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Writing And Linguistics News, Georgia Southern University

Writing & Linguistics News (2012-2022)

Ashley M. Jones poetry reading and book signing

Arts & Humanities News, Georgia Southern University

Arts & Humanities: News & Publications (2009-2023)

• Georgia Poetry Circuit Presents Ashley M. Jones on November 10

Using Natural Language Processing To Increase Modularity And Interpretability Of Automated Essay Evaluation And Student Feedback, Chris Roche, Nathan Deinlein, Darryl Dawkins, Faizan Javed

SMU Data Science Review

For English teachers and students who are dissatisfied with the one-size-fits-all approach of current Automated Essay Scoring (AES) systems, this research uses Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques that provide a focus on configurability and interpretability. Unlike traditional AES models which are designed to provide an overall score based on pre-trained criteria, this tool allows teachers to tailor feedback based upon specific focus areas. The tool implements a user-interface that serves as a customizable rubric. Students’ essays are inputted into the tool either by the student or by the teacher via the application’s user-interface. Based on the rubric settings, the tool …

Stock Forecasts With Lstm And Web Sentiment, Michael Burgess, Faizan Javed, Nnenna Okpara, Chance Robinson

SMU Data Science Review

Traditional time-series techniques, such as auto-regressive and moving average models, can have difficulties when applied to stock data due to the randomness inherent to the markets. In this study, Long Short-Term Memory Recurrent Neural Networks, or LSTMs, have been applied to pricing data along with sentiment scores derived from web sources such as Twitter and other financial media outlets. The project team utilized this approach to complement the technical indicators observed at the end of each trading day for three stocks from the NASDAQ stock exchange over a 12-year span. A common benchmark to assess model performance on time series …

September 2022 Academic Affairs Minutes, University Of Nebraska At Kearney Academic Affairs Committee

Academic Affairs Committee Minutes

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Prince Hamlet, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2022-2023 Artists Invoke the Powers of Community as They Bring Audiences Into Fiery, Mysterious, Illuminating Visions of Our World

Ravi Jain’s remixed, reimagined, and bilingual Prince Hamlet features a cross-cultural, gender-bent cast – challenging traditional ideas of who can tell this story. Interweaving Shakespeare’s spoken text with heightened and poetic American Sign Language, this groundbreaking production creates a visually stunning retelling for both hearing and Deaf audiences. You’ve never experienced Hamlet like this before.

Embracing The Subjunctive Voice: An Analytic For Ecologically Uncertain Times, Katherine D. Lind

Communication Studies Faculty Works

In this article, I assess viral videos depicting environmental crises and species loss, theorizing the “eco-subjunctive voice” as a rhetorically productive perspective for engaging extinction imagery. Building on Barbie Zelizer’s notion of the “subjunctive voice” in images, I explore how viral videos of a polar bear and a sea turtle in jeopardy unite despair and hopefulness, strategically deploy “about-to-die” moments, and make the “hyperobjects” of climate catastrophe more intelligible. Additionally, an ecosubjunctive reading of each video demonstrates the limits of the synecdochic logic commonly employed in ecological discourse. The eco-subjunctive voice is an analytic useful for academics, activists, and audiences. …

Academic Freedom In A Hybrid Illiberal Regime: Risks, Threats And Resources For Resilience, András L. Pap

Journal of Legal Education

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Teaching Law Across Six Continents, David Oppenheimer, Panos Kapotas, Laura Carlson

Journal of Legal Education

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Health Literacy And New Mexico's Covid-19 Initiatives, Deborah J. Rhue

Posters and Presentations

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Parental Tuning Of Language Input To Autistic And Nonspectrum Children, Angela Xiaoxue He, Rhiannon Luyster, Sudha Arunachalam

Emerson Authors, Researchers, & Creators

Caregivers’ language input supports children’s language development, and it is often tuned to the child’s current level of skill. Evidence suggests that parental input is tuned to accommodate children’s expressive language levels, but accommodation to receptive language abilities is less understood. In particular, little is known about parental sensitivity to children’s abilities to process language in real time. Compared to nonspectrum children, children on the spectrum are slower to process language. In this study, we ask: Do parents of autistic children and those of nonspectrum children tune their language input to accommodate children’s different language processing abilities? Children with and …

Montana Kaimin, September 22, 2022, Students Of The University Of Montana, Missoula

Montana Kaimin, 1898-present

Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.

