138 research outputs found

    An Examination of Teachers’ Ability to Use Function-based Thinking to Support Students With Mild but Persistent Challenging Behaviors in the General Education Setting

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    This study examined the feasibility of elementary classroom teachers using functionbased thinking, a modified FBA process, to address mild, but persistent classroom behavior. Through a series of professional development trainings, a pretest and posttest, regular consultation meetings and feedback sessions, and repeated observations, participants were taught to use FBT to shape and guide the way that they viewed common classroom behaviors from their students. Participants learned to identify the functions of student behavior and use their hypotheses to develop comprehensive behavior plans targeting interventions for student behavior while developing prosocial replacement behaviors. The results of the study found that the participants were able to identify conceptually systematic, antecedent-based modifications, as well as ascertain the function of problem behavior, to positively support socially valid behavior change of students with mild but persistent behaviors in the inclusive setting

    Evaluating footwear “in the wild”: Examining wrap and lace trail shoe closures during trail running

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    Trail running participation has grown over the last two decades. As a result, there have been an increasing number of studies examining the sport. Despite these increases, there is a lack of understanding regarding the effects of footwear on trail running biomechanics in ecologically valid conditions. The purpose of our study was to evaluate how a Wrap vs. Lace closure (on the same shoe) impacts running biomechanics on a trail. Thirty subjects ran a trail loop in each shoe while wearing a global positioning system (GPS) watch, heart rate monitor, inertial measurement units (IMUs), and plantar pressure insoles. The Wrap closure reduced peak foot eversion velocity (measured via IMU), which has been associated with fit. The Wrap closure also increased heel contact area, which is also associated with fit. This increase may be associated with the subjective preference for the Wrap. Lastly, runners had a small but significant increase in running speed in the Wrap shoe with no differences in heart rate nor subjective exertion. In total, the Wrap closure fit better than the Lace closure on a variety of terrain. This study demonstrates the feasibility of detecting meaningful biomechanical differences between footwear features in the wild using statistical tools and study design. Evaluating footwear in ecologically valid environments often creates additional variance in the data. This variance should not be treated as noise; instead, it is critical to capture this additional variance and challenges of ecologically valid terrain if we hope to use biomechanics to impact the development of new products

    The Evolution of Distributed Systems for Graph Neural Networks and their Origin in Graph Processing and Deep Learning: A Survey

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    Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are an emerging research field. This specialized Deep Neural Network (DNN) architecture is capable of processing graph structured data and bridges the gap between graph processing and Deep Learning (DL). As graphs are everywhere, GNNs can be applied to various domains including recommendation systems, computer vision, natural language processing, biology and chemistry. With the rapid growing size of real world graphs, the need for efficient and scalable GNN training solutions has come. Consequently, many works proposing GNN systems have emerged throughout the past few years. However, there is an acute lack of overview, categorization and comparison of such systems. We aim to fill this gap by summarizing and categorizing important methods and techniques for large-scale GNN solutions. In addition, we establish connections between GNN systems, graph processing systems and DL systems.Comment: Accepted at ACM Computing Survey

    Social convergence in times of spatial distancing: The rRole of music during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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    Recent Advances in Social Data and Artificial Intelligence 2019

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    The importance and usefulness of subjects and topics involving social data and artificial intelligence are becoming widely recognized. This book contains invited review, expository, and original research articles dealing with, and presenting state-of-the-art accounts pf, the recent advances in the subjects of social data and artificial intelligence, and potentially their links to Cyberspace

    BINTAN’S SLUDGE OIL POLLUTION IN CONSTRUTIVISM PERSPECTIVE

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    This paper discussed the environment phenomena in Bintan in extent to International Relation analysis. Environmental threat in the naval of Bintan is understood as waste pollution; Sludge Oil. The Sludge Oil is petroleum dregs in metal form which in this paper many of international vessels being lob in area of Singapore’ strait. Yet, the sludge oil waste pollution in Bintan has been occurred for more than one decade. Conductive respond has been done by the government of Bintan, Indonesian Police of Maritime Force and Coast guard. Perception build of the threat of sludge oil in the society, media, and the government of Bintan are supplementary to the aspect of economy and sea neatness. Local and national media build the issue by look its threat of tourism and fishery economical potency in the island of Bintan. However, the unseen prevention of this action is the utilization of international environmental forums – to extend the issue can be constructed as common threat and involve others international actors. Constructing a discourse and international agenda elucidate through the International Relation studies. Constructivism approach in the midst of securitizing theory and diplomacy are about to be the core theory of this paper. Those approaches explicate how the naval waste threat is in the scope of International Relation analysis and provide some resolution through diplomacy patterns of a country. Fulfillment of national interest is conceptually focused on state sovereignty. Here, Government of Bintan and Government of Indonesia ideally to be focal actor to minimize the cost of Sludge Oil disadvantages to the economy and agitate the social and welfare of the people. In addition this paper will seek the sovereignty aspect throughout the Local and Central Government respond. Nevertheless, others matters of the discussion will be elucidate comprehensively thus the solution of Sludge oil waste usage can be applied practically. Sludge Oil waste usage throughout diplomatic strategy to minimize environment threat is an international security phenomena. International security in contemporary International Relation studies is not limited in the aspect of military. The environmental threat can be constructed and build as international security matters through a constructing issue process. Generally, this paper explicates the construction issue which caused Indonesia to assign the issue as global threat. The research being done by literature studies along with analytical description. Communal information used in this paper linked to International Relation issues based on primary and secondary figures.    Keywords: Sludge Oil, International Relation, Environment, Constructivism, Securitizing, and Diplomacy

    Aspects of Leadership

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    Aspects of Leadership is a new book edited by Lieutenant Colonel Carroll Connelley and Dr. Paolo Tripodi, the Ethics Branch head, and comprised of essays by a group of 20 leadership and ethics scholars and practitioners. The Lejeune Leadership Institute Ethics Branch, Marine Corps University, provides current and relevant scholarly research and instruction on ethics and moral leadership and the law of war. This collection of essays provides timely and insightful views on current leadership behavior and ethical concerns that men and women of the armed forces face in the demanding, complex, and prolonged decade of armed conflict
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