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Assessment of the Ethical Orientations of Turkish Teachers

10.11591/ijere.v6i2.6339
Ozlem Ural , Soheyda Gokturk , Oguzhan Bozoglu
Students’ development in terms of values, moral education and character is crucial for the culture of any society. Considering that these are gained through family and school, school principals and teachers can be the key players.  Even if teachers do not deliberately act as models or ethic agents, or their main purpose is not merely ethical education, they still affect the students directly and indirectly. Therefore, exploration of their ethical decisions and what orientations guide them in making those ethical decisions is highly important. In this regard, teachers’ ethical orientation is worth measuring. In this study, Ethical Position Questionnaire [1], which has so far been commonly used to explore ethical orientations of a variety of professionals and cultural groups was translated into Turkish; and validity and reliability study was applied on teachers. Research group consisted of 251 primary school teachers working in state schools located in Kocaeli province, Turkey. To identify the construct validity of Ethical Position Questionnaire (EPQ), factor analysis was conducted. The analysis revealed that EPQ is two factor-structured and these factors explain 45% of the variance. Cronbach’s Alpha internal consistency reliability assessed for the total items of Turkish version of EPQ was .81 and for the first subscale –idealism-, for the second scale –relativism- was found .84 and .86 respectively. In conclusion, The Turkish version of Ethical Position Questionnaire was identified as a valid and reliable research tool to assess ethical positions of primary school teachers.
Volume: 6
Issue: 2
Page: 183-188
Publish at: 2017-06-01

Networked Service Robots Control and Synchronization with Surveillance System Assistance

10.11591/ijra.v6i2.pp80-98
Doug Kim
This paper proposes an efficient navigation control and synchronization mechanism of multiple networked robots for operation in large confined areas. An adaptable grid based navigation and control strategy is adopted to eliminate potential collisions among robots. Unexpected obstacles are handled and the speed of individual robot is maintained using the node-ordering technique. The proposed navigation control and synchronization mechanism is scalable and can be easily extended for multi-cell large environment. The obstacles information is gathered through local information by the robots for better planning of the navigation. The system collaborates with the existing surveillance systems in case of additional visual information is necessary. The interaction with the surveillance system is minimized to reduce potential overhead. The proposed methodology is evaluated for a large-scale simulation with multiple robots.
Volume: 6
Issue: 2
Page: 80-98
Publish at: 2017-06-01

Teacher Behaviours Explaining Turkish and Dutch Students’ Mathematic Achievements

10.11591/ijere.v6i2.7596
Seher Yalcın
The purpose of this study was to examine the differences between Turkish and Dutch students’ mathematics achievement and to examine the predictive level of teacher behaviours for student performance. The participants were 3210 students and principals from 168 schools in Turkey and 2541 students and principals from 156 schools in the Netherlands, who attended the Program for International Student Assessment in 2012. According to the results of the multilevel latent class and three-step analyses, for both countries, teacher behavior related to student orientation, teacher focus on student achievement and formative assessment predicted the mathematical achievement. It is seen that a high level of teacher behavior related to student orientation and formative assessment plays an important role in schools’ achievement at very low, low, and low-medium levels for Turkey and at medium and medium-high levels for the Netherlands. Furthermore, it was determined that the students who had low- or medium-level achievement were more affected by teacher characteristics/behaviours.
Volume: 6
Issue: 2
Page: 174-182
Publish at: 2017-06-01

Quadrotor Control System with Hand Movement Sign as an Alternative Remote Control

10.11591/ijra.v6i2.pp131-140
Nur Achmad Sulistyo Putro , Andi Dharmawan , Tri Kuntoro Priyambodo
Quadrotor is an unmanned aerial vehicle which is controlled by remote control. Unfortunately, not all of the remote control are easy to use, especially for people who have lacking abilities in piloting. This study aims to design a prototype system to control  quadrotor using hand movements, as an alternative to the conventional remote control that more simple. This system is consists of 2 parts, quadrotor and handheld. Both systems can communicate wirelessly using radio frequency 2.4 GHz. The handheld system will read the orientation angle of the hand by IMU sensor and it will be converted into a command to determine the direction motion of the quadrotor. To get the orientation angle from the IMU sensor data, we used DCM sensor fusion method. Quadrotor needs a control system that can make its respond runs optimally. In this study, the method of the control system that used is PID controller. The PID gain obtained using Ziegler-Nichols oscillation method and then fixed again by fine-tuned method.
Volume: 6
Issue: 2
Page: 131-140
Publish at: 2017-06-01

