available for many foreign languages (mostly English), but there is yet to be a competitive system available for Albanian language. Although the task of building very high quality, unlimited vocabulary text-to-speech (TTS) system is still a difficult one, with many open research questions, we believe the building of reasonable quality voices for many tasks can serve our needs. Here we have worked with standard Albanian, the most commonly spoken. We hope to easily extend the system to other languages, since there are a lot of underlying similarities between languages. Albanian language being highly phonetic, result in simple letter-to-sound rules. We used the standard concatenative synthesis. The main problem faced by us was to make the synthesized speech sound natural. We investigated the reasons for the mechanical sounding speech and developed different synthesis models to overcome some of those problems. Moreover, we implemented some standard and also novel intonation and duration modification algorithms, which can be incorporated into the TTS at a later stage. Our main achievement was reasonably legible speech with an unlimited vocabulary. The following paper presents a brief overview of the main text-to-speech synthesis problem and its subproblems, and the initial work done in building a TTS for Albanian.
ADEQUATE TRAINING FOR CHILDREN WITH DYSLEXIA
Authors: Bello Ilia
Published: August 2019

The present study presents the problems of dyslexia, methods of dyslexia, dyslexia therapy programs and special training for dyslexic children.Reading and learning the curriculum are the two things that determine the child's success at school.The word "dyslexia" means difficulty with words or language and is often used in relation to children or adults whose apparent intelligence is contrary to the difficulties they encounter in reading and writing. Matanova (2001) notes that the concept was introduced by the German ophthalmologist R. Berlin in 1884. He makes the term of the Greek words dys - "sick" or "tough", and lexis - "word". "Dyslexia" is the first and main term used to refer to a variety of problems related to the learning process, usually associated with reading, writing and math problems that a child has at school, with the fact that dyslexics see the letters moved or turned upside down or slow and difficult to learn, but the difficulties in school are just some of the manifestations of dyslexia, each case is different, there are not two people who develop exactly the same forms of dyslexia dyslexia, what is important to know is that dyslexia is not the result of mental or neurological impairment nor is it caused by brain malformation Dyslexia is the product of thinking and the particular way in which some people react to a sense of confusion.
THE MANAGEMENT OF CHANGES IN THE SYSTEM OF SCHOOL EDUCATION
Authors: Banabakova Vanja , Stoilova Margarita , Dacheva Ivelina
Published: August 2019

Management is a universal process. Managerial influence is always a purposeful process through which the subject of management strives to achieve the pre-set goals. It seeks to achieve some predetermined results. But their attainment must not be "at all costs", that is, it must not lead to disturbance of the equilibrium or destruction of the object. Management is only recognized as an intervention in which the subject's objectives are achieved without destroying or damaging the system.Regardless of the type and nature of the system, governance is inherent in it, that is, there can be no system without management. Since each system consists of a plurality of elements having certain properties and features, each element has a certain autonomy and can be viewed as a subsystem. This means that each element can initiate and self-regulate, but it is imperative to coordinate their work through governance.
WHAT DO BEGINNING TEACHERS NEED FOR EFFECTIVE INDUCTION AND RETENTION IN THE TEACHING PROFESSION
Authors: Kostadinova Darinka , Gruncheva Larissa
Published: August 2019

This paper contains the results of a study on beginning teachers’ views regarding the successful induction to the teaching profession, retention in it and the role of mentoring in this process. The study was conducted in 2018 within "The Art of Mentoring the Transition from the University to the Educational Institutions" research project of Vratsa Branch of St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of VelikoTarnovo.The first 1-2 years of the beginning teacher’s career are considered to be the most difficult and critical periods of a teacher’s career. It is often described as a time of survival for any neophyte teacher. It takes much determination and perseverance from the new teacher to remain in the teaching profession, shape his/her professional identity and find their place in a community of practice. Those who are not helped to develop staying power, ultimately leave the profession and they constitute quite a high percentage. High attrition rates recognized as a global problem among the teaching community signal a worldwide need of adequate support for new teachers.Effective induction requires high-quality mentoring and a strong supportive school environment. Knowing and understanding the needs, expectations and attitudes of the beginning teacher is the best way to overcome the hardships of the induction period and to ensure his/her successful career start.
CONTEMPORARY TENDENCIES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SCHOOL LIBRARIES
Authors: Kotovchevska Suzana
Published: August 2019

