scholarly journals Affective Colormap Design for Accurate Visual Comprehension in Industrial Tomography

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (14) ◽  
pp. 4766
Author(s):  
Yuchong Zhang ◽  
Morten Fjeld ◽  
Marco Fratarcangeli ◽  
Alan Said ◽  
Shengdong Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Affective Responses ◽  
Microwave Tomography ◽  
Design Guideline ◽  
Safety Critical ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Segmentation Task ◽  
Four Quadrant

The design of colormaps can help tomography operators obtain accurate visual comprehension, thereby assisting safety-critical decisions. The research presented here is about deploying colormaps that promote the best affective responses for industrial microwave tomography (MWT). To answer the two research questions related to our study, we firstly conducted a quantitative analysis of 11 frequently-used colormaps on a segmentation task. Secondly, we presented the same colormaps within a crowdsourced study comprising two parts to verify the quantitative outcomes. The first part encoded affective responses from participants into a prevailing four-quadrant valence–arousal grid; the second part recorded participant ratings towards the accuracy of each colormap on MWT segmentation. We concluded that three colormaps are the best suited in the context of MWT tasks. We also found that the colormaps triggering emotions in the positive–exciting quadrant can facilitate more accurate visual comprehension than other affect-related quadrants. A synthetic colormap design guideline was consequently proposed.

scholarly journals Augmenting Function with Value: An Exploration of Reasons to Engage and Disengage from Music Listening

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 205920432110225
Author(s):  
Amanda E Krause ◽  
Solange Glasser ◽  
Margaret Osborne
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Uses And Gratifications ◽  
Affective Responses ◽  
Cognitive Factors ◽  
Music Listening ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Functional Perspective ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Inductive Thematic Analysis

Investigations of music in everyday life are dominated by a functional perspective, drawn from work using the theory of Uses and Gratifications. In so doing, we may have neglected to fully appreciate the value people place on music listening. Therefore, the present study considered if, and why, people value music listening and probed instances when they may not want to listen to music in everyday life. A sample of 319 university students residing in Australia (76.50% female, M age = 20.64) completed an online questionnaire, on which they were asked to provide short responses to open-ended questions directly addressing two research questions. Inductive thematic analysis yielded 13 themes synthesizing how participants valued listening to music, such as appreciation, emotion, time and engagement, cognitive factors, and mood regulation. Reasons for not listening to music were summarized by eight themes dominated by interference with activities that required focus or concentration, followed by environmental context, affective responses, music engagement and inversely, a preference for silence or other auditory stimuli. Fifteen percent of participants stated there was never a time they did not want to listen to music. The findings provide a novel perspective on the value of music listening beyond that considered by uses and gratifications with regard to the function of listening to music in everyday life.

Dostoevsky and the Word “Jew”: A Quantitative Analysis of F.M. Dostoevsky’s Greatest Novels

Libri ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yigal Nirenberg ◽  
Gila Prebor
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Distant Reading ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Great Writer ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract The relationship of F.M Dostoevsky with Jews attracted the attention of numerous scholars throughout the years, many of whom attempted to grapple with the views of the great writer and their origin. In this article we will attempt to show this relationship by analyzing six of Dostoevsky’s greatest novels, written through the entirety of his career. We are analyzing these novels using Distant Reading in conjunction with Close Reading, tools that are commonly used in the field of digital humanities, which enabled us to show visually the extent of F.M. Dostoevsky’s engagement with this topic. The study poses two research questions: 1. To what extent did the writer use the more denigrating term “Zhid”? 2. Can we see a correlation between the writer’s portrayal of Jews with the definition of Anti-Semitism as it was known during his era? The obtained results show that there is clearly a correlation between the definition of anti-Semitism as it was understood at the time of Dostoevsky and the “Jew” as depicted in his novels, as the financial motif is paramount in the depiction of Jews as this is the central topic in 49% of the negative sentences in which the word “Jew” appears, with 59% of these sentences classified as stereotypes. The negative financial stereotype constitutes 32% of the entire corpus. In addition, we found the term “Zhid” is commonly used by the writer, a variation of which constitutes 75% of the total terms used to depict Jews.

