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Neutrosophic-CNN-based image and text fusion for multimodal classification

Recent advances in technology and devices have caused a data explosion on the Internet and on our home PCs. This data is predominantly obtained in various modalities (text, image, video, etc.) and is essential for e-commerce websites. The products on these websites have both images and descriptions in text form, making them multimodal in nature. Earlier categorization and information retrieval methods focused mostly on a single modality. This study employs multimodal data for classification using neutrosophic fuzzy sets for uncertainty management for information retrieval tasks. This effort utilizes image and text data and, inspired by past techniques of embedding text over an image, attempts to classify the images using neutrosophic classification algorithms. For classification tasks, Neutrosophic Convolutional Neural Networks (NCNNs) are used to learn feature representations of the produced images. We demonstrate how a pipeline based on NCNN can be utilized to learn representations of the innovative fusion method. Traditional convolutional neural networks are vulnerable to unknown noisy conditions in the test phase, and as a result, their performance for the classification of noisy data declines. Comparing our method against individual sources on two large-scale multi-modal categorization datasets yielded good results. In addition, we have compared our method to two well-known multi-modal fusion methodologies, namely early fusion and late fusion.

ANALYSIS OF PHISHING ATTACKS. WAYS OF PREVENTION AND PROTECTION AGAINST THEM

Attacks, the initial stage of which is the actions of an attacker who use the methods of social engineering, are currently one of the most common types of attacks. When using social engineering, an attacker seeks to obtain confidential information and access to various segments of the enterprise of interest, through psychological influence and manipulation of users. In order to successfully carry out an attack with the help of social engineering, it is necessary to gain the trust of a "victim", which is successfully carried out via targeted (personalized) phishing. Due to the relative ease of implementation, there is a rapid increase in the use of targeted phishing attacks on both home PCs and computers of employees of big companies. Targeted phishing attacks are carefully thought out to influence a certain type of people, and it is almost impossible to teach users to distinguish them. This article describes the concepts and methods of targeted phishing, as well as solutions and ways to protect against this type of attack. In addition, this article is an attempt to teach users to recognize targeted phishing emails. The article provides examples of attacks using targeted phishing.

USAHA PERLUASAN KESEMPATAN KERJA BAGI ANGKATAN KERJA MELALUI PELATIHAN PADA BIDANG TEKNISI KOMPUTER

Abstract Indonesia faces challenges in the future to make the demographic bonus as a driving force for the economy or will it just be a burden on the State. To improve human resources competences and minimize the unemployment rate, one of the efforts undertaken is to undertake a vocational training program through cooperation with partners in each city. ISB Atma Luhur as a partner in collaboration with BPJAMSOSTEK held training in the field of computer technicians. This training is specifically intended for BP Jamsostek participants who are no longer working as well as several other requirements. Activities carried out include providing entrepreneurship and computer materials, home PC assembly practices, discussion of assembly problems, Windows installation practices, drivers and supporting software, and discussion of OS problems. The end result of this training is 15 trainees ability increase and given certificates so thay they can use them as training proof when they looking for work.

Дистанционное обучение: за и против

Discussed is actual question about, how long distance learning has come to the Russian education system. Will this form of education become the main one in view of planning the federal project “Digital Educational Environment”? The results of the questionnaire of students on of their personal desire to switch to distance learning are considered. 59.87% of students do not want to switch to distance learning, 31.6% want to switch, 5.9% have not decided on the answer and 2.63% of students supported the joint use of traditional and distance forms of teaching. The positive and negative sides of distance learning from the point of view of the surveyed students are stated. Positive motives for the transition to distance learning were: the convenience of working on your computer; saving free time due to the time spent on the way to the university and back; more flexible study schedule; improving safety for one's health, improving the environment; students who live far from the university also noted the savings in money. Motives against the transition to distance learning were named: difficult perception of the material without live communication with teachers; an increase in the number of questions in comparison with regular training; disruption of some classes for technical reasons; lack of software on the home PC; non-compliance of the software on your computer with the requirements; an increase in the amount of time spent at the computer; some students cite the difficulty of self-organization at home as a reason. The attitude to distance learning of some government officials and the elite of the Russian state is shown. The negative influence on the creative component of the work of programmers in the remote mode is noted. The author of the article proposes to bring the issue of the large-scale introduction of distance learning planned in the government to a general wide discussion in order to prevent miscalculations in this very important issue and to choose a solution that is profitable at first, but incurring large losses in the future. The author notes a tendency for a more positive attitude of students towards distance learning compared to April and May 2020.

