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Reliability Of Approaches For Measuring Soil Organic Carbon And Implications For Results-Based Payments For Smallholder Carbon Farming, Friederike Schilling, Dennis Beesigamukama, Chrysantus M. Tanga

All Peer-Reviewed Publications

Soil organic carbon (SOC) measurement is critical for result-based payments for carbon sequestration in agriculture. This study examined (i) the consistency of SOC measurements from a portable near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy soil scanner and laboratory analyses (Walkley-Black method) using samples from 151 plots across Western Kenya, and (ii) explored the implications of measurement error for SOC stock change estimates in group-based carbon farming schemes. Scanner predictions showed a weak correlation with laboratory results (R² = 0.10–0.11; RMSE = 5.6–7.1 g/kg). Comparing results between the two laboratories showed only moderate agreement (R² = 0.34) with a systematic bias of 7.5 …

Single-Valued Neutrosophic Pessimistic Multi-Granulation Rough Set Model Based On (A,B,C)-Cut Relations And Its Applications, Xu-Xi Wu, Hu Zhao, Qiao-Ling Song, Xiong-Wei Zhang

Neutrosophic Systems with Applications

To address uncertainty in multi-source data, this paper proposes a single-valued neutrosophic pessimistic multi-granulation rough set (P-SVN-MGRS) model based on (a,b,c)-cut relations. In this framework, each neutrosophic relation is characterized by three membership-degree functions: T(x,y), I(x,y), and F(x,y). These functions correspond to truth-membership, indeterminacy, and falsity, respectively. The (α,β,γ)-cut relation employs parameters α,β,γ∈(0,1] as thresholds for the three functions. A pair (x,y) belongs to …

Synergistic V2ctₓ Mxene–Pani Hybrid With Expanded Interlayers For Ultrastable And High-Rate Pseudocapacitive Energy Storage, Amideddin Nouralishahi, Maryam Sharifi Paroushi, Mansour Razavi, Amarachi Clare Nnachor, Harish Singh, Manashi Nath

Chemistry Faculty Research & Creative Works

Recently, MXene-conducting polymer hybrids have emerged as promising electrode materials for sustainable energy storage applications, owing to their impressive electrochemical properties. Herein, we report the synthesis of vanadium carbide MXene nanoparticles (V2CT_x-MXene) using innovative Spark Plasma Sintering (SPS) technology followed by exfoliation steps. The V2CT_x nanoparticles were incorporated with PANI (MXene-PANI) by electrochemical polymerization of aniline monomers in the presence of V2CT_x nanolayers, to be used as a highly efficient material for charge storage application. PANI nanofibers form a conductive and porous architecture, which intercalates the V2CT_x nanoflakes. The resulting structure increases the interlayer spacing …

Analytic Continuation Of Time In Brownian Motion. Stochastic Distributions Approach, Luis Daniel Abreu, Daniel Alpay, Tryphon T. Georgiou, Palle Jorgensen

Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science Faculty Articles and Research

With the use of Hida's white noise space theory and spaces of stochastic distributions, we present a detailed analytic continuation theory for classes of Gaussian processes, with focus here on Brownian motion. For the latter, we prove and make use of bounds in the complex plane for the Hermite functions; as well as a new approach to stochastic distributions. This in turn allows us to present (in Section 6) an explicit formula for an analytically continued white noise process, realized this way in the complex domain. With the use of the Wick product, we then apply our complex white noise …

The War Between N+1 And The Elegant Variation, Or When Production Overlooks Consumption In The Literary Political Economy, Elisabeth Chaves

Fast Capitalism

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The Political Economy Of Knowledge: Neglecting Political Economy In The Age Of Fast Capitalism (As Before), Robert Babe

Fast Capitalism

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"Second Nature": Advertising, Metaphor And The Production Of Space, Shane Gunster

Fast Capitalism

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About The Authors, Fast Capitalism Editorial Team

Fast Capitalism

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Fast Capitalism

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C. S. Lewis And Artificial Intelligence: An Ai Ethics Problem, Justin E. Edgerly

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

This paper demonstrates that the quest for safe and ethical AI is undermined by much of the philosophy, implicit and explicit, in AI literature and undergirding AI research and development. C. S. Lewis’s writings provide a prescient and penetrating critique of this philosophy and point toward a “regenerate science” that addresses the present need for wisdom in AI development. This paper contributes to the field of AI ethics by presenting several Lewisian concerns about the nature, application, and undergirding philosophy of current and future AI technologies, as well as a Lewisian perspective on the requirements for safe and ethical AI.

Of Metaphors And Measurements: Cross-Disciplinary Learning In K-8 English Language Arts And Mathematics, Morgan Shiver, Janet Shiver

New Jersey English Journal

English Language Arts and mathematics may seem like an unlikely pair, but together, literature and math can foster meaningful cross-disciplinary learning. This article presents strategies for using literature in K-8 classrooms to meet both ELA and math standards, enhancing student engagement and comprehension.

