International Journal of Modern Education and Computer Science @ijmecs
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Rankings in Sport by Pairwise Comparison and League Table
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This article describes a method of creating rankings in sport (medal tables). First, the countries are pairwise compared by area of the feasible points for which they are better. These feasible points correspond to gold, silver and bronze medals. After pairwise comparison we use the method of league table to rank the countries.
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Smart Home is a versatile system that incorporates several elements, i.e., visual intercom, home security, remote monitoring of home appliances, remote video surveillance, care systems and online education systems. The basic goal of a smart home is to connect various information-related communication devices, household appliances and home security devices in the home, to an intelligent system for centralized or remote monitoring, control and family affairs management. IoT refers to the infrastructure of connected physical devices, which is growing at a rapid rate, as a huge number of devices and objects are getting connected to the Internet. Internet of Things (IoT) is a significant part of the smart home scenario. It performs information exchange and communication between the home environment and smart system, through multiple sensors, such as photoelectric sensors, radio frequency identification, and so on. Its purpose is to realize real-time connection between objects and objects, objects and people, all items and networks, and to facilitate identification, management and control. This proposed paper presents a smart home application to support real-time correspondence to reduce the cost of implementation, to pursue life intelligence and comfort, with the hope that the system is able to provide a much more convenient and efficient energy saving consumption for the daily activities of the family. Having this application helps a lot of user to know the real-time notification in case of emergency occurs within the house, the advanced feathers of this application consisting of monitoring, control system and information support system as one stop-service application in order to assist user to know more environment context and being intermediate between user and home appliances. For example, if someone forgets to turn off the light when they are out of the home, and all other home appliances are active without being used. As such, a smart home, or home automation, which induces technology for the home atmosphere provides ease of use and the necessary protection to its occupants.
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Recent and frequent informative pages from web logs by weighted association rule mining
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Web Usage Mining provides efficient ways of mining the web logs for knowing the user’s behavioral patterns. Existing literature have discussed about mining frequent pages of web logs by different means. Instead of mining all the frequently visited pages, if the criterion for mining frequent pages is based on a weighted setting then the compilation time and storage space would reduce. Hence in the proposed work, mining is performed by assigning weights to web pages based on two criteria. One is the time dwelled by a visitor on a particular page and the other is based on recent access of those pages. The proposed Weighted Window Tree (WWT) method performs Weighted Association Rule mining (WARM) for discovering the recently accessed frequent pages from web logs where the user has dwelled for more time and hence proves that these pages are more informative. WARM’s significance is in page weight assignment for targeting essential pages which has an advantage of mining lesser quality rules.
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Recommendation Techniques in Mobile Learning Context: A Review
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The objective of this article is to make a bibliographic study on the recommendation of learning activities that can integrate user mobility. This type of recommendation makes it possible to exploit the history of previous visits in order to offer adaptive learning according to the instantaneous position of the learner and the pedagogy of the guide. To achieve this objective, we review the existing literature on the recommendation systems that integrate contexts such as geographic location and training profile. Next, we are interested in the social relationships that users can have between themselves. Finally, we focus on the work of recommending mobile learning activities in the context of scenarios of field trips.
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Teacher education requires models that connect reflective practice and digital competence with the psychological processes through which professional growth occurs. This longitudinal pre-test/post-test quasi-experiment examined whether a composite reflective-digital practice process predicted professional development and whether instructional smart self-efficacy mediated this association. The sample comprised 120 third-year pre-service teachers enrolled in a Computer Science Pedagogy program (N = 120) who completed a 15-week intervention organized across four instructional conditions. Data were collected with an expert-reviewed 19-item questionnaire using a five-point Likert scale. Confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling were used to assess the measurement and structural models, and indirect effects were evaluated with 5,000 bias-corrected bootstrap resamples. Internal consistency was satisfactory across the four constructs (Cronbach’s alpha = 0.86-0.91). Reflective-digital practice was positively associated with professional outcomes (beta = 0.41, p < 0.001), whereas its path to instructional smart self-efficacy (beta = 0.12, p = 0.184) and the direct path from self-efficacy to professional outcomes (beta = 0.10, p = 0.211) were not significant. The bootstrapped indirect estimate was significant (B = 0.09, 95% CI [0.02, 0.17], p = 0.018), and the model explained 54% of the variance in professional outcomes (R² = 0.54). These findings provide preliminary empirical support for a mediated reflective-digital pathway, while the single-program sample and reliance on self-reports limit causal and population-level inference.
