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Separate And Unequal: Promoting Racial Equity In Public Schools In The United States And South Africa, Paige Sferrazza

St. John's Law Review

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On January 24, 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States announced that it will hear two cases, against Harvard College and the University of North Carolina, which “rais[e] serious doubts about the future of affirmative action in higher education.” The plaintiff in both cases, Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. (“SFFA”), is a non-profit organization devoted to eradicating affirmative action programs nationwide. Described as the “culmination of a years-long strategy by conservative activists,” these cases represent the first affirmative action challenges to be argued before the Court’s new conservative majority, where they “pose the gravest threats yet” to over …

Falling Away Into Disease: Disability-Deviance Narratives In American Crime Control, Matt Saleh

St. John's Law Review

(Excerpt)

Who in society is predisposed to crime? Many of us are familiar with cultural narratives that trace criminal behavior to some cognitive defect in the perpetrator. For instance, we might recall the persistent media allusions to Adam Lanza’s Asperger Syndrome after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, despite evidence that individuals on the autism spectrum are, on average, not more likely, and are quite possibly less likely, to commit serious crime in their lifetime. Similarly, popular narratives about the relationship between “mental illness” and violence are pervasive, despite the broad meaning of the terminology and a deeply-misunderstood …

Decipherment Challenges Due To Tamga And Letter Mix-Ups In An Old Hungarian Runic Inscription From The Altai Mountains, Peter Revesz

School of Computing: Faculty Publications

An Old Hungarian Runic inscription from the Altai Mountains with 40 signs has posed some special challenges for decipherment due to several letter mix-ups and the use of a tamga sign, which is the first reported use of a tamga within this type of script. This paper gives a complete and correct translation and draws some lessons that can be learned about decipherment. It introduces sign similarity matrices as a method of detecting accidental misspellings and shows that sign similarity matrices can be efficiently computed. It also explains the importance of simultaneously achieving the three criteria for a valid decipherment: …

September 7, 2022 General Faculty Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

No abstract provided.

Unh Manchester Celebrates Students In 25th Anniversary Of Esol Programs, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

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Volume 5, Issue 1 (2022) Migration, Community, And Environment During A Pandemic

International Journal on Responsibility

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Waters Of The United States: Does Federal Control Inundate The Wetland?, Mitzi Cockrell Austin

Florida Law Review

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Pessoa: O Direito Da Seguranca Nacional, W. D. Macdonald

Florida Law Review

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Pregnancy, Privacy, And The Constitution: The Court At The Crossroads, Harley Riedel

Florida Law Review

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Criminal Law: Voiceprint Evidence Is Being Heard, David Ray Miller

Florida Law Review

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Changing The Face Of American Health, Edward M. Kennedy

Florida Law Review

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Middle School Engineering Teachers’ Enactments Of Pedagogies Rooted In Funds Of Knowledge And Translanguaging, Amy Wilson-Lopez, Jorge Acosta-Feliz

Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research (J-PEER)

Multilingual students should have opportunities to learn and do engineering in learning environments that foreground and sustain their cultural and linguistic practices. However, little is known about how middle school engineering teachers enact these environments. To address this gap in research and practice, this comparative case study describes the different ways in which two middle school technology and engineering teachers enacted pedagogies rooted in funds of knowledge and translanguaging. The teachers and research team engaged in a professional learning community, which focused on funds of knowledge and language-based pedagogies, for over one year. The teachers enacted pedagogies that incorporated principles …

Positioning Theory In Islamic Sermons: Online Messages To Parents, Cipto Wardoyo, Sheena Gardner, Benet Vincent

Sermon Studies

Positioning theory offers a theoretical and analytical framework to explore how individuals position themselves or are positioned by others through discourse. Positioning theory provides ways to interpret how the positioning is achieved through the mutual effects of storylines, speech acts, and positions (Van Langenhove & Harré 2003). We examine how male and female preachers position themselves when they advise parents about Islamic values in raising children. The sermon data is from a corpus of twenty online Islamic sermons on YouTube that engage with the theme of family. The sermons were delivered in different settings, such as in Friday services in …

التعليل بمراعاة الفاصلة بسبب التقديم والتأخير في تفسير أبي السعود Using End Of Aya Due To Presentation And Delay At Abi Al Soud Explanation, Mohammed Rabaa'a, Mohammed Reda Al-Houry

Jordan Journal of Islamic Studies

تقوم هذه الدراسة على الكشف عن التوجيه البلاغي لتعليلات أبي السعود في مراعاة الفاصلة بسبب التقديم والتأخير، ومقارنتها بتوجيهات البلاغيين قديمًا وحديثًا.

