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Anty 101h.Vh1: Anthropology And The Human Experience - Bitterroot, Jamie L. Ogden

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.

Anty 101h.80: Anthropology And The Human Experience - Honors, David Garret Kerr

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2021-2025

No abstract provided.

From Sonvilier To Canada To Illinois: A Remarkable Swiss Emigration Story, Jeanette Bowman Borich

Swiss American Historical Society Review

Author and genealogist Laurence Overmire stated, “History remembers only the celebrated, genealogy remembers them all.”¹ His words resonate as we consider the 1821 Swiss emigration to the Red River Settlement (in today’s Manitoba, Canada) followed by their subsequent emigration to the Galena, Illinois, area. Three recently published books on the history of Galena’s earliest days as a city² make no mention of the Swiss Red River families as early pioneers.³ A fourth book,⁴ Le Canada et les Suisses by E. H. Bovay, also relatively recently written, tells a different story. Genealogical research about one’s ancestors and …

Soirée Suisse 2024, C. Naseer Ahmad

Swiss American Historical Society Review

Soirée Suisse stands out as one of the most unique and highly anticipated events in Washington, D.C. It takes place at a wonderful time of year when the summer heat begins to surrender to the cool breezes of autumn.

Vaxbot-Hpv: A Gpt-Based Chatbot For Answering Hpv Vaccine-Related Questions, Yiming Li, Jianfu Li, Manqi Li, Evan Yu, Danniel Rhee, Muhammad Amith, Lu Tang, Lara S Savas, Licong Cui, Cui Tao

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

OBJECTIVE: Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine is an effective measure to prevent and control the diseases caused by HPV. However, widespread misinformation and vaccine hesitancy remain significant barriers to its uptake. This study focuses on the development of VaxBot-HPV, a chatbot aimed at improving health literacy and promoting vaccination uptake by providing information and answering questions about the HPV vaccine.

METHODS: We constructed the knowledge base (KB) for VaxBot-HPV, which consists of 451 documents from biomedical literature and web sources on the HPV vaccine. We extracted 202 question-answer pairs from the KB and 39 questions generated by GPT-4 for training and …

Instrument Adaptation For Measuring Early Child Language Development Across Multilingual And Sociocultural Diverse Settings, Heather Brookes, Frenette Southwood, Martin Mössmer, Patricia Makaure, Michelle J. White, Carmen Coetsee, Sefela L. Yalala, Helena Kruger, Mikateko Ndhambi, Sibusiso Ndlangamandla, Monicca T. Bhuda, Nina Brink, Nomfundo Buthelezi, William Jiyana, F. Portia Khumalo, Babalwa Ludidi, Muzi Matfunjwa, Lufuno Miriri, Nomsa Skosana

School of Psychology

This article describes the adaptation of the MacArthur–Bates Communicative Development Inventory (CDI) for South Africa’s 11 official spoken languages. The CDI is a parent-report tool that measures early language development from 8 to 30 months. We developed cross-linguistically comparable CDIs, representing two distinct language families, West Germanic and southern Bantu, using a common protocol. We describe our approach to item construction and harmonization across languages and to obtaining sociodemographic information in different cultural settings. Issues such as language contact and variation, sampling, data collection, and quality control are discussed as well as item selection and instrument reliability and validity. This …

The Social Interpretation Of Surat Al-Balad And Its Impact On Addressing Poverty, Dr. Ali Abdul Aziz Sayour

Faculty Peer-Reviewed Papers | بحوث هيئة التدريس المحكمة

This research is titled The Social Interpretation of Surat Al-Balad and Its Impact on Addressing Poverty answers a question: How does Surat Al-Balad, through its interpretation from a social perspective, provide solutions to the phenomenon of poverty prevalence? The research has two topics: the first is indicating the research terminology, and the second is dividing Surat Al-Balad into Four Sections; each section contains several verses presenting a method that contributes to addressing poverty. In this research, both descriptive and deductive methodology was used. It concluded with several results, including: proving that Surat Al-Balad provides us with a model that is …

Analyzing The Creation And Use Of Abbreviations In Cardiology And Cardiac Imaging Society Guidelines., Christopher R. Green, Rui Zhang, Raymond F. Stainback, Sofia W. Ye, Daniel Forsha, Enrique Garcia-Sayan, Jeffrey C. Hill, Carol Mitchell, Vera H. Rigolin, Vandana Sachdev, Partho P. Sengupta, Vincent L. Sorrell, Jordan B. Strom, Alexander M. Ye, Cynthia C. Taub

Manuscripts, Articles, Book Chapters and Other Papers

BACKGROUND: Abbreviation use in clinical and academic cardiology is widespread, yet there are few guidelines regulating the creation and utilization of abbreviations. Inconsistent abbreviations can introduce ambiguity and pose challenges to practice and research.

