Kinds Of Things Research Articles

A Natural Scene Recognition Learning Based on Label Correlation

Because the background information of the multi-label natural scene image is complex and contains many kinds of things at the same time, it is a big challenge to improve recognition accuracy. At present, most methods usually give the same importance to each label for independent prediction, ignoring the correlation between labels. In this paper, an algorithm named Label Correlation based K-Nearest Neighbor (LC-KNN) method is proposed through analyzing and weighting the essential correlation between natural instances in the images. Considering that the label correlation of similar samples is also similar, this method is based on the local weighted method to mark the maximum cross-correlation label with high probability and the minimum cross-correlation label with low probability. It firstly finds out the neighbor samples of each sample to construct a multi-label count vector for the test sample according to the multi-label information of the neighbor samples, and then calculates the weight between the related labels based on naive Bayes model, and finally obtains the statistical correlation between the features and the labels to build classifier, which is more in line with the inherent law of the combination of things in natural scenes. The experimental results on the natural scene dataset show that the LC-KNN algorithm is significantly better than mainstream multi-label learning algorithms such as RELIAB, ML-KNN, Rank-SVM, and BoosTexter in tasks of multi-label natural scene recognition.

Effect Of Phenol Addition To Transformer Oil Breakdown Voltage

The failure of transformer insulation often occurs due to various kinds of things, one of which is failure in the oil isolation caused by the condition of oil that has been dirty or has been contaminated with other particles in the transformer. Phenol is a chemical that can purify or cleanse particles or impurities that are in used transformer oil, so that it can increase the breakdown stress on used insulation oil. Phenol contains acid which can attract particles and impurities in the transformer oil which results in a decrease in the breakdown strength of the insulating oil. The results of testing of used isolation oil by adding phenol as much as 10, 15 and 20 ml showed an increase in the value of breakdown voltage with a distance of 2.5 mm ball inlet electrode. Translucent stresses that meet the SPLN standard 49-1: 1982, that is ≥ 30 kV at intervals of 2.5 mm were obtained by adding 20 ml of phenol to the volume of used 400 ml transformer oil

ICER 2020 retrospective

The 16th International Computing Education Research (ICER) conference was held from 10-14 August 2020 in cyberspace. Sadly, the global pandemic meant we were unable to physically host the conference in Dunedin, New Zealand as planned; but, looking at the situation as a "glass half full" kind of thing, we embraced the opportunity to experiment with a new online format, and try out several new ideas for engaging the ICER community. And we are pleased to report that the event surpassed our modest expectations: we entertained 319 attendees, the highest attendance for an ICER ever!

INTERVIEW WITH TERRY GLEBOCKI

INTERVIEW WITH TERRY GLEBOCKI

Cover Story: Matters of Perspective: Appreciating Diversity and Promoting Inclusion in Health Technology Professions.

Cover Story: Matters of Perspective: Appreciating Diversity and Promoting Inclusion in Health Technology Professions.

The bellbird's horn

The bellbird's horn

What Is Conservatism?

One day, some years ago, Daniel Z. Korman looked out of the window and saw a dog and a tree. He drew the following, apparently reasonable conclusions: there is a dog out there; there is a tree out there; there is a trunk of the tree out there, which partly composes the tree; and there is nothing out there which is composed of the trunk and the dog. Are these reasonable conclusions true? The view Korman calls conservatism1 says yes: there are trees, trunks and dogs, but no trogs, where a trog is an object composed of a trunk and a dog. Conservatism is not exhausted by appeal to these particular kinds of things. The general view concerns which highly visible (2), material (25) objects there are. According to the conservative, there are ordinary objects, like dogs, trunks, tables, cars and the like; but no extraordinary objects, like trogs, incars2 or snowdiscalls (23).3

Information System Development Plan for Twin Palm Guest House

The purpose of this research is to explain how the proposed system will affect the business flow. This study will give information about how the proposed method works in hotels. It will offer ideas and solutions that business problems may meet. Business transactions will be more efficient and faster, suitable for customer intelligence (CI). Making an ethical decision making will help the business growth, it helps more the business workflow and management that could build excellent services and opportunities. Choosing an advanced device system would be better for an efficient and effective business process. Selecting a suitable method is a good leader's work. A fast, productive, effective, good relationship with the customers are the traits of the Development Plan for the Twin Palm Guest House, trying new methods is not always excellent but when trying an original method might help your business in the right way though there's still fresh when it comes to marketing, that's why modernization is a trend, and people worldwide are using this kind of thing, that is why the researchers proposed this kind of System.