Beyond Black And White: Embracing Every Hue Through Words, Stories, And Unapologetic Truths, Darius M. Phelps

New Jersey English Journal

Literacy shapes how students interpret and engage with the world, yet traditional education often compartmentalizes it. This article explores racial literacy and poetry as transformative, interdisciplinary tools for critical inquiry and identity formation. Grounded in scholarship and practical strategies, it calls for reimagining literacy instruction as empowerment across disciplines and lived experiences.

Moving Beyond Reading And Writing: Incorporating Historically Responsive Literacy Into Literacy Instruction In Content Area Classrooms, Andrea Lemahieu Glaws

New Jersey English Journal

This article describes the practices on teacher educator used to incorporate a historically responsive literacy framework into a disciplinary literacy course offered for pre-service teachers. This article begins with an overview of disciplinary literacy and Dr. Muhammad’s historically responsive literacy framework. Following, this article describes three assignments that the teacher educator used within her classroom to support pre-service teachers across multiple content areas in making connections between HRL and their content area discipline. These three assignments include: lab reflections, curriculum analysis, and mini-lesson facilitation. Connections to implications beyond teacher education are made.

Cover, Editors' Note, Front Matter, Susan Chenelle, Lauren Zucker

New Jersey English Journal

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The Destiny Of The Mind, East And West, William S. Haas

Hannah Arendt Marginalia - All

London, Faber and Faber [1956]

Call #: B799 .H15 1956

Contais marginalia, underlining and marginal lining

PDF Information: 124 Pages - 63.1 MB

Scientific Foundations And Their Manifestations In Literary Criticism, Hamid Lahmidani

SOROUD: The journal of Literacy Criticism

The present study seeks to demonstrate the strong relationship between the various sciences and the practice of literary criticism, and to contribute to the shaping and development of critical programs. This occurs in parallel with the treatment of literary texts, the assimilation of their structural nature, and the subsequent uncovering of their allegorical and symbolic connotations. It has therefore been necessary to attend to the ways in which scientific disciplines contribute to the development of the mechanisms of literary criticism. Among these fertile sciences are mathematics, logic, and empirical forms of knowledge, followed by the human sciences such as history, …

Developing Pattern Recognition And Interpretable Convolutional Neural Network Based Frameworks For Identifying Drug Resistant And Pan Cancer Mirnas From Expression Data, Joginder Jsingh

Doctoral Theses

Micro Ribonucleic Acids (miRNAs) are short length (∼24) non-coding RNAs and are considered as key biomarkers in cancer diagnosis and treatment. They play a vital role in classifying cancer patients from normal ones and drug resistant patients from control ones. The control patients are those who have not received any drug for cancer treatment. The objective is to identify a subset of miRNAs those help in the classification of the patients using expression data. The thesis is comprised of four contributory chapters in addition to an introduction and conclusion. In the first two contributory chapters, computational methods for ranking and …

Stylespade: Realistic Image Augmentation For Robust Infrastructure Crack Segmentation Via Ensemble Learning, Jaeung Sim, Menas Kafatos, Seung Hee Kim, Yangwon Lee

Institute for ECHO Articles and Research

The rapid deterioration of global infrastructure necessitates precise and automated crack detection technologies for proactive maintenance. However, deep learning-based segmentation models often suffer from a scarcity of diverse, high-quality labeled datasets. This study proposes StyleSPADE, a novel conditional image generation model that integrates semantic masks and style images to synthesize realistic crack data with diverse background textures while preserving precise geometric morphology. To validate the effectiveness of the generated data, we conducted extensive semantic segmentation tasks using Transformer-based (Mask2Former, Swin-UPerNet) and CNN-based (K-Net) models. Experimental results demonstrate that StyleSPADE-based augmentation significantly outperforms baseline models, achieving a Crack IoU of 0.6376 …

ℤ3-Graded Cartan Calculus On 𝒪(ℂQ1|1|1), Sultan Çeli̇k, Sali̇h Çeli̇k

Turkish Journal of Mathematics

After a brief introduction of the basic concepts of ℤ₃-grading, the paper continues by introducing ℤ₃-graded differential calculus and ℤ₃-graded Cartan calculus. Then, using a matrix R which is a solution of the Yang-Baxter equation, a new ℤ₃-graded quantum group and a ℤ₃-graded quantum space are introduced. The scheme of the ℤ₃-graded differential calculus developed on the algebra of functions on this quantum space is extended to the ℤ₃-graded Cartan calculus and all the results obtained are formulated using the matrix R.

Math Success Center Achieves Level One Certification, Lindenwood University

Archived Lindenwood Press Releases

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G-Topological Groupoids, Osman Mucuk

Turkish Journal of Mathematics

In the groupoid theory, it is unclear that a topological groupoid's quotient groupoid with the quotient topology is topological.  In this paper, we approach this problem considering  G-methods and G-convergence. We define  G-topological groupoid, which agrees with the sequential version of a topological groupoid in the particular case G=lim, and give some counterexamples. Then, we extend the usual properties of topological groupoids to the G-topological groupoids. We also prove that a G-topological groupoid's quotient groupoid is  G-topological groupoid when a normal subgroupoid is suitably chosen. This result enables us to obtain examples of topological quotient groupoids in a particular case.

