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Open Repository @ Binghamton Monthly Additions And Top Downloads - November 2023, Caitlin Holton

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Newly added work in the Open Repository @ Binghamton (ORB) from 11/1/2023-11/30/2023. Top downloads from same time frame.

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Understanding Teacher Cadet Programs As An Effort To Alleviate Teacher Attrition And Increase Teacher Diversity, Maurice Stein

Educational Studies Dissertations

The United States is witnessing an overwhelming teacher shortage that shows no signs of slowing down. With a tarnished profession of being underpaid and overworked, districts are lowering requirements to hire teaching faculty. Research has shown that lack of training significantly predicts a teaching career’s longevity. With White female teachers continuing to dominate the field, schools seek not only to increase teacher retention but also to diversify faculty to match the increasing diversity of the student population. There is a growing interest in high school teacher cadet programs as a potential method to recruit, train, hire, and retain teachers who …

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Voxelhap: A Toolkit For Constructing Proxies Providing Tactile And Kinesthetic Haptic Feedback In Virtual Reality, M. Feick, C. Biyikli, K. Gani, A. Wittig, Anthony Tang, A. Krüger

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Experiencing virtual environments is often limited to abstract interactions with objects. Physical proxies allow users to feel virtual objects, but are often inaccessible. We present the VoxelHap toolkit which enables users to construct highly functional proxy objects using Voxels and Plates. Voxels are blocks with special functionalities that form the core of each physical proxy. Plates increase a proxy’s haptic resolution, such as its shape, texture or weight. Beyond providing physical capabilities to realize haptic sensations, VoxelHap utilizes VR illusion techniques to expand its haptic resolution. We evaluated the capabilities of the VoxelHap toolkit through the construction of a range …

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Understanding The Contribution Of Recommendation Algorithms On Misinformation Recommendation And Misinformation Dissemination On Social Networks, Royal Pathak, Francesca Spezzano, Maria Soledad Pera

Computer Science Faculty Publications and Presentations

Social networks are a platform for individuals and organizations to connect with each other and inform, advertise, spread ideas, and ultimately influence opinions. These platforms have been known to propel misinformation. We argue that this could be compounded by the recommender algorithms that these platforms use to suggest items potentially of interest to their users, given the known biases and filter bubbles issues affecting recommender systems. While much has been studied about misinformation on social networks, the potential exacerbation that could result from recommender algorithms in this environment is in its infancy. In this manuscript, we present the result of …

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Configuring Hrm Practices For Open Innovation: But Can It Deliver?, Malay Biswas, Nirmalya Bandyopadhyay

American Business Review

Though current scholarly interest generates a sustained growth of literature on open innovation, we need to learn more about human resource practices relating to open innovation. Building on the ability-motivation-opportunity (AMO) framework, we demonstrate the differential impact of human resources practice bundles on open innovation. We also find evidence that motivation-enhancing and competency-enhancing practices share a compensating effect on open innovation. Using firm-level data from 2540 Italian manufacturing firms, our study, if not first, contributes to the growing bodies of research on open innovation by bringing forth the human dimension to the forefront and offering a drilled-down practice-level view that …

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Pseudo-Dionysius’S Response To Neoplatonism: An Exploration Of Pseudo-Dionysius’ Historical Context And His Source Utilization In “The Mystical Theology”, Mhanna Joseph Kallas

Theses

This research delves into the writings of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, particularly his blending of Neoplatonic ideas with Christian theology in his work "The Mystical Theology." Pseudo-Dionysius, a significant figure in Christian mysticism, draws upon a diverse array of sources to articulate his theological vision. An in-depth analysis of "The Mystical Theology" and its foundational texts reveals Pseudo-Dionysius's aim to align Neoplatonic apophatic strategies with Christian thought, suggesting that the essence of many Neoplatonic theological concepts is either inherent in or can be extrapolated from Christian doctrine. By shedding light on Pseudo-Dionysius's strategic selection and adaptation of various sources, this study …

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The History Of St. Michael’S Seminary In The Diocese Of Pittsburgh, Second Installment Of A Three-Part Series, John C. Bates Esq.