OBJECTIVES: The authors aimed to analyze how abbreviations are created and utilized in general cardiology and cardiac imaging society guidelines in order to assess whether ambiguities and discrepancies exist between societies.

METHODS: Abbreviation data were collected from 7 national and international societies of general cardiology and cardiac imaging over a 6-year span (2018-2023). Data were linguistically coded for abbreviation type, unique occurrence, meaning or sense count, …

Enhanced Approach For Japanese Teaching Quality Evaluation In Higher Education Under Plithogenic Sets, Yifan Liang

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

Japanese language instruction has drawn more attention in the twenty-first century, a time of frequent international interactions and the rapid advancement of knowledge. Colleges and universities are now concentrating on raising the standard of Japanese education going forward as a result. To improve teaching quality, we must strengthen the entire management of teaching quality, particularly the evaluation of instructors' instruction. However, it is challenging to translate the evaluation results into a mathematical analytical formula because there are several elements that affect the quality of instruction, and the weight of each factor changes. We proposed a multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) methodology …

Freedom Dreams Of Young Black Boys: A Qualitative Study Among Black Male Elementary School Learners, Lamar Ok

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

The work conducted in this research builds on the work of many who have also worked to provide a platform to illuminate the voices of Black folks, especially Black boys. This research is not the first to make the case that Black boys are as fully human as anyone else, and yet they have internalized the white gaze, even as they are proud of their blackness, their color, their race, their culture. However, there exists limited research with Black boys in elementary school, particularly before the 5th grade (before 10 years of age).

This project was about freedom dreaming—a collective …

Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia With Pathogenic Variant In Mapt Presenting As Dementia With Lewy Body Disease, Tianxu Xia, Clara Li, Ayuko Iverson, Jessica Spat-Lemus, Amy Woroch, Georges Naasan

Department of Psychology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

A 75-year-old right-handed Chinese American man presented to behavioral neurology clinic for a second opinion of dementia with Lewy body disease (DLB). The clinical history indicated a progressive multi-domain cognitive impairment starting in 2021 and including recurrent well-formed visual hallucinations, parkinsonism, dysautonomia, hypersomnia, apathy and paranoid delusions. The clinical manifestations met the criteria for a probable DLB diagnosis. In addition, family reported personality changes, disinhibition and compulsive behaviors, which suggested prefrontal cortex dysfunction. Brain MRI revealed disproportionate volume loss in the bilateral frontal lobes including the orbitofrontal cortices. Family history revealed that multiple firstand second-degree relatives had been diagnosed with …

Empowering Multilingual Learners Through Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy And Arts-Based Learning In Burkina Faso, Inoussa Malgoubri

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

This dissertation explores how culturally sustaining pedagogy and arts-based learning can engage multilingual learners of English as an Additional Language (EAL) in Burkina Faso. The research emphasizes the incorporation of local cultural elements and learners' linguistic backgrounds into the EAL curriculum to address challenges such as limited classroom interactions (Somé-Guiebré, 2020) and monolingual instructional strategies with inadequate cultural representation (Ndlangamandla, 2024). This qualitative study integrates culturally relevant materials, including Forum Theater, slam poetry, and griot-style storytelling, to create an engaging and inclusive learning environment. Data consisted of observation, images from arts-based workshops and pre- and post-workshop interviews with selected teachers …

Developing Nigrescence To Resolve The Double Bind Challenges In Community Engagement For Novice Critical Literacy Teacher Educators, Celicia L. Bell

Journal of Research Initiatives

This paper seeks to understand Black racial identity development as defined by Cross's (1991) Nigrescence and how nigrescence aids with solutions to the double bind challenges experienced by novice Black critical literacy teacher educators committed to community engagement during their becoming processes in academia. This paper will explain the double binds of alienating role conflict for novice Black teacher educators between their private identities versus their public roles in community engagement. This paper explores the implications of incorporating the study of nigrescence in the racial literacy experiences of novice Black critical literacy teacher educators.

