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A Comparative Study Of Text Summarization On E-Mail Data Using Unsupervised Learning Approaches, Tijo Thomas

Dissertations

Over the last few years, email has met with enormous popularity. People send and receive a lot of messages every day, connect with colleagues and friends, share files and information. Unfortunately, the email overload outbreak has developed into a personal trouble for users as well as a financial concerns for businesses. Accessing an ever-increasing number of lengthy emails in the present generation has become a major concern for many users. Email text summarization is a promising approach to resolve this challenge. Email messages are general domain text, unstructured and not always well developed syntactically. Such elements introduce challenges for study …

Motivations And Experiences Of Female Expatriate Educators Teaching In Saudi Arabia, Tahira Hoke

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

There is a significant gap in the literature regarding women's lived experiences and work motivation in Saudi Arabia. In order to address this gap, this qualitative study explored the lived experiences of female expatriates who chose to teach and live in Saudi Arabia for longer than 1 year. Using Moustakas' phenomenological method, a purposive sample of 10 female educators who worked in Saudi Arabian higher education institutions were recruited and interviewed. Although English teachers were not targeted, all of the participants recruited were primarily English teachers (5 North Americans, 5 Europeans). With Deci and Ryan's self-determination theory as the conceptual …

José Rizal And Benito Pérez Galdós: Writing Spanish Identity In Pascale Casanova’S World Republic Of Letters, Aaron C. Castroverde

Faculty and Staff Works

This article will examine the relationship between Casanova’s World Republic of Lettersand its critical importance, demonstrating the false dilemma of anti-colonial resistance as either a nationalist or cosmopolitan phenomenon. Her contribution to the field gives scholars a tool for theorizing anti-colonial literature thus paving the way for a new conceptualization of the ‘nation’ itself. As a case study, we will look at the novels of the Filipino writer José Rizal and the Spanish novelist Benito Pérez Galdós.

The Temple Of Athena And The Return Of The Salmon: Orientations Toward Nature And Meaning In Salishan/Sahaptin/Wakashan (Northwest American Indigenous) And Heideggerian Philosophy, RóIsíN Lally, Daniel O'Dea Bradley

Leadership Studies Faculty Scholarship

In Origin of the Work of Art, Heidegger presents an evocative claim about the way the Temple to Athena on the Acropolis, opens a world rich with meaning and resonant with significance that orients the Athenian people within reality thus allowing their relations to others and to nature to appear as meaningful and ultimately nourishing. In other words, the Temple, like all great works of art, opens a world that is also a home. This article reviews the import of Heidegger’s reflection on monumental art, but we quickly turn to the principle objection to Heidegger’s thought, which is that the …

Self-Acceptance Of Adolescent Latino Students With Disabilities, Diane Rodriguez, Kenneth J. Luterbach, Sara B. Woolf, Sabino Peralto Rivera

Publications and Research

This study examines the relationship of 165 adolescent students who self-identity as Latino and have been identified as having a disability. The participants completed the Perceived Stigma in People with Disabilities (PSPID) and Short Acculturation Scale for Hispanics (SASH) questionnaires to examine factors that may affect the academic engagement of adolescent Latino students with disabilities. The researchers investigated self-acceptance as a factor that may positively predict the academic engagement of adolescent Latino students with disabilities.

Reducing Distance Through Online International Collaboration, Brooke R. Schreiber, Mihiri Jansz

Publications and Research

Online and hybrid courses offer many benefits for ESL teacher education, but can be hampered by ‘transactional distance’, a lack of interpersonal closeness which can cause misunderstanding and disengagement. This article describes a pedagogical project in which in-service teachers studying in a distance-learning MA TESL programme in Sri Lanka participated in an asynchronous discussion forum with peers from a university in New York City to discuss varieties of World Englishes. The project increased dialogue between learners, and between learners and the instructor, providing space for informal interactions through text, images, and video, as well as multiple methods for responding to …

การพัฒนาตัวแบบรู้จำบุคลิกภาพจากเสียงสนทนาในบริบทของศูนย์ให้บริการข้อมูลลูกค้า, นคร ศรีณรงค์

