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Cross-Cultural Perspectives On The Development Of Critical Thinking In Deaf Students: A Comparative Study Between Indonesia And Finland, Fariyeni Fariyeni, Nurhastuti Nurhastuti

Journal of ICSAR

This study examines how cultural context shapes the development of critical thinking skills in deaf students through a comparative cross-cultural analysis of Indonesia and Finland. Although critical thinking is recognized as a core 21st-century competency, it remains underexplored in deaf education, particularly from a cross-cultural perspective. The research employed a qualitative, descriptive, and comparative design. Data were collected through interviews, observations, and documentation, and analysed using comparative thematic analysis. Trustworthiness was ensured through source and method triangulation, peer debriefing with inclusive education experts, and member checking with participants. Participants included secondary-level deaf students, special education (SLB) teachers, and inclusive teachers …

Penerapan Flipped Learning Untuk Melatih Keterampilan Berbicara Mahasiswa Pendidikan Bahasa Mandarin, Marifatul Amaliyah, Sri Prameswari Indriwardhani, Aiga Ventivani

Journal of Language, Literature, and Arts

Flipped learning is a teaching strategy that reverses traditional classroom activities by providing learning materials and practice exercises for independent study at home. Classroom time is then used for practical activities, conducted either in groups or individually, based on the material learned in advance. Flipped learning is considered an effective strategy for developing speaking skills in Mandarin language learning. This study aims to describe the classroom activities involved in implementing the flipped learning strategy to develop speaking skills among Mandarin Language Education students of the 2021 cohort at Universitas Negeri Malang, as well as to examine students’ responses to its …

Unveiling Perceived Gender Bias In Middle Eastern Academia: Cross-Country Analysis Of Women’S Leadership, Laila Mohebi, Amani K.Hamdan Alghamdi, Sadia Shaukat

All Works

Gender bias remains a significant systemic barrier for women in academic leadership, restricting both career advancement and influence that creates a leadership gap, accenting the need for evidence-based strategies to promote equity and inclusive leadership pathways. Guided by social role theory, which explains in what way incongruence between communal female roles and agentic leadership roles leads to prejudice against women leaders, we investigated their perceptions of gender bias across four countries each with different local sociocultural gender norms, religious interpretations and national policies: Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Pakistan. Employing a cross-national comparative and descriptive research design, …

A Modular Llm Approach To Argument Extraction In Philosophical Texts, Nate Miller

Masters Theses

Engaging with philosophical works is a rewarding but demanding task that challenges both human readers and computational systems designed to extract arguments from dense philosophical reasoning, and although large language models (LLMs) have made substantial progress in argument extraction, the most advanced models are often costly to run. As a result, there is growing interest in determining if multi-agent pipelines that divide a task into smaller stages can reduce cost while maintaining or improving performance.

This study investigates a modular multi-agent approach for extracting arguments from philosophical texts using LLMs, and compares its performance, cost, and runtime to both single-agent …

The Correlation Between The Frequency Of Using Grammarly And The Accuracy Of Students’ Thesis Writing, Tri Herawati, Suharyadi Suharyadi, Harits Masduqi

Journal of Language, Literature, and Arts

Grammar-checking tools have gained popularity as a means of addressing writing difficulties and improving students’ writing quality, particularly grammatical accuracy. Therefore, it is important to examine the relationship between the frequency of Grammarly use and the accuracy of students’ thesis writing to understand the potential benefits and limitations of Grammarly as a writing tool in academic contexts. This study aimed to investigate whether a correlation exists between these two variables. A quantitative approach with correlational research design was employed. The participants were 63 English Language Education students from Universitas Negeri Malang who were enrolled in the 2017, 2018, and 2019 …

Konstruksi The Other Dan Representasi Anti-Semit Dalam Stereotip Yahudi Fagin, Hardina Hardina, Muarifuddin Muarif, Rahmawati Azi

Journal of Language, Literature, and Arts

This article employs Stuart Hall’s (1997) theory of representation to analyze the construction of The Other in the portrayal of Fagin as a Jewish character in Charles Dickens’ novel Oliver Twist. The study focuses on how practices of representation, stereotyping, and anti-Semitic racism are constructed through language and narrative structure. The main aim is to identify forms of anti-Semitic representation and the ideological mechanisms that shape Jewish identity as an outsider (The Other). The research uses a qualitative descriptive method with a literary and cultural studies approach, analyzing text, characters, and narrative based on concepts of representation, stereotyping, encoding-decoding, and …

Assessing The Influence Of Teachers’ Teaching Experience And Educational Qualification On The Use Of Oral Tradition In Teaching Igbo Language In Secondary Schools In South-East Nigeria, Princess Ngozi Ndibe

