Approximate Instance Retrieval On Ontologies, 2010 Wright State University - Main Campus
Approximate Instance Retrieval On Ontologies, Tuvshintur Tserendorj, Stephan Grimm, Pascal Hitzler
Computer Science and Engineering Faculty Publications
With the development of more expressive description logics (DLs) for the Web Ontology Language OWL the question arises how we can properly deal with the high computational complexity for efficient reasoning. In application cases that require scalable reasoning with expressive ontologies, non-standard reasoning solutions such as approximate reasoning are necessary to tackle the intractability of reasoning in expressive DLs. In this paper, we are concerned with the approximation of the reasoning task of instance retrieval on DL knowledge bases, trading correctness of retrieval results for gain of speed. We introduce our notion of an approximate concept extension and we provide …
Competent Public Speaking: Assessing Skill Development In The Basic Course, 2010 North Dakota State University - Main Campus
Competent Public Speaking: Assessing Skill Development In The Basic Course, Judy C. Pearson, Jeffrey T. Child, Liliana L. Herakova, Julie L. Semlak, Jessica Angelos
Basic Communication Course Annual
Effective public speaking skills are essential for a successful life. The authors provide an overall assessment of the basic public speaking course by examining fifteen student attributes divided into three categories (course engagement characteristics, dispositions, and demographics) hypothesized to affect learning and public speaking skill development in the basic course. A four-step hierarchical multiple regression tested two research questions (N = 709). Course engagement characteristics improved students’ public-speaking grade averages, but dispositions did not. The effects of demographic characteristics, particularly biological sex, were not eliminated after controlling for course engagement and dispositional factors (twelve variables). Implications and limitations of the …
The Influence Of Instructor Status And Sex On Student Perceptions Of Teacher Credibility And Confirmation Across Time, 2010 University of Northern Iowa
The Influence Of Instructor Status And Sex On Student Perceptions Of Teacher Credibility And Confirmation Across Time, Roxanne Heimann, Paul Turman
Basic Communication Course Annual
Universities continue to rely heavily on graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) to teach many of their entry level courses, with limited research emphasizing student perceptions of GTAs. With this in mind, the purpose of this investigation was to assess the combined influence of instructor status (GTA vs. Professor) and sex on student perceptions of teacher credibility and confirmation behaviors across time. Results from the repeated measures analysis indicated interaction effects for instructor sex and time, whereby female instructors (regardless of their status) were perceived to have higher levels of character, trustworthiness, and perceived caring. Three-way interaction effects emerged for instructor confirmation …
Author Biographies, 2010 University of Dayton
Back Cover, 2010 University of Dayton
Index Of Titles And Authors, Volumes 1-21, 2010 University of Dayton
Index Of Titles And Authors, Volumes 1-21
Basic Communication Course Annual
No abstract provided.
Sports Public Relations, 2010 Marquette University
Sports Public Relations, Tom Isaacson
College of Communication Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
Online Hyper-Local News Sites Fulfill Classic Functions Of Community Journalism, 2010 St. John Fisher University
Online Hyper-Local News Sites Fulfill Classic Functions Of Community Journalism, Jack Rosenberry
Media and Communication Faculty/Staff Publications
A content analysis of story topics published on 70 hyper-local online news sites indicated that these sites may have an untraditional way of delivering the news but they fulfill roles and functions that are very similar to the ones documented in historical research about community press and social organization.
The Evolution (Revolution) Of Social Media And Social Networking As A Necessary Topic In The Marketing Curriculum: A Case For Integrating Social Media Into Marketing Classes, 2010 University of Dayton
The Evolution (Revolution) Of Social Media And Social Networking As A Necessary Topic In The Marketing Curriculum: A Case For Integrating Social Media Into Marketing Classes, Irene J. Dickey, William F. Lewis
Management and Marketing Faculty Publications
This research first examines social media and social networks as a social phenomenon and its influence on marketing practice. Survey data and an extensive literature review reveal that not only have social networks evolved rapidly during the last few years, but so have social media, consumer behaviors, and subsequently, social media marketing tactics, which are increasingly being integrated into marketing programs. The authors explore the question of whether more time should be devoted to these topics and whether they should be incorporated into the marketing curriculum. This research provides important information, insights and recommendations for incorporating the topic of social …
Nominal Schemas For Integrating Rules And Ontologies, 2010 Wright State University - Main Campus
Nominal Schemas For Integrating Rules And Ontologies, Frederick Maier, Adila A. Krisnadhi, Pascal Hitzler
Computer Science and Engineering Faculty Publications
We propose a description-logic style extension of OWL DL, which includes DL-safe variable SWRL and seamlessly integrates datalog rules. Our language also sports a tractable fragment, which we call ELP 2, covering OWL EL, OWL RL, most of OWL QL, and variable restricted datalog.
Semantic Web – Interoperability, Usability, Applicability, 2010 Wright State University - Main Campus
Semantic Web – Interoperability, Usability, Applicability, Pascal Hitzler, Krzysztof Janowicz
Computer Science and Engineering Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Communication And Culture (Com 320) City As Classroom Project Report, 2010 La Salle University
Communication And Culture (Com 320) City As Classroom Project Report, Katie Neary Dunleavy Phd
City as Classroom Projects
The purpose of this course is to provide students with the theoretical tools necessary to understand the reciprocal link between communication and culture: how communication practices create, reflect, and maintain cultures, as well as how culture influences communication practices. Focus will be on intercultural, cross-cultural, and interethnic communication.