Does Telepathy Threaten Mental Privacy?

A long-standing concern (or at least a belief) about ESP, held by both skeptics and believers in the paranormal, is that if telepathy really occurs, then it might pose a threat to mental privacy. And it’s easy enough to see what motivates that view. Presumably we like to think that we enjoy privileged access to our own mental states. But if others could come to know telepathically what we’re thinking or feeling, then (among other disquieting prospects) that would mean that our sins of the heart and most embarrassing or repulsive fleeting thoughts would potentially be available for public inspection.
 But how well-founded is that belief or concern? To get a grip on the issues, we should begin by considering the valuable distinction (perhaps first mentioned by C.D. Broad--Broad, 1953, 1962) between telepathic (or clairvoyant) cognition and telepathic (or clairvoyant) interaction. As you would expect, every instance of the former would be an instance of the latter, but the converse doesn’t hold—that is, ESP interaction may occur without ESP cognition. To see why this matters, we must take a closer look.
 If telepathic cognition occurs at all, it would presumably be a form of non-sensorial knowledge about another individual’s state of mind. More specifically, it would be a state of affairs in which so-called “percipient” A comes to know something about a telepathic interaction A has with another individual B. And what kind of things might A telepathically come to know? Well, presumably, in its most robust (and most intrusively intimidating) form, A would learn what’s going on in B’s mind—that is, that B is having certain thoughts, perceptions, or emotions. But it would still be an instance of telepathic cognition—admittedly, less intimidating or threatening to one’s mental privacy—if A learned merely that B was the telepathic cause of A’s current thought or experience—that is, that B was directly influencing or interfering with A’s stream of consciousness, whether or not A’s resulting thoughts or experiences were those of B or known by A to be those of B.

Roundtable on the Pandemics of Racism, Environmental Injustice, and COVID-19 in America

Roundtable on the Pandemics of Racism, Environmental Injustice, and COVID-19 in America

Classification of Lexile Level Reading Load Using the K-Means Clustering and Random Forest Method

There are various ways to improve the quality of someone's education, one of them is reading. By reading, insight and knowledge of various kinds of things can increase. But, the ability and someone's understanding of reading is different. This can be a problem for readers if the reading material exceeds his comprehension ability. Therefore, it is necessary to determine the load of reading material using Lexile Levels. Lexile Levels are a value that gives a size the complexity of reading material and someone's reading ability. Thus, the reading material will be classified based a value on the Lexile Levels. Lexile Levels will cluster the reading material into 2 clusters which is easy, and difficult. The clustering process will use the k-means method. After the clustering process, reading material will be classified using the reading load Random Forest method. The k-means method was chosen because of the method has a simple computing process and fast also. Random Forest algorithm is a method that can build decision tree and it’s able to build several decision trees then choose the best tree. The results of this experiment indicate that the experiment scenario uses 2 cluster and SMOTE and GIFS preprocessing are carried out shows good results with an accuracy of 76.03%, precision of 81.85% and recall of 76.05%.

Merger as a Matter of Extrinsic Constraints

What is merger? Let’s first take a look at what the Second Circuit says merger is. The Second Circuit says merger happens “in those instances where there is only one or so few ways of expressing an idea that protection of the expression would effectively accord protection to the idea itself.”1 A situation where, if you’ve got a monopoly on a particular way of expressing something, you’ve effectively got a monopoly on that thing—and we don’t want you to have a monopoly on that thing. I’ll talk in a little bit about what the kinds of things are. Why only one “or so few” ways? To avoid a situation where there are three ways of expressing it, and three people express it in all of those three ways, and all get exclusive rights in their particular way. Now there is still no available way for the public to express that thing that we want the public to be able to express without the interference of copyright.