A Guided Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm for Conflict-free Routing Scheduling of AGVs Considering Waiting Time

10.11591/ijra.v6i2.pp69-79
Li Junjun , Xu Bowei , YANG Yongsheng , Wu Huafeng
Efficient conflict-free routing scheduling of automated guided vehicles (AGVs) in automated logistic systems can improve delivery time, prevent delays, and decrease handling cost. Once potential conflicts present themselves on their road ahead, AGVs may wait for a while until the potential conflicts disappear besides altering their routes. Therefore, AGV conflict-free routing scheduling involves making routing and waiting time decisions simultaneously. This work constructs a conflict-free routing scheduling model for AGVs with consideration of waiting time. The process of the model is based on calculation of the travel time and conflict analysis at the links and nodes. A guided ant colony optimization (GACO) algorithm, in which ants are guided to avoid conflicts by adding a guidance factor to the state transition rule, is developed to solve the model. Simulations are conducted to validate the effectiveness of the model and the solution method.
Volume: 6
Issue: 2
Page: 69-79
Publish at: 2017-06-01

Designing and Applying Web Assisted Activities to be Used in Flipped Classroom Model

10.11591/ijere.v6i2.7591
Murat Cetinkaya
The purpose of this study is to develop personalized web assisted activities for the flipped classroom model applied in the “Human and Environment Interactions” unit of science lesson and to research its effect on students’ achievement. The study was conducted with the participation of 7th grade science lesson students (N=74) within a period of 3 weeks. In the study, one of the experimental research methods, quasi-experimental research method, was used. Two different classes were randomly assigned as the experimental and control groups and flipped classroom model was applied on both groups. In the control group, only video lessons were used before the lesson. In the experimental group, web assisted activities were used as well as video lessons both before and during the lessons. “Human and Environment Interactions Unit Achievement Test”, which had a reliability coefficient of (KR-20) 0.76, was applied on the groups. The data analyses showed that there was a positive significant difference in favor of experimental group students. The developed material developed can be re-organized for any subject of the science class.
Volume: 6
Issue: 2
Page: 128-137
Publish at: 2017-06-01

Embroidery Leaf Shape Dipole Antenna Performances and Characterisation

10.11591/ijece.v7i3.pp1467-1472
N. J. Ramly , M. K. A. Rahim , N. A. Samsuri , H. A. Majid
In this paper, leaf shape textile antenna in ISM band has been chosen to study. The operating frequency of the dipole antenna is 2.45GHz. The effect of conductive threads with three different types of sewing has been analysed. The first type of sewing leaf shape dipole antenna is to stitch around itself and embroidered into a fleece fabric with circular follow by vertical and horizontal stitch respectively. From measured return loss, the antenna with circular stitch shows better performances with optimum resonances compared with the two types of stitching. The measured results confirm that the circular stitch is more suitable for leaf shape dipole antenna design. Thus it can be concluded that different stitch gives different results for leaf shape dipole antenna.
Volume: 7
Issue: 3
Page: 1467-1472
Publish at: 2017-06-01

Experimental Investigation on Vegetative Oils under Accelerated Thermal Ageing against Their Dielectric Strength

10.11591/ijece.v7i3.pp1588-1593
Siti Sufiah Abd Wahid , Mohd Fikri Hilmi Mohd Taib , Yanuar Z. Arief , Mohd Hafizi Ahmad , Noor Azlinda Ahmad , Nor Asiah Muhamad , Zuraimy Adzis , Mohd Hafiez Izzwan Saad
Insulation is one of the most important parts in high voltage apparatus such as power transformer. Most power transformer use liquid insulation material, known as power transformer oil. Petroleum-based oil so called mineral oil has been used for many years as power transformer oil. This is due to its high dielectric field strength, low dielectric loses and good long-term performance. This research work has been carried out to investigate the effect of thermal accelerated ageing on electrical properties for several vegetative-based oils. The oil samples that have been used in this research work are soy bean-based oil (FR3) and commercial palm-based oil (PFAE). As comparison, Hyrax mineral oil has also been investigated. The results revealed that vegetative-based oils have as well as dielectric strength compared with mineral oil.  It was found that the dielectric strength for all oil samples decreased when undergo the thermal accelerated ageing process.
Volume: 7
Issue: 3
Page: 1588-1593
Publish at: 2017-06-01