The development of the modern society was conditioned by the very rapid development of modern science and technology. This relatively rapid increase inevitably initiated a significant change of libraries as institutions and places for deposing, finding and access of information sources.School libraries, which represent the main source of information in the schools, apart from the educational function, they also represent communication centers of information contained in their funds, which contribute in acquiring new knowledge, ideas and experiences for achieving solutions in the function of achieving the educational goals .For successful and complete achievement of the goals and tasks of the school libraries it is necessary to monitor the contemporary trends in library operations. By doing so, they would respond to all the research and more complex information and communication and research needs of their users, and would adapt to the technological and educational requirements of the new information society, which at the same time is a society of learning as well as a knowledge society.
MENTORSHIP IN THE CONTEXT OF THE INCLUSIVE EDUCATION IN BULGARIA
Authors: Marcheva-Yoshovska Petya
Published: August 2019

The report makes a brief analysis of the psychological and pedagogical literature on the issue of mentorship with teachers in the context of the inclusive education and the definitions of the term. Mentorship in the field of the inclusive education of teachers is a strategy of individual and institutional support which is fulfilled by the collaboration for learning of two persons and is predominantly targeted to professional development. It is a partnership, normally between two persons (mentor and mentee), who work in one sphere and share common experiences. Their partnership is based on beneficial relations, trust (confidentiality), protection, mutual confidence and respect. It emphasizes on the necessity to ensure effective mentorship for newly employed young teachers in order to develop their professional skills through a motivating environment in the process of inclusion of students with special educational needs.Socio-economic changes in the country and the modernization of training require a new approach to teachers' professional competence. Their professionalism is becoming a decisive factor in ensuring the quality of education.Main priority is to create conditions for developing the personality of the teacher, self-realization of his / her abilities, further training and development of his / her professional qualities.The professional training and development of future teachers is a unified, continuous and continuous process aimed at building personal qualities, professional competences, knowledge, skills and habits, adequate to his / her personal needs as well as to the qualification requirements for the occupation.Along with the motivational factors, the mentoring system plays a significant role in the development and improvement of teachers as professionals which is an integral part of the young professional's adaptation to the profession, its overall development and improvement.Often the words "mentor" and "perceptor" are used as synonyms and no distinction is made in their meaningful sound. Mentoring is a method that enables in particular disadvantaged groups to become more easily integrated into education or work. Mentoring has a relatively long history and is one of the first forms of learning and transferring socio-cultural experience.
D. KATSAROV ON THE MAIN PRINCIPLES OF PEDAGOGY
Authors: G. Hristova - Kotseva Reni
Published: August 2019

Prof. D. Katsarov was a prominent scholar who worked in the field of Psychology and Pedagogy in Bulgaria during the 20th century. In his rich pedagogical heritage, he defined three basic pedagogical principles - love, freedom and experience.D. Katsarov's humanism is expressed in his deep faith in man, in his conviction that every human being possesses good talents and that every child deserves trust. His humanism manifests itself in his love of both the child and the adult, in his deep faith in their powers and capabilities.He declared this love to be the first basic pedagogical principle, without which upbringing, training or education cannot exist to the full extent of their meaning.The pedagogical principle of love is not perceived as a temporary emotional state but as an active attitude both in the child and the teacher. Love is expressed through concern, attention to the needs and interests of the child, and through active attitude to what is necessary to satisfy these needs and interests.The importance of this basic, according to Prof. D. Katsarov, principle can be seen in its three dimensions: the attitude of the child, of the teacher and of the education system.D. Katsarov formulated several kinds of freedom. Physical freedom, according to him, is expressed in freedom of deeds and actions. Any limitation of the freedom of the child inevitably leads to obstructing of their proper physical development "because this freedom enables the child to come into the widest range of contacts with the things that surround them, which is the only opportunity to get to know them comprehensively".According to Prof. D. Katsarov, it is the American philosopher, pedagogist and psychologist John Dewey that provides the most profound analysis of experience as a pedagogical principle, in its broad sense, as the basis of education.The true educational experience, according to the author, is a social process of sharing. Educational work is a source of social control only when it is a common work involving all individuals and those individuals feel somewhat responsible.
TRAINING THROUGH ACTION TO BUILD PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
Authors: Boykov Vanche , Goceva Marieta
Published: August 2019