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The need to change the professional practices in the nursing sciences obliges to accompany everyone towards a work on identity which engages a real process of professionalization. In addition, reflective practice (RP) has taken on more importance with this discourse on professionalization in nursing training settings. In this respect, reflection on practice is considered both as a competence of the professional teacher and upstream, in initial or continuing training, it is a tool for building one’s professional identity that can promote one’s professional development. From this perspective, this study aims to study the impact of reflexive practice on 235 teachers working at the level of 23 ISPITS (Higher Institute of Nursing Professions and Health Technologies) of the Kingdom of Morocco, by means of a questionnaire, whose internal validity has been approved, transmitted through the Google Forms platform. As such, this quantitative study will focus on two strands the 1st aims to study the existence of an impact of reflective practice on the professionalization of teaching within Moroccan ISPITS. The second objective is to study the nature of a possible relationship between the professionalization of teaching by the RP and the strengthening of the professional identity of ISPITS teachers. The results of this study show a positive impact of RP on the professionalization of nursing education; in addition, statistical tests have shown that there is a strong correlation between the professionalization of teaching in ISPITS and the strengthening of the professional identity of nursing teachers. Also, this study could contribute to improving other vocational training. In addition, consideration of occupational identity, as well as the relationship between it and its interactive experience with others and in varied environments that elicit reflective feedback on its professional practice, are likely to promote the professional development of each practitioner. The teacher's use of reflexivity is inseparable from his identity work. It will undoubtedly lead to the professionalization of training. In this perspective, similar studies can be carried out to deepen this theme and enhance their interventions.
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Reform of Database Course in Police Colleges Based on "Working Process"
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According to the actual research results, combined with the teaching experience, this paper puts forward the reform method of the database course in police colleges. Based on the actual sector capacity requirement analysis, design of the five learning steps and four teaching scene, the task driven, project oriented, make students doing, learning by doing, students are required in the network security supervision work in the operation skill and ability.
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The purpose of this study is to investigate relationship of fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grade students' scientific epistemological beliefs with their frequency of participating in laboratory activities. For this purpose, correlational study method was used. Sample of the study involved 301 students purposively selected from convenient schools. The data of the study was collected by a Likert type scale called "Scientific Epistemological Beliefs Scale" and information form about frequency of participating in laboratory activities and description of sample laboratory activities. The findings showed that majority of the students never participated in lab activities or participated in one time during one year. Also the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grade students' scientific epistemological beliefs were significantly related to their frequency of participating in laboratory activities. They are positively correlated to each other. However there were no significant relationships between the students' scientific epistemological beliefs and their frequency of participating in laboratory activities. Hence it can be claimed that participating in lab activities is associated with development of sophisticated scientific epistemological beliefs.
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An alternative model of intercultural sensitivity replicated from Chen and Starosta's five-factor model of Intercultural sensitivity was replicated validated at eight universities in Taiwan and Hainan, China. Both Confirmatory factor analysis and exploratory factor analysis were conducted to inspect the construct validity of the alternative model of Intercultural Sensitivity. Results indicated that three models fitted the data and the values of indicators were deemed acceptable; however, three-factor model of intercultural sensitivity with 10 items significantly fitted the data better than Chen and Starosta's five-factor model, Wu's four-factor model, and the revised two-factor model. This three-factor model, an alternative model, consists of three factors based on 10 items from the 24-item Intercultural Sensitivity Scale by Chen and Starosta; the reliability coefficient was .771, demonstrating high internal consistency. Participants from both Taiwan and Hainan represent ethnic Chinese who, although sharing similar cultures, still present cultural differences. This present study suggests an alternative model of the Intercultural Sensitivity that fits the characteristics of a sample of undergraduates from Hainan, China and Taiwan by reproducing Chen and Starosta's ISS.
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Requirement elicitation methods for cloud providers in IT industry
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In cloud computing, requirements engineering is a greatly under-researched topic. Requirement elicitation is a key activity that helps in assemble the requirements of a system from different users, customers and stakeholders. Cloud services providers need methods to correctly elicit requirements from consumers, as the consumers of cloud services are more diverse and there occur some conflictions in the non-functional requirement of some kinds of consumers. Sometimes eliciting security requirements is an important task, because the cloud services are acquired by potential cloud consumers are secure for them to use. Both literature and market surveys are performed on different elicitation approaches that are followed by CSPs to fetch consumer requirements, recommendations and data from cloud service providers and from consumers of cloud computing services. This study aims to discuss the elicitation methods being used by cloud providers in Pakistan IT industry, and the resulting feedback of the consumers by these methods. This would lead to determine current elicitation methods are sufficient or there is a need to design a new elicitation method that can sufficiently provide with more customer satisfaction. We have used semi-structured interviews and questionnaires to gather information about the elicitation techniques that are used by cloud providers to elicit consumer requirements. This study is conducted in Pakistan IT industry. Somehow, this research enlightens the trend and scope of cloud computing in Pakistan. This study would be beneficial for cloud providers adequately gather their consumer requirements and enhance the knowledge of elicitation techniques that are used by cloud providers.
