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Exploring The Relationship Between Viewer Experience And Movie Genre – A Study Based On Text Mining Of Online Movie Reviews, Urszula Świerczyńska-Kaczor

European Management Studies

This paper aims to provide insight about viewer experience with movies of different genres: the suspense movie, the western and the comedy. The qualitative and quantitative analyses based on text mining were conducted for online reviews of the three selected movies. The results of text mining were complemented by a qualitative manual analysis of reviews. The results of text mining indicated the spectrum of factors shaping viewer experience at different stages of the consumer journey. These factors relate to, for example, the product features (e.g. the recognized movie director, movie stars, soundtrack, and the historical context of the plot), and …

Reconciling Contemporary Approaches To School Attendance And School Absenteeism: Toward Promotion And Nimble Response, Global Policy Review And Implementation, And Future Adaptability (Part 2), Christopher Kearney, Carolina Gonzálvez, Patricia A. Graczyk, Mirae Fornander

Psychology Faculty Research

As noted in Part 1 of this two-part review, school attendance is an important foundational competency for children and adolescents, and school absenteeism has been linked to myriad short- and long-term negative consequences, even into adulthood. Categorical and dimensional approaches for this population have been developed. This article (Part 2 of a two-part review) discusses compatibilities of categorical and dimensional approaches for school attendance and school absenteeism and how these approaches can inform one another. The article also poses a multidimensional multi-tiered system of supports pyramid model as a mechanism for reconciling these approaches, promoting school attendance (and/or prevention of …

Combined Modality Therapies For High-Risk Prostate Cancer: Narrative Review Of Current Understanding And New Directions., Benjamin A. Greenberger, Victor E. Chen, Robert B. Den

Department of Radiation Oncology Faculty Papers

Despite the many prospective randomized trials that have been available in the past decade regarding the optimization of radiation, hormonal, and surgical therapies for high-risk prostate cancer (PCa), many questions remain. There is currently a lack of level I evidence regarding the relative efficacy of radical prostatectomy (RP) followed by adjuvant radiation compared to radiation therapy (RT) combined with androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) for high-risk PCa. Current retrospective series have also described an improvement in biochemical outcomes and PCa-specific mortality through the use of augmented radiation strategies incorporating brachytherapy. The relative efficacy of modern augmented RT compared to RP is …

The Riksbank Committee's Proposal For A New Riksbank Act, Sveriges Riksbank

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Fantasy, Affect, And Pan-Asianism: Mariano Ponce, The First Philippine Republic’S Foreign Emissary, 1898–1912, Nicole Cuunjieng; Aboitiz

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

Thisarticle examines Mariano Ponce’s Asianist thought and his work to promote a Pan-Asianist alliance, actively participating in the overthrow of Western imperialism and the revitalization of Asia. Ponce’s interest in Japan, Asia, and the Malays ran deeper than mere revolutionary and reformist instrument, however, as his lifelong scholarship shows. Thisarticle focuses on the neglected affective and material dimensions of “peripheral” Pan-Asianism in order to make it legible to the Northeast Asian-centric “center” of the discourse and to reframe the broader history of Pan-Asianism to include Southeast Asia and specifically the Philippines.KEYWORDS: PAN-ASIANISM • JAPAN • MARIANO PONCE • PHILIPPINE REVOLUTION …

Panahon And Bagay: Metonymy And The Close Reading Of Dictionaries To Understand Filipino Temporality, Christian Jil Benitez

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

Thisarticle demonstrates how the close reading of words used in lexicographic definitions of the word panahon point to a Filipino understanding of temporality. These definitions resort to metonymy to concretize the abstract. Although different meanings cloud its meaning, panahon is understandable in a given instance when it refers coincidentally to something else. Etymologically, panahon is related to nahon and taon, which embody the opportune and the material, suggesting that panahon is articulable through the encounter of things (bagay), whose thinghood/appropriateness is knowable only by chance (pagkakataon). Kasaysayan (history) is a bagay that is always implicated in the panahon it attemptsto …

