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Effect Of Positive And Negative Emotion On Naming Accuracy In Adults With Aphasia, Courtney Paige Nielsen

Theses and Dissertations

This is a preliminary study investigating the effects of emotion on a confrontational naming task in people with aphasia (PWA). Previous research investigating the effects of emotion on various language tasks in PWA has produced mixed findings with some suggesting a facilitative effect and others an inhibitory effect. Participants included 9 adults with aphasia as the result of a stroke, resulting in the presence of word-finding deficits (i.e., anomia). Participants named images in positive, negative, and neutral conditions. Responses were scored as either correct or incorrect; incorrect responses were coded further to illustrate individual error patterns. The majority of participants …

Vowel Category And Meanings Of Size In Tolkien's Early Lexicons, Lucas Annear

Journal of Tolkien Research

The grounds for studying phonetic symbolism (phonosemantics, etc.) in Tolkien's invented languages were well established by Tolkien through comments made in letters, drafts of his works, and essays. Previous researchers (e.g., Smith, 2006; 2007; Gymnich, 2005) have discussed the aesthetic effects of Tolkien's elvish languages on his audience, and have also observed connections between a range of meanings and sounds in Tolkien's languages (e.g., Fimi, 2008; Rausch, 2013). However, no researchers have explored this area of study with quantitative methods. The aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship between vowel quality and meanings of size in the Gnomish …

Learning To Teach Reading Across Racial Contexts: A Focus On Transforming Teacher Mindsets, David E. Kirkland

Michigan Reading Journal

No abstract provided.

From Invisible To Visible, Hiba Elhajj

Michigan Reading Journal

No abstract provided.

The Phenomenon Of Linguistic Following In The Nasiriyah Dialect, Farid Hamad Suleiman

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

The phenomenon extends historically and almost does not stop at its roots, as most Arabs have used it in their words because it is a phenomenon of linguistic subordination.

Instructor Perceptions Of Effective Teaching In Lmoocs And Strategies Utilized To Enhance Learner Engagement, Sara Matlack

Theses and Dissertations

The present study aims to investigate key strategies LMOOC instructors use to enhance learner engagement, their perceptions of effective LMOOC teaching, and the major challenges they face. A sequential mixed methods approach using quantitative and qualitative methods was used. A sample of ten LMOOC instructors participated in the online questionnaire and four interviews were conducted. Content analysis on four top rated LMOOCs was conducted to further validate engagement strategies used. Quantitative results were analyzed using descriptive statistics. Qualitative data was divided into themes. The results concluded that the top three engagement strategy themes were interaction, participation, and content. Overall, LMOOC …

The Effectiveness Of A Jordanian Sign Language Training Program In Developing Signal Translation Skills Among A Sample Of Special Education Students Attending Sign Language Courses At The University Of Jordan., عنان ابو مريم, فاروق الروسان

Journal of the Association of Arab Universities for Research in Higher Education مجلة اتحاد الجامعات العربية للبحوث في التعليم العالي

This study aimed to test the effectiveness of a training program for the Jordanian sign language in developing the interpreting skills of a sample of special education students who are expected to work with the deaf students after graduation. The study sample is consisted of (70) students from the Special Education major in the University of Jordan who have joined the courses of sign language held by the Deanship of Students Affair at the university. The training program was applied to the sample and data collection using a test of sign language interpreting skills prepared by the researcher for this …

Index To The Journal Of Tolkien Research Volume 1 Through Volume 9 Issue 1, Douglas A. Anderson

Journal of Tolkien Research

An Index to The Journal of Tolkien Research from Volume 1 through Volume 9 issue 1

All In One Place: References Cited In 21 Cleo Work, 21cleo Research Team

21CLEO Research Project Blog Posts

We have created a Google sheet that contains the resources that we've used in our blog posts so far. You can sort or filter the sheet by author, title, keyword, etc. to easily find what you're looking for. We've also included a brief summary of each article. You can download or save the sheet to your drive. We will continue to update it as we discover new materia I, so be sure to check back on occasion. We hope that you find it useful!