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Requirements Engineering in Software Houses of Pakistan
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Requirement engineering is an essence of software development life cycle. The more time we spend on requirement engineering, higher the probability of success. Effective requirement engineering ensures and predicts successful software product. This paper presents the adaptation of requirement engineering practices in small and medium size companies of Pakistan. The study is conducted by questionnaires to show how much of requirement engineering models and practices are followed in Pakistan.
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Research Competence of a Modern Teacher as a Factor in Improving the Quality of Education
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The article presents a comprehensive theoretical and empirical analysis of the research competence of a modern teacher as an integral component of professional activity and a key factor in improving the quality of education. Based on the generalization of scientific approaches and the results of modern psychological and pedagogical research, the content of the concept of “research competence” is clarified, its five-component structure is determined, and the role of the psychological characteristics of the teacher – temperament type, internal motivation, reflexivity – is substantiated in forming readiness for research activities. An empirical study conducted among 10 teachers of general secondary education institutions made it possible to quantitatively assess the level of formation of professional competencies. It was found that the highest average indicators are observed in communicative and methodological competencies, while digital, inclusive, managerial and especially research competencies require significant development. Analysis of individual psychological characteristics showed that 54% of respondents have an extroverted type of temperament, which correlates with higher communicative and organizational indicators, while 46% of introverts demonstrate higher analytical and methodological abilities. Correlation analysis confirmed the presence of statistically significant relationships between research competence and internal professional motivation, as well as its moderate relationship with methodological competence. Economic and mathematical modeling allowed us to formalize the level of research competence as an integral indicator and assess its impact on the effectiveness of pedagogical activity. It was found that an increase in the integral index of research competence by 0.1 conventional unit causes an increase in pedagogical results by an average of 8-12%, which confirms the importance of research activity for improving the quality of education. Based on the data obtained, an author’s three-component model of the development of research competence is proposed, which involves the integration of research practices into the content of pedagogical education, the creation of school laboratories and professional communities, and the formation of a system of motivational incentives. It is concluded that the development of research competence is a strategic condition for the formation of a culture of evidence-based learning, ensuring innovative development of schools, and improving the quality of education in Ukraine.
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Research Supervisor Recommendation System Based on Topic Conformity
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In a higher education such as universities, final project are under supervision of one or more supervisors with a similar research interest or topic. The determination of the final project supervisor is an important factor in the work of the student's final project. However, the lack of information about the supervisor can hamper students in making the determination of the supervisor. Thus, a system is needed that can facilitate students in determining the final project or thesis advisors in accordance with the research topic. This problem is the basis of this research. The study is conducted by developing a web-based system and applying the TF-IDF word weighting and cosine similarity method. TF-IDF method is a way to give the weight of the relationship of a word to the document. The cosine similarity is a method for calculating the similarity between two objects expressed in two vectors by using keywords from a document as a measure. The results of the advisor recommendation system can provide recommendations to students regarding the final assignment advisor who has conducted research in accordance with the topic of the student's final assignment written in Indonesian. In 20 testing, the accuracy of the comparison of the results of the system recommendations with the actual data obtained an average of 75% by comparing system recommendation with actual assigned supervisor.
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Research of Heated Oil Pipeline Shutdown and Restart Process Based on VB and MATLAB
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During the operation of a heated oil transportation pipeline, the shutdown was caused by some pipeline accidents and repairing. In order to ensure the safety operation of the pipeline, determine the temperature drop and restart pressure was needed at different shutdown is important. This paper builds the heated oil pipeline temperature drop model after shutdown based on the unsteady heat transfer theory and restart model based on fluid transient flow theory. In order to solve the models, MATLAB is adopted a code for the models solving program. VB and MATLAB hybrid programming method which is on the basis of COM technical is utilized to develop a friendly man-machine interface for the heated oil pipeline shutdown and restart simulation software. The practical application shows using of VB and MATLAB hybrid programming method can reduce the work of algorithm developing and enhance the reliability of heated oil pipeline shutdown and restart simulation software.
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To achieve higher education internationalization and improve the comprehensive ability of graduates, according to the education characteristics and development model of graduates for computer specialty in financial and economical colleges, the intrinsic relation between computer and English, and the importance of graduates for implementing bilingual teaching in financial and economical colleges, an effective training project of bilingual teaching for computer graduates in financial and economical colleges is proposed in this paper, which is based on years of teaching experience in practice and suitable for the economy development demands in China. In addition, a more perfect measure for computer graduates in financial and economical colleges is also introduced in this paper, so that the education of computer graduates in financial and economical colleges is different from the computer specialty in comprehensive universities. It can build a good basis and provide a feasible approach to training the comprehensive talents by performing bilingual teaching that are needed urgently in international communities.
