Current Technological Age Research Articles

Comparing Audiological Outcomes of Conventional and AI-Upgraded Cochlear Implant Speech Processors.

In current age of technology, artificial intelligence is used in the medical field to improve the quality and accuracy in patient care and achieve better clientele satisfaction. The use of artificial intelligence in the field of hearing rehabilitation and cochlear implantation has an immense scope and it enhances the accuracy in placement of electrode array, forecasting site of surgical location and optimization of speech processing. This study aims to compare the audiological outcomes of conventional versus artificial intelligence technology enabled cochlear implant speech processors. Additionally, it compares the individual performance and satisfaction level with use of both types of speech processors. All children who underwent upgradation of their cochlear implant speech processors at a tertiary care cochlear implant centre with artificial intelligence enabled speech processors were included in the study. The comparison of audiological outcomes of conventional versus artificial intelligence integrated speech processors were assessed by using Aided Audiometry, Categories of Auditory Perception Score and Speech Intelligibility Rating scale. Children using the basic model cochlear implant speech processor which was provided at the time of implantation are referred as conventional cochlear implant speech processor user. Their speech processors were subsequently upgraded with current generation artificial intelligence integrated speech processors which is referred here as artificial intelligence upgraded cochlear implant speech processor. During the study, a total of thirty-four (34) patients underwent upgradation of cochlear implant speech processors. The mean categories of auditory perception score were 11.58 and 11.94 using conventional and artificial intelligence upgraded speech processor respectively. The mean speech intelligibility rating score was 4.5 and 4.6 respectively. The audiological outcomes of conventional speech processors are comparable with those using artificial intelligence enabled speech processors. However, the clientele satisfaction in respect to quality of sound, ease of listening in difficult listening environment, smart connectivity options for both phone and television is available and better with the artificial intelligence enabled cochlear implant speech processor. This also has the advantages of auto switching of programming with change in ambient noise, better signal to noise ratio and better 360* hearing.

THE SIGNIFICANCE AND THE CHALLENGES OF THE BLENDED LEARNING IMPLEMENTATION AT HIGHER LEARNING INSTITUTIONS

Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) prioritise the development of students who possess intellectual competency in using technology for learning purposes, as well as proficiency in the English language, including abilities in speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Despite the considerable efforts made, a significant number of university students continue to struggle with comprehending and completely grasping the English language. Insufficient skill in English may result in individuals being left behind, particularly in terms of completing assignments and progressing to advanced English courses. The problem of insufficient English language competency among students at HEIs is evidently in need of resolution. Accordingly, this research aims to examine the concept of a blended learning approach in the context of English language teaching and learning, focusing on scholars' viewpoints. The objective of this paper is to examine existing literature on the understanding of the concept of blended learning and elucidate the significance and challenges of using the blended learning approach in the context of English language instruction at HEI. Overall, to ensure congruence with this objective, HEIs in Malaysia are progressively transitioning towards implementing integrated learning models, which are an effective way to teach and learn in the current technological age.

Kierkegaard, Social Media, and Despair

ABSTRACTThis essay offers a Kierkegaardian analysis of and response to the harmful effects of destabilization that can be caused by engaging with certain technological media. It argues that the intellectual technological ethic that is at work in social media platforms reflects two types of despair discussed in Søren Kierkegaard's Sickness Unto Death. It advises using a Kierkegaard‐inspired Socratic rhetorical strategy of communication that ironically employs technology for depicting this despair and awakening individuals to its presence in their lives. Moreover, this essay suggests that the edifying themes of “misery” and “guilt” can be communicated indirectly and thereby offer one intervention that could possibly help the current technological age move from the immediate aesthetic sphere of existence to the religious sphere. Considering the important role of upbuilding in Kierkegaard's oeuvre, the final portion explores how even someone who does not identify with a religious tradition or community may encounter what Kierkegaard terms the paradox of the eternal in time in ways that foster the development of authentic selfhood.

Human Eye Ball Gazing and Face Based Ultra Digital Security System using AI

Abstract: The "Eye Ball Gazing and Face-Based Ultra Digital Security System" invents a remarkable surveillance mechanism by fusing recognition of faces with eye ball movement monitoring. It gathers and safely retains people's unique visages and eyeball peering patterns uponparticipation. It sets up an authentication system with multiple factors that bolsters security and cuts the chance of unlicensed entry if access is requested. This novel solution to the continually evolving requirements of technological safety distinguishes real-time eye-ball peering information with recorded sequences, besides ensuring human facial features. Sophisticated facial identification and eye motion monitoring techniques are put together in the "Eye Ball Gazing and Face-Based Ultra Digital Security System" to produce an effective validation structure in the realm of digital safety. When a person signs up, the tool confidentially saves distinct facial traits and eyeball staring movements. Upon access request, the documented data is cross-referenced with actual time eyeball gazing sequences, and recognition offacial features is utilized to confirm ID in addition.The simultaneous use of both of these methods oflogin minimizes the possibility of inappropriate entry and improves confidentiality, which requiresa multi-step verification procedure. In the current age of technology, this groundbreaking solution guarantees top-notch security and accessibility control.

