Google Services Research Articles

Self-Development as a Factor in the Professional Growth of Future Teachers

The study aimed to substantiate the concept of as a factor in the professional growth of future and to empirically research the effectiveness of technological tools that affect the development of its components. Self-development as a factor in the professional growth of future teachers in the context of the article is considered as a motivated self-progress of applicants for higher education in pedagogical specialties, which is based on personal senses and aimed at developing their professional potential. To achieve this goal at different stages of the study, we applied: author questionnaires using Google service (Google Forms tool), individual protocols for self-assessment, diagnostic technologies of self-awareness and self-development - the flower of my research skills, a cascade of sequences, a basket of ideas, personal projects technologies - pedagogical portfolios, cases, Self-book, projects, business (imitation) games, maps of professional self-development. The generalization of the data of the empirical study took place using the methods of mathematical statistics – the Pearson's correlation coefficient using MS Excel (application of the CORREL function). The results of the study confirm the quantitative and qualitative indicators of the positive component dynamics of the formation of self-development for the professional growth of future teachers. It is proved that the use of a set of personal-projective tools contributes to the formation of professional self-development of the teacher, which is expressed by the components disclosed in the article. The application of our research: its results will help applicants for higher education (future teachers and lecturers of higher educational institutions of pedagogical specialties) consciously apply diagnostic, personal-projective technologies for the teacher’s self-development at the beginning of their activity. The study for the first time substantiates the essence of the concept and the components of self-development as a factor in the professional growth of future teachers; suggests a set of effective methods that have not been widely explained.

ВИКОРИСТАННЯ СЕРВІСУ GOOGLE CLASSROOM У ПРОЦЕСІ ДИСТАНЦІЙНОГО НАВЧАННЯ

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What is and What is not the Digital Earth

The article addresses to a fundamental issue facing the concept of the Digital Earth in 2020 – what is the definition of the Digital Earth? 22 years after the announcement of the concept and 15 years after its first mass and successful implementation in the service Google Earth in 2005 this question remains unanswered. In the article the current status of the development of the Digital Earth concept by 2020 is considered, a methodology for the definition of the Digital Earth, based on the classification of the diversity of existing geospatial approaches and the identification of key factors that provide its unique functionality, is proposed and discussed. Distinction between the Digital Earth and others geospatial approaches is provided. The intrinsic connection of definition and classifications is grounded, the new definition of the Digital Earth and complimentary classification of geospatial methods are offered. Semiotics aspects of the Digital Earth are discussed briefly. The question of the eligibility of technologies and systems to the Digital Earth is considered. The perspective issues of further development of the Digital Earth are considered.

The role of cloud technologies in digital transformation of education (on the example of secondary vocational education)

The article describes the capabilities of cloud technologies (using the example of Google services) in implementing the target model of the digital educational environment and developing the first stage of digital transformation of education using the example of the general education course “Informatics” in secondary vocational education. The article substantiates the relevance of updating the content of educational programs of secondary vocational education in accordance with the requirements of the digital economy in the context of the implementation of Federal State Educational Standards of Secondary Vocational Education for 50 most demanded in the labor market, new and promising professions and specialties (FSES of Secondary Vocational Education for TOP-50). The novelty of the work in the context of digital transformation of secondary vocational education is shown. The relationships between the didactic capabilities of cloud technologies and the types of educational activities of students and the requirements of digital transformation of education are analyzed. A comparative analysis of the functional support of the components of the target model of the digital educational environment by means of cloud technologies is carried out. The experience of organizing the training of students of the Perm Commerce and Technology College in the groups of the profession “Cook, Pastry Chef” in the framework of the general educational discipline “Informatics” based on the use of cloud technologies as a model of a digital educational environment in the formation of general and subject competences is presented. In the presented experience, cloud technologies (Google services) are considered as the main and as an auxiliary didactic tool in the context of general functionality of Google services, types of didactic tasks for open source software, approximate thematic planning in the subject of “Informatics” for secondary vocational education. The results of the work can be useful to scientists, teachers and methodologists of higher and secondary vocational education, and can also be used directly by teachers of the course “Informatics” in secondary vocational education.

