Smart Homes and Offices

Smart Homes and Offices (SHO) are composed of interlinked components with constant data transfer and services targeted at increasing the lifestyle of the people. This chapter describes about the smart components and how SHO are direct implementation of Internet of Things (IOT). The major paradigm in this chapter is appliances supporting smart aspects of SHO, their applications and change in technology in context of smart Homes and Offices. Here we have also discussed the standardization and personalization of gadgets and how it has been increasing our standard of living. Finally, the chapter focuses on privacy preserving mechanisms, its essence over smart cities, strong architecture related to privacy, preserving mechanism, and various approaches available that can retaliate these issues in a smart city environment.

Etudes

You are about to embark on an exciting journey, whatever level you teach, and whatever your preferred methodology. These Etudes can help you on that journey. They are designed to support you in the practice of giving voice to children’s artistry. They provide a multitude of materials with guidance for direct implementation in the music classroom and children’s chorus. They also provide professional development with tonalities and meters, movement, and song. Use these Etudes as needed to enhance your own growth, to amplify the material presented earlier, and to develop children’s artistry....

Dental Policy Lab 2 - towards paying for health in dentistry

The first Alliance for a Cavity-Free Future (ACFF)/King's College London Dental Policy Lab, held in 2017, identified the need for a review of dental payment systems in order to see progress towards achieving improvements in caries and cavities. The lack of incentivisation for preventive intervention and care has long been a barrier to progress. The second Dental Policy Lab, held in July 2018, focused on this issue with the overarching question: 'How can we create and implement acceptable prevention-based dental payment systems to achieve and maintain health outcomes?' Using a design approach and participatory research, 29 participants from five stakeholder categories developed a blueprint report that aims to serve as a framework to adapt or create remuneration systems that are compatible with evidence-based dentistry with a focus on preventive care. Aimed at policymakers and policy entrepreneurs, this blueprint provides guidance and potential solutions using several international examples. The report and accompanying infographic explored in this paper have been well received and have helped to frame discussions in several country settings, with a direct implementation which is being trialled in France in 2021.

SOME AREAS OF ENSURING INTERNAL SECURITY IN THE PENITENTIARY SYSTEM

The article is devoted to the analysis of the state and activity of the penal enforcement system to ensure certain areas of internal security. Through the analysis of federal regulatory legal acts and departmental orders, the most significant components of the security system as a factor of its stable functioning in modern conditions are characterized. Various aspects of the category "internal security in the activities of the penitentiary system" are considered. Attention is paid to various theoretical, legal and applied issues of the implementation of internal security functions in the activities of individual departments of the Federal Penitentiary Service. As a conclusion, it is noted that ensuring the internal security of the bodies and institutions of the penitentiary system should be in the sphere of direct implementation of the main tasks and functions of virtually all employees of the penitentiary system.

Direct effect of the constitution and its impact on case-law in the Republic of Armenia

The article considers the issues with regard to the direct effect of the Constitution. The topic is presented by analyzing the techniques for proper implementation of the Constitution and ensuring the constitutionality of the law enforcement/judicial practice. Author differentiates the content of the concepts „direct effect” and “direct implementation” of the Constitution, presenting the essence of each of the notions. Techniques for proper implementation of constitutional norms are suggested by the author, analyzing also the implementation priority rules. According to the author implementing legislative provisions in conformity with their constitutionallegal content is another precondition for ensuring the proper application of the Constitution. The law enforcement/judicial practice can become a subject of consideration by the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Armenia if itis not an issue of legitimacy of the mentioned practice, but an issue of constitutionality of the latter, an issue of evaluation of the circumstance whether the legal acts are implemented in conformity with their constitutional-legal content in the frames of the mentioned practice is raised.

STEPS – Skupinový terapeuticko-edukační program pro sourozence dětí s poruchami autistického spektra: Manuál k vedení programu

David Havelka's publi­cation brings a manual for a therapeutic-educational program for siblings of children with autism spectrum disorders. This is a very neglected group of children, which the author tries to positively influence through a combination of cognitive behavioral therapy and experiential reflective learning. The book brings the theoretical basis from which the author drew, the manual for the program itself, and the final scientific and research evaluation based on the author's disser­tation. The book is clearly structured into six parts, of which the last part is electronic, intended for direct implementation of the program (available on the internet – a link to download materials is given in the book).