Վերաֆինանսավորման տոկոսադրույքի տատանումների ազդեցությունը շուկայական տոկոսադրույքների վրա Հայաստանի Հանրապետությունում / Effect of Refinancing Interest Rate Fluctuations on Market Interest Rates in the Republic of Armenia

It is indisputable that the real sector of the economy requires investment, especially in the current technological age. Banks, on the other hand, possess significant financial resources, but due to insufficient, asymmetric information and the underdeveloped financial system, the interaction between the real and financial sectors is ineffective. The "late response" of the financial sector to changes in the real sector has become the cause of a chronic oversupply of financial services, resulting in a situation where the level of liquidity in banks is largely independent of economic cycles. The paper aims to identify the ways in which interest rate fluctuations impact the real and financial sectors of the RA economy and to evaluate this impact. The paper analyzes trends in the main indicators characterizing the real and financial sectors of RA, as well as the behavior of various types of interest rates according to the factors determining them. It comments on the macroeconomic developments in RA caused by interest rate fluctuations. With the help of econometric models, the study estimates the effect sizes between various links on the interest rate path. The study made it possible to highlight the problems with the transmission mechanisms of the monetary policy of RA and suggest possible solutions. As a result of the assessment, it was found that deposit and credit interest rates, interbank repo rates, and one-year government bond yield rates respond to changes in the refinancing rate of the Central Bank in different time lags.

Trends in Physical Abilities of Physical Education Students Between the Years 2000-2021.

The comforts of modern life have markedly caused a reduction in physical activity. Approximately only one third of the adult population engages in regular physical activity levels as recommended, resulting in increased morbidity and mortality. The study aimed to determine if physical education undergraduate students' cardiorespiratory and abdominal endurance levels changed between 2000-2021. We collected data from 1353 physical education undergraduate students, 20-30years of age. Data included evaluations of the following abilities: cardiorespiratory endurance using the time result of a 2000-m run, abdominal muscle endurance measured using 1-minute sit-up test results, arms muscle endurance using maximal numbers of push-up test results, and agility using 4 × 10-m shuttle run results. Findings include a statistically significant decline over the years in cardiorespiratory endurance with medium effect size for males and females (r = .293; 95% CI, 0.215 to .367; and r = .222; 95% CI, .133 to .308, respectively), and abdominal muscle endurance with medium effect size for males and females (r = -.394; 95% CI, -.455 to -.329; and r = -.366; 95% CI, -.434 to -.294, respectively). We concluded that the decline in the physical abilities of physical education undergraduate students over a span of 20years is significant. Also, in light of the current technological age, further physical activity considerations should be given to populations younger than 18 and of other particular adult populations.

Interactive Analysis and Visualisation of Annotated Collocations in Spanish (AVAnCES)

Phraseology studies have been enhanced by Corpus Linguistics, which has become an interdisciplinary field where current technologies play an important role in its development. Computational tools have been implemented in the last decades with positive results on the identification of phrases in different languages. One specific technology that has impacted these studies is social media. As researchers, we have turned our attention to collecting data from these platforms, which comes with great advantages and its own challenges. One of the challenges is the way we design and build corpora relevant to the questions emerging in this type of language expression. This has been approached from different angles, but one that has given invaluable outputs is the building of linguistic corpora with the use of online web applications. In this paper, we take a multidimensional approach to the collection, design, and deployment of a phraseology corpus for Latin American Spanish from Twitter data, extracting features using NLP techniques, and presenting it in an interactive online web application. We expect to contribute to the methodologies used for Corpus Linguistics in the current technological age. Finally, we make this tool publicly available to be used by any researcher interested in the data itself and also on the technological tools developed here.

Human Following Robot Based on Motion Sensing Technology

In the current technological age, robots that follow humans are widespread. We can implement the technique of ‘human following’ in robots to follow a person inside a particular area. Human-robot communication is an integral component in this scenario. The human follower robot can assist us in both residential and industrial settings. Robots already exist to perform tasks at ease to assist humans has become a commendable and important development in the world of technology. Using an Arduino board along with an ultrasonic sensor and infrared sensors, the robot will detect motion and follow the person in motion.

