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Neutrosophic Sets And Systems {Special Issue: Mediterranean Conference On Three Decades Of Neutrosophic And Plithogenic Theories And Applications (Meconet 2024)}, Vol. 73, 2024, Florentin Smarandache, Mohamed Abdel-Basset, Giorgio Nordo, Maikel Y. Leyva-Vázquez

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Three Decades Of Neutrosophic And Plithogenic Theories With Their Applications (1995 - 2024), Florentin Smarandache

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

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The Principles Of (Partial Locality, Partial Indeterminacy, Partial Nonlocality) And (Multi Locality, Multi Indeterminacy, Multi Nonlocality), Florentin Smarandache

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

This article introduces new neutrosophic principles aiming to extend and generalize the concepts of locality and nonlocality by addressing scenarios involving indeterminacy, together with partiality and multitude, in physics, mechanics, cosmology, biology, medicine, chemistry, economics, ecology, sociology. Locality refers to interactions or processes confined within a limited region of space or time. But there may be a Total (100%) Locality, or a Partial Locality (less than 100% and greater than 0%). The effects are constrained to the immediate environment. Contrariwise, NonLocality refers to interactions or connections between entities separated by space or time. The changes in one location have instantaneous …

Decolonizing Digital Accessibility Within Land/Water Realities Using Minimal Computing, Mary Rice

Researchers

The purpose of this essay is to conceptualize accessibility in digital education for school children through a minimal computing perspective. This perspective prioritizes the contextual, social, and relational as part of the ethic of minimal computing mantra to consider What. We. Need. To achieve our goals, we begin with a story from a classroom in rural New Mexico, then we problematize definitions of accessibility for computing in educational settings considering how an identification as having disabilities is situated within colonial monolingual/monocultural structures that position minds and bodies as deficient. We connect these structures to capitalistic educational technology movements like using …

Impact Of Shale Oil And Gas Exploration In The Permian Basin: Public Finances, House Prices, Migration, And Household Income, Bamadou Ouattara

Economics ETDs

This dissertation examines the impacts of shale oil and gas exploration in the Permian Basin, focusing on housing, socio-demographics, petroleum exploration, and environmental effects. It addresses three key research areas: New Mexico's public finances, inter-county migration and household income, and the influence on house prices.

The introductory chapter reviews the boomtown impact model and advocates for its adaptation to current social, economic, and financial landscapes. The second chapter analyzes New Mexico's public finances from 2010-2021, emphasizing oil and gas tax revenues and the need for financial prudence due to industry volatility.

The third chapter uses causal effect techniques to assess …

Analyzing Interdisciplinary Education In General Medicine Using Smarandache's Multivalued Logic Hypothesis Theory And Plithogenic Probability, Dolores Hernandez De La Cantera, Rosangela Caicedo Quiroz, Mairim Lago Queija, Jeanntte Rodriguez Gonzalez, Maikel Y. Leyva Vazquez

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

Smarandache extended the concept of falsifiability to include hypotheses that involve multiple values. Smarandache's extension of classical logic introduces Partial Falsifiability within multi-valued logic, which allows for the inclusion of partial truth values, uncertainties, and false values, unlike traditional falsifiability which only classifies hypotheses as completely true or false. Using this approach this study investigates specifically the concept of interdisciplinarity in the field of integral general medicine, with a specific emphasis on the integration of nursing procedures. The method employs sentiment analysis of scientific questions using the Consensus tool and plithogenic statistics to assess complex hypotheses. The findings indicate that …

Labor Market Penalties For Foreign Degrees Among College Educated Immigrants: Update Using 2018 Data, Eunice T. Ajibade

Economics ETDs

This paper revisits the questions posed by Arbeit and Warren in their 2013 study, "Labor market penalties for foreign degrees among college-educated immigrants," using updated data from the 2018 National Survey of College Graduates (NSCG). The original study, which analyzed data from 2003, focused on the economic and employment disadvantages faced by immigrants with degrees from foreign institutions in an increasingly globalized workforce. This updated analysis includes data on 21,071 college-educated immigrants to explore whether the geographic origin of an academic degree continues to influence access to high-quality employment opportunities and whether such impacts differ by gender. My findings reveal …