Changes in clinical laboratory operations and biosafety measures to mitigate biohazard risks during the COVID-19 pandemic

Changes in clinical laboratory operations and biosafety measures to mitigate biohazard risks during the COVID-19 pandemic

HeporCloud: An energy and performance efficient resource orchestrator for hybrid heterogeneous cloud computing environments

In major Information Technology (IT) companies such as Google, Rackspace and Amazon Web Services (AWS), virtualisation and containerisation technologies are usually used to execute customers' workloads and applications. The computational resources are provided through large-scale datacenters, which consume substantial amount of energy and have, therefore, ecological impacts. Since long, Google runs users' applications in containers, Rackspace offers bare-metal hardware, whereas AWS runs them either in VMs (EC2), containers (ECS) and/or containers inside VMs (Lambda); therefore, making resource management a tedious activity. The role of a resource management system is of the greatest importance, principally, if IT companies practice various kinds of sand-boxing technologies, for instance, bare-metal, VMs, containers, and/or nested containers in their datacenters (hybrid platforms). The absence of centralised, workload-aware resource managers and consolidation policies produces questions on datacenters energy efficiency, workloads performance, and users' costs. In this paper, we demonstrate, through several experiments, using the Google workload data for 12,583 hosts and approximately one million tasks that belong to four different kinds of workload, the likelihood of: (i) using workload-aware resource managers in hybrid clouds; (ii) achieving energy and cost savings, in heterogeneous hybrid datacenters such that the workload performance is not affected, negatively; and (iii) how various allocation policies, combined with different migration approaches, will impact on datacenter's energy and performance efficiencies. Using plausible assumptions for hybrid datacenters set-up, our empirical evaluation suggests that, for no migration, a single scheduler is at most 16.86% more energy efficient than distributed schedulers. Moreover, when migrations are considered, our resource manager can save up to 45.61% energy and can improve up to 17.9% workload performance.

Improving the Quality of Physical Education Classes Using Google Services in Higher Educational Institutions

The article deals with the problem of using Google services in the process of conducting physical education classes in higher educational institutions. The main Google products are characterized in the article; it is proved that their competent use in the process of physical education allows increasing the level of both cognitive activity and physical readiness of student youth in the process of conducting physical education classes at the university. To obtain the necessary information, general scientific methods of the theoretical level of research were used, namely: analysis of scientific and methodological literature of the Ukrainian and foreign scientists; sociological method of scientific and pedagogical research (questionnaire); pedagogical methods (pedagogical experiment, pedagogical observation); methods of mathematical statistics for the processing of research results. 50 first-year male students were involved in the experiment. The control and experimental groups were made up of 25 students each. At the beginning of October (beginning of the experiment) and at the end of May (end of the experiment) the students of the control and experimental groups took tests to define physical readiness indicators, namely: back strength, strength endurance (push-ups, leg sit on bar), flexibility (seated forward bend). The results of the study showed that conducting physical education classes using Google services positively influenced on the studied indicators: at the end of the experiment the increase in indicators in the experimental group was more than in the control one (back strength – by 5.07%, push-ups – by 14.38%, leg sit on bar – by 1.7%, flexibility – seated forward bend – by 24.6%). The need to form students' sustainable interest in physical self-improvement in order to strengthen their own health, increase the level of physical readiness in the process of conducting physical education classes using Google services has been proved.

Move&Find: The Value of Kinaesthetic Experience in a Casual Data Representation.

