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Not All One-Letter Words Are Palindromes, T.A. Hall

Word Ways

Virtually any discussion of palindromes - regardless of the source - reveals a complete lack of interest in small words. In particular, one will rarely encounter a list of one-letter palindromes, presumably because that type of word should be palindromic by any definition. While this is clearly the case for the most common, garden-variety examples (e.g. A, I, O etc.) the naive view will have us believe that one-letter words with an adjacent apostrophe -typically contracted words in English - should be palindromes as well.

Mnemonics In Second Language Acquisition, Ghil'ad Zuckermann

Word Ways

When my son Giulio Xingtian Yehuda Zuckermann, a.k.a. Giulio XYZ, was 2 years old he already knew the Israeli word for 'fish' : DAG. Due to the general tendency towards final devoicing (see, for example, German kind, pronounced kint, or a German immigrant to Israel pronouncing Negev as Negef), Giulio often pronounced DAG as DAK.

Neologisms Beginning With The Letters Q Through S, J. James Mancuso

Word Ways

Neologisms beginning with the Letters Q through S.

Celestial Magic- Another Magic Spell, Jeremiah Farrell

Word Ways

Our celestial magic is a variation of the effect in "A Magic Tour" (February 2011) which in turn was an adaptation from Jim Steinmeyer's Subsequent Impuzzibilities.

Answers And Solutions

Word Ways

Answers and solutions to the puzzles in this issue.

Organizational Apologies: Bp As A Case Study, Erin O'Hara O'Connor

Scholarly Publications

On April 20, 2010, the Macondo oil well ruptured during the final phases of exploratory drilling. Methane gas and other substances spewed from the well onto the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform causing an explosion and fire that killed eleven crewmen and ultimately sank the platform. Over the next three months, the well, located approximately 250 miles southeast of Houston, Texas, spilled as much as 184 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. In the aftermath, the U.S. government banned deepwater drilling for several months while applicable regulations were toughened.

The well’s majority owner was BP PLC, formerly known …

Prism #58, November 2011, Office Of The Provost

Prism: Western Michigan University's Newsletter for Academic Affairs

No abstract provided.

A 2011 International Shorten Vision Of The History And Philosophy Of Andragogy, John Henschke

Adult Education Faculty Works

This updated History and Philosophy of Andragogy is mainly limited [with a few exceptions] to a chronological history and the accompanying philosophy of andragogy, in line with when the English language documents were published and personal descriptions of events were recorded. Some of these documents, however, present aspects of the events and ideas which recount the years and contexts prior to the time in which they appeared in published form. To date, nearly 400 documents have been discovered, but space limitations in this paper allowed the inclusion of only a fraction of that number. Each of 14 time periods are …

Women's Studies Newsletter 11-2011, Susana Peña

Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Organizational Apologies: Bp As A Case Study, Erin O'Hara O'Connor

Vanderbilt Law Review

This Article examines the conduct of BP executives in the weeks following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill to illuminate the use of apology by organizations. After briefly describing the value of apology and its nuances from an evolutionary perspective, the Article describes how apology and other responsibility-accepting behaviors can be mobilized by organizations to avoid the costs of its apparently careless conduct. In particular, organizations can designate particular agents as spokespersons who possess the ability to portray a sense of sincerity and regret. Moreover, reconciliation by ingroup members appears to be more common than is reconciliation by outgroup members, likely …

Icda Midwest Region E-Newsletter, November 2011

ICDA Mid-West Region Newsletter

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in USA

ICDA Mid-West Region Newsletter

Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 44 Number 4

Word Ways

Front cover and publication information for this issue.

Back Cover

Word Ways

Back Cover of this issue including instructions for authors.

Turning Miranda Right Side Up: Post-Waiver Invocations And The Need To Update The Miranda Warnings, Joshua I. Hammack

Notre Dame Law Review

The article discusses the Miranda rights that is used as warnings to crime suspects who arrested by police. It informs that the full intention of the Miranda rights are not provided to suspect and are unfair, especially to suspects who have waived their rights, because they provide no guidance regarding how to invoke one's right. It informs that an amendment is to be made for the warnings so that it can be effective.