Building professional skills is crucial in the educational process. The priorities in education policy are solid practical training and the development of professional and key competencies guaranteeing rapid social adaptation and realization. Learning through action provides all the preconditions for a successful initiative related to the transfer of practical knowledge and capacity building for young people. It contributes to the modernization of professional education so that to answer the modern needs and search of business and the economy through cooperation with the employers, working on new study plan and programs, training teachers and mentors, professional training, which is adequate to current labors market requirement. The system of learning through action is considered as one of active tools for successful communication between learners, educational institution and employers.
THE PRE-SCHOOL CHILDREN’S SOFT SKILLS FORMATION - PARTICIPANTS IN INCLUSIVE EDUCATION
Authors: Nedyalkova Chrissoula
Published: August 2019

The presence of soft skills (generic competencies) in pre-school education programs is now not elective but a compulsory. Moreover, it is imposing in the context of the dynamic development of the labor market and the search for effective approaches to their early childhood development. Unlike knowledge and specific professional skills, portable skills can never be "out of use." On the contrary, every social situation benefits from them and enriches them. They are the "common language" between employers and educational institutions because they contain the factors that create the good rating of educational services. The formation of these important personal skills should start from an early age and important factors are the family, community, social and especially educational institutions with which the child interacts. In the process of inclusive education of children with special educational needs, there are various concerns for all participants in the process, which put barriers and reduce the chances of success in bringing the child into the kindergarten. Overcoming these concerns can be accomplished by motivating all participants in inclusive education. There are many researches, strategies and techniques for motivating adults (pedagogues, parents, etc.) in this process. But there are not enough studies and models to motivate children with special educational needs. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to find out the possibilities of forming this transferable skills in pre-school children participating in inclusive education as an activity that meets one of the objectives set out in the Pre-school and School Education Act, namely - competences to understand and apply the principles, rules, responsibilities and rights that result from membership in the European Union.
THE RELATIONSHIP CREATIVITY – CREATIVENESS AS A COMPLEX OBJECT OF RESEARCH STUDIES
Authors: Krasteva Antoniya
Published: August 2019

The article analyses the relationship creativity – creativeness. These two concepts in specialized scientific studies either complement one another or are accepted as synonyms in accordance to the author’s stand. That is why our efforts are aiming to distinguish the ideas and stands of separate specialists, which discuss these concepts. The research conception is based on the understanding that it is essential for a complete personality to possess specific knowledge, skills, beliefs, attitudes, values as well as motivation do develop their creativity. The emphasis is placed on clarifying the separate elements of the two concepts in Bulgaria as well as in the Western European and the Russian literature. In this discourse three basic kinds of opinions concerning the relationship between the concepts creativity and creativeness can be outlined, namely: creativity is perceived as a synonym of the concept creativeness; the differentiation between the concepts creativity and creativeness is provisory and lastly, there exists a content difference between the concepts creativity and creativeness. These opinions are substantiated with certain ideas of prominent specialists in the field of philosophy, pedagogy, psychology, etc. Separate In order to achieve a clearer explanation of the relationship between the concepts creativity – creativeness various trends and schools have also been studied, which supplements the analysis, such as the intuitive trend, the rational trend, including the abstractionism, associationism, behaviorism, gestalt psychology as well as the nativism and sociological trends.
USE OF E-LEARNING BY PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA
Authors: Gudachi Venera
Published: August 2019