As part of a larger project, students selected a microculture within the city to explore. After attending, students wrote a reflection on the experience, and then wrote a larger summative paper on numerous cultural experiences and synthesized the content from the course with the experiences.
Holistic Medicine Not "Torture": Performing Acupuncture In Galway, Ireland, 2010 University of Massachusetts Amherst
Holistic Medicine Not "Torture": Performing Acupuncture In Galway, Ireland, Kevin Taylor Anderson
Adjunct Faculty Author Gallery
This article examines how the aesthetic design of clinics and interactive discourse 5 and rituals construct the social reality of acupuncture sessions as a form of holistic medical therapy. Verbal and nonverbal interactions create an appealing medical environment but also help prevent the emergence of undesired counter-realities (e.g., pain, biomedical intervention). Based on observations of acupuncture sessions conducted in Galway, Ireland, I illustrate how 10 ambiance and aesthetic elements of clinics create a complex medico-cultural environment that balances oppositional associations (Western=non-Western, exoticism=convention, medical alterity=medical professionalism). Patients inter- viewed continually referred to acupuncture as a natural and non-invasive form of medical …
Implementing Montana's Indian-Education-For-All Initiative In A K-5 Public School: Implications For Classroom Teaching, Education Policy, And Native Communities, 2010 University of Montana - Missoula
Implementing Montana's Indian-Education-For-All Initiative In A K-5 Public School: Implications For Classroom Teaching, Education Policy, And Native Communities, Phyllis B. Ngai, Peter Koehn
Communication Studies Faculty Publications
The Montana legislature’s requirement that public schools implement programs that fulfill the inclusive Indian education intent found in the state constitution is groundbreaking in U.S. educational history. Supporters of the revived Indian Education for All (IEFA) law agree that including Native perspectives in the mainstream curriculum is long overdue. Advocates often frame IEFA as an initiative that will promote transformative understanding of local American Indian tribes. The data presented in this research report relate to a learner-focused assessment of the model K-5 IEFA program initiated at Lewis and Clark Elementary School in Montana. Did this public school-based IEFA program change …
Do I Really Need To Have That Test? Understanding Risk And Making Medical Decisions In The Age Of Tmi, 2010 University of New Hampshire
Do I Really Need To Have That Test? Understanding Risk And Making Medical Decisions In The Age Of Tmi, Gene Elizabeth Harkless
The University Dialogue
No abstract provided.
Is The Internet Colorblind?, 2010 University of New Hampshire
Is The Internet Colorblind?, Courtney Marshall
The University Dialogue
No abstract provided.
Nbc Peacock North Winter 2010, 2010 Sacred Heart University
Nbc Peacock North Winter 2010, Peacock North Staff
NBC Peacock North Newsletter
Highlights include: Bob Costas to be Spring Luncheon Speaker -- Remembering Heino Ripp -- TV Academy Honors Pardo, Stewart -- Apollo 11 Memories and Pictures -- John Clark Retires as NABET President -- Walter Miller Honored by Industry
The Planet, 2010, Winter, 2010 Western Washington University
The Planet, 2010, Winter, Kaylin Bettinger, Huxley College Of The Environment, Western Washington University
The Planet
No abstract provided.
A Philology Of Liberation: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. As A Reader Of The Classics, 2010 Xavier University
A Philology Of Liberation: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. As A Reader Of The Classics, Thomas Strunk Ph.D.
Verbum Incarnatum: An Academic Journal of Social Justice
This paper explores the intellectual relationship between Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the classics, particularly the works of Plato, Sophocles, and Aeschylus. Recognizing Dr. King as a reader of the classics is significant for two reasons: the classics played a formative role in Dr. King’s development into a political activist and an intellectual of the first order; moreover, Dr. King shows us the way to read the classics. Dr. King did not read the classics in a pedantic or even academic manner, but for the purpose of liberation. Dr. King’s legacy, thus, is not merely his political accomplishments but …
Discursive Struggles In Families Formed Through Visible Adoption: An Exploration Of Dialectical Unity, 2010 STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK-Geneseo
Discursive Struggles In Families Formed Through Visible Adoption: An Exploration Of Dialectical Unity, Meredith Marko Harrigan, Dawn O. Braithwaite
Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications
Grounded in the interpretive paradigm and framed by relational dialectics theory, the present study addressed the question: What discourses interpenetrate to reflect dialectical unity as parents communicate about their child’s adoption? Interviews with 40 parents across 31 visibly adoptive families—families with an obvious lack of biological connection—highlighted four instances of dialectical unity resulting from the following discursive struggles: (a) pride and imperfection; (b) love, constraint, and sacrifice; (c) difference, pride, and enrichment; and (d) legitimacy, expansion, similarity, and difference. Each struggle contains seemingly disparate discourses that, in combination, contribute to how parents discursively make sense of adoption. Practical implications of …