Performance Assessment of High and Low Income Families through “Online RAW Achievement Battery Test” of Primary Grade students

This study is intended to investigate student’s achievement capability among two families i.e. Low and High income families and designed for primary level learners. A Reading, Arithmetic and Writing (RAW) Achievement test that was developed as a part of another research study (Tamim Ahmed Khan, 2015) was adopted for this study. Both English medium (student’s studies in private school) and Urdu medium (student’s studies in government schools) are selected from Punjab province using stratified sampling technique. In Current study, researcher’s selected a sample size of 200 students from both groups and assessed students’ performance by using automated software i.e. “Online RAW Achievement test”. The study has also revealed that there is a positive and significant difference between high income families and low income families in majority of Reading, Arithmetic, Writing test and their subtests. Keywords: Online RAW, High income, Low income, private, performance, governmen

Frequency reconfigurable patch antenna for 4G LTE applications

A compact printed multi-band frequency reconfigurable patch antenna for 4G LTE applications is presented in this paper (50 x 60 x 1.6 mm3). The antenna consists of W-shaped and Inverted-U shaped patch lines connected in a Tree-shape on the front side of the antenna. The back-side of the antenna contains a 90°-tilted T-shaped strip connected with an Inverted-L shaped strip which is shorted with a patch on the front side for increasing the electrical length to cover lower frequency bands. Frequency reconfigurability is achieved by inserting three switches i.e., PIN diodes. The most critical part of this work is the designing of RLC-based DC line circuits for providing the DC biasing to the PIN diodes used as switches and inserting them at optimum locations. This antenna is reconfigurable among eight different 4G LTE frequency bands including 0.9 GHz, 1.4 GHz, 1.5 GHz, 1.6 GHz, 1.7 GHz, 1.8 GHz, 2.6 GHz, 3.5 GHz and WLAN band 2.5 GHz. The antenna exhibits different radiation patterns having a different direction of peak gain at different frequencies and for different switching combinations. The antenna is simulated with CST, and a prototype is fabricated to compare the measured and simulated results with good accuracy

AN ANALYSIS OF PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS’ ANXIETY IN TEACHING ELT STUDENTS AT IAI AL-QOLAM

The purpose of this study was to determine the level of speaking anxiety of pre-service teacher English, avoid anxiety by knowing the causes and overcome anxiety in learning in the classroom. This research uses descriptive qualitative research. The subjects of this study were 15 students of IAI Al- Qolam who had already Experience Practice. Data is taken from questionnaires and interviews where the questionnaire consists of 10 questions with 4 choices, namely agree, strongly agree, disagree and strongly disagree to find out the level of anxiety of pre-service teacher English. Based on the results of the study, it can be said that the factors that influence the anxiety level of pre-service teacher students are that of the fifteen subjects, data is obtained. The influencing factors are the lack of vocabulary, low self-confidence and lack of teaching experience. The impact of teacher candidates' speaking anxiety is a lack of confidence in teaching, finding it difficult to concentrate and a lack of interaction with students. Strategies for overcoming teacher candidates' speaking anxiety are to prepare well, study teaching materials carefully, improve English skills, practice the material to be taught, ask for support from colleagues and school staff so they can share experiences and evaluate. Keywords: Impact, Anxiety, Speaking Anxiety, Factors, pre-service teacher

EFEKTIVITAS PENERAPAN PEMBELAJARAN BERBASIS SETS TERHADAP HASIL BELAJAR SISWA SMPIT NURUL WAHDAH PONTIANAK

AbstractThe aims of this research were to determine students’ learning outcome before and after the learning application based on Science, Environment, Technology and Society (SETS) and to assess the effectiveness of learning application based on SETS towards grade eighth students’ learning outcome of SMPIT Nurul Wahdah Pontianak. The form of this research was preexperimental design with one-group pre-test-post-test design. The subject of this research was 31 students of grade eighth. Data collection technique were measurement, direct communication, and observation. The collected data were analyzed using normality test with Shapiro-Wilk test. The normality test result showed that the Sig. values of pre-test and post-test were more than 0.05 which means that data were distrubuted normally. The result of hypothesis test using Paired Sample T-Test showed that Sig. (2-Tailed) value were 0.000 which is less than 0.05. It means that there are differences between pre-test and post-test result. The learning application based on SETS effective enough to increase the students' learning outcome with N-Gain interpretation by 74%.Keywords: Effectiveness, Learning Outcome, SET

