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A Fuzzy Framework For The Air Force Mission Dependency Index, Devin M. Depalmer

Theses and Dissertations

AFIMSC completed an MDI modernization to support better risk-based decision-making by utilizing tactical mission-owner knowledge to quantify the relationship between facilities and the missions they enable. The resulting facility-mission risk scores leave room for improvement for better use of their intended purposes due to (1) the vulnerability of cognitive biases affecting survey responses due to the use of a traditional risk matrix (2) the lack of resolution between scores from risk ties and (3) the failure to include information from the operational and strategic organizational hierarchy level. This research addresses these concerns through the novel implementation of a fuzzy logic …

A Decision-Support System For The Deployment Tasking Process Of U.S. Air Force Civil Engineer Officers, Kenneth A. Neal

Theses and Dissertations

The Armed Forces frequently deploy their personnel to expeditionary locations around the world. For example, the Air Force tasks its personnel to deploy based on a six-month rotational cycle. In the current tasking process, the deployment makes its way down from combatant commanders to squadron commanders through the chain of command. The commander then has a few days to select an individual from their unit to fill the tasking. The commander may consider an individuals’ dwell time, home-station position, and upcoming significant life events; however, because commanders have little time and information, minimum requirements selection criteria often become the driving …

Rise To Thrive: A Vision For A Transformed And Equitable Education System, Center For Public Research And Leadership

Center for Public Research and Leadership

How might we design an education system that prepares every child, of every race and background, to thrive in school and in life? We answer this question in RISE to Thrive: A Vision for a Transformed and Equitable Education System.

Based on conversations with more than 300 students, families, teachers, education leaders, and organizers, among others, our latest publication also incorporates existing research on instructional practices as well as the insights and innovations gained since the pandemic. We hope RISE to Thrive will help education leaders transform their school systems into more equitable ones.

The Oa Diamond Journals Study, Part 2: Recommendations, Arianna Becerril, Lars Bjørnshauge, Jeroen Bosman, Jan Erik Frantsvåg, Bianca Kramer, Pierre-Carl Langlais, Vanessa Proudman, Claire Redhead, Didier Torny, Pierre Mounier

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

Science Europe and cOAlition S publish an in-depth report and recommendations arising from a study of community-driven Open Access journals across the world that are free for readers and authors, usually referred to as 'OA diamond journals'.

The study examines the areas that are critical for OA diamond journals, from legal structures and governance to technical capabilities, editorial processes, and funding models. The recommendations made in the report are designed to help research funding organisations, institutions, scholarly societies, and infrastructures sustainably strengthen OA diamond journals in the context of Open Science.

The study was commissioned by cOAlition S and funded …

"Is Depression Related To Cannabis?": A Knowledge-Infused Model For Entity And Relation Extraction With Limited Supervision, Kaushik Roy, Usha Lokala, Vedant Khandelwal, Amit P. Sheth

Publications

With strong marketing advocacy of the benefits of cannabis use for improved mental health, cannabis legalization is a priority among legislators. However, preliminary scientific research does not conclusively associate cannabis with improved mental health. In this study, we explore the relationship between depression and consumption of cannabis in a targeted social media corpus involving personal use of cannabis with the intent to derive its potential mental health benefit. We use tweets that contain an association among three categories annotated by domain experts - Reason, Effect, and Addiction. The state-of-the-art Natural Langauge Processing techniques fall short in extracting these relationships between …

Morality And The Personhood Of God: A Moral Argument For The Existence Of A Personal God, Stephen Scott Jordan

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The concept that God is personal is an important part of religious belief. If God were not personal, it would be odd to think of him as moral or loving; it would also seem counterintuitive to speak of him as One with whom humans can have a personal relationship, One who can be trusted, cares for the people he created, listens to their prayers, acts on their behalf, has their best interests at heart, and so on. In short, to talk of such matters in a sensible manner and to experience them in everyday life seemingly requires that God is …

A Phenomenological Study Of How Black South African University Students Experience Cultural Identity In An English-Medium Instruction Context, Arthur Kent Cason

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this phenomenological study was to describe the experience of cultural identity in an English-medium instruction context for Black university students in South Africa. Data were collected from 10 Black South African university students representing a cross-section of South African society. In-depth individual interviews were used as the primary data collection method complemented by a focus group interview and self-reflection letters written to a hypothetical new student in which the participant recalls his or her experience with cultural identity. Data analysis followed Moustakas’ methodology involving bracketing biases, horizonalization, organizing and classifying significant statements into themes, writing the textural …

Anti-Reductionist Christian Philosophy In The Twentieth Century: Owen Barfield And The Neo-Calvinists, Jamin Hubner

Pro Rege

No abstract provided.