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

ศูนย์บริการข้อมูลลูกค้าเป็นช่องทางสำคัญในการติดต่อระหว่างภาคธุรกิจและลูกค้า ตัวชี้วัดที่สำคัญของการทำงานของศูนย์บริการข้อมูลลูกค้าคือความพึงพอใจของลูกค้า ข้อมูลหลักที่ได้จากศูนย์บริการข้อมูลลูกค้าคือเสียงสนทนา ทำให้ผู้วิจัยสนใจที่จะศึกษาแนวทางในการสร้างตัวแบบรู้จำบุคลิกภาพจากเสียง ข้อมูลเสียงและเพศถูกเก็บจากหน่วยตัวอย่าง 92 คน พร้อมกับข้อมูลบุคลิกภาพโดยใช้แบบวัด MPI (Maudsley Personality Inventory) แบบวัดดังกล่าวแบ่งบุคลิกภาพออกเป็น 2 ด้าน คือด้าน E-scale (Extraversion และ Introversion) และ N-scale (Neuroticism และ Stability) ซึ่งนำมาใช้ในการพัฒนาตัวแบบจำแนกบุคลิกภาพทั้งสองด้าน เทคนิคที่ใช้ในการพัฒนาตัวแบบประกอบด้วย Logistic regression, SVM, Random forest และ Artificial neural network โดยพบว่าตัวแบบที่พัฒนาด้วยเทคนิค Artificial neural network มีประสิทธิภาพสูงสุดในการรู้จำ E-scale โดยมีค่า Positive predictive value (ค่าวัดประสิทธิภาพของ Introversion) เท่ากับ 0.71 และค่า Negative predictive value (ประสิทธิภาพของ Extraversion) เท่ากับ 0.75 ในส่วนของ N-scale ไม่พบตัวแบบที่พัฒนาด้วยเทคนิคใดมีประสิทธิภาพเพียงพอ ในการศึกษาครั้งนี้พบว่าบุคลิกภาพ Extraversion และ Introversion ซึ่งสามารถนำมาประยุกต์กับงานภาคธุรกิจ สามารถรู้จำจากเสียงสนทนาในบริบทศูนย์บริการข้อมูลลูกค้า โดยสามารถนำไปใช้มอบหมายพนักงานที่มีบุคลิกภาพเหมือนกับลูกค้าเพื่อเพิ่มความพึงพอใจของลูกค้าในการติดต่อสื่อสาร ภาคธุรกิจยังสามารถนำข้อมูลบุคลิกภาพเหล่านี้ไปใช้ต่อยอดในการแนะนำผลิตภัณฑ์ หรือโฆษณา ให้เหมาะสมกับลูกค้าแต่ละคน

Rising Above The Adobe Ceiling: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study Of Mentoring And Social Capital Influences Among California Latina Nonprofit Leaders, Belinda Hernandez

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Empirical research studies that focus on the experiences of Latinas in executive leadership are limited. In its entirety, workforce research has overlooked how social and cultural experiences influence this group’s leadership development. This gap in research has failed to uplift the Latina executive voice and their achievements. Addressing this gap has the potential to influence distinctive workforce practices and future scholarship. Utilizing an asset-based perspective, this study presents counter narratives that intentionally focus on exploring Latina leaders’ voices. The importance of intersectional experience and social identities illustrate non-monolithic, yet aligned, experiences among study participants.

This foundational dissertation explored mentoring phenomena …

A Study On Teacher Candidates’ Questioning Strategies For English Learners Through An Interactive Classroom Simulation, Alex P. Davies Ph.D., Donita Grissom Ph.D., Michele Regalla Ph.D.

Northwest Journal of Teacher Education

This study examines a classroom simulation workshop designed for teacher candidates (TCs) to practice questioning strategies with English learners (ELs) at various English proficiency levels, through the lens of sociocultural theory. Data was collected from an assignment in an ESOL methods course consisting of questions that TCs prepared before the simulation, revised after the simulation, and responses to an open-ended questionnaire. Findings show that TCs made their questions comprehensible for beginner level ELs, however, overextended their question modification to both the intermediate and advanced levels. Implications highlight the importance of practicing questioning strategies that are appropriate for all proficiency levels.

What Is The Impact Of Tourism Infrastructure Development On The International Tourism Inflow In Thailand During 2008 To 2019?, Wucaihong Huang

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

Tourism has become a main income factor of national revenue in Thailand. Tourism infrastructure is the important foundation for Thailand to improve its attractiveness around the world. This study firstly employed a SWOT analysis to show the current insight of tourism infrastructure in Thailand. The key findings of this study showed that transport infrastructure, ICT infrastructure and medical infrastructure have positive impacts on international tourism inflows in Thailand during 2008 to 2019 by employing an extending gravity model. Thus, the tourism planners should generate ICT promote, transport development and medical tourism into policies planning. Tourism policy makers in Thailand should …

Increasing Nonprofit Effectiveness By Fundraising In Diverse Communities., Celia Hagerman

USF St. Petersburg campus Honors Program Theses (Undergraduate)

Nonprofit organizations are faced with the need to evaluate their current business model, in order to survive and even flourish in the future. Nonprofits are impacted by a number of external forces that are currently undergoing systematic changes and will therefore have a strong impact on the effectiveness of these types of organizations. The state of the economy, the reach of globalization, changes in population demographics and socio-cultural changes in traditional giving, are some of those external forces that have an extreme impact for nonprofit organizations.

