Practical and Strategic Benefits of Banking Literacy Park in Library of Universitas Sebelas Maret, Indonesia

Well literate and financially inclusive community can be created through improving financial and banking literacy. This descriptive qualitative research aims to find out practical and strategic benefits of Banking Literacy Park to library users in Library of Universitas Sebelas Maret, with questionnaire being the method of collecting data. Data analysis uses an interactive model encompassing data collection, data display, data reduction, and conclusion drawing. The population of research includes students of FEB (Faculty of Economics and Business), SV (School of Vocation) and Postgraduate School of UNS, and financial practitioners. Discussion is conducted using structural functional theory. The result shows Banking Literacy Park in Library of Universitas Sebelas Maret used to find information, fulfill the need for financial and banking literacy (Goal attainment), respond to the library users’ need for open and comfortable learning space (Adaptation); Library of Universitas Sebelas Maret establishes a relation with stakeholders to ensure emotional bond (Integration); the presence of literacy park can be optimized by increasing facilities, infrastructures, and holding financial and banking literacy (Latency). Practical benefit includes UNS-BNI Literacy Park in banking area as an alternative open comfortable strategic reading corner for studying, doing the lecturing assignment and final assignment, discussing, browsing internet, improving infrastructure and providing financial/banking literacy. Strategic benefit includes Banking Literacy Park providing knowledge and skill to manage money by understanding banking, investment, budgeting, selecting insurance, making decisions and opportunity of getting better life in the future. The management of UNS-BNI Literacy Park in banking area is conducted continuously to keep it existent and sustainable.

Practical and Strategic Benefits of Banking Literacy Park in Library of Universitas Sebelas Maret, Indonesia

Well literate and financially inclusive community can be created through improving financial and banking literacy. This descriptive qualitative research aims to find out practical and strategic benefits of Banking Literacy Park to library users in Library of Universitas Sebelas Maret, with questionnaire being the method of collecting data. Data analysis uses an interactive model encompassing data collection, data display, data reduction, and conclusion drawing. The population of research includes students of FEB (Faculty of Economics and Business), SV (School of Vocation) and Postgraduate School of UNS, and financial practitioners. Discussion is conducted using structural functional theory. The result shows Banking Literacy Park in Library of Universitas Sebelas Maret used to find information, fulfill the need for financial and banking literacy (Goal attainment), respond to the library users’ need for open and comfortable learning space (Adaptation); Library of Universitas Sebelas Maret establishes a relation with stakeholders to ensure emotional bond (Integration); the presence of literacy park can be optimized by increasing facilities, infrastructures, and holding financial and banking literacy (Latency). Practical benefit includes UNS-BNI Literacy Park in banking area as an alternative open comfortable strategic reading corner for studying, doing the lecturing assignment and final assignment, discussing, browsing internet, improving infrastructure and providing financial/banking literacy. Strategic benefit includes Banking Literacy Park providing knowledge and skill to manage money by understanding banking, investment, budgeting, selecting insurance, making decisions and opportunity of getting better life in the future. The management of UNS-BNI Literacy Park in banking area is conducted continuously to keep it existent and sustainable.

Back Pain in Outer Space

Space travel has grown during the past 2 decades, and is expected to surge in the future with the establishment of an American Space Force, businesses specializing in commercial space travel, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s planned sustained presence on the moon. Accompanying this rise, treating physicians are bracing for a concomitant increase in space-related medical problems, including back pain. Back pain is highly prevalent in astronauts and space travelers, with most cases being transient and self-limiting (space adaptation back pain). Pathophysiologic changes that affect the spine occur during space travel and may be attributed to microgravity, rapid acceleration and deceleration, and increased radiation. These include a loss of spinal curvature, spinal muscle atrophy, a higher rate of disc herniation, decreased proteoglycan and collagen content in intervertebral discs, and a reduction in bone density that may predispose people to vertebral endplate fractures. In this article, the authors discuss epidemiology, pathophysiology, prevention, treatment, and future research.