Competency-Based Education: Examining Educators’ Experiences, Andrea J. Bingham, Matthew Adams, Randall Lee Stewart

The Qualitative Report

Competency-based education (CBE) is an increasingly popular instructional model in K-12 schools. In this qualitative case study, we examine how teachers make sense of CBE, and what challenges they in implementing a CBE model. We find that CBE teachers’ teaching identities had to undergo a shift to truly engage in CBE. Rather than acting as conveyors and assessors of knowledge, teachers had to construct their classrooms in a way that engaged and supported students in owning their own learning. We also found that educators face challenges around time, communication, and alignment.

Disparities In Sleep Health And Potential Intervention Models: A Focused Review., Martha E. Billings, Robyn T. Cohen, Carol M. Baldwin, Dayna A. Johnson, Brian N. Palen, Sairam Parthasarathy, Sanjay R. Patel, Maureen Russell, Ignacio E. Tapia, Ariel A. Williamson, Sunil Sharma

Project ECHO Bibliography

Disparities in sleep health are important but underrecognized contributors to health disparities. Understanding the factors contributing to sleep heath disparities and developing effective interventions are critical to improving all aspects of heath. Sleep heath disparities are impacted by socioeconomic status, racism, discrimination, neighborhood segregation, geography, social patterns, and access to health care as well as by cultural beliefs, necessitating a cultural appropriateness component in any intervention devised for reducing sleep health disparities. Pediatric sleep disparities require innovative and urgent intervention to establish a foundation of lifelong healthy sleep. Tapping the vast potential of technology in improving sleep health access may …

The Encyclopedia Of Neutrosophic Researchers - 4th Volume (2021), Florentin Smarandache, Maykel Leyva-Vazquez

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

Este es el cuarto volumen de la Enciclopedia de Investigadores Neutróficos, editados a partir de materiales ofrecidos por los autores que respondieron a la invitación del editor. Los autores se enumeran alfabéticamente. La introducción contiene una breve historia de la neutrosófica, y en especial se su impacto en Latinoamérica junto con enlaces a los principales artículos y libros. Los conjuntos neutrosóficos, la lógica neutrosófica, la probabilidad neutrosófica, la estadística neutrosófica, el precálculo neutrosófico, el cálculo neutrosófico, la psicología neutrosófica, la sociología neutrosófica etc., están ganando una atención significativa en resolver muchos problemas de la vida real que implican incertidumbre, imprecisión, …

Reinforcement Of The New Islamic Civilization Through Qur’Anic Literacy, Asmaji Muchtar

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This article aims to provide a solution for how the new Islamic civilization in the modern era should be the answer to overcoming the various problems of the world community. Since its emergence, Islam has provided answers related to the role of science as a whole contained in the Qur'an, so it is not surprising that Muslim scientists and their work have become a reference for scientists around the world for 14 centuries ago. However, the literacy of Muslim scholars is too focused on qouliyah verses that contain Sharia, rather than kauniyah verses that contain science. On the other hand, …

Perceptions Of Migrant And Seasonal Head Start Parents About Childhood Vision Care Utilization, Felicia R. Thomas

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The benefits of pediatric vision screening for very young children is not a new concept. However, not all children receive this valuable preventative intervention, or they do not receive an evaluation or examination to rule out or treat common visual refractive errors. This Doctor of Nursing Project sought to identify factors that impact a parent’s failure to follow up on recommendations for further evaluation or treatment following their child’s failed vision screening. The project utilized a phenomenological study to assess Migrant and Seasonal Head Start parents’ perceptions about their perceptions of the need for preventative vision screening and care. Three …

Cognitive-Emotional Processing In Alexithymia: An Integrative Review, Olivier Luminet, Kristy A. Nielson, Nathan Ridout

Psychology Faculty Research and Publications

Alexithymia is a multifaceted personality construct characterised by difficulties identifying one’s feelings and distinguishing them from bodily sensations, difficulties describing one’s feelings to others, and an externally oriented cognitive style. Over the past 25 years, a burgeoning body of research has examined how alexithymia moderates processing at the cognition–emotion interface. We review the findings in five domains: attention, appraisals, memory, language, and behaviours. The preponderance of studies linked alexithymia with deficits in emotion processing, which was apparent across all domains, except behaviours. All studies on behaviours and a proportion of studies in other domains demonstrated emotional over-responding. Analysis at the …

Neutrosophic Logic Theory And Applications, Eman Aboelhamd, Hamed M. Shamma, Mohamed Saleh, Ihab El-Khodary

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.

