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Exploring The Red Sea Crisis’S Supply Chain Disruption Impacts On The Shipping Industry, Po-Hsing Tseng, Nick Pilcher

Journal of Marine Science and Technology–Taiwan

Since October 7, 2023, the Houthi militia in Yemen has continuously attacked Israel and its nearby ships in the Red Sea. This crisis has impacted on global ship operations, freight rates, and shipping networks, since this conflict seriously affects the international trade between Europe and Asia and brings many unpredictable butterfly effects (e.g. supply chain disruption, and high transportation costs in shipping and air cargo). This papero explores its impact on the supply chain and suggests potential solutions;, and to consider perceptions on who should be responsible for the crisis, and who will actually shoulder the responsibility for the crisis. …

Lagrange-Integrated Gra Model For Urban Landscape Sculpture Site Selection With Neutrosophic Decision-Making, Qiwei Liu, Jiayin Li, Chang Liu

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

Urban landscape sculpture plays a crucial role in preserving cultural heritage, enhancing city vitality, and reflecting the lives of urban citizens. With the continued development of landscape sculpture in modern urban environments, the process of site selection has become increasingly important. A well-chosen location can establish a positive interaction between sculptures and urban activities. Traditionally, site selection methods have been largely theoretical, lacking quantitative foundations, which made practical application challenging for designers. To address this, site selection for urban landscape sculptures can be approached as a multiple-attribute decision-making (MADM) problem. Grey Relational Analysis (GRA) is an effective method for handling …

, Superhypersoft-Driven Evaluation Of Smart Transportation In Centroidous-Moosra: Real-World Insights For The Uav Era, Mona Mohamed, Ahmed M. Abdelmouty, Khalid Mohamed, Florentin Smarandache

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

Over recent decades unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have significantly impacted many areas and applications that affect our daily lives. Such as transportation, healthcare, and agricultural surveillance and management. Along with intelligently digitizing these sectors. Hence, this study focuses on exhibiting UAVs' contributions to transportation systems to be smart. An intelligent decision-maker framework is constructed to evaluate smart transportation systems (STSs) that leverage UAVSs in their operations. Preferencing candidates of STSs conduct the evaluation process based on a set of criteria and attributes. Moreover, the new multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) of centroidous to obtain criteria attribute weights. As well as Multi-objective optimization …

A Novel Approach To Assessing Art Education Teaching Quality In Vocational Colleges Based On Double-Valued Neutrosophic Numbers And Multi-Attribute Decision-Making With Tree Soft Sets, Heng He

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

To promote stable and sustainable growth in vocational education, it is crucial to innovate and adapt the teaching methods of art education to align with modern educational trends. A comprehensive analysis of the art education curriculum is necessary to drive reform and modernize teaching methodologies, ensuring the continued relevance and effectiveness of art instruction. By updating art education, students can enhance their aesthetic appreciation, develop a refined understanding of high-quality artworks, and experience consistent growth in their artistic development. Moving beyond traditional teaching models is essential for the ongoing advancement of art education in vocational colleges. The evaluation of teaching …

A Triangular Fuzzy Neutrosophic Model For Assessing And Optimizing Educational Quality In University Badminton Initiatives: A Comprehensive Study, Yi Zheng, Jun Chen

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

The evaluation of teaching quality in public badminton classes at general universities primarily considers students' learning outcomes, teachers' teaching abilities, class organization, and the appropriateness of the teaching content. Evaluation criteria include students' mastery of skills, participation, interest development, and teachers' teaching methods, classroom management, and interaction effectiveness. By combining quantitative and qualitative approaches, the evaluation aims to assess teaching quality, promote improvements, enhance students' physical fitness and sports skills, and support teachers' professional development and improvement of teaching standards. The teaching quality evaluation of public badminton classes at general universities is a multi-attribute decision-making (MADM). In this paper, a …

Elevating Service Quality In Mass Sports Events Through Trapezoidal Neutrosophic Weighted Product Models, Yifang Zhao

