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The Worlds Of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Places That Inspired Middle-Earth, By John Garth, Mike Foster

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

No abstract provided.

The Turn To Aesthetics In Latinx Literary And Cultural Studies, Frances R. Aparicio

Criticism

Latinx Literature Unbound: Undoing Ethnic Expectations by Ralph E. Rodríquez. New York: Fordham University Press, 2018. Paper $30.00, hardcover $105.00.

Abject Performances: Aesthetic Strategies in Latino Cultural Production by Leticia Alvarado. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. Paper $25.95, Cloth $99.95.

Required Reading: The Role Of The Literary Scholar In Mapping Difference And Prompting Interest In Distant Destinations, Sue Norton

Articles

Taking account of research into the relationship between the reading of narrative fiction and niche tourism, this article speculates on the role of the university lecturer of literature in shaping the touristic desires of students. It is especially interested in the influence of European based lecturers of American fiction as they stimulate the geographic imaginations of their learners. Since cultural capital accrues through the reading of serious works of literature, the influence of lecturers is likely to have some bearing on the eventual travel destinations of university graduates prompted to seek out the material locations that they have read about …

Visual Feedback Fuzzy Control For A Robot Manipulator Based On Svr Learning, Xianxia Zhang, Jinqiang Zhang, Zhiyuan Li, Shiwei Ma, Banghua Yang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: A fuzzy controller based on SVR learning is proposed for uncalibrated robot visual servoing. In this paper, a fuzzy controller is used to directly construct the nonlinear mapping between image features and robot joint motion. The fuzzy basis function of the fuzzy controller is taken as the kernel function of an SVR and the equivalent relationship between the SVR and the fuzzy controller is established. The learned support vector from the SVR is used as the rule of the fuzzy controller. Since all rules are learned from the data, there is no need to manually design the rules. …

Documents From The October 14, 2020 Meeting Of The Associated Students Of The University Of Montana (Asum), University Of Montana--Missoula. Associated Students

Senate Meeting Agendas and Minutes, 2007-Present

Agenda and minutes from the October 14, 2020 meeting of the Associated Students of the University of Montana (ASUM). The following resolution was discussed during the meeting:

SB 35_20/21 - Resolution Amending Personnel Policy to Increase ASUM Receptionist Wages

Gru-Based Car-Following Behavior Simulation Model, Fei Rong, Liu Fang, Xie Guo, Hei Xinhong, Shasha Li, Hu Bo

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: The accuracy of acceleration prediction can be effectively improved by the driver's memory in car-following behavior. A new car-following model based on the General Motors (GM) and the gate control unit (GRU) is proposed. The car-following data between small vehicles with similar driving behavior are obtained by data preprocessing. The established model is calibrated by the car-following data, and the optimal parameters and structure of the model are determined. According to car-following characteristics, the effectiveness of model is verified by simulation. It is confirmed that the model has high robustness and improved simulation accuracy comparing with the traditional models.

Culturally Relevant Science Teaching: A Literature Review, Uma Ganesan

The Nebraska Educator: A Student-Led Journal

This educational research literature review paper aims to discuss the rationale, review eight empirical research studies, and identify knowledge gaps in culturally relevant pedagogy in science education. This paper focuses on synthesis, review, and comparison of the findings of the empirical studies, and categorizes them into thematic heads such as similarities and differences between studies under the broad categories of professional development (PD) programs and case studies. Following these reviews, the author summarizes her reflections and thoughts about the literature to understand the big picture of culturally relevant pedagogy in science education. The basis of this literature review are various …

Daily Eastern News: October 14, 2020, Eastern Illinois University

October

No abstract provided.

Daily Eastern News: October 14, 2020, Eastern Illinois University

October

No abstract provided.

S.E. V. Doe

All Decisions

No abstract provided.

