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Notifications Management Via Attention Budgeting And Collision Detection, Ashwin Goyal Jun 2026

Notifications Management Via Attention Budgeting And Collision Detection, Ashwin Goyal

Defensive Publications Series

Notifications to mobile devices that persist beyond their contextually relevant windows cease to be informative prompts and can become annoyances. Current notification paradigms treat the notification tray as a static, append-only data repository, placing the burden of notification lifecycle management and cleanup on the user. This disclosure describes automated notifications management techniques that transform notifications from static payloads into dynamic, self-resolving objects. The techniques include temporal notifications-lifecycle management, app-ecosystem intelligence, state synchronization, spatial optimization, device context, etc. Leveraging automated notification updates and retractions, the techniques reduce or eliminate disadvantages of persistent notifications. The techniques change the notification management paradigm by …


Ignatian Pedagogy For Engaged, Reflective, And Inclusive Learning: New Insights On A Treasured Tradition, Jennifer Tilghman-Havens, Jennifer Loertscher, David Green, Kerry S. Von Esch Jun 2026

Ignatian Pedagogy For Engaged, Reflective, And Inclusive Learning: New Insights On A Treasured Tradition, Jennifer Tilghman-Havens, Jennifer Loertscher, David Green, Kerry S. Von Esch

Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal

Ignatian pedagogy is the philosophy and methodology for teaching and learning that evolved from the wisdom accumulated from 500 years of Jesuit education. The Ignatian approach views education as a collaborative process that transforms students and teachers, preparing them for moral and ethical action in the world. While the core values of Jesuit education have remained constant, the changing demographics within our Jesuit communities and among the faculty and staff of our institutions offer an opportunity to celebrate its many intersections with peer-reviewed research on effective pedagogical approaches that center students and foster justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion. In this …


Mitigating Llm Hallucinations In Construction Safety: A Model-First Framework With Retrieval-Augmented Validation, Quang-Vu Phung, Minh Hieu Nguyen, Quan T. Nguyen, Bao-Ngoc Nguyen, Po-Han Chen Jun 2026

Mitigating Llm Hallucinations In Construction Safety: A Model-First Framework With Retrieval-Augmented Validation, Quang-Vu Phung, Minh Hieu Nguyen, Quan T. Nguyen, Bao-Ngoc Nguyen, Po-Han Chen

CIB Conferences

Urban rail construction is one of the most safety-critical engineering domains, where even minor errors can lead to catastrophic consequences. Large Language Models (LLMs) offer promising capabilities for automating safety risk extraction from accident reports; however, their deployment is critically hindered by hallucinations – outputs that are fluent yet factually incorrect or logically inconsistent. Existing prompting methods such as Chain-of-Thought rely on implicit reasoning without explicit problem representation, leading to brittleness, logical drift, and undetected constraint violations. This paper addresses key research gaps in current approaches, including the lack of constraint grounding in authoritative knowledge bases, the absence of explicit …


Impact Of Organizational Stressors On Stress Among Foreign Construction Workers From Nepal, Khursheed Ahmed, Mei-Yung Leung, Wenqian Yang Jun 2026

Impact Of Organizational Stressors On Stress Among Foreign Construction Workers From Nepal, Khursheed Ahmed, Mei-Yung Leung, Wenqian Yang

CIB Conferences

The construction industry in developed regions relies heavily on foreign labour. Working in a new environment exposes these workers to unique organizational stressors that can deteriorate their well-being. Specifically, Nepalese Construction Workers (NCWs) face distinct challenges that may lead to severe physical and psychological stress. This study, therefore, aims to identify the critical organizational stressors and their impact on the stress of NCWs. Based on a conceptual model, a questionnaire survey was adopted to collect data from NCWs. In order to investigate the relationships among stressors (i.e., ethnic barriers, lack of acceptance, insufficient authority, low reward, and unfair treatment) and …


From Compliance To Context - Integrating Cognitive Determinants To Inform Technology Driven Safety Communication In Construction, Amit Ajit Bhalerao, Nikhil Bugalia, Farnad Nasirzadeh Jun 2026

From Compliance To Context - Integrating Cognitive Determinants To Inform Technology Driven Safety Communication In Construction, Amit Ajit Bhalerao, Nikhil Bugalia, Farnad Nasirzadeh

