The Achievement of Archiving Analog Seismograms in Japanese Institutes for 15 Yr

2020 ◽  
Vol 91 (3) ◽  
pp. 1452-1458
Author(s):  
Ritsuko S. Matsu’ura ◽  
Norihito Umino ◽  
Yoshiaki Tamura ◽  
Yoshihisa Iio ◽  
Minoru Kasahara ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
High Definition ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
High Quality ◽  
International Evaluation ◽  
Data Preservation ◽  
Continuous Support ◽  
The Common

Abstract Since 2004, more than 100,000 smoked paper seismograms have been preserved as high-definition image files in three academic institutes in Japan. Also, 27,000 analog records on 35 mm films of 0.6 m long were converted to tiff files in two institutes. In the process of scanning analog records, we have obtained several tips for the preservation of records. Some records were found and organized in their original places after decades of the archiving process. A few scientific findings for old earthquakes have been obtained using the image files of analog records. Our work induced another project of preserving smoked paper seismograms obtained by government operations in Japan by the same manner. To continue archiving data that are not immediately linked to an increase in the number of research papers at each institute, continuous support such as the international evaluation of the high quality of our archives is fairly important, along with our own ceaseless efforts. To not make future researchers struggle in the same way that we did, it is necessary to foster among seismologists the common traits of data preservation, which astronomers have shared since the sixteenth century.

Emergence of Successful Online Courses

2014 ◽  
pp. 641-651
Author(s):  
Amy L. Sedivy-Benton ◽  
Andrew Hunt ◽  
Teri L. Hunt ◽  
James M. Fetterly ◽  
Betty K. Wood
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Student Satisfaction ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Social Climate ◽  
National Standards ◽  
High Quality ◽  
The Social ◽  
Traditional Courses ◽  
The Common

This chapter seeks to investigate the common characteristics that make online courses high quality. With an increase in online education and the increased attention to national standards and accreditation, there is a need for research to focus on the quality of online education. The literature related to online education suggests that more studies compare traditional courses with online courses as well as ways to affect the social climate of online courses and programs than the quality of online education. Questions to be considered range from, “How much time do instructors spend developing online courses compared to traditional courses?” to “What are the students’ perspective of the quality of online courses / instruction?” McGorry (2003) suggests seven constructs “to evaluate quality and learning in online courses: flexibility, responsiveness and student support, student learning, interaction, technology and technical support, and student satisfaction” (p. 162).

scholarly journals EDITORIAL

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Huseyin Uzunboylu
Keyword(s):  
Review Process ◽  
Peer Review Process ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Double Blind ◽  
High Quality Research ◽  
Related Field ◽  
Educational Sciences ◽  
Day By Day

Dear Colleagues; It is a great honour for us to welcome you as Editor of Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, which has accepted publications indexed in qualified databases since 2006. Our main aim is to increase the quality of the journal day by day. We are ready to publish the new issue of Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, which has eight articles with authors from various countries. The aim of this issue is to give the researchers an opportunity to share their academic studies. A total number of forty-three (43) manuscripts were submitted for this issue and each paper has been subjected to double-blind peer review process by the reviewers specialized in the related field. At the end of the review process, a total number of thirteen (13) high quality research papers were selected and accepted for publication. First of all, I would like to thank all authors who have contributed to this issue . The topics of the next issue will be different. You can make sure that we will be trying to serve you with our journal with a rich knowledge in which different kinds of topics are discussed in 2019 Volume. I would like to present many thanks to all the contributors who helped to publish this issue.   Best Regards,  Prof. Dr. Huseyin Uzunboylu Editor in Chief

Emergence of Successful Online Courses

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Amy L. Sedivy-Benton ◽  
Andrew L. Hunt ◽  
Teri L. Hunt ◽  
James M. Fetterly ◽  
Betty K. Wood
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Student Satisfaction ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Social Climate ◽  
National Standards ◽  
High Quality ◽  
The Social ◽  
Traditional Courses ◽  
The Common

This chapter seeks to investigate the common characteristics that make online courses high quality. With an increase in online education and the increased attention to national standards and accreditation, there is a need for research to focus on the quality of online education. The literature related to online education suggests that more studies compare traditional courses with online courses as well as ways to affect the social climate of online courses and programs than the quality of online education. Questions to be considered range from, “How much time do instructors spend developing online courses compared to traditional courses?” to “What are the students' perspective of the quality of online courses / instruction?” McGorry (2003) suggests seven constructs “to evaluate quality and learning in online courses: flexibility, responsiveness and student support, student learning, interaction, technology and technical support, and student satisfaction” (p. 162).

scholarly journals Strategic Wholesale Pricing and Commonality Strategy in a Supply Chain with Quality Segmentation