Most nonprofits are financed mainly by a donor base that provides stable and continuous …

Passacaglia And Its Related Forms: Before, During, And After 18th Century Baroque And Program Notes, Austin Han

Theses and Dissertations--Music

The purpose of this project is to inform readers of the importance musicology has in informing one’s own learning experience as a performer and listener. As an expression of this exercise, I’ve focused on the history of the passacaglia in Europe from its origins in Spain to its culmination in the music of Paul Hindemith (1895-1963). Through the process of learning about different renditions of passacaglia through musical analysis and comparisons with contemporary art movements and their legacies, I hope the results of what are shown displays an urgent appreciation for applying a more nuanced and openminded approach to the …

After-School Enrichment Programs And Secondary Education Achievement Among African American Males, Willis Roger Carter

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The purpose of this single case study, at one high school in the Midwest region of United States, was to examine after-school enrichment programs and their connections to improving academic achievement for African American (AA) male students. The central question of what factors in structured after-school enrichment programs (ASEPs) contribute to academic achievement for AA males was studied using social learning theory and punctuated equilibrium as the theoretical guide. Data were collected via face-to-face interviews and surveys administered to 10 administrators, 10 parents, and 10 teachers who met the criteria for inclusion in the study. Data collection also included classroom …

How Elementary School Principals Perceive Teachers’ Literacy Teaching Strategies, Cherron Lynnette Ukpaka

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Principals are expected to serve as the lead instructional leaders on the campus, ensuring

academic growth for all students. The research problem of this study was the lack of

understanding of the perceptions of elementary school principals regarding teachers’

literacy teaching strategies. The purpose and research question of this study were to

understand the instructional leadership practices of elementary school principals

regarding teachers’ literacy teaching strategies. The conceptual framework was based on

constructivism. Ten principals participated in semistructured, face-to-face, audio-taped

interviews. Thematic analysis revealed that school principals: (a) focus on how to

increase literacy state scores, (b) struggle to apply …

Exploring Head Start Teachers’ Challenges Working With Dual Language Learners, Jolene Andriaschko

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Although the number of dual language learners is increasing in the United States, little is known about the challenges Head Start teachers and education coordinators face in working with this population. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to explore Head Start teachers’ and education coordinators’ perspectives regarding the support teachers need to meet the challenges of working with dual language learners. This study was grounded in Jim Cummins’s language acquisition framework, which suggests that dual language learners benefit from instruction in their native language and the language of the classroom. A basic qualitative study design was used with …

The Ever-Changing World Of The Paiute, Joseph Lent

Eastern Sierra History Journal

In this important article, Joseph Lent offers a counter-narrative to settler-colonial conceptions of what we now call the Eastern Sierra that derives its power from the oral histories of the Paiute nation.

Exploring The Metaphors Of Loyalty, Courage And Friendship In Harry Potter Novels And Their Turkish Translations, Yaser Hadidi, Fatemeh Zare

Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

In studies on Conceptual Metaphor Theory and the Metaphor Master List scholars have come up with over the years, the metaphors (target domains) of loyalty, courage and friendship figure among very important ones. In this study, we undertake to explore these three metaphors in the Harry Potter series, as these three conceptual domains also happen to constitute three underlying themes in these novels. Cross-linguistic work in this regard is in its infancy and would benefit from ongoing research, because our knowledge of metaphors is only useful insofar as we can determine if a domain is universally and cross-linguistically also used …

Diachronic Analysis Of Stance Markers In Research Articles’ Discussion Sections, Davud Kuhi, Shirin Rezaei

Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

It is now increasingly accepted that metadiscourse as one of the significant rhetorical features of research articles is context-sensitive and subject to change in response to the historically developing practices of academic communities. Motivated by such an understanding, the current research drew on a corpus of 914679 words taken from three leading journals of applied linguistics in order to trace the diachronic evolution of stance markers in discussion sections of research articles from 1996 to 2016. The analysis revealed a substantial decline in the overall frequency of stance markers in discussion section, with devices in all categories, except self-mention which …

Delphi Validation Of Educational Talkson The Treatmentof First Premolars Vertucci Type Iii, Tiana Mayerlin Rojas Uribe, Ariel Romero Fernández Liset Camaño Carballo, Tula Carola Sánchez Garcia

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.

Risk Factors Prioritization For Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Lester Wong Vázquez, María Fernanda Cueva Moncayo, Laura Paola Advendaño Castro

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.

