Teachers on the possibilities of cultivating regional traditions within the eTwinning framework of international collaboration of school

This article is a presentation of the author’s own research findings conducted on a study sample of N = 65 teachers of junior secondary schools and primary schools. The aim of the study was to answer the research problem referring the teachers’ views on the possibility of creating and cultivating regional traditions with the application of tools and methods offered by the eTwinning Portal for international school cooperation

Multimodal Compact Bilinear Pooling for Visual Question Answering and Visual Grounding

Modeling textual or visual information with vector representations trained from large language or visual datasets has been successfully explored in recent years. However, tasks such as visual question answering require combining these vector representations with each other. Approaches to multimodal pooling include element-wise product or sum, as well as concatenation of the visual and textual representations. We hypothesize that these methods are not as expressive as an outer product of the visual and textual vectors. As the outer product is typically infeasible due to its high dimensionality, we instead propose utilizing Multimodal Compact Bilinear pooling (MCB) to efficiently and expressively combine multimodal features. We extensively evaluate MCB on the visual question answering and grounding tasks. We consistently show the benefit of MCB over ablations without MCB. For visual question answering, we present an architecture which uses MCB twice, once for predicting attention over spatial features and again to combine the attended representation with the question representation. This model outperforms the state-of-the-art on the Visual7W dataset and the VQA challenge.Comment: Accepted to EMNLP 201

Młodzież gimnazjalna z terenów wiejskich a używki - diagnoza i wnioski dla profilaktyki szkolnej

This article concerns the issue of using, and general contacts, youth from rural areas of Silesia with stimulants, particularly alcohol, afterburners and drugs. The article presents the results of diagnostic tests its own, as well as requests for educational and preventive practices. The results show how the impact of the implemented strategy are insufficient

Sposoby stymulacji układu przedsionkowego i proprioceptywnego u dzieci ze spektrum autyzmu

This article presents selected information regarding sensory integra-tion dysfunctions in early childhood autism. The article characterizes the role and functions of the vestibular, proprioceptive and tactile systems. It also proposes a selection of exercises that may be used to stimulate and stabilize the vestibular-proprioceptive system.Niniejszy artykuł prezentuje wybrane informacje dotyczące dys-funkcji procesów integracji sensorycznej w autyzmie wczesnodziecięcym. W opracowaniu scharakteryzowano rolę i funkcje systemów przedsionkowego, proprioceptywnego oraz dotykowego, a także zaproponowano wybrane ćwiczenia stymulujące i stabilizujące układ przedsionkowo-proprioceptywny

Cyberprzemoc wśród młodzieży ze szkół wiejskich

Przemoc rówieśnicza z użyciem nowych mediów elektronicznych stała się w ostatnich latach istotną i poważną kwestią, nie tylko wychowawczą i profilaktyczną, ale wręcz społeczną. Wyniki przeprowadzonych badań pokazują, że przemocy w sieci doświadcza ponad połowa dzieci w Polsce. Specyfika Internetu i telefonów komórkowych powoduje, że nawet pozornie błahe akty cyberprzemocy stanowią dla ich ofiar poważny problem, z którym często nie potrafią sobie poradzić bez fachowego wsparcia rodziców, nauczycieli i specjalistów. Problem cyberprzemocy w oczywisty sposób dotyczy szkół. W klasie, szatni czy na boisku szkolnym najczęściej dochodzi do aktów przemocy z użyciem telefonów komórkowych. Dzieci i młodzież rejestrują niechciane zdjęcia oraz filmy, a następnie publikują je w internetowych serwisach

Attentive Explanations: Justifying Decisions and Pointing to the Evidence (Extended Abstract)

Deep models are the defacto standard in visual decision problems due to their impressive performance on a wide array of visual tasks. On the other hand, their opaqueness has led to a surge of interest in explainable systems. In this work, we emphasize the importance of model explanation in various forms such as visual pointing and textual justification. The lack of data with justification annotations is one of the bottlenecks of generating multimodal explanations. Thus, we propose two large-scale datasets with annotations that visually and textually justify a classification decision for various activities, i.e. ACT-X, and for question answering, i.e. VQA-X. We also introduce a multimodal methodology for generating visual and textual explanations simultaneously. We quantitatively show that training with the textual explanations not only yields better textual justification models, but also models that better localize the evidence that support their decision.Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1612.0475

Multimodal Explanations: Justifying Decisions and Pointing to the Evidence

Deep models that are both effective and explainable are desirable in many settings; prior explainable models have been unimodal, offering either image-based visualization of attention weights or text-based generation of post-hoc justifications. We propose a multimodal approach to explanation, and argue that the two modalities provide complementary explanatory strengths. We collect two new datasets to define and evaluate this task, and propose a novel model which can provide joint textual rationale generation and attention visualization. Our datasets define visual and textual justifications of a classification decision for activity recognition tasks (ACT-X) and for visual question answering tasks (VQA-X). We quantitatively show that training with the textual explanations not only yields better textual justification models, but also better localizes the evidence that supports the decision. We also qualitatively show cases where visual explanation is more insightful than textual explanation, and vice versa, supporting our thesis that multimodal explanation models offer significant benefits over unimodal approaches.Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1612.0475

