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An Analysis Of The Quality Of Ph.D Theses: A Peep Through In-Text Citations And Bibliography, Unnikrishnan S

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study attempts to analyze the quality of Ph.D theses awarded by Mahatma Gandhi University, South India in the field of Social Sciences through their in-text citations and bibliography. This is done by foregrounding the mistakes made by the scholars in their theses. In between 2017-18, the university had awarded 69 Ph.Ds under Social Sciences of which 25 theses were selected for this study. The major finding of the study is that even though American Psychological Association (APA) style of citation is generally accepted across the academic community, none follow it strictly. This is because research guides are often permitted …

Awareness Of Web 3.0 Technology Among The Researchers And Faculty Member Of Medical, Rajiv Gandhi University Of Health Science: A Study, Sridhara R N, Dr. Raghunandana M

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Abstract

This paper depicts the Awareness of web 3.0 utilized as a part of Medical Faculty Members and Researchers condition in Rajiv Gandhi University of Health science. We have just observed our administrations and accumulations change drastically with the ascent of the web and everything that it has carried with it, from the coordination’s of offering open web access, to e-assets, Web 2.0 and the utilization of the semantic web. The Social networking sites (SNSs) have permeated our daily lives. As social media usage with mobile devices such as smart phones and tablet devices increases, it has gained attention to …

Bibliometric Analysis Of Citation Trends And Publications On E-Government In Southern African Countries: A Human-Computer Interactions And It Alignment Debate, Patrick Ajibade (Phd), Stephen M. Mutula Prof.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Due to technology adoption, many countries are embracing e-government. This study presents the growth and pattern of research on e-government articles and conference proceedings internationally, by scholars in the Southern African countries. It presents research patterns, trends and current gaps in e-government, as well as the most prolific authors and the level of outputs’ prominence. This paper uses bibliometric tools to present the analysis of articles on Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar databases. R computational programming for big data analysis was used to generate summarized metrics. The citation sample size was (n = 33,689), µ = 625, …

Engaging And Partnering With Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Parents And Caregivers, Simone White, Peter Anderson, Graeme Gower, Matt Byrne, Maria Bennet, Alison Quin, Anna Darling

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

The Engaging and partnering with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander parents and caregivers two-year project has culminated in a unique interactive website (see www.yourstoryourjourney.net) that houses a number of learning and teaching tools, strategies and resources designed to support all those working to improve the educational success of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students in schools, Australia’s First Nations peoples. It is intended to be used in teacher education programs (pre-service and in-service), by teachers and school leaders, and by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. The resource has been created to help all educators form relationships and partnerships with …

Reflections On The Institutional Church, Denis Fortin

Faculty Publications

It should not come as a surprise to anyone anymore when we say that our denomination is a hierarchical institution. In an earlier article, I argued that the Seventh-day Adventist Church is a hybrid form of episcopalism similar to that of the Methodist Church in the United States. This represents a weakening of our Protestant heritage, meaning that Seventh-day Adventism is in dire need of a major realignment of its ecclesiology and ecclesial practices

Extinguishing The Firewall: Addressing The Jurisdictional Challenges To Bringing The Cyber Tort Suits Against Foreign Sovereigns, Samantha N. Sergent

Vanderbilt Law Review

The rapid advancement of technology has resulted in new forms of tortious activity. Increasingly, these cyber torts are perpetrated by foreign states. Notwithstanding other barriers to collecting damages for a cyber tort, a plaintiff suing for a foreign-state-perpetrated cyber tort must prove that the alleged tortious activity satisfies one of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act's exceptions-most likely the noncommercial tort exception. Recently the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit held that a U.S. court lacked jurisdiction to hear a claim against a foreign state that hacked a U.S. national's email account. The court found the noncommercial tort exception …

Social Nonsense: Creative Diversions For Two Or More Players - Anytime, Anywhere, Doug Shaw

Faculty Book Gallery

This amusing book by Dr. Doug Shaw (American) is the finest in our collection. It consists of a collection of whimsical pastimes that encourage the creation of stories and art. -- provided by the publisher.

International Law: Explaining International Acts, Chimène I. Keitner

The Judges' Book

No abstract provided.