The Variation Of Eigenvalues Of The Two-Dimensional Magnetic Schrödinger Operator With Respect To The Angle Of A Flat Sector, Araz R. Aliev, Elshad H. Eyvazov

Turkish Journal of Mathematics

A two-dimensional Schrödinger operator with a spherically symmetric electric potential and an Aharonov Bohm magnetic field in a circular sector under Neumann boundary conditions is considered. The intervals of the angular variation of the flat region are found, where the eigenvalues of the Neumann problem for the Schrödinger operator with a spherically symmetric electric potential strictly decrease monotonically in the Aharonov-Bohm magnetic field.

Further Geometric Properties Of The Generalized K-Bessel Functions, Merve Görgülü, İbrahi̇m Aktaş

Turkish Journal of Mathematics

This study investigates certain geometric properties of the normalized k-Bessel function, which is a natural generalization of classical and modified Bessel functions of the first kind. These geometric properties include η-starlikeness, η-uniform convexity, starlikeness associated with exponential function and Bernoulli’s lemniscate, and convexity associated with exponential function and Bernoulli’s lemniscate. Moreover, certain corollaries related to classical and modified Bessel functions are presented by specialising parameters. In addition, some examples and their graphical representations are provided to support the findings of this study.

The Incorporation Of Ai-Enabled Culturally Relevant Narrative-Based Learning Pedagogy To Engage Students In A Diverse Stem Classroom, Nitin U. Jain, Eliza G. Braden

Faculty Publications

This study explores how AI-enabled, culturally relevant, narrative-based learning pedagogy influences engagement among ninth-grade students in an Earth Science course. Conducted in two classrooms in a southeastern U.S. school predominantly attended by African American and Latinx students, we developed lesson plans on Earth Systems and Climate Change. Using a qualitative case study design, we examined one educator's implementation of AI-enhanced lessons. Thematic analysis of exit surveys and students' artifacts revealed that narrative-based learning significantly increased students' desire, engagement, and confidence in scientific concepts compared to conventional methods. This approach allowed students to integrate local and global knowledge, fostering deep questions …

Some Methods For Finding The Number Of Partitions Of N With M−Parts, P(N, M), Yusuf Soyvural, Ali̇ Bülent Eki̇n

Turkish Journal of Mathematics

P(n, m) denotes the number of partitions of n with m parts, while P_m(n) denotes the number of partitions of n with parts at most m. It is a well-known result that the number of partitions of n ≥ 0 into m or fewer parts is equal to P_m(n). In the literature, there are some results for P(n, m) and P_m(n) for some values of m. In this work, we give more compact results for P(n …

On Almost Kenmotsu Manifolds Admitting Nearly Vacuum Static Equations With Applications, Uday Chand De, Krishnendu De, Sudhakar Kumar Chaubey

Turkish Journal of Mathematics

In this article, we study certain characteristics of nearly vacuum static equations on almost Kenmotsu manifolds. It is established that an η-Einstein almost Kenmotsu manifold allowing nearly vacuum static equations is of constant scalar curvature and either the solution is trivial or, the manifold reduces to an Einstein manifold. Next,  nearly vacuum static equations on (κ,μ)-almost Kenmotsu manifolds and generalized (κ,μ)'-nullity distribution are considered and we obtain several interesting results. Moreover, we illustrate that if a 3-dimensional Kenmotsu manifold allows nearly vacuum static equations, then the manifold is locally isometric to the hyperbolic space Η3(-1). After that, we investigate a …

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Turkish Journal of Mathematics

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Fubini Collocation Method For Numerical Solutions Of Differential Equations With Quadratic And Cubic Nonlinearities, Kübra Erdem Bi̇çer, Havva Türkhan

Turkish Journal of Mathematics

In this study, the Fubini collocation method is proposed for the approximate solution of nonlinear differential equations. The method utilizes fundamental relations involving Fubini polynomials and their derivatives, employing collocation points to enhance solution accuracy. Within this framework, the given differential equation is transformed into a system of nonlinear algebraic equations involving the unknown coefficients of the approximate solution. This resulting system is then solved using appropriate numerical techniques to obtain the approximate solution. The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated through several test problems, with accuracy evaluated using absolute error functions. Furthermore, illustrative examples and residual-based error analysis …

The Derivative Of Spectral Function Of The Problem With The Boundary Condition Dependent On Spectral Parameter, Eli̇f Başkaya, Haskiz Coşkun

Turkish Journal of Mathematics

In this study, the computation of the derivative of the spectral function for Sturm-Liouville problem with eigenvalue dependent boundary condition at the finite left end is considered.

Representation Of Inverse Ordered Semigroups By Means Of Symmetric Inverse Semigroups On A Set, Michael Tsingelis

Turkish Journal of Mathematics

A partial one-to-one mapping on a set X is a mapping whose domain is a subset of X. The set of partial one-one mappings on a set X is an inverse semigroup (the symmetric inverse semigroup on X). An element x of an ordered semigroup (S, ·, ≤) is called an inverse element of α ∈ S if α ≤ xαx and x ≤ xαx. An inverse ordered semigroup is an ordered semigroup S for which every element of S possesses an inverse element and the inverse elements of any element of S are in …