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Inexact Tensor Methods And Their Application To Stochastic Convex Optimization, Artem Agafonov, Dmitry Kamzolov, Pavel Dvurechensky, Alexander Gasnikov, Martin Takac

Machine Learning Faculty Publications

We propose general non-accelerated and accelerated tensor methods under inexact information on the derivatives of the objective, analyze their convergence rate. Further, we provide conditions for the inexactness in each derivative that is sufficient for each algorithm to achieve a desired accuracy. As a corollary, we propose stochastic tensor methods for convex optimization and obtain sufficient mini-batch sizes for each derivative. © 2020, CC BY.

The Effectiveness Of Mindfulness Training In Improving The Self-Control Of Speedboat Crew In Bali, Indonesia, Putu Ugram Swadharma, Alimatus Sahrah, Nur Fachmi Budi Setyawan

Jurnal Pendidikan Vokasi

This study aims to test empirically the effectiveness of mindfulness training on improving the self-control of the crew of speedboat Company X in Bali, Indonesia. The experimental subjects in the study are 22 people who are in the sea transportation unit. They are divided into two groups, 12 of whom are in the experimental group and 10 in the control group. The data were collected by using a questionnaire with the Likert scale, consisting of 26 items with the reliability level of 0.889. The data processing used different tests. The test results of the average score of Mann-Withney of the …

Satirical Political Communication 2019 Indonesia's Presidential Election On Social Media, Anang Sujoko

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This study aims to reveal how satirical political communication by three kinds of social media accounts that have a large followers in Indonesia in the theme of the 2019 Presidential Election. Using Van Dijk's critical discourse analysis model, this study uncovered the discourse that underlies criticism of candidates for presidential and vice-presidential candidates 2019 on Youtube, Facebook, and Twitter. The research found Prabowo vs. Jokowi's rap battle by skinnyindonesia24, nurhadi_aldo's Instagram account, and #2019GantiPresiden as the most prominent accounts that distributed satire political communication. The owner of a social media account produces messages based on a lively and controversial issue …

Blaming The Victim: Representation The Victim Of Rape In M.F.A Film, Titik Indriyana, Choirul Ulil Albab

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The media in representing rape victims is still gender biased, such as blaming the victim. This study aims to find out how female victims of rape are shown in the M.F.A film by using semiotics to analyze the structure and ideology contained in the text. The theory used by researchers to analyze texts (M.F.A.) is the concept of radical feminism. The results of the research show in the M.F.A. film, women are shown as sexual objects of men. Women are represented as having to accept anything, including their fate when raped by men. They are not given the strength to …

A Comparative Study Of Brtv And Nta Maiduguri Regarding Their Compliance With Nigeria Broadcasting Code On Religious Programming, Ibrahim Uba Yusuf, Musa Usman, Adamkolo Mohammed Ibrahim

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The regulation of broadcast religious programming is a critical challenge the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) is facing in Nigeria. In Maiduguri, the capital of the north-eastern Nigerian state of Borno where religion forms a core part of the people's culture, a great deal of Borno Radio Television (BRTV) and Nigerian Television Authority Maiduguri's (NTA Maiduguri) airtime is allocated to Islamic preaching during the Muslim's annual Ramadan fasting. However, there is a dearth of research on whether the airtime those broadcast stations allocate to Islamic programming complies with the NBC code on religious programming. This research gap formed the main research …

Millennial Generation And Family Literacy Within The Dissemination Of Hoax In Whatsapp Group, Ririn Puspita Tutiasri, Ade Kusuma

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The millennial generation emerges in the era of advanced technology. The characters of the generation tend to have advanced knowledge of both technology and information. This convenience, spreading information easily, causes difficulty identifying whether or not the news is factual. Media literacy is necessary for millennials considering this generation is familiar with modern technology. Data are collected through observations and in-depth interviews. The analysis results that spreading Hoax via group chat is capable of anyone, including close and trusted family members. To prevent the act of disseminating Hoax in family and sibling, thus, a family member has an important role …

