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Incorporating Learning Outcomes in Transfer Credit: The Way Forward for Campus Alberta?
Authors: Kennepohl Dietmar
Published: December 2020

Learning outcomes have become an integral part of the global trend in higher education reform and are employed in three interconnected areas: (1) quality assurance, (2) teaching and learning, and (3) transfer credit. The article touches briefly on the first two areas, but focuses discussion on employing learning outcomes in transfer credit. Using Alberta as a case study, its higher education system is examined and assessed, with emphasis on transfer credit, prior learning assessment, student mobility, and system coordination. Both the advantages and limitations of learning outcomes are presented, including balancing the needs of a wide variety of stakeholders. Taking lessons learned from similar international initiatives and an analysis of the Alberta context, the discussion culminates in a proposal for a way forward for this educational jurisdiction, promoting and incorporating learning outcomes as an important component of systematic and transparent method of transfer credit.
Challenging “Size Matters” Messages: An Exploration of the Experiences of Critical Obesity Scholars in Higher Education
Authors: Cameron Erin Michelle
Published: December 2020

Given that postsecondary institutions are increasingly seen as sites to promote health, critical scholars are calling attention to how the contemporary Western weight-centred health paradigm reinforces a “size matters” message that is fueling harmful attitudes towards and judgments of bodies. As such, research that highlights strategies to promote safe teaching and learning environments for students and faculty, regardless of body shape and size, is of utmost importance. Through 26 participant interviews, this study examines the experiences of critical obesity scholars who teach courses that engage critical approaches to obesity, fatness, and body size. The findings of this study shed light on the developing field of critical obesity scholarship, the types of challenges faced by critical obesity scholars in higher education, and how these scholars are building community as a way of coping with challenges facing the emerging field.
Book Review of "Thinking Collaboratively: Learning in a Community of Inquiry"
Authors: Barmby James
Published: December 2020

Book review:  Garrison, D.R. (2016). Thinking Collaboratively: Learning in a Community of Inquiry. New York: Routledge. Pages 147. Price: 39.95 USD (paperback). ISBN 978-1-138-82432-4
A Unique Governance Learning Experience
Authors: Baptista Theresa (Margo)
Published: December 2020

This paper reports on some of the findings of a 2008–2009 graduate study conducted as a shared organizational learning experience for the Grant MacEwan College (now MacEwan University1) Board of Governors to learn about a vital board governance responsibility—presidential search. Through a facilitated, qualitative action research exercise, participants engaged in a four-stage progressive learning experience to create a body of knowledge about presidential search experiences and to develop strategies for transferring this knowledge when membership changes. The study examined how, through the application of knowledge management theory, a board can learn and share knowledge. This learning experience contributed to the creation of a comprehensive board succession plan for the MacEwan Board of Governors and, in 2010–2011, this plan was used to guide the institution’s search for its fourth president.
The International Mobility of Chinese Students: A Cultural Perspective
Authors: Liu Wei
Published: December 2020

Anyone hoping to understand China and Chinese people’s behaviour in the present day must examine China’s long history and culture, as these often have crystallized into current behavioural patterns. This paper discusses one important push-out factor for Chinese students’ outbound mobility, and an element that is ignored in many futuristic predictions of international student mobility: traditional Chinese educational culture. I conduct an in-depth analysis of three major aspects of Chinese educational culture in relation to Chinese students’ international mobility: the education-first culture, the saving culture, and the extended-family culture. I argue that these three aspects will continue to drive Chinese students’ outbound mobility.
Exploring the Tensions and Ambiguities of University Department Chairs
Authors: Armstrong Denise E , Woloshyn Vera E
Published: December 2020

The department chair is a complex middle-management position located at the organizational fulcrum between faculty and senior administration. This qualitative study sought to develop a deeper understanding of chairs’ experiences when enacting their dual roles as managers and scholars. Using a basic interpretative study design, we interviewed 10 department chairs from a medium-sized Canadian university. The participants identified three interrelated areas of challenge: managing position, managing people, and managing self. We discuss the tensions and ambiguities inherent within these themes, along with specific recommendations for supporting this position.
Searching For Signs of Life in Ontario Universities: An Innovative Method for Evaluating Biodiversity Integration within University Curricula
Authors: McCallum Jenn , Elliott Paul , McIntosh Terese
Published: December 2020

This study investigates the degree to which biodiversity concepts are included within university curricula in Ontario and provides a baseline for tracking this. A keyword search of undergraduate and graduate academic calendars from six Ontario universities was conducted. A list of 28 relevant keywords was developed, and university program descriptors were searched for these keywords, while considering core and elective courses within each program. Almost half (49.5%) of the 386 undergraduate programs, and 29.4% of the 327 graduate programs featured biodiversity keywords. Science programs showed the highest degree of integration (74.5% for undergraduate and 37.4% for graduate programs), followed by business programs (57.6% and 38.4%, respectively). The arts and social sciences showed the least biodiversity integration (25.8% of undergraduate and 21.0% of graduate programs). This research method provides a depth of understanding of biodiversity integration within university curricula, although the analysis is limited to the content provided in academic calendars.
The Online Evaluation of Courses: Impact on Participation Rates and Evaluation Scores
Authors: Groen Jovan F , Herry Yves
Published: December 2020