Modeling Multi-Targets Sentiment Classification Via Graph Convolutional Networks And Auxiliary Relation, Ao Feng, Zhengjie Gao, Xinyu Song, Ke Ke, Tianhao Xu, Xuelei Zhang

All Faculty Scholarship for the College of the Sciences

Existing solutions do not work well when multi-targets coexist in a sentence. The reason is that the existing solution is usually to separate multiple targets and process them separately. If the original sentence has N target, the original sentence will be repeated for N times, and only one target will be processed each time. To some extent, this approach degenerates the fine-grained sentiment classification task into the sentencelevel sentiment classification task, and the research method of processing the target separately ignores the internal relation and interaction between the targets. Based on the above considerations, we proposes to use Graph Convolutional …

Weekend Spanish Immersion Camp: A Non-Traditional Teaching World Language To Middle School American Students, Jorge Oscar Ramirez

Dissertations and Theses

The nature of today's global economy demands that students demonstrate high levels of proficiency in foreign languages. To meet global demand, most countries around the world are including comprehensive world language instruction in their educational systems beginning at an early age. The increasingly multi-lingual nature of culture within and beyond the Unites States. is escalating the importance of immersing students in world languages as early as possible to ensure a high level of written and oral foreign language skill proficiency by the time students graduate from high school. However, most American students do not have the opportunity to study a …

Use And Awareness Of Reading Habits Among Ug Students Of Government College For Women Library Chintamani : A Survey, Amaravathi Amaravathi

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The Objectives of Present study is to Know Number of questionnaires distributed and received from UG students of government college for women’s library chinthamani, followed by Gender Wise Responses Received, Age wise responses received from the students, Membership of the library, Frequency of visit to the library, Purpose of visit to the library, Time spent in the library , Barrowing Books from the library, channels of getting awareness about reading materials, Barrowing reading materials from the library ,

The Language Of The Draughtsboard Sharks: A Conlang Project, Trent Garlin

English Department: Linguistics ENG 334

The language of the draughtsboard sharks is a fictional conlang. This paper describes the history, physical anatomy, means of articulation, morphology, syntax, and grammar of the language through the entirely fictional lens of a research team studying shark communication in New Zealand. Notable aspects of the conlang are its portrayal of imaginary, non-human speech organs created to eliminate a shark’s realistic inability to speak, as well as the absence of a written element to the language largely due to the lack of opposable thumbs (or fingers at all) on sharks. The language also includes IPA charts for both consonants and …

Applying Machine Learning To Neuroimaging Data To Identify Predictive Models Of Reading Disorder (Rd), Spencer Low

Honors Scholar Theses

Over the last 20 years, advances in computational neuroimaging and computational power have made it feasible to create predictive models (Woo et al. Nature Neuroscience 2017). Predictive modeling is an approach that uses pattern recognition techniques (machine learning) to develop models using brain data to predict clini­cal (or educational) outcomes, differential diagnosis and subtyping, and inform development of new treatments (Doyle et al Royal Society 2015, Haynes Neuron 2015, Orrù et al. NBR 2012; Woo et al. Nature Neuroscience 2017). In recent years, machine learning algorithms have been implemented to develop a model (pattern classifier) using neuroimaging data to predict …

Bilingual And Bicultural Research Teams: Unpacking The Complexities., Maya I I. Ragavan, John Cowden

Manuscripts, Articles, Book Chapters and Other Papers

Researchers often describe use of "bilingual/bicultural" research teams, especially for research being conducted with marginalized communities. In this perspectives article, we argue that while increasing the diversity of research teams is imperative, using the term "bilingual/bicultural" without further explanation is problematic. We first review the nuances of the terms bilingual and bicultural individually. Next, we describe how the terms bilingual and bicultural cannot be conflated. Finally, we provide recommendations for researchers, journals, and funding agencies.

Adverbial Clauses Introduced With ‘ Cuando’, Julen Carrasco Oteo

Theses and Dissertations

The meaning differences that the temporal-aspectual system and the indicative and subjunctive versions of sentences trigger in the Spanish language are the cornerstone of its semantic and syntactic possibilities. These possibilities increase if we take into account not only all the types of subordinate clauses that exist in Spanish, but also the number of Spanish- speaking communities spread around the globe. This synchronic corpus-based study of Spanish major varieties focuses on dependent adverbial clauses introduced with ‘cuando’ (‘when’) in order to examine indicative and subjunctive mood distribution. Prescriptive standards tend to be too broad if they are applied to explain …

Empathy, Fiction, And An Educational Ecosystem: A Narrative Case Study Of A High School Ela Classroom, Danielle Marie Klein

