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The State Route 520 Floating Bridge in Seattle, Washington
Cheryl L White
Apr 09, 2013
The four longest floating bridges in the world are located in Seattle, Washington on the North West Coast of the United States of America. At 2.3 km long and 35 m wide, the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, also known as the...
Creating the Citizen
This chapter presents an approach to civic education that integrates critical literacy with the research-based promising practices of civic education and the College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies...
Published by: IGI Global
Bibliography
Suzanne Power
Dec 09, 2013
This bibliography includes how to locate Newfoundland and Labrador language resources at the Queen Elizabeth II Library, Memorial University.
LGBT College Student Career Development
LGBT college students need mentorship regarding their career development from their faculty members. This paper provides an informed approach, grounded in Social Cognitive Career Theory and supported by empirical research, for...
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The Phenomenon of Singing in the Study of Troubadour Poetry
Elizabeth Brodovitch
Nov 19, 2013
The poetry and music of the troubadours who lived in the medieval kingdoms of southern France known collectively as Occitania contributed to a flowering of literary, musical and artistic culture in the eleventh and twelfth...
Published by: Faculty of Education
Recommendation System for Sightseeing Tours
This research proposes a model of a recommendation system (RS) for tourist itineraries. The RS suggests tips of what to visit in a city, based on the available time, personal preferences, current geo-location, and the user's...
Published by: IGI Global
Prediction of Bike Share Demand by Machine Learning
In the fourth industrial revolution period, multinational companies and start-ups have applied a sharing economy concept to their business and have attempted to better serve customer demand by integrating demand prediction...
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The “Will to Participate”
Although critiques of participatory development attend to knowledge/power, Anglo- American literature on community-based participatory research (CBPR) is largely silent on the politics of these collaborations. As the “will to...
Implementing a Digital Microcredential Strategy at the University of Washington Continuum College
This chapter explores the emergence of digital microcredentials and describes how the University of Washington's Continuum College is participating in the iterative design of infrastructures and approaches to support these new...
Published by: IGI Global
Emergent Bilinguals in Rural Schools
This chapter explores rural teacher attitudes towards emergent bilinguals at the secondary level before, during, and after translanguaging professional development. Within the current political climate, accountability measures...
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Towards Ensemble Learning for Tracking Food Insecurity From News Articles
The study integrates ensemble learning into a task of classifying if a news article is on food insecurity or not. Similarity algorithms were exploited to imitate human cognition, an innovation to enhance performance. Four out of...
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Schelling and the Satanic
Jason M. Wirth
Dec 20, 2020
In her unsettling book, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Elizabeth Kolbert quotes Joseph Mendelson, a herpetologist at Zoo Atlanta: “I sought a career in herpetology because I enjoy working with animals. I did not...
A System Dynamics Model for Sales and Operations Planning
The use of system dynamics techniques to model the sales and operations planning (S&OP), associated with the economic and financial processes, is an innovative proposal. The objectives of this article are to model and simulate...
Published by: IGI Global
Telepsychiatry
Numerous challenges have limited access to mental health services in rural areas. Some of these barriers have included transportation, number of providers, poverty, and lack of insurance. The purpose of this review was to...
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“Prophetic, Dreaming on the Mounds of Heaven”
Hölderlin, it must be said, was always ahead of his time! His was an experience of Heracleitean time, as the later hymns would conceive it, one in which the liveliness within poetry is transfigured into the ever-living fire of...
A history of Preparing Teachers for Northern Labrador
This article explores the history of Indigenous teacher education in Labrador, Canada. The focus is on Memorial University’s involvement in this area from the 1970s to the present, including the Teacher Education Program in...
Comparing Phonetic Characteristics of African American and European American Speech
African American English (AAE) has been studied more heavily, by far, than anyother forms of American English. Nevertheless, much of the emphasis has beenplaced on morphosyntactic variants and its phonetic characteristics are...
Becoming-Animal and Becoming-Woman Explored Through a Feminine Minor Literature
Margaret Hynes
Jun 29, 2022
In this essay I will critically examine the concepts of becoming-woman and becoming-animal as discussed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. I will explore them in terms of lines of flight and reterritorialization and how these...
Automatic Traffic Sign Recognition System Using CNN
In recent times, self-driving vehicles have been widely adopted across different countries as they are equipped to drastically reduce the number of road accidents and congestion on the road thereby improving the traffic...
Published by: IGI Global

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