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS IN FOREX CURRENCY MARKETS

The Artificial Intelligence is growing and covering various aspects of our daily life. The idea seems to be very complex. It seems that a program cannot be developed using our home PC. But believe me, it's not that difficult. Let us try to understand what the neural networks are and how they can be applied in trading. Artificial Neural Networks can be used in forex Currency Trading, for finding or predicting the next possible movements. We know that Artificial Neural Networks involves study of neurons in the human brain, sometimes called as biological network.ANN is based on connections of nodes, units called as artificial nodes or neurons. Neural network is an entity consisting of artificial neurons, among which there is an organized relationship. These relations are similar to a biological brain.

DETECTION ANALYSIS OF DROWSY DRIVER USING IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES

Operater glitches plus nonperformance chip in a good many avenue injuries occuring nowadays. The individual glitches are generated by sleepiness, boozy plus dangerous patterns from the driver. This valuable papers specializes in a fabulous individual sleepiness prognosis procedure found in Sensible Moving Program, in which specializes in unusually high patterns revealed by just the driving force choosing Razzing pi sole block computer. The proportions in getting behind the wheel services models to be able to pick up on how much driver's performance is really important found in making sure of avenue safety. By simply remark in flicker habit plus eyes routines, individual stress and fatigue might be observed beginning sufficiently to circumvent crashes due to drowsiness. Inside the recommended procedure a fabulous non-intrusive individual sleepiness overseeing procedure happens to be designed choosing home pc eye-sight techniques. Using the computer simulation success, them is discovered the procedure includes gotten to be able to pick up on sleepiness info individual having on glasses and also iniquity levels inside of the vehicle. Moreover the system is capable of detecting drowsiness within time duration of about two seconds. The detected abnormal behavior is corrected through alarms in real time. We have also done a transformation of an image from 2d to 3d using wavelet analysis. Here we also compared the wavelet technique with other techniques namely stereo-photogrammetric & edge information technique. The image conversion from 2d to 3d can be done by finding the edges of an image. This edge detection can be used in various fields of image processing, image analysis, image pattern recognition, and computer vision, as well as in human vision. In this, we did our experiment using wavelet technique and the results when compared with the stereo photogrammetry and edge information techniques we find that the wavelet technique gives better result. From the past work, we have observed that Wavelet analysis is an easy method for 2D to 3D analysis.

Building a lightweight testbed using devices in personal area networks

Various networking applications and systems must be tested before the final deployment. Many of the tests are performed on network testbeds such as Emulab, PlanetLab, etc. These testbeds are large in scale and organize devices in relatively fixed ways. It is difficult for them to incorporate the latest personalized devices, such as smart watches, smart glasses and other emerging gadgets, so they tend to fall short in supporting personalized experiments using devices around users. Moreover, these testbeds commonly impose restrictions on users in terms of when and where to carry out experiments making them clumsy or inconvenient to use. The paper proposes to build a testbed utilizing users? devices in their own personal area networks (PANs). We have designed and implemented a prototype, which we call PANBED. Our experiments show that PANBED allows users to set up different scenes to test applications using a home router, PCs, mobile phones and other equipment. PANBED is light weighted with a size less than 16 KB and it has little impact to the other functions of the PAN. The experiment results also prove the realism, effectiveness, flexibility and convenience of PANBED.