The Pragmatic Context Of Baghdadi Proverbs, A Sociolinguistic Study, Bias Khairy Khudair

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

The present study lies within the field of sociolinguistics or those studies that link the social aspect of life and its representation in the spoken language. We chose our a data that was written in an important age which is 'the Baghdadi proverbs' that were prevalent at the beginning of the twentieth century and collected in the book of "Al-Amthal Baghdadia" by Sheikh Jalal Al-Hanafi Al-Baghdadi. In this paper, we extracted the social phenomena in the proverbs that were embodied through the linguistic indications used by the speakers in special contexts derived from the context of the indications of those …

Iraqi Efl University Learners' Performance In Key Phonetic Processes, Yousuf Taresh Hilal Alamaya

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

This study aims at investigating Iraqi EFL university students' use of phonetic processes concerning their performance (recognition and production) of phonetic processes, that is to say, the research focuses on those learners' cognitive and productive abilities when using phonetic processes of English. As a consequence, one hundred 4th year students, as a representative sample, are subject to a questionnaire exclusively prepared for this purpose with the hope of discovering their performance in this concern. Since phonetic processes are a daunting challenge and insurmountable problem for all foreign learners, including Iraqi EFL learners, this research emphasizes the learners' performance (recognition and …

Sentence Length And Complexity In Ernest Hemingway's ''The Doctor And The Doctor's Wife'', Raghda Naeem Khudair, Manahil Salman Owaid

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

Stylistics is a field of linguistics that is specialized in analyzing literary works linguistically. It aims to find the uses and meanings of literary writings. The present paper aims at assessing Hemingway's "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife" in terms of sentence length and complexity. Its main goal is to demonstrate how the use of linguistic structure inside any literary piece may be exploited as a technique for revealing hidden messages. Halliday's (1985) approach is used to analyze sentence length and complexity in this paper. The researchers discovered that varying the length and complexity of sentences helps to clarify the …

The Role Of The Quranic Occasion In The Verses Of The Position Between The Two Positions, Laith Abbas Jassim

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

Knowing the occasions between verses is an aspect of taking into account the context in understanding and interpretation and The commentators are written have scholars what the accustomed to this type for its accuracy and that the situation between the two is a term that has a linguistic and nodal root When he wants to deliver a great and eloquent meaning to the addressee.

Class Size And Self-Esteem As Determinants Of Student Learning Outcomes In Essay Writing, Kehinde Olufemi Ogunyemi

Journal of Educational Research and Practice

This study was carried out mainly to investigate the effects of class size and self-esteem on student achievement in—and attitude toward—English essay writing. The study was influenced by earlier research reports indicating that the large class sizes prevalent in Nigerian schools may be detrimental to student academic and emotional well-being. The study employed an ex post facto research design, as no attempt was made to alter the pre-existing conditions in the schools. Three hundred and thirty-five (335) Senior Secondary School 2 students from nine purposively selected schools participated in the study. An achievement test in essay writing (r = …

Mutsun Text Collection - Introduction, Natasha Warner, Lynnika Butler, Heather Van Volkinburg, Quirina Geary

Mutsun Text Collection: mutsun riicakma hummen

Mutsun Text Collection quick-start guide, overview of Mutsun language, description of what is in this text collection, a description of what the Mutsun Text Collection can be used for, details about chapters in the Text, a diagram and description of how to use each Text entry, information about the overall process employed to prepare the Text, acknowledgments, and references.

Flex File Backup Of The Mutsun Text Collection, Natasha Warner, Lynnika Butler, Heather Van Volkinburg, Quirina Geary

Mutsun Text Collection: mutsun riicakma hummen

FieldWorks Explorer (FLEx) file backup of the Mutsun Text Collection. The FieldWorks Language Explorer is an open source desktop application designed for managing cultural and linguistic data.

Missions, Benjamin L. Hartley

SPU Works

This chapter examines eighteenth-century evangelical missions as they developed in India, the Caribbean, and South Africa. Early Evangelical missionaries were involved in many other geographical contexts, but these locations were among the most formative for the future trajectory of the movement. The political contexts and evangelical mission theories and practices in these places highlight the transcontinental connections and relationships among missionaries as well as Indigenous leaders of evangelical efforts. Pietist, Moravian, Methodist, Baptist, and independent evangelical mission illustrate the diversity of early evangelical institutions, perspectives, and practices. The institutions, churches, and movements these groups established in the early years of …

No Statistical Learning Advantage In Children Over Adults: Evidence From Behaviour And Neural Entrainment., Christine N Moreau, Marc F. Joanisse, Jerrica Mulgrew, Laura J. Batterink

Brain and Mind Institute Researchers' Publications

Explicit recognition measures of statistical learning (SL) suggest that children and adults have similar linguistic SL abilities. However, explicit tasks recruit additional cognitive processes that are not directly relevant for SL and may thus underestimate children's true SL capacities. In contrast, implicit tasks and neural measures of SL should be less influenced by explicit, higher-level cognitive abilities and thus may be better suited to capturing developmental differences in SL. Here, we assessed SL to six minutes of an artificial language in English-speaking children (n = 56, 24 females, M = 9.98 years) and adults (n = 44; 31 females, M …

