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Assessment of Substrate and TBC Damage Effects on Resonance Frequencies for Blade Health Monitoring
The reliability of critical aircraft components continues to shift towards onboard monitoring to optimize maintenance scheduling, economy efficiency and safety. Therefore, the present study investigates changes in dynamic...
Published by: IGI Global
The Expansion of Approximant /r/ in Dutch
Renée Van Bezooijen
Sep 30, 2014
In present-day Standard Dutch as spoken in the Netherlands, three main categories of pronunciation variants of Irl can be distinguished, namely alveolar /r/, uvular /r/, and approximant /r/. Approximant /r/, the focus of this...
STOP AND GO (AWAY)
TO UNDERSTAND THE LINGUISTIC CLIMATE of Newfoundland, one must look not only at the linguistic variation that exists among Newfoundland speakers, but also at what underlies and drives this variation. It is clear that social...
Rawls’ Theory of Justice
Laura Dyke
Oct 07, 2014
John Rawls’ theory of justice provided a revolutionary conception of the justice system and the morals behind it. As a solution to the deadlock of utilitarian and intuitionist theories of justice, it presented a superior...
A Flipped Instructional Design as an Online Pedagogy Enabling Student Learning in an ODeL Course
Micheal van Wyk
Nov 01, 2021
The growing body of literature is reporting positive results when it comes to flipped learning which across disciplines and contexts involves student-centered, technology-integrated teaching. Using a systematic scoping review...
Published by: IGI Global
End-User Perceptions on Information Security
Information is a vital asset needed by many organizations to function effectively. However, this asset can easily be compromised thus its protection is crucial to the efficacy of an organization. A common information security...
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Sewing the quilt of fragmented experiences
Haley Toll
Oct 01, 2018
In this reflexive self-study, I interweave the heuristic analysis of dreams with reflections on research and data collection processes, as a first-year PhD student, to discover and contemplate my personal ontologies and...
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...
Contextual Word2Vec Model for Understanding Chinese Out of Vocabularies on Online Social Media
In this chapter, the authors propose to use contextual Word2Vec model for understanding OOV (out of vocabulary). The OOV is extracted by using left-right entropy and point information entropy. They choose to use Word2Vec to...
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Convolutional Neural Network Integrated With Fuzzy Rules for Decision Making in Brain Tumor Diagnosis
Conventional methods used in brain tumors detection, diagnosis, and classification such as magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography scanning technologies are unbridged in their results. This paper presents a proposed...
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Incomplete reporting of complex interventions
Reporting of intervention research has been inadequate for many years. The development and promotion of freely available checklists aims to address this problem by providing researchers with a list of items that require...
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Academic Experiences of “Zoom-Fatigue” as a Virtual Streaming Phenomenon During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This phenomenological exploratory multiple-case study design was conducted at an open distance e-learning university and a traditional contact residential university and it was found that the participants viewed video...
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A Cross-Continent Analysis of the Invariance of Product Information in Cross-Border Electronic Commerce
Cross-border electronic-commerce (CBEC) is growing. However, due to differences in culture, habits, history and language among other factors, consumers in different regions may have different perception towards the same product...
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Role of Multilevel Governance In Urban Public Transit
Jason D. Waters
Jan 05, 2017
In an increasingly urbanized society, Canadian governments face considerable challenges in guiding economic development and facilitating services within their jurisdictions. For densely populated and growing cities and regions...
“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...
Machine Learning Based Admission Data Processing for Early Forecasting Students' Learning Outcomes
In this paper, the authors explore the factors to improve the accuracy of predicting student learning outcomes. The method can remove redundant and irrelevant factors to get a “clean” data set without having to solve the NP-Hard...
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An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Labor Market Integration Policies in EU Member States Using PROMETHEE
From an economic point of view, the rational response towards migration is the labor market integration of immigrants. Within the above framework, several actions have been developed by the European Union member states over the...
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Can We Fight EU-Racism in Football?
The current study aims to examine the phenomenon of racism in football. The researchers collected data from people of all ages in the countries of Italy, Romania, Greece, Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria, and a number of experts from...
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Do socioeconomic inequities arise during school-based physical activity interventions? An exploratory case study of the GoActive trial.
OBJECTIVE: To investigate socioeconomic inequities in the intervention and evaluation process of the GoActive school-based physical activity intervention and demonstrate a novel approach to evaluating intervention-related...
Published by: BMJ Open
Pasikola
In this digital era, innovation becomes an important element within urban planning and management to support a more effective and efficient urban service. Until now, most of the local governments in Indonesia still rely on a...
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