Needs Analysis To Develop Teaching Materials At Vocational College Ugm, Yohana Ika Harnita Sari, Wahyu Kartika Wienanda, Nur Endah Nugraheni

Jurnal Pendidikan Vokasi

Needs analysis as an initial process in a course becomes crucial before deciding learning objectives, setting the assessment, creating course design, as well as developing materials. This study aims to describe the English competence and skills needed by the stakeholders and students' perceptions of good teaching materials from various study programs at Vocational College UGM. The methods used in collecting data are questionnaires and interviews. The questionnaire is distributed to the first semester students from all applied bachelor programs in Vocational College UGM using a stratified random sampling method. In addition, the interview is done with all heads of applied …

Collective Effort, Private Accumulation: Constructing The Luxembourg Investment Fund, 1956-2019, Samuel Weeks

College of Humanities and Sciences Faculty Papers

In this chapter, I address capital accumulation by means of analyzing one of this process’s most economically successful administrative vehicles: the Luxembourg investment fund – which hosts, at present, nearly $5 trillion in assets. In the 1950s, officials from foreign investment companies came looking for an ultra-low-tax domicile from which to sell their “products.” However, Luxembourg’s long-used H29 holding company – a structure designed to avoid double (or any) taxation on the assets of rich foreign clients – would not work on its own as a vehicle for investment funds. Thus, local attorneys began to alter the H29 in piecemeal …

Plantar Fasciopathy At Unusual Location: A Report Of Two Cases, Chia-Hua Lee, Feng-Cheng Tang, Yao-Jen Chen, Long-Wei Dai, Su-Ju Tsai, Chi-Chung Ho

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Plantar fasciopathy is a common problem in the general population involving the proximal area of the central cord of the plantar aponeurosis. Few studies have discussed plantar fasciopathy distal to the calcaneus. In article reviewarticles, plantar fasciopathy distal to the calcaneus occurred in only 12% of the cases. In the casereport, including two cases in which fasciopathy were involved in the central part of the plantar fascia, the incidence was obviously less than that mentioned above. These two cases were atypical diseases of plantar fasciopathy over the plantar arch. They both received one to several sessions of prolotherapy, but no …

Blast Shock-Wave Characterization In Experimental Shock Tubes, Sudeepto Kahali

Dissertations

Blast-induced traumatic brain injuries have affected U.S. soldiers deployed for extended periods in the gulf and Afghanistan wars. To identify the biomechanical and biochemical mechanisms of injury, critical in the identification of diagnostic and therapeutic tools, compressed gas-driven shock tubes are used by investigators to study shockwave-animal specimen interactions and its biological consequences. However, shock tubes are designed and operated in a variety of geometry with a range of process parameters, and the quality of shock wave characteristics relevant to field conditions and therefore the study of blast-induced traumatic brain injuries suffered by soldiers is affected by those conditions. Lab-to-lab …

Semantic, Integrated Keyword Search Over Structured And Loosely Structured Databases, Xinge Lu

Dissertations

Keyword search has been seen in recent years as an attractive way for querying data with some form of structure. Indeed, it allows simple users to extract information from databases without mastering a complex structured query language and without having knowledge of the schema of the data. It also allows for integrated search of heterogeneous data sources. However, as keyword queries are ambiguous and not expressive enough, keyword search cannot scale satisfactorily on big datasets and the answers are, in general, of low accuracy. Therefore, flat keyword search alone cannot efficiently return high quality results on large data with structure. …

Countering Internet Packet Classifiers To Improve User Online Privacy, Sina Fathi-Kazerooni