Ballet and Drama: the Peculiarities of Expressive Scenographic Means in the Post-Classical Theater

A characteristic feature of the theater of the Post-Classical Era, which has lasted from the early 20th century up to the present time, is the interpenetration of elements pertaining to different art forms in the course of a ceaseless search for forms and means of impact on the audience. The interaction between ballet and drama theater leads to the result that one of the genres is enriched by the scenographic solutions of the other. From a broad spectrum of examples, it is possible to highlight a number of techniques characteristic for both the dramatic and the ballet stage. In the present work such scenographic techniques are determined and described as the changes of the parameters of the stage by means of a curtain system, the use of a curtain as a full-fledged member of the action, simultaneity (the simultaneous demonstration of several different places of action in one scene), the multi-leveledness of the stage space, adaptation for the cinema (use of elements of cinema, video-recording or the technique of “recording in real time” in the performance), as well as the change of decorations occurring in front of the viewer’s eyes.

End-user centred Adaptation Process of an Educational Exergame to Mobile Platforms

This work presents the educational Exergame “The Incredible Adventures ofApollo & Rosetta in Space” adaptation process to mobile platforms, specifically Tablets. The Exergame was developed for Elementary School children in the school context, presented in previous work. The objective of this work is to propose a combination of three distinct end-user centered techniques in the process of the game adaptation: 1) evolutionary model of software development aimed for games; 2) non-participant observation on game applications with voluntary participants; 3) semi-structured interview with the participants. The methodology allowed the project’s development team to constantly evaluate the game adaptation through prototypes and user tests with four voluntary participants. These user tests were done in pairs during three sessions, with 1- hour session per week. As the results indicated, this end-user centered development enabled an effective portability process of the game between platforms.

Joint Adversarial Learning for Domain Adaptation in Semantic Segmentation

Unsupervised domain adaptation in semantic segmentation is to exploit the pixel-level annotated samples in the source domain to aid the segmentation of unlabeled samples in the target domain. For such a task, the key point is to learn domain-invariant representations and adversarial learning is usually used, in which the discriminator is to distinguish which domain the input comes from, and the segmentation model targets to deceive the domain discriminator. In this work, we first propose a novel joint adversarial learning (JAL) to boost the domain discriminator in output space by introducing the information of domain discriminator from low-level features. Consequently, the training of the high-level decoder would be enhanced. Then we propose a weight transfer module (WTM) to alleviate the inherent bias of the trained decoder towards source domain. Specifically, WTM changes the original decoder into a new decoder, which is learned only under the supervision of adversarial loss and thus mainly focuses on reducing domain divergence. The extensive experiments on two widely used benchmarks show that our method can bring considerable performance improvement over different baseline methods, which well demonstrates the effectiveness of our method in the output space adaptation.

Hidden Vacancy Rate as a Part of Office Market Dynamics in Selected Polish Cities

The hidden vacancy rate reflects the adjustments of the market vacancy rate that may occur in the future, in the event of a change in market conditions. Its occurrence results from the fact that the current level of rented office space reflects the demand based on past levels of rent and past predictions of changes in the tenants’ demand for space during the term of the lease. Thus, the level of total, occupied office space at given moment does not result from demand based on the current market rent. This is the result of the duration of lease agreements concluded for more than one period. The hidden vacancy rate is also related to the costs of searching for office space that meets the specific criteria of tenants, removal costs and office space adaptation costs. The hidden vacancy rate cannot be observed in the market, but can be determined based on available market data.The article presents the concept of a hidden vacancy rate. Next, the presented theory was used to determine the dynamics of the hidden vacancy rate in a narrow and broad approach in the market of modern office space in Warsaw, Krakow, Wroclaw and Poznan. The obtained results were compared to two mature office space markets in Western Europe. The study shows differences in the formation of the hidden vacancy rate on the market characterized by a relatively large total stock of available office space in relation to markets being at an earlier stage of development.