At one of Ontario’s largest universities, the University of Ottawa, course evaluations involve about 6,000 course sections and over 43,000 students every year. This paper-based format requires over 1,000,000 sheets of paper, 20,000 envelopes, and the support of dozens of administrative staff members. To examine the impact of a shift to an online system for the evaluation of courses, the following study sought to compare participation rates and evaluation scores of an online and paper-based course evaluation system. Results from a pilot group of 10,417 students registered in 318 courses suggest an average decrease in participation rate of 12–15% when using an online system. No significant differences in evaluation scores were observed. Instructors and students alike shared positive reviews about the online system; however, they suggested that an in-class period be maintained for the electronic completion of course evaluations.
Beyond Face Value: A Policy Analysis of Employment Equity Programs and Reporting in Ontario Public Colleges
Authors: Kipang Shani , Zuberi Daniyal
Published: December 2020

Given their unique pedagogical mandate and structure, Canadian public colleges play a central role in serving groups traditionally under-represented in the post-secondary system. Yet as enrolment from these groups continues to rise, it is unclear to what extent the diversity of student bodies is reflected among faculty. In fact, while issues of faculty diversity and employment equity have gained increasing attention within Canadian universities, they have been largely overlooked within colleges. In an effort to address this gap, we have reviewed the employment equity related policies of Ontario’s five largest publicly funded colleges (otherwise known as Ontario Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology, or OCAATs). With a focus on personnel data collection and recruitment—two policy areas we will argue are particularly underdeveloped in the sector—this paper provides recommendations for future research and priorities for organizational policy development.
Provincial Oversight and University Autonomy in Canada: Findings of a Comparative Study of Canadian University Governance
Authors: Eastman Julia Antonia , Jones Glen Alan , Begin-Caouette Olivier , Li Sharon X , Noumi Christian , Trottier Claude
Published: December 2020

In order to fulfill their missions, research universities must maintain conditions and capacity for knowledge production and dissemination, while responding to the expectations of governments, other stakeholders, and/or markets. That universities succeed in this quest is vital, not only for their own future as organizations but also for the benefit of current and future generations of students, stakeholders, and society at large. We sought to contribute to the understanding of how higher education institutions and systems rise to the challenge of achieving and sustaining relative institutional autonomy by conducting a comparative case study of the governance of six major universities in five provinces in Canada. This article presents our findings with respect to provincial oversight of the case universities. We found that the case universities appeared to be coming from and to remain at different points on a state supervision/autonomy continuum, but all appeared to be experiencing greater provincial supervision.
Analyse de la gouvernance systémique des universités au Québec et comparaisons avec quatre autres provinces canadiennes
Authors: Bégin-Caouette Olivier , Trottier Claude , Eastman Julia , Jones Glen A. , Noumi Christian , Li Sharon X
Published: December 2020

Les sociétés du savoir ont de nombreuses exigences à l’égard des  universités ; or il est suggéré que ces dernières répondraient plus adéquatement à ces exigences lorsqu’elles sont autonomes (Altbach et Balán, 2007). Cet article vise à mettre en lumière diverses dimensions de l’encadrement du système universitaire québécois par l’État relativement à  l’autonomie des établissements et à comparer la situation québécoise avec celle ayant cours en Alberta, en Colombie-Britannique, en Ontario et en Nouvelle-Écosse. Une analyse thématique réalisée sur 77 documents officiels (dont 29 au Québec) et sur les transcriptions de 93 entrevues (dont 30 au Québec) a permis d’identifier trois grandes dimensions de la gouvernance systémique, soit le cadre législatif et réglementaire, le statut comptable et les règles budgétaires, ainsi que les interventions du gouvernement dans la gestion interne des universités. L’analyse révèle que l’autonomie dont jouissent les universités varie d’une province à l’autre : les universités néo-écossaises et ontariennes bénéficieraient de plus d’autonomie que leurs consœurs albertaines et britanno-colombiennes. Le Québec se situerait globalement au centre puisqu’il comprend deux secteurs universitaires dont les dimensions suggèrent des niveaux d’autonomie différents.
Responsibility Center Budgeting as a Mechanism to Deal with Academic Moral Hazard
Authors: Myers Gordon M.
Published: December 2020

Universities face inherent informational asymmetries. These make university budgeting prone to various challenges including moral hazard. The last forty years has seen some large research- intensive universities move from centralized incremental budgeting to decentralized Responsibility Center Budgeting (RCB). It is assumed that a faculty chooses a level of costly effort in generating revenue for the university. The level of faculty effort is not observable by the central administration. When there is no revenue uncertainty or when the faculty is not risk averse, pure RCB is best from the perspective of the administration. The intuition is that pure RCB fully aligns financial responsibility with academic authority, that is, it makes the faculty the residual claimant. Once the faculty is risk averse, partial RCB is optimal. Partial RCB provides a balance between providing the right incentives to the faculty and the university reducing the revenue risk faced by the faculty.
The Role of University Crown Foundations in Higher Education Policy: A Cross-Canada Study (1984–1998)
Authors: Thomarat Jacqueline
Published: December 2020