Bibliodiversity At The Centre: Decolonizing Open Access, Monica Berger

Publications and Research

The promise of open access for the global South has not been fully met. Publishing is dominated by Northern publishers who disadvantage Southern authors through platform capitalism and open access models requiring article processing charges to publish. The South can reclaim and decolonize open access, nurturing scholarly communities, by employing bibliodiversity, a sustainable, anticolonial ethos and practice developed in Latin America. Self-determination and locality are at the core of bibliodiversity which rejects the domination of international, English-language journal publishing. As articulated by the Jussieu Call, varied scholarly community-based, non-profit, and sustainable models for open access are integral to bibliodiversity as …

Introduction To The Special Issue On “Grassroots And Inclusive Innovations: Conceptualizing Synergies And Complementarities”, Wee Liang Tan, Partha Gangopadhyay, Oscar Hauptman

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

This special issue was initiated in 2016 by the three co-editors with a “Call for Papers” (Gangopadhyay et al., 2016). After significant delays starting with co-editors’ health and other personal issues, and ending with the COVID-19 Pandemic, the task of finalizing the special issue is reaching conclusion and it is time to take stock of the intellectual content. The objective of this introduction is to enable the audience to make easier sense when perusing the papers selected in a broader context, guided by conceptual framing.

Cognitive Biases And The Communicative Competencies Among University Students With Partisan Orientation, Zuhair El Nawajha

An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities)

The current study aimed to identify the level of cognitive biases and communicative competencies, and verify the correlation between them. It also aimed to explore differences in cognitive biases and communication competence according to gender and party affiliation variable. The researcher used the descriptive correlation method. The sample of the study consisted of (260) male and female students from Al-Aqsa University. They were selected by using the available sampling method, to achieve the objectives of the study, the researcher translated the measure of cognitive biases Davos, the Assessment of Cognitive Biases Scale (2013). The researcher also adopted communicative Competence measure …

A Historical Linguistic Attempt For Understanding The Variability Of Manner ('Al-Hay'ah الهَيْئَة) And Circumstance ('Al-Ḥaal الْحال) In Arabic, Omar Okasha

An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities)

The study addresses one of the complex topics in Arabic Grammar as the researcher attempted in this study to answer several questions only addressed by a small number of scholars working in the field of teaching Arabic as a foreign language. This issue is mainly concerned with some structural linguistic problems in practical Arabic as used both on the theoretical and practical levels. Despite their significance, these issues are still absent from scholars' interests in practical Arabic field as seen in language and grammar textbooks. The main object of this study is to use the structural linguistics and historical linguistics …

“Remarkable Influence”: The Unexpected Importance Of Justice Scalia's Deceptively Unanimous And Contested Majority Opinions, Linda L. Berger, Eric C. Nystrom

The Journal of Appellate Practice and Process

No abstract provided.

Digital Humanities: A Paradigm For The 21st Century, Laila C.A. Helmi

BAU Journal - Society, Culture and Human Behavior

Our life is becoming increasingly digital and digitized, and the recent shift to an online environment is a major leap. While this rapid advancement in technology has made itself a prominent feature in such fields as medicine, marketing, communications and even education, many assume that the humanities have become a field for dinosaurs. The assumption is that the humanities focus their research output on writing and are firmly founded in a culture of books – a form of records that seem unchangeable in nature, dogmatic in intellect, and fossil-like in their searchability. The world of the digital, on the other …

“Twixt Devil And Deep Sea”:William Empson As Poet-Critic, Essam Fattouh

BAU Journal - Society, Culture and Human Behavior

This paper attempts to offer a fresh examination of the relationship between Empson’s early career as a poet and his later erudite, largely influential, critical output. The theme of waste, which dominates his Collected Poems, partly accounts for his decision to abandon poetry, and invest his interest in complexity and ambiguity in a modernist/postmodernist procedure, way ahead of contemporary literary theory at the time. The theme of waste is further highlighted through readings of crucial key poems, as several critics of his time, such as Leavis and Alvarez, accurately signaled. The Empson canon is, thus, enriched, inviting the application of …

Verb Extended Future Tense 14 Dec 2020 Excel Spreadsheet, Irina V. Ivliyeva, Perry Koob

Russian Linguistics Research

No abstract provided.