يهدف هذا البحث إلى الكشف عن الأغراض البلاغية من التقديم والتأخير في الفاصلة القرآنية عند أبي السعود فيما صرّح به أنه جاء رعاية للفاصلة.

وتكمن مشكلة البحث في سؤال رئيس: هل يعدّ قول أبي السعود برعاية الفاصلة بسبب التقديم والتأخير مقبولا؟

ولأجل ذلك اتبع الباحثان في الدراسة مناهج مختلفة منها: المنهج الاستقرائي، وذلك بتتبع الفواصل التي وقع فيها تقديم وتأخير وعلّلها أبو السعود بالقول برعاية الفاصلة، والمنهج الاستنباطي، وذلك باستنباط الأغراض البلاغية للفاصلة من خلال أقوال المفسرين والبلاغيين …

النهي واقتضاؤه الفساد عند المالكية: - دراسة تطبيقية في البيوع- The Prohibition And Requirement The Corruption For The Malikis -Applied Study On Sales-, Enas Mohammed Hamad Gharaibeh

Jordan Journal of Islamic Studies

ملخص

بيّنت الدراسة المعنى اللغوي والاصطلاحي للنهي، والفساد، وأوضحت آراء علماء أصول المالكية في مسألة اقتضاء النهي الفساد، والتطبيقات الفقهية على هذه المسألة في البيوع عند المالكية، وتوصلت الدراسة إلى أن النهي يقتضي الفساد في العبادات، أما في المعاملات فيرجع إلى حال المنهي عنه، فإذا كان النهي لمعنى في المنهي عنه، أو لذاته، أو لوصفه يقتضي الفساد، وإذا كان لمعنى في غير المنهي عنه، فيختلف على أمرين: إذا كان النهي لحق الله يقتضي الفساد، وإذا كان لحق العبد فلا يقتضي الفساد، ويثبت البيع الفاسد عند المالكية شبهة الملك بأربعة أمور: تغيّر الأسواق، أو تغيّر العين أو هلاكها، أو تعلق حق …

المعاني العقدية للحمدلة The Theological Meaning Of Al-Hamdalah, Hassan Hamid Obaid, Raed Salem Sharif

Jordan Journal of Islamic Studies

ملخص

يتناول البحث المعاني والدلالات المتضمنة فيها التي من أجلها شرع الحمد لله في الصلاة والذكر والقرآن، فضلاً عن بيان الصلة والترابط بين الذكر والإيمان، فاللفظ والدلالة العقدية بينهما علاقة وثيقة وبخاصة في الحمدلة محور البحث، والتي بذكرها تملأ الميزان، فكيف؟ وما معناها ودلالاتها العقدية؟ ولماذا كانت فاتحة أعظم سورة في القرآن، وفي سور أخرى؟ ومن ثم متى يبلغ المؤمن الدرجة العليا في سُلّم الحامدين؟

وقد خلص البحث إلى أن الكم الكثير لمدلولات وعلاقات الحمد بغيره من الألفاظ ذات الصلة صيّر البحث ومفرداته إلى نور يكشف ظلمات الجهل لدى الكثير من المسلمين الذين وقفوا عند اللفظ دون التأمل في دلالاته …

#Makeyouryouthring: Participatory Qualitative Research With Young People At Risk Of Exclusion, Ángela Saiz Linares, Noelia Ceballos López, Teresa Susinos Rada

The Qualitative Report

This research forms part of a larger Research, Development and Innovation (R&D&I) project and its objective is the carrying out a number of participatory research projects aimed at fostering the social presence of socially vulnerable groups (without a voice). In this paper, we will analyse the project carried out by a group of six young people who are complying with judicial measures in an open environment, three researchers, and three social educators. These agents make up the team of co-researchers. This is a research based on the qualitative tradition and with a participatory orientation. The objective of the inquiry process …

Using Memes As An Elicitation Tool: The Interview Prompt You Didn’T Know You Needed, Karen Julien