With the rapid technology development, today’s educational systems are obliged to include ICT in the educational processes. Sangra et al (2012) states e-learning represents a broad combination of processes, content, and infrastructure to use computers and networks to improve necessary parts of the learning value chain. In that regard, during the last two decades in the Republic of Macedonia there has been a constant engagement and resource allocation related to the introduction of ICT in the education process. For this purpose, various projects have been implemented at all levels of learning and teaching. Some of the projects were boosted with international support but many other were supported by national relevant institutions aiming to become a digitalized society and entirely introduce ICT in the education sector. This way all necessary legal provisions were adopted, which is the case of adoption of the needed laws and national strategies to introduce this new concept and thus establish the path towards digital education. Moreover, all primary and secondary public schools in the country were equipped with computers, provided software tools for school subjects, organized trainings for teachers and offered interactive on-line teaching and interactive teaching and assessment methods. The idea of this study is to assess and see the overall situation of e-learning in the secondary education in the country, evaluate its use and reflect the actual situation of e-learning use by looking at different demographic categories.
PREVENTIVE COMMUNICATIVE WORK WITH TALE IN CHILDREN FROM PRIMARY SCHOOL AGE TO REDUCE AGGRESSION
Authors: Ivanova Bozhkova Vesela
Published: August 2019

Prevention of aggression is carried out by reading the children from the professor of a story of a preventive nature. The tale is selected to analyze children's illustrating examples and lessons for their similar problematic situations in which they have fallen. The discussion about the relationship of the characters in the fairy tale, namely in a preventive way, relates to the speech, gestures and behavior of the characters. It is the principle of communication in which there is an exchange of information between two and more persons and the broad philosophical-anthropological notion of "form of intercourse", of action and process, which results in the observation of certain results, namely an expression of the view that the relationship between children and the analysis of the behavior of the characters in the particular tale can lead to the adequate decoding of cognitive behavioral signals in intercourse as a desire for mutual understanding and interaction. Thus, in practice, students learn to rely correctly on behavioral and communicative signals in the process of intercourse feedback. Consequently, at the level of primary prevention of aggression, their aggressive responses will be significantly reduced in a similar context of a problematic situation, exemplified in the chosen story. The preventive discussion is based on previously prepared criteria and indicators which subsequently provide the opportunity to show both children adequate approaches to communication, and to distinguish specifically the children's gaps in intercourse, prompting them to aggressive behavior. Consequently, the experimental study dissociates the following term: "cognitive dismoderate intercourse", namely the incorrect decoding of behavioral signals, is a major socio-pedagogical problem that accompanies aggressive behavior in children. However, cognitive dismoderate intercourse (intercourse where there is no adequate understanding of the current situation due to the inappropriate refraction of "cognition" in the intercourse process) is dictated by a misunderstanding between the communicating individuals and leads to disharmony in their relationships, which besides alienates one another but stops the adequacy of their reactions in problematic situations. In this way, the only way for children to get out of the problematic situation remains the aggressive reaction. There is a cognitive preventive interaction between the awareness of the problematic situation leading to aggression through an objective analysis of the real situation.
Abuse among Elderly in a Rural Area of Purba-Bardhaman
District: a Cross-sectional Study
Authors: Das Suman , Naskar S. , Das D
Published: August 2019

Background: Aging is increasingly recognized as a health and social problem with challenges on family and the society. The present study aimed at assessing prevalence and types of abuse among elderly and the various associated factors. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted from June to November 2018 among elderly persons (, 60 years) in a community developmental block of Purba-Bardhaman district, West Bengal. Based on required assumptions (50% prevalence, 15% relative error, design effect of 2 and 10% non-response) a total sample of 378 was selected through multistage sampling. With prior informed consent, data were collected using a predesigned - pretested schedule prepared with the help of Hwalek– Sengstock Elder Abuse Screening Test (H-S EAST) tool. A multivariable logistic regression model was generated using the SPSS software. Results: Among 371 subjects studied mean age was 67.39 (±6.063) years, 51.8% were females. Overall 11.9% (44) of elderly were found to be abused and prevalence of elderly abuse among females and males were 13.5% and 10.1% respectively. Psychological abuse was most frequent (95.5%) followed by neglect (84.1%), financial exploitation (52.3%) and physical abuse was least (9.1%). Among the various factors studied, living without spouse [AOR =2.690 (1.355-5.340)] and without social-security support [AOR =4.982 (1.449-17.126)] were found to be significantly associated with elderly abuse. Conclusion: Elderly populations in this study area are vulnerable to abuse and adequate social security support might
reduce elderly abuse.
Penentuan Kelompok Jaringan Logistik pada Wilayah Kepulauan menggunakan Fuzzy C-Means
Authors: Tri Kismanti Sinta , Ard Maidah Andi
Published: August 2019

