Digital Commons Network^™

Law And Intercultural Competence, Laura Nader

Global Business & Development Law Journal

No abstract provided.

The Lazar Epstein (1886-1979) Papers In Yivo: Their Usefulness To Scholars Of Asian Jewish History, Jonathan Goldstein

Journal of East Asian Libraries

No abstract provided.

Research Challenges And Opportunities In Knowledge Representation, Natasha Noy, Deborah Mcguinness, Eyal Amir, Chitta Baral, Michael Beetz, Sean Bechhofer, Craig Boutilier, Anthony Cohn, Johan De Kleer, Michel Dumontier, Tim Finin, Kenneth Forbus, Lise Getoor, Yolanda Gil, Jeff Heflin, Pascal Hitzler, Craig Knoblock, Henry Kautz, Yuliya Lierler, Vladimir Lifschitz, Peter F. Patel-Schneider, Christine Piatko, Doug Riecken, Mark Schildhauer

Computer Science and Engineering Faculty Publications

Modern intelligent systems in every area of science rely critically on knowledge representation and reasoning (KR). The techniques and methods developed by the researchers in knowledge representation and reasoning are key drivers of innovation in computer science; they have led to significant advances in practical applications in a wide range of areas from natural-­‐language processing to robotics to software engineering. Emerging fields such as the semantic web, computational biology, social computing, and many others rely on and contribute to advances in knowledge representation. As the era of “Big Data” evolves, scientists in a broad range of disciplines are increasingly relying …

Enhancing The Relevance And Effectiveness Of Water Safety Education For Ethnic And Racial Minorities, Matias Ignacio Golob, Audrey R. Giles, Kyle M. Rich

International Journal of Aquatic Research and Education

In this paper we explore the ways in which culturally based beliefs, attitudes, and behaviours influence participation in and the development and delivery of water safety education programs. We examine existing data pertaining to ethnic and racial minorities’ drowning rates and argue that these groups’ high rates of drowning are related to a failure to understand and account for non-Eurocentric beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors, and issues of social exclusion. We then summarize health communication strategies and provide real-life examples of these strategies at work in water safety education. Finally, we identify four overarching promising practices to enhance the relevance and …

Overlaps Part 1, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

If the two words PANT and TRY are merged so that the two letter Ts overlap we obtain the word PANTRY. In other words, the parent word PANTRY will split into the offspring PANT and TRY by duplicating the T. Overlaps may be of any length and can occur anywhere in a word except for the first and last letters.

What Fifth-Grade Students Reveal About Their Literacies By Writing And Telling Narratives, Dennis S. Davis

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Written and oral literacy narratives produced by seven fifth-grade students are examined to identify the literacy identities students construct when narrating their past and present experiences with reading and writing. The narrative analyses reveal four major findings: 1. The students who contributed to this study have experienced literacy in multiple modes and contexts indicative of relatively broad conceptions of what counts as literacy. 2. They primarily describe literacy experiences in positive or neutral terms; when literacy events are evaluated negatively, it is usually in response to literacy demands that diminished students’ feelings of autonomy. 3. Students in this study intuitively …

Malaysia My Second Home: Lsu Bahasa Dalam Kalangan Peserta Jepun, Stapa Siti Hamin, Natsue Hieda, Amzah Normalis, Musaev Talaibek

Archival Material (2010s)

Objektif kajian ini adalah untuk membincangkan isu bahasa dalam kalangan peserta warga Jepun yang menyertai program Malaysia My Second Home (MM2H). Metodologi kajian yang diguna pakai adalah berbentuk kuantitatif dan kualitatif. Data kajian diperolehi melalui kaedah soal selidik, diskusi kumpulan serta temu ramah individu. Seramai 100 orang peserta rakyat Jepun dipilih untuk mengisi borang soal selidik. Manakala lima orang peserta telah ditemu bual secara berkumpulan. Untuk temu bual individu pula dua orang rakyat Jepun telah dipilih. Hasil kajian menunjukkan bahawa peserta rakyat Jepun yang terlibat di dalam program MM2H memilih Malaysia kerana 'harga barang murah' dan 'cuaca yang sesuai'. Hasil …

Argument Ellipsis, Classifier Phrases, And The Dp Parameter, Hsu-Te Cheng

Doctoral Dissertations

This thesis investigates two theoretical consequences of a point of typological variation, namely, the presence/lack of Determiner Phrase (DP) in a language. I argue that the availability of Argument Ellipsis (AE) is directly tied to the lack of DP in a given language, and that (numeral) Classifier Phrases (CLP) and DP cannot co-occur in the same language.

