Integration Of Computer Technology Research Articles

The Relationship Between TISE and TPACK among Prospective Biology Teachers of UNNES

The purposes of this study were to identify and describe level of TISE and TPACK as well as relationship between TISE and TPACK of prospective biology teacher 2014 and 2015 batches of UNNES. Quantitative descriptive was chosen as the design for this study. A total of 190 prospective biology teachers 2014 and 2015 batches participated in this study. The instruments used were the Computer Technology Integration Survey from Wang et al., TPACK survey from Pamuk et al. and interview guidelines. The results of this study were most of prospective biology teachers had confidence in integrating technology and knowledge to integrate knowledge of technology, pedagogy and content in teaching biology. Correlation test result showed that most of TISE level of prospective teachers were in line with their TPACK level with correlation coefficient r=0,611 and p<0.05. The conclusions of this study were most of prospective biology teachers had moderate level of TISE and TPACK also there was a significant positive relationship between the level of TISE with TPACK among prospective biology teachers.

Three-Dimensional Rule-Based City Modelling to Support Urban Redevelopment Process

Multi-dimensional representation of urban settings has received a great deal of attention among urban planners, policy makers, and urban scholars. This is due to the fact that cities grow vertically and new urbanism strategies encourage higher density and compact city development. Advancements in computer technology and multi-dimensional geospatial data integration, analysis and visualisation play a pivotal role in supporting urban planning and design. However, due to the complexity of the models and technical requirements of the multi-dimensional city models, planners are yet to fully exploit such technologies in their activities. This paper proposes a workflow to support non-experts in using three-dimensional city modelling tools to carry out planning control amendments and assess their implications. The paper focuses on using a parametric three-dimensional (3D) city model to enable planners to measure the physical (e.g., building height, shadow, setback) and functional (e.g., mix of land uses) impacts of new planning controls. The workflow is then implemented in an inner suburb of Metropolitan Melbourne, where urban intensification strategies require the planners to carry out radical changes in regulations. This study demonstrates the power of the proposed 3D visualisation tool for urban planners at taking two-dimensional (2D) Geographic Information System (GIS) procedural modelling to construct a 3D model.

A new model approach of electrical cyber physical systems considering cyber security

The integration of modern computing and advanced communication technologies with power grids has led to the emergence of electrical cyber physical systems (ECPSs). However, with the massive applications of communication technologies, power grids are becoming more vulnerable to cyber attacks, and there is no general model for analyzing the influence of such attacks. This paper focuses on modeling ECPSs considering cyber security. A multiple characteristic association (MCA) approach is proposed for analyzing cascading failures and cyber attacks based on the DC power flow model. It can comprehensively and qualitatively formulate the characteristics of power grids, communication facilities, and their interdependent relationships. The proposed model approach has good expansibility when analyzing the mechanism and impacts of cyber attacks. Three possible cyber attack scenarios (denial‐of‐service attack, uplink spoofing attack, and downlink spoofing attack) are qualitatively studied. Simulation results with IEEE systems verify that cyber attacks happening on information uplinks or downlinks have different impacts on power grids. © 2018 Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Analysis of the criteria for calculating non-rigid pavements in conditions of intense traffic flow

Domestic methods of designing and calculating non-rigid pavements were modified in parallel with changes in the load-carrying capacity of vehicles and an increase in the average traffic intensity of cars. With the increase in the level of costs for the construction and repair of road clothes, the level of responsibility for design has increased. However, more often at the operational stage, early defects of asphalt-concrete layers are detected and premature reduction of the bearing capacity of the structure as a whole. This only indicates that the prediction of the service life in the design of traditional methods is not reliable. The reasons for this may be several: erroneous determination of the number of cycles of the annual loading of the structure, a distorted or ineffective consideration of the climatic conditions of operation of the road-building materials of the layers, an inaccurate technique for determining the maximum permissible and emerging deformations, and also accumulating them during operation. As a result, the issues of construction of road clothes, requirements for them and the design of highways in general are being revised. Obviously, the traditional method of calculation, as a minimum, can not be considered universal. The authors presented a new approach to calculating the strength of non-rigid pavements by the criterion of accumulation of fatigue damages of asphalt-concrete layers, which can provide reliable prediction of the pavement life cycle, because it is based on the multifactorial influence of external environmental impact. Modeling such a multifactor process as the life cycle of a design is a complex computational task. Active integration of computer technologies into modern life and construction processes allows solving this task with the help of a computer, by developing application programs. At the department of «Highways» DSTU developed a software package Pavement Life Cycle, able to make calculations based on a new criterion for calculating non-rigid road clothes. The article is part of the dissertation research of the second author.