Indonesia as the island nation with territorial waters is one of the modes of transportation. For this condition, most of activities are conducted in marine, such as logistics distribution. The movement of logistics distribution will result in a movement pattern of the logistic. Determination of the optimal pattern of logistics movement network can support the smooth distribution system. Determination of logistic network patterns is done by clustering using Fuzzy C-means, clustering aims to get island groups in adjacent locations. The clustering process using Fuzzy C-Means obtained that the number of clusters as many as 3 clusters showed better results compared to the number of clusters 4 and 5.
Perencanaan dinding penahan tanah untuk menanggulangi kelongsoran pada kompleks peternakan ayam di Kecamatan Kandangan, Kediri, Jawa Timur
Authors: K. Wardani Mila , T. Nuciferani Felicia , F.N. Aulady Mohamad
Published: August 2019

Landslide one of the natural disasters that caused many victims. Therefore, the landslide need a construction that can withstand landslide force. This study aims to plan retaining walls to prevent landslides in the farm area in Kandangan Subdistrict, Kediri Regency. The method used is to use slide analysis which is used to plan the retaining wall. In addition the planning of soil containment walls u ses several methods as a comparison. The results of this study indicate that the planning of ordinary soil retaining walls is still not enough to overcome slides. The minimum SF value that meets the safe limit of landslide prevention is 1.541 in the combination of 1/3 H terracing and the number of gabions as many as 7 with a total height of 2- 3 m .
Pengaruh Bentuk Bukaan Atap Bangunan Terhadap Tingkat Kenyamanan Termal Pada Rumah Panjang Suku Dayak Brusu, Kecamatan Sekatak, Kalimantan Utara
Authors: Wahyudi Eko
Published: August 2019

The long house of the Brusu Dayak tribe that lives in North Kalimantan is a house that always increases the length of the building following the increase in the number of family heads in one offspring. The most interesting part of the longhouse compared to other Dayak tribes' houses is that in the longhouse Brusu Dayak tribes do not have windows but only rely on openings on the roof of the building according to their residential needs so that it affects the thermal comfort of the longhouse. In general, this study aims to determine the effect of the shape of openings on the roofs of Dayak Brusu tribal longhouse buildings on thermal comfort levels. The research method includes direct surveys to the field by observing the shape of the building and the shape of the roof opening in the longhouse, as well as doing direct measurements on several points determined. Measurements made include measurements of temperature, humidity, air movement, where measurements are made on the interior of a long house with 15 measuring points, where each point is measured for 24 hours with the time of measurement every 2 hours. From the above analysis, it can be concluded that the effective temperature for the tenang area is more likely to be lower than the ganak and lamin, this is because the roof formation of the long house located in the garden can be opened and closed according to the needs of the occupants.
Percepción política y su impacto en el marketing ecuatoriano
Authors: Mariño Garcés Karen Dennise , Quinapanta González Edgar David , Ballesteros López Leonardo Gabriel , Guerrero Velastegui Cesar Andrés
Published: August 2019

El artículo expone y reúne algunas variables de investigación en el conocimiento de la percepción política y su impacto en el marketing político. El estudio sostiene predominio en el ámbito de la comunicación, redes sociales, sociedad política, candidatos, campañas electorales, acciones que contribuyen a la percepción y persuasión de nuestro target político ecuatoriano. Objetivo: identificar algunas percepciones de los electores y su impacto frente a las acciones de marketing político, y conductas análogas en la etapa preelectoral de la comunicación política, orientando a futuros candidatos en planificación, organización y elaboración en una cruzada electoral. Fundamentación Técnico Científico: conocimiento en comunicación política y percepción como punto de partida y de recalada. El Problema se radicó en la vinculación entre la transparencia y erradicación de la corrupción que tiene un costo elevado. Metodología: tiene un enfoque predominante cuantitativo, con una modalidad básica de investigación de campo, bibliográfica-documental, exploratoria, descriptivo transversal, para analizar e interpretar. Resultados: sé aplicó 384 encuestas a cantones de Tungurahua, de todas las edades y estratos, mayores de edad. Recursos: se utilizó materiales y científicos orientados sobre la base del proyecto de investigación del 29-05-2018, y su gestión corre bajo la responsabilidad de los autores de este artículo.
Alternativa metodológica del team building como competencia directiva del sector alimenticio de harinas y fideos en la provincia de Tungurahua
Authors: Toscano Santamaría Gissela Alexandra , Jordán Vaca Jorge Enrique , Ballesteros Leonardo , Guerrero Velástegui César Andrés
Published: August 2019