Gathered Fragments

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Housing Discrimination And Negative Attitudes Towards Ex-Offender Parents, Julie C. Wertheimer-Meier

Dissertations and Doctoral Documents, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2023–

While the Fair Housing Act prohibits housing discrimination because of race, gender, religion, sex, disability, family status, and national origin, it allows housing providers to discriminate on the basis of criminal history. Prior research shows that housing providers disproportionately deny housing to ex-offender applicants and single parent applicants with young children. An ex-offender parent’s inability to acquire safe and affordable housing decreases the potential for reunification with their children and increases the risk of lost custody or parental rights termination. This dissertation consisted of two experiments that examined the effects of negative attitudes towards ex-offender parents on those parents’ ability …

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Note From The Editor-In-Chief, Steve Zelezny

University of the Pacific Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Patrolling For Police Disguised As Cultural Experts: California’S Opportunity To Dissolve The Expert Admissibility Double Standard And Restore Due Process, Madison Sykes

University of the Pacific Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Introduction. The Public South: Engaging History, Abolition, Pedagogy, And Practice, Helen A. Regis, C. Mathews Samson

Southern Anthropologist

With this issue of Southern Anthropologist, we introduce several new features, which we hope will enliven conversations and expand the readership of the journal.

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Doing Oral History As Public Anthropology, Helen A. Regis

Southern Anthropologist

Doing Oral History engages students as co-researchers in a community-engaged oral history project begun in 2011. Supported by a research partnership between a faculty member, a university oral history center, and a non-profit archive, the course engages learners in the exploration of a festival and its communities. Through oral histories with long-time festival workers, artists, staff, volunteers, and neighbors, we contribute to expanding the history of a festival and the social movements that have shaped it. We also consider the ways in which diverse festival workers come to feel a part of a community centering African American working-class folk, cultures, …

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Complete Issue, Journal Editors

Southern Anthropologist

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Understanding The Impact Of Trade Policy Effect Uncertainty On Firm-Level Innovation Investment: A Deep Learning Approach, Daniel. Chen, Nan Hu, Peng. Liang, Morgan. Swink

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Integrating the real options perspective and resource dependence theory, this study examines how firms adjust their innovation investments to trade policy effect uncertainty (TPEU), a less studied type of firm specific, perceived environmental uncertainty in which managers have difficulty predicting how potential policy changes will affect business operations. To develop a text-based, context-dependent, time-varying measure of firm-level perceived TPEU, we apply Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT), a state-of-the-art deep learning approach. We apply BERT to analyze the texts of mandatory Management Discussion and Analysis (MD&A) sections of annual reports for a sample of 22,669 firm-year observations from 3,181 unique …

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Towards Llm-Based Fact Verification On News Claims With A Hierarchical Step-By-Step Prompting Method, Xuan Zhang, Wei Gao

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

While large pre-trained language models (LLMs) have shown their impressive capabilities in various NLP tasks, they are still underexplored in the misinformation domain. In this paper, we examine LLMs with in-context learning (ICL) for news claim verification, and find that only with 4-shot demonstration examples, the performance of several prompting methods can be comparable with previous supervised models. To further boost performance, we introduce a Hierarchical Step-by-Step (HiSS) prompting method which directs LLMs to separate a claim into several subclaims and then verify each of them via multiple questionsanswering steps progressively. Experiment results on two public misinformation datasets show that …

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Complex Knowledge Base Question Answering: A Survey, Yunshi Lan, Gaole He, Jinhao Jiang, Jing Jiang, Zhao Wayne Xin, Ji Rong Wen

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Knowledge base question answering (KBQA) aims to answer a question over a knowledge base (KB). Early studies mainly focused on answering simple questions over KBs and achieved great success. However, their performances on complex questions are still far from satisfactory. Therefore, in recent years, researchers propose a large number of novel methods, which looked into the challenges of answering complex questions. In this survey, we review recent advances in KBQA with the focus on solving complex questions, which usually contain multiple subjects, express compound relations, or involve numerical operations. In detail, we begin with introducing the complex KBQA task and …

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Assessing Preschool Children In Uae: Development Of The Preschool Autism Checklist (Pac) For Teachers, Omniah Gharib Alqahtani