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiantian Xu ◽  
Tiaojun Xiao ◽  
Chen Tian
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Production Cost ◽  
Wholesale Price ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Unit Production Cost ◽  
Pricing Decision ◽  
First Mover Advantage ◽  
The Common ◽  
Wholesale Pricing

We develop two game models of a one-supplier and one-manufacturer supply chain to investigate the supplier’s strategic wholesale pricing decision and the manufacturer’s commonality strategy. The manufacturer has three commonality strategies for the high-end and low-end products: common high-quality component, common low-quality component, and dedicated components. We consider both wholesale price first scenario and commonality strategy first scenario. Under the wholesale price first scenario, we identify the range of each commonality strategy and find that (i) the common low-quality component strategy is harmful to the supplier; (ii) if the quality of low-quality component and the unit production cost of high-quality component are sufficiently low, the supplier induces the common high-quality component strategy by strategically decreasing the unit wholesale price of high-quality component, while if they are sufficiently high, the supplier induces the dedicated components strategy by increasing the unit wholesale price of high-quality component and decreasing that of low-quality one. Under the commonality strategy first scenario, the common low-quality component strategy may exist. By comparing the two scenarios, we find that (i) if the unit production cost of low-quality component is medium, the equilibrium outcomes under both scenarios are identical; (ii) there exists a first-mover advantage for the two players.

XI. —Note on a Gold Standing Cup in the possession of the Duke of Portland, K.G.

Archaeologia ◽  
1905 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-234
Author(s):  
Charles Hercules Read
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Reasonable Doubt ◽  
Rare Occurrence ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Gold Plate ◽  
History Of ◽  
Short Time

Gold plate is of such rare occurrence that I have thought it would be agreeable to the Society to see the very handsome example that the Duke of Portland has been good enough to send up at my request from Welbeck for exhibition. (Plate LXIV.) The metal is evidently of high quality, and the form is by no means inelegant for the period at which it was made. The bowl is beaten into a shell-like form, with elaborate projecting scroll-work enamelled and set with jewels, and having at the back a figure of Pan with Cupid seated astride of his neck all modelled in the round; the stem is formed of a pair of lovers embracing, and the foot is of a lozenge form made up of a number of enamelled scrolls alternating with jewelled bands. The whole of the work is of the most minute finish, not only as regards the chasing and engraving of the gold, but the figures that form so important a feature of the design are modelled with unusual vigour and artistic perfection, and there can be no reasonable doubt that they are the work of a master. I have not, however, been able to trace the artist during the short time the cup has been in my custody. The enamelled work is of interest in the history of the craft, for it well illustrates the transition from the method that characterised the jewellery of the sixteenth century to that prevalent in the seventeenth. The former is commonly found during the last three quarters of the sixteenth century, and consists in cutting away the ground of the design down to a certain depth, and the engraved portions are then filled in with enamel, leaving the design itself in the metal. This style of work required great dexterity on the part of the engraver, for the dividing lines of gold were often of great thinness, and the slightest deviation of the graver would instantly catch the eye and destroy the quality of the work. This class of enamelled decoration for jewellery was succeeded in the seventeenth century by another of a similar effect, but not requiring anything like the same care.

scholarly journals Quality of Experience Assessment of Video Quality in Social Clouds

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asif Ali Laghari ◽  
Hui He ◽  
Shahid Karim ◽  
Himat Ali Shah ◽  
Nabin Kumar Karn
Keyword(s):  
Video Compression ◽  
Quality Of Experience ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Video Quality ◽  
Original Video ◽  
File Size ◽  
High Definition ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Video Sharing

Video sharing on social clouds is popular among the users around the world. High-Definition (HD) videos have big file size so the storing in cloud storage and streaming of videos with high quality from cloud to the client are a big problem for service providers. Social clouds compress the videos to save storage and stream over slow networks to provide quality of service (QoS). Compression of video decreases the quality compared to original video and parameters are changed during the online play as well as after download. Degradation of video quality due to compression decreases the quality of experience (QoE) level of end users. To assess the QoE of video compression, we conducted subjective (QoE) experiments by uploading, sharing, and playing videos from social clouds. Three popular social clouds, Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter, were selected to upload and play videos online for users. The QoE was recorded by using questionnaire given to users to provide their experience about the video quality they perceive. Results show that Facebook and Twitter compressed HD videos more as compared to other clouds. However, Facebook gives a better quality of compressed videos compared to Twitter. Therefore, users assigned low ratings for Twitter for online video quality compared to Tumblr that provided high-quality online play of videos with less compression.