Iowa Conference On Communicative Disorders [Program, 2019], Iowa Conference On Communicative Disorders

Iowa Conference on Communicative Disorders Programs

The Iowa Conference on Communicative Disorders provides continuing education activities in speech- language pathology that are acceptable to the State of Iowa and the American Speech-Language and Hearing Association. Areas of emphasis include adults and pediatrics.

International Panther, Winter 2019, University Of Northern Iowa. Culture And Intensive English Program.

International Panther

Inside This Issue:
--From the Director
--In Memory of Connie Adrian
--Liberal Arts Core Collaboration
--CIEP Activities
--Fourth Entourage of Gammon Presbyterian Institute Students Visits UNI
--Staff Spotlight
--Student Spotlight
--Student Employees Nominated for Student Employee Leadership Academy
--Proyecta 100K
--Former Student Sujeong Seo
--From Austria to the United States
--TESOL and the CIEP

Design Of An Arduino Based Smart Home System, Qi Lu

Graduate Research Papers

Smart home is a home setup where smart appliances can be controlled remotely using networked devices. It has gained widely attentions due to its flexible integrations. However, not everyone is willing to upgrade their old home appliances to smart ones. One alternative solution is to design and implement a wireless controlled smart system that could utilize existing home appliances. This project aims to design an Arduino based smart home system. The system may upgrade existing appliances into smart home devices by integrating the wireless capability through XBee modules and low-cost Arduino boards.

Clinical Big Data And Deep Learning: Applications, Challenges, And Future Outlooks, Ying Yu, Liangliang Liu, Yaohang Li, Jianxin Wang

Computer Science Faculty Publications

The explosion of digital healthcare data has led to a surge of data-driven medical research based on machine learning. In recent years, as a powerful technique for big data, deep learning has gained a central position in machine learning circles for its great advantages in feature representation and pattern recognition. This article presents a comprehensive overview of studies that employ deep learning methods to deal with clinical data. Firstly, based on the analysis of the characteristics of clinical data, various types of clinical data (e.g., medical images, clinical notes, lab results, vital signs and demographic informatics) are discussed and details …

Is Meat The New Tobacco? Regulating Food Demand In The Age Of Climate Change, Lingxi Chenyang

Utah Law Faculty Scholarship

Switching from a meat-heavy to a plant-based diet is one of the highest-impact lifestyle changes for climate mitigation and adaptation. However, conventional demand-side energy policy has focused on increasing consumption of efficient machines and fuels. Regulating food demand has key advantages. First, food consumption is biologically constrained, thus switching to more efficient foods avoids unintended consequences of switching to more efficient machines, like higher overall energy consumption. Second, food consumption, like smoking, is primed for normshifting because it occurs in socially conspicuous environments. Indeed, while place-based bans and information regulation were essential in lowering the prevalence of smoking, the same …

Humans: Uniquely Responsible For Causing Conservation Problems, Uniquely Capable Of Solving Them, Michael L. Wilson, Clarence L. Lehman

Animal Sentience

We share Chapman & Huffman’s views on the importance of promoting animal welfare and conservation. We disagree with their implication, however, that reverence for life and concern for the wellbeing of global ecosystems depend on a belief that other living things are similar to humans in any of their capacities. Humans exhibit special traits — language, cumulative culture, extraordinary capacity for cooperation when we are at our best, and ever-advancing technological developments — that enabled them to dominate the planet, resulting in the current conservation crisis. It is precisely the fact that humans have become unique that provides hope for …

Campus-Wide Student Learning Assessment: Campus Student Learning Outcomes Academic Year 2018-2019, University Of Minnesota-Morris

Institutional Effectiveness and Research Reports

No abstract provided.

Synthesis And Design Of Thiophene Materials: Effects Of Ring Fusion And Metal Coordination, Kristine Louise Konkol

Chemistry and Biochemistry

Conjugated organic materials comprise a field of materials chemistry focused on the development of semiconducting organic plastics, popular applications of which are plastic solar cells and display technologies. One of the reasons these materials have gained so much attention is that their optical and electronic properties can be tuned through engineering at the molecular level. Thiophene, an aromatic heterocycle, is a popular building block in the synthesis of many conjugated materials, prized for both the ease in which it can be synthetically functionalized and its ability to form highly conductive and low band gap materials. The Rasmussen group has previously …

