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Prioritization Of The Social Approach Of Employment Modeled By Plitogenic Sets, Rously Eedyah Atencio González, Julio César De Jesús Arrias Añez, Johanna Emperatriz Coronel Piloso, Orlando Iván Ronquillo Riera

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

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Evaluation Of The Impact Of Informal Trade Using Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps And Weighted Power Mean Operator, Luis Eduardo Álvarez Cortés, Juan Giovani Sailema Armijo, Víctor Manuel Quintanilla Sánchez, Rodolfo González Ortega

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

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Analysis Of The Critical Success Factors Of Projects For Engineering Thinking Development, Luis Orlando Albarracín Zambrano, Dionisio Vitalio Ponce Ruiz, Edmundo José Jalón Arias, Luis Javier Molina Chalacán

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

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Business Plan For Entrepreneurs, Actors And Organizations Of Social And Solidarity Economy Based On Neutrosophic Ahp-Swot, Lisenia Karina Baque Villanueva, Danilo Augusto Viteri Intriago, Lyzbeth Kruscthalia Álvarez Gómez, Aída Margarita Izquierdo Morán

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

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A Composite Index Of Social Vulnerability To Earthquake Hazard In Canton Atacames, Marco Fernando Saltos Salgado, German Fabricio Acurio Hidalgo, Simón Bolívar Gallegos Gallegos

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

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Neutrosophic Hypothesis To Validate A Modification For Article 630 Of The Integral Organic Criminal Code Of Ecuador, Jose Luis Robalino Villafuerte, Leonso Dagoberto Torres Torres, Leonardo Toapanta Jimenez

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

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Opportunities For Software Testing Using Neutrosophic Numbers, Alberto Santillán Molina, Wilson Alfredo Cacpata Calle, Javier Dario Bosquez Remache

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

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Neutrosophic Multicriteria Method For Evaluating The Impact Of Informal Trade On The “Mariscal De Puyo” Market, Luis Álvarez Cortés, Milton Rodrigo Hidalgo Ruiz, Mena Peralta Marco Rodrigo

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

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Neutrosophic Vikor For Proposal Of Reform To Article 189 Of The Integral Criminal Code In Ecuador, Hayk Paronyan, Rogelio Melendez Carballido, Marvelio Alfaro Matos

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

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Neutrosophy Used To Measure The Legal And Socioeconomic Effect Of Debtors, Diego Vladimir Garcés Mayorga, Esperanza Del Pilar Araujo Escobar, Oscar Fabián Silva Montoya

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

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Validation Of A Reform Project Forarticle 223 Of The Ecuadorian Civil Code Through The Use Of Iadov Techniques And Neutrosophic Logic, Cristoval Fernando Rey Squilanda, Jorge Alfredo Eras Diaz, Simon Bolivar Gallegos Gallegos

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

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Neutrosophic K-Means Based Method For Handling Unlabeled Data, Ned Vito Quevedo Arnaiz, Nemis Garcia Arias Leny Cecilia Campaña Muñoz

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

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Critical Discourse Analysis Of Human Rights Education: Defensoría Del Pueblo Program In Ecuador, Monserrat Fernandez-Vela

Latin American Studies ETDs

This dissertation recognizes Human Rights Education (HRE) discourse as a multifaceted and multimodal construction situated socially and historically. Using a Multimodal Critical Discourse Study (MCDS), the research explores the HRE discourse proposed by the Defensoría del Pueblo de Ecuador (DPE), the National Human Rights Institution (NHRI) in charge of designing, approving and implementing contents, methodologies and resources of HRE initiatives nationwide. I focus on the educational, communicational, and ontological discourse of the DPE, materialized in three books published in 2015-2016. The results addressed the stenghts of the communicational and educative content and design of the books, showing the levels of …

Full Issue (Fall 2019)

Intersections: Critical Issues in Education

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Book Review: Culturally Responsive Pedagogy: Working Towards Decolonization, Indigeneity, And Interculturalism, Theresa (Therri) A. Papp

Intersections: Critical Issues in Education

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Critical Intersections Through Poetry In A Tesol & World Language Graduate Education Program, Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor, Sharon M. Nuruddin, Kuo Zhang, Yixuan Wang, Amanda Brady Deaton, Xinyi Meng, Ashley Brown-Lemley, Ming Sun

Intersections: Critical Issues in Education

In this studio submission, Language Education students who took one or more poetry writing courses along with their instructor share one poem draft and critical reflection, noting the political climate of the work co-produced and inquiry regarding the impact of producing creative work as reflexive, critical teacher education scholarship. Together they draw a context and implications for creative and critical teacher education through shared poetry writing.