The Qualitative Report

Building rapport with participants at the outset of an interview is a common goal for researchers. Creating rapport is critical for trustworthiness of interview data and for building a supportive environment for participants. This paper brings the research on memes together with elicitation techniques to present a novel approach to rapport-building in interviews through meme elicitation. Memes provide a focal point for shared attention and their humorous nature offers opportunities for light-hearted segue into deeper emotional discussions. Participants report finding the meme elicitation process an effective icebreaker and a meaningful entry point for discussions. Personal reflections and suggestions for ethically …

Storytelling And Leadership In The Deaf Community, Luane Davis Haggerty

JADARA

This article addresses a gap in scholarship on leadership styles in the Deaf community. There is an invisible style of leadership differing from the mainstream culture that has not been previously addressed in the literature at any depth. This article was intended to begin a discussion addressing this gap. My analysis of literature in the leadership fields, Deaf Studies and Performance Studies indicates a unique style of leadership by Deaf people within a Deaf community that is collaborative in nature yet values the individual. Further studies into Deaf leadership are warranted and may help to uncover this "collective individualist" approach …

A History Of The Rehabilitation Services Administration (Rsa) Support Of Interpreter Education, Linda K. Stauffer

JADARA

In 1978, Congress passed the Rehabilitation, Comprehensive Services, and Developmental Disabilities Amendments (RL. 95-602). These amendments to the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 authorized federal grants to states to fund interpreter training programs. Based on that legislation, in1980, the Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) began funding regional and national interpreter training projects and has done so continuously to the present. The history of the inclusion of interpreter training language in the 1978 Amendments can be traced to influential leaders in the field of rehabilitation of persons who are deaf or hard of hearing. Their collaboration, relationship with supportive Congressional legislators and staff, …

The Substance Abuse In Vocational Rehabilitation-Screener In American Sign Language (Savr-S-Asl) For Persons Who Are Deaf, Debra Guthmann, Dennis Moore

JADARA

The purpose of this article is to describe the development and planned validation of an ASL version of the Substance Abusein Vocational Rehabilitation- Screener (SAVR-S). The SAVR-S is a 43-item, self-report instrument used to identify people with alcohol and/or drug problems was especially developed for persons with disabilities. Difficulties related to the use of the English language instrument with Deaf individuals—such as reading level, English terms/idioms, instrument length, and regional terms- prompted a project to develop an ASL version of the SAVR-S with funding from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR). A multi-site team composed of professionals …

Toward Deeper Understanding And Wide-Scale Implementation Of Naturalistic Developmental Behavioral Interventions, Sophia D'Agostino, Ana D. Dueñas, Alice Bravo, Kelsie Tyson, Diondra Straiton, Giovanna L. Salvatore, Cressida Pacia, Melanie Pellecchia

Special Education and Rehabilitation Counseling Faculty Publications

Naturalistic Developmental Behavior Interventions (NDBIs) have a strong and growing evidence base. Yet, NDBIs are not implemented on a wide scale within early intervention programs for children on the autism spectrum. Potential reasons for the slow adoption of NDBIs likely stem from the differing theoretical orientations of behavioral and developmental sciences from which NDBI are derived, and a lack of training, knowledge, and support for implementing NDBIs within the behavior analytic community. In support of efforts to promote wide-scale implementation of NDBIs, we clarify their common features, discuss possible misconceptions, offer reasons why NDBIs should be widely implemented, and provide …

A Holistic Account Of Adequacy Conditions For How To Look At Contraries: How Cross-Tradition Engagement In Philosophy Is Possible, Bo Mou

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

The aim of this essay is to give a meta-philosophical and meta-methodological characterization of some central characteristic features comparative philosophy as a general way of doing philosophy through cross-tradition engagement toward world philosophy. This is elucidated by presenting a holistic account of the conditions for maintaining adequate methodological guiding principles for appropriately and effectively considering different approaches to philosophy. This essay is meta-methodological in character: Given that comparative philosophy sets out to explore how to adequately look at contraries (especially those from different philosophical traditions, but not limited to them, methodologically speaking), and given the self-reflective philosophical nature of comparative …

A Framework For Sexism Detection On Social Media Via Byt5 And Tabnet, Arjumand Younus, Muhammad Atif Qureshi

