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Modular Norm Models: Practical Representation And Analysis Of Contractual Rights And Obligations, Sayonnha Mandal, Robin Gandhi, Harvey Siy

Interdisciplinary Informatics Faculty Publications

Compliance analysis requires legal counsel but is generally unavailable in many software projects. Analysis of legal text using logic-based models can help developers understand requirements for the development and use of software-intensive systems throughout its lifecycle. We outline a practical modeling process for norms in legally binding agreements that include contractual rights and obligations. A computational norm model analyzes available rights and required duties based on the satisfiability of situations, a state of affairs, in a given scenario. Our method enables modular norm model extraction, representation, and reasoning. For norm extraction, using the theory of frame semantics, we construct two …

Setting The Stage And Building Homes: Architecture Metaphors And Space In Donne's First Caroline Sermon, Alexander S. Laws

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Through his use of "foundation" and "house" metaphors in his "First Sermon Preached to King Charles at St. James, 3 April 1625," John Donne discreetly presents his ideologies and principles before the new king, while simultaneously criticizing his contemporaries' misguided bickering over religio-political factions. This essay seeks to unpack the history surrounding, as well as the casuistical logic found within Donne's first sermon preached during the Caroline period, which both explicitly and implicitly addresses the foremost anxieties of the people of the changing age.

Digital Literacy Skill Development: Prescriptive Learning Analytics Assessment Model, Elspeth Mckay

2009 - 2019 ACER Research Conferences

There is a broad awareness of how information communications technology (ICT) digital literacy impacts everyday life. In schools, use of ICT tools has become mandatory. These tools include computers, tablets and mobile phones. These smart devices are used to send emails, browse the internet and make video calls. It is essential for teachers to identify student digital literacy levels through classroom activities and when to implement flexible ePedagogies for students who need help. This presentation will provide easy-to-follow steps to manage learning analytics to determine digital literacy skill levels. Learning analytics can be used for a range of purposes: to …

Thirteen Ways To “Hail, Mary”: A Case Study Of The 2013 Forum For The Inculturation Of Liturgical Music In Nigeria, Quintina Carter-Enyi, Aaron Carter-Enyi

Yale Journal of Music & Religion

Every two years since 1997, the Forum for the Inculturation of Liturgical Music (FILM) has given a platform for many of Nigeria’s cultures to contribute to the future direction of the Roman Catholic liturgy in Nigeria. This case study focuses on the 2013 Biennial Choral Competition, specifically 13 settings of the Ave Maria text in seven of Nigeria’s hundreds of languages. Prior to that year, FILM had already introduced music with lyrics in minority languages including Bini, “Osolobruvwe Do”, and Efik, “Yak Ikom Abasi”, into the Nigerian canon of choral music, including both concert and church performance. In 2013, the …

Development And Evaluation Of The Preschool Family Attitudes And Beliefs Towards Science Measure, Elica Bahar Sharifnia

Open Access Theses

Although children are naturally curious about their world starting at birth, there are already science achievement gaps present as early as kindergarten and are larger for children who come from economically disadvantaged and diverse backgrounds. To date, much effort has focused on better promoting and effectively supporting science in early childhood classrooms. However, policy reports stress the powerful position that parents have in building on their children’s natural interest in science and the need to better understand parental perceptions of science in early childhood. Few studies have examined parents’ attitudes and beliefs towards science for their children, especially within low-income …

Measurement Equivalence Of Ethnic Identity Across Four Ethnic Groups, Rose Ashraf

Psychology Theses and Dissertations

Ethnic identity concerns one’s identification with a group having similar cultural values, language, and traditions. The conceptualization and measurement of ethnic identity has varied greatly since 1970, when it first gained attention in research. In response to psychometric issues and limited generalizability of existing ethnic identity measures, the Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure was developed (Phinney, 1992) and then revised as the Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure – Revised (MEIM-R; Phinney & Ong, 2007). Despite the common use of this multigroup measure to assess ethnic identity in diverse samples, there have been few efforts to assess the measurement equivalence. To date, studies …

L'Œuvre De La Congrégation Du Saint-Esprit Au Cameroun, De 1916 À 1960, Philippe Laburthe-Tolra

Mémoire Spiritaine

No abstract provided.

Social Inclusion In The Digital Era: Rethinking Debates And Narratives In The World Bank Report., Calisto Kondowe, Wallace Chigona

African Conference on Information Systems and Technology

The 2019 (5th) proceedings of ACIST focuses on how African societies are leveraging and can leverage the smart capabilities in digital technologies to address organizational and societal challenges. Technology-enabled solutions offer solutions to many of these challenges. Digital technologies are increasingly becoming integral to and interdependent with the African society.

Best Practices For Parent Engagement In Youth Programs, Samantha Mullin, Margaret A. Hadinger Ed.D.

Research Scholars Poster Presentation

No abstract provided.

