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Implementing Semantic Document Search Using A Bounded Random Walk In A Probabilistic Graph, Lubomir Stanchev

Computer Science and Software Engineering

Given a set of documents and an input query that is expressed using natural language, the problem of document search is retrieving all relevant documents ordered by the degree of relevance. Semantic document search fetches not only documents that contain words from the input query, but also documents that are semantically relevant. For example, the query "friendly pets" will consider documents that contain the words "dog" and "cat", among others. One way to implement semantic search is to use a probabilistic graph in which the input query is connected to the documents through paths that contain semantically similar words and …

What’S New? Deploying A Library New Titles Page With Minimal Programming, John Meyerhofer

Staff Publications

With a new titles web page, a library has a place to show faculty, students, and staff the items they are purchasing for their community. However, many times heavy programing knowledge and/or a LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) or APIs separate a library’s data from making a new titles web page a reality. Without IT staff, a new titles page can become nearly impossible or not worth the effort. Here we will demonstrate how a small liberal arts college took its acquisition data and combined it with a Google Sheet, HTML, and a little JavaScript to create a new …

As Assessment Of Airline Service Quality In A Category One Nation: Focus On Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, Obioma R. Nwaogbe, Abraham Pius, A. O. Balogun, C. C. Ikeogu, V. Omoke

International Journal of Aviation, Aeronautics, and Aerospace

To evaluate airline service quality from passengers’ in a Category One (CAT1) nation. The researchers used quantitative method to evaluate airline quality of service, from passengers’ perspective at Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport (KAN). In a week period, two hundred (200) questionnaires were administered; though one hundred thirty (130) responses were gathered from passengers who travelled with the Arik Air, Aero Contractor, and Azman airlines, these air airlines were chosen because they are preferred passenger's choice. The study findings revealed that independent variables influenced airline's quality of service at the KAN. The outcome of service quality analysis demonstrated …

I Dream In Another Language, John C. Lyden

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of I Dream in Another Language (2017), directed by Ernesto Contreras.

The Voices Of Silence In Online Charitable Fundraising: A Focus Group Study In China, Xun Lin, Hua Huang

The Qualitative Report

Charitable fundraising, which often goes viral, has been flourishing on Wechat, the most popular social media site in China. It has given rise to a variety of forms of resistance. Silence among them is particularly evident. This study was conducted on three focus groups to unveil the hidden voices in the silent college students in an online charitable fundraising. Findings show that these voices demonstrate participants’ reclaiming of authorship of private space on Moments, their endeavour to avoid creating stress in vulnerable others, and their questioning of the configuration of responsibility. These voices show negotiation with or resistance against the …

Difficulties Of Simplicity, Cody M. Bradley

Quaerens Deum: The Liberty Undergraduate Journal for Philosophy of Religion

This paper attempts to show that the doctrine of divine simplicity suffers from difficulties which undermine its plausibility. The main difficulties explored are Plantinga’s problem of double identification, Pruss’ multiple attributes problem, and Schmitt’s co-specificity problem. In more recent years, defenders of the doctrine have offered a way out of these problems by interpreting it in light of a truthmaker account of predication. This paper analyzes this recent defense, among others, and attempts to show that this new interpretation of divine simplicity still has problems which undermine the plausibility of the doctrine.

Fraud And Abuse Panel, Ellen Bowden Mcintyre, Patsy Powers, Brian Roark, Daniel Patten

Belmont Health Law Journal

A panel discussion on some concerns that we have about value based reimbursement structures. The panel today consists of two private practice attorneys and one government attorney. We have litigators and regulatory attorneys, so a good mix of attorneys across the spectrum.

Osman Mohammed Noor, Petitioner/ Appellant, V. State Of Utah, Respondent/ Appellee., Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (2007– 2019)

Court of Appeals No. 20160797 ) ) District Court No. 130907566 ) ) Appellant is incarcerated.

Faith Formation From Birth To Age 20: A Psychology Professor's Insights For Strengthening Congregational Ministry, Marjorie L. Gunnoe

Symposium on Worship Archive

What are the most important things to know when working with kids ages 0–2, 3–6, 7–11, early adolescents, and late adolescents? This fast-paced session is a (really, really) condensed version of a course required for Calvin students minoring in Youth Ministry—without the homework. Helpful for parents, pastors, teachers, mentors and anyone who cares about the faith formation of the next generation.