Localization of Distributed Wireless Sensor Networks using Two Sage SDP Optimization

10.11591/ijece.v7i3.pp1255-1261
Reza Shahbazian , Seyed Ali Ghorashi
A wireless sensor network (WSN) may comprise a large distributed set of low cost, low power sensing nodes. In many applications, the location of sensors is a necessity to evaluate the sensed data and it is not energy and cost efficient to equip all sensors with global positioning systems such as GPS. In this paper, we focus on the localization of sensors in a WSN by solving an optimization problem. In WSN localization, some sensors (called anchors) are aware of their location. Then, the distance measurements between sensors and anchors locations are used to localize the whole sensors in the network. WSN localization is a non-convex optimization problem, however, relaxation techniques such as semi-definite programming (SDP) are used to relax the optimization. To solve the optimization problem, all constraints should be considered simultaneously and the solution complexity order is O(n2) where n is the number of sensors. The complexity of SDP prevents solving large size problems. Therefore, it would be beneficial to reduce the problem size in large and distributed WSNs. In this paper, we propose a two stage optimization to reduce the solution time, while provide better accuracy compared with original SDP method. We first select some sensors that have the maximum connection with anchors and perform the SDP localization. Then, we select some of these sensors as virtual anchors. By adding the virtual anchors, we add more reference points and decrease the number of constraints. We propose an algorithm to select and add virtual anchors so that the total solution complexity and time decrease considerably, while improving the localization accuracy.
Volume: 7
Issue: 3
Page: 1255-1261
Publish at: 2017-06-01

Approximation Measures for Conditional Functional Dependencies Using Stripped Conditional Partitions

10.11591/ijece.v7i3.pp1385-1397
Anh Duy Tran , Somjit Arch-int , Ngamnij Arch-int
Conditional functional dependencies (CFDs) have been used to improve the quality of data, including detecting and repairing data inconsistencies. Approximation measures have significant importance for data dependencies in data mining. To adapt to exceptions in real data, the measures are used to relax the strictness of CFDs for more generalized dependencies, called approximate conditional functional dependencies (ACFDs). This paper analyzes the weaknesses of dependency degree, confidence and conviction measures for general CFDs (constant and variable CFDs). A new measure for general CFDs based on incomplete knowledge granularity is proposed to measure the approximation of these dependencies as well as the distribution of data tuples into the conditional equivalence classes. Finally, the effectiveness of stripped conditional partitions and this new measure are evaluated on synthetic and real data sets. These results are important to the study of theory of approximation dependencies and improvement of discovery algorithms of CFDs and ACFDs.
Volume: 7
Issue: 3
Page: 1385-1397
Publish at: 2017-06-01

Modeling the Vibrational Dynamics of Piezoelectric Actuator by System Identification Technique

10.11591/ijece.v7i3.pp1506-1512
Nurul Bahiah Mohd Noor , Mohd Ridzuan Ahmad
Actuators based on smart materials such as piezoelectric actuators (PEAs) are widely used in many applications to transform electrical signal to mechanical signal and vice versa. However, the major drawbacks for these smart actuators are hysteresis nonlinear, creep and residual vibration. In this paper, PEAs are used for active vibration application. Therefore, a model of PEA must be established to control the vibration that occurs in the system. The frequencies of 1 Hz, 20 Hz and 50 Hz were tested on the PEAs. The results obtained from the experimental were used to develop transfer function model by employing system identification technique. Meanwhile, the model validation was based on level of models fitness to estimation data, mean squared error (MSE), final prediction error (FPE) and correlation test. The experimental result showed that the displacement of the actuator is inversely proportional to the frequency. The following consequences caused the time response criteria at 50 Hz achieved smallest overshoot and fastest response of rise time and settling time.
Volume: 7
Issue: 3
Page: 1506-1512
Publish at: 2017-06-01

A Proposal for Mitigating Fishermen Killing in Indian Sea Borders through Technology – Maritime Boundary Identification Device