CIB Conferences

Construction safety communication, a central mechanism for hazard mitigation, has advanced along three global trajectories, namely symbolic standardization, cognitive diagnostics, and intelligent digital interventions. However, their combined insights have been minimally applied to the Indian construction context, where high fatality rates persist, disproportionate to the country’s share of the global workforce. By interviewing nine safety experts from various hierarchical levels in public, private, institutional sectors, and a professional body, this study explores how these trajectories are reflected in the Indian construction industry. Four thematic findings emerge: (1) attentional limitations responsible for failure of static safety communication channels; (2) organisational structures …


Assessing Toolbox Talk Efficiency: A Comparative Analysis Of International Best Practices And Indian Construction Realities, Shrinidhi Shankar, Nikhil Bugalia Jun 2026

Assessing Toolbox Talk Efficiency: A Comparative Analysis Of International Best Practices And Indian Construction Realities, Shrinidhi Shankar, Nikhil Bugalia

CIB Conferences

Toolbox Talks (TBTs) serve as the primary mechanism for task-level hazard communication on construction sites worldwide; however, their effectiveness in contexts outside North America and Europe remains poorly understood. This paper presents one of the first systematic examinations of TBT practice on Indian construction sites, combining semi-structured interviews with 14 safety professionals and a PRISMA-guided systematic review of 30 international studies spanning more than 10 national contexts. Using a mixed-methods approach, the study identifies structural constraints unique to Indian construction, including multilingual workforces, daily wage employment systems, multi-tier subcontracting, and the legal exposure of site engineers, all of which fundamentally …


Worldbuilding, Brent Ryan Bellamy Jun 2026

Worldbuilding, Brent Ryan Bellamy

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Entry for special issue, 'Keywords for Value and Culture'


Style, Clint Burnham Jun 2026

Style, Clint Burnham

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Entry for special issue, 'Keywords for Value and Culture'


Rhetoric, Fintan Calpin Jun 2026

Rhetoric, Fintan Calpin

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Entry for special issue, 'Keywords for Value and Culture'


Nature, Christina Chalmers Jun 2026

Nature, Christina Chalmers

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Entry for special issue, 'Keywords for Value and Culture'


Metonymy, Rob Jackson Jun 2026

Metonymy, Rob Jackson

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Entry for special issue, 'Keywords for Value and Culture'


Language, Richard Godden Jun 2026

Language, Richard Godden

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Entry for special issue, 'Keywords for Value and Culture'


Make Space, Take Space: Addressing Intersecting Power Differences To Move Toward Youth-Adult Solidarity. A Response To “Heavy On The Solidarity, Light On The Adultism: Adult Supports For Youth Activism”, Melanie Bertrand, Roba Godana Galgallo, Ashley D. Domínguez, Joonkil Ahn Jun 2026

Make Space, Take Space: Addressing Intersecting Power Differences To Move Toward Youth-Adult Solidarity. A Response To “Heavy On The Solidarity, Light On The Adultism: Adult Supports For Youth Activism”, Melanie Bertrand, Roba Godana Galgallo, Ashley D. Domínguez, Joonkil Ahn

Democracy & Education

This response to “Heavy on the Solidarity, Light on the Adultism: Adult Supports for Youth Activism” foregrounds the radical actions required to bridge intersecting power differences between youth and adults and engage in true solidarity. The original article proposes four actions that adults can take to foster solidarity with youth activists. We extend this proposal by demonstrating how these actions must be accompanied by role re-mediation and coconspiracy in order to move toward youth-adult solidarity. We draw on the actions of civil rights leader Ella Baker and our own experiences to show how both role re-mediation (adults making space for …


“Not Just Boring Adult Stuff”: Issue-Based And Critical Pedagogies For Civic And Political Learning In Welsh Primary Classrooms, Sioned V. Hughes Jun 2026

“Not Just Boring Adult Stuff”: Issue-Based And Critical Pedagogies For Civic And Political Learning In Welsh Primary Classrooms, Sioned V. Hughes

Democracy & Education

This article explores how issue-based and critically orientated approaches to civic education support the development of political understanding, agency, and voice among primary school children in Wales. Drawing on the principles of critical pedagogy and transformative learning, the study investigates how teachers and pupils engage with political ideas through issue-based inquiry within the framework of the Curriculum for Wales (2022). Data were collected through classroom observations, semi-structured interviews, and student focus groups across four diverse Welsh primary schools. Using constructivist grounded theory approach, the analysis identified four interrelated themes: making politics accessible, negotiating discomfort, developing voice and agency, and navigating …


“The Blue Party? No, Wait, Is There Really A Blue Party?” A Study Of Young Norwegian Children’S Perceptions Of Politics, Stine Johansen Utler Jun 2026