This qualitative case investigation considers the historical, inter-provincial proliferation of university Crown foundations across Canada from 1984 to 1998. From the findings of over 40 interviews conducted between 2014 and 2017 and document analysis, this study uses a conceptual framework of policy entrepreneurship and institutionalism to provide evidence of Crown foundations’ policy engagement in post-secondary education and fiscal policy in Canada. The efforts to increase the availability of tax incentives to the system by policy entrepreneurs increased resources available to Canadian university Crown foundations, although the advantage to universities was only temporary.
Ethno-linguistic patterns of degree completion in BC universities: How important are high-school academic achievement and institution of entry?
Authors: Sweet Robert , Pullman Ashley , Adamuti-Trache Maria , Robson Karen
Published: December 2020

We examine bachelor's degree completion in the British Columbia post-secondary system, which is noted for its multiple pathways to graduation and ethnically diverse student population. Employing an administrative longitudinal dataset, we compare how the probability of degree completion by students enrolled at research-intensive, teaching-intensive, and college-technical institutions differs by ethno-linguistic background and high school grades. Estimates from multi-level logistic regression modelsdemonstrate that Korean, Tagalog, and Vietnamese speakers have lower probabilities of degree completion than English-speaking students. The type of institution a student initially enters is, however, an important correlate of degree completion for all ethno-linguistic groups. Students with lower high school grades who initially enter a research-intensive institution are more likely to graduate compared with higher-achieving students who enter a teaching-intensive or college-technical institution. To improve completion by institutional type and among ethno-linguistic groups, our study highlights the need for research on why degree completion is lower at certain institutions for all ethno-linguistic groups and consistently lower among Korean, Tagalog, and Vietnamese speakers regardless of their level of academic achievement in high school or the type of post-secondary institution they initially entered.
Economic Inequality and Accessibility to Higher Education
Authors: Pike Robert M.
Published: December 2020

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Keeping the faith: The university experience and apostasy
Authors: Grayson J. Paul
Published: December 2020

In 1963, Glendon College, York University, located in Toronto Canada, admitted mainly Christian students of European origin to a small liberal arts program. Fifty years later the College remained small with a continuing, but less embracive, commitment to the liberal arts; however, the student body included large numbers of young adults who professed religions other than Christianity and came from backgrounds other than European.Within this context, this article focuses on the impact of the Glendon College experience on students’ religious identification and participation in religious services. Overall, I find that in the mid-sixties the College experience contributed to changes in the religious identification of students. By contrast, a half-century later, students’ post-secondary experiences were of little consequence for religiosity. One possible explanation for differences in the College effect is that because of the current racial and religious diversity of Toronto, students are more likely than in the past to confront their religious identities in high school.Keywords: liberal arts, religiosity, change, university experience.
Predicting undergraduate student outcomes: Competing or complementary roles of self-esteem, self-compassion, self-efficacy, and mindsets?
Authors: Wasylkiw Louise , Hanson Sophie , Lynch Laurence MacRae , Vaillancourt Elise , Wilson Chelsea
Published: December 2020

Whereas several individual differences have been shown to predict academic and psychological outcomes among university students, it is not always clear which are most impactful, in part because many of the constructs overlap. Thus, the purpose of the present study was to examine the unique contributions of self-esteem, self-compassion, self-efficacy, and mindsets when predicting outcomes among university students. Undergraduate students (N = 214) completed an online survey including measures of the predictors as well as the outcomes of self-control, mental health, and both course and term grades. Correlations confirmed the overlap among the predictors highlighting the importance of examining the unique contributions of each. Results of multiple regression analyses showed that self-esteem and self-compassion explained unique variance in depression and anxiety over and above self-efficacy and growth mindsets. In contrast, self-efficacy and growth mindsets each significantly predicted self-control when controlling for self-esteem and self-compassion. Only self-efficacy predicted course grades. Given our results, we suggest that self-compassion and one’s beliefs about their abilities are complementary strengths for students attending university and should be considered when designing interventions to improve outcomes.
The Role of Trust in Student Perceptions of University Sexual Assault Policies and Services
Authors: Marques Olga , Couture-Carron Amanda , Frederick Tyler , Scott Hannah
Published: December 2020

Many post-secondary institutions are developing policies and programs aimed at improving responses to sexual assault experienced by students. In some areas, such as Ontario, Canada, the government has mandated post-secondary institutions to do so. However significant these initiatives, they are predicated on the assumption that students trust, and want to engage with, the university following sexual violence. This study explores students’ perceptions of sexual assault policies and services on one mid-size university campus focusing specifically on how trust factors into reporting sexual victimization and using services. Findings show that students believe that sexual assault policies and programs exist, but this does not meanstudents are willing to use such resources or that they even trust that their university has students’ needs and interests at the fore. This paper discusses policy and programmatic considerations for building student trust in their post-secondary institutions to encourage student use of campus support.
Risk and protective factors for anxiety impacting academic performance in post-secondary students
Authors: Lisnyj Konrad T. , Russell Regan , Papadopoulos Andrew
Published: December 2020

