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There Must Be A Better Way: The Unintended Consequences Of Missouri’S Hancock Amendment. Zweig V. Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District, Kimberly Hubbard

Missouri Law Review

The Hancock Amendment to the Missouri Constitution became law in November 1980 after fifty-five percent of voters approved it. The amendment is a type of provision known as a “tax and expenditure limitation.” The purpose of these provisions was “to restrict the growth of the state budget.” Most people thought it meant that they would not have to pay higher taxes, and they were right to an extent. What voters and Mel Hancock, the amendment’s namesake, did not contemplate were the numerous ill-effects of this constitutional amendment.

The Next Generation Of Computational Science And Engineering, George K. Thiruvathukal

Computer Science: Faculty Publications and Other Works

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Safety Culture Monitoring: A Management Approach For Assessing Nuclear Safety Culture Health Performance Utilizing Multiple-Criteria Decision Analysis, James Harold Warren Jr.

Engineering Management & Systems Engineering Theses & Dissertations

Nuclear power plants are among the most technologically complex of all energy facilities. This complexity reflects the precision needed in design, maintenance and operations to harness the energy of the atom safely, reliably and economically. Nuclear energy thus requires consistent, high levels of organizational performance by the highly skilled professionals who operate and maintain nuclear power plants (Nuclear Energy Institute [NEI], 2014, p. 1).

A key element for achieving consistent, high levels of performance in a nuclear organization is its safety culture. Nuclear safety culture is for an organization what character and personality is for an individual: a feature that …

Perceptions Of Using Smart Mobile Devices In Higher Education Teaching: A Case Study From Palestine, Khitam Shraim, Helen Crompton

Teaching & Learning Faculty Publications

Smart mobile devices (SMDs), especially smartphones and tablets, are becoming increasingly ubiquitous among educators and students in Palestine. While their use is on the rise, many academics are not effectively incorporating this technology into their teaching, which may be attributable to their negative perceptions of these devices. This study therefore examined academics’ perceptions of the value of integrating SMDs into their teaching activities. A questionnaire survey collected data from 56 academic staff of the Palestine Technical University - Kadoorie, eliciting perceptions of the physical attributes of SMDs, participants’ self-efficacy, the pedagogical affordance of mobile devices and challenges to their use …

An Original Notion To Find Maximal Solution In The Fuzzy Neutrosophic Relation Equations (Fnre) With Geometric Programming (Gp), Huda E. Khalid

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

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Full Issue, Neutrosophic Sets And Systems

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

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Examples Of Neutrosophic Probability In Physics, Fu Yuhua

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

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A New Approach To Multi-Spaces Through The Application Of Soft Sets, Mumtaz Ali, Florentin Smarandache, Said Broumi

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

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(T,I,F)-Neutrosophic Structures & I-Neutrosophic Structures (Revisited), Florentin Smarandache

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

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Expanding Uncertainty Principle To Certainty-Uncertainty Principles With Neutrosophy And Quad-Stage Method, Fu Yuhua

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

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Full Issue, Neutrosophic Sets And Systems

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

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Negating Four Color Theorem With Neutrosophy And Quadstage Method, Fu Yuhua

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

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Interpreting And Expanding Confucius' Golden Mean Through Neutrosophic Tetrad, Fu Yuhua

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

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Full Issue, Neutrosophic Sets And Systems

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

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Ideological Systems And Its Validation: A Neutrosophic Approach, Josue Nescolarde-Selva, Jose Luis Uso-Domenech

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

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Neutrosophic Decision Making Model For Clay-Brick Selection In Construction Field Based On Grey Relational Analysis, Kalyan Mondal, Surapati Pramanik

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

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Neutrosophy-Based Interpretation Of Four Mechanical Worldviews, Luo Zhengda

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

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Refined Literal Indeterminacy And The Multiplication Law Of Sub-Indeterminacies, Florentin Smarandache

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

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Application Of Extended Fuzzy Programming Technique To A Real-Life Transportation Problem In Neutrosophic Environment, Dalbinder Kour, Kajla Basu

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

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Full Issue, Neutrosophic Sets And Systems

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

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Multi-Valued Neutrosophic Sets And Its Application In Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Problems, Juan-Juan Peng, Jian-Qiang Wang

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

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Neutrosophic Quadruple Numbers, Refined Neutrosophic Quadruple Numbers, Absorbance Law, And The Multiplication Of Neutrosophic Quadruple Numbers, Florentin Smarandache

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

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On Refined Neutrosophic Algebraic Structures, A.A.A. Agboola