Os vários tipos de objetos que são os objetos tecnocientíficos

Technoscientific objects are penetrating ever more profoundly into the socio-ecological systems that shape the contemporary lifeworld in ways that have brought about widely celebrated benefits, and also many kinds of risks for human health, the environment and society. There are many kinds of technoscientific objects, such as physical, chemical or biological objects that are outcomes of technical/experimental/instrumental interventions made in the course of research conducted in such areas as computer science, biotechnology, nanotechnology, neurosciences, geo-engineering, synthetic biology and artificial intelligence. Moreover, every technoscientific object is itself an object of many kinds, not only an object whose genesis, functioning and effective use are well understood in areas like these, but also a social, economic, ecological and cultural object; and, for each kind that the object is, there are associated specific causal mechanisms whose operations, when triggered in the course of using it in the lifeworld, may lead to effects on and risks for human lives, social arrangements and the environment (Section 1). I will illustrate these claims as they apply to the exemplary technoscientific objects, transgenics (GMOs) used in agriculture (Section 2). Then (Section 3), generalizing the discussion about transgenics, I will argue that appraising the value and legitimacy of introducing and using technoscientific objects adequately requires being informed by the results of scientific investigation that take into account all the kinds of things that they are, and (to the extent possible) all the causal mechanisms from which the effects and risks of using them may arise.Keywords: Technoscientific objects, transgenics, ecological and social responsibility.

Peranan Hukum dalam Mencegah Praktik Politik Uang (Money Politics) dalam Pemilu di Indonesia: Upaya Mewujudkan Pemilu yang Berintegritas

The presence of a political party in the modern constitutional system is one of the necessity as one of the institutions authorized to fill the political position/power. The filling of the department/Power referred to one must be done through the mechanism of direct selection by the people is to fill the legislative office (DPR, DPD and DPRD) and executives (Presidents and regional heads). Thus, the political parties and the elections are two things that must be mandatory in a democratic state. A problem that always arise in the election is money politic. The majority of the advanced candidates run for the head of the political parties – allegedly strong – always involve material/money to win it. The practice of money politic in the Indonesian system of participation and election is believed to be one of the reasons for the quality and performance of democratic institutions in Indonesia, especially the political parties and parliaments. This kind of thing needs to be identified on what is the factor that causes the political money (money politics) and the necessity of the role of the ideal law (legislation) in providing solutions in reducing or even (when possible) preventing the occurrence of political money (money politics). The type of research used is juridical normative legal research, which is legal research conducted by examining the library material. There are 3 (three) reasons for the emergence of political practice money (money politics) in the elections, namely: (i) Patron-client, poverty factor, low Party-ID. The role that can be taken by the law in preventing the political practice of money is (i) required the policy to impose criminal sanctions only for money politic. (ii) Change the legislative election system from a proportional system to the district system.

From Production to Consumption: The Socialist Realism/Personality Cult Divide in North Korean Popular Music

While several historical works have explored the notion of ‘communist consumption’ especially in regards to Eastern European countries, few have looked at the relationship between consumption and the personality cult in a place like North Korea where the state has tended to respond to material shortages with ideological campaigns. This paper uses the lens of popular music to re-conceptualize the notion of consumption as not simply about “how much one consumes” but instead “what kind of things one consumes” and the consequent relation to state objectives for the national economy and political control. From around the time of the state founding in 1948 to the mid-1960s, North Korean music was largely in line with transnational principles of socialist realism, stressing the utilization of local folk forms and the tying of them lyrically to messages of industriousness and socialist construction. However, from the late 1960s when the leadership personality cult kicked into high gear, music simultaneously embraced more outside forms of music while at the same time exhibiting lyrical themes that associated particular items and experiences with a new national heritage centered on exhortations to revere Kim Il Sung and members of his family. The result was a shift in emphasis from exhibiting virtue through production to promoting loyalty through practices of consumption, and this gave impetus to the light music genre in popular music.

Two Problems for the Constitution View of Omissions: A Reply to Palmer

Palmer (Erkenntnis. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-018-0046-0) defends the ‘Constitution View’ of omissions. According to this view, every omission is constituted by, though not identical to, some positive event. I argue that Palmer’s version of this view can’t do all the work he wants it to do. First, it can’t provide an answer to the ontological question to which he addresses himself: ‘What kind of thing is an omission?’ Second, it doesn’t give us the resources to determine which positive events serve as the ultimate constituters of omissions which seem to occur over long periods of time (e.g. my omission to mow my neighbour’s lawn over the summer); at least, not without embracing consequences Palmer wishes to avoid.