Korelasi Pola Gerakan Mata Dengan Kemampuan Membaca Pemahaman, Rosita Rahma, Jatmika Nurhadi, Aswan Aswan

Bahasa dan Seni: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, Seni, dan Pengajarannya

This study aims to determine the relationship between eye movement patterns and reading comprehension skills. Data were collected from 20 participants during reading comprehension activities using the Tobii Eye Tracker. Hypothesis testing conducted using the Chi-square Test through Crosstabs analysis shows the value of Asymp. Sig. (2-sided) 0.788 > 0.05, which leads to a conclusion that Ho is accepted and Ha is rejected. Therefore, we conclude that there is no relationship between eye movement patterns and the reading comprehension ability among the participants. This is because eye movement patterns are visual technical in nature, while the ability to read comprehension is …

Berbahasa Fatis Dalam Interaksi Sosial Di Pesantren (Kajian Etnografi Komunikasi), Risnawati Risnawati, Abdul Syukur Ibrahim, Djoko Saryono

Jurnal Pendidikan: Teori, Penelitian, dan Pengembangan

This qualitative study with the ethnographic design of communication aims to clarify the manifestations of phatic language in social interaction in Pesantren. Ethnographic communication research emphasizes the existence of culture, language and other factors in the community. The data of this study is a speech containing a vivid language of social interaction in an Islamic boarding school. Speech data containing fat language were then transcribed using written text with contextual explanations. The data of this study were taken from July 12, 2019 to December 20, 2019. The source of this research was 16 female students, 3 religious teachers and 2 …

Analisis Pemahaman Konsep Segiempat Siswa Melalui Pembelajaran Problem Posing Berbasis Advance Organizer, Ana Fitriah, Subanji Subanji, Santi Irawati

Jurnal Pendidikan: Teori, Penelitian, dan Pengembangan

This study aims to describe the students’ understanding of quadrilateral concept through problem posing based on advance organizer. The teacher makes a map of quadrilateral concept to facilitate student understanding. Followed by problem posing learning which has three steps. Accepting, students receive material. This activity to find out whether students can provide examples and non-examples of rectangular concepts. Posing, students submit problems. When creating problems, students need to choose the right procedure to get the right results. Third step, solve the problem. This activity to see whether the concepts used can solve problems or not and students can rewrite concepts …

An Analytical Study Of The Impact Of Military Spending On The Chinese Economy Growth For The Period (1990-2018), Rafah Adnan Najem, Fatma Ebrahem Khalaf, Anwar Saeed Ebrahem

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

The increase in military spending has become a feature of the times for many countries, including China. They have sought to increase their defence spending, not with the aim of domination and possession, but rather to protect their economic interests and to secure their foreign trade. The research aims to identify the impact of military spending by studying the nature of defence spending and its role in providing security. And stability and facilitating foreign investment in it, as well as storming the military industry, securing some humanitarian supplies, and participating in a variety of public works that can be used …

المقروئية لترجمة آيات الأمر القرآنية الواردة في القرآن الكريم ترجمة تفسيرية, Mohamad Zaka Al Farisi

Bahasa dan Seni: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, Seni, dan Pengajarannya

The stylistics of the Quran often becomes obstacles in translation. In the Quran, many imperative speech acts do not convey the meaning of commands yet present particular pragmatic meanings such as praying, threatening, insulting, etc. These pragmatic meanings make the translation process difficult. The difficulty occurs because the translator faces speech acts with a different sentence meaning from its utterance meaning. This research aims to reveal the readability of the translation of the imperative verses that have particular pragmatic meanings. In this regard, the research samples were taken purposively in the form of imperative verses of the Quran with certain …

Konstruksi Religiositas Tubuh Dalam Puisi Indonesia, Tengsoe Tjahjono, Made Oktavia Vidiyanti

Bahasa dan Seni: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, Seni, dan Pengajarannya

The body is an integral part of being human. It is physical as well as spiritual, not only natural but also supernatural. In this regards, proper treatment of the body may indicate the level of one’s religiosity. The purpose of this study was to find the religiosity of the human body in poems written by Indonesian poets. Adopting Küçükcan’s (2005) religiosity dimension framework, we examine the body's religiosity from the following dimensions: belief, practice, and spirituality. Our data were a collection of language units in lines and stanzas taken from poems written by Mashuri and Alek Subairi. They were analyzed …

Student Awareness, Attitude, Affordances, And Challenges In Online Autonomous English Language Learning, Nina Inayati, Dwi Mawan Karifianto, Jarum Jarum

Bahasa dan Seni: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, Seni, dan Pengajarannya

Autonomy in self-regulated learning using various online modes has currently become the norm in English language teaching and learning. This research aims to address student awareness and attitude towards autonomous language learning and their affordances and challenges as a part of such learning. A cross-sectional survey was conducted on English language students of a renowned private university in Malang, Indonesia. The findings suggest that student awareness on the importance of autonomy in language learning was very high. In general, their attitude towards autonomous learning was positive. They also reported that autonomous learning, especially those conducted in informal online settings were …