The Amiga: A Hardware Engineering Story: Advancing Multimedia Computing Capability

The Amiga PC architecture was a child of both home video game consoles and PC systems of the early 1980s. The microcomputer revolution of the mid-1970s had given birth to the video game console market and the PC market, which expanded rapidly. In the fall of 1982, Atari alone had total sales of US$2 billion, including video game consoles, game cartridges, and their own PCs [1]. Many companies in the PC market were competing to establish market standards and attract developer support, beginning with S-100 bus machines [2] and the Apple II [3]. IBM entered the PC market with the introduction of the IBM PC in 1981. The Apple Macintosh arrived in 1984, and the Commodore Amiga 1000 computer, the subject of this article, followed in 1985.

Multi-Market, Multi-Product New Product Diffusion: Decomposing Local, Foreign, and Indirect (Cross-Product) Effects

In this study, we address an important issue largely ignored in existing diffusion research—the simultaneous diffusion of related (here, complementary) products across multiple interacting countries. In doing so, we demonstrate that incorporating prior diffusion of complementary products in an international framework leads to an enhanced substantive understanding of the evolution of cross-country diffusion. The limited prior research on cross-product interactions has focused exclusively on a single country. We extend this research by building a more complete view of the role that prior diffusion of two interacting technologies play both within as well as across countries. Specifically, we decompose—on a country-by-country basis—the impact of three factors on the diffusion of any product: (a) prior diffusion of the product within each country, (b) prior diffusion of the same product in other counties, and (c) prior diffusion of a related product. This decomposition leads to a number of important strategic insights. We estimate and graph the three effects over time for each product and country using a comprehensive data set that covers the diffusion of PCs and the Internet over two decades—from 1981 to 2009—and across 19 countries. There are a number of interesting findings. First, we find that home PC diffusion was driven predominantly by local effects—the more individuals saw the penetration of home PCs grow locally, the greater the likelihood of adoption. Second, we find very different effects for the Internet—Internet adoption was driven by a combination of influences: (a) local network effects, (b) foreign network effects, and (c) cross-product effects. These results suggest that diffusion of one product can facilitate the diffusion of another product and that the impact can be asymmetric across products. When taken in aggregate, these results highlight the importance of incorporating and estimating cross-product effects in a multi-market new product diffusion context—one is able to obtain a more complete view of the impact of strategic decisions within a general diffusion process in markets that develop and evolve dynamically over time.

Research to Household Sub-Network Development Based on Bluetooth Control Technology

With the development of household appliances, the short of communication among them is more and more becoming a problem. At present there is no central point of control among the traditional home appliances, and we cannot access them through Internet. To solve these issues, home network is proposed to connect all the appliances, home PC and portable devices together using network technology. Controlling all the appliances through one single node ( the home network gateway), home network makes life much simpler and convenient. There are several local area network technologies applicable to home network. Bluetooth technology is chosen in this paper as the home networking technology due to its many advantages over others. The implementation scheme of home control sub-network based on Bluetooth serial part profile ( SPP) and the standards of Home Network Platform in China is proposed. According to actual application fields, the communication protocol architecture for this scheme is established by using appliance control protocol promoted by the manufacturers and universal device control protocol ( UDCP) over SPP. Many management functions of appliance terminals are realized such as appending, login, operation, logout and alarming. Implementation methods of appliance terminal based on an entirely embedded single-chip manner and mobile control terminal which is realized by computer simulation are proposed. Analysis and solution of baud rate error brought by inaccurate crystal frequencies are presented. Further discussion about applying ad hoc technology to home control sub-network is carried out.

Security Measures of Personal Information of Smart Home PC

DB servers for managing personal information have security systems for enhancing security, but security systems do not fully operate in user’s smart home PC, and it is thus necessary to analyze vulnerabilities for protecting personal information, and to study selfdiagnosis of security. This study aims to search and encrypt information related to protecting personal information in a smart home PC to enhance security and to delete files so that they cannot be recovered. The analysis of vulnerabilities detected in a smart home PC aims to check user account, shared folders, service firewall, screen savers, and automatic patch updates. A quantitative analysis and expression about vulnerabilities after checking them is carried out to make and show a check list for enhancing security. Smart home PC security management is then managed and operated by a server semi-automatically. It is expected that this study will contribute to reducing financial damages and people’s distress by further protecting personal information in a smart home PC, and enhancing national cyber security.