Dissertations

Internet traffic classification or packet classification is the act of classifying packets using the extracted statistical data from the transmitted packets on a computer network. Internet traffic classification is an essential tool for Internet service providers to manage network traffic, provide users with the intended quality of service (QoS), and perform surveillance. QoS measures prioritize a network's traffic type over other traffic based on preset criteria; for instance, it gives higher priority or bandwidth to video traffic over website browsing traffic. Internet packet classification methods are also used for automated intrusion detection. They analyze incoming traffic patterns and identify malicious …

Novel Applications Of Mass Spectrometry For Quantitation And Reaction Mechanism Elucidation, Pengyi Zhao

Dissertations

Mass spectrometry (MS) has been growing as one of the most widely used tools in the field of analytical chemistry. Various applications have been developed to harness the high sensitivity and specificity of mass spectrometric analysis. In this dissertation, two major challenges are addressed. By developing mass spectrometric-based methods, absolute quantitation of proteins/peptides have been achieved. Elucidation of various reaction mechanisms are also enabled. These are the focuses of this dissertation.

In Chapters 2 to 4, a novel quantitation method is developed, titled as coulometric mass spectrometry (CMS). The strength of this method is that no reference standard or isotope-labeled …

Convergence Of The Boundary Integral Method For Interfacial Stokes Flow, Keyang Zhang

Dissertations

Boundary integral numerical methods are among the most accurate methods for interfacial Stokes flow, and are widely applied. They have the advantage that only the boundary of the domain must be discretized, which reduces the number of discretization points and allows the treatment of complicated interfaces. Despite their popularity, there is no analysis of the convergence of these methods for interfacial Stokes flow. In practice, the stability of discretizations of the boundary integral formulation can depend sensitively on details of the discretization and on the application of numerical filters. A convergence analysis of the boundary integral method for Stokes flow …

Evaluation Of Clinical Morbidities And Their Influence On Quality Of Life In Patients With Oral Cavity Cancer After Radiotherapy, Hao-Wei Tang, Tung-Hao Chang, Kuan-Lin Chen, Kuo-Yang Tsai, Su-Fen Liao, Wei-Te Wang

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Background: Oral cavity cancer is the most common cancer in middle-aged men in Taiwan. Radiation fibrosis syndrome and lymphedema are the leading side effects in patients with oral cavity cancer, and can deteriorate their quality of life (QOL). The aim of this study was to prospectively evaluate common morbidities and their influences on QOL in patients with oral cavity cancer. Methods: 27 patients with oral cavity cancer who received surgery and radiotherapy (RT) were recruited. Clinical evaluations of each patient included the VAS pain scale, the lymphedema scale, facial distance measurement for lymphedema, maximal interincisal distance (MID), range of motion …

Effect Of Kinesio Taping On Knee Symptoms In Patients With Hemophilia: A Prospective Study, Yen-Liang Ke, Cih-En Huang, Sheng-Lung Hsu, Chih-Cheng Chen, Yi-Hsuan Lai, Chih-Ying Wu, Chien-Min Chen

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Background: Kinesio Taping is effective for treating knee symptoms in various diseases. However, the outcome of using this method in hemophilia patients with knee symptoms has not been previously studied. Objective: To evaluate the therapeutic effects of Kinesio Taping on the knee symptoms in patients with hemophilia who had knee symptoms in the previous year. Methods: Kinesio Tape was applied on the anterior thigh and knee in all subjects. To measure the outcome, we collected the visual analogue scale (VAS) score of the knee during walking, knee-flexion and knee-extension muscle strength, active knee-flexion and knee-extension range of motion, Hemophilia Joint …

A Pilot Study Of Group-Based Computer-Assisted Cognitive Rehabilitation For Patients With Cognitive Impairment, Wan-Ling Hsu, Tzu-Wei Liao, Yi-Chun Lu, Hsin-Man Chien, I-Shiang Tzeng

