Design and Implementation of a Metadata Repository about UML Class Diagrams. A Software Tool Supporting the Automatic Feeding of the Repository

Model-Driven Engineering is largely recognized as the most powerful method for the design of complex software. This study deals with the automated archival of metadata about the content of UML class diagrams (a particularly relevant category of models) into a pre-existing repository. To define the structure of the repository, we started from the definition of a UML metamodel. From the latter, we derived the schema of the metadata repository. Then, a parser was developed that is responsible for extracting the useful information from the XMI file about class diagrams and enters it as metadata into the repository. The parser has been implemented as a Java web interface, while the metadata repository has been implemented as a PostgreSQL database based on the JSONB data type. The metadata repository is thought to support modelers in the initial phase of the process of the development of new models when looking for artifacts to start from. The schema of the metadata repository and the Java code of the parser are available from the authors.

Customer-Centered Antecedents of a Value Co-Creation Ecosystem

Considering the call for understanding the broader social and cultural context of value co-creation within emerging multilevel co-creative service systems, this research aims to explore the social and cultural processes along with psychological processes in terms of their influence on resource integration. It primarily adopts the customer perspective of resource integration. First, an integrative structure is developed and then the identified antecedents are positioned under relevant category proposing the multi-perspective VCC antecedent' framework. Further, the extant knowledge about VCC antecedents is used to set the agenda for future research. The study is based on an in-depth review of 85 key articles carefully extracted from a broad set of 1100 papers on VCC within the Scopus database. This review work provides a clear state of the art of VCC antecedents and has a direct implication for managers involved in designing the co-creation strategies for their customers.

Evaluating researcher and stakeholder perspectives on socially responsible research and innovation practices in research performing organisations

The European Commission-funded GRRIP (Grounding RRI Practices) project aims to embed sustainable Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) practices in five research performing organisations (RPOs), focusing on the marine and maritime sector. The project’s goal is to achieve institutional and cultural change through a cycle of evaluation, evidence-based interventions and further evaluation. For this purpose, a set of three surveys were designed and implemented in the first part of the project (2020) to establish a baseline measurement of RRI-related practices within the project partner institutions and their stakeholders. Each survey was specifically designed to target a relevant category of people for each of the five RPOs implementing RRI actions. These five institutions are research departments and centres linked to the marine and maritime sector in Ireland, Spain, Portugal, France and the UK. This paper presents the design of these survey-based evaluation instruments and the linked datasets generated by their implementation.

Adaptive coding of stimulus information in human fronto-parietal cortex during visual classification

Our ability to flexibly adapt to changing demands is supported by flexible coding of task-relevant information in frontal and parietal brain regions. Converging evidence suggest that coding of stimuli and task rules in these regions become stronger as task difficulty increases. Here, we tested whether there is a corresponding change in the representational format as well, an issue that has rarely been addressed directly in past research. Participants performed a visual classification task under varying levels of perceptual difficulty, while we acquired fMRI. Using a model-based representational similarity approach, we tested whether stimulus representations retain exemplar-level information. We expected representations to drop such exemplar-level information as perceptual difficulty increases, which would indicate a focus on representing behaviorally relevant category information. Counter to these expectations, and in contrast to previous research, we found frontal and parietal brain regions contained exemplar-level stimulus information. Interestingly, the anterior intraparietal sulcus (aIPS) retained exemplar-level stimulus information even in perceptually difficult trials, and these representations were directly related to performance. Overall, these findings call for a reassessment of the neural mechanisms underlying human adaptive behavior during visual classification.

Relevance of competencies in vocational high school 1 ngawen and competence needed in real work and industry of heavy equipment

The aims of this study are: (1) to identify the competencies in the curriculum of Heavy Equipment Engineering Vocational High School 1 Ngawen, (2) find out the competencies of labor in industry but not contain in the curriculum of curriculum of Heavy Equipment Engineering Vocational High School 1 Ngawen, and (3) to analyze the compability between competence developed in Heavy Equipment Engineering Vocational High School 1 Ngawen and competence needed in real work and industry engaging in heavy equipment. This study is a descriptive research. The sampling technique uses purposive sampling, with the sample is curriculum of Heavy Equipment Engineering Vocational High School 1 Ngawen and industry engaging in heavy equipment service. The analysis technique used is quantitative descriptive analysis with percentage. The results conclusion is as follows: (1) Competencies developed at curriculum of Heavy Equipment Engineering Vocational High School 1 Ngawen consists of 110 basic competencies, (2) Basic competencies in curriculum of Heavy Equipment Engineering Vocational High School 1 Ngawen all labor in industry heavy equipment service, although form 110 basic competencies there are still five competencies that labor on industry engaging heavy equipment but not applied in the curriculum of Heavy Equipment Engineering Vocational High School 1 Ngawen, (3) The relevance of competence applied in the curriculum of Heavy Equipment Engineering Vocational High School 1 Ngawen of labor in real work and industry results show that 101 basic competencies (91,82%) included very relevant category and 9 basic competencies (8,18%) included relevant category.