El objetivo de esta investigación es proponer una alternativa metodológica del Team building como competencia directiva del sector alimenticio de harinas y fideos en la provincia de Tungurahua. El problema que se identifica es que las empresas del sector alimenticio de la provincia de Tungurahua, no poseen actividades enfocadas en el fortalecimiento y consolidación del trabajo en equipo. Además, el personal posee un bajo rendimiento en sus laborales diarias, lo cual se refleja en la productividad de las empresas. Al ser un estudio descriptivo- explicativo se utiliza la siguiente metodología: sustentada en elementos teóricos y análisis de referencias bibliográficas, se aplicó una encuesta estructurada y se validó el instrumento con el estadístico Alpha de Cronbach. Dentro de los resultados constas las fases y etapas de la alternativa metodológica y finalmente, las conclusiones del estudio, evidencian que el trabajo en equipo es de suma importancia para las empresas al generar un ambiente óptimo de trabajo.
Enfoque del marketing político en redes web y las consecuencias de percepción política en los electores
Authors: Jordán-Vaca Jorge , Ballesteros – López Leonardo G. , Guerrero-Velástegui César A. , Zúñiga-Rodríguez Jonathan D.
Published: August 2019

Mediante un estudio amplio e investigativo, enfocado en diferentes modelos de cobertura de la investigación, como experimentales, bibliográficos, y a la vez métodos de investigación exploratoria, descriptiva y cualitativa, que ayudan generar un conocimiento ideal de la relevancia que posee el enfoque del marketing político dentro de la forma de pensar o la forma de percepción que posee el consumidor o en este caso el elector, que ostentan diferentes orientaciones dentro de las redes web en la provincia de Tungurahua correspondiente a Ecuador. Estos enfoques ayudan a conocer de una perspectiva más amplia, cuales son los aspectos y a la vez las ideas necesarias que deben aplicar los partidos políticos dentro de la provincia, para dar a conocer las diferentes propuestas y así llegar con una ventaja o propuesta que penetre en la mente de los electores en los procesos electorales a los que sean aplicados.
Cultura Organizacional. Una visión desde el plan de comunicación publicitaria para la provincia de Tungurahua
Authors: Lima Haig Kevin Santiago , Segovia Pacheco Dayra Arelis , Guerrero Velásteguí César Andrés , Ballesteros – López Leonardo
Published: August 2019

El presente estudio tiene como objetivo proponer un plan de comunicación publicitaria con énfasis en la cultura organizacional de la provincia de Tungurahua. El problema que se identifica es que las empresas del sector comercial de la provincia de Tungurahua, no poseen un plan de comunicación publicitaria para sus campañas, puesto que lo realizan en su mayoría empíricamente. Dentro de la metodología, esta investigación es de carácter descriptiva, con un nivel de investigación básico y un enfoque mixto; apoyándose en una revisión de la literatura con los aportes más destacados de las variables de estudio. Además, se aplicó una encuesta estructurada a una muestra de 231 empresas comerciales específicamente de línea blanca y electrodomésticos, validándose dicho instrumento con el estadístico de fiabilidad Alpha de Cronbach. En los resultados, constan las etapas del plan publicitario propuesto, y en conclusiones se destaca la importancia de la utilización del mismo en el ámbito empresarial al llegar a un segmento de mercado establecido.
Plataforma virtual TIFLOUTM para el E-learning basada en herramientas de Tiflología para estudiantes con discapacidad visual en la Universidad Técnica de Manabí
Authors: Zamora Loor Gema , Álvarez Uribe Yasmín , Solano Galarza Miguel , Durán Ospina Patricia
Published: August 2019

