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Review of Kevin Decker and Jeffery Ewing, Alien and Philosophy: I Infest, Therefore I Am. Oxford
Jared Call
Jan 07, 2020
The movie Alien first hit the box office in the spring of 1979, and it was met with critical acclaim; in 2008, it ranked seventh best film in the science fiction genre by the American Film Institute. The chestburster scene is...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Review of Daniel P. Scheid, The Cosmic Common Good. Oxford University Press, 2016. 248 pages
Jared Call
Jan 07, 2019
Earth was moderately cooler last year, but not by much. 2017, additionally, was a year of record-breaking disasters for the United States. These disasters included devastating California wildfires, a trio of hurricanes, hail...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Building a Community of Practice in the Workplace
This study adopts Wenger's (1998) community of practice (CoP) framework to understand the relationships and professional learning community formed at an information technology call center at a large research university in the...
Published by: IGI Global
Call to Action
Angela McCaskill
Jul 01, 2021
Low quality healthcare services can hinder economic and social development, result in premature death and disability, and waste human capital. To compound pre-pandemic healthcare access and equity issues, the quality of care...
Published by: IGI Global
A New Design of a Functional H Filter for Linear Singular Systems With an Additional Unknown Input and Bounded Disturbances
This paper proposes a design of a H_¥ filter for a functional of the system state that the authors call functional H_¥ filter in time domain for linear singular systems with additional unknown inputs and bounded disturbances....
Published by: IGI Global
Abolitionist Disjuncture
Sparrow A. Preston
Dec 12, 2021
In the summer of 2020, two life-altering currents swept across North America: COVID-19 and the call to“defund the police.” During this time, I worked at an emergency overnight shelter that was created as a pandemic response....
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Algonquian Names
Paul Proulx
Sep 05, 2013
Of the many things Algonquianists can be grateful to John Hewson for, perhaps the most useful is his computer-generated dictionary of Proto-Algonquian. And one of the most intriguing reconstructions in it is *e Sinlehk- (with...
Published by: Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association
The Principle of the World and the Call to Faith
Jeffrey Bloechl
May 14, 2013
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Toward a Methodology of Vocal Pedagogy Research
Richard Kennell
Nov 19, 2013
This paper will consider the cultural artifact we call vocal pedagogy. While the word "pedagogy" often presents multiple meanings, here it will specifically refer to the interaction of expert teacher and novice student in a...
Published by: Faculty of Education
Clique Finder
Sarab Almuhaideb, Najwa Altwaijry, Shahad AlMansour, Ashwaq AlMklafi, AlBandery AlMojel, Bushra AlQahtani, Moshail AlHarran
Apr 01, 2022
The Maximum Clique Problem (MCP) is a classical NP-hard problem that has gained considerable attention due to its numerous real-world applications and theoretical complexity. It is inherently computationally complex, and so...
Published by: IGI Global
Indigenization in Universities and Its Role in Continuing Settler-Colonialism
Following the release of the 2015 Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC): Calls to Action report, many Canadian universities raced to Indigenize their institutions. While the TRC report implicates post-secondary...
Education; Indigenous Studies; Indigenization, decolonization, Truth and Reconciliation in Universities
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Jack Marsh
May 04, 2009
In this paper, I examine Kearney's call for an ethical imagination from a specifically Levinasian perspective. I begin by reviewing Kearney's proposal, querying the structure of his ethical imagination. I then give a brief...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Jaywalking Through Intersectionalities
Gerald A. J. de Montigny
Dec 23, 2016
Social workers, especially those who call for anti-oppressive practice, have embraced and promoted an analysis of intersectionality or the interlocking of oppression. These proponents view their work as critical, postmodern...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Constructing Culturally-Authentic Differentiated Access Points Using the Content Imperatives
The need to create culturally authentic and specific learning experiences is a call to action that all teachers must answer. Current definitions of differentiation either avoid or exclude topics of culture and race. These...
Published by: IGI Global
Examining Voluntary Engagement Barriers in Knowledge Sharing Practices for Supply Chain Innovation
Voluntary engagement (VE) creates a sense of coordination and harmonization to share knowledge. The eminence of knowledge sharing (KS) for supply chain (SC) innovation is undeniable to initiate development in products, services...
Published by: IGI Global
Understanding Country Level Adoption of E-Commerce
This paper provides a theoretically grounded model of e-commerce adoption to explain differences in adoption rates among countries. The model extends the existing culture-policy-technology (CPT) framework to examine causal...
Published by: IGI Global
Fixing What Ain't Broke
Griffyn Geoffrey Chezenko
Aug 22, 2017
Since 2001, legislation implementing fixed dates for general elections has been passed by the federal government, and most provincial and territorial governments. The notion that general election dates are now fixed, however, is...
Canadian politics; Canadian provincial politics; electoral politics election law; provincial elections; federal elections; time; voting; Canada
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Examining Failure through Digital Games
John Munro
Mar 17, 2017
Games like Pong, Pacman, Space Invaders and Galaxian filled the TV screens and arcades of my childhood. With each new arrival, I would pick up the game controller and try my skills on each challenge. Inevitably, I would quickly...
Published by: The Morning Watch: Educational and Social Analysis
Knowledge Sharing Enablers in Small Business Networks
In an increasingly knowledge-based global economy, social capital and knowledge sharing, particularly amongst small business, have become critical sources of competitive advantage, but how can such knowledge sharing be enabled?...
Published by: IGI Global
Telecom Big Data Based User Offloading Self-Optimisation in Heterogeneous Relay Cellular Systems
This paper proposes a telecom big data based user offloading self-optimisation (TBDUOS) scheme. Its aim is to assist telecom operators to effectively balancing the load distribution with achieving good service performance and...
Grid & High Performance Computing Computer Science and Information Technology High Performance Computing
Published by: IGI Global
Levinas’ God
Joël Madore
Mar 14, 2018
The idea of God in Levinas is resonant of the First Testament: a voice fromhigher above that clamors: Thou shall not kill; the unsettling call of the Infinitethat commands us to leave the familiar towards the unknown, like...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
F.W.J. Schelling - On the Relationship of the Plastic Arts to Nature
Jason M. Wirth
Apr 05, 2022
This is Schelling’s most notable public address. Its length and difficulty prompt one to wonder how many of his audience were able to follow it, but it remains a seminal text to read and study, one that brings together in...
Published by: Memorial University Libraries
Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Customer Churn Prediction Analysis
Several machine learning models have been proposed to address customer churn problems. In this work, the authors used a novel method by applying deep convolutional neural networks on a labeled dataset of 18,000 prepaid...
Published by: IGI Global
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