Unequal Neighbors In Diverse Neighborhoods: Accounting For Variation In The Impact Of Relative Inequality On Neighborhood Crime, Samuel A. Torres

Sociology ETDs

Research demonstrates that crime rate differences across racially segregated urban communities are primarily attributable to uneven distributions of resources between neighborhoods. Less is known about the role economic inequality within neighborhoods, what I call relative inequality, plays in maintaining ethno-racial criminal disparities. In this dissertation I explore sources of variation in the impact of relative inequality on neighborhood crime by drawing on data from the 2010-2013 National Neighborhood Crime Study Panel (NNCS2-P). I find that relative inequality effects are attenuated in higher disadvantage neighborhoods and this interaction accounts for differences in effect size by neighborhood ethno-racial composition. Results also show …

Grievability And The Contingency Of Life Value In Twenty-First-Century Science Fiction, Emily A. Reiff

English Language and Literature ETDs

Using Judith Butler’s framework of grievability, this dissertation explores twenty-first-century science fiction by British, Irish, and Caribbean authors whose novels grapple with legacies of colonialism and imperialism that relied on dehumanization and subjugation. Beginning with Sarah Maria Griffin’s Spare and Found Parts (2016), chapter one explores neocolonial rationales—purportedly based on health—which recreate colonial divisions of class and labor and enforce systems of diminishing grievability in a post-apocalyptic Irish context. Chapter two contends that Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun (2021) illustrates the danger inherent to value systems that center “normative” embodiment in worlds that reconfigure hypercapacitated human beings as the …

Dental Hygiene Program Admission Criteria Key Indicators To National Board Success, Kacy Goetz

Dental Hygiene ETDs

The study evaluates the admission criteria of entry-level dental hygiene programs in the United States and their relationship to National Dental Hygiene Board Examination (NDHBE) success rates. An online survey was distributed to 327 programs, gathering data on admission criteria and NDHBE outcomes through a 16-question Microsoft Forms survey. With a response rate of 16% (53 respondents), the survey found that GPA was the most common admission criterion used by 92% of programs. The results indicated a strong negative correlation between high school GPA and NDHBE success. The study also evaluated NDHBE pass rates with board review courses taken. The …

Trauma, Memory, Imagination, And Survivance: Uncovering Haunting Stories Within The Southwest Borderlands, Tania Paloma García

American Studies ETDs

This dissertation project explores hidden histories of the García/Espinosa/Sargent/Burns family in northern New Mexico/southern Colorado during the middle-to-late eighteenth/early nineteenth centuries, and continuing into the present. The project, in part, focuses on prominent rancher, lawyer, landowner, and territorial representative of New Mexico and Colorado, José Victór García. García’s life and legacy is examined regarding the lesser-known story of his “ownership” of several enslaved Indigenous youths on his property in Conejos County, Colorado. The methodology of haunting is employed to expose complex histories of Indigenous peoples in the Southwest borderlands, and within a broader context of colonialism. Indigenous enslavement is considered …

Building A Trusted Relationship Among Project Participants In Construction Projects On Tribal Land, Dominica J. Bennett

Civil Engineering ETDs

There are 574 federally recognized tribes in the United States, and these tribal communities differ by culture, language, history, and self-governance. Performing a tribal construction project is different than a non-tribal project due to tribal sovereignty, tribes are both legally and regulatory independent. The United States has recognized its trust with Indigenous tribes through treaties, statutes, and historical relations, however treaties and statutes have been broken over time. This paper aims to qualitatively and quantitatively identify relationships and trust built between contractors, designers, and owners on construction projects while identifying challenges. The methodology involves survey distribution to rank the level …

Transnational(Izing) African Communication: A Post-/Decolonial Approach To Nollywood And Globalization, Tomide Oloruntobi

Communication ETDs

In this dissertation, I examine culture and communication in transnational Nigeria, focusing on Nollywood and its industrial politics. Through a critical ethnographic examination of Nollywood’s reception among global and transnational audiences, I critique the evolving patterns of difference, power, and politics informing production, distribution, consumption, and performance/communication of otherness. With four composite dimensions of decoloniality: structural, epistemic, personal, and relational as theoretical foundation, I analyzed observations and interviews with 21 transnational Nigerians, online focus group discussions, user reviews, movies/series, and blogposts. I discuss the emergent themes of coloniality of space, mobility, and culture; re-making of racial otherness and hetero-patriarchy/normativity; cultural …