This survey study measured the association between risk and protective factors of anxiety and its implications on the academic performance of 1,053 students at a four-year, public post-secondary institution in southwestern Ontario. Logistic regression analyses revealed 13 significant variables at the univariable level, while the multivariable model yielded seven significant factors. Students who felt hopeless significantly increased their odds of reporting anxiety adversely affecting their academic performance, while being able to manage daily responsibilities was the only protective factor against anxiety impacting students’ educational attainment. By planning, designing, and implementing proactive programs focusing on thesepredictor variables, such interventions can equip students against the debilitative influence of anxiety on their academic success.
The Emperor’s New Clothes: Maclean’s, NSSE, and the Inappropriate Ranking of Canadian Universities
Authors: Grayson J Paul
Published: December 2020

Most Canadian universities participate in the US-based National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) that measures various aspects of “student engagement.” The higher the level of engagement, the greater the probability of positive outcomes and the better the quality of the school. Maclean’s magazine publishes some of the results of these surveys. Institutions are ranked in terms of their scores on 10 engagement categories and four outcomes. The outcomes considered are how students in the first and senior years evaluate their overall experiences (satisfaction) and whether or not students would return to their  campuses. Universities frequently use their scores on measures reported by Maclean’s in a self-Congratulatory way. In this article, I deal with levels of satisfaction provided by Maclean’s. Based on multiple regression, I show that of the 10 engagement variables regarded as important by NSSE, at the institutional level, only one explains most of the variance in first-year student satisfaction. The others are of limited consequence. I also demonstrate, via a cluster analysis, that, rather than there being a hierarchy of Canadian institutions as suggested by the way in which Maclean’s presents NSSE findings, Canadianuniversities can most adequately be divided into a limited number of different satisfaction clusters. Findings such as these might serve as a caution to parents and students who consider Maclean’s satisfaction rankings when assessing the merits of different universities. Overall, in terms of first-year satisfaction, the findings suggest more similarities than differences between and among Canadian universities.
Building Bridges to Better Bonds?: Differential On-Campus Participation between International and Domestic Students
Authors: Malette Nicole , Ismailzai Emily
Published: December 2020

Helping international students create meaningful on-campus connections is a major part of higher education’s internationalization efforts. By focusing on the efforts made by both international and domestic students to develop a sense of belonging through on-campus organizations like clubs and sports, we have the opportunity to consider their active creation of bridging and bonding capital. Through structured interviews with 150 international Asian and domestic White and Asian students enrolled at one of the largest universities in Canada, this research demonstrates that ethnicity-based on-campus organizations play a key role in helping international students build bonding capital on campus. However, findings from this research also demonstrate that international and domestic student groups do not take part in the same on-campus organizations. Differences in participation and discriminatory attitudes held by domestic White students have the potential to inhibit bridging capital, limiting integration between student groups
Strategic Benefits, Symbolic Commitments: How Canadian Colleges and Universities Frame Internationalization
Authors: Buckner Elizabeth , Clerk Scott , Marroquin Adriana , Zhang You
Published: December 2020

This article examines how Canadian colleges and universities formally articulate their priority activities for internationalization, and what discursive rationales justify their approaches. Data come from 32 publicly-available internationalization strategies published in English by Canadian colleges and universities. In terms of practices, we find that institutions are adopting a largely similar set of activities, focused on partnerships and student and scholarly mobility. In terms of their justifications, we find that most institutions combine the strategic benefits of revenue generation and reputational prestige with symbolic commitments to diversity and excellence. We argue that by drawing on multiple rationales, internationalization strategies imbue the same generic activities with many meanings, which helps the internationalization project garner acceptance from an institution’s diverse stakeholders. In concluding, we also point to a number of noticeably absent ideas, including equity, empathy, humility, and civic responsibility
O Aspecto Informacional no Levantamento de Cenários para Comunicações Críticas em Segurança Pública no Brasil
Authors: Freire Débora Vanessa Campos , Cândido Ana Clara
Published: December 2020