Factors Promoting Or Preventing Caregivers From Allowing Pediatric Participation In Research, José R. Fernández, Thomas Taylor, Yenni E. Cedillo, Beatriz Maciel, Daria Salyakina, Jennifer Mccafferty

Journal of Applied Research on Children: Informing Policy for Children at Risk

Introduction The likelihood of a child participating in a clinical trial is mostly independent of the child’s willingness to participate; children’s lack of autonomy obliges parental involvement, which is concurrently conditional to parental understanding, trust and endorsement of the research study. Objectives To identify potential predictors for allowing children to participate in clinical studies and to evaluate if motivators that promote or prevent parental support of children to participate in clinical studies differed according to racial/ethnic categorization.

Methods A stratified sample of 1,057 caregivers of children 1-18 years old who in 2015 resided in South Florida’s Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm …

Sin And The Hacker Ethic: The Tragedy Of Techno-Utopian Ideology In Cyberspace Business Cultures, Bruce D. Baker

Journal of Religion and Business Ethics

This article traces the course of idealistic thinking in the “hacker ethic” of the computer industry, with the aim of diagnosing the unfortunate lapses in business ethics that can ensue from idealistic thinking. Several Silicon Valley companies are mentioned, but Facebook is the prime example, simply because they are the biggest target and clearest example of bad ethics. The original “hacker ethic” was founded on admirable ideals, but the problem occurs when these ideals are used to rationalize a self-serving ideology. Facebook’s history shows how idealistic thinking can become embedded in a business culture. As an antidote to the ethical …

Re-Defining Vernacular Architecturein Third Millennium, Ibrahim Maarouf

Architecture and Planning Journal (APJ)

The key purpose of this paper concerns the definition of vernacular architecture in third millennium; a topic which gives the impression of confusion from the beginning when it was a word in the book of Rudofsky. In redefining this term, supplementary conceptual issue will need to be focused briefly and the role of classification will need to be more generally because of an inextricably linked between these two matters. It may seem strange to raise such a basic question again about "What is vernacular architecture?"; because, up till now, it needs to be addressed. There has been a major revitalization …

Program Review Report, October 13, 2020, Program Review Committee

Program Review Committee

No abstract provided.

Forced Transitions: Learning Asl In A Virtual Environment, Kara Gournaris

Northwest Journal of Teacher Education

Engagement with native language models is essential for second language acquisition. Social distancing mandates made this interaction nearly impossible for students learning American Sign Language (ASL), at a small rural university in western Oregon. COVID-19 brought with it many challenges, not the least of which was a hurried transition from face-to-face to online learning. The author found that some courses degraded in content and instruction when shifting to an online platform. Without access to community events where native language models were present, ASL students had less opportunities for incidental learning, legitimate peripheral participation, and connection within Deaf communities of practice.

Not Remotely Familiar: How Covid-19 Is Reshaping Teachers’ Work And The Implications For Teacher Education, Alisun Thompson, Lina Darwich, Lora Bartlett

Northwest Journal of Teacher Education

The COVID-19 pandemic forced the teacher workforce into distance teaching essentially overnight. This educational migration, necessitated by the public health emergency, has dramatically altered and diversified the realities of teachers’ working lives and the conditions in which they teach. This changing environment has important implications for teacher education. This paper presents five assumptions about teacher education and the uncertain work of preparing culturally responsive and social –justice oriented teachers for a rapidly evolving teaching environment. We seek to animate questions and concerns about teacher education in the context of COVID-19 and the implications for social justice teacher preparation.

Nursing Students' Perceptions Regarding Faculty Feedback, Deborah Hartzog Chatham

Dissertations

Higher education researchers in a variety of disciplines have explored instructor and student perceptions of what constitutes feedback that is useful and timely. Researchers agree that students desire feedback but are often not sure of how to interpret or use faculty comments. Students vary in an understanding of what constitutes feedback. Nursing researchers have conducted fewer studies to determine student concerns regarding faculty feedback. Nursing faculty differ in perceptions of what constitutes effective feedback. Nursing faculty use various forms of feedback, such as written comments, audio recordings, and automatically generated feedback. These variations suggest nursing faculty do not always know …

Academic Success Factors Influencing Linguistically Diverse And Native English Speaking Associate Degree Nursing Students, Josie L. Veal