Y-Str Haplotypic Polymorphisms For The Hakka Population In West China And Its Phylogenic Comparison With Other Chinese Populations, Meng-Nan Liu, Chang-Xiu Peng, Dan-Lu Song, Hai-Ying Jin, Xing-Kai Zheng, Guang-Yao Fan

Human Biology Open Access Pre-Prints

The Hakkas, undergone a series of great migrations, are usually identified with people who speak the Hakka language or share at least same Hakka ancestry. As the largest Hakka dialect island in West China, the Dongshan region was closely linked with the great migration wave of Hakka. However, the paternal genetic profiles of Dongshan Hakka have never been revealed. In the present study, 41 Y-chromosomal short tandem repeat (Y-STR) loci included in the SureID® PathFinder Plus Kit were analyzed in 353 unrelated male individuals (171 Hakka and 182 Han) of Sichuan Province, China. By analyzing 166 different haplotypes among Dongshan …

Evaluating Large Delay Estimation Techniques For Assisted Living Environments, Swarnadeep Bagchi, Ruairí De Fréin

Articles

Abstract Phase wraparound due to large inter-sensor spacings in multi-channel demixing limits the range of relative delays that many time–frequency relative delay estimators can estimate. The performance of a large relative delay estimation method, called the elevatogram, is evaluated in the presence of significant phase wraparound. This paper compares the elevatogram with the popular relative delay estimator used in DUET and the brute-force approach in D-AdRess and analyses its computational efficiency. The elevatogram can accurately estimate relative delays of speech signals of up to 800 samples, whereas DUET and D-AdRess were limited to delays of 7 and 35 samples, given …

High Prevalence Of Chronic Viral Hepatitis B And C In Minnesota Somalis Contributes To Rising Hepatocellular Carcinoma Incidence, Essa A Mohamed, Joyce E Balls-Berry, Et Al.

2020-Current year OA Pubs

BACKGROUND: Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections are known risk factors for liver disease, cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). There is substantial global variation in HBV and HCV prevalence resulting in variations in cirrhosis and HCC. We previously reported high prevalence of HBV and HCV infections in Somali immigrants seen at an academic medical center in Minnesota.

AIM: To determine the prevalence of chronic viral hepatitis in Somali immigrants in Minnesota through a community-based screening program.

METHODS: We conducted a prospective community-based participatory research study in the Somali community in Minnesota in partnership with community …

Examining The Associations Between Financial Conditions And Study Abroad In Diverse, Low-Income College Students, Radomir R. Mitic, Gregory C. Wolniak

Journal of Student Financial Aid

The study examines ascribed, financial, and college factors to predict study abroad participation among a national sample of students from financially disadvantaged backgrounds. Based on a longitudinal sample of 398 fourth-year participants of a national scholarship program (consisting of more than 50% students of color and 50% first-generation college goers), results show that despite higher study abroad participation among this group compared to national averages, finances remain a predominant impediment. The results provide a counter-narrative that study abroad participation is for the privileged. Findings also indicate that grant aid and prior exposure to financial adversity in the form of severe …

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Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

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A Chat With The New Editors Of The Maxwell Institute Journals

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

Accompanying this issue of Insights is volume 17 (combining numbers one and two) of the Journal of Book of Mormon Studies; however, readers will note that the Journal now carries a new name, the Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture. In connection with this change, the Institute asked Andrew H. Hedges, an associate professor of Church History and Doctrine at BYU, to become the new editor, replacing Professor S. Kent Brown, who served as editor and associate editor for many years, and who recently retired from the university. The new associate editors are Grant Hardy, professor of …

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Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

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Book Of Mormon Project Continues With New Volume

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

The Maxwell Institute and Brigham Young University are pleased to announce the release of part 5 of volume 4 of the Book of Mormon Critical Text Project, Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon. Part 5 analyzes the text from Alma 56 through 3 Nephi 18.

A Reflection Of Canadian Society? An Analysis Of Federal Appointments To Provincial Superior Courts By The Liberal Government Of Justin Trudeau, Erin Crandall

Dalhousie Law Journal

Recent reforms to Canada’s system of federal judicial appointments have sought to make the process more transparent and better able to produce a bench reflective of the society it serves. This paper reviews these reforms and using judicial appointment data (2016–2020), considers whether the Liberal government has met these objectives. The relationship between official bilingualism and representation on the bench is also considered. The paper finds that “diversity” on Canada’s federally appointed provincial courts remains unbalanced. While women have made up the majority of appointments since the Trudeau Liberals formed government in 2015, other equity-deserving groups, like people of colour …