In chapter 2, building on Bošković’s (2008a, 2012) claim that languages without articles lack DP, I investigate the status of DP in Mandarin Chinese (MC). I examine previous literature and show that claims regarding the existence of DP in MC are not supported …

Stability Of Art Preference In Frontotemporal Dementia, Andrea R. Halpern, Margaret G. O'Connor

Faculty Journal Articles

We examined aesthetic preference for reproductions of paintings among frontotemporal dementia (FTD) patients, in two sessions separated by 2 weeks. The artworks were in three different styles: representational, quasirepresentational, and abstract. Stability of preference for the paintings was equivalent to that shown by a matched group of Alzheimer's disease patients and a group of healthy controls drawn from an earlier study. We expected that preference for representational art would be affected by disruptions in language processes in the FTD group. However, this was not the case and the FTD patients, despite severe language processing deficits, performed similarly across all three …

Faculty Senate Newsletter, February 2013, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

LSU Faculty Senate Publications

Message from President: Years ago, American Airlines backgrounded its television advertisements with a hauntingly optimistic jingle featuring one phrase, “something special in the air.” Tone, whether musical or inflectional or atmospheric, is indeed something airy— something halfway between the inferred and the empirical. One of the wonders if not miracles of recent educational policy is the sudden change in tone among the campuses of the University of Louisiana System since the arrival of new, imaginative, and energetic leadership in the “UoL” System office. Nothing has changed in the budget picture and therefore not too much has happened empirically. Nevertheless, and …

National Action Committee On Access To Justice In Civil & Family Matters: Prevention, Triage And Referral Working Group, Action Committee On Access To Justice In Civil And Family Matters

Canadian Forum on Civil Justice

This report has been prepared by the Prevention, Triage and Referral (PTR) Working Group of the National Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters. The Working Group first met in Ottawa on March 2, 2012 and subsequently created a first draft report. The group then consulted with key players in the PTR field across Canada and internationally, using a web survey with a link to a second draft of the report. The survey, conducted in the summer and early fall of 2012, requested feedback on 14 potential recommendations. While the 125 respondents were generally supportive of …

The Determinants Of Within Metropolitan Immigrant Moves, Richard J. Smith, Catherine Schmitt-Sands

Social Work Faculty Publications

While the role of immigration and neighborhood change has been studied since the days of the Chicago School of Sociology, recent restrictions to immigration in concert with state and local initiatives to both enforce immigration policy or welcome immigrants raises new questions about neighborhood sorting within metropolitan areas. Policy makers are interested in recruiting high skilled and wealthy immigrants to attract investment and create jobs for native-born citizens. Some have endorsed welcoming immigrants as a solution to regional economic development and to stabilize high poverty urban neighborhoods. Are these immigrant recruitment policies realistic given existing patterns of immigrant housing location …

Death Of Paradox: The Killer Logic Beneath The Standards Of Proof, Kevin M. Clermont

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

The prevailing but contested view of proof standards is that factfinders should determine facts by probabilistic reasoning. Given imperfect evidence, they should ask themselves what they think the chances are that the burdened party would be right if the truth were to become known; they then compare those chances to the applicable standard of proof.

I contend that for understanding the standards of proof, the modern versions of logic — in particular, fuzzy logic and belief functions — work better than classical probability. This modern logic suggests that factfinders view evidence of an imprecisely perceived and described reality to form …

Raise Awareness--Raise Confidence: Culturally Responsive Instruction For School Library Candidates, Bridget Kratt, Courtney Pentland

Teacher Education Faculty Publications

As the number of diverse and underserved student populations in our schools increases, it is imperative that school librarians create an environment where all students, regardless of cultural and linguistic background, are welcomed, feel supported, and are afforded authentic opportunities for learning.

In the library science education programs at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, we recognize the need to include a formal culturally responsive teaching component in our coursework, and have made a concerted effort to raise our candidates· confidence levels as culturally responsive educators by raising their awareness of culturally responsive teaching practices. In the UNO library …

Bankruptcy Step Zero, Anthony Casey, Douglas G. Baird

Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series

No abstract provided.