The value of a data representation is traditionally judged based on aspects like effectiveness and efficiency that are important in utilitarian or work-related contexts. Most multisensory data representations, however, are employed in casual contexts where creativity, affective, physical, intellectual, and social engagement might be of greater value. We introduce Move&Find, a multisensory data representation in which people pedalled on a bicycle to exert the energy required to power a search query on Google's servers. To evaluate Move&Find, we operationalized a framework suitable to evaluate the value of data representations in casual contexts and experimentally compared Move&Find to a corresponding visualization. With Move&Find, participants achieved a higher understanding of the data. Move&Find was judged to be more creative and encouraged more physical and social engagement-components of value that would have been missed using more traditional evaluation frameworks.

Experience in Implementing a Practice-Oriented Programme for Retraining Mediators for Education and the Social Sphere

The relevance of the present study is confirmed by an order for retraining specialists for education and the social sphere who can act as mediators and form a culture of peaceful conflict resolution in a multicultural environment. The article analyses and highlights employers’ demands for the mediation competence formation among the participants of the educational space of the Krasnoyarsk Krai. In this context, the authors disclose practical aspects of the mediation competence formation in the process of professional training of future mediators and specialists of school mediation services at the federal university. Based on the analysis of specific features of mediators professional activity, the results of a survey of specialists in the social sphere, as well as experience of training students majoring in pedagogy at the federal university, a model of a practice-oriented programme for retraining mediators for education and the social sphere of the Krasnoyarsk Krai has been proposed. The programme is implemented on the basis of the Centre for Mediation in Education of the School of Education, Psychology and Sociology of Siberian Federal University, in the networking between educational organisations and professional communities. The retraining programme considers the needs of the multinational Siberian society and is aimed at solving regional problems in education and the social sphere. The retraining programme is based on the principles of continuity, professional activity supervision, eventfulness of the educational process, professional activity tests, as well as continuity of the results of formal and non-formal education. Future mediators training within the framework of the retraining programme “Mediation. The Psychology of Conflict Management” is carried out according to a modular curriculum, in which the proportion of practical classes is increased, students’ scientific and research activities on the issues of productive communication in a mediation procedure are organised, and professional tests are carried out within the framework of placement practice. To form the applied aspects of the professional competence of future mediators and specialists of school mediation services, representatives of network partners take part in the educational process. The applied aspects of training future mediators and specialists of school mediation services among teachers help to effectively solve professional tasks of organising a conflict-free educational space and contribute to the formation of the culture of productive communication and conflict resolution. The mediation competence formation among the educational process participants was carried out using methods of measuring communicative, information and analytical, organisational and managerial, as well as emotional competences. The study was conducted with the use of Google services in the period of 2019-2020. In total, 333 people took part in the study, including 238 practicing specialists of school mediation services (control group), and 95 master’s students of the School of Education, Psychology and Sociology of Siberian Federal University in Krasnoyarsk and students of the professional retraining programme “Mediation. The Psychology of Conflict Management” (experimental group)

Creating New Information and Communication Models in Working with Users within the Google Library Project

The article analyzes characteristic features and development logic of the library project by Google, which started from the famous Google Book Search project (also known as Google Books and Google Print), and later as Google Play Books within the multi-platform multimedia service Google Play. For decades, a constant trend of the corporation’s activity has been the development and testing of new social and communication models in working with users, combining the complexity and global reach of the audience with the use of its interactive potential. In the early 2000s, the company initiated mass scanning of library collections, thus starting the development of a new institutional paradigm for electronic libraries. Later, having developed new business models for the distribution of electronic copies of printed products in the course of numerous legal proceedings on charges of copyright infringement, it also pioneered the new information market development.From the very beginning, Google Book Search was aimed at the mass user, which was facilitated by its constantly expanding set of options and increasing level of comfort of access to the resource. In 2006—2010, the service presented an opportunity for users to download, in pdf format, books free of copyright law; a new viewing interface “About this book” was added; an opportunity to operate texts using “My library” option was provided; a mobile version of the service was launched; access to statistical information on diachronic frequency dynamics of word usage based on the collected database was provided.The article analyzes the further development of the library project within the Google Play Books service, which allows users to read, buy and sell e-books, use bookmarks, download their own books in pdf and EPUB formats, and synchronize data on all user’s devices. There is assessed the social significance of the project in the context of the global electronic civilization development.