Recibido: 17 de marzo de 2019Aprobado: 28 de abril de 2019 La plataforma virtual de aprendizaje “Tiflo-UTM” es una herramienta pionera en Ecuador para la educación de calidad destinada a estudiantes con discapacidad visual, cuya finalidad es brindar tecnología de la información más fácil, cómoda y accesible, en la cual los docentes que cuenten con estudiantes en estas condiciones puedan añadir contenido de los currículos de enseñanza establecidos y permitan que todos sigan un proceso lineal de aprendizaje libres de restricciones de tiempo y espacio propias de la enseñanza presencial. Actualmente en los reglamentos de Ecuador se promueve la educación universal siguiendo los lineamientos establecidos en el Plan Nacional Toda una Vida, la cual ha avanzado progresivamente, pero en materia de brindar herramientas para personas con discapacidad visual aún existe un déficit y a raíz de esta necesidad surge la necesidad de implementar Tiflo-UTM. Mediante encuestas y entrevistas al personal del Departamento de Inclusión, docentes y estudiantes de la Universidad Técnica de Manabí se comprobó la necesidad de contar con una plataforma e-learning accesible y la importancia de ser parte del cambio social y tecnológioa través de la cultura inclusiva.
Indoor Localization Using Bayesian Filter
Authors: Muthineni Karthik , Taparugssanagorn Attaphongse
Published: August 2019

Ambient Intelligent (AmI) Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) provide intelligent services based on user and environment data obtained by sensors. Such networks are developed to give environmental monitoring and indoor localization services. In this work, Zigbee which is a wireless communication technology is used for localization based on Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) method. In practice, Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) is adapted to filter RSSI values influenced by multi-path fading and noise. Log-Normal Shadowing Method (LNSM) together with the Trilateration method was implemented to locate the position of the unknown node or entity. In addition, Cramer Rao Lower Bound (CRLB) is derived for the position estimation, that can be used to evaluate the performance of the system in terms of localization accuracy. Along with indoor localization, the deployed WSN could also monitor environment parameters like temperature and humidity surrounding entity using Digital Humidity and Temperature (DHT11) sensor. Using Zigbee location coordinates of entity and environment parameters are transmitted to remote desktop where visualization of data is done using Matrix Laboratory (MATLAB).
Modeling and Simulation of a Building towards Energy Efficiency
Authors:   Mechanical Engineering Department, National Institute of technology Calicut, Kozhikode, India., Ijasahmed M. , Krishnan.L Ramesh ,   Mechanical Engineering Department, National Institute of technology Calicut, Kozhikode, India., Kumar.L Gangadhara Kiran ,   Mechanical Engineering Department, National Institute of technology Calicut, Kozhikode, India.
Published: August 2019

Residential buildings are the significant energy consumer of the India which is about 24% of the total energy consumption. Energy efficient buildings are the ideal solution to reduce energy consumption in the building sector. The energy efficient buildings can be achieved by incorporating passive features or renewable energy systems or both. The current work aims to perform a retrofitting analysis of an existing building into an energy efficient building. For performing the energy analysis REVIT 2017 tool is used. Using the REVIT 2017 tool building model is developed, building information are loaded and energy analyses are performed. The building is analyzed as two cases. The first case is to estimate energy performance of the existing building. The second case is to incorporate passive features and renewable energy system to the building and evaluate the energy performance. Existing building Energy Usage Intensity (EUI) was 193 kWh/m2/year. When passive features (Insulation, additional window glazing and efficient air conditioning systems) alone incorporated to the building the building EUI is reduced to 138 kWh/m2/year. Along with Passive features Photovoltaic modules with different efficiencies 16%, 18% and 20% are considered for renewable energy generation. The energy generation for the different PV modules for three different roof area (40%, 60% and 70% of total roof area) is evaluated. The energy usage intensity varies from 11.4 from -150 kWh/m2/year for the combination of different efficiency of PV module and the different % of roof area covered. The negative sign indicates the energy generation after the required energy usage. The payback period for only incorporating passive features is 6.3 years and while incorporating PV system with passive features is 9 years.
Analysing the Quality of Phaseolus Vulgaris Family of Legumes using Artificial Neural Network and “Bag of Features” Techniques
Authors:   Computer Studies Department, Lyceum of the Philippines-Laguna, Calamba City, Philippines,, Prospero Mirafe R. , Dadiz Bryan G. ,   Computer Studies Department and Graduate School, Technological Institute of the Philippines - Manila
Published: August 2019