Case Studies Of At-Risk Middle Grades Students And Literacy Applications Including Technology, Francine Falk-Rose, Principal Investigator

Cornerstone 1 Reports : Expansion and Enhancements of the Thinkfinity Platform

No abstract provided.

Forming National Unity Among The National Service Program (Mnsp) Participant Through The Language And Literature Program (Llp), F.P. Chew, P.L. Lau

Research Publications (2011 to 2015)

The aim of this study is to examine whether the Language and Literature Program (LLP) is effective in fostering the understanding and national unity among the various ethnic groups of National Service Program (MNSP) participants in Malaysia through the national literature mechanism. There are characteristics of literature on the ethnic group's relationship in the anthology of poems, My Motherland (2005), the mandatory text book for the participants. Quantitative method was applied by using a questionnaire to survey the acceptance of the MNSP participants toward the above anthology. Three National Service camps selected for this study represented three zones of Malaysia …

Social Networks And The Business Value Of Social Media, S. Kumar, J. Mohd. Jan

Research Publications (2011 to 2015)

Social Media (SM) is a participatory people-to-people media that leverages Web 2.0. Internet technology to facilitate individuals to connect to one another. SM assists in an effective dialogue between users, thus, enabling them to dynamically participate, review and contribute their thoughts, feelings, ideas, photos, videos, among others. Businesses are using SM to see how the products are being reviewed and rated by consumers and what the blogs and discussion boards are telling about their company and its products. Others are building businesses around this technology. By observing several blogs, discussion forums, social networking sites and general websites, we critically evaluate …

Some Things Are Better Left Not Unsaid: An Exploratory Study Of The Communicatively-Restricted Organizational Stressor, Justin P. Boren, Alice E. Veksler

Communication

In organizations, individuals seek the support of others to manage their day-to-day stress. Researchers within a social support paradigm have found that individuals who have communicative outlets to discuss their stressors are healthier psychologically and physiologically. To the extent that those outlets are restricted, individuals may suffer the deleterious effects of stress. Therefore, this manuscript conceptualizes and explores one such stressor, the Communicatively-Restricted Organizational Stressor (CROS). Based on a sample of 405 organizational members, we identified the existence and explicated the nature of this stressor. Results were generally inconclusive. Discussion focused on significant findings and the need for better operationalization …

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International Journal of Interpreter Education

No abstract provided.

Open Access Advocacy: Beginning Steps In Colorado Academic Libraries, Wendy Highby

University Libraries Publications

This poster, presented by Wendy Highby at the Berlin 9 Open Access Conference in 2011, outlines the early efforts of Colorado academic libraries to advocate for open access. It highlights foundational initiatives including institutional repository development, policy adoption, faculty outreach, and collaborative planning. The poster emphasizes that effective open access advocacy requires aligning publication infrastructure, policy, promotion, and participatory planning, with examples from institutions such as Colorado State University, University of Northern Colorado, and University of Colorado Boulder.

Hyphenated Identities As A Challenge To Nation-State School Practice?, Edmund T. Hamann, William England

Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Faculty Publications

This chapter concludes the edited volume Hyphenated Identities and affords a chance to juxtapose how transnational students negotiate school and identity with how school systems in turn view such students, and then it allows the examination of two different strategies -- situational ethnicity versus the assertion of hyphenated identity -- as a glimpse into the cosmology of transnationally mobile students as they come into adulthood.