Yugoslav culture after Yugoslavia

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 33-45
Author(s):  
Ivan Čolović
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Former Yugoslavia ◽  
High Quality ◽  
National Cultures ◽  
Book Series ◽  
Analytical Instruments ◽  
The Common ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences

In the states which formed on the territory of the former Yugoslavia, ethnic/national cultures are developing independently, alongside a parallel shared post-Yugoslav culture. This culture is not a continuation of the official cultural collaboration between the Yugoslav nations which took place when Yugoslavia existed, rather it is a new phenomenon. It is appearing in opposition to nationalism, against the closing off of culture into narrow ethno-national frames and is based on the genuine existence of a cultural unity older than the common state which was created from the common Yugoslav state itself. It seeks creative responses to the problems caused by the wars and collapse of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. It also looks for the appropriate analytical instruments. The author uses the Biblioteka XX vek (The 20th Century Library) as an example – the book series which he founded and publishes in the field of humanities and social sciences. The alternative post-Yugoslav culture is characterised by the high quality of what it offers. However, its protagonists are simultaneously criticised by the nationalist circles in power in the states formed after the dissolution of Yugoslavia, who consider the post-Yugoslav cultural unity an alleged national betrayal.

Requirements Elicitation Techniques in Mobile Applications

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Naela Bahurmuz ◽  
Rishaa Alnajim ◽  
Rasha Al-Mutairi ◽  
Zainab Al-Shingiti ◽  
Farrukh Saleem ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Requirements Elicitation ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Common View ◽  
Requirement Elicitation ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Software Engineers ◽  
The Common ◽  
Significant Stage

The common view of requirements engineering consists of requirement elicitation, specification, validation, and evolution. Requirement elicitation is a significant stage to assure the quality of the requirement documentations and would affect the project success or failure. There are different techniques to elicit the requirements. Each technique has its advantages and disadvantages. Thus, it is important to adopt more than one kind of technique to describe a system clearly from different viewpoints. This study prospected some of the research papers in the same field to display the requirements elicitation techniques that are used in developing mobile applications from a variety of research disciplines. It suggests some requirements elicitation concepts to guide software engineers in selecting the techniques according to customers' needs and to show the common challenges that they face.

On the relationship between quantity and quality of a country's research productivity

1982 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 143-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen M. Lawani
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Research ◽  
Random Sample ◽  
Research Productivity ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
High Quality ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship

Analyses of a sample of cancer research papers previously judged to be of high quality and of a random sample from the world literature, indicate that nineteen countries are the key producers of cancer research literature. Quality papers were much less dispersed among countries than ordinary papers and there was a high and statistically significant correlation be tween the quantity and the quality of productivity of countries.

Influence of technology parameters of free-cutting steel continuous casting on the billet internal structure

2020 ◽  
Vol 76 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-142
Author(s):  
A. T. Kunakbaeva ◽  
A. M. Stolyarov ◽  
M. V. Potapova
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Continuous Casting ◽  
Internal Structure ◽  
Sulfur Content ◽  
Manganese Content ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Correlation And Regression Analysis ◽  
Cutting Steel ◽  
Continuously Cast

Free-cutting steel gains specific working properties thanks to the high content of sulfur and phosphorus. These elements, especially sulfur, have a rather high tendency to segregation. Therefore, segregation defects in free-cutting steel continuously cast billets can be significantly developed. The aim of the work was to study the influence of the chemical composition of freecutting steel and casting technological parameters on the quality of the macrostructure of continuously cast billets. A metallographic assessment of the internal structure of cast metal made of free-cutting steel and data processing by application of correlation and regression analysis were the research methods. The array of production data of 43 heats of free-cutting steel of grade A12 was studied. Steel casting on a five-strand radial type continuous casting machine was carried out by various methods of metal pouring from tundish into the molds. Metal of 19 heats was poured with an open stream, and 24 heats – by a closed stream through submerged nozzles with a vertical hole. High-quality billets had a cross-sectional size of 150×150 mm. The macrostructure of high-quality square billets made of free-cutting steel of A12 grade is characterized by the presence of central porosity, axial segregation and peripheral point contamination, the degree of development of which was in the range from 1.5 to 2.0 points, segregation cracks and strips – about 1.0 points. In the course of casting with an open stream, almost all of these defects are more developed comparing with the casting by a closed stream. As a result of correlation and regression analysis, linear dependences of the development degree of segregation cracks and strips both axial and angular on the sulfur content in steel and on the ratio of manganese content to sulfur content were established. The degree of these defects development increases with growing of sulfur content in steel of A12 grade. These defects had especially strong development when sulfur content in steel was of more than 0.10%. To improve the quality of cast metal, it is necessary to have the ratio of the manganese content to the sulfur content in the metal more than eight.

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