“The Blue Party? No, Wait, Is There Really A Blue Party?” A Study Of Young Norwegian Children’S Perceptions Of Politics, Stine Johansen Utler

Democracy & Education

The study investigates Norwegian primary school children's immediate responses to “What do you think of when you hear the word ‘politics’?” It examines children’s perceptions of the concept of politics, their emphasis, and how they communicate their perceptions, providing information about children’s political socialization, knowledge, and understanding as well as early conceptual learning. The data come from group interviews with 36 children (20 second-graders and 16 fourth-graders). The study was not longitudinal but emphasized differences in the content of children’s perceptions. The analysis identifies four different categories of children`s perceptions. These vary according to their emphasis, their apparent associative political …


Muddying The Waters: Feminist Pedagogy In Uncertain Times, Ivy Mingyase Fofie, Janine Armstrong, Natonya Listach Jun 2026

Muddying The Waters: Feminist Pedagogy In Uncertain Times, Ivy Mingyase Fofie, Janine Armstrong, Natonya Listach

Feminist Pedagogy

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Exploring Border Rhetoric, Resistance, And The American Dream: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez' First House Address, Candice L. Ruh Phd, Cassandra Hightower Jun 2026

Exploring Border Rhetoric, Resistance, And The American Dream: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez' First House Address, Candice L. Ruh Phd, Cassandra Hightower

Feminist Pedagogy

Border rhetoric can be a “muddy” topic for undergraduates, as borders are often taught as fixed, factual lines that divide places and people. However, from a communication perspective, borders are fluid, symbolic, and socially constructed. This difference between viewing borders as physical dividers versus rhetorical constructs creates a valuable opportunity for students to think critically about how meaning is shaped by borders of land, language, and identity.             This original teaching activity uses Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’ (D-NY) first House speech—the most-watched C-SPAN video within 12 hours of release (Gajanan, 2019)—as a central case. It invites students to analyze a key moment …


The Dynamics Of Educational Change: A Complex Systems Perspective, Preethi Nanjundan, Lijo Thomas, Abith K. Sunil Jun 2026

The Dynamics Of Educational Change: A Complex Systems Perspective, Preethi Nanjundan, Lijo Thomas, Abith K. Sunil

Northeast Journal of Complex Systems (NEJCS)

The perception of university teachers toward educational reforms plays an important role in determining the success of changes introduced in the education sector. This study focuses on teachers’ attitudes toward change, their emotional responses, and their overall views on educational reforms. Across the world, many educational reforms have failed to achieve their expected outcomes in improving teaching practices and student learning. As education systems are highly complex, the approach toward implementing reforms has also changed over time. Some reforms are introduced gradually, while others involve major innovations within the system. Complexity theory provides useful insights and tools that help educators …


Transfer Of Learning From Simulation To Clinical Practice: Slp Graduate Student Experiences In Medical Externships, Karen D. Villanueva, Kerry C. Mandulak, Amanda Stead, Patrick Walden Jun 2026

Transfer Of Learning From Simulation To Clinical Practice: Slp Graduate Student Experiences In Medical Externships, Karen D. Villanueva, Kerry C. Mandulak, Amanda Stead, Patrick Walden

Teaching and Learning in Communication Sciences & Disorders

The purpose of this project was to explore the impact of participation in simulation-based learning (SBL) with standardized patients on graduate speech-language pathology students’ clinical experiences in healthcare externships. This study aims to understand how students perceive the impact of prior SBL participation during clinical practice and how this perceived impact changes over time. Students chose to participate in SBL experiences centered on conducting a clinical swallow evaluation (CSE) with adult standardized patients prior to completing full-time medical externship placements. During their externships, students participated in two structured interviews and completed three anonymous critical incident technique (CIT) questionnaires over eleven …


A Switch-Point-Aware Contrastive Approach To Sentiment Analysis Of Hinglish Code-Mixed Text, Prasant Kumar Sahoo Jun 2026

A Switch-Point-Aware Contrastive Approach To Sentiment Analysis Of Hinglish Code-Mixed Text, Prasant Kumar Sahoo

Master’s Dissertations

With the increasing use of social media in non-English-speaking regions, especially in India, people often use Romanized Hindi and English together in their online communication. In a single sentence, they frequently mix Romanized Hindi and English, creating code-mixed text. However, most multilingual transformer models are pre-trained primarily on monolingual data. As a result, NLP systems face challenges when processing code-mixed text, as a single word may be fragmented into meaningless subword pieces, making it difficult for the model to capture its semantic meaning accurately. In this dissertation, we propose a parameter efficient neural architecture consisting of three main components to …