Compassionate Care In Elementary General Music Teaching And Learning As A Way To Respond To The World: A Narrative Inquiry, Julia K. Church Hoffman

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

In this narrative inquiry, where stories were the data, three experienced music teachers from one public school district in the southwestern United States shared stories about their experiences as elementary general music teachers. The stories were told through the lens of compassionate care, a perspective that implies a shared experience between teacher and learners (Hendricks, 2018, 2023). The stories, and my interpretation of them, revealed an understanding of elementary general music, a multimodal, fun, school subject, as a vehicle for teaching children how to be kind and respectful humans. Threads that emerged from the stories linked connections between compassionate care, …

Analysis Using Treesoft Set Of The Strategic Development Plan For Extreme Poverty Municipalities, Edwin Collazos Paucar, Jeri G. Ramón Ruffner De Vega, Efrén S. Michue Salguedo, Agustina C. Torres-Rodríguez, Patricio A. Santiago-Saturnino

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

The analysis of the Strategic Development Plan for extreme poverty municipalities in the Province of Huancayo, Peru in 2019 using Treesoft Set and neutrosophic sets represents an innovative and rigorous approach to evaluate development strategies in challenging socioeconomic contexts. In this study, advanced data analysis and uncertainty management tools are used to thoroughly examine the actions proposed in the strategic plan and their potential impact on the most vulnerable communities. The combination of Treesoft Set, a comprehensive platform for data analysis, and neutrosophic sets, which allow the modeling of imprecision and ambiguity in collected data and opinions, offers a robust …

Complex Analysis Of Family And Social Problems In The Context Of Parenting Competencies: Implementation Of Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps (Ncm) For The Evaluation And Resolution Of Conflicts, Yoya B. Flores-Pérez, José M. Vázquez Antonio, Rigoberto Navarrete Flores, Luz H. Cruzado Saucedo

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

At the intersection of family and social problems, complex challenges arise that demand an innovative and profound ap-proach - This article explores how parental competencies, essential for family dynamics, can be better understood and strengthened through the implementation of Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps (NCM) ̣Using a multidimensional approach, real cases are analyzed where family conflicts and tensions are intertwined with broader social problems, revealing the need for advanced analytical tools that allow a detailed and accurate evaluation ̣NCM emerges as a robust methodology, capable of capturing the ambiguity and uncertainty inherent in human interactions, offering a new perspective for intervention and …

Exploring The Impact Of Performance Audits On The Management Of Public Organizations Through The Analysis Of Plithogenic Statistics, César U. Marín-Eléspuru, David M. Melgarejo-Mariño, Edgar A. Solsol-Hidalgo, Domingo Chiroque-Sernaqué, José Ricardo Balbuena Hernández

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

Exploring the impact of performance audits on public company management becomes a crucial field of study, highlighting how these critical assessments not only reveal operational effectiveness but also shape strategic and policy decisions. Plithogenic statistics analysis, in particular, emerges as an innovative approach that goes beyond traditional methods, introducing the inherent complexity of multiple interdependent variables and their dynamic effects on organizational outcomes. This statistical framework not only captures the inherent fluctuations in the data, but also unravels the root causes of varying performances, providing deep insights that challenge static perceptions of public administration. From a practical perspective, plithogenic analysis …

Use Of Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps For The Analysis Of Five Didactic Options For Instruction In The Numerical And Research Skills Of Accounting Students, José A. Orb Dávila, Rilke Chong Vela, Tomás F. Rosales León, Gina M. Castillo Huamán, Víctor R. Reátegui-Paredes

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

This article explores the innovative use of Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps to evaluate and compare five teaching approaches aimed at improving numerical and research skills among accounting students. This methodology, which integrates elements of neutrosophic theory, allows us to capture the inherent uncertainty and ambiguities in the perception and evaluation of educational options. Through a detailed and systematic analysis, the strengths and limitations of each approach are examined, highlighting how Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps offer a robust conceptual structure for discerning between the subtle complex-ities that affect effective learning. The results reveal profound elements about how different teaching strategies can influence the …