The “Idea of Human” Literary Category: Epistemological Potential

The “idea of human” (“type of attitude to the world”) is considered as a relevant category of the conceptual apparatus of the modern science of literature. The aim of the work is to analyze the theoretical and methodological potential of this category on the basis of large typological units of the literary process, marked with the concepts of “historical and literary era”, “artistic and cognitive cycle”, “literary direction”, “big style”, “artistic method”. The research used the methods of a typological and complex study of literary works, which in the synthesis of literary criticism and philosophy determine the strategy of searches in the field of theoretical and methodological content of the “idea of human” category as the foundation of the literary and philosophical anthropology of cultural and historical eras. The historical and genetic links between the worldview aesthetic principles and the artistic practice of literary trends are problematized. The logic of the research reveals the concept “object – knowledge”, fundamental for epistemology, in the aspects of the structuring of the knowledge of the methodological semantics of the “idea of human” category and of the functioning of the definitions “generalized idea of human”, “type of attitude to the world”, “concept of human and reality”, “whole of human”, “human as a value”. The article shows that the “idea of human” as a philosophical and aesthetic interpretation of the nature and essence of human at a certain stage in the development of artistic consciousness, worked out by the whole culture (R.R. Moskvina, G.V. Mokronosov) and defining integrity and logical consistency of the artistic system, is a synergistically functional semantic core of the historical and cultural era, and this core contains the dialectical potential of “negation of the negation”. As a variable, the historical “idea of human”, in the perspective of the stage development of artistic consciousness, undergoes dramatic changes and is realized in the logic of the successive change of historical and cultural epochs and their philosophical paradigms, in the constant alternation of “realistic” and “mystical”, materialistic and idealistic methods of cognition and images of human and the world (D.I. Chizhevsky, A.M. Panchenko, and others). The conclusions are substantiated that the successive development of literary trends, creative methods and their axiological systems is conditioned by the dynamics of “types of attitude to the world”; that the functioning of the “idea of human” category in literary discourse is focused on argumentation of the ontological nature of fiction, on the identification of philosophical and aesthetic principles that determine the systematic nature and the successive change of artistic and cognitive cycles; that the evolution of the “idea of human” within the framework of one artistic and cognitive cycle is fixed by the dynamics of genre systems since, in the correlations of method, genre and style, “the idea of human” acts as a factor in genre formation.

A Trustworthy Convolutional Neural Network-Based Malware Variant Detector in Python

Malware attacks are broadly disguised as useful applications. Many android apps, downloaded to perform crucial tasks or play games (take one's pick), seem to do completely different tasks, which are potentially harmful and invasive in nature. This could include sending text messages to random users, exporting the phone's contacts, etc. There exist some algorithms in place that can detect these malwares, but so far, it has been observed that many of these algorithms suffer from false negatives, which grossly reduced the effectiveness of said algorithms. The aim of this chapter is to introduce a flexible method to detect if a certain application is malware or not. The working can be loosely defined as the source of a set of applications is detected and the list of permissions is studied. The set of relevant and highly close applications is selected, and from the most relevant category, the permissions are checked for overlap to see if it can be stated as a possible anomalous application.