An Integral Analysis of Teachers' Attitudes and Perspectives on the Integration of Technology in Teaching

2018 ◽  
pp. 1246-1272
Author(s):  
David Ikenouye ◽  
Veronika Bohac Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Integral Model ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Technology In The Classroom ◽  
Technology Infrastructure ◽  
Adoption Of Technology ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Integration Of Technology ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Teachers Attitudes ◽  
Four Quadrant

This chapters explores teachers' attitudes toward, and integration of, technology from multiple perspectives. In order to gain a rich and contextualized understanding of how teachers genuinely use technology in the classroom, Wilber's (2006) Integral methodological pluralism was used as a framework to orient the study, to organize the research questions and to provide the conceptual framework for the research methodology. Four research questions were addressed in this study: (1) What is the influence of policies on teachers' use of technology? (2) What influence does the technology infrastructure have on teachers using technology? (3) What do teachers believe and think about technology? (4) What is the technological culture that teachers' experience? This chapter is an overview of the analysis of the differing and sometimes conflicting practices, beliefs and views on the adoption of technology in the classroom, from the four quadrant perspectives of the Integral Model.

scholarly journals MICRA-Net: MICRoscopy Analysis Neural Network to solve detection, classification, and segmentation from a single simple auxiliary task

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Bilodeau ◽  
Constantin V.L. Delmas ◽  
Martin Parent ◽  
Paul De Koninck ◽  
Audrey Durand ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
High Throughput ◽  
Semantic Segmentation ◽  
Feature Maps ◽  
Expert Annotation ◽  
Microscopy Analysis ◽  
Weakly Supervised ◽  
Segmentation Task ◽  
Microscopy Images

High throughput quantitative analysis of microscopy images presents a challenge due to the complexity of the image content and the difficulty to retrieve precisely annotated datasets. In this paper we introduce a weakly-supervised MICRoscopy Analysis neural network (MICRA-Net) that can be trained on a simple main classification task using image-level annotations to solve multiple the more complex auxiliary semantic segmentation task and other associated tasks such as detection or enumeration. MICRA-Net relies on the latent information embedded within a trained model to achieve performances similar to state-of-the-art fully-supervised learning. This learnt information is extracted from the network using gradient class activation maps, which are combined to generate detailed feature maps of the biological structures of interest. We demonstrate how MICRA-Net significantly alleviates the Expert annotation process on various microscopy datasets and can be used for high-throughput quantitative analysis of microscopy images.

The dynamics of terms and meaning in the domain of machining terminology

Terminology ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Bertels
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Computer Tools ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Scripting Language ◽  
To Come ◽  
Identification And Quantification

This paper addresses the dynamics of terms and meaning in specialised communication by means of a semantic investigation into the domain of machining terminology in French. Studying meaning in specialised language raises two main research questions: how to identify terms or specialised entities in a technical corpus and how to study their meaning. In order to answer these questions, a double quantitative analysis is conducted, consisting of the identification and quantification of specialised vocabulary as well as the quantification of the semantic analysis by means of a monosemy measure. This approach requires the use of computer tools and scripting language and involves a statistical analysis in order to come to linguistic conclusions. Accordingly, this study aims to question the univocity ideal in a quantitative way. It focuses on the methodology and shows that an interdisciplinary approach can yield valuable results

An Integral Analysis of Teachers' Attitudes and Perspectives on the Integration of Technology in Teaching

2018 ◽  
pp. 88-114
Author(s):  
David Ikenouye ◽  
Veronika Bohac Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Integral Model ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Technology In The Classroom ◽  
Technology Infrastructure ◽  
Adoption Of Technology ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Integration Of Technology ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Teachers Attitudes ◽  
Four Quadrant