As redes de radiocomunicação são uma das principais ferramentas de apoio das entidades que desenvolvem ações em Segurança Pública, sendo necessária constante modernização e atualização destas tecnologias para que estas possuam uma ação efetiva perante a sociedade. Entendendo que este problema engloba, além dos aspectos técnicos, os aspectos relacionados ao contexto social ao qual estes sistemas estão inseridos, este estudo tem como objetivo: realizar um levantamento de possíveis cenários, através da aplicação de entrevistas a especialistas na área, com questões baseadas na Teoria da Atividade, objetivando auxiliar na realização de um exercício de Avaliação Tecnológica dos sistemas empregados para radiocomunicação digital na Segurança Pública no Brasil, visando auxiliar os gestores destes órgãos no processo de Tomada de Decisão. Trata-se de uma pesquisa exploratória, do ponto de vista dos procedimentos metodológicos e aplicada através do uso de dados primários e secundários. É assim caracterizada tendo em vista que aproxima temáticas de áreas distintas para a realização de um exercício de Avaliação Tecnológica. O resultado esperado ao final da pesquisa é o suporte para a realização da Avaliação Tecnológica, através de análise dos possíveis cenários que deverão ser avaliados durante o exercício, além do fortalecimento da potencialidade da Ciência da Informação para solução de problemas reais advindos de áreas técnicas.
O Ica-Atom como ferramenta para descrição de documentos arquivísticos da Universidade Federal da Paraíba
Authors: Bezerra Elivelton De Souza , Bandeira Pablo Matias , Silva Juliane Teixeira e
Published: December 2020

Este trabalho apresenta procedimentos para a descrição de documentos de arquivo, por meio de um sistema digital para gerenciamento de descrição de arquivos e implementação de documentos digitais e digitalizados, denominado Ica-AtoM. Define o que é descrição e arranjo documental e demonstra a importância de ambos para o gerenciamento de um arquivo permanente. A pesquisa também apresenta um protótipo do arranjo documental, orgânico e funcional da estrutura acadêmica da Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB). A partir procedimentos de descrição ancorados no manual do Ica-AtoM, elaboramos um tutorial para facilitar a utilização do software pelos usuários do Arquivo Central da UFPB.
THE IMPACT OF TRANSFORMATİONS ON NORTH AFRİCAN SOCİETİES "SOCİALLY, CULTURALLY, COMMUNİCATİON, HİSTORİCALLY AND ECONOMİCALLY"
Authors: TUMİ Khaled A.
Published: December 2020

study presents five main approaches; In rooting of methodology for the subject of the study; Taking into consideration the analysis of the status of the transformations That has occurred to human life; Which are makes the human subject to a number of influences that compel him to search for alternatives necessary to overcome a certain situation, or aspiration to a better situation, so that he can meet the needs and get rid of the problems arising from the previous situation; Likewise same applies to the culture of dealing with the new situations as a condition in accepting the models of transformation and its image, except that transformations can't be isolated from the spatial and temporal influences, without the human and material factors in achieving it; nor can it relate to the side Limited aspects of the lives of nations and peoples without influence Other aspects; This is due to more than one reason. Therefore; its study requires familiarity with the various changes that contributed to shaping the transformation in one form or another. Whatever the reasons for the transformation and its interpretations, which are can be seen through the gains that are made or lost during the processes of change or transition from time period to another. furthermore; shows the importance of time in terms of its suitability for these transformations or not. Which making a good parallel to the nature of its results, and the implications of this on the social, cultural, communication, historical and economic realities. Keywords: Social, Cultural, Communication, Historical, Economic, Transformations, North Africa.
FEATURE SELECTION USING ASSOCIATION RULES FOR CBIR AND COMPUTER AIDED MEDICAL DIAGNOSTIC
Authors: BHUVANESWARI C. , ARUNA P. , LOGANATHAN D.
Published: December 2020

Digital images are now the basis of visual information in medical applications. The advent of radiology which employs imaging for diagnosis generates great amount of images. Automatic retrieval of images based on features like color, shape and texture is termed Content Based Image Retrieval. The increasing dependence of modern medicine on diagnostic techniques such as radiology, computerized tomography has resulted in a sudden increase in the number and significance of medical images. Content Based Image Retrieval techniques are being extensively used to aid diagnosis by comparing with similar past cases and improvising Computer Aided Diagnosis. In this paper, it is proposed to extract features in the frequency domain using Walsh Hadamard transform and use FP-Growth association rule mining to extract features based on confidence. The extracted features are classified using Naïve Bayes and CART algorithms and the proposed method’s classification accuracy is evaluated. Experimental results show that classification accuracy for Naïve Bayes is 100 and 96.8 for CART on application of proposed method.
DESIGN OF TCM DECODERS USING OPTIMIZED VITERBI DECODER
Authors: KOKILANAYAKI D.
Published: December 2020

The use of forward error correcting codes in the digital communication is used to overcome the data corruptions. Although widely-used, the most popular communications decoding algorithm, the Viterbi algorithm, requires an exponential increase in hardware complexity to achieve greater decode accuracy. The Viterbi decoder that forms the dominant module of TCM decoders are responsible for the overall power consumption. We have analyzed the original T-algorithm with that of the precomputation architecture’s of the T-algorithm. The T-algorithm reduces the complexity of the original viterbi algorithm and reduces the power consumption by 70%.This can be done with the reduction in the negligible clock speed.
CONTENT BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL ASSOCIATE WITH THE INTERSECTION OF MULTI KERNAL RELEVANCE VECTOR MACHINE AND HISTOGRAM JOIN
Authors: VAISHNAVI K. , KUMAR G.P.RAMESH
Published: December 2020

