LITERACY PRACTICE: READING COMMUNITY AND ITS CONTRIBUTION TO SELF-READING

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aulia Nisa' Khusnia
Keyword(s):  
Reading Motivation ◽  
Main Idea ◽  
Reading Strategy ◽  
Visual Sensitivity ◽  
Literacy Practice ◽  
Reading Practice ◽  
Reading Problem ◽  
Poor Reading ◽  
Community Activities ◽  
The One

The reading community is the local group of Indonesian in urban area bear on reading. The member provides an opportunity for members to support literacy during the community day and extend reading out of the community day. The reading community activities are individual and grouping reading practice. Besides, the members’ background is in different age and study background. The present study designed to explain the reading members’ on reading motivation, problem and strategy. Furthermore, the researcher explained more about the literacy practice, such as self-reading to depict the reading activity of the member, in terms of time and frequency. The researcher used a mixed method. It is integrating between quantity and qualitative data. Observation applied to get a further background of the members’  reading motivation, problem as well as strategy. Besides, the one on one interview used for describing the self-reading. The respondents of the research are 20 members in a group of the reading community. The members were selected randomly.  The result showed members’ reading motivation, reading problem and reading strategy. Those covers curiosity, aesthetic involvement, challenge, recognition, and grade. A reading problem consists of low memory to remember, progressive decline in visual sensitivity, a result of the normal process affect reading, poor reading skill and feel out of place in the conversation that moves quickly.  Reading strategy such as using prior knowledge/previewing, predicting, identifying the main idea and summarization, questioning, making inferences, visualizing as well as their self-reading in terms of time and frequency.

EFL Children’s Perception on Reading

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Putu Santi Oktarina ◽  
Ni Kadek Tia Wiat Wilantari
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
English Language ◽  
Main Idea ◽  
Reading Problem ◽  
Poor Reading ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Reading Text ◽  
Children's Reading ◽  
English Students ◽  
Children’S Reading

Reading has a very significant effect towards individuals’ life. English in Indonesia as a foreign language, so there are many possibilities which the English language students get difficulties in understading reading text. EFL young learners are also still struggling to overcome their reading problems. This research was conducted to find out the EFL children’s reading problem. The data were collected through questionnare and explained descriptively. The questionnare consists of ten questions which is made based on the rubric of reading. The respondents of this research were the 20 students from the fourth grade. The results of the research that the EFL children’s reading problem are students seldom pay attention to punctuation in reading English, students always have difficulty to distinguish the pronunciation of words in English, students always need a long time to understand the reading text in English, students never look for the main idea of the reading text which they read, students have poor reading habit because they unusual read in English or seldom read in English, students seldom even never understand the grammar structures in English when reading, students never even seldom pay attention to the form or the content of the reading text which they read, students never apply any strategies in reading English, students lack of vocabulary when reading English so that they need a dictionary to comprehend the reading text in English, and students do not like or not interested reading English because they are seldom reading in English. Thus, the questionnare show the EFL children’ reading problem.

Near-Perfect Reconstruction Oversampled Nonuniform Cosine-Modulated Filter Banks Based on Frequency Warping and Subband Merging

2012 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marek Parfieniuk ◽  
Alexander Petrovsky
Keyword(s):  
Group Delay ◽  
Filter Banks ◽  
Main Idea ◽  
Perceptual Processing ◽  
Perfect Reconstruction ◽  
Frequency Warping ◽  
Small Loss ◽  
Novel Method ◽  
The One ◽  
Near Perfect Reconstruction

Near-Perfect Reconstruction Oversampled Nonuniform Cosine-Modulated Filter Banks Based on Frequency Warping and Subband MergingA novel method for designing near-perfect reconstruction oversampled nonuniform cosine-modulated filter banks is proposed, which combines frequency warping and subband merging, and thus offers more flexibility than known techniques. On the one hand, desirable frequency partitionings can be better approximated. On the other hand, at the price of only a small loss in partitioning accuracy, both warping strength and number of channels before merging can be adjusted so as to minimize the computational complexity of a system. In particular, the coefficient of the function behind warping can be constrained to be a negative integer power of two, so that multiplications related to allpass filtering can be replaced with more efficient binary shifts. The main idea is accompanied by some contributions to the theory of warped filter banks. Namely, group delay equalization is thoroughly investigated, and it is shown how to avoid significant aliasing by channel oversampling. Our research revolves around filter banks for perceptual processing of sound, which are required to approximate the psychoacoustic scales well and need not guarantee perfect reconstruction.