Dissertations

To address the healthcare needs of vulnerable populations, nursing educators should evaluate educational preparedness and identify which factors influence a successive academic trajectory in nursing school. A prospective design was used to determine the relationships and differences among the anatomy and physiology course grade, self-efficacy, linguistic diversity, language acculturation, and components of the National League for Nursing pre-admission exam for registered nurses and first semester nursing course grades of linguistically diverse and native English speaking associate degree nursing students. A relationship exists between the PAX-RN composite score, anatomy mean grade, language diversity, and general self-efficacy score, the Nursing Pharmacology and …

College Of Education News, College Of Education, Georgia Southern University

College of Education: News & Publications (2003-2023)

• COE Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Events in October

• Chelda Smith named first-ever recipient of COE’s Commitment to Diversity Award

The Challenges Of Translating English Compounds Into Arabic - For Better Or For Worse, Walid M. Amer, Karim Menacere

Al Jinan الجنان

This paper examines the main challenges of translating English compounds into Arabic. Compounding is linguistically a common process across many languages where compounds are frequently formed. In English, compounding is highly creative and innovative, and often used as a means of introducing new phrases or coining new words into the lexicon. In contrast, Arabic is less resourceful. Arabic does not possess similar multiword expressions as an integral linguistic mechanism that merges language items to form a unit of language that can be broken down into single words and display idiosyncratic features. (Sag et al. 2002). As the English text-writer and …

اللغة والثقافة والهوية: الهوية اللغوية وبناء المجتمع الوطني اللبناني المشترك, Li Ya Juan

Al Jinan الجنان

No abstract provided.

Apprentissage Et Créativité Dans La Production Écrite En Français Langue Seconde Chez Des Apprenants Adultes Arabophones. Etude Psycho-Socio-Linguistique, Nada Ziade

Al Jinan الجنان

Notre objectif dans cette recherche est de décrire et d’analyser les démarches de production en français langue seconde mises en œuvre à l’écrit par nos étudiants arabophones, afn de repérer les facteurs qui favorisent ou entravent leurs performances rédactionnelles. L’importance des connaissances linguistiques en français est certes indéniable, mais d’autres facteurs décisifs se font jour aux deux niveaux : métalinguistique et métacognitif. Il importe en effet que les apprenants, au lieu de seulement traduire en termes nouveaux des idées préalablement conçues en langue native, s’initient au système propre à la langue française dans ses aspects conceptuels et syntaxiques De plus, …

منهج الشيخ محيسن في توجيه القرارات المتواترة في تفسيره, Mounir Alzoubaydi

Al Jinan الجنان

The research discusses Al sheikh Muhaisen’s method in directing continual Qiraa’at in his Tafseir [Fath Al-Rahman Al-Raheim in interpreting The Holy Quran]. This study as well contains a biography of him then discusses his approach in directing continual Qiraa’at, where he suffices with the most common Qiraa’at rather that peculiar ones. Moreover, he does not show any probability for continual Qiraa’at. He works on directing those Qiraa’at in terms of linguistics, grammatically, eloquently, and jurisprudentially. A summarized study comes in this book to focus on preponderant opinions in the term of meanings with no opinions offering. Finally, researchers study his …

Being Black While Leading: A Mixed Methods Study Of Black Administrators' Experiences In U.S. Public Schools, Latasha Marie Schraeder

Theses and Dissertations

This transformative explanatory sequential mixed methods design study framed by the theories of Critical Race Theory and Community Cultural Wealth used a survey and semi-structured interviews to explore the experiences of Black administrators in PK-12 public schools in the United States. Within the first, quantitative, phase of the study participants completed a survey that collected demographic data and responses related to the six forms of cultural capital via Likert Scale style and opened ended questions. There were 65 responses, with 42 (N = 42) of the responses being complete. In the second, qualitative, phase of the study two participants were …

The Goodness Of God And His Children As A Fundamental Theological Concept In The Book Of Mormon, Noel B. Reynolds