Dissertations

This study aims to develop a new assessment tool for teachers to recognize and evaluate early signs of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) in preschool children in the UAE. The study also discussed the cultural characteristics of the Gulf region and their impact on ASD. The available ASD instruments may be unclear in language and difficult to understand for regular teachers. However, a Preschool Autism Checklist (PAC) has been developed that is specifically tailored to the sociocultural norms of the Arab Gulf Countries. The ASD symptoms were taken from the DSM-5 (APA, 2013) as a reference source, while ASD scales incorporated …

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Removing Artificial Barriers To Licensure Could Ease The Teacher Shortage, Jori S. Beck

Teaching & Learning Faculty Publications

In this Backtalk opinion essay, I argue that current teacher shortages could be mediated by rethinking candidate licensure. I share various examples of how local, state, and federal policy have prevented talented candidates from earning teacher licensure. I unpack some of the requirements for licensure including costs, and I share actionable steps that could be taken by state and federal government agencies to support teacher licensure.

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Effectiveness Of Static Versus Dynamic Language Assessments, Lauren Betzer

Honors Capstones

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Towards An Effective Transnational Regulation Of Ai, Daniel J. Gervais

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

Law and the legal system through which law is effected are very powerful, yet the power of the law has always been limited by the laws of nature, upon which the law has now direct grip. Human law now faces an unprecedented challenge, the emergence of a second limit on its grip, a new “species” of intelligent agents (AI machines) that can perform cognitive tasks that until recently only humans could. What happens, as a matter of law, when another species interacts with us, can be integrated into human minds and bodies, makes “real-world” decisions—not through human proxies, but directly—and …

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The Human Affectome, Daniela Schiller, Alessandra N.C. Yu, Nelly Alia-Klein, Susanne Becker, Howard C. Cromwell, Florin Dolcos, Paul J. Eslinger, Lauren A. J. Kirby, 166 Additional Co-Authors

Psychology Faculty Publications and Presentations

Over the last decades, theoretical perspectives in the interdisciplinary field of the affective sciences have proliferated rather than converged due to differing assumptions about what human affective phenomena are and how they work. These metaphysical and mechanistic assumptions, shaped by academic context and values, have dictated affective constructs and operationalizations. However, an assumption about the purpose of affective phenomena can guide us to a common set of metaphysical and mechanistic assumptions. In this capstone paper, we home in on a nested teleological principle for human affective phenomena in order to synthesize metaphysical and mechanistic assumptions. Under this framework, human affective …

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“Sui Generis” Self-Government: The Lasting Impacts Of The Doctrine Of Discovery In The Reference To The Quebec Court Of Appeal In Relation With The Act Respecting First Nations, Inuit And Métis Children, Youth And Families, Catherine Dunne

UBC Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Pass For Some, Fail For Others: Law School Grading Changes In The Early Covid-19 Pandemic, David Sandomierski, John Bliss, Tayzia Collesso

UBC Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Conducting Enchantment: Organized Sound And Ritual Spaces In Modern And Ancient Worlds, Haley Stuckey

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.

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The Relationship Between Constitutional Equality And Substantive Review, Wei Yao, Kenny Chng

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

General equality rights in written constitutions – rights stating the ideal of equality without specifying categories of impermissible differentiation – have often been effected through the idea of equality as rationality. Equality as rationality demands that differentiations between like entities have to be rationally justifiable. Such equality rights are applicable to legislation and executive action. This presents a prima facie overlap with substantive review in common law administrative law, since substantive review is also concerned about the rational justifiability of executive action. This raises three questions: (1) Are both sets of legal principles indeed similar? (2) Have courts managed to …

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Redesigning A Culturally Responsive Elementary Classroom, Emily Rose Bascelli

Theses & Dissertations

With the roll-out of the Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education framework (2018) for New York State schools, teachers have been given guidelines for creating a welcoming and affirming classroom environment. Therefore, it is critical to focus on how teachers envision and redesign culturally responsive physical classroom spaces. This grounded theory in a bounded case study used culturally responsive pedagogy and teacher positionality to construct a theory about how teachers engage in the redesigning of classrooms. This research collected data from three elementary school teachers who participated in their district’s classroom redesign initiative and self-identified as having culturally responsive goals for their design. …