Traffic Monitoring System Using In-Pavement Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors, Mu'ath Al-Tarawneh

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Recently, adding more lanes becomes less and less feasible, which is no longer an applicable solution for the traffic congestion problem due to the increment of vehicles. Using the existing infrastructure more efficiently with better traffic control and management is the realistic solution. An effective traffic management requires the use of monitoring technologies to extract traffic parameters that describe the characteristics of vehicles and their movement on the road. A three-dimension glass fiber-reinforced polymer packaged fiber Bragg grating sensor (3D GFRP-FBG) is introduced for the traffic monitoring system. The proposed sensor network was installed for validation at the Cold Weather …

Proceedings Of The One Hundred Twentieth Annual Meeting Of The North Dakota State Bar Association, North Dakota Law Review Associate Editors

North Dakota Law Review

No abstract provided.

"I'M Leavin' It (All) Up To You": Gundy And The (Sort-Of) Resurrection Of The Subdelegation Doctrine, Gary S. Lawson

Faculty Scholarship

In 2000, Cass Sunstein quipped that the conventional nondelegation doctrine, which holds that there are judicially enforceable constitutional limits on the extent to which Congress can confer discretion on other actors to determine the content of federal law, “has had one good year, and 211 bad ones (and counting).”1 The “one good year,” he said, was 1935, when the Court twice held unconstitutional certain provisions of the National Industrial Recovery Act that gave the president power to approve or create codes of conduct for essentially all American businesses, subject only to very vague, and often contradictory, statutory exhortations to pursue …

The Pathologies Of Digital Consent, Neil M. Richards, Woodrow Hartzog

Faculty Scholarship

Consent permeates both our law and our lives — especially in the digital context. Consent is the foundation of the relationships we have with search engines, social networks, commercial web sites, and any one of the dozens of other digitally mediated businesses we interact with regularly. We are frequently asked to consent to terms of service, privacy notices, the use of cookies, and so many other commercial practices. Consent is important, but it’s possible to have too much of a good thing. As a number of scholars have documented, while consent models permeate the digital consumer landscape, the practical conditions …

The Inconsentability Of Facial Surveillance, Evan Selinger, Woodrow Hartzog

Faculty Scholarship

Governments and companies often use consent to justify the use of facial recognition technologies for surveillance. Many proposals for regulating facial recognition technology incorporate consent rules as a way to protect those faces that are being tagged and tracked. But consent is a broken regulatory mechanism for facial surveillance. The individual risks of facial surveillance are impossibly opaque, and our collective autonomy and obscurity interests aren’t captured or served by individual decisions.

In this article, we argue that facial recognition technologies have a massive and likely fatal consent problem. We reconstruct some of Nancy Kim’s fundamental claims in Consentability: Consent …

Big Waiver Under Statutory Sabotage, Elizabeth Mccuskey

Faculty Scholarship

The Affordable Care Act's State Innovation waiver allows federal agencies to suspend the most controversial parts of the statute for states to pursue alternative paths, while keeping the federal funding provided by the statute. This "big waiver" provision has the potential to enable states to pursue transformative health reforms, while preserving the affordability and universal coverage aims of the federal statute. Big waivers like this one carry theoretical promise, which largely depends on the strength of the federal statute's baseline infrastructure. This Essay considers early implementation of the State Innovation waiver as a test for big waiver theory - and …

Data Generated By New Technologies And The Law: A Guide For Massachusetts Practitioners, Andrew Sellars

Faculty Scholarship

This brief paper, created as part of a training on new technologies and evidence for MCLE New England, outlines the standards used to compel disclosure of information under the Stored Communication Act, and reviews the types of data stored on various consumer devices and their likely custodians, as well as cases and notes relevant to each devices. The paper serves as a quick introduction and checklist for those considering gathering information from these devices in the course of investigations in Massachusetts. The devices outlined include cell phones, social media platforms, secure messaging services, fitness trackers, home assistant devices (or "smart …

Judicial Impartiality In An Empirical Era, Tigran W. Eldred

Faculty Scholarship

The psychological dimensions of judicial impartiality is a topic of considerable interest, with a growing body of scholarship focused on the reasons judges often are unable to perceive their own biases.¹ The attention is not on why judges intentionally downplay factors that can undermine their own objectivity, but rather on the empirical reasons that everyone, judges included, tend to be unaware of the impact of their own biases. This “bias blind spot,”² a product of a series of unconscious cognitive and motivational factors, is at the center of the discussion, with even the Supreme Court making passing reference …