This chapters explores teachers' attitudes toward, and integration of, technology from multiple perspectives. In order to gain a rich and contextualized understanding of how teachers genuinely use technology in the classroom, Wilber's (2006) Integral methodological pluralism was used as a framework to orient the study, to organize the research questions and to provide the conceptual framework for the research methodology. Four research questions were addressed in this study: (1) What is the influence of policies on teachers' use of technology? (2) What influence does the technology infrastructure have on teachers using technology? (3) What do teachers believe and think about technology? (4) What is the technological culture that teachers' experience? This chapter is an overview of the analysis of the differing and sometimes conflicting practices, beliefs and views on the adoption of technology in the classroom, from the four quadrant perspectives of the Integral Model.

scholarly journals Developing Professional Engagement through ESL Student Teachers’ Reflective Writing

AL-TA LIM ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-102
Author(s):  
Raja Nor Safinas Raja Harun
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Professional Learning ◽  
Reflective Writing ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
Learning Engagement ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Micro Elements

The objective of this paper is to examine how ESL student teachers identify their own learning needs, analyse, evaluate and expand their professional engagement as an individual or as a community of practice (CoP) through reflective writing. In addition, the written discourses of their reflective entries are studied to illuminate the macro and micro elements of the reflective entries. This study mainly employs a qualitative study with some descriptive quantitative analysis. The participants are 27 ESL student teachers in their 6th semester. The instrument used is primarily the student teachers reflective entries and the content analysis was carried out to analyse for convergent and divergent ideas which were then generated into categories and themes based on the research questions stipulated. The findings revealed that the reflective entries have addressed some pertinent issues related to the student teachers’ learning needs and how they have extended their understanding of those issues.    The reflective entries discourses have exhibited in-depth professional thinking which served as a platform for student teachers to meta-cognitively think about teaching. This study implicates the importance of such professional learning engagement activity in order to assist student teachers to be thinking about teaching.

scholarly journals The Functions of Code-switching in the Interaction of the Cartoon Characters in Dora the Explorer

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Majedah Abdullah Alaiyed
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
English Translation ◽  
Code Switching ◽  
Arabic Translation ◽  
Standard Arabic ◽  
Part Of Speech ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Lexical Items ◽  
Cartoon Characters

This paper investigates code-switching from Standard Arabic into English in six episodes of the TV cartoon series Dora the Explorer. The significance of this study is that it will provide an in-depth understanding of the strategies and structures of code-switching used to address children in order to teach them English. The study addresses two research questions: 1) What are the patterns of code-switching found in the interaction of the cartoon characters in Dora the Explorer? 2) What is the function of code-switching in each pattern? Quantitative analysis was used to analyze the frequency of each pattern of code-switching, while qualitative analysis was used to determine the functions of code-switching. The results show several patterns of code-switching into English: code-switching from Arabic to English without translation; Arabic lexical items followed by an English translation; English lexical items followed by an Arabic translation; translation from Arabic into English in two turns; and metadiscursive code-switching. English lexical items are introduced through code-switching in each episode. English words without translation account for the highest percentage of code-switching. In the code-switching to English, some English units are permanent, while some are context units that depend on the episode topic: these include basic formulaic and non-formulaic expressions. Lexical items for greeting, appreciation, and evaluation are the most frequent pragmatic functions of code-switching. Further research is recommended on code-switching in other TV animated series in other languages to determine the patterns of code-switching and the part of speech that is the focus of switching.

A Short Review of Infra-Red Spectroscopic Studies of Geopolymers

2016 ◽  
Vol 1133 ◽  
pp. 231-235
Author(s):  
Muhammad Irfan Khan ◽  
Khairun Azizi Azizli ◽  
Suriati Sufian ◽  
Zakaria Man ◽  
Amir Sada Khan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Ir Spectroscopy ◽  
Short Review ◽  
Spectroscopic Studies ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Infra Red ◽  
Ir Analysis ◽  
Research Questions

Infra-red spectroscopic (IR) analysis of the geopolymers provides information regarding gel chemistry, quantitative analysis, kinetics and effect of different activators on geopolymers. This review discusses the IR analysis of geopolymers and their starting materials. Different applications of IR spectroscopy, used in geopolymerization, are explored in detail. Future research questions regarding IR analysis of geopolymers are also discovered

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