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Objective: This study attempted to investigate effects of group-based computer-assisted cognitive rehabilitation for patients with cognitive impairment. Methods: A total of 11 patients with cognitive impairment were included in the study. Cognitive impairment and activities of daily living were assessed using Mini Mental State Exam (MMSE), Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), Cognitive Abilities. Screening Instrument (CASI C-2.0), Digit Span subtest (DS), Trail Making Test part A (TMT-A), Color Trail Making Test (CTT), Functional Independence Measure (FIM), and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living scale (IADLs) at the beginning of the study, soon after receiving the intervention. Treatment was scheduled for 2 hours …

Development Of Novel Membranes For Nanocarbon Enhanced Separation With Application In Biofuels And Solvent Recover, Oindrila Gupta

Dissertations

Pharmaceutical industries historically have had one of the highest amounts of solvent waste generated per unit of drug manufactured. Energy requirements and carbon footprint of current solvent recycling processes tend to be quite high, and the incineration of the solvents for waste disposal produces toxic air emissions. Also, rapidly increasing demand for energy and strict regulation on engine pollutant emissions have necessitated the use of alcohol as carbon-neutral fuels. Thermal distillation is one of the most common methods for the separation of alcohol-water mixtures. However, its application is limited due to energy requirements and high operating costs, and heating to …

Scholars' Mine Quick Facts December 2020, Nancy S. Krost

Scholars’ Mine Statistics

Scholars' Mine Quick Facts are monthly reports of downloads, page hits, and other information about works in the institutional repository of Missouri S&T. A map with downloads by region is also included.

Youth Perspective On Social Media Discourse On Lazy Nigerian Youth Conversations, Nkiru Comfort Ezeh, Augustine Godwin Mboso

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The Social Media has emerged as a new platform for discourses. It has no doubt provided people with easier and faster accessibility to information and has become an outlet for them to share their views on socio-political issues. It has also been observed that negative and hate comments seem to dominate on social networks used for social and political communication. Anchored on Public Sphere Theory, focus group discussions were conducted with undergraduate youths in South-east Nigeria examined on the issue of President Mohammadu Buhari's referring to Nigerian youths as lazy, while speaking at the Commonwealth Business Forum in Westminster on …

Framing Analysis Of Government Crisis Communication In Terrorist Attacks (Case In New Zealand And Sri Lanka), Narayana Mahendra Prastya, Mutia Dewi

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This article aims to analyze the frame of the government official statement in Mosque Christhurch Attack in New Zealand (March 2019) and Easter Sunday Attack in Sri Lanka (April 2019). The two cases were chosen because they place Muslim in contradictory positions: as victim in New Zealand and as perpetrator in Sri Lanka. This study uses framing analysis method to examine the official statement uploaded in the official websites of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of New Zealand and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sri Lanka, within seven days after the incident. The data gathered from the text analysis …

Appendix, Benni Setiawan

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Administrative Issues Journal

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When Culture And Change Collide In Higher Education: A Case Study At One University, Steven A. Petersen, Susan M. Bartel

Administrative Issues Journal

Leaders in higher education regularly find themselves at the intersection of change, torn between their institution’s history and culture, the intrinsic value of education, market needs, and the desires of alumni, current, and prospective students. Higher education is often labeled reluctant to change, and many believe any change initiative not aligned with the institution’s culture is almost certain to fail. This study provides evidence that leaders in higher education can implement change that is incongruent with organizational culture while maintaining harmony among the institution’s ideals and constituents. University X, a medium-sized, highly regarded public institution located in a rural area, …

School Counselor Perceptions Of A Comprehensive School Counseling Model And Implications For Practice, Marva Brewington, Jason Kushner

Administrative Issues Journal

The study examined school counselor perceptions of the American School Counseling Association’s Comprehensive School Counseling Program (CSCP) on academic outcomes (betterreported grades and better-standardized scores) of middle school students with a focus on recommendations for the tasks and responsibilities of school counselors. The study was qualitative and used a phenomenological approach through semi-structured face-to-face interviews to provide inquiry into school counselors’ perceptions of an effective school counseling program.