Plithogenic Hypothesis In Social Innovation: An Analysis Of Its Evolution And Its Relationship With The Social Economy, Mercedes Anabel Monar Verdezoto, Hernán Arturo Rojas Sánchez, Javier Arturo Rojas Urbano, Jorge Briceño

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

The paper examines the connection between social innovation, social enterprises, and the social economy using the plithogenic hypothesis as a framework. The text highlights a significant deficiency in the existing body of research, specifically pointing out the lack of a unified approach that combines many views to thoroughly evaluate the influence of social innovation on economic growth. The study utilizes sophisticated analytical tools to investigate the interplay between these variables and their impact on the wider social economy. The results demonstrate that although there is a growing acknowledgment of the significance of social innovation and companies, the absence of precise …

Reproducing And Challenging Islamophobia In News Framing Of Ilhan Omar And Rashida Tlaib, Two Prominent Muslim Women In U.S. Politics, Saiqa Shahzadi

Communication ETDs

ABSTRACT

Muslim women are frequently misrepresented in U.S. mainstream media and often portrayed adversely as a homogeneous group of women defined and silenced by religious and gender oppression. Scholarly research has documented how this historical pattern of representation ignores their intersectional, complex identities and reinforces the discourse of Islamophobia. This thesis will explore this problem in the case of the first Muslim American women elected to the U.S. House of Representatives: Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan). Drawing on theories of media framing, intersectionality, and Islamophobia, the research examined 12 in-depth stories from 2019 and 2023 in three mainstream …

Application Of Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps In The Jurisprudence Of The National Court Of Justice Of Ecuador, Alipio Cadena Posso, Diana Carolina Quiroz Gordillo, Diego Xavier Chamorro Valencia, Luis Andrés Crespo Berti, Vladimir Vega Falcón

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

This research analyzes the use of neutrosophic cognitive maps in the jurisprudential examination of divorce in the National Court of Justice of Ecuador. The suggested technique intends to simulate the links between legal reasons and the psychological and emotional ramifications of divorce, therefore enhancing judicial decision-making. Resolution No. 0071 - 2018 - 38420 is evaluated to determine its influence on the protection of individual rights, presenting an original viewpoint on family law. The results gathered from the study underline the necessity to examine both the legal reasons and the psychological and emotional ramifications of divorce when making court judgments in …

Determining The Relationship Between Interculturality And Bilingualism In Bilingual Teaching In Peru Based On Plithogenic Statistics, Rafael Pinedo Coral, Aniceto Elías Aguilar Polo, Juan Ernesto Ríos Ángeles, Edgar Ricardo Yauri Rivera, Janett Karina Vásquez Pérez, Liliana Huaranga Rivera, Roberth Lozano Tacuri Toribio, Miriam Esther Campos Llana

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

The development of this research was propitiated as its main goal to determine the level of relationship that exists between interculturality and bilingualism in bilingual teachers of regular basic education in the rural area of Callería, Ucayali, Peru, during 2023. The study was developed through simple random sampling, in the population that is made up of 581 bilingual teachers. The sample comprises 174 of these teachers, to whom two questionnaires were applied as data collection instruments prepared from the survey technique; thus concluding that there is a direct and significant relationship between interculturality and bilingualism. We determined that the use …

Nidus Idearum. Scilogs, Xiv: Superhyperalgebra, Florentin Smarandache

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

In this fourteenth book of scilogs – one may find topics on examples where neutrosophics works and others don’t, law of included infinitely-many-middles, decision making in games and real life through neutrosophic lens, sociology by neutrosophic methods, Smarandache multispace, algebraic structures using natural class of intervals, continuous linguistic set, cyclic neutrosophic graph, graph of neutrosophic triplet group , how to convert the crisp data to neutrosophic data, n-refined neutrosophic set ranking, adjoint of a square neutrosophic matrix, neutrosophic optimization, de-neutrosophication, the n-ary soft set relationship, hypersoft set, extending the hypergroupoid to the superhypergroupoid, alternative ranking, Dezert-Smarandache Theory (DSmT), reconciliation between …

Neutrosophic Sets And Systems, Vol. 68,2024, Florentin Smarandache, Mohamed Abdel-Basset, Said Broumi