UNCERTAINTIES IN NAVIGATION OF ELDERLY PEOPLE IN TOWNS – THE ASSISTANT PROJECT

Abstract. The ASSISTANT project contributes to maintaining the mobility of older people in Europe, in order to safeguard their social and economic participation in an increasingly ageing society. It does this by helping them to travel safely and independently by public transport. This three-year project develops an application for the home PC and smartphone that designed to help older travelers to plan their public transport journeys and then receive guidance during their journey. This guidance will help them to find the vehicle they need, warn them when to get off, when and where to change to another route, and will provide assistance if something goes wrong. There are several stages in the guidance where uncertainties play a major role and have an effect on the quality of the trip. The major uncertainty is with the location services when GPS reception in poor or impossible due to urban canyons or the user being under ground or in a tunnel. In addition, when waiting at a stop where for instance several buses might arrive at the same time, it could be difficult to identify the correct bus to board. This paper explains the overall design of the ASSISTANT project and addresses some of the issues related to positional uncertainties.

Digital Divide amongst Urban Youths in Malaysia – Myth or Reality?

The Digital Divide is an important issue with serious consequences, both for the individuals affected and society. With 90% of youths in urban areas using the Internet, there is a myth that the Digital Divide no longer exists amongst urban youths. Based on a random survey of 1639 youths, this study analyses the possibility of a digital divide along ethnic lines in Malaysia.. Findings indicate there are significant ethnic-based differences in home PC ownership and Internet connection. There are further concerns that the digital divide is further widening because of the quantity and quality of access. Multivariate analysis reveals that Chinese youths are online for twice the duration of Malays and Indians. However, higher Internet usage may be a two-edged sword as higher Internet use are intertwined with higher risks and negative activities such as violent games, pornography, and gambling. The article also discusses various means to mitigate the risks of Internet usage.

Factors affecting the adoption of Internet banking in Tunisia: An integration theory of acceptance model and theory of planned behavior

This paper examines empirically the factors that affect the adoption of Internet banking by Tunisian bank customers. As base model, we use the technology acceptance model (TAM) and theory of planned behavior (TPB). The model employs security and privacy, self efficacy, government support, and technology support, in addition to perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, attitude, social norm, perceived behavior control and intention to use Internet banking. Structural equation modeling is employed to examine the inter-correlations among the proposed constructs. A survey involving a total of 284 respondents is conducted and confirmatory factor analysis was used to determine the measurement efficacies. Theoretically, this study confirms the applicability of the TAM model and TPB in predicting Internet banking adoption by Tunisian bank customers. The results allow banks' decision makers to develop strategies that can encourage the adoption of Internet banking. Banks should improve the security and privacy to protect consumers' personal and financial information, which will increase the trust of users. Government should also play a role to support bank industry by having a clear and solid law on this will ensure that customers are more confident for using Internet banking, ensuring a better Internet infrastructure and helps them to encourage users to use Internet banking. Lastly, Tunisian Banks should focus on those clients who already have a home PC, access Internet and more educated and younger since they are the most likely to adopt Internet banking.

Building your own arcade game [Hands On

The ultimate home video-game experience needs a big cabinet and flashing lights - First there were pinball machines. Then came video games, with far more computing and graphics power than you could get at home. Two generations later, home PCs have so far outstripped those early arcade machines that emulating old game programs in software is trivial.