Journal of Language, Literature, and Arts

The declining use of indigenous languages among younger generations, combined with the increasing reliance on conventional textbook-based instructional approaches, has raised concerns regarding the preservation of the Igbo language and its cultural heritage. These concerns prompted an empirical investigation into the influence of teacher-related factors on the effective integration of oral tradition in Igbo language instruction. This study employed a descriptive survey design involving public secondary school Igbo language teachers, from whom 500 respondents were selected through multistage sampling. Data were collected using a validated questionnaire, with reliability established through Cronbach’s alpha. Questionnaire administration was conducted with official authorization. Data …

Sangkan Paraning Dumadi Sebagai Filosofi Hidup Dalam Puisi-Puisi Sapardi Djoko Damono, Heri Isnaini

Journal of Language, Literature, and Arts

Previous studies on the poetry of Sapardi Djoko Damono have predominantly situated his works within the framework of lyricism, linguistic simplicity, and humanistic reflection, while the dimension of local philosophy as a foundation of existential consciousness has received limited scholarly attention. This article aims to reveal the representation of the concept of sangkan paraning dumadi as a philosophy of life in Sapardi Djoko Damono’s poetry. The concept is understood as an ontological awareness of human existence concerning its origin and ultimate purpose in relation to God. This study employs a philosophical approach using qualitative descriptive analysis of selected poems that …

Critical Design And The Robotic Imaginary: Design Criticism And Critical Robots, Jörgen Behrendtz

The Journal of Sociotechnical Critique

This paper brings critical design and design criticism to critical robot studies. Critical design can be described as an umbrella term for approaches making use of speculative designs to highlight and challenge narrow assumptions, preconceptions or even taken-for-granted truths about the role products play (in a wide sense) in everyday life. Design criticism refers to a reasoned procedure that investigates emancipatory and/or limiting potentials of designs, theorizes the roles of affordances, materials and embodied perception as epistemological resources in media interaction, and clarifies connections between specific design choices and their associated experiential qualities, seductive powers, ideological underpinnings, material operations, and …

What Is It We Really Harvestin' Here?, Ntozake Shange

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

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Publish Or Perish: Digital Presence And Mobility As Worth, Venessa Paech

Fast Capitalism

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Phillip Lopate: New York Storyteller, Melinda Corey

Creative Nonfiction Magazine

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Time And Pause In Spontaneous Speech, Lahcen Ouasmi

Basamat

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The Metaphoric Structuring Of Time In Moroccan Arabic, Khalid Berrada

Basamat

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A Therapeutic Reading Of Space In Ionesco's La Cantatrice Chauve And La Leçon, Houda Chraibi

Basamat

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Spatial And Temporal Uses Of Moroccan Arabic Prepositions, Ahmed Ech-Charfi

Basamat

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Adaptive Correction Of Digital Map Features Using A Text-Guided Generative Model, Yotam Intrator, Idan Kligvasser, Ehud Rivlin, Amir Livne

Defensive Publications Series

Static machine learning models applied in automated cartography may produce inaccurate map features or may not adapt to localized guidelines without potentially costly retraining. A post-processing framework can utilize a multi-modal, text-guided generative model to perform adaptive corrections. For example, a system can receive a visual representation of a map segment, such as a raster image of road markings, and a set of natural language guidelines as input. The generative model can then process these inputs to synthesize a new visual representation where map features may be altered to conform with the specified guidelines. This approach can decouple correction logic …

Cascaded Model Architecture For Resource-Efficient Contextual Action Suggestion, Lixia Liu, Jian Wu, Georgi Angelov, Jiang Wang

Defensive Publications Series

Providing real-time contextual action suggestions in communication environments can involve computational cost and latency associated with running large-scale artificial intelligence models. A system can address these considerations using a cascaded, multi-layered modeling architecture. The system may first process contextual data, such as live meeting transcripts, through a lightweight, computationally inexpensive classification model. If this model returns a prediction with a confidence score below a predetermined threshold, the request can be escalated to a more resource-intensive model, such as a large language model, for a more nuanced analysis. This gating mechanism can balance predictive accuracy with computational efficiency, which may reduce …

Artificial Intelligence In Higher Education, Opportunities, And Challenges: A Review, Sharifa Alblooshi

All Works

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a growing force of change in higher education, providing assistance to students, teachers, and administrators in teaching, learning, and administration. As AI technologies advance rapidly, they present a combination of significant opportunities and complex challenges. In this study, we examine the role of AI in higher education, highlighting both its positive and negative impacts, as well as current policy gaps and issues arising from its deployment. The literature on the topic was reviewed to determine how AI decisively impacts teaching and learning, the role of AI in assessments and academic integrity, as well as ethics, psychological …

