Building and Safety Department Android Mobile Application

Research has found that Americans spend 4.5 hours watching television, 1.5 hours listening to the radio, about half an hour reading print and spend a whooping five plus hours per day in digital media (online, mobile, other). Out of these five hours, two hours and twenty minutes are spent on a mobile device (phone or tablet), which is a massive increase of about 575 percent from the twenty-four minutes that was reported in 2010. Flurry, an analytic app company, released data about their tracking of more than 300,000 apps in 2013, and they found the average time spent per day on mobile devices is two hours and thirty-eight minutes. They further found that 80 percent of the time is spent on apps and only 20 percent on the actual browser itself. Based off these findings, it can be concluded that Americans are spending more time online than on any other media, that digital time is on mobile devices, and that mobile time is spent mostly on apps (Samson, 2015). Businesses are catching on to the fact that people are spending more time on their mobile devices doing activities that they once did with computers such as shopping, maintaining their calendars, and playing games. They are creating apps to accommodate these activities on mobile devices. In order to keep current customers and attract new ones businesses realize that portability is the future in how a business interacts with customers. Companies realize that to have an effective mobile presence requires more than just creating a website that is mobile friendly. So, small to medium-sized companies are creating their own dedicated apps to try an even the playing field against the big boys like Walmart and Starbucks

School Administrators\u27 Leadership Styles, Gender, and Perceived Self-Efficacy in Suburban Virginia: A Multiple Regression

Educational leadership is one of the most important indicators in the success of a school. Research indicates leadership has various constructs which affect its effectiveness. The most successful and effective leaders have high self-efficacy. Leaders with high self-efficacy are affected by various constructs. Gaps in the literature on leadership effectiveness include the study of gender constructs and the effect of perceived self-efficacy and the effects of leadership styles (e.g., transformational, transactional, and laissez-faire). This study used a multiple regression analysis to determine if there is a significant predictive relationship between perceived self-efficacy and the linear combination of gender and leadership style as predictor variables. The results indicated a significant, predictive relationship based on transformational leadership, transactional leadership, and gender using self-reported data from the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire and the General Self-Efficacy Scale. Implications, limitations, and recommendations for future research are included in the discussion as related to leadership styles, gender, and perceived self-efficacy among administrators in a suburban Virginia school district

An Empirical Assessment of a Home-Based Exercise Treatment Package for People with Severe Mobility-Related Disabilities Using a Changing Criterion Design: Two Studies

A single-subject changing criterion design was used in two studies to empirically assess a home-based exercise treatment package for sedentary participants with severe mobility-related disabilities. The independent variable in both studies included a behavioral contract, education, goal setting, self-monitoring, reinforcement, and contingent attention. Both studies enrolled 2 participants and used seated exercise programs on videotape to deliver the intervention. In study 1, participants incrementally increased their exercise to a mean of three 17-minutes sessions per week over 14 weeks. In study 2, participants increased their weekly exercise to five 20-minutes sessions per week, and five 35-minute sessions per week, respectively, over 16 weeks. The second study also incorporated objective data collected with motion devices to validate participant self-reports of exercise. These findings indicate that a home-based exercise treatment package can assist individuals with severe mobility-related disabilities to increase exercise minutes and sessions, to work toward recommended physical activity goals for all Americans of 30 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity on most days of the week

Pembuatan alat ukur konsentrasi larutan

INTISARI Dalam karya tulis ini dibahas perancangan alat untuk mengukur konsentrasi larutan yang perubahan konsentrasi laxutannya ditandai dengan perubahan kepekatan larutan tersebut. Alat terdiri atas sensor, ADC, dan penyeleksi data. Sensor yang digunakan adalah sensor yang bekerja atas dasar fotoelektrik, terdiri atas LED inframerah (tipe biru) danfoto transistor (tipe BPY62D). Untuk ADC digunakan ICADC0804 dan untuk penyeleksi data digunakan IC 74LS241. Perangkat lunaknya ditulis dalam bahasa Pascal dandi-compile denganTurbo Pase.Alversi 6. Hasil pengujian menunjukkan bahwa sensor yang bekerja alas dasar fotoelektrik dapat digunakan untuk mengukur konsentrasi suatu larutan, tetapi diperlukan suatu rangkaian pengatur offset agar larutan yang sangat pekat tegangan keluarannya mencapai 0 Volt. Keywords: fotoelektrik, pengatur offse

Data Poisoning: A New Threat to Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence (AI) adoption is rapidly being deployed in a number of fields, from banking and finance to healthcare, robotics, transportation, military, e-commerce and social networks. Grand View Research estimates that the global AI market was worth 93.5 billion in 2021 and that it will increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 38.1% from 2022 to 2030. According to a 2020 MIT Sloan Management survey, 87% of multinational corporations believe that AI technology will provide a competitive edge. Artificial Intelligence relies heavily on datasets to train its models. The more data, the better it learns and predicts. However, the downside to AI is data, data that can be manipulated or poisoned. A new type of threat is emerging, and that threat is data poisoning. Data Poisoning is challenging and time consuming to spot and when it is discovered, the damage is already extensive. Unlike traditional attack that is caused by errors found in code, this new threat is attacking the AI training data used in its algorithm. Data is now being weaponized. It requires minimal effort but can cause substantial damages. It only takes 1-3% of data to be poisoned to severely diminish an AI’s ability to produce accurate predictions

The Making of English Subtitle For a Tourism Promotional Video of Bengkalis Regency

Bengkalis Regency is a district that has many tourist attration to be promoted. One strategy to encourage tourism is through promotional videos. The main purpose of this final project is to make a subtitle of the tourism promotion video in Bengkalis Regency. This research method wa classified into a descriptive method. The duration of the video is 12 minutes and 55 seconds. It contains tourist destinations and historical tourist destinations. Some of the Bengkalis district tourism contained in the video include Pesona beach tourism in North Rupat sub-district, biosphere reserve tourist destinations in Bukit Batu sub-district, historical tourist destinations, namely the Sakai tribal traditional house in Mandau sub-district, and New Straits beach tourism located in Bantan district. The total number of Bengkalis district tourist destinations contained in this video is 14. This video can be used as a medium for promoting tourism in Bengkalis Regency by the Tourism Office

Recruitment issues in a randomized controlled exercise trial targeting wheelchair users

This paper describes recruitment challenges and lessons learned in conducting a randomized controlled exercise trial in the absence of direct access to a clinical population. One hundred thirty-five wheelchair users were enrolled in a home and community-based intervention to promote exercise adoption and maintenance. Over 44 months of recruitment, 355 individuals inquired about the study and 323 completed the screening process. Nearly half were determined ineligible (150/323, 46.4%), typically due to having restricted arm movement, cognitive impairment, or medical conditions that are contraindicated for unsupervised exercise. Respondents cited paid media advertisements and recruitment materials placed in health care providers’ offices most frequently as being how they learned about the study. RCT participant recruitment, particularly in the absence of direct access to a clinical population, required far more time and resources than anticipated to achieve sufficient enrollment. Nurturing relations with key gatekeepers, creating a visible public profile, and maintaining ongoing recruitment activities were essential to success