Don Dyer Delivers Lecture At Ohio State Symposium, Edwin Smith

University of Mississippi News

Associate liberal arts dean met with other past Naylor Lecturers

Reading Comprehension Through Incidental Learning: Efficacy Of An After-School Literacy Program Utilizing The Barton Reading & Spelling System®, Sarah L. Gearhart

Student Theses and Dissertations

This study investigated reading comprehension gains through incidental learning for students participating in an after-school program utilizing the Barton Reading & Spelling System®. Participants included 78 students enrolled in a public school system in Northeast Arkansas. These students were compared to peers with similar reading difficulties who did not participate in the program. Reading comprehension gains through incidental learning were determined for all participants based upon national and state standardized assessment measures (e.g., Iowa Test of Basic Skills® (ITBS®), Stanford Achievement Test, Tenth Edition (SAT-10), and the Arkansas Augmented Benchmark Examination (AABE)). No differences in performance were found between the …

Speech-Language Pathology Graduate Students' Perceptions Of Cultural Competency Experiences, Ragen Elizabeth Bray

Student Theses and Dissertations

This study utilized a 19-item survey to investigate whether graduate SLP students understand the spectrum of skills necessary to become “culturally competent,” and to assess the number and types of formal and informal activities used to achieve cultural competency instruction in the speech-language pathology curriculum. Graduate students enrolled in five accredited graduate programs for Communication Disorders in the state of Arkansas responded to the survey. Overall, results indicated that accredited university speech-language pathology programs in Arkansas are attempting to implement opportunities for expanding cultural awareness and sensitivity for their students. However, the results from the survey indicate that these programs …

Volume Cxxxiv, Number 12, January 27, 2017, Lawrence University

The Lawrentian

No abstract provided.

Exile Vol. Xix No. 1, Dick Cameron, Judy Hasel, Carl Tillmanns, Vaughan Matthews, Dick Carothers, Bob Smyth, David Toole, Eric Odor, Val Evans, Rich Ottum, Linda Phillips, Gary Parks, Heather Johnson

Exile

POETRY

Play by Dick Cameron 3

by Judy Hasel 3

First Selectman by Carl Tillmanns 9

A Dream Character Writes of... by Dick Cameron 10

Org City by Dick Carothers 12

lying by Bob Smyth 13

Lover by Eric Odor 13

Sitting long by the benches by Vaughan Matthews 16

sitting on the step by Judy Hasel 17

O my love by David Toole 30

In the dampness of my place by Val Evans 31

FICTION

Locus Significology on the Significance of Location by Rich Ottum 5-7

The Rift by Linda Phillips 8

Basic American History Workebook- October 3, 1992: …

Writing & Linguistics News, Georgia Southern University

Writing & Linguistics News (2012-2022)

• Fledge contest for first-year writing
• Kim Addonizio (Georgia Poetry Circuit) campus visit & reading

January 26, 2017, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

An Intentional Tort Theory Of Patents, Saurabh Vishnubhakat

Florida Law Review

This Article challenges the dogma of U.S. patent law that direct infringement is a strict liability tort. Impermissibly practicing a patented invention does create liability even if the infringer did not intend to infringe or know about the patent. The consensus is that this is a form of strict liability. The flaw in the consensus is that it proves too little, for the same is true of intentional torts: intent to commit the tort is unnecessary, and ignorance of the legal right is no excuse. What is relevant is intent to perform the action that the law deems tortious. So …

Tsu Faculty Research Database-Jan 2017, David Owerbach

Office of Research Institutional Research and Scholarship

Research interests and selected publications from 230 Texas Southern University faculty have been updated in Jan 2017. Faculty from Public Affairs, the College of Science, Engineering and Technology, the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, the College of Education, the College of Business, the College of Liberal Arts and Behavioral Sciences, the Law School and the School of Communications are included.