Ontology-Based Surgical Subtask Automation, Automating Blunt Dissection

Automation of surgical processes (SPs) is an utterly complex, yet highly demanded feature by medical experts. Currently, surgical tools with advanced sensory and diagnostic capabilities are only available. A major criticism towards the newly developed instruments that they are not fitting into the existing medical workflow often creating more annoyance than benefit for the surgeon. The first step in achieving streamlined integration of computer technologies is gaining a better understanding of the SP. Surgical ontologies provide a generic platform for describing elements of the surgical procedures. Surgical Process Models (SPMs) built on top of these ontologies have the potential to accurately represent the surgical workflow. SPMs provide the opportunity to use ontological terms as the basis of automation, allowing the developed algorithm to easily integrate into the surgical workflow, and to apply the automated SPMs wherever the linked ontological term appears in the workflow. In this work, as an example to this concept, the subtask level ontological term “blunt dissection” was targeted for automation. We implemented a computer vision-driven approach to demonstrate that automation on this task level is feasible. The algorithm was tested on an experimental silicone phantom as well as in several ex vivo environments. The implementation used the da Vinci surgical robot, controlled via the Da Vinci Research Kit (DVRK), relying on a shared code-base among the DVRK institutions. It is believed that developing and linking further building blocks of lower level surgical subtasks could lead to the introduction of automated soft tissue surgery. In the future, the building blocks could be individually unit tested, leading to incremental automation of the domain. This framework could potentially standardize surgical performance, eventually improving patient outcomes.

Effects of Mobile Assisted Language Learning on Developing Kurdish EFL Students

Many studies have described the use of mobile assisted language learning in language teaching and learning; yet, the number of studies in listening skill remains unsatisfactory, at least in Iraqi Kurdistan context. Few researchers appear to have considered how to use mobile learning devices to support pedagogical approach to develop academic listening skills. Several studies in the past, required learners to read from mobile phones rather than listening to audios. There were attempts to use computer technology integration into instruction; however, few were in mobile technology. The interest in research related to the impact of mobile assisted language learning on developing students’ listening skills remains relatively low and consequently listening has been neglected. Thus, the current paper aims at exploring the effectiveness of mobile assisted language learning devices both as instructional tools and learning resources within and beyond classroom learning environments to develop language skills in particular listening sub-skills. The experimental design is pretest-experiment-post-test. To conduct the study two groups of experimental (n=31) and control (n=26) out of 57 second year students at koya university/ faculty of education/ school of education English department were made. Both groups were taught the same material, but using different methods. The results of the post-test indicated that the use of mobile assisted language learning devices had impacts on developing experimental group’s listening skills and outperformed the control group.

Las tecnologías educativas en el contexto de la Escuela Primaria

The article shows a study about the integration of computer technologies in the teaching-learning process of Primary Education in Cuba. It highlights the importance of using their potential to propose a didactic-methodological approach to the use of virtual learning environments as a tool that favors the integration of technologies in the process, taking into account their possibilities, characteristics and advantages. This approach constitutes a fundamental pillar of the present study, since in the Primary School Model that governs the pedagogical and didactic-methodological work in the country, the need for the integration of informatics as a resource for school learning is stated. However, the most recent national research has not yet provided precise answers demonstrating how the qualities, components, relationships and regularities that particularize the integration of technologies as a resource, and with it the interrelation of the contents of the programs of action, emerge from praxis. studies, by efficiently using learning tools that promote the academic use of these, as well as the integral development of primary school children.

Anomaly behavior detection and reliability assessment of control systems based on association rules

Because of the high integration of control, communication, computer and network technology, how to deal with various anomaly behaviors of control systems is a problem that should be solved by researchers. Especially some activities such as data injections, DoS attacks and device failure must be considered. Based on the analysis of dynamic behaviors of industrial process control systems with varying process state variables, a data mining method is proposed on summarizing normal behavior features of the control systems. Depending on association rules, a similarity factor is formulated using a real-time data mining method for describing the likeness between real-time frequent itemsets and normal frequent itemsets. Representative values of change behaviors for process variables and the corresponding generation method are illustrated in detail. On the basis of comparison between several real-time frequent itemsets and the normal frequent itemsets, a reliability parameter is given to describe the abnormal status of a control system within a certain time. Simulation results show that the proposed method can detect anomaly behaviors of a process control system in time, which has practical significance in industrial applications.

Synchro‐phasors Assisted Back‐up Protection of Transmission Line

Certain power system situations force protection schemes to mal-operate. Such mal-operations associated with back-up protection (BP) schemes might worsen the situation by initiating the cascading effect, damaging critical elements such as generation units, transformers etc. of the power system, or leading to complete collapse of the power system. To adapt to such a network structure, the relays which are going to participate in BP of transmission line have to evolve. Integration of protection systems, communication network, and computer technology has to be the approach for faster information sharing and decision making. Analysis of recent blackouts clearly shows the importance of advancement of wide-area measurement systems and adaptive nature of relaying. Synchro-phasors assisted BP scheme is proposed in this work, which helps the relays adapt according to the prevailing system situations and decisive action is taken considering security and dependability aspects of the relays.