Biomanipulation, Laura K. Donohue

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Scientific and technological advances in the latter part of the twentieth century transformed the field of biometrics. Carleton Simon, for instance, first postulated using retinal vasculature for biometric identification in 1935, but it was not until forty years later that an Eyedentify patent brought the idea to fruition. In 1937, John Henry Wigmore anticipated using oscilloscopes to identify individuals by speech patterns. Decades later, digitization and speech processors made voiceprint identification possible. In the 1970s, biological discoveries similarly led to the development of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sequencing. And while Alphonse Bertillon in the late nineteenth century postulated iris distinctions, it …

The Puzzling Persistence Of Nature’S Rights, Sam Bookman

Utah Law Review

The American experience of rights of Nature—the legal recognition of the rights and personhood of natural phenomena—presents a puzzle. On the one hand, no court has ever recognized such rights. Rights of Nature laws are routinely struck down and have proven impossible to enforce. On the other hand, dozens of communities, including municipalities and Native American tribes, continue to enforce them while scholars debate them endlessly. Why do rights of Nature persist?

Through analysis of 119 laws and 32 interviews with rights of Nature activists, I offer the first empirically-grounded answer to this question. Rights of Nature persist because of …

The Effects Of Irrelevant Parameters In Language Acquisition, Yukun Zhang

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This paper investigates the effects of sententially irrelevant syntactic information on language acquisition models and introduces a new variant of the variational learner (VL) called the early decision variational learner (EDVL). EDVL accelerates convergence by locking in parameter values once they reach a threshold, in contrast to VL’s continued adjustments until all parameter values reach threshold. Both learners are grounded in the generative approach to language acquisition. We examine both learners' responses when they only update their parameter values when the input contain the relevant information to determin the parameter value such as prepositions, wh-words, and auxiliary verbs. Chapter 1 …

A Causality-Aware Paradigm For Evaluating Creativity Of Multimodal Large Language Models, Zhongzhan Huang, Shanshan Zhong, Pan Zhou, Shanghua Gao, Marink Zitnik, Liang Lin

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Recently, numerous benchmarks have been developed to evaluate the logical reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs). However, assessing the equally important creative capabilities of LLMs is challenging due to the subjective, diverse, and data-scarce nature of creativity, especially in multimodal scenarios. In this paper, we consider the comprehensive pipeline for evaluating the creativity of multimodal LLMs, with a focus on suitable evaluation platforms and methodologies. First, we find the Oogiri game—a creativity-driven task requiring humor, associative thinking, and the ability to produce unexpected responses to text, images, or both. This game aligns well with the input-output structure of modern …

Seven Hci Grand Challenges Revisited: Five-Year Progress, Constantine Stephanidis, Gavriel Salvendy, Margherita Antona, Vincent G Duffy, Qin Gao, Waldemar Karwowski, Fiona Nah, Stavroula Ntoa, Pei-Luen Patrick Rau, Keng Siau, Jia Zhou

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Motivated by the rapid technological advancements achieved in the last five years, and the pervasiveness of Artificial Intelligence, the paper investigates the evolving role of Human-Computer Interaction and revisits the seven grand challenges outlined in 2019: human-technology symbiosis, human-environment interactions, ethics, privacy and security, well-being, health and eudaimonia, accessibility and universal access, learning and creativity, and social organization and democracy. Through literature analysis, the paper reevaluates the status of each challenge and highlights emerging requirements. Key findings reveal the widespread impact of Artificial Intelligence across all domains and emphasize the need for improved AI transparency, alignment with human values, and …

On Quick Switching System With Different Sampling Plans Using Fuzzy Neutrosophic Weighted Poisson Distribution, Vennila J, Basker P, Kripa Josten, Prakash V.S