The Aesthetic Ideology Of Post-Marxism, Yongkang Fan, Fengjie Liu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

This paper aims to analyze the philosophical basis, theoretical connotation and theoretical characteristics of the theory of post-Marxist aesthetic ideology. The influential theory about aesthetic ideology in China belongs to the "problematic" of traditional Marxism, but the contemporary Western aesthetic ideology belongs to the 'problematic' of post-Marxism. The former is based on historical materialism, and the latter on cultural materialism and language constructivism. From the perspective of post-Marxism, aesthetic ideology no longer stays at the ‘metaphysical’ linguistic, cultural and symbolic levels; it is integrated with "physical" material systems and social reality and becomes parasitic within the institutions, thus having material …

Implications Of Acceleration On Student Success Course Curriculum: A Comparison Of Accelerated And Traditional Course Modalities, Alice L. Picardo

Theses and Dissertations

Many individuals enter community colleges with high expectations of improving skills, yet are underprepared for the demands of college. Student success courses and acceleration are promising interventions created to improve success rates in developmental education, however, research on accelerated student success courses is virtually non-existent. This explanatory, sequential mixed methods study compared accelerated and traditional student success courses on the attainment of course learning outcomes, term grade point average and retention from fall to spring, while participants' motivation and use of learning strategies were analyzed in both strands. Students' experiences were also analyzed. Findings indicate 1) that the nature of …

Cortical Correlates Of The Auditory Frequency-Following And Onset Responses: Eeg And Fmri Evidence, Emily B.J. Coffey, Gabriella Musacchia, Robert J. Zatorre

All Faculty Scholarship

The frequency-following response (FFR) is a measure of the brain's periodic sound encoding. It is of increasing importance for studying the human auditory nervous system due to numerous associations with auditory cognition and dysfunction. Although the FFR is widely interpreted as originating from brainstem nuclei, a recent study using MEG suggested that there is also a right-lateralized contribution from the auditory cortex at the fundamental frequency (Coffey et al., 2016b). Our objectives in the present work were to validate and better localize this result using a completely different neuroimaging modality and to document the relationships between the FFR, the onset …

Phonetic And Phonological Research Sharing Methods, Cory C. Coogan

The Kabod

This paper reviews the materials linguists use to compile and share research in the linguistic sub-fields of phonetics and phonology. It summarizes the content and purpose of major books, journal publications, and databases within these two fields, especially those with broad selections of data that have been collected for cross-linguistic study and research reference. This paper discusses the various uses of these materials and then analyzes how well equipped the linguistic research community is for compiling and sharing comprehensive-oriented language data.

Chestnut Point Realty, Llc V. Town Of East Windsor, Supreme Court Of Connecticut

2017

No abstract provided.

Independent - Jan. 24, 2017, Brett Starkopf

The Independent (1988-present)

No abstract provided.

Trauschweizer Wins Humanities Fund And Baker Award Grants, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.

Can Law Be A Source Of Insight For Other Academic Disciplines?, Stephen Matthew Feldman

Faculty Articles

Law has been a borrower but not a supplier Law schools in effect have been located on oneway streets with ideas flowing in but nothing going out This essay is intended to begin a dialogue that could change the oneway streets between law schools and other university departments into twoway streets I want to demonstrate that legal and jurisprudential studies can be a source of ideas for scholars in other fields In particular this essay argues that the legal concept of the burden of proof can illuminate disputes between theorists of modernism and postmodernism

An Exploration Of Close Reading Strategies And 3rd Grade Comprehension, Loretta Cecilia Houck

Theses and Dissertations

The research case study was conducted to explore how Close Reading Strategies support 3rd grade Basic Skills students' comprehension. The purposes of the study were to first determine if utilizing the rereading and text questioning strategies would support students' comprehension while reading complex texts. Secondly, to determine if annotating in the margins of the text would support comprehension as the students reflected on their thinking. The students were of varying abilities of below grade level readers and one student was an ELL below grade level and challenged by language meaning difficulty. The students were reading on an end first grade …

A Legal Practitioner's Guide To Indian And Tribal Law Research, Kelly Kunsch

American Indian Law Journal

No abstract provided.

The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

The George-Anne

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Cseas Weekly Bulletin (January 23, 2017), Center For Southeast Asian Studies

CSEAS Bulletin

No abstract provided.