Relevance Feedback is an important tool for grasping user's need in Interactive Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR). Keeping this in mind, we have build up a framework using Relevance Vector Machine Classifier in interactive framework where user labels images as appropriate and inappropriate. The refinement of the images shown to the user is done using a few rounds of relevance feedback. This appropriate and inappropriate set then provides the training set for the RVM for each of these rounds. The method uses Histogram Intersection kernel with this interactive RVM (IKRVM). It has a retrieval component on top of this which searches for those images for retrieving which falls in the nearest neighbor set of the query image on the basis of histogram intersection based identical ranking (HIIR). The experimental results shows that the proposed framework shows better precision when compared with Active learning based RVMActive implemented with Radial Basis or Polynomial Kernels.
AUTOMATIC STRUCTURING OF SEMANTIC WEB SERVICES – AN APPROACH
Authors: KAMALA B. , NANDHINI J. M.
Published: December 2020

Ontologies have become the effective modeling for various applications and significantly in the semantic web. The difficulty of extracting information from the web, which was created mainly for visualising information, has driven the birth of the semantic web, which will contain much more resources than the web and will attach machine-readable semantic information to these resources. Ontological bootstrapping on a set of predefined sources, such as web services, must address the problem of multiple, largely unrelated concepts. The web services consist of basically two components, Web Services Description Language (WSDL) descriptors and free text descriptors. The WSDL descriptor is evaluated using two methods, namely Term Frequency/Inverse Document Frequency (TF/IDF) and web context generation. The proposed bootstrapping ontological process integrates TF/IDF and web context generation and applies validation using the free text descriptor service, so that, it offers more accurate definition of ontologies. This paper uses ranking adaption model which predicts the rank for a collection of web service documents which leads to the automatic construction, enrichment and adaptation of ontologies.
POLYMERIC MICRONEEDLE ARRAY FOR AMINO FLUIDIC EXTRACTION DURING PRENATAL PERIOD
Authors: BALASUBRAMANIAN SABITHA , SHANMUGASUNDARAM LOGESHKUMAR
Published: December 2020

In this paper, a simulation of microneedle array for Amniotic Fluid extraction during 1st/ 2nd trimester period have been presented. Structural and fluidic analyses have been performed to investigate the mechanical strength of microneedles and fluid flow rate through the lumen regions. The effect of axial and transverse loads on the microneedles during skin insertion is investigated in the stress analysis. Fluidic analysis shows that the proposed design is suitable for Amniotic Fluid extraction because double lumen microneeldes is suitable for amniotic fluid extraction and the pressure difference between two lumens is useful to avoid clogging effect. This microneedle array cause the mother and the fetus safe, time consumption is less and reduce miscarriage. Here in this paper the microneedle array has been designed and simulated using COMSOL Multiphysics Package and their structural optimization is also been reviewed.
A REVIEW ON APPROACHES AND MODELS PROPOSED FOR SOFTWARE RELIABILITY TESTING
Authors: BANSAL ANSHU , PUNDIR SUDHIR
Published: December 2020

Reliability testing of software is the key area of concern now-a-days; specially with the software which are safety critical and security prone systems. There is always a need of high software reliability. Most of the present models for evaluation of software reliability are based on statistical and probability approach. When we look into the use of these models for software reliability testing, we observe that there are possibilities of imprecision in the reliability estimation. For removing this imprecision, the Fuzzy logic and Fuzzy expert systems are used within various researches. The use of Fuzzy logic for reliability estimation can enhance the reliability of software even during the early stages of software development. Here we are giving a comparison analysis of few approaches and models proposed so far, for the estimation of software reliability and its improvement using Fuzzy logic.
PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF MIMO TECHNOLOGY USING VBLAST MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI (MAP)
Authors: J JOYA JUBAIR , DEORE P J , PATIL B P
Published: December 2020

Recent research shows that multiple antenna at both transmitter and receiver offers higher data rates compared to single antenna system. The information-theoretical capacity of MIMO grows linearly with the smaller of transmit and receive antenna in rich scattering environment with sufficient high SNR. In this paper, V-BLAST and maximum a-posteriori (MAP) is used improve the performance of the MIMO system. The original V-BLAST algorithm is a multi-layer symbol detection scheme, which detects symbols transmitted at different transmit antennas successively in a certain dataindependent order. The proposed V-BLAST-MAP algorithm differs from V-BLAST only in the ordering strategy of the symbols detected. The complexity of the V-BLAST-MAP is higher than that of V-BLAST. The performance improvement is also significant. In this paper, MATLAB Based simulation result are discussed .
MIDDLEWARE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR PREDICATE DETECTION IN ASYNCHRONOUS ENVIRONMENT
Authors: FATIMA NAGMA , SRIVASTAVA SHIPRA , SHARMA SONAL
Published: December 2020