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Neutrosophy Means: Common Parts To Uncommon Things And Uncommon Parts To Common Things, Florentin Smarandache

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

Let be an item, concept, idea, proposition, school of thought, current, theory, etc. and be the opposite of . Analogously for and its opposite . Neutrosophy means to find: (i) (ii) common parts to uncommon things (that is, and have something in common, or their intersection ∩ is not empty), and vice versa: (ii) uncommon parts to common things (the two equal items = have also uncommon parts, either ∩ is not empty, or ∩ is not empty). Both, the Common Parts to Uncommon Things, and the Uncommon Parts to Common Things, end up being parts of indeterminacy / neutrality …

¿Qué Lengua Hablas?: The Interaction Of Languages, Education And Identity In A Majority/Minority Sociolinguistic Setting, Luisa F. Hurtado Iglesias

Spanish and Portuguese ETDs

This thesis presents a comparative analysis of language dynamics in two distinct contexts: the Tres Fronteras region, where Spanish and Portuguese intersect, and Cauca, Colombia, where Namtrik and Spanish coexist. Through qualitative research methods including interviews and ethnographic observations, the study examines the roles of these languages in shaping social interactions, cultural identities, and community dynamics.

By exploring language use patterns, attitudes, and policies in these regions, the thesis seeks to uncover similarities and differences in the ways Spanish, Portuguese, and Namtrik influence individuals' sense of belonging and cultural expression. Furthermore, the study examines the impact of historical, social, and …

A Multiple Case Study Of Asl Mentoring For The Field Of Interpreting, Andy Lim

Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies ETDs

Drawn on the theoretical principles of sociocultural theory and constructivism, the aim of this multiple case study was to explore and understand the experiences of interpreting students, interpreter graduates, and pre-certified working interpreters after receiving ASL mentoring for at least 3 months to a year and to learn about the roles and impacts that ASL mentoring had on those groups of people as ASL mentees. Graduated from their respective 4-year universities for a bachelor’s degree related to the field of interpreting, participants included one interpreting student and one interpreter graduate, both of whom were from southern California, and one pre-certified …

Welfare As We Know It Now: Examination Of State-Level Effects Of Welfare Expenditure And Policy Restrictiveness On Crime And Group-Specific Arrests Over Twenty-Four Years Following Reform, Elizabeth Ann Sabbath

Sociology ETDs

The current project investigates how two different ways of operationalizing welfare—as an expenditure or as a policy of restrictive regulations—could shape the distribution of crime rates within a place and over time. In addressing the significance of its measures, the project also explores how welfare interacts with the broader economic forces of a place to influence crime rates over time. Finally, the project explores how welfare measures can predict arrest rates disaggregated by different gender and race groups. Panel fixed effects measure whether within-state changes in crime and group-specific arrests are explained by expenditure and restrictiveness observed repeatedly from the …

Social Identity Theory In Emergency Response Organizations, Erik J. Litzenberg

Health, Exercise, and Sports Sciences ETDs

Emergency response organizations operate in an increasingly complex environment and could benefit from further understanding of culture. While there is not a single measure of culture, Social Identity Theory (SIT) examines the effect of group informed identities on individual perceptions and group participation. The purpose of this study was to explore SIT as it relates to emergency response organizations. A survey was shared with responders across the United States; a total of 397 responses were collected and analyzed. Social identification and groupness scores were relatively high (Mean = 5.40 on a scale of 1-7; Mean = 7.29 on a scale …

Healthcare Social Network Research And The Echo Model™: Exploring A Community Of Practice To Support Cultural Brokers And Transfer Cultural Knowledge, Phil Nixon, Chiara Broccatelli, Perrin Moss, Sarah Baggio, Angela Young, Dana Newcomb

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BACKGROUND: Project ECHO

METHODS: Social network theories and methods informed the collection of network data and analysis of advice-seeking relationships among ECHO network members and their nominees. Registered members from two ECHO networks were invited to complete the Qualtrics survey. Networks analysed comprised 398 professionals from mainstream health, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Controlled Health Organisation, education, disability and child safety service settings.

RESULTS: Brokers were well represented, both those who hold knowledge brokerage positions as well as cultural brokers who incorporate clinical and cultural knowledge enabling holistic care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients (38 individuals, 17% …