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Gradience, Determiners and Null Possessors
Michael D. Kliffer
Sep 05, 2013
While syntax is a crucial part of understanding inalienable possession, it must be seen as interacting with lexical semantics and pragmatics. A case in point is the French double dont construction (DOC), which differs from...
Does the Technological Diversification and R&D Internationalization of eMNCs Promote Enterprise Innovation?
Jing Li, Jun Wang
Sep 01, 2021
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...
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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...
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Seeking the Wealth of Self
Michael George
Mar 16, 2022
Michael George teaches Religion and Culture, and Ethics at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick. He is interested in helping to promote the project of Integrative Bioethics, which he considers to be a possible...
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...
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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Remembering Philip McShane
Michael Vertin
Mar 16, 2022
Michael Vertin is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Study of Religion, and Theology at St. Michael’s College in the University of Toronto. He is a longtime student of Lonergan’s work and has edited four volumes of studies by...
Relevance Theory and Translation
Linguistic theory and translation theory both deal with language; however, they rarely meet or use each other's results in order to advance their individual areas of research. Linguists often seem to look at translation as...
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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Oct 05, 2013
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...
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...
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Dual-Population Co-Evolution Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithm and Its Application
Yu Bo, Fahui Gu
Jan 01, 2022
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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The Impact of Industry Expert Adjuncts on Students' Course Experiences
D. Boyer, Erica Walker
Apr 01, 2020
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...
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Effect of Technological Innovation Inputs on Global Value Chains Status
Shuili Yang, Yang Yi
Sep 01, 2021
Under the backdrop of the continuous escalation of the Sino—U.S. trade friction, China's industrial development environment in global value chains (GVCs) has further deteriorated, research on the improvement GVC status of the...
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Participatory Mapping and PGIS
Michael McCall
Jul 01, 2021
Applications of participatory mapping (PMapping) and PGIS to the mapping of local spatial knowledge are expanding; therefore, updated ethics and good practice improvements are needed. The intention here is to secern, or...
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Mobile-Assisted Language Learning
Michael Sletten
May 14, 2021
Learning a second language is challenging for anyone worldwide. When trying to learn a second language in a remote area of the world or under circumstances that do not allow for face-to-face learning, it becomes even more...
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Psychological Distance and Culture
Michael Roberts
Dec 27, 2019
This chapter introduces psychological distance into cultural studies as an alternative way of conceptualizing individual differences. Unlike most cross-cultural frameworks that are at the group level, psychological distance...
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China's Infrastructure Financing and the Role of Infrastructure in Awakening African Economies
Michael Ehizuelen
Jul 01, 2021
African economies, through Agenda 2063, recognize that developing infrastructure – transport, electricity, energy, water, and e-connectivity – will be critical for the region to assume a lasting place in the global economic...
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Alleviation of Health Complaints Following Regular Consumption of Filtered Tap Water (AcalaQuell®) Is Independent from Placebo Effects
Rainer Schneider
Jan 01, 2022
Recently, it was shown that regular consumption of a standardized amount of filtered tap water improved the self-reported physical complaints. However, since individuals were fully aware of the type of water they consumed it was...
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