Mortality from cerebrovascular diseases in Ukraine

Objective. To analyse the dynamics, gender, age, and geographical peculiarities of cerebrovascular disease (CVD) mortality in Ukraine, to estimate the indicator for the coming years.Materials and methods. A retrospective CVD mortality study was conducted in Ukraine. Mortality database (MDB) of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the data of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine (MoH) were used as the starting material.Time series analysis and regression analysis, hazard ratio (HR) were used.Results. From 1991 to 2012, CVD mortality decreased by 7.2% (from 220.4 to 204.6 per 100,000 population).CVD mortality rate is close to 0 at the age of 0 to 29 years, it exponentially increases with growing-up and aging of the population, and reaches its maximum at the age of 75 to 90 years (181 deaths per 10,000 men and 178 – in women). It was found that 99% of CVD deaths were at the age of over 45 years, 90% – over 60 years, 59% – over 75 years.Based on the mortality rates in 2012, at the time of the birth, CVD death risk in men is 0.18% (of 10,000 boys born, 18 will die of CVD at some point of life), in women – 0.23% (of 10,000 girls born, 23 will die of CVD at some point of life).The population of men aged 15 to 74 years, CVD death risk is 1.7-2.6 times higher than in women of the same age. At the age of 0 to 14 and from 75 to 90 years, parity is observed. At the age of 45 to 90 years, men and women have an equal CVD death risk.The essential heterogeneity of CVD mortality was revealed in different regions of Ukraine – the difference between the highest (472.1) and the lowest (64.6) value is 407.5 (630%).A strong highly significant inverse correlation was established between the value of health care (HC) costs and CVD mortality in Ukraine (r = -0.72, p = 0.00). In turn, the value of HC costs depends on GDP (r = 0.99, p = 0.00). By 2020, the estimated CVD mortality in Ukraine is 217-225 per 100,000 population.Conclusions. Over the period studied, Ukraine has a consistently high CVD mortality rate with low decline. In women, CVD mortality is higher than in men, but in some age periods, the situation is reversed. In different regions of Ukraine, mortality varies considerably, in the south-eastern regions, the value is extremely high. A strong highly significant inverse correlation between the value of HC costs and CVD mortality in Ukraine indicates that in the next 5 years a significant reduction in CVD mortality rate is not expected

Influenza — flu vaccine or not? Students and knowledge about the flu

Wstęp. Niewiele osób zdaje sobie sprawę z problemu, jaki może stanowić zachorowanie na grypę. Prawie każdy wie, jakie są jej objawy, a mimo to, bardzo często jest mylona z przeziębieniem. Najbardziej efektywnym sposobem zapobiegania grypie jest szczepienie. Cel pracy. Analiza wiedzy i poglądów studentów kierunku wychowanie fizyczne na temat szczepienia przeciw grypie. Materiał i metody. Badanie przeprowadzono w 2014 roku za pomocą ankiety własnego autorstwa wśród 187 studentów Akademii Wychowania Fizycznego Józefa Piłsudskiego w Warszawie, Filia Biała Podlaska. Wyniki. Przeciwko grypie kilka razy w życiu szczepiło się 18,7% studentów, tylko 24,6% szczepi się regularnie od kilku lat. Na pytanie, czy warto się szczepić, twierdząco odpowiedziało 40,10%, pozostali nie wierzą w skuteczność szczepionki. Prawie wszyscy respondenci (86,92%) wiedzieli, że grypę wywołuje wirus. Wnioski. Wiedza studentów kierunku wychowanie fizyczne na temat grypy jest niezadowalająca. Cena szczepionki jest istotnym czynnikiem powodującym niski poziom korzystania ze szczepień. Badani studenci nie są w pełni przekonani o skuteczności szczepionki przeciw grypie.Introduction. Few people are aware of problems resulting from flu. Almost everyone knows what are the symptoms of flu, however its very often confused with common cold. Vaccination is the most effective prevention. Aim of the study. Evaluation of knowledge and opinion on influenza vaccination among students of Physiotherapy was aim of the study. Material and methods. The study was conducted in 2014 among 187 students at University of Physical Education in Warsaw, Józef Piłsudski Branch in Biała Podlaska using original questionnaire. Results. 18.7% of students got flu vaccine few times in life, 24.6% of students were vaccinated on regular basis over the several years . When asked whether vaccination is worth, 40.10% of respondents respond affirmatively, whereas the others do not believe in the vaccination efficiency. Almost all respondents (86.92%) knew that influenza is caused by virus. Conclusions. Knowledge about influenza among students of Physiotherapy remains unsatisfactory. Price of vaccination is an important factor determining low level of vaccination application. Students are not fully convinced of effectiveness of flu vaccination