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Focus, 2023, Summer, Andrews University

Focus

FOCUS (ISSN 1077-9345) is published quarterly, free of charge, for alumni and friends of Andrews University, an institution owned and operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

Let Them Play! Integrating More Play Into Kindergarten Curriculum And Classrooms, Danielle N. Johnson

Masters Projects

Research reinforces how play in the classroom can greatly benefit students in academic, social, emotional and behavioral ways. Today, students in kindergarten are being pressured to adhere to rigorous academic standards .While teachers are centering instruction around these standards, play is no longer seen as an essential piece of the classroom. The standards in kindergarten are becoming more intense and similar to higher grade levels. Developmentally, play can be a very advantageous way to help students grow in literacy and their learning. With scaffolding and modeling, teachers have the opportunity to teach through play and give students space to grow …

When It Happens Here: Reproductive Autonomy, Fascism, And Dobbs V. Jackson Women’S Health Organization, Robin Maril

Pace Law Review

Within six months after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, nineteen states passed laws prohibiting abortion within the first trimester. The most restrictive laws banned abortion entirely, except to save the life of the person giving birth. The Court’s eager abdication of its role in protecting individual liberty under the 14th amendment marks a grim chapter in the life cycle of American democracy. The Dobbs decision, along with the political environment that demanded the repeal of Roe v. Wade, promises to severely limit the role of women in public life. The specter …

Aim110.1 Project 1 Documentation A, Sae University College

Exemplars

AIM110.1 Project 1 Genealogy tree.

Originalism After Dobbs, Bruen, And Kennedy: The Role Of History And Tradition, Randy E. Barnett, Lawrence B. Solum

Northwestern University Law Review

In three recent cases, the constitutional concepts of history and tradition have played important roles in the reasoning of the Supreme Court. Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization relied on history and tradition to overrule Roe v. Wade. New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. Bruen articulated a history and tradition test for the validity of laws regulating the right to bear arms recognized by the Second Amendment. Kennedy v. Bremerton School District looked to history and tradition in formulating the test for the consistency of state action with the Establishment Clause.

These cases raise important questions about …

Trcaptionnet: A Novel And Accurate Deep Turkish Image Captioning Model With Vision Transformer Based Image Encoders And Deep Linguistic Text Decoders, Serdar Yildiz, Abbas Memi̇ş, Songül Varli

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Image captioning is known as a fundamental computer vision task aiming to figure out and describe what is happening in an image or image region. Through an image captioning process, it is ensured to describe and define the actions and the relations of the objects within the images. In this manner, the contents of the images can be understood and interpreted automatically by visual computing systems. In this paper, we proposed the TRCaptionNet a novel deep learning-based Turkish image captioning (TIC) model for the automatic generation of Turkish captions. The model we propose essentially consists of a basic image encoder, …

Infrared Imaging Segmentation Employing An Explainable Deep Neural Network, Xinfei Liao, Dan Wang, Zairan Li, Nilanjan Dey, Rs Simon, Fuqian Shi

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Explainable AI (XAI) improved by a deep neural network (DNN) of a residual neural network (ResNet) and long short-term memory networks (LSTMs), termed XAIRL, is proposed for segmenting foot infrared imaging datasets. First, an infrared sensor imaging dataset is acquired by a foot infrared sensor imaging device and preprocessed. The infrared sensor image features are then defined and extracted with XAIRL being applied to segment the dataset. This paper compares and discusses our results with XAIRL. Evaluation indices are applied to perform various measurements for foot infrared image segmentation including accuracy, precision, recall, F1 score, intersection over union (IoU), Dice …

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Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

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Solving A Sixth Amendment Crisis: The Case For Resource Parity In Georgia’S Indigent Defense System, Meagan R. Hurley

Mercer Law Review Symposium

The United States criminal legal system employs what is said to be an “adversary” system—one in which opposing parties—the prosecution and the defense—present their evidence and arguments (usually in conflict with one another) to a neutral third party (a judge or jury) for adjudication. The idea behind the adversarial process is that a judge or jury is best positioned to make determinations of guilt or innocence once provided with reliable information from competent, zealous, and prepared advocates on both sides of the podium. At its core, the adversarial system is meant to function as the mechanism by which constitutional principles …