Exploration Of The Behavioral, Electrophysiological, And Psychometric Effects Of Kth Speech-Tracking Training In Noise In Normal Hearing Adults, Michael Kurth

Doctoral Dissertations

Looking at hearing loss through the WHO-ICD model for disability reveals that auditory interventions do not necessarily address all of the components of auditory disability. Auditory training has been proposed as a solution to address activity-level deficits. The purpose of this study was to examine structure- and activity-level changes as the result of auditory training for normal hearing individuals training in the presence of noise. Thirty adults with normal hearing were placed into three experimental groups: A group engaging in active auditory training in noise, a group listening to speech material in noise, and a control group that performed no …

Negotiating Land In The Spanish Philippines: Cases Of Land Donations And Boundary Disputes In Laguna, Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centuries, Grace Liza Concepcion

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

Using archival documents, thisarticle analyzes two types of negotiations involving land in Laguna province. The first deals with donations that native leaders made to the Franciscans for the establishment of a hospital in Los Baños in the early 1600s. The second type consists of native claims to land in a dispute on town borders in the eighteenth century. These cases evince alternative ideas of land ownership and depict how the people negotiated the colonial structure to prove their tenure. They also illustrate overlapping practices of land tenure during the transition from precolonial to colonial forms.KEYWORDS: PRECOLONIAL LAND PRACTICES • SPANISH …

Limahong’S Pirates, Ming Mariners, And Early Sino–Spanish Relations: The Pangasinan Campaign Of 1575 And Global History From Below, J. Travis; Shutz

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

In late November 1574, the notorious Limahong and his pirates arrived in the Philippine archipelago. Previous studies have focused on their infamous Manila raid. Cross-examining Ming Chinese and Spanish sources, the present study examines the campaign to capture them in Pangasinan in 1575, which reveals a temporary tripartite Sino–Spanish–Luzonese antipiracy alliance that is occluded in contemporary sources. This study highlights global history based on transregional linkages as embodied by Limahong’s marauding pirates who, as nonstate actors, precipitated state-to-state contact between South China and the Philippine archipelago but whose escape in August 1575 unraveled early Sino–Spanish relations.KEYWORDS: MARITIME PREDATION • SPANISH …

The Rise Of Filipino Postcolonial Knowledge: Philippine Studies, The Institute Of Philippine Culture, And The Ateneo De Manila University Press, Charlie Samuya; Veric

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

A contribution to the yet unwritten histories of Philippine Studies (PS), the Institute of Philippine Culture (IPC), and the Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU) Press, thisarticle examines the rise of Filipino postcolonial institutions of knowledge production in the shadow of the Cold War. It argues that PS, IPC, and ADMU Press constituted a coherent and coordinated network that sought to establish a postcolonial culture of knowledge production after 1946. Moreover, their development signaled the rise of decolonizing thought that coincided with the emergence of Cold War area studies.KEYWORDS: POSTCOLONIAL KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION • INTELLECTUAL HISTORY • COLD WAR • DECOLONIZATION • …

Dovie Beams And Philippine Politics: A President’S Scandalous Affair And First Lady Power On The Eve Of Martial Law, Caroline S.; Hau

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

Thisarticle explores the ramifications of American actress Dovie Beams’s exposé of her affair with Ferdinand Marcos in 1970. The ensuing scandal provoked subversive laughter and provided ammunition to various anti-Marcos groups; significantly, some believed it enabled Imelda Marcos to accrue greater political power. The competing accounts of this affair raise questions about the politics of sex scandals and the role of First Ladies, but the turning point of Imelda’s rise to power was the declaration of martial law. Still, the Dovie Beams affair is no mere footnote in history because what is often downgraded intellectually as personal, private, or intimate …

Resil B. Mojares: Adventures And Itineraries In Philippine Cultural History, Caroline S. Hau, Patricio N. Abinales, Filomeno V. Aguilar Jr., Lisandro E. Claudio, Michael Cullinane, Michael D. Pante