Using Application Programming Interfaces to Access Google Data for Health Research: Protocol for a Methodological Framework.

BackgroundIndividuals are increasingly turning to search engines like Google to obtain health information and access resources. Analysis of Google search queries offers a novel approach, which is part of the methodological toolkit for infodemiology or infoveillance researchers, to understanding population health concerns and needs in real time or near-real time. While searches predominantly have been examined with the Google Trends website tool, newer application programming interfaces (APIs) are now available to academics to draw a richer landscape of searches. These APIs allow users to write code in languages like Python to retrieve sample data directly from Google servers.ObjectiveThe purpose of this paper is to describe a novel protocol to determine the top queries, volume of queries, and the top sites reached by a population searching on the web for a specific health term. The protocol retrieves Google search data obtained from three Google APIs: Google Trends, Google Health Trends (also referred to as Flu Trends), and Google Custom Search.MethodsOur protocol consisted of four steps: (1) developing a master list of top search queries for an initial search term using Google Trends, (2) gathering information on relative search volume using Google Health Trends, (3) determining the most popular sites using Google Custom Search, and (4) calculating estimated total search volume. We tested the protocol following key procedures at each step and verified its usefulness by examining search traffic on birth control in 2017 in the United States. Two separate programmers working independently achieved similar results with insignificant variation due to sample variability.ResultsWe successfully tested the methodology on the initial search term birth control. We identified top search queries for birth control, of which birth control pill was the most popular and obtained the relative and estimated total search volume for the top queries: relative search volume was 0.54 for the pill, corresponding to an estimated 9.3-10.7 million searches. We used the estimates of the proportion of search activity for the top queries to arrive at a generated list of the most popular websites: for the pill, the Planned Parenthood website was the top site.ConclusionsThe proposed methodological framework demonstrates how to retrieve Google query data from multiple Google APIs and provides thorough documentation required to systematically identify search queries and websites, as well as estimate relative and total search volume of queries in real time or near-real time in specific locations and time periods. Although the protocol needs further testing, it allows researchers to replicate the steps and shows promise in advancing our understanding of population-level health concerns.International Registered Report Identifier (IRRID)RR1-10.2196/16543

A Four-Pronged Low Cost and Optimized Traffic Routing Solution

This paper proposes a novel four-pronged solution for estimating routes and total time required to travel in a transportation network. The proposed solution attempts to optimize the Google’s Map API request flow using open street map (OSM). As it is known that each request to Google Map API will incur some latency, since different computation are performed on Google server for each request. To avoid this latency, route estimations (distance and time) are calculated using a four-pronged approach based on Google map API, open street map (OSM), routing cache and logical grid of locations. The objective is to create a generalized routing system that tries to use Google services in optimized fashion. The proposed approach stores each requests/ response from Google Map API into an optimized data structure called cache. After passage of time, these cache records are moved to another data structure called random access memory (RAM) file. In scenarios where requests can’t be served via stored data, the proposed system attempts to give approximate estimations based on open street map (OSM) using an A* search for finding route. In addition to this, data that has been cached in proposed approach can be used for further analysis or applying machine learning algorithm for off-line route calculations later.

CLOUD TECHNOLOGIES IN INFORMATIONAL AND METHODOLOGICAL SUPPORT OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ INDEPENDENT STUDY