German Pre-service Teachers' Evaluations of and Reactions to Interethnic Social Exclusion Scenarios

This study investigated pre-service teachers' evaluations, reactions, and interventions with regard to interethnic exclusion scenarios in Germany. More specifically, we focused on pre-service teachers (N = 145, 99 female, Mage= 21.34) in the role of observers of exclusion among students. Using hypothetical scenarios in which either a German or a Turkish boy was excluded by other children of his class, we assessed teachers' evaluations of this exclusion behavior. This included evaluating how likely teachers were to intervene in the situation and what they would specifically do. The aim of this research was to examine whether the origin of an excluded student represents a relevant category for teachers' evaluations of and reactions to social exclusion. In addition, we aimed to determine whether teachers include aspects related to group functioning in their considerations. The analyses demonstrated that teachers generally reject social exclusion, with female participants rejecting exclusion even more than male participants. Further, participants evaluated the exclusion of a Turkish protagonist as more reprehensible than the exclusion of a German protagonist. Regarding the likelihood of intervention, the origin of the excluded person was only relevant for male participants; i.e., they were less likely to intervene when the excluded person was German than when the excluded person was Turkish. Analyses of teachers' reasoning revealed their strong focus on inclusion as a social norm, especially in cases of interethnic exclusion. That is, when participants reasoned about the exclusion of the Turkish protagonist, they referred to the social norm of inclusion much more than when talking about the German protagonist. In contrast, aspects related to group functioning were scarcely of importance. In terms of the specific actions that participants would undertake as a reaction to the exclusion situation, no differences related to the origin of the excluded person were found. Hence, the origin of the excluded person factored into both the evaluation of the exclusion and the likelihood of intervention, but once the decision to intervene was made, there were no differences in the specific actions. The results are discussed in light of practical implications and teacher training as well as in terms of implications for future research.

The Features of the Content and Subject Composition of Settlement Agreements in Cases of Invalidity of Transactions

Settlement agreements in civil and arbitration proceedings are one of the most convenient and effective ways to resolve disputes arising between participants in civil legal relations. At the same time, within the framework of some civil disputes, the content of settlement agreements has significant specificity, and sometimes – due to the peculiarities of the subject composition and the merits of the case – they cannot be applied at all for the purpose of reconciling the parties. An example of such disputes are cases related to the recognition of the transaction as invalid and the application of the consequences of the invalidity of the transaction, the legal regulation of which is unique. The economic reasons for the invalidity of transactions predetermine the peculiarities of the content of settlement agreements in the relevant category of cases, limiting it exclusively to the procedure for fulfilling restorative obligations and obligations to compensate for losses. This circumstance is due to the fact that, from the point of view of the dynamics of civil legal relations, an invalid transaction introduces uncertainty in the ownership of property and the distribution of rights and obligations of the participants in legal relations, which can be eliminated only by restoring the situation that existed before the conclusion and execution of the transaction with a defect. The current civil law regulation in this part (Article 4311 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation), which allows the conclusion of analogues of amicable agreements in cases of invalidity of transactions involving other, in addition to restitution, the consequences of the invalidity of transactions, in this regard, cannot be recognized as satisfactory. Contestation of the transaction by “another person specified in the law” (Article 166 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation), as well as in the interests of third parties by specially authorized entities (procedural plaintiffs), the possibility of participation in a completed and executed transaction of public law entities determine the raising of questions about the possibility of concluding amicable agreements by these entities. It is noted that these subjects, as follows from the analysis of domestic civil, civil procedural, administrative and family legislation, being interested in resolving the case on recognizing the transaction as invalid and on the application of the consequences of its invalidity, do not participate in its execution, and therefore cannot determine the procedure for the fulfillment of obligations arising from it.

Formation of indicators of normative monetary valuation of industrial lands under influence of location factor

Industrial lands occupy minor area in the structure of the land fund of Ukraine (less than 1%), but perform a very important function - act as a basis for the placement of the production means. The normative monetary valuation of industrial lands is carried out in accordance with the Methodology of normative monetary valuation of non-agricultural lands (except for settlements) [1] and the Procedure for normative monetary valuation of non-agricultural lands (except for settlements) [2] and takes into account the metric characteristics of the land plots: (its area), rental income per unit area of the relevant category of land, capitalization period, coefficients that take into account the location, type of use and coefficient that takes into account the land belonging to the lands of environmental, health, recreational, historical and cultural purposes. The article examines the impact of the coefficients that take into account the regional and local location of the land plot on the indicators of the normative monetary valuation of the industrial lands. The calculations on the normative monetary valuation of the industrial land plots located on the territory of one cadastral quarter have been made. It has been established that the indicators of the normative monetary valuation of the industrial land plots located on the territory of the given cadastral quarter are influenced only by the area of the land plot. The valuation indicators do not take into account the local features of the location of a specific land plot. This has advantages in terms of automation of the valuation process of the objects and allows avoiding the subjective interpretation of the manifestation of the local factors on a particular land by the valuator, but makes it impossible to take into account the peculiarities of each specific land plot.