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Condominium--Statutory Implementation, William K. Kerr

St. John's Law Review

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Global-Mindedness And Intercultural Competence: A Quantitative Study Of Pre-Service Teachers, Qi Cui

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A Biliteracy Dialogue Approach To One-On-One Writing Instruction With Bilingual, Mexican, Immigrant Writers, W. Jason Stegemoller

Faculty Publications

This interpretive study explores the writing and writing experiences of 2 bilingual, Mexican, immigrant undergraduates at a US university. Hornberger and Skilton-Sylvester’s (2003) continua model of biliteracy situates writing interactions to understand how students explore and draw on their bilingual and bicultural resources as they develop academic writing in English in the university. Data include questionnaires, literacy history interview-conversations, text-based conversations, student writing, course syllabi, and assignment sheets. Biliteracy dialogues demonstrate how students approached writing. The 1st student, Diego, focused on negotiating what he perceived as appropriate to include in his writing, while the 2nd student, Nicolas, connected to academic …

Shattering The Political Or The Question Of War In Heidegger’S "Letter On Humanism.”, Babette Babich

Working Papers

Jean Beaufret’s question concerning humanism was “politically” framed on several levels as initially presented to Heidegger.1 Accordingly, Heidegger’s own response was itself political: invoking both technology and the self-same question of science that we remain—and to this day—still “too pious” (in Nietzsche’s words) to be able to frame as a question: the very same question Heidegger develops in his later lectures delivered to the businessmen of Germany, including his Question Concerning Technology. The preoccupation with thinking technology and thinking science remains with Heidegger to the end of his life. Even more significant perhaps (particularly in proximity with Heidegger’s focus …

Similar Goals And Dueling Agendas: Perceptions Of Campus Internationalization And Equity Policy, Kati Bell

The Global Education Office | Staff Scholarship

As the implementation of comprehensive internationalization becomes more commonplace at US universities, there are growing concerns about how policies and mandates driving internationalization impact existing campus programs. While comprehensive internationalization policy creates programs that provide educational opportunities to students, these programs on campus are likely to increase inequity. Based on a case study of a university, internationalization and equity policies were critically examined through document analysis and structured interviews. Using an organizational theory lens, this study assessed the level of congruency between the university’s stated goals of equity and internationalization (espoused theories), with the day-to-day practices of the international and …

The Use Of Technology To Support Vocabulary Development Of English Language Learners, Megan Clark

Education Masters

This study asks the question: how can the use of an iPad application be used to support English language learners vocabulary development? Technology can be used as an engaging, supplementary tool to foster vocabulary learning for ELLs. Research was conducted in Clark, New York (pseudonym) with a group of five ELL students and focused on vocabulary development; three students completed teacher-made worksheets and two students completed iPad activities. Three themes were found when conducting research: explicit instruction compared to the iPad, the use of visual and audio components to increase vocabulary knowledge, and differences in engagement and behavior. These findings …

Vocabulary And Word Study To Increase Comprehension In Content Areas For Struggling Readers, Leslie Glende

Education Masters

This action research was conducted to examine how instructional strategies and providing students with vocabulary strategies support word knowledge and increased comprehension in content areas for struggling readers. From the literature review, a combination of direct instruction and vocabulary strategies were suggested to increase word knowledge and comprehension. Research was conducted in a special education classroom with four students. Through surveys, interviews, and observation, it was evident that vocabulary strategies positively impacted students’ ability to comprehend social studies content. These findings call for teachers to evaluate their instructional practices to provide direct instruction combined with vocabulary strategies. Many opportunities should …

Guided Reading Instruction: How Literacy Candidates Understand And Instruct Using Guided Reading In A Literacy Clinic, Nicole Ackerman

Education Masters

Guided reading is an instructional method that is used in various classrooms around the country. This study asked the question: In a literacy clinic, how do literacy candidates understand guided reading, and what characteristics do effective literacy candidates exhibit? Research was done in in Plaintown, New York (a pseudonym) with four literacy candidates in a literacy clinic. Through interviews with literacy instructors and candidates, observations of instruction in the clinic, and by reviewing student work, it was found that there is a distinct difference between what literacy candidates and instructors understand about guided reading instruction and how it should look. …

Scholarworks Statistics - May 2013, Scholarworks

ScholarWorks Reports

For the month of May 2013, ScholarWorks recorded a total of 27,331 full-text downloads and 13,241 page views.

