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Measuring Social Networks For Real-Time Competitive Advantage, Singapore Management University

Perspectives@SMU

Social networks offer up a goldmine of information just waiting to be exploited. For the first time, human relationships, comments and activities are documented quite publicly on platforms like Facebook and Twitter. Save for privacy concerns, never before has it been easier to know what people think, what they like, and to whom they are connected.

Designing Qualitative Research, Yu Fu

Organization Management Journal

No abstract provided.

Literature Review Relating To The Current Context And Discourse Of Indigenous Tertiary Education In Australia, Michele Lonsdale, Greta Rollo, Jenny Wilkinson, Ali Radloff, Stephanie Armstrong, Gina Milgate, Jenny Trevitt

Indigenous Education Research

This review outlines some of the themes that have emerged in the growing global discourse of Indigenous education in the higher education sector. The past decade and a half have seen increased numbers of Indigenous students and academic staff in universities, a proliferation of publications exploring Indigenous issues in the academy, and heightened interest in the nature and meaning of Indigenous knowledge and studies.

This review examined information provided by 22 Australian universities to gain a picture of the research fields and topics that are attracting most interest from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander graduates and academics. It also reviewed …

Measuring Social Networks For Real-Time Competitive Advantage, Knowledge@Smu

Knowledge@SMU

Social networks offer up a goldmine of information. Save for privacy concerns, it has never before been easier for researchers to understand the needs and wants of their subjects or to examine links between the likes and dislikes of connected individuals. Going beyond the report of human quirks over the internet, however, web 2.0 data has practical uses too, especially for professionals in finance and marketing. At the 3rd International Conference on Social Informatics, hosted by SMU's School of Information Systems, academics discussed the hurdles and real-world benefits of data mining.

Revising Our Curriculum/ Empowering Students: Teachers’ Preparation And Perceptions About Bilingual Writing, Maria Luisa Spicer-Ecalante

Languages, Philosophy, and Communication Studies Faculty Publications

While emphasis on writing instruction has been a main concern in teaching Spanish to bilingual students in the U. S., it is an area in which very few theoretical advances have been made; in Mexico’s case the situation is even more challenging. Therefore, based on classroom observations, and individual interviews with both teachers and students, and on the collection of class syllabi, this paper seeks to describe the current state of affairs regarding Spanish and English writing instruction for bilingual students in both countries. The main objectives are: 1) the analysis and comparison of the diverse teaching methodologies that high …

Bard Free Press, Vol. 13, No. 3 (November 2011), Bard College

Bard Free Press - All Issues (2000-2018)

No abstract provided.

Drakes, Seadevils, And Similarity Fetishism, P.D. Magnus

Philosophy Faculty Scholarship

Homeostatic property clusters (HPCs) are offered as a way of understanding natural kinds, especially biological species. I review the HPC approach and then discuss an objection by Ereshefsky and Matthen, to the effect that an HPC qua cluster seems ill-fitted as a description of a polymorphic species. The standard response by champions of the HPC approach is to say that all members of a polymorphic species have things in common, namely dispositions or conditional properties. I argue that this response fails. Instances of an HPC kind need not all be similar in their exhibited properties. Instead, HPCs should instead be …

What Schooling Engenders: Reflections From Arab States, Muslim Societies And Beyond, Charis Boutieri

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review on:

• Osama Abi-Mershed (Ed.). Trajectories of Education in the Arab World: Legacies and Challenges. Routledge. 2010.
• Sakurai Keiko and Fariba Adelkhah (Eds.). The Moral Economy of the Madrasa: Islam and Education Today. Routledge. 2011.

David Palfreyman And Ted Tapper. Structuring Mass Higher Education: The Role Of Elite Institutions. New York: Routledge Press. 2009., Ryan Guffey Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

No abstract provided.

Rethinking Assimilation Through The Lens Of Transnational Migration, Bo Yong Lee

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Given the changing global environment and different experiences of the new immigrants, it is necessary to delve into the question of how the notions and patterns of immigration and assimilation change through the lens of transnational migration that focuses on the connection of immigrants to the context of both sending and receiving countries. Recognizing the transnational religious activities and creative adaptations of the new immigrants to new environments can enrich the study of assimilation, which reflects the changing picture of multilayered American society and its constituents. To examine the assimilation process of Korean immigrants through their transnational religious activities, my …

Look Back!, A. Ross Eckler

Word Ways

In his first column as Kickshaws editor in Feb. 1989, Dave Morice showed how one can construct chains of state names using thier postal codes: Maine contains IN, the postal code for Indiana; Indiana contains IA, the postal code for Iowa; Iowa contains WA, the postal code for Washington, and so on. More generally, one can construct a directed network of state names containing a core of states, any one of which can reach any other (AK AL LA IA WA IN ND AND HI), starter states which can be chained to the core but which cannot themselves be reached …

Martin Gardner And Gilbert Chesterton, Jeremish Farrell

Word Ways

Crossword Puzzle

Too Hot To Hoot, Jeff Grant

Word Ways

The classic palindrome in the title appears in a 'Palindromic Conversation Between Two Owls' in Howard Bergerson's Palindromes and Anagrams (Dover Publications, 1973).