Context-awareness is an essential feature of pervasive applications, and runtime detection of contextual properties is one of the primary approaches to enabling context awareness. However, existing context-aware middleware does not provide sufficient support for detection of contextual properties in asynchronous environments. The contextual activities usually involve multiple context collecting devices, which are fully-decentralized and interact in an asynchronous manner. However, existing context consistency checking schemes do not work in asynchronous environments, since they implicitly assume the availability of a global clock or relay on synchronized interactions. To this end, we present the Middleware Infrastructure for Predicate detection in Asynchronous environments (MIPA), which supports context awareness based on logical time. Design and Structure of MIPA are explained in detail.
PENGARUH PENGGUNAAN METODE PERMAINAN TERHADAP PENINGKATAN PENGUASAAN KOSA KATA BAHASA INGGRIS
Authors: Sari Maya , Sulaeman Oyib , Annisa Fitri
Published: December 2020

The effect of lack using game method in English subject is students in MI Condong Jamanis have low score in English vocabulary mastery. The problems that arise whether the game method has positive influence on increasing student`s English vocabulary mastery in Madrasah Ibtidaiyyah Condong or not. The assumption of this study is the game method has positive impact on student`s on increasing student`s English vocabulary mastery in Madrasah Ibtidaiyah (MI) Condong Jamanis. This aim of the study is to determine the effect of using the game method on increasing English vocabulary mastery in the Madrasah Ibtidaiyyah Condong. This research is useful for English language teachers, students and also the development of teaching materials in English subjects related to learning methods, especially game methods and efforts to improve student`s English vocabulary mastery.The method of the study is descriptive method with quantitative approach to reveal the current situation / condition by considering the past situation through the processing of numbers obtained from research Based on the results of data processing, it is found that the use of the game method in Madrasah Ibtidaiyah Condong is sufficient (x ̅ = 41, is on the scale of interpretation 40 - 44 with moderate classification). Whereas Student`s English vocabulary mastery in MI Condong has low score (x ̅ = 40, is on the scale of interpretation 38 - 41 with less classification). And the effect of using game method on increasing student`s English vocabulary mastery in Madrasah Ibtidaiyah Condong has a significant positive influence categories, it is proven that rs = 0.46 is in the interval 0.41 - 0.71 and t_count (2.76) and table (2,048). The effect of using game method influences on the increasing of English vocabulary mastery about 21%, while the left about 79% is determined by other factors, namely the use of other learning methods, habituation, the teacher always explores the game method, the students' understanding of the vocabulary given.
Structural Responses of Flexible Pavement Subjected to Different Axle Group Loads
Authors: SAWANGSURIYA Auckpath , IMJAI Thanongsak , MALAIKRISANACHALEE Suphawut
Published: December 2020

This study presents the structural responses of flexible pavement which were subjected to different axle group loads. Three types of axle group loads, e.g. single axle-dual wheel, tandem axle-dual wheel, and tridem axle-dual wheel, were applied over the field for the instrumented trial section. The corresponding structural responses were measured using a series of embedded instrumentations e.g. pressure cells, asphalt strain gauges, strain gauges, thermocouples, moisture sensors etc. A 3-dimensional (3-D) finite-element analysis (FEA) model and the multi-layer linear-elastic analysis (LEA) were developed to estimate structural responses which were then compared with the field measurement data. Both FEA and LEA assumed the pavement layer materials to be homogeneous, isotropic, and linear-elastic. The elastic moduli of pavement layers were determined from the falling weight deflectometer (FWD) based on the backcalculation procedure. Results from the analysis indicated that both FEA and LEA were in good agreement with the field measurement results with some exceptions for strains under the asphalt concrete surface.
Prediction of Compaction Parameters of Khon Kaen Loess Soil
Authors: CHINDAPRASIRT Prinya , KAMPALA Apichit , ARNGBUNTA Anukun , HORPIBULSUK Suksun
Published: December 2020

Soil stratum in Khon Kaen province, located in Northeast of Thailand, is well-known as a wind-deposited fine-grained soil (i.e. silty sand and silty clay). It is normally called “Loess or Khon Kaen Loess”.  This soil in disturbed stage is usually extracted from the borrow pit and subsequently compacted for infrastructure applications. The compaction resulted in silty sand or silty clay aggregation with unpredictable properties. Although required for infrastructure design, studies on Khon Kaen Loess are limited. Thus, this research examines the compaction behavior and predicts soil parameters at various clay contents under a series of compaction energy on Khon Kaen Loess. The results showed that the maximum dry unit weights of samples could be related to the dry unit weight at plastic limit (PL), while the optimum water content (OWC) was correlated linearly with the PL. The samples with higher PL presented the higher OWC. In addition, the maximum dry unit weight and OWC of samples could be estimated using the developed equations validated with the other research results.
Characteristic of Northern Thailand Seismic Stations from Horizontal-to-Vertical Spectral Ratios (HVSR) Analysis
Authors: HANSAWANGKIT Supakorn , ORNTHAMMARATH Teraphan
Published: December 2020