Impact of AI on Business

In the current technological age, innovations and advances are happening at lightning speed, making this perhaps the most exciting time in human history. Artificial intelligence has become an integral part of our lives, impacting people, society, and the economy. The last few years have been remarkable for artificial intelligence, and today almost every company is reshaping their strategies and business models to incorporate AI into all business processes

Hand Gestures Recognition For Virtual Mouse and Keyboard :A Novel Human- Computer Interaction Approach

Today's computer vision technology is so good that a machine can recognize its owner by using a simple picture-processing programme.. People use this vision in many parts of daily life in the current technological age, including face recognition, color detection, autonomous vehicles, etc. The One of the marvels of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) technology is the mouse. Since a wireless mouse or Bluetooth mouse still need a battery for power and a dongle to connect it to the PC, they are not entirely device-free at this time. This study suggests an interactive computer system that converts hand motions into a virtual keyboard and mouse using computer vision. To carry out the task, we can use an internal camera or an external camera. To operate the mouse and keyboard, we can use a built-in camera or an external camera. The computer's camera will scan the image of various hand gestures made by a person, and in accordance with the motions, the mouse pointer will move and even carry out various functions using various gestures. Other motions can also be used to access the keyboard's features. It will work as a virtual mouse and keyboard in the absence of any wiring or other hardware. The project's webcam is the only piece of hardware, and Python is used for all development on the PyCharm platform. Modern machine learning and computer vision techniques are used in this research to recognize hand gestures, and they operate without the need for any additional hardware.

Modern Methods of Histological Examination

This article provides information about histology, the most modern methods of histological examination that are being tested and used in the current age of technology.

IOTEML: An Internet of Things (IoT)-Based Enhanced Machine Learning Model for Tumour Investigation.

In the current age of technology, various diseases in the body are also on the rise. Tumours that cause more discomfort in the body are set to increase the discomfort of most patients. Patients experience different effects depending on the tumour size and type. Future developments in the medical field are moving towards the development of tools based on IoT devices. These advances will in the future follow special features designed based on multiple machine learning developed by artificial intelligence. In that order, an improved algorithm named Internet of Things-based enhanced machine learning is proposed in this paper. What makes it special is that it involves separate functions to diagnose each type of tumour. It analyzes and calculates things like the size, shape, and location of the tumour. Cure from cancer is determined by the stage at which we find cancer. Early detection of cancer has the potential to cure quickly. At a saturation point, the proposed Internet of Things-based enhanced machine learning model achieved 94.56% of accuracy, 94.12% of precision, 94.98% of recall, 95.12% of F1-score, and 1856 ms of execution time. The simulation is conducted to test the efficacy of the model, and the results of the simulation show that the proposed Internet of Things-based enhanced machine learning obtains a higher rate of intelligence than other methods.

Heidegger: técnica e esquecimento do ser

It is about circumscribing the meaning of the phenomenon of technique in the horizon of Heidegger's thought and his critique of classical metaphysics. For that, in a first moment we present the phenomenon of the technique in the scope of its reading of this metaphysics in its essence: the forgetfulness of being. In a second step, we present, within the limits of our text and in a more particular way, two indications of the essence of the phenomenon in question. The first in the technical connection, truth and freedom and the second in the technical, science and metaphysical connection. To conclude, then, with a brief reminder of what we can retain as the basic legacy of Heidegger's thought about this central issue for us in the current technological age.

"To Tech or Not to Tech?" A Critical Decision-Making Framework for Implementing Technology in Sport.

The current technological age has created exponential growth in the availability of technology and data in every industry, including sport. It is tempting to get caught up in the excitement of purchasing and implementing technology, but technology has a potential dark side that warrants consideration. Before investing in technology, it is imperative to consider the potential roadblocks, including its limitations and the contextual challenges that compromise implementation in a specific environment. A thoughtful approach is therefore necessary when deciding whether to implement any given technology into practice. In this article, we review the vision and pitfalls behind technology's potential in sport science and medicine applications and then present a critical decision-making framework of 4 simple questions to help practitioners decide whether to purchase and implement a given technology.

C-POS: A Context-Aware Adaptive Part-of-Speech Language Learning Framework

In the current age of technology, comprehension of the English language is very important. This is because that often innovation and discoveries are done by English speaking countries. And thus, it is considered as being the most important and widely used international language. Further, the need for learning an additional language has increased due to globalization in an unprecedented manner. Therefore, English is being taught as an additional language at various levels of education. In traditional classrooms of non-English speaking countries, students only learn English in their language classes whereas they have few opportunities to practice English outside the classroom. However, the specialized nature of mobile technologies has opened a new horizon for learners that make information available to people at any time, at any place, and in any form.The number of smartphone users is increasing every year and more than 4.78 billion smartphone users are in the world today.It can be understood that learning increases when the learning process is integrated with daily life routine activities. The context-awareness is one of the commonly used techniques that provide specialized content to different learners based on their context parameters. The word 'context' refers to any information that can be used to characterize the situation of a particular entity. The context parameter includes location, time, concentration level, Interest and learner's knowledge. Based on these context parameters, a Context-aware Part-Of-Speech (C-POS) learning system is designed, implemented and evaluated. Different experiments are conducted to evaluate the performance of learners' which is increased by 9%. The evaluation of results provides evidence that the C-POS learning system can be successfully adapted by the non-natives speakers to learn the English language effectively.