A Stylistic Analysis of William Henry Davies’ Leisure

This paper aims to analyze William Henry Davies’ poem Leisure from the perspective of stylistic analysis. The analysis made under the level of graphological, syntactical, semantic and phonological patterns. This analysis is helpful in understanding the basic concept of poem that how modern man has made himself the slave of worldly pursuits, ignoring the beautiful objects of nature and making his life miserable. Keywords: Style, Stylistics, Leisure, Phonological level, Graphological level, Morphological level, Lexico-syntactical leve

Evaluasi Sumber Daya Teknologi Informasi Di Smk Negeri 3 Magelang

Penggunaan TI pada sekolah terutama SMK dapat memberian banyak keuntungan bagi sekolah tersebut. SMK Negeri 3 Magelang adalah sekolah yang berembang ditengah persaingan SMK yang ada di Magelang. Dengan meningkatnya peran TI maka investasi dibidang TI semakin besar dan kompleks penggunaannya. Oleh karena itu dibutuhkan suatu pengaturan sumber daya TI yang sesuai dengan kebutuhan masing-masing organisasinya khususnya pada sumber daya manusianya dengan menggunakan FrameworkCobit sebegai alat evaluasi.Hal ini diharapkan nantinya TI harus berbanding lurus dengan investasi yang dikeluarkan oleh organisasi. Organisasi yang sukses adalah yang terbukti mampu mengelola dan mengimplementasikan teknologi dalam kegiatannya sumber dayanya serta mampu mengelola kebutuhan sumber daya manusia di dalam organisas

Chest X-ray findings in COVID-19: A Pictorial Review

Introduction: Chest X-ray and Computed tomography(CT) of chest play an important role in the diagnosis and management of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19). As chest CT may not be readily available in most clinical setups X-ray Chest plays a pivotal role in such clinical scenarios and an irreplaceable initial radiological investigation of these patients. Objective: The objective of this article is to identify and elaborate the commonest appearances and patterns of lung changes on Chest X rays in COVID-19 positive patients confirmed on RT-PCR COVID testing. Materials and Methods: Cross-sectional descriptive-analytical study of Chest X-ray findings of 294  RT-PCR confirmed COVID-19 patients admitted across 3 hospitals (Rawalpindi institute of urology (RIU), Benazir Bhutto Hospital (BBH) and Holy Family Hospital (HFH)) from March 30th, 2020 till April 30th, 2020. CXR was analyzed for consolidation patches, ground-glass opacification (GGO), multi-lobe involvement, bilateral distribution, and pleural fluid. The chest X-ray with positive findings was graded into mild, moderate, and severe grades using BSTI (British Society of Thoracic imaging) guidelines. Results: Mean age of study patients was 45.5 years. Among the study population 230 (78.2 %) were male and 64 (21.8%) female. On baseline chest X rays, consolidations were the commonest finding (n=84, 28.5%), followed by ground-glass opacity (n=17, 5.7 %). The more common locations were peripheral and lower zones, and the majority had bilateral lung involvement (Table 1). Pleural effusions were found in only 5 of the study patients.  Among these patients, 187 (63.6%) had an initial normal chest X-ray. Moreover, 35, 34, and 38patients had mild, moderate, and severe diseases respectively. Conclusion: Chest X-ray is an important initial radiological investigation for COVID 19 patients and plays an important role in the management during the course of the disease

CoNLoCNN: Exploiting Correlation and Non-Uniform Quantization for Energy-Efficient Low-precision Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

In today's era of smart cyber-physical systems, Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have become ubiquitous due to their state-of-the-art performance in complex real-world applications. The high computational complexity of these networks, which translates to increased energy consumption, is the foremost obstacle towards deploying large DNNs in resource-constrained systems. Fixed-Point (FP) implementations achieved through post-training quantization are commonly used to curtail the energy consumption of these networks. However, the uniform quantization intervals in FP restrict the bit-width of data structures to large values due to the need to represent most of the numbers with sufficient resolution and avoid high quantization errors. In this paper, we leverage the key insight that (in most of the scenarios) DNN weights and activations are mostly concentrated near zero and only a few of them have large magnitudes. We propose CoNLoCNN, a framework to enable energy-efficient low-precision deep convolutional neural network inference by exploiting: (1) non-uniform quantization of weights enabling simplification of complex multiplication operations; and (2) correlation between activation values enabling partial compensation of quantization errors at low cost without any run-time overheads. To significantly benefit from non-uniform quantization, we also propose a novel data representation format, Encoded Low-Precision Binary Signed Digit, to compress the bit-width of weights while ensuring direct use of the encoded weight for processing using a novel multiply-and-accumulate (MAC) unit design