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

The evaluation of service quality in mass sports events is a structured process assessing aspects such as event organization, venue facilities, safety measures, staff services, and information dissemination. This evaluation assists organizers in identifying strengths and weaknesses, enabling optimization of services to enhance participant and spectator satisfaction. This study applies to the Weighted Product Method (WPM) integrated with Trapezoidal Neutrosophic Numbers (TNN) to address uncertainties inherent in multi-attribute decision-making. By presenting numerical examples and comparative analyses, the study demonstrates the effectiveness of the TNN-WPM technique. The findings provide a reliable framework for systematically evaluating service quality in mass sports events, …

An Efficient Neutrosophic Weighted Sum Approach With Insights Into Engineering Project Management Performance Assessment, Rong Yan, Yongguang Han, Liqing Hao

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

Project engineering management performance evaluation is a systematic assessment of various tasks in the project management process to measure performance in areas such as efficiency, quality, schedule, and cost control. Through evaluation, strengths and weaknesses in management can be identified, ensuring the achievement of project objectives and optimizing resource allocation. This evaluation not only helps improve the overall management level of engineering projects but also provides valuable experience and insights for future projects, thereby facilitating smooth implementation and successful delivery. The project engineering management performance evaluation is multiple-attribute decision-making (MADM). Recently, the weighted sum method (WSM) method has been established …

A Statistical Comparison Study Of A Real-Life Survey Data On Procedural Justice Via Neutrosophic Likert Scale With Score Function And Classical Likert Scale, Seher Bodur, Selçuk Topal, Hacı Gürkan

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

The present study aims to examine the distinctions between Likert and Neutrosophic scales in their ability to measure organizational behaviors and the many dimensions of organizational justice. To evaluate procedural justice, 6 questions measuring procedural justice from the Learning Environment Questionnaire were used. Compared to the Likert scale, the Neutrosophic scale exhibited greater decision weights and a more distinct expression of participants' ideas due to its ability to capture more complex replies. The reliability of both scales was found to be high, as indicated by satisfactory Cronbach's alpha coefficients. The results of the exploratory factor analysis indicated that both scales …

Regime Framework For Performance Ability Evaluation Of Excellent Football Players With Probabilistic Simplified Neutrosophic Sets, Dongdong Liu

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

The evaluation of an excellent football player's performance abilities involves assessing their overall capabilities based on in-game performance. Key evaluation dimensions include technical skills (such as passing, shooting, dribbling, etc.), tactical awareness, physical fitness, mental resilience, and teamwork. Through data analysis, video review, and coach feedback, the player's impact and contribution to the game are comprehensively evaluated, helping to determine their actual level in matches and provide guidance for future development. The performance ability evaluation of excellent football players is multiple attribute decision-making (MADM). The REGIME proves to be an effective method for tackling MADM challenges. The Probabilistic Simplified Neutrosophic …

Cognitive Map Generation For Vision And Language Navigation, Alexander Sandoval Mesa

Dissertations and Theses

Visual-Language Navigation (VLN) presents significant challenges for autonomous agents, such as robots and virtual assistants, particularly in complex, dynamic environments where the seamless integration of visual perception and natural language understanding is critical. Traditional VLN systems often struggle with effectively aligning language instructions and visual scene understanding, limiting their adaptability and navigation efficiency.

This thesis proposes a novel Cognitive Map-based framework that addresses these challenges by transforming natural language navigation instructions into structured graph representations. The Cognitive Map consists of nodes representing waypoints, landmarks, decision points, and edges encoding spatial relationships and navigational actions. These maps are generated using Large …

Nativity Status And Tobacco Use Among Hispanic Adults In The Us, Siyan Zhou

Public Health Theses

Background: Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable mortality. Understanding the consumption patterns of cigarettes and e-cigarettes, two of the most prevalent and harmful tobacco products, is important for population health. Furthermore, as the nation's largest racial or ethnic minority group, the Hispanic population faces tobacco-related disparities despite overall low prevalence of tobacco use. Since the Hispanic population is not homogeneous, it is important to disaggregate it by ancestry and nativity status to better guide policy and targeted interventions.