Examining The Confluence Of Literature And Mathematics Through Art, Sofia Alavosius

Senior Honors Projects

Twentieth century novelist and scientist C. P. Snow noted the division of “two cultures,” namely the divide between the sciences and the humanities. Snow argued these were distinctive and separated cultures in the mid 1950s. The “two cultures” are also present during the Renaissance. This appears in the artwork and literary and mathematical texts of the period. The divide between the humanities and sciences is something that we can easily distinguish in the twenty-first century as well.

I use the discourse of C. P. Snow’s “two cultures” to work through this relationship and to explore the cultural perspectives of these …

Experiencing Citizenship In A Globalizing World: The Impact Of Off-Campus Programs, Ryan Owen Williams

Political Science - Dissertations

College serves as a critical time in the lives of young adults in the formulation of their identification with citizenship, of their sense of belonging or affiliation. In an era of increasing globalization, this psychological dimension of citizenship requires further research and elaboration. This project seeks to determine if and how the academic and off-campus choices students make in college impact their worldview, their loyalties and sense of responsibility toward others. How far do students' allegiances extend and what experiences in college help to create these bonds and commitments? This study asks whether international experience via study abroad is a …

Feminisms At The Door: Gender And Sex At A Women's College, Susan Chappell Overton

Cultural Foundations of Education - Dissertations & Theses

This dissertation is a qualitative study of early 21st century American female college students' experiences of their gender, sexuality, and racial identities, and of institutional politics as their single-sex college transitioned to co-education. It is an ethnography that utilizes feminist theorizing to understand tensions between feminists of different generations or waves; the complexities of identities and institutions in which gender, sexuality, and race intersect (bell hooks and Kimberle Crenshaw); and the workings of dominant gender and sexual norms (Judith Butler). As the College prepared to `go coed,' the prospect of introducing male bodies into this environment generated rich discourses about …

Mandala Spring/Summer 2013, Center For Southeast Asian Studies

Mandala

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An Optimal Strategy Model For Purchasing Initial Public Offerings In China, Dong Huang, Xiaolong Wang, Jingjing Ma, Ronggang Dou

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences

An optimal recommend model for purchasing Chinese IPOs (Initial Public Offerings) based on artificial intelligence method is proposed here. In this paper, we focus on how to get the optimal income in a period of time. In order to avoid the problem of sparsity by separate method, combinations of classification, regression and maximum entropy are adopted to adjust the density of the filters in Double-layer filter model we propose.We improve the accuracy of the forecasting by structuring data in preprocessing, adjusting filters’ density level by the entropy of maximum entropy, the probability of the classification and regression algorithm. The experimental …

Intelligent Control Of Air Compressor Production Process, Gongfa Li, Yuesheng Gu, Jianyi Kong, Guozhang Jiang, Liangxi Xie, Zehao Wu

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences

The air compressor provides not only the required pressure air for the cooling equipment and refrigeration plant, but also the raw material required for the air separation plant. Utilizing the air compressor is extremely extensive in many significant departments such as the metallurgy, oil and chemical industry. The air compressor production process is a time-varying, delay and nonlinear complex system and gas consumption in the industrial field is irregular. Defects in the traditional control method lead to the pressure instability of the compressed air outputted from the air compressor in volatile gas-consumption situations, sometimes a wide range of fluctuation arising. …

A Resolution Method For Linguistic Many-Valued Logic, Le Anh Phuong, Tran Dinh Khang

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences

This paper studies the linguistic truth value domain (AX) based on finite monotonous hedge algebra and then we extend lukasiewicz algebra on [0; 1] to linguistic lukasiewicz algebra on linguistic truth value domain (AX), in an attempt to propose a general resolution for linguistic many-valued logic based on hedge moving rules and linguistic lukasiewicz algebra for linguistic reasoning. Its theorems of soundness and completeness associated with general resolution are also proved. This reflects the symbolic approach acts by direct reasoning on linguistic truth value domain.

Research And Development Of Granular Neural Networks, Hui Li, Shifei Ding

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences

Granular neural networks(GNNs) as a new calculation system structure based on Granular Computing(GrC) and artificial neural network can be able to deal with all kinds of granular information of the real world. This article has made the summary on the development and the present situation of GNNs. Firstly, it introduces the basic model of GrC: word calculation model based on fuzzy sets theory, rough sets model, granular computing model based on quotient space theory and so on, summarizes the research progress of fuzzy neural networks(FNNs) and rough neural networks(RNNs), then analyses the ensemble-based methods of GNNs, researches their meeting point …