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

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Nutritional Health Among Deaf Adults, Neva L. Crogan, Elaine G. Jones, Youngmi Kang

JADARA

The purpose of this study was to describe nutritional health of Deaf adults in terms of nutrition knowledge, eating patterns, and Body Mass Index (BMI).Fifty-seven Deaf adults in the Tucson and Phoenix, Arizona, metropolitan areas completed 3-day eating diaries, sections B and C of the General Nutrition Knowledge Questionnaire for adults, and were measured for height and weight for BMI. Analysis found an average score of 50% on the nutrition knowledge questionnaire, 33.10% of dietary calories came from fat; less than 1 serving of fruit per day and slightly more than one serving of vegetables per day and most were …

Employment And Quality Of Life In Adults Who Are Deaf, Sara Thompson, Susan R. Easterbrooks

JADARA

Research shows that work is closely related to self-esteem (Walter, 1993). Yet many young people who are deaf or hard of hearing (D/HH) are choosing not to work. How does this affect their self-esteem and overall quality of life? Quality of life (QoL) is the satisfaction one feels about his current situation. Using the Comprehensive Quality of Life Scale-Adult (ComQol-A5) (Cummins, 1997), the perceived QoL of eleven pairs of matched participants(N=22) from a State School for the Deaf was measured. Data were used to analyze the impact that employment had upon their perceived QoL. The results indicated no significant differences …

Deaf And Hearing: Conducting Cross-Cultural Research In A Postsecondary Setting, Steven R. Sligar

JADARA

This paper describes cross-cultural research methods that were used in a case study of a community college in the Midwest. During the course of the research, the importance of applying cross-cultural research methods became apparent. Analysis of the research process resulted in a identification of three aspects of cross-cultural design. These are the cross cultural research guidelines applied to Deafness, the context of the study, and the conduct of the research. The results indicated that when the interests of people who were Deaf were considered, cross-cultural collaboration was possible, there was benefit to the Deaf culture and the mainstream, and …

Rehabilitating The Deaf-Blind Client, Jerome D. Schein

JADARA

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Personality And Social Development Of Deaf Persons, Kathryn P. Meadow

JADARA

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The Value Of Art Therapy: An Intervention To Enhance Emotional Health Of Children With Hearing Loss, Helen Boyle, Peggy Dunn Snow

JADARA

Deafness is the invisible, unseen sensory anomaly that is difficult for hearing individuals to understand. Deaf and hard of hearing children look the same as other children and have the same cognitive abilities as hearing children; they ambulate, laugh, cry, and have the same basic needs. Research data supports the fact that when intelligence instruments are used that do not rely on verbal and language processing abilities the results show that there is no difference in performance between hearing and hearing impaired children (Moores 2001; Vemon 1990). There is the same range of intelligence for both groups. However there is …

Counseling Accessibility For Deaf Children In Public And Residential Schools, Alton Brant, Sally Moore

JADARA

Following 30 years of mainstreaming disabled children into public schools, the authors sought to identify deaf and hard of hearing students' accessibility to counseling services. This study identified a number of issues related to student behaviors and/or counseling support children were receiving in South Carolina public schools and residential programs in the southeastern United States (U.S.). The survey distributed to professional counselors revealed a number of significant findings including: 1) Deaf and hard of hearing children are experiencing varying degrees of difficulty functioning in educational programs, and b) a significant number of deaf and hard of hearing children are receiving …

Language Deprivation In The Deaf Inpatient Population, Patricia Black, Neil Glickman

JADARA

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Serving Severely Emotionally Disturbed Deaf Youth: A Statewide Program Model, Steven Hamerdinger, Elizabeth Hill

JADARA

This article presents an overview of the clinical issues that face deaf and hard of hearing children today. Current treatment options both in Alabama and nationwide that are available to severely emotionally disturbed deaf children are examined. Finally, a proposed statewide program model is detailed and its implementation is proposed.

