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Exxon Valdez Incident
John D Halley
Apr 09, 2013
The Exxon Valdez was an oil tanker owned by the ExxonMobil Shipping Company, which gained its infamy after running aground in Prince William Sound spilling more than 11 million galleons (approximately 258,000 barrels) of crude...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
John Hewson-a Festschrift
John Hewson
Sep 05, 2013
Dr. John Hewson's appointment to Memorial University's Henrietta Harvey Chair in May 1997 marked 37 years of distinguished service as scholar, teacher and administrator.
Dr. Hewson, an APLA member since the early days of our...
Published by: Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association
Review of John Haugeland, Dasein Disclosed: John Haugeland’s Heidegger. Ed. Joseph Rouse. Cambridge, Massachusetts
Emily-Jean Gallant
Jan 04, 2019
John Haugeland passed away suddenly in 2010 leaving behind an unfinished book manuscript on Heidegger. He was an analytic philosopher who specialized in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science; however, he had an “extensive...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Does the Technological Diversification and R&D Internationalization of eMNCs Promote Enterprise Innovation?
Under the background of digital economy, technological diversification and R&D internationalization are important strategic choices for eMNCs, represented by China, to seek advanced technological resources and create competitive...
Published by: IGI Global
"Dear Folks"
John Benton
Mar 16, 2022
John Benton (M.A. B.Ed. B.A.) is an active scholar and educator. He has published academic articles and books in the philosophy of language, method, and co-authored a book on economics. Benton engages in international outreach...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Novel 2-D Histogram-Based Soft Thresholding for Brain Tumor Detection and Image Compression
The objective of image compression is to extract meaningful clusters in a given image. Significant groups are possible with absolute threshold values. 1-D histogram-based multilevel thresholding is computationally complex and...
Published by: IGI Global
Peter Gratton and John Panteleimon Manoussakis, eds. Traversing the Imaginary: Richard Kearney and the Postmodern Challenge. Evanston, Ill.
Eric Severson
May 04, 2009
Book Review. Eric Severson reviews Peter Gratton and John Panteleimon Manoussakis, eds. Traversing the Imaginary: Richard Kearney and the Postmodern Challenge. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 2007.
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
John Panteleimon Manoussakis, ed. After God: Richard Kearney and the Religious Turn in Continental Philosophy. New York
Eric Severson
May 04, 2009
[Book Review] Eric Severson reviews John Panteleimon Manoussakis, ed. After God: Richard Kearney and the Religious Turn in Continental Philosophy. New York: Fordham University Press, 2005.
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Effects of Frequent Interaction with Non-Native Speakers on English Dialect
Keiko Hirano
Nov 19, 2013
/T,d/ deletion was chosen as a speech token to test modifications to usage by native speakers of English due to frequent interactions with non-native anglophones in Japan. Approximately 250 tokens per each of thirty-nine...
Published by: Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association
An Improved Firefly Algorithm-Based 2-D Image Thresholding for Brain Image Fusion
In this article, an attempt is made to diagnose brain diseases like neoplastic, cerebrovascular, Alzheimer's, and sarcomas by the effective fusion of two images. The two images are fused in three steps. Step 1. Segmentation: The...
Published by: IGI Global
Modelling the Effects of Chemical Dispersant on the Fate of Spilled Oil
The proposed Energy East pipeline project has raised concerns about potential oil spills in Saint John, New Brunswick, due to increased tanker traffic. While environmental conditions such as strong tide and current could pose...
An Improved Firefly Algorithm-Based 2-D Image Thresholding for Brain Image Fusion
In this article, an attempt is made to diagnose brain diseases like neoplastic, cerebrovascular, Alzheimer's, and sarcomas by the effective fusion of two images. The two images are fused in three steps. Step 1. Segmentation: The...
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Published by: IGI Global
Quantifying the Lemma Massa as a Proper-Name in the John and Massa Tales
Floyd Knight
Jul 01, 2019
English nouns have been described as having the ability to “switch easily between common-noun and proper-name uses.” Such changes or transformations are sometimes misanalysed by researchers and are often hard for ELL and L2 ESL...
Published by: IGI Global
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...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Dans cet article, nous discutons de l’interaction apprenant-tâche-dictionnaire à l’ordinateur. Nous faisons un survol de la littérature en lexicographie pédagogique dédiée...
Published by: Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association
Deaf Culture in Inclusive Schools
Carrie Woods
Jan 07, 2022
The purpose of this chapter is to examine the culture of students who are d/Deaf and hard of hearing within the broader context of inclusive schools, specifically as demonstrated though their learning experiences, socialization...
Published by: IGI Global
Dual-Population Co-Evolution Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithm and Its Application
In the multi-objective optimization algorithm, the parameter strategy has a huge impact on the performance of the algorithm, and it is difficult to set a set of parameters with excellent distribution and convergence performance...
Published by: IGI Global
Addressing Global Climate Change With Big Data-Driven Urban Planning Policy
John Zacharias
Oct 01, 2021
Cities in China gather data to support strategic and operational management, including databases on buildings, land use, human occupancy, underground services, and travel surveys. However, these data are seldom used to analyze...
Published by: IGI Global
Open Innovation in R&D
Breakthrough innovations are crucial drivers of economic progress, often depending on external knowledge sources to complement internal knowledge. Co-patenting is one way to achieve this by implementing open innovation within...
Published by: IGI Global
The Legacy of John W. Large
Published by: Faculty of Education
Epidemic Healthcare Kiosk
One of the most difficult tasks for the physicians is to analyze, manage, and plan suitable diagnoses and treatments for society, especially in an epidemic situation like Corona virus disease (COVID-19). Hence, the mortality...
Published by: IGI Global
Automated Classification of Sleep Stages Using Single-Channel EEG
The main contribution of this paper is to present a novel approach for classifying the sleep stages based on optimal feature selection with ensemble learning stacking model using single-channel EEG signals.To find the suitable...
Published by: IGI Global
The Impact of Industry Expert Adjuncts on Students' Course Experiences
As a reality of modern higher education, the use of adjunct instructors to teach courses is a common practice, often viewed through institutional constraints. This paper uses a different lens to examine the experiences of...
Published by: IGI Global
A Looking Forward
Alexandra Gillis
Mar 16, 2022
Alexandra Gillis is a teacher and educational researcher living in the city of Vancouver, on the territorial lands of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples, amidst mountains and ocean of Canada’s west coast. She has...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Fetishism and Consumer Value
John Branch
Oct 12, 2018
Fetishism is the attribution of value to an object. To understand fetishism, therefore, requires a grasp of the value which is attributed to an object. More dynamically, it points to the need to comprehend the mechanisms—the...
Published by: IGI Global
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