Autoencoder for ecg signal outlier processing in system of biometric authentication

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 108-117
Author(s):  
Khoma V.V. ◽  
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Khoma Y.V. ◽  
Khoma P.P. ◽  
Sabodashko D.V. ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Statistical Approach ◽  
Main Idea ◽  
Biometric Identification ◽  
Ecg Signal ◽  
Biometric Authentication ◽  
Lower Accuracy ◽  
Novel Method ◽  
Waveform Distortions ◽  
The One

A novel method for ECG signal outlier processing based on autoencoder neural networks is presented in the article. Typically, heartbeats with serious waveform distortions are treated as outliers and are skipped from the authentication pipeline. The main idea of the paper is to correct these waveform distortions rather them in order to provide the system with better statistical base. During the experiments, the optimum autoencoder architecture was selected. An open Physionet ECGID database was used to verify the proposed method. The results of the studies were compared with previous studies that considered the correction of anomalies based on a statistical approach. On the one hand, the autoencoder shows slightly lower accuracy than the statistical method, but it greatly simplifies the construction of biometric identification systems, since it does not require precise tuning of hyperparameters.

scholarly journals MENUMBUHKEMBANGKAN MINAT BACA MENUJU MASYARAKAT LITERAT

Diksi ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sri Wahyuni
Keyword(s):  
Reading Ability ◽  
Reading Motivation ◽  
Learning Model ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Reading Habit ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Poor Reading ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Literate Society

Research findings show that in general Indonesian students’ reading ability is stilllow. This is attributable to, among others, poor reading habit, which is caused by lowreading motivation. Several aspects cause low reading motivation: (1) family andneighborhood environments that do not support reading habit, (2) society’s low bookbuyingpower, (3) limited number of good libraries, (4) negative effects of electronic mediadevelopment, (5) learning model that in general does not make students read, and (6)inappropriate learning system for reading. To improve reading motivation several attemptscan be made: (1) making children get used to reading since their early age, (2) providinginteresting books, (3) creating an environment conducive for reading, (4) reconstructingthe library performance to make it interesting, and (5) developing a learning model forreading that is enjoyable, varied, and educative.Keywords: reading motivation, literate society

scholarly journals An Investigation of Sites, Uses and Practices For  Literacy in the Lives of Pasifika Students

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
John G Dickie
Keyword(s):  
Literacy Practices ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Literacy Practice ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
School Students ◽  
Lower Test ◽  
Pasifika Students ◽  
The One ◽  
Out Of School

<p>An investigation of sites, uses and practices for literacy in the lives of Pasifika students Lower test scores on school measures of literacy for Pasifika students than for the majority of students in New Zealand are a cause for concern. As part of a wider attempt to address this problem the Ministry of Education has argued that teachers need to be better informed of out-of-school literacy practices. This thesis considers what can be learned when this guidance is followed and it investigates students' social and cultural uses of literacy in family and community settings. It explores the argument that knowledge of these out-of-school literacies will inform teachers and through incorporation (McNaughton, 2002) teachers may be able to make effective connections for students to school literacy. A sociocultural perspective is used to investigate the social and cultural practices of the students while the study also uses Cremin's (1976) concept of configurations of sites to consider how learning is mediated for students in different settings. Rogoff's (1995) three planes of analysis provide a tool to examine students' practices at the community, interpersonal, and personal levels. The investigation sought the students' own perspective of how they appropriate knowledge about literacy as they collected information with cameras and journals on their own practices. The participants were 14 Pasifika students aged 11 and 12 years (mostly Samoan) as well as three adult Samoan church representatives and teachers from the students' school. Students' photos were used to elicit rich description in semi-structured interviews and interview schedules were also used with students and adult participants. The findings illustrate how the students were socialised into particular practices that are contextualised in the sites of family, church and neighbourhood. They reveal that for the students there was both overlapping of values and conflict between their sites of literacy practice. The complementarities occurred most strongly between family and church and a valued feature of the students' practice was the use of Samoan language. The most common conflicts were those related to popular culture and they occurred between the sites of family, church and school on the one hand and neighbourhood sites on the other as well as within family sites. The thesis argues that awareness of the complementary and conflicting features is essential for teachers in understanding the complexity the students face in choosing their paths among two cultures. This knowledge enables teachers to incorporate aspects of out-of-school literacy into school practice and to draw on those in the students' backgrounds who may facilitate students' literacy acquisition.</p>