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

The present study provides a new sampling inspection approach to costly and destructive testing that involves the concept of neutrosophic and fuzzy logic in a quick switching system with a normal SSP and a tightened DSP as a reference plan using weighted poisson distribution as a baseline. It includes the neutrosophic and fuzzy weighted poisson distribution associations of this approach, along with normal and tightened acceptance numbers using OC functions, and OC curves using R programming. It strongly focuses on a new sampling approach that uses fuzzy logic for effectively dealing with inconsistent and uncertain terms. And Also, these sets …

A Neutrosophic Superiority And Inferiority Ranking-Based Model For Resource Allocation Efficiency In University Sports Management, Pute Lan, Jiaqi Guo, Changshun Bai

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

The evaluation of resource allocation efficiency in university recreational sports aims to analyze and assess the effectiveness of how universities allocate facilities, equipment, and personnel for recreational sports. By collecting relevant data and applying scientific methods, it evaluates the usage and impact of resources to optimize allocation and enhance student participation and satisfaction. This not only helps improve campus sports culture but also promotes students' physical and mental health and overall development. The resource allocation efficiency evaluation in university recreational sports is a MAGDM problem. Recently, the Superiority and Inferiority Ranking (SIR) method has been employed to cope with MAGDM …

The Pamssem Approach For Multi-Attribute Group Decision-Making Using Single-Valued Neutrosophic Sets: Applications To Evaluating The Effectiveness Of College Students' Psychological Education, Xiaolan Liang

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

The evaluation of the effectiveness of college students' psychological education involves using scientific approaches and tools to assess the actual impact of psychological education on improving students' mental health, fostering personality development, and enhancing psychological adjustment abilities. The evaluation covers aspects such as students' mental health status, the achievement of educational goals, the effectiveness of interventions, and student satisfaction. Through such evaluations, psychological education programs can be optimized to improve quality, help students better cope with psychological challenges in academics, life, and relationships, and promote their holistic development and healthy growth. The results also provide a scientific basis for continuous …

Determinant Theory Of Quadri-Partitioned Neutrosophic Fuzzy Matrices And Its Application To Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Problems, M. Anandhkumar, S. Prathap, R. Ambrose Prabhu, P. Tharaniya, K. Thirumalai, B. Kanimozhi

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

We explore the determinant theory for Quadri-Partitioned Neutrosophic Fuzzy Matrices (QPNFMs), investigating det ( Padj P ( ) ) det ( ) P their = = det ( properties. adj P P ( ) ) . In this study, we establish that Additionally, we propose a refined method to compute the determinant of matrices with a higher number of rows and columns. Furthermore, an algorithm is developed to address decision-making problems based on QPNFMs. An illustrative example is provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.

Boosted Macbeth Technique For Effectiveness Evaluation Of Mental Health Education In College Students Based On Neutrosophic Cubic Sets, Xueyuan Sun

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

The evaluation of the effectiveness of college students' mental health education (MHE) aims to assess the impact of related educational activities on students' mental well-being. Using both quantitative and qualitative methods, it evaluates improvements in students' psychological resilience, knowledge acquisition, emotional management, and the prevention of mental health issues. Effective evaluation helps optimize educational programs, enhancing students' mental health and promoting their overall development. The effectiveness evaluation of college students’ MHE is multiple-attribute decision-making (MADM). Recently, the MACBETH technique and average model were dealt with MADM. The neutrosophic cubic sets (NCSs) are utilized as a better technique for expressing uncertain …

Some Harmonic Aggregation Operators For N-Valued Neutrosophic Trapezoidal Numbers And Their Application To Multi-Criteria Decision-Making, İrfan Deli̇, Vakkas Uluçay

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

As an extension of the both trapezoidal fuzzy numbers and neutrosophic trapezoidal numbers, the N-valued neutrosophic trapezoidal numbers, which are special neutrosophic multi-sets on subset of real numbers. Harmonic mean is a conservative average, which is widely used to aggregate central tendency data. In the existing literature, the harmonic mean is generally considered as a fusion technique of numerical data information. In this paper, we investigate a method for the situations in which the input data are expressed in neutrosophic values. Therefore, we propose two aggregations are called harmonic aggregation operators and weighted harmonic mean operators on N-valued neutrosophic trapezoidal …