Neutrosophic Case-Based Reasoning Method To Determine The Profitability Of The Tourism Sector In The City Of Riobamba, Mónica Tello Cadena, Manuel Fernando Jaramillo Burgos, Milton José Jiménez Montenegro

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

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Multicriteria Approach To Calculate The Index Of Promotion Of Legal Culture Using Neutrosophic Numbers, Rosa Leonor Maldonado Manzano, Marcia Esther Spain Herrería, Julián Santillán Andrade, Elsa Barrientos

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

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Neutrosophic Analysis Of The Facultative Vote In The Electoral Process Of Ecuador, Alexandra Dolores Molina Manzano, Jesahel Yanette Vildoso Villegas, Laura Marlene Ochoa Escobar, Leonardo Toapanta Jiménez

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

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Special Issue On Multi-Criteria Decision Making (Mcdm) And Neutrosophic Tools, Florentin Smarandache, Mohamed Abdel-Basset

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

In the rising trends of information technology, the concepts of uncertainty have started gaining greater importance with time in solving operational research problems in supply chain model, project management, transportation problem, or inventory control problems. Moreover, day-by-day competition is becoming tougher in imprecise environments. For instance, customer demand is often being affected by several varying factors like production price, income level, and the like. In these cases, the demand either remains unfulfilled or is difficult to obtain with certainty in the real-world market. Fuzzy sets are not always able to directly depict such uncertainties because they exhibit numeric only membership …

The Corporate Chameleon, Megan Wischmeier Shaner

University of Richmond Law Review

This Article seeks to address what is currently missing from corporate law—a clear way of determining “officer” status as that distinct legal role is contemplated in corporate jurisprudence. Part I discusses the three primary actors involved in the internal governance of the corporation—directors, stockholders, and officers—and how the law defines each one. While corporate law clearly contemplates officers as a distinct role, a quick comparison of the three reveals a failure to identify with any precision the bounds of “officer” status. Part II looks to other areas of the law for guidance in defining and identifying the officers of the …

Roald Dahl And The Construction Of Childhood: Writing The Child As Other, Madeline Spivey

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

No abstract provided.

The Ten Mats Of Sintang Dalisay; Or, How Romeo And Juliet Became Rashiddin And Jamila, Ricardo G. Abad

Perspectives in the Arts and Humanities Asia

Based on Romeo and Juliet and a 1901 awit adaptation of Shakespeare’s play, the theater production Sintang Dalisay deploys, as its movement motif, the igal, a dance tradition of the Sama Bajau of the southern Philippines. The use of the motif influences other elements in the production, specifically, the music, the decision to set the play in a Muslim community, the set and costume designs, and the change of the characters’ names into more local appellations. The localized production adopts a collaborative intercultural approach to theater-making, with Muslim and Christian artists working together to teach the dance to performers, help …

Community Schools As A Sustainable Comprehensive School Reform Strategy: A Transformative Mixed Methods Perspective, Kathleen T. Provinzano, Toni A. Sondergeld, Christine M. Knaggs

Mid-Western Educational Researcher

There were two purposes for this transformative mixed method study with an advocacy lens: to examine (1) the implementation of community school programming in a racially and ethnically diverse, high-poverty urban school and (2) the impact of implementation on student achievement. In-depth interviews, along with achievement data from two cohorts of students were analyzed separately and integrated during interpretation. Findings indicate adjusting existing leadership structures disrupted fixed boundaries between school and community, broadened school-level decision-making, and enhanced students’ academic performance. A new community school development model that is both contextually responsive and localized is also proposed.

Growth In The Amount Of Literature Reviewed In A Meta-Analysis And Reviewer Resources, Michael Harwell

Mid-Western Educational Researcher

Accurate and consistent reviews of documents describing research studies are essential to valid and generalizable inferences in a meta-analysis. Traditionally a small number of reviewers screen studies using the title, abstract, and possibly the full text to determine a study's eligibility for a meta-analysis. This study explores whether reviewing loads and resources to support accurate and consistent reviewing have increased over time. A survey of N = 193 meta-analyses published between 1980 – 2019 showed that the average number of documents reviewed has increased, especially since 2010, but the typical number of reviewers has not changed over the past 40 …

When Preparation Matters: A Mixed Method Study Of In-Service Teacher Preparation To Serve English Learners, Sung-Ae Kim, Trish Morita-Mullaney

Mid-Western Educational Researcher

In this mixed methods study, we examine the role of self-efficacy in relationship to inservice teachers’ capacities to serve English learners (ELs) based on their years of teaching experience, professional development preparation and English as a Second Language (ESL) licensure. Through the use of questionnaires and semi-structured interviews, findings demonstrate that teachers with high levels of preparation and related English as a second language (ESL) licensure have the highest levels of efficacy and are able to address the needs of ELs within their curriculum selection, instructional differentiation and interpretation of classroom-based assessments. In contrast, those that only have episodic ESL …