Herding Elephants: Coping with the Technological Revolution in our Schools

The focus of this paper is two-fold: to what extent do schools need to address computer technology and what strategies could be employed to maximize the benefits and minimize the difficulties in integrating computer technology into the current educational framework. It advocates the incorporation of computer technology into the educational practices of classroom teachers recognizing that computers are merely tools which can be utilized effectively by well-informed practitioners. It employs basic change theory in a discussion centering on managing and coping with change. Particularly, it encourages educators to make an orientational change to ensure that technology is used in "new" ways rather than simply to replace "old" tools.

The Effect of the Use of Technology on the Nature of Teacher's Profession

Educational programmes have recognized the growing need to use computers in the classes as it presents unprecedented challenges that help the students to acquire an inquiring, critical and creative mind to capitalize on the opportunities driven by the growth of information, knowledge and technology. The computer knowledge has begun influencing student’s learning experience for more than 25 years ago, but it was in a moderate manner (Cuban, 2001). However, the past decade has witnessed major trend toward integrating computer technology in all the language classes. The integration has increased because the computer technology represents an accessible and instant information, enormous potential for interactivity and media–rich communication, as well as educational tools which engage the students in the classroom (Mouza, 2002). Undoubtedly the recent advancement in information technology and computer usage in the classroom is rapidly transforming the environment of the classroom. The teachers cannot ignore the reality the today’s classroom must provide technology-supported learning (Angers & Machtmes, 2005). Being prepared to integrate the technology in the classroom has become a paramount skill in every teacher’s professional repertoires. The traditional role of the teacher as the center of the schooling is changing recently with all the introduction of the new technologies in the classroom. One of the effects of the new technologies is the decentralization of teachers in the learning environment (Damrian, 1998). This introduces a very valid point of how the teaching profession will change in the era of digital technologies. What is the role of the teacher in a classroom where he/she is no longer the only source of knowledge? How can he/ she teach effectively in a class, where every student has his/her computer and can Google any piece of information? The following study will investigate the effect of the implementation of the technology in the English as a foreign language (EFL) classes on the nature of the teachers’ profession.

ИСПОЛЬЗОВАНИЕ ИНТЕЛЛЕКТУАЛЬНОЙ ОБУЧАЮЩЕЙ СИСТЕМЫ КАК СОВРЕМЕННОГО ЛИНГВОДИДАКТИЧЕСКОГО ИНСТРУМЕНТАРИЯ

The article describes the possibilities of computer training systems as a result of the integration of information and computer technologies in the educational, linguistic and other spheres of scientific activity. A technique for constructing an automatic vocabulary of the system of teaching a foreign language is proposed. The classification of the material necessary for creating an automatic dictionary is presented. Particular attention is paid to the structure of the intellectual system of teaching a foreign language, interaction and functioning of its components.

Smart Grid Communication Infrastructure, Automation Technologies and Recent Trends

In the last century, there was no major alteration in the structure of power grids. Studies have shown that existing infrastructure is no longer suitable to meet requirements of the future. To overcome the challenges and fulfil future requirements, we need a network that is reliable, efficient and intelligent. This has led to the development of emerging concept of smart grid (SG). Smart grids are the next generation of electrical power grids; a promising solution to overcome energy crises. Smart grid system is the integration of advanced computing and communication technologies with power system infrastructure. In this paper, we provide a survey of the communication infrastructure in smart grids that includes communication architecture and different network compositions, technologies, and intelligent functions that are employed in this architecture. This survey is expected to provide improved understanding of the technologies, its potential benefits and impact. Moreover, we intend to provoke interest amongst the research community to discover more about this emerging area to realize the potential of smart grid concept.

Field Composition and Development Trend of Research Hotspots of Translation Technology in China—Based on Co-word Visualization Analysis of Relevant Academic Journals from CNKI Published from 1999 to 2017

With the rapid development of computer technology and deep integration of disciplines, translation technology has gradually become an important research direction and a new focus of translation studies. In order to reveal the present situation of research on translation technology, we take the academic journals on translation technology from CNKI published between 1999 and 2017 as our data sample for analysis. The results show that the main research hotspots of translation technology cover four areas, i.e. computer-aided translation, human-computer interaction, translation technology teaching and talent training, as well as terminologies of the field. Through analysis of the current situation and existing problems in the above mentioned areas, some thoughts and prospects are put forward to provide guidance and illumination to scholars in this research field and promote further and deeper studies into the subject.