“Where Are You From?”: Using Critical Race Theory To Analyze Graphic Novel Counter-Stories Of The Racial Microaggressions Experienced By Two Angry Asian Girls, Talitha Angelica Acaylar Trazo, Woohee Kim

Intersections: Critical Issues in Education

This article uses critical race theory (CRT) to analyze two stories about racial microaggressions from Where Are You From?: Short stories about being Asian in America, the graphic novel written and illustrated by Talitha Angelica Acaylar Trazo in fulfillment of her undergraduate honors thesis. Where Are You From? visually historicizes the counter-stories of 48 Asian and Asian American students at a predominantly-white undergraduate institution. In this article, we examine these microaggressions in relation to institutional and structural racism and the intersections of race, gender, and power dynamics between white faculty and Asian female students. Furthermore, we propose …

Disrupting Dis/Abilization: A Critical Exploration Of Research Methods To Combat White Supremacy And Ableism In Education, Sara H. Petit-Mcclure, Chelsea Stinson

Intersections: Critical Issues in Education

The following paper explores the way scientific research, as it is commonly defined, has been used to continue the marginalization and subsequent dis/abilization of students based on racial, cultural, and linguistic identities. Starting with a historical perspective, we trace the role of scientific research in the support of white supremacist, ableist societal mechanisms, as well as the emphasis on scientifically-based research in educational policy and practice. We call for an expansion of the definition of scientific research to emphasize mixed and multiple methods guided by the principles of participatory, emancipatory, and decolonizing methodologies.

A Cross-Linguistic Typology Of ‘Take’ Serial Verb Constructions, Taegyeong Lee

Linguistics ETDs

Serial verb constructions (SVCs) are multiple verbs forming a single predicate in a single clause (Aikhenvald 2006a, 2018). Serial verbs do not exhibit syntactic dependency between the verbs. Each of these verbs must occur on its own. The verb ‘take’ is one of the common verbs that occur in SVCs, and it tends to grammaticalize following numerous different paths. Yet, there are no studies with a considerable sample of ‘take’ SVCs. Moreover, the polysemy of ‘take’ SVCs has not been explored in detail. Based on Aikhenvald (2018)’s functional framework, the present study aims to examine ‘take’ SVCs in 45 languages …

Book Reviews Fall 2019

New Mexico Historical Review

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Little Farm Hands: Rural Child Labor, Family, And Memory In The U.S. Southwest, 1890-1940, Jairo E. Marshall

History ETDs

Child labor was a traditional subsistence and agricultural practice throughout the rural Southwest. Between 1890 and 1940 a series of changes occurred within agriculture, ranching, and rural land/labor patterns in New Mexico and Texas. However, child labor remained a useful economic strategy for families well into this period, because it remained grounded in environmental challenges, cultural practices, agrarian ideologies, and children’s social and physical development. Agribusinesses took advantage of this labor pool, while schools and communities continued to allow children to labor, believing it to be either necessary or beneficial.

Families and children continued to have agency to determine the …

Amaro E Piccante: The Production And Use Of Terroir In The Scandal Of Italian Extra Virgin Olive Oils, Daniel Gene Shattuck Ii

Anthropology ETDs

This dissertation explores the revalorization of Italian extra virgin olive oils after a food scare that revealed some oils to be inauthentic or adulterated. In the process of distinguishing products, producers and tasters looked toward terroir or the “taste of place” as proof of their declarations of authenticity and as a method for differentiating oils. However, in this attempt, they engaged with other pervasive tropes of difference including those that intersected with belonging, the local and global, and race. This dissertation argues that terroir is a material-semiotic object; that while it may be grounded in the materiality of oils is …

Npr's Tiny Desk Concert Series: Vocalities Of Outrage And Acts Of Gaiety, Aubrie M. Powell

Music ETDs

The Tiny Desk concert series features live video-recorded performances of artists at the desk of NPR Music’s Bob Boilen, the series’ main host. This thesis interrogates NPR Music’s values and the ways artists both manifest and queer those ideals in performance. I argue, in light of the 2016 election, performers challenge NPR Music’s taste system through two modes of subversion. The first mode considers vocalities of outrage specifically in the performances of Saul Williams and the Drive-By Truckers. These performers shift their social positions in expressions of outrage through vocality—as the embodied materiality of the voice and its constructed meanings …

Comparative Processes Of Sociopolitical Development In The Foothills Of The Southern Maya Mountains, Amy Elizabeth Thompson