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

This study explores how empathy exists, as an experience, in an English Language Arts classroom. The research was conducted in an 11^th grade classroom during an instructional unit with Arthur Miller’s The Crucible as the anchor text. The study relies upon Transactional Reader Response Theory (Rosenblatt, 1988) to justify the exploration of the aesthetic, evocative nature of a text. Narrative inquiry methodology was used to collect and assemble the instances of empathy as inspired by the play. Guided by Doll’s (1993) premise of the classroom as an ecological, open system with multiple contributing forces, data was collected through classroom …

Pathways To The Native Storyteller: A Method To Enable Computational Story Understanding, Aramide O. Kehinde

College of Computing and Digital Media Dissertations

The primary objective of this thesis is to develop a method that uses machine learning algorithms to enable computational story understanding. This research is conducted with the aim of establishing a system called the Native Storyteller that plans and creates storytelling experiences for human users. The paper first establishes the desired capabilities of the system and then deep dives into how to enable story understanding, which is the core ability the system needs to function. As such, the research places emphasis on natural language processing and its application to solving key problems in this context. Namely, machine representation of story …

An Integrated Approach For Welding Process Selection., Mohamed Omar, Fatma Elerian, Hassan Soltan, Magdy Ibrahim

Mansoura Engineering Journal

A two-phase decision support framework is presented and experimented with a case study to find the level of preference of any number of welding processes under a variety of welding circumstances. First phase fathoms unapplied/inappropriate welding processes based on a set of exclusion criteria. Second phase decides the best welding process amongst those remaining according to a set of selection criteria. The second phase is an integration of two methods, FUZZY-AHP which weights the selection criteria with the goal, and FUZZY-TOPSIS which ranks such criteria and gets most suitable welding process. The proposed framework covers a wider range of practical …

Gender Vs. Sex: Defining Meaning In A Modern World Through Use Of Corpora And Semantic Surveys, Mary Elizabeth Garceau

Theses and Dissertations

Considerable resources in U.S. legal studies are devoted to determining the precise meaning of contested terms specifically in statutory interpretation. Traditional judicial approaches have defined meaning using dictionaries. This reliance has led to Mouritsen’s (2010) observation that "the judicial conception of lexical meaning—i.e., what judges think about what words mean … is often [subjectively] outcome determinative." Beginning with Mouritsen’s (2010) article, a movement in U.S. legal scholarship offers corpus linguistics as a more objective method to resolving contested meaning (Lee and Mouritsen, 2018). However, I assert that weaknesses still exist in contemporary applications of corpus linguistics to legal interpretation. I …

The Attributive Suffix In Pastaza Kichwa, Barrett Wilson Hamp

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is a corpus-based description of the attributive suffix -k in Pastaza Kichwa, a Quechuan language spoken in lowland Amazonian Ecuador. The goal of this work is, first, to describe the behaviors, characteristics, and functions of the suffix using data from the Corpus of Pastaza Kichwa (Rice 2018a), and second, to offer a typological analysis of these behaviors in order to identify the most appropriate classification for the suffix. The suffix has previously been described as a nominalizer (Nuckolls & Swanson, forthcoming), and the equivalent suffix in other Quechuan varieties has been described as an agentive nominal relativizer (Weber …

Roadmap For Naming Uncultivated Archaea And Bacteria, Alison E. Murray, John Freudenstein, Simonetta Gribaldo, Roland Hatzenpichler, Philip Hugenholtz, Peter Kämpfer, Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis, Christopher E. Lane, R. Thane Papke, Donovan H. Parks, Ramon Rossello-Mora, Matthew B. Stott, Cameron Thrash, Stephanus N. Venter, William B. Whitman, Silvia G. Acinas, Rudolf I. Amann, Karthik Anantharaman, Jean Armengaud, Brett J. Baker, Roman A. Barco, Helge B. Bode, Eric S. Boyd, Carrie L. Brady, Paul Carini, Patrick S. G. Chain, Daniel R. Colman, Kristen M. Deangelis, Maria Asuncion De Los Rios, Paulina Estrada-De Los Santos, Christopher A. Dunlop

Life Sciences Faculty Research

The assembly of single-amplified genomes (SAGs) and metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) has led to a surge in genome-based discoveries of members affiliated with Archaea and Bacteria, bringing with it a need to develop guidelines for nomenclature of uncultivated microorganisms. The International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes (ICNP) only recognizes cultures as ‘type material’, thereby preventing the naming of uncultivated organisms. In this Consensus Statement, we propose two potential paths to solve this nomenclatural conundrum. One option is the adoption of previously proposed modifications to the ICNP to recognize DNA sequences as acceptable type material; the other option creates a nomenclatural code …