The Unpaid Internship: Benefits, Drawbacks, And Legal Issues, Philip C. Rothschild, Connor L. Rothschild

Administrative Issues Journal

This article hopes to clear up some of the confusion surrounding unpaid internships by discussing who participates in such internships, the merits and drawbacks relative to paid internships, and the relevant legal issues. This summary of existing research provides several key insights, which are of interest to potential interns as well as educators. For students, the literature suggests that unpaid internships are different from their paid counterparts in a variety of ways and pose certain risks that paid internships do not. On an institutional level, this paper documents the unique legal environment surrounding the unpaid internship and notes the unique …

Vol.48 N.24 December 31st 2020, Voice Media Ventures

Black Voice News

No abstract provided.

Pengembangan Sistem Informasi Pemasaran Produk Pertanian Berbasis Website, Veronika Asri Tandirerung, Syahrul Syahrul, Achmad Padil

Elinvo (Electronics, Informatics, and Vocational Education)

Pengembangan sistem informasi pemasaran produk pertanian (SIPTANI) dibutuhkan untuk membantu para petani dalam memasarkan produk-produk pertanian khususnya di era pandemic Covid-19. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian pengembangan sistem dengan model pengembangan prototype dengan studi kelayakan menggunakan standar ISO 9126. Data penelitian diperoleh dari hasil observasi dan pengisian kuesioner oleh responden. Hasil pengujian aplikasi diperoleh dengan menganalisis aspek-aspek pada functional suitability, usability, compatibility, dan portability. Pada aspek functional suitability berada pada kategori layak diterima. Pada aspek usability, kategori sangat setuju memiliki dengan persentase 90%, sehingga aplikasi dinyatakan layak dan ditanggapi baik oleh pengguna. Pada aspek compatibility, sistem pemasaran pertanian ini dapat …

Penggunaan Analytical Hierarchy Process (Ahp) Pada Penentuan Prioritas Supplier Food Chemical Di Pt. Garuda Hidrotive Internasional, Nehemia Hadiwijaya, Jenie Sundari

Elinvo (Electronics, Informatics, and Vocational Education)

Abstract-Supplier selection is one of the important things in purchasing activities for companies. Supplier selection is a multi-criteria problem which includes quantitative and qualitative factors. One method that can be used for supplier selection is the AHP (Analytical Hierarchy Process) method. The problems that will be discussed in this study are: (1) how is the order of priority criteria and sub-criteria in the selection of suppliers at PT Garuda Hidrotive International? (2) which supplier / supplier should PT Garuda Hidrotive International choose based on the AHP method? The sampling technique uses judgment sampling because the AHP method requires dependence on …

Pengembangan Modul Praktikum Mata Kuliah Pancasila Dengan Model Project Citizen Untuk Menanamkan Nilai-Nilai Antikorupsi Pada Mahasiswa, Galih Puji Mulyoto

Jurnal Civics: Media Kajian Kewarganegaraan

Proses penanaman nilai-nilai antikorupsi dikalangan mahasiswa harus terpadu antara teori dan praktik. Faktanya, praktik lapangan terkait penanaman nilai-nilai antikorupsi pada matakuliah Pendidikan Pancasila di Perguruan Tinggi minim sekali diterapkan. Salah satu faktor kesulitan mahasiswa maupun dosen dalam melaksanakan praktik lapangan karena tidak adanya modul praktikum. Oleh karena itu penelitian ini mengembangkan modul praktikum menggunakan model project citizen pada matakuliah Pendidikan pancasila untuk menanamkan nilai-nilai antikorupsi pada mahasiswa FITK UIN Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang. Penelitian ini dirancang dengan menggunakan model pengembangan pembelajaran Walter Dick & Lou Carey. Kelayakan dan keefektifan pengembangan modul praktikum menggunakan project citizen pada matakuliah pancasila dapat untuk …