The Philippine Council for Agriculture, Forestry and National Resources Research and Development-Department of Science and Technology (PCAARRD-DOST) have recognized the importance of cultivating legumes as priority crop among others in the vegetable industry under the National Vegetable Research & Development Program. They have further emphasized the need for innovating the methods to improve the processes in terms of producing better quality of products. The study developed a prototype compiled application based on the trained and validated dataset using ANN (Artificial Neural Network) machine. The BoF (Bag of Features) technique was utilized for image features extraction in the SVM (Support Vector Machine) environment for quality classification of Phaseolus Vulgaris family of legumes. These are commonly cultivated in the Philippines. The combined methods yielded an accuracy of 90.2%.
K-Anonymity Enhancement for Privacy Preservation with Hybridization of Cuckoo Search and Neural Network using Clustering
Authors:   Computer Applications, Guru Kashi University Talwandi Sabo, Punjab, India, Kaur Inderjit , Bhardwaj Dr. Vijay ,   Computer Applications, Guru Kashi University Talwandi Sabo, Punjab, India
Published: August 2019

Expansion of social network and the publication of its data have directed the risk of disclosure of individuals’ confidential information. Privacy preservation is a must thing before service providers publish the network data. In recent years, privacy in social network data has become the most concerned issue as it has gripped our lives in a dramatic manner. Numerous anonymization methods are there that assists in privacy preservation of social networking and among all, k-anonymity is the utmost one that helps in providing the security by developing graph and nodes degree. In this manuscript, the enhancement of K-anonymity has been addressed with major changes in node editing methodology. The clusters are developed with the integration of the same degree in one group and the procedure is iterated till the identification of noisy data. An advanced Cuckoo Search is commenced for minimizing the node miss placement in groups. The results of the Cuckoo Search are integrated with Feed Forward Back Propagation Neural Networks to cross-check the structure and to reduce the node miss placement in groups. Average Path Length (APL) and Information parameters are measured for the evaluation and comparative analysis and the effectiveness of the research has been checked by comparing the results of Aanchal Sharma and P. R. Bhaladhare. There is a diminution of 14.6% while comparing APL with Aanchal Sharma and 8.61% and 10.38% of reduction is shown with Aanchal Sharma and P. R. Bhaladhare for Information loss.
Automatic Eye Screening Method Based on a Multi-Anatomical Retinal System Segmentation with the Help of Morphology & Fuzzy Logic
Authors:   Department of ECE, G. Pulla Reddy Engineering College,(Autonomous), Kurnool, A.P. India, Vitta Tulasi , Basha Dr. Shaik Saheb ,   Professor, Department of ECE, G.Pulla Reddy Engineering College, Kurnool, A.P. India
Published: August 2019

Eye examination is used to determine Retinal problems at an early stage. Retina screening can be used to detect various hidden retinal problems including pre-diabetes and diabetes. The doctors will depend on segmentation results of retinal structures to determine the abnormalities in the eye. A novel algorithm for instant identification and segmentation of the optic disk (OD) and detection of exudates in human retinal images is described in this document. The proposed technique uses segmentation methodology for automatically detecting of these structures. This methodology uses morphology theories and fuzzy techniques to detect the structures even in pathological images. The performance is evaluated using two datasets that is DRISHI-GS (optic disc) and DIARETD1 (exudates). Present methods have accuracy and efficiency is less, but in the proposed new novel method i.e morphology based fuzzy logic, we achieved an accuracy 92.91% and PPV (positive predictive value) is 89.54% in optic disc. specificity and F-score also trained with help of subjected method 99% and 93.17% in exudate .a