Anthropology ETDs

Human behaviors and settlement decision-making can be evaluated through an assessment of settlement patterns. This dissertation examines the human behaviors that guide settlement selection, first through an analysis of settlement patterns to assess intra-site social communities, and second how communities develop over time. Three case studies examine settlement structure and what influences settlement selection within archaeological and modern contexts from the same region, southern Belize. Specifically, this dissertation focuses on two Classic period (250-800 CE) Maya centers, Uxbenká and Ix Kuku’il, and more than 50 modern Maya villages. Extensive survey and excavations were conducted to compare the development of settlements …

The Association Of Psychological Distress And Mental Health With English Language Acquisition Of Recently Resettled Refugees In The United States, Charlisa C. Christian

Sociology ETDs

Host country language proficiency among resettled refugees has been associated with better mental health; yet, in qualitative studies, refugees describe psychological distress acting as a barrier to their learning. To clarify varying results, this longitudinal study of refugees from Africa, the Middle East, and Afghanistan (n=290) examined language acquisition with positive mental health and psychological distress as distinct concepts on correlated unipolar dimensions (Keyes 2002; Rumbaut 1989). With multilevel modeling, initial English speaking ability was significantly related to increasing positive mental health over time, indicating host country language proficiency acts as a protective factor for refugees, and supporting the growing …

Using The Linguistic Experiences Of Youth And Their Families As Curriculum: The Language Box Project, Molly A. Perara-Lunde Ms.

Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies ETDs

This qualitative curricular case study investigated the implementation of a project called the Language Box in a seventh grade Humanities classroom in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I worked with the classroom teacher to design the Language Box project, which focused on the language use practices of the students and their families. We designed the project with the goal of addressing issues of home language loss, bilingualism, and English language acquisition. The students in the classroom were almost exclusively Hispanic, many came from low income families and some were undocumented. Each student acted as a researcher, investigating the language use practices in …

On The Focusing Function Of The Japanese X Toka Construction, Motomi Kajitani

Shared Knowledge Conference

The X toka construction in Japanese is known for the various functions it expresses (cf. Taylor 2010). Some of the well-cited functions include exemplification ('for example, X, etc.') (Teramura 1991), defocusing ('X or something like that') (Barotto 2018), and focusing ('such a thing as X') (Amano 2001). Compared to the first two functions, the focusing function is puzzling: What exactly does "focusing" involve? What are the relationships between the focusing function and other less commonly illustrated functions of the construction, such as exclamative ('X!'), self-mockery ('X, hehe, I'm just kidding') (Suzuki 2001), and topic-marking ('talking about X...') (Nakamata 2007)? How …

Variable Use Of Mucho And Muncho In Traditional New Mexican Spanish, Mark Cisneros

Shared Knowledge Conference

Archaisms like muncho, vide, and truje are often retained for longer periods of time in remote, isolated varieties, are associated with uneducated speakers, and considered non-standard forms (Wilson 2015; Bills & Vigil 2008). As these isolated varieties experience increased contact with mainstream varieties, archaisms tend to be replaced by modern forms. Nevertheless, before they disappear, archaisms coexist alongside their modern counterparts, resulting in a period of linguistic variation. This study investigates the use of muncho and its modern counterpart mucho in Traditional New Mexican Spanish (TNMS). Examples (1) and (2) are instances of archaic forms of mucho produced in TNMS: …

Using Uncertainty To Interpret Supervised Machine Learning Predictions, Michael C. Darling

Electrical and Computer Engineering ETDs

Traditionally, machine learning models are assessed using methods that estimate an average performance against samples drawn from a particular distribution. Examples include the use of cross-validation or hold0out to estimate classification error, F-score, precision, and recall.

While these measures provide valuable information, they do not tell us a model's certainty relative to particular regions of the input space. Typically there are regions where the model can differentiate the classes with certainty, and regions where the model is much less certain about its predictions.

In this dissertation we explore numerous approaches for quantifying uncertainty in the individual predictions made by supervised …

Multimodal Composition And Digital Technology: Investigating The Out-Of-Class Experiences Of Students In A First-Year Composition Class, Jennifer Morgan Sims

English Language and Literature ETDs

This study explores how first-year students in a multimodal composition class use digital technology outside of class to complete their projects. The tendency in Composition studies to characterize students as “self-teaching” users of technology may obscure complex out-of-class experiences, so this study analyzes data from project reflections of 19 first-year students completing digital multimodal compositions to gain insight into their practices. Qualitative analysis reveals that the technical problems students encountered tended to be frequent and repetitive, and some problems were exacerbated by conflicts between the assignment requirements and the capacity of the technology required. Students tended to use trial-and-error methods …