Articles

Hateful and offensive content on social media platforms particularly content directed towards a specific gender is a great impediment towards equality, diversity and inclusion. Social media platforms are facing increasing pressure to work towards regulation of such content; and this has directed researchers in text mining to work towards hate speech identification algorithms. One such attempt is sexism detection for which mostly transformer-based text methods have been proposed. We propose a combination of byte-level model ByT5 with tabular modeling via TabNet that has at its core an ability to take into account platform and language aspects of the challenging task …

The ‘Ezel Project’ Inquiry: Mesotransformative Praxis To Decenter Whiteness In Racialized Organizations And Schools, Justin Gerald

Theses and Dissertations

In this study, a Black scholar in the midst of understanding his neurodivergence and his identity as someone who has been dis/abled reacts to the prodding of white peers by creating a course on decentering whiteness. The scholar then interviews ten of the participants in said class to understand how they came to select such a course and what they might have accomplished in attempting to challenge the structure of whiteness in their institutions. Drawing on Critical Race Theory, Critical Whiteness Studies, Dis/Crit, and in particular the work of Victor Ray, this work seeks to examine the narratives that brought …

Overview Of The Clef-2022 Checkthat! Lab Task 2 On Detecting Previously Fact-Checked Claims, Preslav Nakov, Giovanni Da San Martino, Firoj Alam, Shaden Shaar, Hamdy Mubarak, Nikolay Babulkov

Natural Language Processing Faculty Publications

We describe the fourth edition of the CheckThat! Lab, part of the 2022 Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF). The lab evaluates technology supporting three tasks related to factuality, and it covers seven languages such as Arabic, Bulgarian, Dutch, English, German, Spanish, and Turkish. Here, we present the task 2, which asks to detect previously fact-checked claims (in two languages). A total of six teams participated in this task, submitted a total of 37 runs, and most submissions managed to achieve sizable improvements over the baselines using transformer based models such as BERT, RoBERTa. In this paper, we …

Overview Of The Clef-2022 Checkthat! Lab Task 1 On Identifying Relevant Claims In Tweets, Preslav Nakov, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Giovanni Da San Martino, Firoj Alam, Mucahid Kutlu, Wajdi Zaghouani, Mucahid Kutlu, Wajdi Zaghouani, Chengkai Li, Shaden Shaar, Hamdy Mubarak, Alex Nikolov

Natural Language Processing Faculty Publications

We present an overview of CheckThat! lab 2022 Task 1, part of the 2022 Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF). Task 1 asked to predict which posts in a Twitter stream are worth fact-checking, focusing on COVID-19 and politics in six languages: Arabic, Bulgarian, Dutch, English, Spanish, and Turkish. A total of 19 teams participated and most submissions managed to achieve sizable improvements over the baselines using Transformer-based models such as BERT and GPT-3. Across the four subtasks, approaches that targetted multiple languages (be it individually or in conjunction, in general obtained the best performance. We describe the …

Relational Justice And Relational Pedagogy In Professional Social Care Work, Niall Hanlon

Articles

The principle of social justice is central to the newly regulated profession of Social Care Worker [SCW] in Ireland and the language of social justice features in the Standards of Proficiency [SoP] and Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics [CPCE]. This is very welcome given the history of institutional neglect and abuse in Irish social care. However, social care work in Ireland lacks a tradition of social justice in theory and practice, and policy is generally couched in minimalist terms of individual civil and political rights, equality of opportunity, and non-discrimination and is heavily focused on protection and risk management. …

The Impact Of A Mobile Phone-Delivered Digital Financial Education Program On Financial Behavior Among Hispanics, Luisa Blanco, Lucia Chen, Isaias Hernandez, April D. Thames, Joyce Serido

School of Public Policy Working Papers

We explored the potential of digital financial education programs among Hispanic populations, through the design and evaluation of a mobile phone delivered digital program called Mind Your Money (MYM). This program sought to improve financial knowledge and behavior among low- to-moderate income Hispanics residing in the Greater Los Angeles area. We assessed the program through a randomized controlled trial with a wait-list control group. Our digital financial education program had a higher retention rate than comparable in-person financial coaching programs. We found that our program had a positive statistical significant effect on financial capability. Participants who completed program activities were …

College Of Liberal Arts Viewbook 2022, University Of Mississippi. College Of Liberal Arts

Liberal Arts Publications

Eight-page brochure with an overview of the University of Mississippi College of Liberal Arts. A brief history of the college is provided, along with a description of majors, minors, centers, and multi-disciplinary programs.