Alternatively Assessing Conceptual Learning In An Emergency Clinical Environment—A Mixed Methods Design, Zhidong Zhang, Alice Yang Zhang

Teaching and Learning Faculty Publications

Modeling cognitive processes in clinical learning environments is a necessary first step towards improving learning assessment and medical practice by using an alternative assessment model. Verbal protocol and cognitive content analyses are effective methods of exploring such cognitive processes. For the purpose of simplifying the discussion, we have labeled these processes as Identification of Information, Advanced Cognition, and Medical Cognitive Action. Exploring problem solving processes with Bayesian network techniques can characterize students' dynamic learning processes quantitatively, identify differences in cognitive components at different stages of learning and better represent clinical problem solving features.

We develop a hierarchical cognitive model as …

Name-Embedded Couplet Creation Based On Mobile Platform, Weihua Shen, Shicheng Zhang, Shunting Wang, Zhigeng Pan

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Couplet culture is the crystallization of Chinese traditional culture, and also is the gem of Chinese language. Given the broad mobile intelligent terminal user groups, in order to inherit and carry forward the Chinese traditional culture, Android and iOS system were taken as the design platform, combining the couplet culture and modern science and technology in an organic whole based on the study of name-embedded couplet generation algorithm. The users were allowed to get personalized couplet belong to themselves conveniently and quickly by mobile platform. The name-embedded couplet creation software was expounded in the following areas: design concept, …

School Health Education Program In Pakistan (Shepp)-A Threefold Health Education Feasibility Trial In Schoolchildren From A Lower-Middle-Income Country, Aysha Almas, Romaina Iqbal, Sania Sabir, Abdul Ghani, Khawar Kazmi

Department of Medicine

Background: The school environment plays an essential role in promoting health education and physical activity for children and adolescence, and they are more likely to adapt it into their adulthood. School health education program has been endorsed and emphasized by the World Health Organization has not been implemented in true spirit in Pakistan yet. We aim to test feasibility of threefold health education program in children and its potential efficacy on physical activity and diet and cardiometabolic risk factors by including BP, BMI, and waist circumference.
Methods: It is a parallel-group feasibility intervention trial. It is being conducted in two …

Mathematical Silences, Matthew Nathan Petersen

Dissertations and Theses

Previous studies have shown that mathematicians employ lengthy silences in their collaborations, contrary to the norms that govern every-day collaborations. Such results shows the relevance of an investigation of silence in mathematical collaboration. This dissertation builds off these results in a series of three papers. The first paper describes a methodology that can be employed in the investigation of silence in mathematical collaboration. The second paper analyses silence in the mathematical collaboration of students in junior-level introductory proof classes. It identifies two forms of mathematical activity, reading and ruminating, that students regularly engage in, and which violate the norms of …

Press Release - Brownsville The Herald Code Switch, The University Of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Corpus Bilingüe Del Valle

Corpus Bilingüe del Valle (CoBiVa) - News Releases

No abstract provided.

White Supremacy And The Racial Contract In The United States, Cayna Laurene Sharp

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

This thesis project conducts an investigation into the evolution of the American polity through the lens of the racial contract. By relying on Charles Mills' The Racial Contract, I show through three episodes of American history, how the racial contract has been instituted and revised over time. The three periods of history I investigate are: the end of Reconsturction to the rise of Jim Crow in the nineteenth century, suburbanization in the mid-twentieth century, and the rise of mass incarceration as a means of replacing slavery since the end of the American Civil War. Through this analysis, I hope to …

Public Perceptions Of Veterinarians From Social And Online Media Listening, Nicole Olynk Widmar, Courtney Bir, John Lai, Christopher Wolf

Department of Agricultural Economics Faculty Publications

The public perception of the veterinary medicine profession is of increasing concern given the mounting challenges facing the industry, ranging from student debt loads to mental health implications arising from compassion fatigue, euthanasia, and other challenging aspects of the profession. This analysis employs social media listening and analysis to discern top themes arising from social and online media posts referencing veterinarians. Social media sentiment analysis is also employed to aid in quantifying the search results, in terms of whether they are positivity/negativity associated. From September 2017-November 2019, over 1.4 million posts and 1.7 million mentions were analyzed; the top domain …

Toward A Reimagined Theological Anthropology: Freeing The Excluded And Re-Envisioning Scenes Of Instruction, César Baldelomar

Journal of Hispanic / Latino Theology

No abstract provided.