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Research on Cultivation of Ethnic Minorities IT Talents in Nationalities Universities
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To promote cultural and information undertakings of the ethnic minorities such as digital publication and network governance, a series of experience training programs for nationalities universities are established to cultivate high-quality IT technology talents. Here, Dalian Nationalities University is taken as an example. These training programs adopted a so called "four-phrases, five capabilities" training method. That is, four phrases consist of professional quality training, professional basic theory strengthening, job skills training and job practice, centering on training five capabilities of professional morality, software programming fundamentals, language competence, software engineering and project practice. Based on the training method, one well-rounded and multiple perspective assessment method are put forward. This assessment system integrated academic knowledge evaluation and professional competence assessment, adopting various forms such as coding, competition, discussion, peer review online and deliverables exhibition. These practice training courses break through the knowledge barrier and put emphasis on professional competence cultivation, which improves teaching quality and assesses learning effects objectively and fairly during teaching process.
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Research on Five Stakeholders & Five Relationships of Higher Engineering Education in China
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With the development of globalization, higher engineering education has been on the rise which includes five Stakeholders and five relationships. This paper will discuss five relations of higher engineering education: teaching, research and social services, professional education and humanity education, ability education and knowledge education, theoretical teaching and practical teaching, development of education and development of national and regional economy. Among them, teaching, research and social services are three major functions of higher engineering universities; professional education and humanity education, ability education and knowledge education, theoretical teaching and practical teaching are the goals of higher engineering education; development of education and development of national and regional economy involve the interaction between higher engineering universities and society. Furthermore, the five stakeholders are students, teachers, universities, employers and governments. The five relationships and five stakeholders of higher engineering education are reunified firstly, and at the same time, the driving force of various interests of higher engineering education is analyzed thoroughly at the higher level for guiding and enlightening the future development of our country’s higher engineering education.
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Research on Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation in Practice Teaching Assessment of Computer Majors
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Practice teaching is an inseparable part of professional courses for computer majors, which helps to cultivate capability of coding and engineering for students. Progress assessment and result assessment are two common ways to assess the practice teaching. But only by class attendance and programming result, it is not scientific and reasonable for all students to get the final assessment result. And it is not scientific to evaluate teaching quality only by classroom observations or instructional supervision too. How to assess the practice teaching from multiple perspectives scientifically is key point of this paper. A new assessment called fuzzy comprehensive evaluation from different targets collecting from five assessment means is adopted to complete the task. Based on five targets of grade 1 and corresponding targets of grade 2, one fuzzy matrix is constructed with membership determining and one quantitative result is obtained based on calculation of fuzzy matrix. This assessment method breaks through the knowledge barrier and puts emphasis on competence assessment and teaching evaluation, which improves teaching quality in the teaching process. Adopting this assessment method, students' learning effects can be assessed objectively and fairly, which will result in inspiring students' passion for independent learning and helping them to build employment challenge self-confidence with optimistic and positive attitudes. And teachers will get effective feedback and professional suggestions from experts, students and management department to improve their practice teaching in the future.
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The web service has great significance and value since it represents a large industrial sector and huge trade interests, but the function of a single web service is too small to satisfy the need of service requestor, so it is necessary to combine a mount of simple services to satisfy the complex and dynamic requirement in practice, then the problem of web services composition is one of the research hotspot. This paper generalized the primary interaction processes between enterprise and customer in marketing, encapsulated the special function for marketing works as the agent, and considered the marketing as the cooperation process of agents focusing on requirements, and based on that a multi-agent based marketing cooperation system (MAMCS) is established and the agent ontology is designed according to JADE, finally the negotiation mechanism is built. The method of multi-agent services aggregation driven by requirement supposed in this paper can improve the utilizing effect of service, reduce the difficulty of services composition, and realize the automatic purpose of services composition. Moreover, by combining the merits of agent technique the initiation and intelligence of the services are improved, that safeguard the best interests of the service providers due to they have an option on requirements.
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Research on Spacecraft Illumination
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Illumination analysis of spacecraft is very important. This paper firstly introduces the importance of spacecraft illumination analysis in aerospace fields and points out that illumination conditions will influence the design of shape of spacecraft body and the installation of spacecraft equipments. Then, it discusses two methods for analyzing spacecraft solar-panel shadow and illumination conditions: ray tracing illumination algorithm and polyhedral mesh contour edge projection algorithm and compares their efficiency and feasibility. Shadow area and solar area are computed of every cell on solar panels. We designed solar panel single-axis rotation experiment to validate the proposed algorithm. The experimental results show that contour edge projection algorithm has fine accuracy and costs less time. For detailed illumination information, we apply a practical segment clipping algorithm after some comparisons.
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