An ordinary camera in an extraordinary location: Outreach with the Mars Webcam

The European Space Agency's Mars Express mission was launched in 2003 and was Europe's first mission to Mars. On-board was a small camera designed to provide ‘visual telemetry’ of the separation of the Beagle-2 lander. After achieving its goal it was shut down while the primary science mission of Mars Express got underway. In 2007 this camera was reactivated by the flight control team of Mars Express for the purpose of providing public education and outreach—turning it into the ‘Mars Webcam’. The camera is a small, 640×480 pixel colour CMOS camera with a wide-angle 30°×40° field of view. This makes it very similar in almost every way to the average home PC webcam. The major difference is that this webcam is not in an average location but is instead in orbit around Mars. On a strict basis of non-interference with the primary science activities, the camera is turned on to provide unique wide-angle views of the planet below. A highly automated process ensures that the observations are scheduled on the spacecraft and then uploaded to the internet as rapidly as possible. There is no intermediate stage, so that visitors to the Mars Webcam blog serve as ‘citizen scientists’. Full raw datasets and processing instructions are provided along with a mechanism to allow visitors to comment on the blog. Members of the public are encouraged to use this in either a personal or an educational context and work with the images. We then take their excellent work and showcase it back on the blog. We even apply techniques developed by them to improve the data and webcam experience for others. The accessibility and simplicity of the images also makes the data ideal for educational use, especially as educational projects can then be showcased on the site as inspiration for others. The oft-neglected target audience of space enthusiasts is also important as this allows them to participate as part of an interplanetary instrument team. This paper will cover the history of the project and the technical background behind using the camera and linking the results to an accessible blog format. It will also cover the outreach successes of the project, some of the contributions from the Mars Webcam community, opportunities to use and work with the Mars Webcam and plans for future uses of the camera.

E–voting as a new form of Civic Participationin democratic procedures

Times are changing. The second half of the 19th century and the following years stood for rapid development of various tools based on electricity. Expansion of telecommunication and progress of electronic media constitute important elements of this period. It may be said, we now live in the Internet era, and there is a perception that anyone who does not jump on the technology bandwagon is going to be left far behind. The growth of online interactions can be observed by the inconceivable increase in the number of people with home PC and Internet access.

Upstream Innovation and Product Variety in the U.S. Home PC Market

This paper investigates the welfare implications of the rapid innovation in Central Processing Units, and, specifically, asks whether it results in inefficient elimination of basic Personal Computer configurations. I analyze a game in which firms make multiple discrete product choices, and tackle challenges such as partial identification and sample selection. The estimated model implies that the demand for PCs is highly segmented. Using this model, I find that Intel's introduction of its Pentium M chip contributed significantly to the growth of the mobile PC segment and to consumer welfare. The lion's share of these consumer benefits were enjoyed by the 20% least price-sensitive consumers. The Pentium M crowded out the Pentium III and Pentium 4 technologies. I find that keeping those products on the shelf could have increased the welfare of price-sensitive consumers, but sizable fixed costs offset these benefits.

Delivery of Internet-based cancer genetic counselling services to patients' homes: a feasibility study

We examined the feasibility of home videoconferencing for providing cancer genetic education and risk information to people at risk. Adults with possible hereditary colon or breast and ovarian cancer syndromes were offered Internet-based counselling. Participants were sent web cameras and software to install on their home PCs. They watched a prerecorded educational video and then took part in a live counselling session with a genetic counsellor. A total of 31 participants took part in Internet counselling sessions. Satisfaction with counselling was high in all domains studied, including technical (mean 4.3 on a 1-5 scale), education (mean 4.7), communication (mean 4.8), psychosocial (mean 4.1) and overall (mean 4.2). Qualitative data identified technical aspects that could be improved. All participants reported that they would recommend Internet-based counselling to others. Internet-based genetic counselling is feasible and associated with a high level of satisfaction among participants.

An implementation of a garment-fitting simulation system using laser scanned 3D body data

We propose a garment-fitting system for an online retail model, which uses a consumer's 3D body data for garment fitting. This system uses front and back images to model the garment and 3D laser scanned body data to model the body. In order to recognize characteristic points on the 3D body data, a moment template composed of central moments of vector angle sets on 3D body data is proposed, and an implementation combining the 3D data and garment images is reported, which includes modeling, collision detection and feedback handling. The resulting system would support an online retail business model for garments. In the proposed business model, a body data center would scan the body and store the 3D data, the simulated garment-fitting program would be provided to individual consumers for fitting on a home PC, and retail shops would exhibit garment images on their websites. In this proposed model, security of personal data and computational cost will not be an issue.