High performance implementation of the hierarchical likelihood for generalized linear mixed models: an application to estimate the potassium reference range in massive electronic health records datasets

Background Converting electronic health record (EHR) entries to useful clinical inferences requires one to address the poor scalability of existing implementations of Generalized Linear Mixed Models (GLMM) for repeated measures. The major computational bottleneck concerns the numerical evaluation of multivariable integrals, which even for the simplest EHR analyses may involve millions of dimensions (one for each patient). The hierarchical likelihood (h-lik) approach to GLMMs is a methodologically rigorous framework for the estimation of GLMMs that is based on the Laplace Approximation (LA), which replaces integration with numerical optimization, and thus scales very well with dimensionality. Methods We present a high-performance, direct implementation of the h-lik for GLMMs in the R package TMB. Using this approach, we examined the relation of repeated serum potassium measurements and survival in the Cerner Real World Data (CRWD) EHR database. Analyzing this data requires the evaluation of an integral in over 3 million dimensions, putting this problem beyond the reach of conventional approaches. We also assessed the scalability and accuracy of LA in smaller samples of 1 and 10% size of the full dataset that were analyzed via the a) original, interconnected Generalized Linear Models (iGLM), approach to h-lik, b) Adaptive Gaussian Hermite (AGH) and c) the gold standard for multivariate integration Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). Results Random effects estimates generated by the LA were within 10% of the values obtained by the iGLMs, AGH and MCMC techniques. The H-lik approach was 4–30 times faster than AGH and nearly 800 times faster than MCMC. The major clinical inferences in this problem are the establishment of the non-linear relationship between the potassium level and the risk of mortality, as well as estimates of the individual and health care facility sources of variations for mortality risk in CRWD. Conclusions We found that the direct implementation of the h-lik offers a computationally efficient, numerically accurate approach for the analysis of extremely large, real world repeated measures data via the h-lik approach to GLMMs. The clinical inference from our analysis may guide choices of treatment thresholds for treating potassium disorders in the clinic.

Optimization of Educational Mobile Game Design 'Ayo Wisata ke Riau' based on User's Perspective

Educational Mobile Game ‘Ayo Wisata ke Riau’ is a mobile-based educational game application that was developed in 2017 on the Android platform. The quality requirements used in this game development have been adjusted for the available Educational Mobile Games. Even though it went well, there were many complaints from users during the direct implementation survey. This becomes material for re-evaluation, whether the game is ready to be disseminated to the public. Based on this occurence, a gap analysis was carried out to see the feasibility and the need for improvements to the game application that had been built. Based on the results of the gap analysis that has been carried out, it is indicated that there is a need for significant improvements in the areas of performance and user satisfaction. So that in this study, a design reengineering was carried out that was focused on improving the two things that were considered crucial, so that the results of the design and implementation that had been improved could provide better performance and user satisfaction scores than previous developments.

The Definition, signs and types of administrative and procedural guarantees.

The purpose of this article is to determine the nature and content of administrative and procedural guarantees. In this regard, it is necessary to solve the following tasks: To clarify the definition of administrative and procedural guarantees, to characterize their types, to reveal the features of administrative and procedural guarantees, and to determine the place of this legal phenomenon in the general legal system. Issues related to theoretical and legal interpretation, legislative definition and direct implementation of administrative and procedural guarantees are updated and considered. The influence of administrative-procedural guarantees on the level of development of the domestic legal system is analyzed. Attention is drawn to the fact that the quality of proper functioning of administrative-procedural guarantees directly depends on the development of state institutions of a particular country, as well as on the level of perfection and efficiency of the entire state-power mechanism, i.e. the state system. Given that the essence of modern administrative and procedural guarantees provides for the proper consolidation of rights, freedoms and legitimate interests of individuals, it is justified that the key role in these processes will always play the level of legal awareness, along with the level of transparency and timeliness. The author’s definitions of the terms “administrative-procedural guarantees”, “protection of legal guarantees of citizens” and “legal awareness of the population” are given. Some of the characteristic features of foreign models of administrative and legal regulation are proposed for implementation.

MORAL DEGRADATION IN THE MILLENNIAL GENERATION DUE TO MODERNIZATION

The Development of globalization and the flow of modernization has occurred for a very long time, and it cannot be denied that there is a huge impact, The form of negative impacts that over time began to show is the spirit of nationalism and patriotism of the Indonesians. Especially for the millennials. Many Indonesian millennials began to show a hedonistic and apathetic lifestyle that is becoming common among the Indonesian millennials generation. This lifestyle tends to be materialistic and individualistic which is a contrast to the basic values and principles of the Indonesians, that is the Pancasila. Apart from basic values, other aspects of traditional Indonesian culture have also been displaced and replaced by western culture. Aspects of basic values and culture that are increasingly being displaced indicate a decline in the spirit of nationalism and patriotism of the millennial generation. and eventually, moral degradation occurs. Some of the supporting factors that cause moral degradation are cybercrimes. Forms of the moral degradation of the millennials can be suppressed by increasing cultural and civic literacy, social media literacy, direct implementation of Pancasila values in daily life, improving the quality of civic lessons, as well as the cooperation between parents and teachers to instill civic values and moral values to children.