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Internet Changing Life In Remote Parts Of Earth, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

Publications and Research

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Kids For Sale: Does America Recognize Its Own Sexually Exploited Minors As Victims Of Human Trafficking?, Cheryl Nelson Butler

Seton Hall Law Review

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A Phonetic Basis For The Sonority Of [X], Jonah Katz

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

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Linkage Discovery With Glossaries, Richard S. Segall, Shen Lu

Faculty Publications

With the development of computer technology and Internet, the electric publication can do much more than only emulate the printed publication in cheaper and more transportable forms like Web pages and electric files. Electronic publications also have the potential to enhance the reading process itself through the identification of new ways to retrieve, index, and search information throughout the entire proceeding, for knowledge discovery in related text. Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) can be used to implement those functions and to discover knowledge from text with a general mathematical learning method without knowing prior linguistic or perceptual similarity knowledge.

The Persée Digital Library, Dillon Wackerman

Central University Libraries Research

A review of the The Persée Digital Library offered for the The American Archivist Reviews.

The Effects Of Acknowledging Cultural Differences On Therapeutic Alliance In Cross-Cultural Therapy, Jean-Pierre Assouad

PCOM Psychology Dissertations

Therapeutic alliance has been documented to have a significant impact on therapy. This study examined the impact that acknowledging visible cultural differences in the first session of treatment has on therapeutic alliance, perceived clinician cross-cultural competency, and potential attrition. A vignette study design was utilized with 26 subjects who were patients at the PCOM Center for Brief Therapy. The patients were randomly assigned one of four vignettes that consisted of a cross-cultural therapy situation, in which visible cultural differences were either addressed or not by a clinician. Following the reading of the vignette, the subjects were asked to complete the …

Venerating Violence: The Liberation Tigers Of Tamil Eelam And Post-Civil War Sri Lanka, Heather Lee

USF St. Petersburg campus Honors Program Theses (Undergraduate)

This thesis seeks to discover the conditions legitimizing political violence by exploring the Sri Lankan Civil War and then pairing the derived principle with theoretical justifications of violence, including just war theory. While many attest that the radically violent means employed by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam throughout the war were immoral and inexcusable acts of terrorism, this claim too quickly discredits their motives without due consideration, thus unfairly detractingfrom the legitimacy of their cause. I hope to show the fault in this tendency, both in the context of the Sri Lanka and in more general terms. Political violence …

A Performance Guide To Gabriel Fauré’S La Chanson D’Ève, Op. 95, Sarah E. Klopfenstine-Wear

Theses and Dissertations--Music

In this study, background information, International Phonetic Alphabet pronunciations, poetic translations, and musical analyses of the ten songs that comprise Gabriel Fauré’s La Chanson d’Ève, Op. 95 are provided. Included is the relationship between his original poetry and Fauré’s resultant song cycle. Additionally, a portion is dedicated to an overview of the registers of the mezzo-soprano voice, and it specifically addresses who is best suited to perform La Chanson d’Ève. This document looks at the vocal challenges presented for the mezzo-soprano voice within each song, particularly the subject of vowel modification as it relates to the IPA pronunciation …

Managing Race Relations’ Tensions In Multicultural Societies: A Case Study Of Bradford In Britain, Hassen Zriba

Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

Managing cultural differences has become a top priority in many western multicultural societies. Issues of intercultural harmony and social stability loom large in the rhetoric of political governance. Discourses of social cohesion and national unity seem to replace those of multiculturalism and cultural diversity. In this article, I study the discursive consideration of such issues within Britain in general and Bradford city in particular. A critical interpretive perspective is used to scrutinize the linguistic and the discursive strategies employed by a local race-related report Community Pride not prejudice (2001). It is suggested that such report reflected a growing official tendency …

The Concept Of Creativity In Art And In Science: Are Autistic People Creative?, Miguel López Astorga

Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

Usually, autism is said to be characterized by certain difficulties related to lack of creativity. In this paper, based on the arguments offered by McKenzie and paying attention to the neurodiversity perspective, it is held that the concept of creativity has not been understood correctly, and that, if the artistic field is considered, it can be stated that people with autism can be creative, because creativity can be linked to repetition and details. In this way, it is argued that the repetitive and thorough actions that autistic people often make can have beneficial impacts on art, on the development of …

On Neutrosophic Implications, Said Broumi, Florentin Smarandache

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

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A Study On Problems Of Hijras In West Bengal Based On Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps, Kaylan Mondal, Surapati Pramanik

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

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The Relationship Between Stressful Life Events And The Development And Maintenance Of Stuttering, Christine Dits

Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

Few studies have been conducted examining the impact of stressful life events on the course of one’s stuttering. However, research reveals that stressful life events (i.e., divorce, death, or new move) increase the likelihood of the onset of stuttering (Guitar, 2006). This study investigated whether stressful life events in the life of a person who stutters (PWS) have caused and/or maintained stuttering over one’s lifetime. A qualitative research design was utilized to measure the intended outcomes. Methodology included a 30 to 60 minute phone interview and three questionnaires measuring locus of control, the effects of traumatic events and stuttering on …

The Choice Is Yours! Researchers Assign Subject Metadata To Their Own Materials In Institutional Repositories, Maira Bundza

University Libraries Faculty & Staff Publications

The Digital Commons platform for institutional repositories provides a three-tiered taxonomy of academic disciplines for each item submitted to the repository. Since faculty and departmental administrators across campuses are encouraged to submit materials to the institutional repository themselves, they must also assign disciplines or subject categories for their own work. The expandable drop-down menu of about 1,000 categories is easy to use, and facilitates the growth of the institutional repository and access to the materials through the Internet.

Sojourning In The Margin: Living As Wives Of International Students, Mengchun Chiang

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Whereas concerns for international students frequently appear in existing literature, little attention is paid to wives of international students (WoIS). This study aims at describing and understanding lives of WoIS in the United States as sojourners in the margin. The research begins with a literature review and an examination of theoretical frames: from the cultural shock literature, acculturative stress literature, to atheoretical studies; and from cross-cultural psychology, cultural psychology, to indigenous psychology. Methodologically, this study is qualitative in nature, utilizing interview data from WoIS. In addition to a description and interpretation of the WoIS's narratives, the study also wrestles with …

Neutrosophic Principle Of Interconvertibility Matter-Energy Information, Florentin Smarandache, Stefan Vladutescu

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

The research aims to reveal and prove the thesis of the neutral and convertibility relationship between constituent constructive elements of the universe: matter, energy and information. The approach perspective is a computationally-communicative neutrosophic one. We configure a coherent and cohesive ideation line. Matter, energy and information are fundamental elements of the world. Among them, there is an inextricable multiple, elastic and evolutionary connection. The elements are defined by the connections between them. Our hypothesis is that the relationship between matter, energy and information is a neutral one. This relationship is not required by the evidence. At this level, it does …

Law Of Included Multiple-Middle & Principle Of Dynamic Neutrosophic Opposition, Florentin Smarandache

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

In this book the author pledges for the generalization of the Lupasco-Nicolescu’s Law of Included Middle [A, nonA, and a third value T which resolves their contradiction at another level of reality] to the Law of Included Multiple-Middle [A, antiA, and neutA, which is split into a multitude of neutralities between A and antiA, such as neutA1, neutA2, etc.]. The value (i.e. neutrality or indeterminacy related to A) actually comprises the included middle value.

Further, similarly to the extension from dialectics to neutrosophy, the author extends the Principle of Dynamic Opposition [opposition between A and antiA] …

The Oswald Review Undergraduate Research And Criticism In The Discipline Of English: Volume 16 Fall 2014

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

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Dryden And Baroque Chamber Music, Dan Sperrin

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

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Hysteria And The Performance Of Masculinity: A Feminist Reading Of James Joyce’S “A Painful Case”, Adam Quinn

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

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What Arts Entrepreneurship Isn’T, Gary D. Beckman

Journal of Arts Entrepreneurship Research

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Speech Is My Hammer, It's Time To Build: Hip Hop, Cultural Semiosis And The Africana Intellectual Heritage, Samuel T. Livingston

Journal of Hip Hop Studies

The article examines Hip Hop music's relationship with African cultural symbolism and the discipline of Africana Studies. The author maintains that Africana Studies must reclaim the study of cultural semiosis, which may be used to contextualize Hip Hop praxis. Examining semeiotic traces within African and Afrodiasporic primary sources, including Hip Hop lyrics, the article posits that Hip Hop is the latest development in a long tradition of Afro-Kemetic oral artistry, semeiotic systems and the uses of these dual literacies as modes of resistance and affirmations of Black historical and cultural agency. The article adapts Harryette Mullen's literary model of African …

Debtors As Predators: The Proper Interpretation Of "A Statement Respecting The Debtor's . . . Financial Condition" In 11 U.S.C. § 523(A)(2)(A) And (B), Mallory Velten

Emory Bankruptcy Developments Journal

U.S. Courts of Appeals disagree on the correct interpretation of the phrase "statement respecting the debtor's . . . financial condition" as it appears in the exceptions to discharge in 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(2)(A), the fraud provision, and § 523(a)(2)(B), the false written statement provision. Two major viewpoints have emerged-the strict and the relaxed. Under the strict interpretation, for the fraud provisions to apply, the statement must comprise the overall financial condition of the debtor. According to the relaxed interpretation, the debtor's fraudulent assertion of ownership of only a single item of property constitutes a statement respecting the debtor's financial …