The Marvel of Language: Knowns, Unknowns, and Maybes

The Marvel of Language: Knowns, Unknowns, and Maybes Susan McKay Amid our delight in the beauties of literature, our satisfaction in our writing (scholarly, technical, or creative), and the gratification and challenge inherent in our teaching, we often end up giving little attention to language, the faculty which makes all of those endeavors possible and which is the very foundation of our work as language professionals. I would like to use the opportunity of this keynote address to share with you what I see as some of the marvels of language, as I have observed them over the decades of my study and teaching of languages and linguistics. What Kinds of Things Are Linguistically Knowable? For centuries and even millennia, many minds–great and ordinary–have observed that man alone speaks, that language is a panhuman feature that both identifies and unites us. Linguists, and before them philologists, grammarians, philosophers, scribes, and translators, have worked both independently and collaboratively to devise rigorous methodologies for the analysis and description of language. Under objective study and analysis, many of language’s elements have been amenable to discovery. A few of the key things that are linguistically knowable are: • Language is an abstract and complex system of rules. • These rules, or operating principles, are organized internally into subsystems, which are themselves made up of smaller and smaller subsystems. • A vast and intricate web of connections links the rules both within and across systems and subsystems. • These rules reside and operate in the minds of the language’s speakers. • The functioning of these rules is in many ways effortless and unconscious. These properties, and many others, are things we know as linguists. [End Page 49] They have emerged from decades of inquiry and constitute what we think of as some of the fundamental properties of language; they are among what I call the design features of human language. Yet the marvel that is language remains a mystery to us in significant ways, due in no small measure to the limits of what is knowable linguistically. For many crucial properties of language, linguists depend on the research of scholars from other disciplines whose conceptions of and about language often do not correlate with what linguists think of as “knowns.” Let us consider three of those complex and deeply important questions that surpass the field of linguistics itself, and let us try to integrate a linguistic perspective into the views and findings of other disciplines. I will mention a few key aspects of each topic, and then conclude each of the three sections with a summary of “knowns,” “unknowns,” and “maybes.” I. Language and the BraIn: Where is language and how does it operate in the brain? Our knowledge of language as seated in the brain began with the study of focal brain damage, that is, injuries to specific areas in the brain, and any concomitant changes in language ability. Wars in the last half of the 19th century–the American Civil War in the 1860s and the Franco-Prussian War in the 1870s–resulted in many head wounds from sabers, cannon shot, and musket balls, accompanied by many forms of language impairment, collectively known as aphasia. In 1861, French surgeon Paul Pierre Broca found that damage in part of the left frontal lobe (specifically, the left inferior frontal gyrus) was accompanied by impaired speech production. That region of the brain came to be called “Broca’s area.” Building on Broca’s published findings, Carl Wernicke, a German neuropathologist and surgeon during the Franco-Prussian War, traced impairment in language comprehension to some of the wounds he treated in another part of the brain—located further back than Broca’s area—a small part of the left temporal lobe (specifically, the left posterior superior temporal gyrus), which became known as “Wernicke’s area.” In the 20th century, the importance of Broca’s and Wernicke’s areas for language was confirmed by many studies of strokes and other brain injuries. For instance, detailed aphasia studies conducted [End Page 50] in France in the 1930s greatly expanded our understanding of which aspects of language were involved with the two physiological areas. Electro-encephalograms...