Tired Of Talking: A Call For Clear Strategies For Legal Education Reform: Moving Beyond The Discussion Of Good Ideas To The Real Transformation Of Law Schools, Sara K. Rankin

Seattle Journal for Social Justice

Legal education reform efforts have persisted for over one hundred years, supported by substantive expertise, empirical data, cutting-edge curricula, and effective pedagogy. But today, the normative face of legal education remains essentially unchanged. If the substance behind legal education reform is valid, then what is the problem? This article examines the stasis of legal education through the lens of historical reform efforts, political science, and contemporary organizational change theory. The author argues that legal education reform efforts are marginalized and have limited normative impact because reformers underestimate the strategic demands of systemic change. As a result, reformers have yet to …

Identifying Outliers In Fuzzy Time Series, S. Suresh, K. Senthamarai Kannan

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

Time series analysis is often associated with the discovery of patterns and prediction of features. Forecasting accuracy can be improved by removing identified outliers in the data set using the Cook’s distance and Studentized residual test. In this paper a modified fuzzy time series method is proposed based on transition probability vector membership function. It is experimentally shown that the proposed method minimizes the average forecasting error compared with other known existing methods.

The Need To Increase The Size Of The Deployable Army, Michael O'Hanlon

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.

Understanding The Evolving Roles Of Improvement–Oriented High School Teachers In Gilgit-Baltistan, Takbir Ali

Institute for Educational Development, Karachi

In this paper the author presents a framework for understanding how improvement-oriented high school teachers’ accounts of change experiences portray their evolving roles as change agents in school reform. The data on which this paper is based come from a one-year long in-depth study (doctoral thesis research project) in which the author set out to investigate how improvement-oriented teachers pursue important changes in the realm of classroom, school and community; how the teachers-initiated changes can be characterized; and how the teachers’ roles evolve with their change practices. The researcher employed qualitative case study methodology, using in-depth interviews, classroom observations, post-observation …

Aetc-Nmc E-News Issue 3, Aetc Staff

AETC-NMC e-News

No abstract provided.

Culture, Language, And Gendered Violence In Southern Nevada, Kathleen Ja Sook Bergquist

Policy Briefs and Reports

The U.S. Census estimated approximately 25.1% of Nevadans in 2006 to 2008 to be non-white, 27.3% speak English as a second language, and 24.9% Hispanic. The three most commonly spoken languages in Las Vegas are English, Spanish, and Tagalog, reflecting the growing Spanish-speaking and Asian communities in Southern Nevada. Service providers struggle with providing relevant services for these communities, to include addressing gendered violence. This project seeks to further current knowledge about gendered violence in Spanish-speaking and Asian communities, to examine the capacity of local providers, and identify possible linguistic and cultural barriers that may compound education, outreach, and intervention.

Why Don't They Get It?: Academic Intelligence And The Under-Prepared Student As "Other", Deborah Zalesne, David Nadvorney

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

Robust Peacekeeping? Panacea For Human Rights Violations, Kofi Nsia-Pepra

Peace and Conflict Studies

This paper examines the conviction that robust peacekeeping—a strong and forceful peacekeeping force—works better than traditional UN peacekeeping mechanisms in reducing human rights violations, specifically, civilian killing, in areas of deployment. I seek to analyze both the operational and internal characteristics of UN peacekeeping operations in an effort to understand the hindrances to achieving the objective of protecting human rights. Specifically, the study examines the contributions of key structural variables, including the mission type, weapon type, rules of engagement, mission strength, and major power participation controlling for other intervening variables using negative binomial and logit regression models. The empirical results …

A Model For Enhancing Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, And Belonging In A Speech Pathology And Audiology Program, Elizabeth R Oommen R. Oommen, Peggy Goetz, Brian M. Kreisman, Megan Nickelson, Morgan Bykerk

University Faculty Publications and Creative Works

Purpose: The SPAUD department at Calvin University recognized the need for initiatives that focused on intentionally enfolding and supporting Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC), international, and third culture students in a competitive major like communication sciences and disorders (CSD). These initiatives focused on diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) practices, specifically: (1) to support retention and empowerment of students through peer mentoring and small group meetings; and (2) to equip the department to empower faculty and students to thrive together in the program and in their vocation through capacitybuilding.

Study design/methodology/approach: This is a case study paper outlining …