Based on the analysis of scientific and methodological sources, the article looks at the state of informational and methodological support of students’ independent study. The authors conclude that insufficient attention is being currently paid in Ukraine to the implementation of informational and methodological support of students’ independent study using cloud technologies. It has been determined that independent work as the dominant component of the students’ educational activity in the framework of joining the European educational space requires a new approach to its construction, covering the whole set of innovative aspects. The general problem of education is the reduction of the number of classroom hours and transfer of a significant amount of study material to independent study. Such a situation requires further scientific analysis and the development of specific recommendations in order to improve the independent learning activities. On the basis of the content analysis of scientific articles on the professional training of university students, the directions of improving informational and methodological support of students’ independent study were singled out on the example of the discipline “Modern Information Technologies”. Studies have been conducted among the students regarding their readiness to use the informational and methodological support of independent study and it is determined that it is advisable to use Google cloud services and an educational site with educational materials for independent work. In the article the approaches to introduction of informational and methodological support of students’ independent study are theoretically grounded and a model of informational and methodological support of independent study of university students is developed. Informational and methodological support of students’ independent study is based on the integration of two classifications of independent work (in terms of the type of learning tasks and of educational and cognitive activity) that will be performed in the complex way and will facilitate the formation of university students’ ability to organize and plan and the ability to work independently. For the discipline “Modern Information Technologies” an Internet resource is developed in the form of a site that contains the necessary information for performing independent work. Separately, an electronic calendar for the organization of independent student learning was developed. The integration of calendar elements into the educational site has been carried out in order to ensure the functioning of the informational and methodological support of students’ independent study. The methodological principles of informational and methodological support of students’ independent study were developed, namely the use of cloud service Google Calendar in the course “Modern Information Technologies”.

Сетевые инструменты в организации тимбилдинга для обучающихся

The article provides practical recommendations for organizing team building in remote mode for students. As tools for its implementation, network tools are shown, which include accessible Internet applications, in particular, Google services that allow users to work together, which is an integral component of teamwork. The forms of organizing team building for students in the Network are described, options for using specific services depending on their functions are described, and examples of tasks based on them are given. Attention is paid to the role of an interactive itinerary, network presentation material, as well as mind maps in the implementation of team building events.

Investigating the quality of reverse geocoding services using text similarity techniques and logistic regression analysis

ABSTRACT Location, usually defined by postal address information or geographic coordinate values, is one of the leading themes in geography. Famous global mapping services such as ArcGIS Online, Bing Maps, Google Maps, or Yandex Maps can provide users with address information of any geographic coordinates using reverse geocoding. The accuracy of retrieved addresses is quite essential for a service user. Several researchers have evaluated the accuracy of the process based on the positional errors between the retrieved and actual addresses. This article proposes a different assessment based on text similarity algorithms. In this study, the authors examine the outcomes of 15 different text similarity algorithms by comparing them with the reference data. They benefit from the binary logistic regression to evaluate the results. At the end of the case study, they conclude that the soft-term frequency/inverse document frequency algorithm is the most appropriate to measure the quality of postal addresses of all tested services. The Jaccard algorithm also produces successful results only for Google and Bing Maps services. Moreover, the study allows the reader to assess the results of reverse geocoding derived from the global map platforms that serve in the test region.

MODERN ASPECTS OF THE USE OF FOGGY TECHNOLOGIES IN THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS OF HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS

The article considers the issues of improving the managerial and educational activities of higher education institutions through the use of cloudy and foggy innovative technologies. The author of the article on the basis of the analysis of scientific, pedagogical and specialized literature proves the relevance of research in this direction. This scientific legacy presents Google services that are appropriate to use in the educational process to increase its effectiveness and efficiency, as well as the feasibility of organizing and implementing an educational and scientific laboratory of innovative technologies.

Strengthening urban community governance through geographical information systems and participation: An evaluation of my Google Map and service coordination

AbstractIt is increasingly common for urban planners and local policymakers to adopt interactive technologies, such as geographical information systems (GISs), to inform their decision making and to enhance performance. This paper aimed to assess the role that interactive technology can play in enhancing urban governance to meet social needs by improving local organisations’ capacities, client access, and service effectiveness and responsiveness, as well as community building. Using the previous research framework on mapping community capacity developed by Brudney et al. (Community Development Journal, 2016, 52, 354) and Çöltekin et al. (Cartography and Geographic Information Science, 2009, 36, 5–17), we examined a simulated online interactive map for service provision in Hong Kong and interviewed around 20 local community organisations and 100 local residents about their user experience, their willingness to support its long‐term adoption and their challenges. Our findings reveal that local residents find the interactive map helpful, particularly in improving service access, whereas local organisations are more reluctant to adopt such technology due to high maintenance costs. The implications of our study include the need to develop incentives to encourage technology adoption, to improve the capacity of local organisations and to establish better links between community organisations and local residents to identify sustainable financing (through crowdsourcing) for GIS applications to improve urban community governance.

