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The First George Richardson Lecture, Delivered By Professor Grigor Mcclelland At The University Of Sunderland, October 22, 1996: What Is Quaker Studies?, Grigor Mcclelland

Quaker Studies

No abstract provided.

Spartan Daily, November 4, 2014, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 143, Issue 29

Minutes, Arts & Sciences Academic Affairs Committee Meeting, Tuesday, November 4, 2014, Arts & Sciences Academic Affairs Committee

Academic Affairs Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

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Exploring Peer Learning In The Context Of Dyadic Interactions In Kindergarten Aged Children, Elisabeth A. Mlawski

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

Kindergarten aged children are now expected to interact with peers in their classrooms for the purpose of gaining new knowledge. Since children spend a great deal of time in the company of other children, it is assumed that the children know how to learn from each other. Previously studied have been mechanisms used by adults during peer learning, but not the mechanisms used by children during unscripted peer learning interactions. Knowing the specific mechanisms used during these interactions will help to identify foundational skills necessary for successful peer learning. This study contributes to the understanding of the specific verbal and …

A Sensitive Question: Asking About Race In A Research Interview, Laura O'Hare

The Qualitative Report

Conversations are significant, but often overlooked cultural sites where attitudes, beliefs, and values about race are both reified and challenged. As such, these sites deserve increased scholarly attention (Allen, 2007). We employed Brown and Levinson’s Politeness Theory as a framework to examine the discursive strategies used by 11 interviewers in a research context as they asked 115 patient participants (taking part in a larger study of patients at a community-based family medicine residency clinic) to identify their race, as well as to identify the discursive strategies used by patient participants who answered this question. Our analysis revealed that in their …

Love And (M)Other (Im)Possibilities, Summer Renee Cunningham

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation is a performative interrogation of the disagreement and (dis)interest, communication issues, surrounding motherhood in contemporary U.S. culture. Textual analysis of Mary Kelly's Post-Partum Document (PPD) plays a key role in my inquiry. I juxtapose documentation from my lived experiences and academic projects with Kelly's work to build upon the themes and ideas introduced throughout PPD. This project is guided by the concepts love and (im)possibility, and I will argue that, together, they are central to understanding mothering/caregiving as a site of communication inquiry. Love and (im)possibility are inherent to both mothering and communication, but they also are essential …

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 039, Number 11, November 03, 2014, Grand Valley State University

2014-2015, Volume 39

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

Voyager En France, Valerie J. Spaeth

French Model Lesson Plans

In this lesson, students view a video that describes the most often used modes of transportation in France. Students then discuss the similarities and differences between travel in the US and travel in France.

My News

My News (2014-2020)

• "Day of the Dead" Exhibit On Display at Zach S. Henderson Library
• Department of Writing & Linguistics Hosts Poetry Reading
• Center for Sustainability Hosts Renowned Author Richard Louv
• Lights, Camera, Action! "Broadway’s Next H!t Musical" at the Performing Arts Center
• Staff Council Now Collecting Warm Clothing
• Georgia Southern Radio Network Highlights Breast Cancer Awareness Month
• Health Services Offering Flu Vaccinations
• Public Evening at the Planetarium
• Annual Plant Sale Begins Thursday

Curt Nimuendajú And The Photographs Of The Rio Negro Indians, Renato Athias

Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America

No abstract provided.

Detecting And Extracting Semantic Topics From Polish Fire Service Raports, Marcin Mironczuk

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences

This article presents results of structuring text documents using the classification process. The proposed system based on classification process which used to extract information about the semantics (meaning) segments (sentences) that build text documents. The analysis was made on the reports coming from the National Fire Service (Polish Fire Service) event evidence system. The article describes the results of classification using the proposed classifiers and presents some future directions of research.

Requests Of Brown By Lc Classification: November 2014, Ruth E.. Souto

HELIN Monthly Loan Statistics

Requests of Brown from other HELIN libraries - November 2014

Discovering Perceptions In Online Social Media: A Probabilistic Approach, Derek Doran, Swapna S. Gokhale, Aldo Dagnino

Kno.e.sis Publications

People across the world habitually turn to online social media to share their experiences, thoughts, ideas, and opinions as they go about their daily lives. These posts collectively contain a wealth of insights into how masses perceive their surroundings. Therefore, extracting people’s perceptions from social media posts can provide valuable information about pertinent issues such as public transportation, emergency conditions, and even reactions to political actions or other activities. This paper proposes a novel approach to extract such perceptions from a corpus of social media posts originating from a given broad geographical region. The approach divides the broad region into …

Cloud Model And Tolerance Granular Space-Based Image Retrieval Methods, Jiucheng Xu, Jinyu Ren, Lin Sun, Tianhe Xu

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences

In the existing tolerance granular space models, grid points in each layer are established only taking space position into account, which ignore uncertainties of image texture, such as randomness, fuzziness and relevance. As a matter of fact, it is very important to extract grid points for constructing tolerance granular space, which are tolerance granules’ position or center. Therefore, it is very meaningful for the accurate texture feature-description of images to extract grid points well. To address this issue, we firstly apply cloud model to extracting grid points, and establish two new tolerance granular space models. Then, similarity measures based on …

Exploring Differences And Finding Connections In Archaeology And History Practice And Teaching In The Livingstone Museum And The University Of Zambia, 1973 To 2016, Francis B. Musonda

Zambia Social Science Journal

This article looks at the way archaeology and history have been practised and taught at the Livingstone Museum, Zambia and the University of Zambia in relation to each other as closely allied disciplines between 1973 and 2016. It identifies some of the areas in which they have either collaborated well, or need to do so, and those that set them apart in their common aim to study the past. The paper has identified a number of grey areas that have tended to be inimical to the advancement of the two institutions in their quest to advance the study of Zambia’s …

Scholarworks Statistics - November 2014, Scholarworks

ScholarWorks Reports

For the month of November 2014, ScholarWorks recorded a total of 30,878 full-text downloads and 13,404 page views.