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

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Research Trends In The Use Of Mobile Learning In Mathematics, Helen Crompton, Diane Burke

Teaching & Learning Faculty Publications

The use of mobile learning in education is growing at an exponential rate. To best understand how mobile learning is being used, it is crucial to gain a collective understanding of the research that has taken place. This research was a systematic review of 36 studies in mobile learning in mathematics from the year 2000 onward. Eight new findings emerged: (1) The primary purpose of most studies was to focus on evaluating mobile learning. (2) Case studies and experimental design were the main research methods. (3) Most studies report positive learning outcomes; (4) Mobile phones were the mobile device used …

Understanding Angle And Angle Measure: A Design-Based Research Study Using Context Aware Ubiquitous Learning, Helen Crompton

Teaching & Learning Faculty Publications

Mobile technologies are quickly becoming tools found in the educational environment. The researchers in this study use a form of mobile learning to support students in learning about angle concepts. Design-based research is used in this study to develop an empirically-substantiated local instruction theory about students' develop of angle and angle measure. This local instruction theory involves real-world connections and mobile technologies through a sub category of mobile learning called context-aware ubiquitous learning. Through a process of anticipation, enactment, evaluation, and revision, the local instruction theory was developed to include a theoretical contribution of how students come to understand angle …

Perceptions Of Pedagogical Affordance Of Smart Mobile Technology, Khitam Shraim, Helen Crompton

Teaching & Learning Faculty Publications

Smart mobile devices are becoming ubiquitous among educators and students in Palestine. Mobile devices can be used to provide learning that is contextualized, personalized and unrestricted by location and time. Although these device capabilities are available, many faculty in higher education are not effectively incorporating this technology into their teaching. This study therefore examined academics’ perceptions of the value of integrating mobile devices into their teaching activities. A questionnaire survey collected data from 56 academic staff of the Palestine Technical University - Kadoorie, eliciting perceptions of the pedagogical affordance of mobile devices and challenges to their use in teaching. The …

Mobile Learning, John M. Traxler, Helen Crompton

Teaching & Learning Faculty Publications

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An Examination Of An Online Tutoring Program's Impact On Low-Achieving Middle School Students' Mathematics Achievement, Shanan Chappell,, Pamela Arnold, John Nunnery, Melva R. Grant

Teaching & Learning Faculty Publications

The purpose of this mixed methods study was to determine the impact of synchronous online tutoring services on struggling middle school students’ mathematics achievement. The online tutoring was provided as a response to intervention (RTI) Tier 3 support (intensive, individualized intervention) in schools implementing a school-wide mathematics program that addresses Tier 1 (high-quality classroom instruction) and Tier 2 (small group interventions). We employed quasi-experimental, within- and between-group designs to examine impacts for 119 students in two schools to measure the tutoring’s impact on mathematics assessment scores. We also conducted qualitative analyses of student and tutor postsession commentary. The findings suggest …

Nonlinear Analysis And Digital Pre-Distortion Of The Sc-Fdma Signals In Lte Uplink System, Changwen Zhu

Dissertations and Theses

Single-carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) has become a popular alternative to orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDM) in multi-user communication on LTE uplink systems. This is primarily due to the low peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) of SC-FDMA compared to that of OFDM. Long-term evolution (LTE) uses SC-FDMA on the uplink to exploit this PAPR advantage to reduce transmit power amplifier (PA) back-off in mobile user terminals. However, the latest generation of communication systems requires high power efficiency and a large quantity of capacity in transmitting mobile data, bringing out some other critical problems: 1) the nonlinearity of Radio Frequency …

Does Academic Assessment System Type Affect Levels Of Academic Stress In Medical Students? A Cross-Sectional Study From Pakistan, Madiha Ali, Hamna Asim, Ahmed Iqbal Edhi, Muhammad Daniya Hashmi, Muhammad Shahjahan Khan, Farah Qamar, Kanza Noor Qaiser, Sidra Masud Qureshi, Mohammad Faizan Zahid, Imtiaz Jehan

Community Health Sciences

Introduction: Stress among medical students induced by academic pressures is on the rise among the student population in Pakistan and other parts of the world. Our study examined the relationship between two different systems employed to assess academic performance and the levels of stress among students at two different medical schools in Karachi, Pakistan.
Methods: A sample consisting of 387 medical students enrolled in pre-clinical years was taken from two universities, one employing the semester examination system with grade point average (GPA) scores (a tiered system) and the other employing an annual examination system with only pass/fail grading. A pre-designed, …