Prevalence Of Chronic Disease, Associated Factors, And Health Related Quality Of Life Among Wesleyan Clergy, Angi May Mook

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Clergy believe they have been called to be healthy and role models of good health. However, epidemiological evidence supports that clergy are currently exhibiting higher rates of chronic diseases and associated factors such as obesity, diabetes, and hypertension compared to the general population. Prior studies of clergys health are limited because the few available studies are denomination specific, limiting generalizability to the other denominations who have differing theology and beliefs. The Wesleyan denomination has not been formally studied. The gap in literature, therefore, creates a need for baseline information specific to the Wesleyan clergy. This cross-sectional study assessed the prevalence …

Using Species Distribution Models And Connectivity Analyses To Predict Habitat Suitability For Three Bat Species, James Howard Cox Iii

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Forests are the most important and universally threatened habitats for bats. Habitat loss and fragmentation are leading causes of damage to forest ecosystem integrity. Critically, most bats need forests: over half of the 45 species of bats in North America use forests for roosting or foraging. Much research to date has been done to identify roosting and foraging patches of bats, but few have attempted to investigate how these patches are connected across a landscape. By understanding how to maintain connectivity across even fragmented landscapes, we may be able to mitigate the effects of forest habitat loss. In this thesis, …

I Was The Only One In The Building. Lived Experiences Of Black School Counselors Post-Brown V. Board Of Education In Predominantly White Schools, Yevonne A. Jones

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to explore the lived experiences of Black school counselors post- Brown v. Board of Education (1954) decision and their integration into predominantly White public schools. A literature review was conducted which included the history of school counseling, Brown v. Board of Education , and its impact on the displacement of Black educators. The literature also explored the experiences of Black teachers and students post- Brown and current demographic data of school counselors. A qualitative study was conducted to capture the lived experiences of participants using multiple case studies and narrative life stories. Four Black …

Technology Threat Avoidance Factors As Predictors Of Risky Cybersecurity Behavior Within The Enterprise, Andrew R. Gillam

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Recent research ofBailey College of Engineering and Technology (IT) end-user cybersecurity-related risky behaviors has focused on items such as IT user decision-making, impulsiveness, and internet use as predictors of human cyber vulnerability. Theories which guide user human behavioral intent, such as protection motivation theory (PMT, introduced by Rogers, 1975) and technology threat avoidance theory (TTAT, introduced by Liang and Xue, 2009) have not been widely investigated as antecedents of risky cybersecurity behavior (RScB). ThisDissertation describes exploratory research that analyzed and evaluated PMT/TTAT factors as predictors of RScB by enterprise IT users. This work uniquely contributes to the literature by investigating …

The Effects Of Race, Ethnicity, And Language On Competency To Stand Trial Evaluations, Gonzalez Melvin Pagan

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Forensic evaluators receive training on multicultural assessment and most forensic assessment textbooks include guidelines addressing multicultural issues, but there is little research examining how race/ethnicity and linguistic differences may impact competency to stand trial evaluations. There is a need for research to better understand the needs of Hispanic individuals who are among the fastest growing populations in the United States. Prior studies suggest that clinicians may diagnose African American defendants and Hispanic individuals with a more severe diagnosis when compared to Caucasian individuals. When defendants communicate in their secondary language or require the use of an interpreter it may impact …

A Curriculum Analysis Of The Mid-America Law Enforcement Academy Through A Multicultural Lens, Jill Musgrave

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This research was conducted as an exploratory case study guided by the institutional curriculum model for multicultural Education developed by Coles and Grant (1985). Document analysis, over 125 hours of observations, seven instructor interviews, and 12 recruit interviews were conducted to explore how the institutional curriculum (e.g., the official, null, operational, hidden, and extra curriculum) addressed multiculturalism and cultural responsiveness at a police academy, and how the institutional multicultural curriculum impacted the recruits. After data were collected and analyzed across all data sources, three primary findings emerged. First, a lack of vertical and horizontal communication exists regarding the multicultural curriculum. …