Several major cities in Northern Thailand are located on a sedimentary basin, which could amplify ground motion from future earthquakes as they lie along several active faults. To study the seismic response and natural periods of these basins, a Horizontal to Vertical Spectral Ratio (HVSR) for each seismic station in Northern Thailand has been proposed. Several observed ground motion from moderate to small seismic events in and around Northern Thailand were used in this analysis. Several seismometers (TSA-100S, Trillium-120, PA-23, S-13 and KS 2000) of the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) and Thai Meteorological Department (TMD) with triaxial digital accelerometer data were used. The 3 axis digital accelerometers (2-horizontal and vertical) were converted to Fourier amplitude spectral (FAS) in order to find basin natural period by Horizontal to Vertical Spectral Ratio (HVSR). This research investigates 6 stations in Northern Thailand with at least 10 observed ground motions for each station. We found that the natural period of three stations (CRAI, PAYA and PHRA) showed strong site amplification effect at low natural period (between 0.1 - 0.2 s with an amplitude larger than 2). The natural period of CMMT and MHIT stations were insignificant since CMMT and MHIT were located on the rocks. Lastly, we observed long natural period for CMCA station located in Chiang Mai basin around 2.50 s with an amplitude larger than 3. Furthermore, the computed site natural periods were compared with the average top 30 m shear wave velocity (Vs30) based on the data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) and Multichannel Analysis of Surface Wave (MASW) to find the type of soil in each area.
The Role of Data Visualization and Analytics of Highway Accidents
Authors: SUNKPHO Jirapon , WIPULANUSAT Warit
Published: December 2020

Thailand has been ranked as one of the most dangerous countries in terms of death from road accidents, representing ineffective road safety policies. The crucial mission of the Thai government is to provide safety and reduce accidents for road users on the highway system. This paper aims to explore the potential of using Business Intelligence (BI) in accident analysis. The availability of open accident data provides an opportunity for the BI, which can provide an advanced platform for conducting data visualization and analytics in both spatial and temporal dimensions in order to illustrate when and where the accidents occur. The accident data and provincial data were combined by using the Talend Data Integration tool. The combined data was then loaded into a MySQL database for data visualization using Tableau. The dashboard was designed and created by using Tableau as an analytical visualization tool to provide insights into highway accidents. This system is advised to be adopted by the Thai government, which can be used for data visualization and analytics to provide a mechanism to formulate strategy options and formulate appropriate contingency plans to improve the accident situation.
SATISFAÇÃO NO ATENDIMENTO: UM ESTUDO DE CASO EM UMA EMPRESA DO MUNICÍPIO DE CAPELA (SE)
Authors: Marques Maria Gisleine Silva , Moreira Nathalia Carvalho , Paverchi Silvia Regina
Published: December 2020

Este trabalho teve como objetivo geral analisar a percepção dos clientes a respeito do atendimento em uma empresa privada. Tratou-se de um estudo de caso, do tipo descritivo, utilizando como técnica de coleta de dados um questionário estruturado aplicado a 80 clientes para averiguar os níveis de satisfação quanto ao atendimento recebido, aos produtos/serviços e ambiente da empresa. Como local de estudo, foi escolhida de forma intencional, uma empresa do setor de serviços localizada no município de Capela, estado de Sergipe (SE). Dentre os principais resultados, pode-se verificar o grau de satisfação dos clientes; o que possibilita criar melhores estratégias que busquem satisfazê-los e mantê-los fiéis a empresa. Por fim, foi possível identificar pontos negativos, especialmente na questão preço, pois para os clientes é perceptível observar a insatisfação, relacionada à falta de descontos oferecidos pela empresa. Assim, a empresa deve rever seu posicionamento perante este quesito, para que assim, possa melhor satisfazer seus clientes e crescer no mercado.
DIDÁTICA: QUESTÕES NORTEADORAS E DESAFIOS ATUAIS
Authors: APARECIDA VIEIRA M.M. , ALMEIDA Ricardo Santos de
Published: December 2020

Este estudo objetiva-se pela análise do discurso/enunciado da didática a partir da caixa de ferramenta da análise arqueológica do discurso (AAD) de Foucault (2019), bem como das questões norteadoras e dos desafios atuais que permeiam os processos educativos na contemporaneidade, escavando as séries de signos que explicitam corpus analíticos dos achados, elucidando as questões norteadoras e desafiadoras que atravessam a didática como um todo, analisando a obra de Candau (1983). No conjunto das coisas ditas e escritas a historiografia da didática promove irrupções nos processos educativos uma vez que as necessidades formativas a depender da época histórica em que estamos situados carece de respaldos metodológicos diferenciados.
EDUCAÇÃO E PRODUÇÃO DE CONHECIMENTO
Authors: JARA G. C.
Published: December 2020

Este artigo tem como objetivo expor assimilações dos conteúdos. A literatura colabora para as discussões e a compreensão de conceitos epistemológicos com relação a pesquisas em educação. Entre os temas expostos, são descritos enunciados de autores que conceituam o que é pesquisa e sua colaboração na construção do conhecimento, paradigmas teóricos metodológicos empregados nas pesquisas em educação, dimensões teórico-epistemológicas para pesquisa em educação no Brasil.