10.11591/ijeecs.v6.i3.pp704-710
Abhishek SN , Shriram K Vasudevan , Prashant R Nair , Thangavelu S , Sundaram RMD
The Tamil Nadu – Sri Lanka maritime boundary has been responsible for frequent controversies in the global front, due to fishermen from Rameshwaram and Ramanthapuram districts recklessly straying past Indian waters. Instances of Indian fishermen being captured and killed by the Sri Lankan navy have spun vivid images of violence and human rights violation among the masses. Social activists are desperate for an automatic alarm system to warn the fishermen when they are about to cross the border, and avert a possible impending crisis. The following discussion focuses on the design of an alarm signal system that could alert the fishermen on a periodic basis as they approach closer to the maritime boundary. Installing Global Positioning System (GPS) devices would pose several economic challenges. Instead of the conventional approach of using GPS devices to track location, a transmitter – receiver system exquisitely designed to send signals to the boat would be effective. This system helps in keeping a continuous track of the boats. It provides a reliable solution to alert fishermen before they could inadvertently exceed the boundary. 
Volume: 6
Issue: 3
Page: 704-710
Publish at: 2017-06-01

Image Processing of Panoramic Dental X-Ray for Identifying Proximal Caries

10.12928/telkomnika.v15i2.6856
Jufriadif; Universitas Putra Indonesia YPTK Padang Na'am , Johan; Gunadarma University Harlan , Sarifuddin; Gunadarma University Madenda , Eri Prasetyo; Gunadarma University Wibowo
This study aims to facilitate the identification of proximal caries in the Panoramic Dental X-Ray  image. Twenty-seven X-Ray images of proximal caries were elaborated. The images in digital form were processed using Matlab and Multiple Morphological Gradient. The process produced sharper images and clarifies the edges of the objects in the images. This makes the characteristics of the proximal caries and the caries severity can be identified precisely.
Volume: 15
Issue: 2
Page: 702-708
Publish at: 2017-06-01

Performance Evaluation of Gauss-Markov Mobility Model in Hybrid LTE-VANET Networks

10.12928/telkomnika.v15i2.5913
Doan; Telkom University Perdana , Rendy; Telkom University Munadi , Robby C.; Telkom University Manurung
Vehicular Ad-hoc Network (VANET) developed based on mobile ad-hoc networks (MANET). VANET have different characteristics than MANET, on VANET mobile node (MN) moves faster, topology changes dynamically. The previous research shows that the model of mobility affects to the network performance. In this paper, the Gauss-Markov mobility model used to illustrate the motion of the MN, which illustrates changes of acceleration, speed, location, and direction at any time. This paper enriches the evaluation of the performance of Gauss-Markov mobility model on LTE-VANET hybrid network, by evaluating various network performance metrics, particularly, packet delivery ratio (PDR), throughput, and delay. This research evaluated the Gauss-Markov mobility model and performed with the number of nodes and randomness index (α) that varies by utilizing NS-3 software. The results show that there is a strong correlation between PDR, throughput, and delay with the addition number of MNs. Based on the simulation result, the hybrid LTE-VANET produce better delay compared to pure VANET. The average delay is smaller 40% compared to pure VANET. This simulation also concludes that different value of alpha on Gauss-Markov mobility model does not influence PDR, throughput, and delay.
Volume: 15
Issue: 2
Page: 606-621
Publish at: 2017-06-01

A Customized Reconfiguration Controller with Remote Direct ICAP Access for Dynamically Reconfigurable Platform

10.12928/telkomnika.v15i2.5508
Tze Hon; Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Tan , Chia Yee; Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Ooi , Muhammad Nadzir; Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Marsono
As FPGA dynamic partial reconfiguration getting into mainstream, design of reconfiguration controller becomes an active research. Most of the existing reconfiguration controllers support only the loading of partial bitstream into configuration memory without allowing user to access ICAP directly, which can provide user higher controllability over the reconfigurable device. This paper presents the architecture of a customized reconfiguration controller with remote direct ICAP access. Remote direct ICAP access allows user to configure or readback device internal registers, which offer user higher controllability over the reconfigurable device. Additionally, the proposed reconfiguration controller achieved at least 3.19 Gbps of reconfiguration throughput, which reduces the platform service downtime during dynamic partial reconfiguration. In order to reduce the latency and transmission overhead of remote functional update, partial bitstream is compressed with run-length encoding before transmission.
Volume: 15
Issue: 2
Page: 570-577
Publish at: 2017-06-01
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