Fire Disaster Alert System using Sobel Edge Detection

In current technological age smart machines for automatic job done has been a great breakthrough in smart city. This paper depicts A Fire Alarm system design by means of color model and edge detection procedure and IOT (Internet of Things) service. In general populated localities like market fire disaster is frequent and most of the time it causes loss of human recourses and properties. Installing fire sensors in each of the part of the market will be difficult, quite costly and not very efficient especially due to environmental obstacle. As an alternative, digital camera can be used for covering area in the market. Digital Cameras will capture the images constantly with 3600 coverage. In case of any fire hazard the content will be detected in the image by the connected programmed Microcontroller and automatically alarm will be generated and message will be sent to the fire control department and the microcontroller in fire department will receive the signal. Previous data of such fire disaster should be fed into the system for possible comparison and pattern matching during training and learning of the system. This system is cost effective and useful in public places. The same system can be used for accident prone areas also for sending information to nearest hospitals for effective remedy of disaster.

Robustness Security of Data Hiding for H.265/HEVC Video Streams

In the current age of IoT and Industry 4.0, vast amounts of big data are exchanged in the cloud, social media and among sensing devices, at times causing videos to go viral and proliferating fake news. Ultra high quality videos such as in the latest H.265/HEVC standard format have the capacity for data to be embedded in them for different security applications. Security for high quality videos is a concern in our current technological age where netizens often share videos with others through social media and video hosting sites like YouTube. In this paper, we focus on data hiding for H.265/ HEVC and perform detailed security analysis of a recent H. 265/HEVC data hiding scheme. Our security consideration includes the hiding properties of secrecy and undetectability, as well as the robustness security property of tamper resistance. We show specifically an attack against the robustness security of this data hiding scheme. We discuss reasons causing the insecurity against robustness and justify strategies to improve the scheme’s protection against these types of attacks

Big data analytics for video surveillance

This article addresses the usage and scope of Big Data Analytics in video surveillance and its potential application areas. The current age of technology provides the users, ample opportunity to generate data at every instant of time. Thus in general, a tremendous amount of data is generated every instant throughout the world. Among them, amount of video data generated is having a major share. Education, healthcare, tours and travels, food and culture, geographical exploration, agriculture, safety and security, entertainment etc., are the key areas where a tremendous amount of video data is generated every day. A major share among it are taken by the daily used surveillance data captured from the security purpose camera and are recorded everyday. Storage, retrieval, processing, and analysis of such gigantic data require some specific platform. Big Data Analytics is such a platform, which eases this analysis task. The aim of this article is to investigate the current trends in video surveillance and its applications using Big Data Analytics. It also aims to focus on the research opportunities for visual surveillance in Big Data frameworks. We have reported here the state-of-the-art surveillance schemes for four different imaging modalities: conventional video scene, remotely sensed video, medical diagnostics, and underwater surveillance. Several works were reported in this research field over recent years and are categorized based on the challenges solved by the researchers. A list of tools used for video surveillance using Big Data framework is presented. Finally, research gaps in this domain are discussed.

The Development and Measurement of a Customer Satisfaction Index (E-CSI) in Electronic Banking

In the current technological age, once traditional means of delivering services to customers are losing its dominant position, the application of the Internet has evolved as an innovatively supporting alternative for attracting customers, especially in banking service. In that aspect, customers' perception of online banking service through the delivery of website quality (Webqual) remains the main concern for bank's managers in Vietnamese banking system because customers are easily inclined to another banking service provider due to their poor website-operated experience. Based on the evaluation of factors influencing on banking website quality, its relationship to customer satisfaction and retention, this article suggests the measurement of electronic Customer Satisfaction Index (e-CSI) of perceived banking website quality by three most developed banks of Vietinbank, Vietcombank and BIDV in central Vietnam, from which provides insights that may be useful for improving the quality of online banking service.

Importance of Career Planning and Development in Education

Career development and career planning are very significant in the current age of technology, because current century and global changes have given birth to an atmosphere in which nearly everything is in competition with each other. This case is also valid for educators. On one side, everything is changing very fast; on the other side, they are supposed to adopt themselves these rapid changes. Such an adaptation requires some certain commitment, motivation and planning concerning themselves and their students. In this sense, being just a good teacher will not be enogh. Teachers should be open-minded people, especially concerning innovations and internal or external (self) evaluations. For the instituions; they are supposed to set necessary settings with short and long-term goals in terms of career development of their educators. In this way, the process of education turns into a win-win situation for teachers, learners and schools.