Bias Before Generation: Attention-Based Preemptive Fairness Signals In Large Language Models, Aniket Das Jun 2026

Bias Before Generation: Attention-Based Preemptive Fairness Signals In Large Language Models, Aniket Das

Master’s Dissertations

Warning: This paper includes examples of language that may be perceived as inappropriate or offensive. Large language models (LLMs) are known to propagate social biases embedded in their training corpora, producing outputs that disproportionately disadvantage individuals based on sensitive attributes such as gender, religion, race, sexual orientation and nationality. Existing mitigation strategies are either computationally prohibitive, require access to model parameters, or apply corrections only after biased content has already been generated. This work addresses a different question: can the model’s own internal attention dynamics, observed at inference time, serve as a reliable early-warning signal for bias, enabling intervention before …


Literature Landscape Of Government, Academic, And Industry Efforts In Responsible, Secure, And Trustworthy Ai, Jae C. Oh, Shiu-Kai Chin, Garrett Katz, William E. Young, Matt Clark Jun 2026

Literature Landscape Of Government, Academic, And Industry Efforts In Responsible, Secure, And Trustworthy Ai, Jae C. Oh, Shiu-Kai Chin, Garrett Katz, William E. Young, Matt Clark

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - All Scholarship

This report presents a systematic analysis of 54,628 AI research papers published between 2021 and 2025, examining the extent to which current government, academic, and industry efforts address the trustworthiness requirements of mission-critical AI systems. Papers were classified along two dimensions: organizational tier (from AI model to mission/business pro- cess) using NIST SP 800-39, and systems engineering lifecycle phase using ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288. Classification combined automated LLM-assisted screening with human validation, achieving inter-rater reliability measured by Krippendorff’s α and Gwet’s AC1. Only 16.8% of papers examined addressed any aspect of AI trustworthiness, reliability, or security, and virtually all were concentrated at …


Introduction Jun 2026

Introduction

Al-Kīmiyā

Bien que non thématisées explicitement, les contributions de ce numéro traitent, une fois encore, des transformations technologiques, pédagogiques et sociopolitiques qui caractérisent notre époque et redessinent profondément les contours des pratiques et des professions langagières. Traduction, interprétation, et analyse du discours se trouvent aujourd’hui au cœur de mutations majeures qui interrogent à la fois les modalités de production du sens, les conditions de communication et de transmission des savoirs et les formes contemporaines du pouvoir discursif. Ce numéro réunit quatre contributions et un compte rendu qui explorent ces dynamiques et mettent en lumière les défis ainsi que les opportunités qu’elles …


Rethinking Interpreter Training: The Role Of Microlearning In Boosting Knowledge Retention, Hicham Boughaba Jun 2026

Rethinking Interpreter Training: The Role Of Microlearning In Boosting Knowledge Retention, Hicham Boughaba

Al-Kīmiyā

This study examines the effectiveness of microlearning interventions in enhancing knowledge retention and interpreting performance among trainee interpreters. A quasi-experimental design was employed, with interpreting students divided into two groups: an experimental group receiving targeted microlearning modules on specialized terminology and a control group relying on general knowledge only. Their performance was evaluated according to four criteria: accuracy, clarity and fluency, terminology usage, and cultural and contextual understanding. Results indicate that participants who were exposed to microlearning modules achieved significantly higher scores across all evaluation criteria, with notable gains in accuracy and terminology usage. These findings suggest that microlearning constitutes …


Penet, Jc., Moorkens, J. & Yamada, M. (Eds.). 2026. Teaching Translation In The Age Of Generative Ai: New Paradigm, New Learning? Language Science, May Hobeika Haddad Jun 2026

Penet, Jc., Moorkens, J. & Yamada, M. (Eds.). 2026. Teaching Translation In The Age Of Generative Ai: New Paradigm, New Learning? Language Science, May Hobeika Haddad

Al-Kīmiyā

Dès l’introduction, cet ouvrage collectif s’inscrit dans le prolongement de publications récentes consacrées à l’intelligence artificielle et à la traduction, que Penet mentionne explicitement, notamment celles de Kenny, Machine Translation for Everyone: Empowering Users in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (2022), et de Pym et Hao, How to Augment Language Skills: Generative AI and Machine Translation in Language Learning and Translator Training (2025).
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Discursive Analysis Of Authoritarian Islamist Populism: The Case Of The Justice And Development Party (Morocco), Youssef Aboudi Jun 2026