Chapter Vi —The Radicalization Of Ethiopian Students, Messay Kebede

Ethiopian Modernization: Opportunities and Derailments

When one analyzes the Ethiopian Revolution of 1974, the aspect that needs to be primarily explained is not so much the uprising against the imperial regime as its precipitous shift toward socialist demands and slogans. Many unsolved problems liable to provoke widespread discontents saddled the regime. None of them, however, required or invited a socialist revolution per se. The decisive impulse toward a socialist revolution came undoubtedly from the Ethiopian student movement. Accordingly, any inquiry about the revolution must begin by unraveling the reasons that brought about the radicalization of a great majority of Ethiopian students and intellectuals. A compelling …

Generalization Of Procedural Motor Sequence Learning After A Single Practice Trial, B P Johnson, I Iturrate, R Y Fakhreddine, M Bönstrup, E R Buch, E M Robertson, L G Cohen

2020-Current year OA Pubs

When humans begin learning new motor skills, they typically display early rapid performance improvements. It is not well understood how knowledge acquired during this early skill learning period generalizes to new, related skills. Here, we addressed this question by investigating factors influencing generalization of early learning from a skill A to a different, but related skill B. Early skill generalization was tested over four experiments (N = 2095). Subjects successively learned two related motor sequence skills (skills A and B) over different practice schedules. Skill A and B sequences shared ordinal (i.e., matching keypress locations), transitional (i.e., ordered keypress pairs), …

Volume Cxliii, Number 3, October 6, 2023, Lawrence University

The Lawrentian

No abstract provided.

Designing A Program To Develop Computer Science Master Teachers For An Underserved Rural Area, Susie Morrissey, Thomas Koballa, Robert Allen, Judy Godfrey, Michael Dias, Shawn Utley, Deannia Clements

Journal of STEM Teacher Education

Due to a shortage of rural computer science teachers, researchers used a three-phase method to design a computer science endorsement, which will be coupled with an instructional coaching endorsement within an Educational Specialist degree program. The team conducted interviews of teachers as well as school and district level administrators in rural areas to determine needs and resources available to develop computer science master teachers. Interviewers also investigated recruitment, preparation and support processes pertinent to the program. Findings included that, although infrastructure for wireless access is lacking, school and district administrators are very interested in supporting teachers to become computer science …

Teachers’ Perceptions On Women In Stem: Breaking The Stereotypes, Lili Zhou, Alankrita Chhikara, Stephanie Oudghiri, Araba A. Z. Osei-Tutu, Razak Kwame Dwomoh

Journal of STEM Teacher Education

Drawing on an online professional development modular course that addressed critical approaches to the issues of race, immigration, English Language Learners (ELLs)/Emerging Bilinguals (EBs), and gender and sexual orientation, this paper reports teachers’ perceptions on gender stereotypes in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education. In particular, building on the course readings, we discuss teachers’ emergent approaches to address gender stereotypes in teaching practice that improve girls' participation in STEM fields. Data is collected from a pre-course survey and teachers’ discussions during the course. Centering on the course readings from theoretical and empirical research that address gender issues, discussion prompts …

مدخل االرتباط الحضري البيئي لتحقيق اإلدارة المستدامة للعمران المصري Urban-Environmental Nexus Approach To Achieve Sustainable Management Of Egyptian Urbanization, Marwa Sebawy Hamed, Mohamed Fareed Mohamed Abd-Elaziz

Journal of Engineering Research

نظراً لما تشهده التجمعات العمرانية من ارتفاع معدلات النمو السكاني، وما ينتج عنه من تزايد الضغوطات على موارد المياه والطاقة والغذاء بشكل مستمر، الامر الذي يتولد من خلاله بعض القضايا التي تواجه المجتمعات مثل الاضطراب الاقتصادي والقضايا المتعلقة بتغيير المناخ وغيرها من القضايا الملحة التي تحتاج الى تدخل وذلك لمحاولة تحقيق مبادئ وأهداف التنمية المستدامة لتلك التجمعات حيث يعتبر من أهم أسباب تلك القضايا هي القرارات والخطط القطاعية ذات التوجه الأحادي للتعامل مع تلك القضايا وعدم وجود خطط متكاملة تعمل الحفاظ على الموارد بشكل عام وتحقيق اهداف التنمية المستدامة. لذا يهدف البحث الى صياغة إطار منهجي لتحقيق الإدارة المستدامة للعمران …