Sentence-Level Evidence Embedding For Claim Verification With Hierarchical Attention Networks, Jing Ma, Wei Gao, Shafiq Joty, Kam-Fai Wong

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Claim verification is generally a task of verifying the veracity of a given claim, which is critical to many downstream applications. It is cumbersome and inefficient for human fact-checkers to find consistent pieces of evidence, from which solid verdict could be inferred against the claim. In this paper, we propose a novel end-to-end hierarchical attention network focusing on learning to represent coherent evidence as well as their semantic relatedness with the claim. Our model consists of three main components: 1) A coherence-based attention layer embeds coherent evidence considering the claim and sentences from relevant articles; 2) An entailment-based attention layer …

Vocabulary Instruction: Impacts Of Using A Science Notebook In A Dual Language Setting To Teach Science Vocabulary And Content, Manuel Andazola

Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Theses and Other Student Research

Language learners and students in general often struggle to close the achievement gap in monolingual schools because they lose academic content due to lack of vocabulary. To combat this issue, programs such as dual language schools have been introduced and have gained popularity due to their ability to help students keep learning academic content in their native language while becoming literate in the second language and also maintaining literacy in the content areas. Although these programs offer different instruction models and teaching techniques that teachers are implementing to improve science literacy, many teachers still struggle to find creative and effective …

A Study On Adapting Natural Language Processing For Library Services Delivery, V Jeevitha, E.S. Kaviatha

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The technological revolution brought up with the advent of Internet demands that delivery of library services stay in tune with the technological advancements. Search technologies have evolved a long way from text based searching into voice recognized natural language queries. Technology Giants like Google, Apple and Microsoft have filled this marketplace with their products and services to tap the potentials. Integration of the Natural Language tools with existing library solutions provides an exciting potential for traditional libraries to expand their service base. For the users too, this provides a very meaningful experience to access the library resources in their natural …

English Version Of The Evidence-Based Practice Competence Questionnaire: Validity Assessment Among Nursing Students, Theresa G. Buxton, Lisa Chappell, Shu-Yi Wang

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties (validities) and the ease of use of instruments among nursing students. In this study, the EBP-COQ tool was translated and validated into North American English.

Culture And Health Disparities: Hmong Health Beliefs And Practices In The United States, Kao Kang Kue M. Vang

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

This project is a literature review about the Hmong health beliefs and practices in the United States. Coupled with health literacy, linguistic discordance, and mistrust of the Western healthcare system, the Hmong are challenged with receiving high quality care and the ability to achieve good health.

Summer Commencement: August 2, 2019, University Of North Dakota

UND Commencement Programs

UND Summer Commencement program from August 2, 2019.

Corporate Entrepreneurship Of Emerging Market Firms: Current Research And Future Directions, Irem Demirkan, Qin Yang, Crystal X. Jiang

Management Department Faculty Journal Articles

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the current state of corporate entrepreneurship (CE) of emerging market firms (EMFs) and provide direction for future research on the topic.

Design/methodology/approach – The authors specifically review the recent literature between the years 2000 and 2019 on CE with the keywords “corporate entrepreneurship,” “emerging economies” and “emerging countries” published in the Australian Business Deans Council list journals. The authors review the existing literature about CE in emerging markets, summarize current achievements and present an agenda for future research.

Findings – Based on the review, the authors categorized the macro and …

Making The Switch: A New Multicultural Curriculum For Improving Clinical Care And Reducing Health Disparities, Nava Zuaretz

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

With Israel's great cultural diversity, Israeli health professionals must increase their cultural competency so as to improve quality of medical care. This presentation describes efforts to introduce multiculturalism, leading to improved cultural competency, into the curriculum for nursing students in one training school in Israel.

Generating Spatial Referring Expressions In A Social Robot: Dynamic Vs. Non-Ambiguous, Cd Wallbridge, S Lemaignan, E Senft, T Belpaeme

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

Generating spatial referring expressions is key to allowing robots to communicate with people in an environment. The focus of most algorithms for generation is to create a non-ambiguous description, and how best to deal with the combination explosion this can create in a complex environment. However, this is not how people naturally communicate. Humans tend to give an under-specified description and then rely on a strategy of repair to reduce the number of possible locations or objects until the correct one is identified, what we refer to here as a dynamic description. We present here a method for generating these …

Simulation Of A Trained Trained Neural Network Of A Fuzzy Logic Regulation System Based On The Cotton Drying Process, S. T. Yunusova

Technical science and innovation

The article discusses the modeling of a fuzzy-logical system of regulation of the process of drying of raw cotton. The tasks of overcoming uncertainties arising in the process of operation of technological units at the enterprises of the cotton-cleaning industry are presented. An example of solving such a problem by using an artificial neural network is given. Mathematical models based on the neural network have been developed that are used to formalize the process of drying raw cotton and determine the optimal tuned parameters of the fuzzy-logical PID controller, allowing the fate of changing the operating modes of the technological …

English Learner Advancement In Avmr Structuring, Kristina Bradley

Dissertations, Theses, and Projects

Add+Vantage Math Recovery (AVMR) is an intensive remedial math program that involves diagnostic assessments and learning trajectories that help teachers identify and work with students who have been identified as having significant difficulties and specific learning gaps in early number learning. When analyzing the AVMR data to see if students can structure numbers as expected for their grade levels in the school district where this study takes place, teachers in the district noted that those who struggle the most are English learners (ELs) and students receiving special education services. While students receiving special education services will continue to experience specialized …