Discursive Analysis Of Authoritarian Islamist Populism: The Case Of The Justice And Development Party (Morocco), Youssef Aboudi

Al-Kīmiyā

This article analyzes the linguistic modalities constitutive of political populism, with particular attention to its contemporary authoritarian-leaning manifestations. Conceived as a discursive construction or a style of communication (Taguieff, 1997), populist discourse is organized around a charismatic figure who claims a direct relationship with an idealized people, set in opposition to an elite deemed illegitimate and inherently malevolent (Breton, 2009). The study advances the hypothesis that the staging of charismatic power, grounded primarily in conspiratorial logics that generate an atmosphere of insecurity and fear (Wodak, 2015), contributes to reinforcing mechanisms of symbolic and political domination while inhibiting critical reflexivity (Weber, …


Professions Langagières Et Intelligence Artificielle : Grand Remplacement Ou Complémentarité Éthique ?, Mary Yazbeck Jun 2026

Professions Langagières Et Intelligence Artificielle : Grand Remplacement Ou Complémentarité Éthique ?, Mary Yazbeck

Al-Kīmiyā

The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) in the fields of translation and interpreting has sparked renewed debate about the future of language professions. Does the increasing integration of AI signal the gradual displacement of human expertise, or does it instead point to a reconfiguration of professional roles through new forms of human–machine cooperation? This article addresses this question through a philosophical and technocritical perspective, drawing on the work of Luciano Floridi, Hans Jonas, and other thinkers concerned with responsibility, digital ethics, and the place of the human within technological systems. It argues that the development of AI does not entail …


The Kashmir Conflict After The Abrogation Of Articles 370 And 35a Of The Indian Constitution: Geopolitical Dynamics And Human Security Implications, Rizwan Ali Jun 2026

The Kashmir Conflict After The Abrogation Of Articles 370 And 35a Of The Indian Constitution: Geopolitical Dynamics And Human Security Implications, Rizwan Ali

Dissertations and Theses

The abrogation of Article 370 of the Indian Constitution on August 5, 2019, revoked the special autonomous status of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) under the Indian administration. It further bifurcated it into two Union Territories under central Indian control. The move came amid a severe security lockdown and communication blackout that lasted for months. It was followed by instrumental legal, social, and economic developments that directly affected the area’s disputed status and the human rights of its residents. This research examines the geopolitical and human security implications of the abrogation and subsequent developments through a qualitative, analytical design, integrating Edward …


Increasing Fifth-Grade Students’ Motivation To Read Through The Use Of Thematic Units, Irina Anatolyevna Belikova Erickson Jun 2026

Increasing Fifth-Grade Students’ Motivation To Read Through The Use Of Thematic Units, Irina Anatolyevna Belikova Erickson

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

Elementary students’ motivation to read decreases as they advance to upper elementary grades. Reading motivation impacts students’ reading achievement. Only 31% of American fourth-grade students demonstrated proficiency on NAEP, the nation’s report card, in 2024. A need for research-based instructional strategies exists, as teachers can directly affect students’ motivation to read with carefully selected interventions. This action research study examined thematic units as an instructional intervention. In their instructional implementation of thematic units, teachers relied on the constructs of autonomy, competence, and relatedness originated from the Self-Determination Theory (SDT) (Deci & Ryan, 1985; Ryan & Deci, 2017). Satisfying the basic …


“The Influence Of Utilizing Ai-Powered Tools (Chatgpt-5) On Afl Speaking Fluency And Learners’ Willingness To Communicate (Wtc)”, Manar Shabayek Jun 2026

“The Influence Of Utilizing Ai-Powered Tools (Chatgpt-5) On Afl Speaking Fluency And Learners’ Willingness To Communicate (Wtc)”, Manar Shabayek

Theses and Dissertations

The growing integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in education has expanded opportunities for interactive, technology-mediated language learning. This study investigates the influence of AI-mediated speaking practice using ChatGPT-5 on Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) speaking fluency and willingness to communicate (WTC) among beginner Arabic as a Foreign Language (AFL) learners (A1–A2). It also examines the linguistic and technical challenges learners encounter during AI-supported speaking interaction. Using a mixed-method case study design, the study involves five beginner AFL learners. Data are collected through pre- and post-speaking tests, a modified online WTC questionnaire, semi-structured interviews, and systematic classroom observation. Speaking fluency is analyzed …