A Hybrid Approach For Educational Development Assessment In Higher Education With Trapezoidal Fuzzy Neutrosophic Analysis: Towards Optimized Decision-Making And Strategic Improvement, Bin Ge

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

The rapid advancement of technology has significantly driven social development, leading to transformative changes across various sectors of society. As a result, there are increasing demands for higher standards of management in the education sector. Consequently, reforming education management has become an urgent necessity. In China, higher education plays a pivotal role as the primary platform for cultivating and supplying talent to society. With the emergence of new challenges and heightened societal expectations, ensuring high-quality teaching and implementing effective management reforms in higher education have become critical priorities. The evaluation of innovative development models in higher education management can be …

Enhanced Mcdm Methodology Under Uncertainty: Applications To Energy Efficiency Evaluation Of Mechanical And Electrical Systems In Public Buildings, Daoming Wang

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

Evaluation of Mechanical and Electrical systems in public Buildings is a multi- criteria decision-making problem that has various criteria. These criteria can affect energy efficiency. So, we aim to propose an MCDM method for rate the criteria importance and proposed a set of systems to select the best one in energy firms. This section can increase energy efficiency. We applied the ARAS methodology to rank the alternatives. The ARAS methodology is an MCDM method. It applied into criteria independent. The ARAS method is integrated under the plithogenic set to deal with the vague and uncertainty information. The plithogenic set is …

Enhanced Technique For Operation Evaluation Of Distribution Network Automation Systems Based On The Uncertainty Environment, Dingqun Zhang

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

Evaluation of the distribution network automation systems is a complex task due to it containing various criteria. So, this evaluation is an multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) problem. We used the VIKOR method to rank the alternatives. The VIKOR method is integrated with the plithogenic set to deal with uncertainty information in the evaluation distribution network automation system. Three experts are invited to evaluate the criteria and alternatives. An application with eight criteria and 12 alternatives is collected to select the highest importance criterion and highest score alternatives. The results show the System Reliability and Stability criterion has the highest importance …

An Uncertainty Framework For Development Level Evaluation Of Preschool Education In Rural And Remote Communities, Jing Liu, Songlin Tang, Biqiong Luo

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

This study proposed an uncertainty framework for evaluation of Integrated Preschool with School in Rural and Remote Communities. This evaluation has various criteria so, we used the concept of multi-criteria decision making (MCDM). There are various MCDM methods to deal with decision making problems. We used the COPRAS method to rank the alternatives. COPRAS is a MCDM method dealing with various criteria and alternatives. This study used the Plithogenic sets to deal with uncertainty and vague information. Three experts are invited to evaluate the criteria and alternatives. Case study with an empirical example with nine criteria and nine alternatives is …

Pentapartitioned Neutrosophic Soft Set With Interval Membership, Mithun Datta, Kalyani Debnath, Surapati Pramanik

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

In this article, the concept of Interval valued pentapartitioned neutrosophic soft set (IVPNSS) has been introduced, which is a hybrid method by combining Pentapartitioned Neutrosophic set and Interval valued soft set. IVPNSS is an ordered pair of a function and an interval valued pentapartitioned neutrosophic set, which is the domain of the function and co-domain is the assembly of all the interval valued pentapartitioned neutrosophic sets (IVPNS). Additionally, some basic operations on IVPNSSs have been defined which plays an imperative role in decision making processes. Some useful properties of IVPNSS are also presented in the article. In the end, the …

Plithogenic Sets-Based Mabac Framework For Evaluating The Quality Of Elderly Care Security Services For Left-Behind Elderly In Rural Areas Of Western China: A Healthcare Industry Perspective, Chenghua Wang, Xiaogang Liu, Jiyun Yao

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

This study proposed a multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methodology for evaluating the elderly care security services. These services consist various criteria, so the MCDM methodology is used. MABAC methodology is a MCDM method used to rank the alternatives. The MABAC methodology is integrated under the plithogenic sets to deal with vague and uncertainty data. The plithogenic sets are an extension of neutrosophic sets to deal with inconsistencies data. The criteria weights are computed in this study. Seven criteria and 13 alternatives are collected in this study. An application with opinions of three experts evaluate the criteria and alternatives. The results show …