Methods: The 2022 September Tobacco Use Supplement to the Current Population Survey (TUS-CPS) included 37,540 participants in the US. Rao-Scott …

Period Poverty And The Politics Of Refusal: Building Menstrual Equity Beyond The State Through Mutual Aid, Alanah Armstead

Public Health Theses

This thesis examines period poverty as a consequence of systemic neglect, disproportionately affecting those made vulnerable by intersecting structures of racial, gendered, and economic injustice. Situating menstruation as a public health crisis shaped by policy failure, social stigma, and institutional disregard, this research critiques dominant legal and policy frameworks that approach menstrual equity through a limited scope that overlooks deeper structural inequalities rooted in race and class. This thesis explores how marginalized populations experience legal and welfare systems as sites of surveillance and moral judgment in the context of menstrual equity. Through seven semi-structured interviews with menstrual justice organizers, this …

Developing An Ethics Curriculum For Humanitarian Research And Practice: A Special Project Mph Thesis, Nour Nedal Al Zouabi

Public Health Theses

Despite increasing ethical challenges in humanitarian crises, most Master of Public Health (MPH) programs offer limited, focused ethics training. Humanitarian emergencies, including armed conflict, mass displacement, pandemics, and climate-related disasters, challenge traditional ethical frameworks, exposing gaps in law, codes of conduct, and philosophical models. This thesis proposes a 13-week graduate course that integrates public health, international humanitarian law, field-based humanitarian practice, research methodology, and moral philosophy to equipe future public health leaders with ethical decision-making processes and skills to navigate complex dilemmas. Through critical engagement with scholarly literature, case studies (Ebola vaccine trials, refugee-camp research), simulations, and guest-speaker dialogues, students …

Environmental Justice Dimensions Of Orphaned Oil And Gas Wells In The United States, Grace Marie Hauser

Public Health Theses

Orphaned oil and gas (O&G) wells can leak methane and other hazardous pollutants,contributing to air and water contamination that threatens public health while also imposing financial burdens on local governments and taxpayers for remediation. However, the environmental and public health impacts remain understudied, in part due to limited understanding of the number and location of orphaned O&G wells. In this thesis we aimed to (1) create a national orphaned wells dataset covering years through 2024, (2) estimate the count and distribution of orphaned wells in the United States through 2024, and (3) evaluate the association between community environmental justice (EJ) …

Political Regimes And Social Well-Being In The Sahel: An Analysis Of Gendered Development And Children's Education, Binta Fv Diarra

Dissertations and Theses

This thesis explores how divergent governance structures in the Sahel, specifically in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, and Senegal, affect the region's human development. Emphasizing gendered vulnerabilities and education, the research examines how political structures and leadership priorities deeply influence access to education and healthcare, specifically for women.

Authoritarian regimes often centralize power and prioritize regime stability over public welfare, leading to chronic underfunding of education and health services. In Mali and Burkina Faso, repeated coups and insecurity have affected schools and hospitals, disproportionately affecting girls and displaced women. Chad's one-party dominance reflects how systemic exclusion and poor service delivery entrench …

Examining The Complex Interplay Of Stress, Social Support, And Drinking Motives On Alcohol Use Behaviors: A Moderated Mediation Model Among College Students, Sabrina Perrin

Dissertations and Theses

College student alcohol use remains a public health concern, yet the psychological and social mechanisms that contribute to high-risk drinking patterns are not fully understood. Guided by the motivational model of alcohol use and stress-buffering theory, this study tested a moderated mediation model to examine how perceived stress, coping motives for drinking, and perceived social support interact to influence alcohol use behaviors. A sample of over 1,100 diverse urban college students completed measures of stress, social support, drinking motives, and four alcohol-related outcomes: binge drinking, frequency of alcoholic drinks consumed, negative drinking consequences, and use of protective behavioral strategies (PBS) …

Cosmopolitanism Now: Fragmented Belonging, Adriana Fischetti

Dissertations and Theses

Abstract

This thesis reconceptualizes cosmopolitanism for the contemporary moment as fragmented belonging, critiquing and moving beyond traditional cosmopolitan frameworks grounded in universal reason, seamless integration, or coherent identity. Through close readings of Teju Cole’s Open City and Tremor, and Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Exit West, this study argues that cosmopolitanism today emerges explicitly from rupture, contradiction, and ethical struggle, shaped fundamentally by conditions of displacement, empire, surveillance, and global capitalism. Engaging critical theorists such as Kwame Anthony Appiah, Homi Bhabha, Pheng Cheah, and Roland Barthes, the thesis identifies fragmented belonging as an ethically charged response to …