Tech For Understanding: An Introduction To Assistive And Instructional Technology In The Classroom, Taylor Caldwell

Montview Journal of Research & Scholarship

This paper examines the different types of assistive and instructional technology available to students who are classified with one or more of the thirteen disabilities outlined in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (referred to as, IDEA). While the roles of assistive and instructional technology are different, there are many instances where their uses may overlap. Thus, while these two categories will be discussed separately, it should be noted that some information may be applied to each category and more than one piece of technology. The purpose of this paper is to provide an introduction to the world of assistive …

The Semantics Of Article Acquisition, Emily G. Renie

Montview Journal of Research & Scholarship

Accurately using articles has consistently been a difficult task for English language learners as articles are often treated as solely grammatical forms rather than also recognizing as representatives of complex semantic properties. This paper aims to synthesize individual research on semantic factors which influence article acquisition and explore how they interact with each other. This paper especially focuses on how native and second language speakers of English acquire and understand the concepts of definiteness and specificity and explores these features within the framework of Chomsky’s theory of Universal Grammar. This paper examines the Fluctuating Hypothesis (FH) and its use as …

L'Ethnologue Alexandre Le Roy (1854-1938), Philippe Laburthe-Tolra

Mémoire Spiritaine

No abstract provided.

1906-1927 : La Province Spiritaine De France Se Structure Et S'Organise, Jean Ernoult

Mémoire Spiritaine

No abstract provided.

Le Père Alexandre Le Roy, Missionnaire Au Zanguebar (1881-1892), Bernard Ducol

Mémoire Spiritaine

No abstract provided.

Giving Four-Year-Old Children A "Voice" Within The Comprehensive Evaluation Of Quality Teaching Practices, Mistie M. Perry

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Educational research has largely focused on the correlation between governmental entities and classroom pedagogy as policymakers develop more comprehensive evaluation systems that raise the expectations of teacher quality. However, some researchers in the field of early childhood suggest the measurement of teacher quality is largely a “mismatch between informant-based, retroactive methods” (Downer, Booren, Lima, Luckner, & Pianta, 2010, p. 5) as developmentally appropriate measurements of early childhood quality that include the perceptions of the children are few. To examine the potential for researchers to consider the inclusion of children’s perceptions within evaluation systems, this study examines the following area of …

Narratives Of Expert Speech-Language Pathologists: Defining Clinical Expertise And Supporting Knowledge Transfer, Natalie F. Douglas, Katie Squires, Jackie Hinckley, Erline V. Nakano

Teaching and Learning in Communication Sciences & Disorders

Clinical expertise is a component of evidence-based practice; however, relatively little attention has been paid to this phenomenon in the professional literature of speech-language pathology. This may have negative impacts on the training of pre-professional and novice speech-language pathologists. The purpose of this study was to examine professional narratives of expert Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) to consider applications for knowledge transfer between expert clinicians and novice clinicians. Collection of the professional narratives of 10 expert SLPs were obtained through in-depth interviews. Interviews were transcribed and coded for themes. Themes that impacted expertise in SLP included: training; work sites; individual and clinician …

English Semantic Feature Production Norms: An Extended Database Of 4436 Concepts, Erin M. Buchanan, K.D. Valentine, Nicholas P. Maxwell

Student Publications

A limiting factor in understanding memory and language is often the availability of large numbers of stimuli to use and explore in experimental studies. In this study, we expand on three previous databases of concepts to over 4000 words including nouns, verbs, adjectives, and other parts of speech. Participants in the study were asked to provide lists of features for each concept presented (a semantic feature production task), which were combined with previous research in this area. These feature lists for each concept were then coded into their root word form and affixes (i.e., cat and s for cats) …

From Inclusion To Inclusivity: A Scoping Review Of Community Music Scholarship, Deanna Yerichuk, Justis Krar

Music Faculty Publications

This article investigates how community music scholarship has taken up inclusion. Using a modified scoping review methodology, the authors analysed 47 articles published in the International Journal of Community Music from 2008 to 2018, examining how scholars have defined and operationalized the terms ‘inclusion’ and ‘inclusivity’, which were used interchangeably in the literature. The authors found that inclusion was often normatively invoked with no definition or approaches provided. In those articles that provided more detail about inclusion, many focused on musical access, such as removing auditions and not requiring previous music skill or knowledge, and processes of musical inclusion, such …

Emotional Labor And Care Delivery: Interviews With Obstetrical Nurses, Kelly O'Meara

College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Theses and Dissertations

Using a qualitative approach, twenty long-format interviews with registered nurses with experience working in obstetrics (OB RNs) were conducted using a structured, open-ended question guide to investigate occupational culture, the impact of societal forces on work, and the role of emotion in nursing. Audio-recordings of the interviews were analyzed for themes, using grounded theory. Within the culture of OB RNs, the duty of providing safe care was embedded throughout conversations as a duty, a safety imperative. Since OB RNs saw their job in terms of safety foremost, friction arose when others held differing expectations, influenced by medical dominance and the …