November Post 6, Breeanne Martin

Digital Folklore Project 2014

No abstract provided.

An Efficient Threshold Signature Scheme Resistible To Conspiracy Attack, Yu-Fang Chung, Tzer-Shyong Chen, Tzer-Long Chen

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences

The study presents a threshold signature scheme. While developing threshold cryptography, the concept of threshold signature can accomplish a tradeoff between efficiency in use and dependability of security. The presented threshold signature scheme can resist conspiracy attack by controlling the right of issuing group signature, and the performance of constructing group signature is also enhanced by simplifying keys.

Comrade Jesus: An Epistolic Manifesto, Peter Mclaren

Education Faculty Articles and Research

Set against the backdrop of the contemporary crisis of capitalism and world-historical events, this article examines the advance of globalized imperialism from the perspective of a Marxist-humanist approach to pedagogy known as “revolutionary critical pedagogy” enriched by liberation theology. It is written as an epistolic manifesto to the transnational capitalist class, demanding that those who willingly serve its interests reconsider their allegiance and calling for a planetary revolution in the way that we both think about capitalism and how education and religion serves to reproduce it at the peril of both students and humanity as a whole.

November Post 17, Tyson Steele

Digital Folklore Project 2014

No abstract provided.

Online Information Searching For Cardiovascular Diseases: An Analysis Of Mayo Clinic Search Query Logs, Ashutosh Sopan Jadhav, Amit P. Sheth, Jyotishman Pathak

Kno.e.sis Publications

Since the early 2000’s, Internet usage for health information searching has increased significantly. Studying search queries can help us to understand users “information need” and how do they formulate search queries (“expression of information need”). Although cardiovascular diseases (CVD) affect a large percentage of the population, few studies have investigated how and what users search for CVD. We address this knowledge gap in the community by analyzing a large corpus of 10 million CVD related search queries from MayoClinic.com. Using UMLS MetaMap and UMLS semantic types/concepts, we developed a rule-based approach to categorize the queries into 14 health categories. We …

Liana Chua, Joanna Cook, Nicholas Long, And Lee Wilson (Eds). Southeast Asian Perspectives On Power. New York: Routledge, 2012., Cheong Weng Kit Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Book Reviews, Jessica Achberger

Zambia Social Science Journal

A book review of: Nyerere: The Early Years, by Thomas Molony. (London: James Currey, 2014),

The African Union And The Conflict In Mali: Extra-Regional Influence And The Limitations Of A Regional Actor, Abiodun Joseph Oluwadare Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

The role of regional and sub-regional organizations cannot be overstated in conflict resolution, especially in their sphere of influence. The African Union and The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have played prominent roles in places like Burundi, Darfur, Chad, Somalia, and Liberia. The success achieved in these interventions would not likely have been forthcoming if the US, European Union and its member nations, along with the United Nations had not given their support to these regional and sub-regional organizations. In other words, the cooperative, collaborative, and supportive understanding between these extra-African bodies and the regional and sub-regional organizations …

Constructing International Relations, Charmaine G. Misalucha

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review on:

• Rebecca Adler-Nissen, ed. Bourdieu in International Relations: Rethinking Key Concepts in IR. London and New York: Routledge, 2013.
• Nicholas Greenwood Onuf. World of Our Making: Rules and Rule in Social Theory and International Relations. London and New York: Routledge, 2013.
• Arlene B. Tickner and David L. Blaney, eds. Thinking International Relations Differently. London and New York: Routledge, 2012.

Tareq Y. Ismael And Jacqueline S. Ismael, Government And Politics Of The Contemporary Middle East: Continuity And Change. New York: Routledge, 2011., Özlem Madi Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Gichd Linguistic Outreach Programs, Faiz Paktian

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

The Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD) introduced linguistic outreach programs (LOP) to provide mine action training and information in multiple languages. The LOP also promote communication between countries and organize regional workshops and meetings. By providing non-English training and information exchange opportunities, GICHD improved outreach and broadened potential beneficiaries, as well as strengthened mine action centers and organizations worldwide.

Issue 18.3 Endnotes, Cisr Journal

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

Endnotes

Obama's Change: Republicanism, Remembrance, And Rhetorical Leadership In The 2007 Presidential Announcement Speech, Adam J. Gaffey

Communication Studies Faculty Works

"This essay offers an analysis of Barack Obama’s official announcement speech of 2007 and his definition of ‘‘change.’’ Contrary to critics who have separated ‘‘vernacular’’ and ‘‘elite’’ strands of republican philosophy, I argue that Obama’s ‘‘change’’ rhetorically combined these frameworks into a threefold appeal for political leadership: the expansion of collective freedom, the necessary participation of citizens in public affairs, and the centrality of speechifying to political leadership. Understanding this characterization of change allows better comprehension of Obama’s transition from politician to presidential candidate within his situational constraints, as well as the distinctive public memory attributed to Abraham Lincoln throughout …