Year of the Mirror

32 SARA DUFF Year of the Mirror  would say I tend to experience a regular amount of confusion. I go through phases, I guess. Astrology, the enneagram, the spirit animal—I have gotten lost in such fields. This winter, I have identified as a clitoris. Wrapped in a blanket at home, or wearing faces into the world, I beat like a raw pulse. In the evenings, I curl up in an armchair and remember more ambitious times in my life. Times of growth. A time when I read a volume of In Search of Lost Time each year, only to give up halfway through the series. Pretentious dyke. Now I clean cat piss from cages. We call this working with animals. My coworker explains to me her latest life philosophy, vaguely Buddhist . “It seems like there’s power in not seeking,” she says. “Like, it seems healthy to have desire? But unhealthy to be attached to that desire.” I grunt, as in, let me mull this over and get back to you, but the sound that escapes my stomach is the one that various loves have either laughed at or complained about, depending on the phase of the relationship. Once I spent two years in bed with a pianist who communicated almost entirely in the nonverbal. Critics praised her phenomenal touch and questioned her self-expression. She was always hungry, and she never knew what she wanted to eat. “People underestimate emptiness,” I say now. “Oh! Look at Mango!” My coworker is forever directing her attention away from me at the exact moment I decide I would like some of it after all. The kitten’s claws are stuck in a styrofoam cup and he bats the air, watching his own paw as if it is not attached to his body. The cup depicts a crazed jackrabbit, logo of the local quikimart where our boss procures his morning soda. i 33 “Cute,” I say, then I go to the yard and pick up dog shit with a plastic shovel. ‘ My friends are already drunk and intimate by the time I arrive at the bar. They ask my opinion: Can housekeeping be considered a form of meditation? A townie cries out for a celebration before I can reply. Shots of cheap whiskey for everyone! Naturally, the conversation turns to the topic of success. “Sure,” I say. “We’re all trained to collect badges. Decorate your scout vest and go floating through the parade. You can get lost in that kind of thing.” “I feel like we used to be one hundred percent distinguishable from the townies,” one friend says. “But now I don’t know.” “I mean, they’re nice,” says the other. “Super nice. But don’t you think it’s weird how they talk to us now?” “Like we know everything about their lives and they know nothing about ours?” “A whole society,” I insist, “conditioned to celebrate minor achievements.” “Are we fading? I feel like we’re fading.” “I mean…” Yes, we all agree. We have reached that time of night when listening to one another has become impossible. We have little to no physical contact, these friends and I, although they are some of my best. They get into one car and I get into another. I have filled my home with creature comforts. A martini shaker in the freezer. A leather loveseat in the breakfast nook. Antique bookshelves against the walls. I open the glass doors and consider Proust’s fourth volume. Is this the year? Instead, I take Bluebeard to the loveseat. It would be pleasant to imagine my way out of my present situation and into the hero’s role, yet I am unable to identify with this bride. I reflect on the loves I have destroyed, my own bloody chambers, and I sleep well. 34 ‘ “Want to shadow me today?” my boss asks. Want implies desire, yes? No, I don’t want to, but I say, “Sure, why not.” I sit very still with a notebook on my lap while my boss conducts a training session with a new pet owner. “I’m dissatisfied,” says the man. “I don’t trust this animal...

Classification of Lexile Level Reading Load Using the K-Means Clustering and Random Forest Method

There are various ways to improve the quality of someone's education, one of them is reading. By reading, insight and knowledge of various kinds of things can increase. But, the ability and someone's understanding of reading is different. This can be a problem for readers if the reading material exceeds his comprehension ability. Therefore, it is necessary to determine the load of reading material using Lexile Levels. Lexile Levels are a value that gives a size the complexity of reading material and someone's reading ability. Thus, the reading material will be classified based a value on the Lexile Levels. Lexile Levels will cluster the reading material into 2 clusters which is easy, and difficult. The clustering process will use the k-means method. After the clustering process, reading material will be classified using the reading load Random Forest method. The k-means method was chosen because of the method has a simple computing process and fast also. Random Forest algorithm is a method that can build decision tree and it’s able to build several decision trees then choose the best tree. The results of this experiment indicate that the experiment scenario uses 2 cluster and SMOTE and GIFS preprocessing are carried out shows good results with an accuracy of 76.03%, precision of 81.85% and recall of 76.05%.

Using Stanford’s Design Thinking Model at the Rural Village Level

A case history of a rural workshop using the Stanford Design Thinking Model in a -remote part of the Rio San Juan Nicaragua. The program is run under UNICAM UNAN-Managua believed to be the largest program of its kind.
 It is a chance to see how both facilitators and participants can learn in very simple settings. It is a chance to understand what kinds of things are impacting the lives of rural people in their quest for the basics of existence such as food and water.
 Most of all it is a living action of the dream of bringing top level education to the rural people of Nicargua. All the action takes place in a simple rancho at the edge of the Rio San Juan where participants come by canoe, and by foot.