The Case Of Brown, Sara Ellingsworth

Colloquy Undergraduate Research Journal

The world is understood through the formation of categories, of defining what something is and what something is not, totalizing an experience, person, or word in order to come to an understanding of its essential meaning. Associations color one’s thoughts whether they are fully acknowledged or not. Without exploring the associations, accumulated through personal experience, that determine one’s view of another individual, there is a danger of marginalizing that person, instead of allowing them to fully inhabit their identity. In the following, I aim to expose the ways in which Richard Rodriguez uses Jacques Derrida’s concept of deconstruction as a …

Perception Of Profanity In Interpersonal Relationships, Ashley Pivaronas, Jessica Benham, Stephanie Melhaff

Colloquy Undergraduate Research Journal

Swearing is a form of language commonly used, yet its use is oftentimes viewed negatively in certain contexts (Johnson & Lewis, 2010). Swearing is an interesting form of expression because it is not a behavior typically taught or encouraged by authority figures (Thelwall, 2008). Hamilton (1989) emphasized the importance of examining the influence of perception of profanity usage by the receiver of the profanity, noting that perceived obscenity can differ from person to person. This study examined how gender and political orientation influence perception of profanity usage. Relationship to the user of the expletive, as well as the specific expletive …

An Investigation Of Digital Reference Interviews: A Dialogue Act Approach, Keisuke Inoue

School of Information Studies - Dissertations

The rapid increase of computer-mediated communications (CMCs) in various forms such as micro-blogging (e.g. Twitter), online chatting (e.g. digital reference) and community- based question-answering services (e.g. Yahoo! Answers) characterizes a recent trend in web technologies, often referred to as the social web. This trend highlights the importance of supporting linguistic interactions in people's online information-seeking activities in daily life - something that the web search engines still lack because of the complexity of this hu- man behavior. The presented research consists of an investigation of the information-seeking behavior of digital reference services through analysis of discourse semantics, called dialogue acts, …

Iberian Globalization And The Rise Of Catholic Theology Of Religions In The Xvi Century, Enrico Beltramini Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

This article provides a synthetic view of the historical and theological components that explain how Catholicism came to understand the great religious systems in Asia as doctrinally inferior during the sixteenth century in response to the discovery/invasion of the “New Worlds” by Iberian Europeans.2 A strong emphasis on the universal salvific will of God led Catholic theologians to elaborate a doctrine that ultimately altered Catholicism’s understanding of non-Christian religions. 3 The article suggests that the predominant Catholic view of non-Christian religions has been shaped by a specific theological vision that was raised in sixteenth century Southern Europe. In order to …

A.N. Brady (Ed.) China’S Thought Management. Oxon And New York: Routledge. 2012., Elisa Nesossi Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Mary Crawford. Sex Trafficking In South Asia: Telling Maya’S Story. London And New York: Routledge. 2010, Vinod Janardhanan

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Not-So-Sweet Sixteen: When Minor Convictions Have Major Consequences Under Career Offender Guidelines, Andrew Tunnard

Vanderbilt Law Review

This Note looks beyond the circuit split to the larger juvenile justice issues implicated by these sentencing practices. Part II provides a brief overview of the juvenile justice system, juvenile transfer statutes, and the Guidelines. Part III explores the interpretive issues that have led to this circuit split. Part IV explains why resolving this circuit split requires more than choosing one side, and expands the discussion by analyzing the impact of recent judicial and scientific trends on the treatment of juvenile offenders in the adult system. Part V proposes that convictions occurring before the age of eighteen should not be …

Associative Processes In Statistical Learning: Paradoxical Predictions Of The Past, Jennifer Patricia Provyn

Psychology - Dissertations

The ability to process sequences of input and extract regularity across the distribution of input is fundamental for making predictions from the observed past to the future. Prediction is rooted in the extraction of both frequency- and conditional statistics from the distribution of inputs. For example, an animal hunting for food may consistently return to a particular area to hunt if relative to all other areas visited, that area has the highest frequency of prey. In contrast, humans asked to predict the next word in a sentence must make a prediction based upon higher-order regularities rather than simple frequency statistics …

Requests Of Brown By Lc Classification: May 2013, Ruth E.. Souto

HELIN Monthly Loan Statistics

Requests of Brown from other HELIN libraries - May 2013

Anagrammatical Poem, Jason Lofts

Word Ways

A poem.

The Role Of String Similarity Metrics In Ontology Alignment, Michelle Cheatham, Pascal Hitzler

Computer Science and Engineering Faculty Publications

Tim Berners-Lee originally envisioned a much different world wide web than the one we have today - one that computers as well as humans could search for the information they need [3]. There are currently a wide variety of research efforts towards achieving this goal, one of which is ontology alignment.