Improving Early Detection Of Lung Cancer In Underserved Primary Care Settings, Trent Arden Goode, Ii

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related mortality in the United States, with underserved populations experiencing higher rates of late-stage diagnosis and preventable death. Despite established screening guidelines, adherence within primary care remains inconsistent, particularly in safety-net settings, reflecting a healthcare administration problem driven by organizational structures and care processes. The purpose of this integrative review was to identify administrative interventions that improve primary care provider adherence to lung cancer screening referral guidelines in safety-net healthcare settings. Guided by the Donabedian Quality Framework, a systematic integrative review was conducted to examine how healthcare structures and processes influence screening implementation. …

The Culture Of Gender/The Gender Of Culture: Cuban Women, Culture, And Change—The Island And The Diaspora, Berta Esperanza Hernández-Truyol

Florida Journal of International Law

This Essay analyzes the role of the Cuban woman in society—both on the island as well as in the diaspora. The purpose of this Essay is to assess whether culture has changed among either (or both) Cuban women on the island after the revolution and those who have emigrated since then. The Essay develops this topic in three parts. The first part presents the role of women in society in general and specifically in Latina/o societies. Following, the work addresses the history of Cuba, in order to weave in the record of women's movements and women's organizations on the island …

Time-Space Compression And The Role Of Television In Delillo’S White Noise And Wallace’S “Little Expressionless Animals”, Andrew H. Banecker

Fast Capitalism

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Digital Morality And National Values: Pancasila As An Ethical Compass For Technology-Enhanced Counseling In Indonesia, Dominikus David Biondi Situmorang, Hendrik Tuaputimain, Muqaffi Muqaffi, M. Solehuddin

Buletin Konseling Inovatif

The very fast development of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Mixed Reality (MR) in the last decade have changed the way of mental health practice internationally, including Indonesia. Although these technologies extend reach, deepen therapeutic engagement, and facilitate clinical analysis, they also present serious ethical challenges with respect to privacy, algorithmic bias, depersonalization, and disparity. This integrative review draws on literature from counseling, digital ethics, immersive technologies, and Indonesian philosophical studies to consider how Pancasila can serve as a culturally situated ethical guide for technology-mediated counseling. The results disclose four overarching themes: shifting role of …

Layout-Aware Text Extraction Using Heuristic Segmentation And Llm-Based Refinement, Leonid Kuligin

Defensive Publications Series

Automated text extraction from paginated documents, such as portable document format (PDF) files, can be problematic when layout-agnostic parsers capture non-essential content like headers and footers, which can introduce noise and degrade data quality for downstream applications. A described technique may address this through a multi-stage workflow that combines heuristic analysis with large language models (LLMs). For example, a process can begin with a heuristic segmentation stage to identify potential header, footer, and main content regions based on layout cues, such as text position and font size. This initial segmentation may then be provided as a structured hint to a …

Automatic Processing For The Benefit Of Berber, Patrice Pognan, Mohand-Akli Salhi

Faits de Langue et Société (FLS)

This article presents the outcomes of the Fès–Paris–Tizi-Ouzou research group aiming at the modernization of Berber languages through digital humanities and natural language processing tools.

The Semantico-Syntactic Representation Of Verb Structure In Moroccan Arabic, Zahra Zaid

Faits de Langue et Société (FLS)

This article analyzes the heterogeneity of verb classes in Moroccan Arabic through the semantico-syntactic interface, focusing on argument structure and thematic role redistribution.

Verbal Polysemy And Homonymy In Rif Berber, Souad Moudian

Faits de Langue et Société (FLS)

This study examines polysemy and homonymy in the Rifian verbal system using a corpus of proverbs, highlighting semantic and syntactic disambiguation criteria.

Indefinite Article Un + Property Noun + Modifier: The Degree Of Intensity Solution, Georges Kleiber

Faits de Langue et Société (FLS)

This study analyzes the shift from the partitive to the indefinite article in French when property nouns are modified, questioning the explanatory power of the degree of intensity hypothesis.

Lexical Connection: Is Intertextual Distance Measurable?, Ali Hefied, Mohamed El-Himer

Faits de Langue et Société (FLS)

This article applies lexicometric methods to measure intertextual distance in Nerval’s Voyage en Orient, assessing stylistic homogeneity through quantitative tools.

Translation Between Interpretation And Symbolism: The Case Of Amazigh Proverbs And Songs, Fatima Amrani

Faits de Langue et Société (FLS)

This article examines the limits of translating Amazigh proverbs and songs, emphasizing the need for cultural and symbolic interpretation beyond literal translation.