An Animation Stimuli System For Research On Instructor Gestures In Education, Jian Cui, Voicu Popescu, Nicoletta Adamo-Villan, Susan Cook, Katherine Duggan, Howard Friedman

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

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The Journey Of Chinese Students From Mainstream Composition Courses To The Writing Lab: A Needs Assessment, Aylin Baris Atilgan

Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Graduate Student Presentations

This is a needs assessment study investigating the perceptions of ENGL106 instructors/tutors on the writing needs of Chinese students and the perceptions of Chinese students on their own needs in ENGL106 mainstream freshman composition courses at Purdue University. The study also aims to explore the reasons why ENGL106 students use the Purdue Writing Lab Services. The presentation entails the rationale, methodology and the research conducted at Purdue University and aims to offer suggestions on how Chinese students can be served more effectively in US higher educational settings.

Online Writing Labs: Resources For Second Language Writers, Joshua Paiz, Ghada Gherwash

Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Graduate Student Presentations

This presentation at the 2014 TESOL Developer's Showcase discusses best practices and special considerations for using Online Writing Labs as L2 writing support tools. This discussion is grounded both in recent OWL/Writing Center theory, as well as from the presenter's experiences working on a large­scale OWL in a variety of capacities. To add to the discussion on special considerations when using OWLs, this presentation also provides a discussion of a recently completed research project involving the Purdue OWL and how it is used to support EFL writing. It will highlight how, even in resources labeled as "ESL," can be overly …

Encouraging The Growth Of Owls Worldwide: Utilizing Intercultural Rhetoric To Inform Best Practices, Joshua Paiz

Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Graduate Student Presentations

This presentation for the 8th Intercultural Rhetoric and Discourse Conference discusses work on the Purdue OWL, focusing on the resources targeting L2 writers writing for particular contexts (e.g., Writing for the Chinese Business Context), as these resource-types tend to be some of the early Purdue OWL spaces where the findings of intercultural rhetoric maybe more readily applied. This discussion will also provide an overview of recent research looking at the place of and practitioner attitudes towards OWLs in general and, more specifically, the Purdue OWL. The presenter will conclude by discussing new content development initiatives at the Purdue OWL and …

The Role Of Design Skills In Design Review Conversations: An Analysis Using The Multiple Intelligence Framework, Newton D'Souza, Kinkini Chandrasekhara

Design Thinking Research Symposium

Design skills are diverse abilities intentionally used by designers to achieve desired goals in specific design scenarios. However, very little is known about how design skills are manifested, expressed or encouraged in a design review conversation. This study uses the multiple intelligence framework to map and analyze design skills of four different review conversations by the interaction between instructor, student and the clients. The findings reveal that consistency and endurance in skill application is more critical than the frequency and duration of skill application for successful design outcomes. Moreover, skill diversity and alignment of student skill-set with instructor and client …

A Pd Law Based Fuzzy Logic Control Strategy For Simultaneous Control Of Indoor Temperature And Humidity Using A Variable Speed Direct Expansion Air Conditioner, Zhao Li, Xiang Guo Xu, Shi Ming Deng, Dong Mei Pan

International Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Conference

In small to medium scale buildings located in the subtropics, such as Hong Kong, direct expansion air conditioning (DX A/C) systems are widely applied. This is because, as compared to chilled water based central air conditioning systems, DX A/C systems are compact, flexible for multi-room services, energy efficient and cost less to maintain and operate. However, traditionally, a DX A/C system is equipped with a single-speed compressor and supply air fan, and employs ON / OFF control strategy to maintain indoor air temperature only, leaving the indoor moisture content (or relative humidity) uncontrolled. With the introduction of variable speed technology, …

A Tale Of Two Design Contexts: Quantitative And Qualitative Explorations Of Student-Instructor Interactions Amidst Ambiguity, Monica E. Cardella, Patrice Buzzanell, Antonette Cummings, Delean Tolbert, Carla B. Zoltowski

Design Thinking Research Symposium

Designers develop design skills and knowledge through experience and feedback – feedback from colleagues, clients, supervisors, users, stakeholders, the success or failure of a solution, and design educators. In this project, we focus on the feedback provided to mechanical engineering students completing their undergraduate studies and industrial design graduate students during design reviews. The design coaches (educators and industry clients) and design students must negotiate ambiguity in the process. The students must reduce ambiguity in the sense of providing clear details as they communicate their design work, reduce ambiguity in the coaches’ perceptions of the design work quality by providing …