The Reader and World Crime Fiction

2020 ◽  
pp. 195-210
Author(s):  
Stewart King
Keyword(s):  
World Literature ◽  
Jorge Luis Borges ◽  
Crime Fiction ◽  
The Other ◽  
National Context ◽  
Reading Practice ◽  
American Tradition ◽  
The Common ◽  
The One

This chapter reflects on the tension between national-focused and more worldly readings of crime fiction. It treats crime fiction as a form of world literature and examines new ways of conceiving relationships between crime writers, readers and texts that eschew the common categorization of a universal British-American tradition, on the one hand, and, on the other, localized national traditions. Following Jorge Luis Borges, the chapter argues that the transnationality of the crime genre does not reside exclusively within the text, but rather emerges through the interaction of the reader and the text. What emerges is a transnational and trans-historical reading practice that respects the local but also allows for innovative connections and new paradigms to be forged when texts are read beyond the national context.

scholarly journals Robotic grasp detection based on image processing and random forest

2019 ◽  
Vol 79 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 2427-2446 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiahao Zhang ◽  
Miao Li ◽  
Ying Feng ◽  
Chenguang Yang
Keyword(s):  
Image Processing ◽  
Random Forest ◽  
Main Idea ◽  
Morphological Image Processing ◽  
Segmentation Approach ◽  
Novel Objects ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The One ◽  
Objects Detection ◽  
Morphological Image

AbstractReal-time grasp detection plays a key role in manipulation, and it is also a complex task, especially for detecting how to grasp novel objects. This paper proposes a very quick and accurate approach to detect robotic grasps. The main idea is to perform grasping of novel objects in a typical RGB-D scene view. Our goal is not to find the best grasp for every object but to obtain the local optimal grasps in candidate grasp rectangles. There are three main contributions to our detection work. Firstly, an improved graph segmentation approach is used to do objects detection and it can separate objects from the background directly and fast. Secondly, we develop a morphological image processing method to generate candidate grasp rectangles set which avoids us to search grasp rectangles globally. Finally, we train a random forest model to predict grasps and achieve an accuracy of 94.26%. The model is mainly used to score every element in our candidate grasps set and the one gets the highest score will be converted to the final grasp configuration for robots. For real-world experiments, we set up our system on a tabletop scene with multiple objects and when implementing robotic grasps, we control Baxter robot with a different inverse kinematics strategy rather than the built-in one.

CONIC CPPIs

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (02) ◽  
pp. 1850012
Author(s):  
INE MARQUET ◽  
WIM SCHOUTENS
Keyword(s):  
Main Idea ◽  
Trading Strategies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Risky Asset ◽  
Underlying Asset ◽  
Constant Multiplier ◽  
State Dependent ◽  
Conic Finance ◽  
The One ◽  
Finance Theory

Constant proportion portfolio insurance (CPPI) is a structured product created on the basis of a trading strategy. The idea of the strategy is to have an exposure to the upside potential of a risky asset while providing a capital guarantee against downside risk with the additional feature that in case the product has since initiation performed well more risk is taken while if the product has suffered mark-to-market losses, the risk is reduced. In a standard CPPI contract, a fraction of the initial capital is guaranteed at maturity. This payment is assured by investing part of the fund in a riskless manner. The other part of the fund’s value is invested in a risky asset to offer the upside potential. We refer to the floor as the discounted guaranteed amount at maturity. The percentage allocated to the risky asset is typically defined as a constant multiplier of the fund value above the floor. The remaining part of the fund is invested in a riskless manner. In this paper, we combine conic trading in the above described CPPIs. Conic trading strategies explore particular sophisticated trading strategies founded by the conic finance theory i.e. they are valued using nonlinear conditional expectations with respect to nonadditive probabilities. The main idea of this paper is that the multiplier is taken now to be state dependent. In case the algorithm sees value in the underlying asset the multiplier is increased, whereas if the assets is situated in a state with low value or opportunities, the multiplier is reduced. In addition, the direction of the trade, i.e. going long or short the underlying asset, is also decided on the basis of the policy function derived by employing the conic finance algorithm. Since nonadditive probabilities attain conservatism by exaggerating upwards tail loss events and exaggerating downwards tail gain events, the new Conic CPPI strategies can be seen on the one hand to be more conservative and on the other hand better in exploiting trading opportunities.

There's More to a Reading Problem than Poor Reading

1984 ◽  
Vol 17 (8) ◽  
pp. 467-471 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irene W. Gaskins
Keyword(s):  
Reading Problem ◽  
Poor Reading
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