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Revisiting Disentanglement And Fusion On Modality And Context In Conversational Multimodal Emotion Recognition, Bobo Li, Hao Fei, Lizi Liao, Yu Zhao, Chong Teng, Tat-Seng Chua, Donghong Ji, Fei Li

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

It has been a hot research topic to enable machines to understand human emotions in multimodal contexts under dialogue scenarios, which is tasked with multimodal emotion analysis in conversation (MM-ERC). MM-ERC has received consistent attention in recent years, where a diverse range of methods has been proposed for securing better task performance. Most existing works treat MM-ERC as a standard multimodal classification problem and perform multimodal feature disentanglement and fusion for maximizing feature utility. Yet after revisiting the characteristic of MM-ERC, we argue that both the feature multimodality and conversational contextualization should be properly modeled simultaneously during the feature disentanglement …

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Inverted Totems: On The Significance Of “Woke” In The Culture Wars, Todd Madigan

Sociology

Early in the 21st century, the term woke became ubiquitous within the context of the culture wars. However, the meaning of the term has been notoriously difficult to pin down, and its use as a descriptor of the most bewildering range of phenomena has led many commentators to declare the word meaningless. My claim is that instead of focusing on what woke means, we should focus on what it does. And in order to demonstrate what woke does, I situate it within a novel typology of totems. As a totem, woke serves to create and constitute the self-awareness of an …

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Pro-Cap: Leveraging A Frozen Vision-Language Model For Hateful Meme Detection, Rui Cao, Ming Shan Hee, Adriel Kuek, Wen Haw Chong, Roy Ka-Wei Lee, Jing Jiang

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Hateful meme detection is a challenging multimodal task that requires comprehension of both vision and language, as well as cross-modal interactions. Recent studies have tried to fine-tune pre-trained vision-language models (PVLMs) for this task. However, with increasing model sizes, it becomes important to leverage powerful PVLMs more efficiently, rather than simply fine-tuning them. Recently, researchers have attempted to convert meme images into textual captions and prompt language models for predictions. This approach has shown good performance but suffers from non-informative image captions. Considering the two factors mentioned above, we propose a probing-based captioning approach to leverage PVLMs in a zero-shot …

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A New Rough Ordinal Priority-Based Decision Support System For Purchasing Electric Vehicles, Sadik Kucuksari, Dragan Pamucar, Muhammet Deveci, Nuh Erdogan, Dursun Delen

Faculty Publications

This study proposes a novel multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) model based on a rough extension of the Ordinal Priority Approach (OPA) to determine the order of importance of users' perspectives on Electric Vehicle (EV) purchases. Unlike conventional methods that rely on predefined ranks for criteria weighting coefficients, the proposed rough OPA method employs an aggregated rough linguistic matrix, enabling a more precise and unbiased calculation of interval values. Moreover, the model addresses inherent uncertainties by incorporating nonlinear aggregation functions, accommodating decision makers' risk attitudes for flexible decision-making. To validate the model's efficacy, a large-scale post-EV test drive survey is conducted, enabling …

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Open Repository @ Binghamton Monthly Additions And Top Downloads - November 2023, Caitlin Holton

Library Created Resources

Understanding Teacher Cadet Programs As An Effort To Alleviate Teacher Attrition And Increase Teacher Diversity, Maurice Stein

Educational Studies Dissertations

Voxelhap: A Toolkit For Constructing Proxies Providing Tactile And Kinesthetic Haptic Feedback In Virtual Reality, M. Feick, C. Biyikli, K. Gani, A. Wittig, Anthony Tang, A. Krüger

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Understanding The Contribution Of Recommendation Algorithms On Misinformation Recommendation And Misinformation Dissemination On Social Networks, Royal Pathak, Francesca Spezzano, Maria Soledad Pera

Computer Science Faculty Publications and Presentations

Configuring Hrm Practices For Open Innovation: But Can It Deliver?, Malay Biswas, Nirmalya Bandyopadhyay

American Business Review

Pseudo-Dionysius’S Response To Neoplatonism: An Exploration Of Pseudo-Dionysius’ Historical Context And His Source Utilization In “The Mystical Theology”, Mhanna Joseph Kallas

Theses

The History Of St. Michael’S Seminary In The Diocese Of Pittsburgh, Second Installment Of A Three-Part Series, John C. Bates Esq.