Benefits And Challenges Of Integrating Iot, Vr & Ar In The Bim-Based Facility Management Process: Literature And Case-Based Analysis, Ahmed Omar M.S. Mostafa

Journal of Engineering Research

With the emerging technologies of the fourth industrial revolution (4th IR), there are more possibilities to enhance the facility management (FM). Despite the increasing tendencies to integrate new technologies in the process of FM, its potentials in enhancing the BIM-based FM decision making process is not yet totally explored and its application is facing many challenges that should be considered. This paper aims to explore the benefits and challenges of integrating the Internet of Things (IoT), Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) in the Facility Management (FM) process to enhance the decision making; and to conclude a framework for …

Benefits And Challenges Of Integrating Iot, Vr & Ar In The Bim-Based Facility Management Process: Literature And Case-Based Analysis, Ahmed Omar M.S. Mostafa

Journal of Engineering Research

With the emerging technologies of the fourth industrial revolution (4th IR), there are more possibilities to enhance the facility management (FM). Despite the increasing tendencies to integrate new technologies in the process of FM, its potentials in enhancing the BIM-based FM decision making process is not yet totally explored and its application is facing many challenges that should be considered. This paper aims to explore the benefits and challenges of integrating the Internet of Things (IoT), Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) in the Facility Management (FM) process to enhance the decision making; and to conclude a framework for …

Artificial Intelligence Applications For Social Science Research, Megan Stubbs-Richardson, Lauren Brown, Mackenzie Paul, Devon Brenner

SSRC Publications

Our team developed a database of 250 Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications useful for social science research. To be included in our database, the AI tool had to be useful for: 1) literature reviews, summaries, or writing, 2) data collection, analysis, or visualizations, or 3) research dissemination. In the database, we provide a name, description, and links to each of the AI tools that were current at the time of publication on September 29, 2023. Supporting links were provided when an AI tool was found using other databases. To help users evaluate the potential usefulness of each tool, we documented information …

Nnlm Lightning Talk, Reforma De Las Carolinas, Network Of The National Library Of Medicine, Regional Medical Library 2

All NNLM R2 Presentations

No abstract provided.

Assessing The Non-Cognitivist Defense Of The Supreme Court's Obscenity Doctrine, Benjamin Rossi

Law and Contemporary Problems

No abstract provided.

Neutrosophic Model For Evaluation Healthcare Security Criteria For Powerful And Lightweight Secure Storage System In Cloud-Based Ehealthcare Services, Ahmed A. El-Douh, Songfeng Lu, Ahmed Abdelhafeez, Ahmed M. Ali, Alber S. Aziz

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.

Neutrosophic Sets And Systems, Vol.58,2023, Florentin Smarandache, Mohamed Abdel-Basset, Said Broumi

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.

Determining The Best Plastic Recycling Technology Using The Mabac Method In A Single-Valued Neutrosophic Fuzzy Approach, D. Sasirekha, P. Senthilkumar

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.

The Colby Echo (2023-10-05), Colby College

The Colby Echo

Published by the students of Colby College since 1877, The Colby Echo is the weekly, editorially independent student-run newspaper of Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Published monthly, 1877-1886; semi-monthly, 1886-1897; and weekly during the academic year, 1898-present.

Neutrosophic Inference System (Nis) In Power Electrical Transformers, Adapted The Mil-Std-1629a, Ahmed K. Essa, Montifort Blessings Andrew Mitungwi, Tuweh Prince Gadama, A. A. Salama

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.

Bs-Neutrosophic Structures In Bck/Bci-Algebras, B. Satyanarayana, Shake Baji, U. Bindu Madhavi

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.

Plithogenic Cubic Vague Sets, S. Anitha, Dr.A. Francina Shalini

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.

A Neutrosophic Approach For Multi-Factor Analysis Of Uncertainty And Sustainability Of Supply Chain Performance, Mahmoud M. Ismail, Mahmoud M. Ibrahim, Shereen Zaki

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.

Novel Single Valued Neutrosophic Prioritized Aczel Alsina Aggregation Operators And Their Applications In Multiattribute Decision Making, Sajid Latif, Kifayat Ullah, Abrar Hussain

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.

Some Characterizations Of Linguistic Neutrosophic Topological Spaces, N. Gayathri, M. Helen

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

No abstract provided.