Faculty Publications

The phrase goodness of God does occur occasionally in the Hebrew Bible, but has not been considered by Old Testament scholars. to be a key piece of Israelite theology. Rather, it has been interpreted as just another way of talking about God’s acts of hesed or loving kindness for his covenant people and is usually interpreted in the context of the covenants Israel received through Abraham and Moses. The Book of Mormon, on the other hand, presents an explicit divine plan that existed before Abraham—even before the creation of the earth—which had as its purpose making eternal life possible for …

المصطلح العربي: شروطه وتوحيده, علي توفيق الحمد

Hebron University Research Journal-B (Humanities) - (مجلة جامعة الخليل للبحوث- ب (العلوم الانسانيه

This research studies the problem of the Arabic technical terms, facing the foreign concepts, and terms. It emphasizes the commencement always with the concepts, to arrange them in similar and closed groups, and to suggest suitable closed terms for every group. The research is also concerned with the conditions, standardization and the roots of every term . It concentrates on two vital elements , which are : the logical , and the linguistic one .

In addition, it presents the dangers of the multiplicity and scattering of the terms. It for the unification all of them .offers methods for

شرح خطبة مختصر شرح الشواهد / للإمام العلامة بدر الدين العيني, محمد العامودي

Hebron University Research Journal-B (Humanities) - (مجلة جامعة الخليل للبحوث- ب (العلوم الانسانيه

This study is an investigation of “ Sharh Khutbat Mokhtasser Sharh Alshwahid “ by Abi Mohammad Badruldin Mahmoud Bin Ahmad Alaini.

Alaini explained the {Khutbat} of his book” Fra’ed Alkala’ed FI Mokhtasser Sharh Alshwahid” where he offered a linguistic illustration based on the lexicons of, Al’ebab, Almohit Fill lughah and Alsihah.

The study includes a biography of Alaini, described the two manuscripts and evidence was given that he was the author . the study also validates the “ Khutbat” of Mokhtassar Sharh Alshwahid and the illustration therof in an academic way.

نواسخ الجملة الاسمية في شعر عبد الرحيم محمود, زهير ابراهيم

Hebron University Research Journal-B (Humanities) - (مجلة جامعة الخليل للبحوث- ب (العلوم الانسانيه

“ An- Nawasikh’ of the nominal sentence in the poetry of “ Abd-ul- Rahim Mahmud.

This research paper studies Mahmud’s method in using “An- Nawasikh’ in different nominal sentence including verbs and / or particles. The purpose is to clarify a specific syntactic feature that can help in detecting the aspects and situations which distinguish the poet’s creativity and make him unique among other Arab poets. This id due to its stylistic significance in modern studies and its dependence on aspects at different levels.

Besides, the research is based on a statistical approach examining” Abd-ul- Rahim ‘s poetry in his …

Informetrics Education In Library And Information Science (Lis) Academic Department In South Africa, Nkosingiphile Zungu

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The purpose of this paper is to explore literature on informetrics education globally, in order to determine the relevance of informetrics education in South Africa. This paper is based on the literature review on informetrics education in the field of LIS worldwide. The paper addresses the status of informetrics education; extent and levels at which informetrics education is offered; teaching methods for informetrics education; and, challenges associated with informetrics education. The literature reveals that there are 32 countries that offer informetrics education within the field of LIS worldwide. The informetrics education is commonly offered to both under-graduate and post-graduate students. …

A Study Of Selected Poems By Nikki Giovanni, م.م ايناس عبد المنعم

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

The paper sheds light on the literary achievement, ideas and inclinations of one of the revolutionary postmodern American poets, Nikki Giovanni (1943- ). It presents the Afro-American poet, Nikki Giovanni, her revolutionary temperament and rejection of racial discrimination and discrimination against the woman in poems like “The True Import of Present Dialogue, Black vs Negro,” “Nikki-Rosa,” “Poems for Black Boys” and “A Litany for Peppe.” The poet mirrors her time for its sex and race prejudice, and for its daily violence and unpredictable atrocities. The paper shows her condemnation of America’s political and social racial courses of action through an …