Gathered Fragments

Housing Discrimination And Negative Attitudes Towards Ex-Offender Parents, Julie C. Wertheimer-Meier

Dissertations and Doctoral Documents, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2023–

Note From The Editor-In-Chief, Steve Zelezny

University of the Pacific Law Review

Patrolling For Police Disguised As Cultural Experts: California’S Opportunity To Dissolve The Expert Admissibility Double Standard And Restore Due Process, Madison Sykes

University of the Pacific Law Review

Introduction. The Public South: Engaging History, Abolition, Pedagogy, And Practice, Helen A. Regis, C. Mathews Samson

Southern Anthropologist

Doing Oral History As Public Anthropology, Helen A. Regis

Southern Anthropologist

Complete Issue, Journal Editors

Southern Anthropologist

Understanding The Impact Of Trade Policy Effect Uncertainty On Firm-Level Innovation Investment: A Deep Learning Approach, Daniel. Chen, Nan Hu, Peng. Liang, Morgan. Swink

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Towards Llm-Based Fact Verification On News Claims With A Hierarchical Step-By-Step Prompting Method, Xuan Zhang, Wei Gao

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Complex Knowledge Base Question Answering: A Survey, Yunshi Lan, Gaole He, Jinhao Jiang, Jing Jiang, Zhao Wayne Xin, Ji Rong Wen

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Assessing Preschool Children In Uae: Development Of The Preschool Autism Checklist (Pac) For Teachers, Omniah Gharib Alqahtani

Dissertations

Removing Artificial Barriers To Licensure Could Ease The Teacher Shortage, Jori S. Beck

Teaching & Learning Faculty Publications

Effectiveness Of Static Versus Dynamic Language Assessments, Lauren Betzer

Honors Capstones

Towards An Effective Transnational Regulation Of Ai, Daniel J. Gervais

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

The Human Affectome, Daniela Schiller, Alessandra N.C. Yu, Nelly Alia-Klein, Susanne Becker, Howard C. Cromwell, Florin Dolcos, Paul J. Eslinger, Lauren A. J. Kirby, 166 Additional Co-Authors

Psychology Faculty Publications and Presentations

“Sui Generis” Self-Government: The Lasting Impacts Of The Doctrine Of Discovery In The Reference To The Quebec Court Of Appeal In Relation With The Act Respecting First Nations, Inuit And Métis Children, Youth And Families, Catherine Dunne

UBC Law Review

Pass For Some, Fail For Others: Law School Grading Changes In The Early Covid-19 Pandemic, David Sandomierski, John Bliss, Tayzia Collesso

UBC Law Review

Conducting Enchantment: Organized Sound And Ritual Spaces In Modern And Ancient Worlds, Haley Stuckey

Honors Capstones

The Relationship Between Constitutional Equality And Substantive Review, Wei Yao, Kenny Chng

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

Redesigning A Culturally Responsive Elementary Classroom, Emily Rose Bascelli

Theses & Dissertations

Revisiting Disentanglement And Fusion On Modality And Context In Conversational Multimodal Emotion Recognition, Bobo Li, Hao Fei, Lizi Liao, Yu Zhao, Chong Teng, Tat-Seng Chua, Donghong Ji, Fei Li

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Inverted Totems: On The Significance Of “Woke” In The Culture Wars, Todd Madigan

Sociology

Pro-Cap: Leveraging A Frozen Vision-Language Model For Hateful Meme Detection, Rui Cao, Ming Shan Hee, Adriel Kuek, Wen Haw Chong, Roy Ka-Wei Lee, Jing Jiang

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

A New Rough Ordinal Priority-Based Decision Support System For Purchasing Electric Vehicles, Sadik Kucuksari, Dragan Pamucar, Muhammet Deveci, Nuh Erdogan, Dursun Delen

Faculty Publications