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Review of Byron Williston, The Anthropocene Project
Jay Foster
Jan 07, 2019
Byron Williston has titled his thoughtful and engaging book on virtue ethics and climate change\ The Anthropocene Project. Here Williston is grappling with an issue that vexes most of us. The science of anthropogenic...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Let’s Not Talk About the Anthropocene
Jay Foster
Jan 07, 2019
The Hungarian philosopher of science Imre Lakatos once complained that Thomas Kuhn had reduced scientific research to “mob psychology." In The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), Kuhn famously suggested that scientific...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Review of Capitalism, The American Empire, and Neoliberal Globalization by Kenneth E. Bauzon
Jay Foster
Nov 12, 2021
At the G7 summit in June 2021, leaders of the top seven “advanced economies” met at a seaside resort in Cornwall, England. After three days of frolicking on the beach for photo-ops, they emerged promising a billion COVID-19...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Introduction
The Fifth Assessment Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was published in early 2014. In addition to expressing a “high confidence” in anthropogenic climate change, the report introduced a new emphasis...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
A Multi-Objective Approach for Materialized View Selection
In today's world, business transactional data has become the critical part of all business-related decisions. For this purpose, complex analytical queries have been run on transactional data to get the relevant information, from...
Published by: IGI Global
Fostering a personal-is-political ethics
This article suggests that interviews about past ethical dilemmas or transgressions can foster ethical skills for navigating interlocking power relations. It shows how narratives claiming relative innocence are widespread and...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Preferences and Motivations of Nigerian Undergraduates in Sharing COVID-19 Information on Social Media
This study investigated the practice and motivators of Nigeria undergraduates' use of satire, music, and comedy for sharing COVID-19 information on social media. Just 294 undergraduates from six federal universities in...
Published by: IGI Global
Co-Worker Support and Communities of Practice
Communities of practice foster sharing of knowledge in the organisations. For the creation of such an organisational-level practice community, a motivating environment for the development of such practice communities should be...
Published by: IGI Global
Designing E-Government Legal Institutions
The aim of this article is to understand the way digital government laws are designed through the analysis and comparison of general objectives, governance mechanisms and roles assigned to stakeholders of six local state digital...
Published by: IGI Global
Communicative Governance to Mitigate the COVID-19 Pandemic
Emerging democracies are handicapped by systemic weaknesses such as inadequate healthcare safety nets, weak administrative capacities, and rigidly hierarchical bureaucracies and conflicts between levels of political leadership....
Published by: IGI Global
Utilizing MAR for Remedial Teaching of Compound-Cube-Surface Area at Elementary School in Taiwan
In this paper, the development of the MAR (mobile augmented reality) remedial teaching program is described. It allowed students to manipulate augmented objects through AURASMA app via internet and find leads to solve geometry...
Published by: IGI Global
The Value of Economic Information in the Digital Society
José Rascão
Jan 01, 2021
In the contemporary organizational context, the sharing and transfer of information and knowledge plays a significant role. What can be facilitated with the emerging interdisciplinary approach, which crosses the fieldsof...
Global Information Technology Computer Science and Information Technology Global Information Technology
Published by: IGI Global
The Role of Awareness for Complex Planning Task Performance
This study introduces the concept of microgames to support situated learning in order to foster situational awareness (SA) of planners in seaport container terminals. In today's complex working environments, it is often...
Published by: IGI Global
Modeling Residential Energy Consumption
Smart meters that allow information to flow between users and utility service providers are expected to foster intelligent energy consumption. Previous studies focusing on demand-side management have been predominantly...
Published by: IGI Global
The Research of Social Network Analysis on College Students' Interactive Relations
Nowadays the number of college students' suicides are increasing for the insufficient social support or poor interpersonal relations. Furthermore, not much attention has been concerned to students' interpersonal relations when...
Published by: IGI Global
Applications of System Dynamics and Big Data to Oil and Gas Production Dynamics in the Permian Basin
In this paper, the authors create, justify, and document a system dynamics model of the oil and gas production within the Permian Basin of Texas. Then the researchers show how to fit the model to historical time series data (big...
Published by: IGI Global
Audio vs. Video Conferencing for Language Learning
Natalia Barley
May 14, 2021
This chapter will trace recent trends in research on audio and video conferencing for language learning and teaching and outline the affordances and mediating effects of each platform that have communicative, socio-affective...
Published by: IGI Global
Screening Job Candidates With Social Media
With the proliferation of social media, job candidate screening and evaluation professionals have new avenues to gather information regarding job candidates. Job candidates recognize that recruiters will examine their social...
Published by: IGI Global
Relational Benefits as Predictors of Relationship Quality Outcomes in Online Retailing
The present study examines the extent to which structural assurance mechanisms and economic benefits of online shopping are used by online shoppers as cues to infer the relational benefits of confidence and special treatment...
Published by: IGI Global
Advancing Personal Learning Using the Internet of Things
Jaclyn Truman
Jan 05, 2017
Personal learning is a unique ability and requires self-determination to master. Personal learning also involves constructing representational learning artifacts that are used across life into work and society. Using avatars to...
Web-Based Teaching & Learning Education Educational Technologies Social Sciences and Humanities Computer Science and Information Technology
Published by: IGI Global
Advancing Personal Learning Using the Internet of Things
Jaclyn Truman
Sep 06, 2019
Personal learning is a unique ability and requires self-determination to master. Personal learning also involves constructing representational learning artifacts that are used across life into work and society. Using avatars to...
Internet Technologies Security and Forensics IT Security and Ethics Computer Science and Information Technology
Published by: IGI Global
On the Construction and Application of a Platform-Based Corpus in Tourism Translation Teaching
Current studies indicate that corpus-aided translation teaching may greatly improve teaching efficiency and better fulfill the stated teaching aim. On the basis of those findings, this research looks into the design and...
Published by: IGI Global
Impact of Advertising on Educational Apps Used by Children
India’s education sector is being impacted by COVID-19 in unprecedented ways. The pandemic is disrupting the traditional education system, affecting over 320 million students. This sector is trying to develop robust, innovative...
Published by: IGI Global
Social Media Integration in Educational Administration as Information and Smart Systems
The proliferation and access to social media platforms that allow easy access to information systems and services, content creation, and sharing, in a convenient form, has taken education administration and management by storm....
Social Networking Education Educational Technologies Media and Communications Library and Information Science
Published by: IGI Global
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