Sociocognition Issues Affecting The Working Relationship Between The Deaf Professional And The Interpreter, Poorna Kushalnagar

JADARA

The focus of this paper is to review the literature on socio-cognition issues for deaf graduate students and professionals working with interpreters in order to assess its usefulness in developing key conditions under which deaf graduate student/professional- interpreterworkingrelationshipsmightbeimplementedmoreeffectively. Theories on cognitive dissonance and stereotyping will be examined in relation to their possible implications in the working relationship, and included in this review if they related to the development and maintenance of an ongoing working relationship between the deaf professional and the interpreter. The concept, cognitive dissonance, will be introduced in this discussion and examined for its relevance to the inconsistency …

Language Disfluency And Diagnosis In The Deaf Inpatient Population, Neil S. Glickman

JADARA

This study was designed to investigate the relationship between language dysfluency in the deaf inpatient population and the following variables: psychiatric diagnosis, risk of harm to self and others and psycho-social functioning admission scores on the Clinical Evaluation of Risk and Functioning Scale - Revised(CERF-R), and cognitive ability as measured by the Allen Cognitive Level Scale(ACL).

The research found that 75% of deaf individuals fell into the non-fluent range of communication in ASL, their best language. Participants with severe language dysfluency received DSM-IV diagnoses concentrated in more severe forms of psychopathology, while individuals with fluent language skills received a broader …

New Vistas For Competitive Employment Of Deaf Persons*, William N. Criag, James L. Collins

JADARA

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General Employment: The Responsibility Of An Employment Interviewer, Janet I. Pinner

JADARA

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Employment Practices And Trends And The Deaf Client: A Response, John O-Brien

JADARA

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Employment Practices And Trends In Large Industry, Wiliam Williams

JADARA

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Positive Aspects Of Parenting A Deaf Child: Categories Of Potential Positive Influences, Amy Szarkowski, Patrick Brice

JADARA

Hearing parents were interviewed regarding the positive aspects of parenting their deaf children. The parent/child dyads were also observed in interactions and parents were asked to record in a journal their reflections about parenting a deaf child. This information was organized into categories that influenced the degree to which parents reported having positive experiences. A total of 42 categories were derived from the data obtained in the interviews, which were further arranged by the researchers in to relevant clusters. The clusters allow readers to better conceptualize the influences on parents that impact their ability to have a positive parenting experience. …

Exploring How A-Level Biology Teachers Integrate Ict In Teaching And Learning: A Case Of A Private School In Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, Florian Nelson Bessango

Master of Education

The integration of technology in teaching and learning is now recognized by academic stake holders in Tanzania as the main driving force for the achievement of the national vision of 2025 (Swartz & Mwiyeria, 2010). The purpose of this research project was to explore how teachers integrate ICT in teaching and learning of Advanced level (A-level) biology. A qualitative research paradigm with the case study design was used in the study. Research participants included a coordinator of the secondary school level, A-level biology students and the subject teacher. One-on-one interviews, focus discussion group, document analysis and classroom observation tools were …

A Unified Binary Neutron Star Merger Magnetar Model For The Chandra X-Ray Transients Cdf-S Xt1 And Xt2, Hui Sun, Ye Li, Bin-Bin Zhang, Bing Zhang, Franz E. Bauer, Yongquan Xue, Weimin Yuan

Physics & Astronomy Faculty Research

Two bright X-ray transients were reported from the Chandra Deep Field South (CDF-S) archival data, namely CDF-S XT1 and XT2. Whereas the nature of the former is not identified, the latter was suggested as an excellent candidate for a rapidly spinning magnetar born from a binary neutron star (BNS) merger. Here we propose a unified model to interpret both transients within the framework of the BNS merger magnetar model. According to our picture, CDF-S XT2 is observed from the "free zone" where the magnetar spindown powered X-ray emission escapes freely, whereas CDF-S XT1 originates from the "trapped zone" where the …