Booklover-Mo Yan, Donna Jacobs

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

If Rumors Were Horses, Katina Strauch

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

Thriving In Chaos: Intermediaries Delivering Value In A Changing Landscape, Ann Lawson

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

Spaces And Clouds: The Library As Destination And Launch Pad, Chris Banks

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

Collecting To The Core-French Dictionaries, Matthew Loving

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

Profile-Ann Lawson

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

Neuro-Linguistic Programming And Its Application To Art Therapy Practice, Terri-Gene Jenereaux Fowler

EVMS School of Health Professions Theses & Dissertations

Art therapy and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) both promote methods of self-discovery and exploration through sensory channels: art therapy by enhancing creative thinking and problem solving through art making product and processes, and NLP by using sensory based observation to assist in mapping out individuals' cognitive processes. Art therapy has not embraced the NLP sensory information available as have other therapeutic disciplines. The American Art Therapy Association (AATA) approved programs have not integrated NLP into their curriculums. This investigation incorporates a review of the relevant literature, including the sparse entries relating NLP to art therapy practice, followed by the results of …

The French Occupation: A Historiographical View, Jaimee Hunsdon

Theses and Dissertations

While this study on the historiography of the French occupation in not fully inclusive, it highlights the complexity and changing views on events in Egypt’s past and how these views were influence by political and social factors. The French occupation of Egypt will continue to be a viewed in various ways for various agendas.

Full Issue, Journal Of East Asian Libraries

Journal of East Asian Libraries

No abstract provided.

Student Perceptions Of Effective Foreign Language Teachers: A Quantitative Investigation From A Korean University, Bruce D. Barnes, Graeme Lock

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

Abstract: The present study uses a questionnaire instrument to measure the importance that students from a Korean university place on a wide range of effective foreign language teacher attributes. Respondents to the present study placed high importance on rapport attributes such as friendliness, care, and patience; and delivery attributes which included the provision of clear explanations, error correction, and a participatory mode of instruction. Impartiality, target language knowledge, and good preparation were attributes also rated highly. The results also provided insights into student opinions about various instructional issues, such as the selective use of the students’ first language, explicit grammar …

A Case Study Of Bilingual Student-Teachers’ Classroom English: Applying The Education-Linguistic Model, Jinghe Han, Jun Yao

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

This paper explores the practicum experience of a group of bilingual student-teachers who taught Chinese using English to learners of Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) in Western Sydney schools. Specifically it explores how these student-teachers used English as the instructional language in class and what strengths and weaknesses they demonstrated compared to their host teachers. Data were collected through observing and audio-recording the participants’ teaching, aiming to capture the actual features of their English use in class. The data were structurally-coded employing the ELM categories. Discourse analysis was employed to interpret and understand the language use of the bilingual …

Indigenous Students’ Wellbeing And The Mobilisation Of Ethics Of Care In The Contact Zone, Bindi Mary Macgill, Faye Blanch

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

Schools have historically been a location of oppression for Indigenous students in Australian schools. Giroux (1992, p. 24) argues it is critical to create a democratic space inside schools and Aboriginal Community Education Officers (henceforward ACEOs) have been employed to achieve this goal. This paper explores the processes of democratising the school space by ACEOs through an Indigenous ethics of care framework. The enactment of Indigenous ethics of care between ACEOs and Indigenous students will be explored, with a particular focus on the use of the Nunga[1] room (Blanch, 2009, p. 66) as a ‘safe-house’ (Pratt, 1991). Pratt uses …

Classifying Constitutions: Preliminary Conceptual Analysis, Pasquale Pasquino

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

Speaking Politely, Kindly, And Beautifully: Ideologies Of Politeness In Japanese Business Etiquette Training, Cynthia Dickel Dunn

Faculty Work

In recent years, politeness theory has increasingly focused on speakers’ own conceptualizations of polite behavior, viewing politeness concepts as a type of language ideology. This article examines the construction of Japanese politeness concepts in the business etiquette training provided for new employees in Japanese companies. Drawing on participant-observation of business etiquette seminars offered by five training companies, it analyzes how employees are taught to show deference through appropriate honorific use, to speak in ways which are seen as kind or considerate, and to speak and move in ways the instructors define as ‘beautiful.’ The analysis demonstrates how etiquette training conflates …

William-Henry Ireland, T. I. Curties Horsley, And The Anti-Catholic Gothic Novel, Diane Hoeveler

English Faculty Research and Publications

The question of the Gothic's use of and attitude toward Roman Catholicism has been increasingly contentious in recent years, with literary historians claiming that its prominence as a thematic concern provides a test case for distinguishing whether or not the Gothic should be understood as an ideology or as an aesthetic mode not primarily invested in ideological issues at all. By examining this critical issue, I argue for an understanding of the Gothic as primarily a form of propagandistic fiction invested in nationalistic Whig and Protestant ideologies. The article also builds on the recent biographical and critical work done on …