Study process organization model while forming English competence in academic writing for future officers majoring in information technologies (based on Google Classroom cloud service)

The article describes the peculiarities of the study process organization in order to form English language in academic writing for future officers majoring in information technologies. The amount of time allocated for development of the English proficiency in academic writing is determined by the curriculum of the discipline “Foreign Language for Professional Purposes”. The article states criteria essential to design a model of the English language competence in academic writing formation. The content of modules and the list of the course topics are also presented. Additionally, the total number of hours allocated for both classroom, individual work as well as the number of hours specifically for the formation of the English competence in academic writing were stated. The article delivers a list of Google services that are successfully integrated with Google Classroom and add to its capabilities. Features of Google services such as Google Docs, Google Drive and Google Forms were identified. The article provides examples of these Google services interfaces. Specifically, an example of the taskbar displayed in the cadet’s personal office, an example of a test task integrated into Google Form, the ability to comment within Google Docs. Google Form allows you to diversify your tasks and apply a personalized approach by making individual tasks. The benefit of Google Classroom is that it has a mobile application that supports the same features available when using the site. Google Docs is used extensively for group text work. The ability to comment allows engaging cadets not only in the writing process, but also in commenting, editing processes. Thus, each cadet takes a different role while working with texts.

Extending the basic functionality of Maltego based on the Canari framework and Shodan search engine

The paper considers Maltego metasearch system, which is widely used for collecting data from open sources and automatically building relationships between various objects. The main characteristics and the algorithm of the Shodan search engine was studied, and also the fundamental difference between this system and traditional search engines was explained. The Shodan platform indexes information that is collected from response banners of devices which are connected to the internet, while Google, Yandex and similar services index only the content of websites. Based on the studied materials, an extension of the Maltego functionality was developed using the Canari framework and the Python programming language. This approach allows to combine the main advantages of the considered systems: a rich set of graphical tools of Maltego and a large open database of the Shodan system. The proposed option also allows to configure the system to fit any unique requirements that information security specialists need to conduct a security audit of information systems.

Regional cloud of public administration as a component of the e-government of Ukraine

The implementation of modern technologies will allow to get the maximum effect from the functioning of the e-government system and to overcome technological backwardness of Ukraine from other countries of the world. The development of information and communication technologies is very rapid, so their research, analysis and formulation of proposals for use is an urgent task. The theoretical bases of creation of regional cloud of public administration, examples of its use are considered.Suppliers of cloud services and information resources to the regional cloud are identified: central authorities, regional authorities and IT companies. Unlike the first two cloud service delivery channels, the third channel is booming around the world and offers a wide variety of software. The most well-known software vendors as services (SaaS) are Google and Microsoft.Possibilities of Google services are considered in two examples: organization of public servants' collective work through online office and creation of unified information and educational space for training and raising qualification of civil servants and local government officials of the region.In the first example, it is noted that in most Ukrainian electronic document management systems, opportunities for teamwork on a draft document are very limited. This requires an online office. Possibilities of Google services, in particular the G Suite, for public servants teamwork due to availability an online office are enormous.The second example draws attention to the fact that the ability to share corporate services beyond the cloud means that educational materials can be accessed, if necessary, to users who do not have a Google corporate account but have a Google individual account. This opens up great opportunities for involving public servants, employees of communal organizations, institutions and enterprises in distance learning through the use of educational service in the regional cloud of public administration.The implementation of a regional cloud of public administration with the help of multicloud is proposed.