Examining Healthcare Access Disparities: Social Determinants And Patient Experiences At Valley Healthcare, Mikaila Larmond

Theses and Dissertations

Persistent disparities in healthcare access continued to affect low-income, rural, and underserved populations across the United States. This capstone project explored these disparities within Valley HealthCare, a regional provider in Columbus, Georgia, by examining how social determinants such as income, education, geography, and transportation shaped healthcare engagement among adult patients. A mixed-methods case study design was used to analyze survey data, patient satisfaction feedback, and organizational reports from a sample of 80 adult patients between January and March 2025.

The results showed that patients residing in lower-income or geographically isolated areas reported significantly higher rates of missed appointments. Individuals with …

Investigating Dis/Ability In Early Childhood Education, Hannah Caldwell

Social Justice and Community Engagement Major Research Papers

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A Feasibility Study On Barriers To Access To Solar Photovoltaic Energy: A Survey Study Of Moundou, Chad, Wakiang Emile Latchiba, Sebastian M. Waita, Robert Krueger, Julius Mwakondo Mwabora

All Rsif Scholars' Publications

It is widely acknowledged that energy sources such as the sun are potential providers of clean, limitless, and free energy that could satisfy energy needs now and in the future. This is particularly relevant when only small amounts of energy are necessary, such as in tiny homes or rural areas. For this study, we conducted a feasibility analysis by surveying local authorities and households in Moundou, Chad. The aim was to identify the barriers preventing householdsfrom accessing energy. The key decision-making data in this paper are based on the sample proportion of respondents and the margin of error associated with …

Wolbanking77: Wolof Banking Speech Intent Classification Dataset, Abdou Karim Kandji, Frédéric Precioso, Cheikh Ba, Samba Ndiaye, Augustin Ndione

All Rsif Scholars' Publications

Intent classification models have made a significant progress in recent years. However, previous studies primarily focus on high-resource language datasets, which results in a gap for low-resource languages and for regions with high rates of illiteracy, where languages are more spoken than read or written. This is the case in Senegal, for example, where Wolof is spoken by around 90% of the population, while the national illiteracy rate remains at of 42%. Wolof is actually spoken by more than 10 million people in West African region. To address these limitations, we introduce the Wolof Banking Speech Intent Classification Dataset (WolBanking77), …

Family Foreign Language Education Planning Research In China : Key Issues And Future Directions, Hao Xu

PASAA

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A Closer Look At 4c Skills Integration In English For Nursing Textbooks : A Content Analysis Approach, Fitri Handayani, M. Zaim, Havid Ardi

PASAA

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English Textbooks In The Modern World : Cultural Representation In An Efl Textbook From Vietnam, Khoi Tan Minh Vuong, Wannapa Trakulkasemsuk

PASAA

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Conceptualizing Foreign Language Speaking Mindset Of Undergraduate Students In An Efl Context, Nobphawan Sukklang, Jeffrey Dawala Wilang

PASAA

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Integrating Corpus-Based Methods To Determine Grammatical Topics For Teaching English Writing In The Thai Context, Raymund T. Palayon, Yenying Chongchit

PASAA

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Indonesian Students’ Perceived Usefulness Of The Integration Of Ted Talks For English Language Learning : The Technology Acceptance Model (Tam) Framework, Nurul Aini, Yazid Basthomi, Nunung Suryati, Iwan Kurniarahman

PASAA

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Exploration Of The Effects Of Sharing Critical Incidents On Tertiary Level Efl Learners’ Learning And Self-Efficacy Beliefs, Duygu İşpınar Akçayoğlu

PASAA

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Pronunciation : The Big Picture, Donna M. Brinton

PASAA

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English Language Teaching In The Modern Globalized World : Thai L2 Learnersʼ Views On Global Englishes, Apaporn Puchpan, Krich Rajprasit

PASAA

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