Research on the Application of the Industrial Cycle Temperature Control Electromechanical Integration Technology in High Precision Weighing System

Traditional design technology has been enriched and improved in content, model and methods thanks to the development of computational mathematics, engineering mechanics, mechanical dynamics, electronic information technology and computer technology, with the concept transforming from manufacturing-oriented design to user-oriented design. Typical electromechanical integration technology, based on electronic control, replaces the conventional control system with computer, and thus simplifies the mechanical structure. With high functionality and reliability, and improved operability and production efficiency, mechatronics technology has been extensively developed and used. With the substantial development and thorough integration of modern computer technology and mechanical design theory, the weighing technology in China has also been improved. It has become an inevitable trend to combine the new weighing design concept with electromechanical integration technology to be a new weighing system for more innovative and adaptive products.

An Examination of the Impact of Computer Skills on the Effective Use of ICT in the Classroom

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of computer skills on the successful integration of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in Moroccan higher education institutions. Actually, the survival of these institutions in the expansion of modern technologies depends on their readiness to qualify professors and students to implement ICTs for educational objectives. Because of the significant role that computer technologies play in today’s job markets, higher education institutions are required to provide the most appropriate learning and teaching conditions for both professors and students to make effective use of these new technologies within classroom practices. The findings revealed that teachers consider ICTs very essential in their teaching. However, there are low levels of computer technology integration in teaching processes. This lack of computer technology use in instruction is attributed to several factors. One of these various factors is teachers’ computer skills. It has been found that there are statistically significant differences between professors’ use of ICT with respect to their computer skills, F (4,158) = 32.776, p<0.05.

Financial process mining - Accounting data structure dependent control flow inference

The increasing integration of computer technology for the processing of business transactions and the growing amount of financially relevant data in organizations create new challenges for external auditors. The availability of digital data opens up new opportunities for innovative audit procedures. Process mining can be used as a novel data analysis technique to support auditors in this context. Process mining algorithms produce process models by analyzing recorded event logs. Contemporary general purpose mining algorithms commonly use the temporal order of recorded events for determining the control flow in mined process models. The presented research shows how data dependencies related to the accounting structure of recorded events can be used as an alternative to the temporal order of events for discovering the control flow. The generated models provide accurate information on the control flow from an accounting perspective and show a lower complexity compared to those generated using timestamp dependencies. The presented research follows a design science research approach and uses three different real world data sets for evaluation purposes.

Investigating the Influence of Teaching Experience on the Use of ICT in Education

The majority of today’s jobs require sufficient understanding of the new technologies and appropriate computer skills. Therefore, professors need to be qualified to integrate computers in their classroom practices. Actually, teachers are recommended to develop adequate and effective training so as to be able to make successful use of computer technologies in their classrooms. With the advent of the new technologies, learning has become more exciting for learners regardless of their level of education. A lot of studies have revealed that the implementation of ICT in classrooms have come up with many fruitful consequences for both teachers and learners as well. It has increased their willingness to develop their knowledge through these modern tools. Therefore, universities and other educational institutions have realized the value of including computer technologies in instructional processes. This paper aims to explore the impact of teaching experience on the integration of computer technologies in teaching practices. Descriptive analysis of means, and standard deviations were employed to analyse the collected data. Also, inferential statistics, especially the ANOVA test, were used to determine the impact of teaching experience on ICT use for pedagogical objectives. The findings revealed that there are statistically significant differences between professors’ integration of ICT in education based on teaching experience, F(4,158)=20.279,p<0.05.

Cyber Crime A Threat to Persons, Property, Government and Societies

The rapid development of computer technology and the integration of computer and communication technology have made significant changes to human information activities. Firstly, the efficient and effective power of information processing has made computer the most important tool for data processing. As a result, more and more data are processed and stored in computer systems. the transcend nature of the Internet has made it one of the major channels for human communication. Consequently, our society is in a state of transformation toward a “virtual society,” where people’s daily activities, such as shopping, getting services, and especially sharing information, can be accomplished without face-to-face contact with others. Nowadays, computers and computer networks are ubiquitous and used in every facet of modern society. Although information technology has enabled global businesses to flourish, it also becomes one of the major enablers for unscrupulous individuals to commit crime and escape apprehensions by law enforcement agencies.

Integrating ICT into Teaching and Learning Biology: A Case for Rachuonyo South Sub-County, Kenya

The purpose of this study was to find out the extent of integration of computer technology into teaching and learning Biology in secondary schools of Rachuonyo South Sub-County, Kenya. The target population consisted of students and biology teachers in the Sub-County. Data was collected by use of questionnaires and an observation check list. From the study, most schools had few computers; teachers had inadequate training on use of computer applications; most teachers did not use computer technology for personal growth and instructional purposes. Inadequate number of computers in the sampled schools was the major challenge facing the integration of computer technology into the instruction process. The study recommends increased accessibility of computers, adequate training on use of computer technology and development of a policy framework to guide on the path to effective computer integration into instruction process.