Quarterly Riddle Roundup, Jim Puder

Word Ways

Each ot the last four issues of Word Ways has offered one or more articles discussing Eliza Hurst's 1782 Ladies' Diary riddle or enigma, and this article continues the fad. Herewith the latest on this topic so far as I am aware of it at press time, plus some items of related interest.

Vowels V Consonants, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

The Vowels and Consonants are playing football but not exactly as we know the game. The matches are either 2 a side, 3 a side, 4 a side or 5 a side games. Amazingly, each game always ends in a score draw, in some cases an extremely high-scoring draw!

A Puzzle, Jeremiah P. Farrell

Word Ways

A crossword puzzle

Vintage Plastic Sliding-Letter Puzzles, Mike Keith

Word Ways

One artifact from my childhood in the 1960's that I still remember vividly is the series of plastic sliding block puzzles manuafactured by The Roalex Company of Forest Hills, NY (no relation to the maker of fine timepieces).

Punk Whiz 16, A. Anil

Word Ways

Oh, no, yet more Pun Quiz misdefinitions! In paranethesis are the letters in the answer, (3|6) is a charade, a nine letter word that spilits into a three plus six letter pun. My answers are out back.

Truthful Arithmetical Charades, Mike Keith

Word Ways

In (WW, May 2011, p.99) Anil introduces a construct which I will call a Truthful Arithmetical Charade. In the simplest kind, the name for a number (say, FIVE) is converted to its sequence of letter values (6, 9, 22, 5) and then an arthimetic expression (using just the elementary operations of add, subtract, multiply, and divide) is sought that uses these numbers in order to produce a value equal to the original number.

Colloquy

Word Ways

A collection of responses to previously published articles.

Phonetic Aeiou, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

According to the phonetics list in the Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Ed., the phonetic symbols which represent the 5 major vowels as they are pronounced in the alphabet are:

Riddles: Sherlockian, Joycian, Freudian "Eye", Tomoyuki Tanaka

Word Ways

"Why is a raven like a writing desk?" I love hard riddles. Even if a riddle was designed to have no solution, we can often think of good answers anyway (e.g. Poe wrote on both).

Kickshaws, David Morice

Word Ways

A collection of linguistic kickshaws.

Fractional Phrases, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

The phrase HAND OVER FIST could be interepreted as an instruction to place the word HAND over the word Fist. When the letters of HAND and FIST are assigned their aphabetical values (a=1, b=2 etc.) HAND (8+1+14+4) = 27 and FIST (6+9+19+20) = 54. So HAND over Fist = 27/54 which can be reduced to 1/2. Hence, HAND OVER FIST ia a fractional phrase equal to one half.

Anagram Quiz 4

Word Ways

The clues are definitve anagrams or polyanagrams of the answers. Answers are out back.

On The Distinction Between "Phonetic" Palindromes And "Phonetically" Reversible Words, T.A. Hall

Word Ways

1. Defining three types of words By definition, a palindrome is a word, phrase or sentence that reads the same in the reverse direction as in the forward one. Simple examples of four letter English palindromes include SEES and DEED, but a moment's reflection reveals there is a fundamental difference between these two words.

The Antiquity Of The Dreidle, Solomon W. Golomb

Word Ways

Dear Rabbi Dov, As I mentioned to you a few days ago, the dreidle is actually an ancient toy, but I may be one the very few people who knows this, and I discovered it by accident.

Simon's 2000 Christmas Card, Simon Nightingale

Word Ways

Dear Jerry, This is my 2000 Christmas card. It is hard! The obvious clue is: If you want HELP!, then "... --- ..." How to assign Morse code to the objects is not easy.

Invertible Word Squares And Rectangles, Mike Keith

Word Ways

Eric Harshbarger recently posed an interesting question: what are the largest word squares or rectangles that can be found which transform into another, valid word square or rectangle when turned upside down?

Unsociable Diplomats And Misnamed Wombats: More Funny Bloopers And Barbed Ripostes, Don Hauptman

Word Ways

In a Wall Street Journal forum on terrorism, published on September 9, 2011, a former top government official wrote: " We went to war with Germany in 1941 not because it had attacked Pearl Harbor but because it was dangerous." Does he really think Germany rather than Japan attacked Pear Harbor? Or is it just a sloppily crafted sentence?