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The Rise of Anti-immigrant Policies
Susanna Jones, Rich Furman, Melody Loya, Alissa R. Ackerman, Nalini Negi, Doug Epps, Gladys Mondragon
Jan 07, 2015
This article examines United States immigration policy in three states: Arizona, Alabama, and Indiana. All three states have varying rates of Latino immigration and a complex set of socioeconomic and cultural factors; yet...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
We Are Martinsville (WAM)
Rural communities in Virginia have experienced a decline caused by national economic trends. Formerly vibrant towns with rich histories and cultures increasingly suffer from a shrinking population and a lack of new investment...
Published by: IGI Global
Using Formative Assessment in a Blended EFL Listening Course
This paper explores how a formative assessment-based blended English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) listening course affects students' perceptions of their listening performance and what difficulties they may encounter during the...
Published by: IGI Global
The Dark Side of Using Online Social Networks
Research on online social networks (OSNs) has focused overwhelmingly on their benefits and potential, with their negative effects overlooked. This study builds on the limited existing work on the so-called ‘dark side’ of using...
Published by: IGI Global
Autonomous Navigation Using Deep Reinforcement Learning in ROS
For an autonomous robot to move safely in an environment where people are around and moving dynamically without knowing their goal position, it is required to set navigation rules and human behaviors. This problem is challenging...
Published by: IGI Global
NEWFOUNDLAND TOPONYMY
Shamus MacDonald
Jan 09, 2014
MUCH OF WHAT WE KNOW about place names and associated legends in Newfoundland comes from the same kind of fieldwork that was required to compile the Dictionary of Newfoundland English (Story, Kirwin and Widdowson 1982). Indeed...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
La Grammaire au Service de la Galanterie? Analyse de Les « Vous » et les « Tu » de Voltaire
Françoise Paulet Dubois
Sep 30, 2014
In his epistle Les "Vous" et les "Tu", Voltaire calls his sweetheart "tu" and"valls" alternately. He could use the familiar address when she was youngand unambitious, but now that she has become a rich and distant lady...
Published by: Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association
What Information Do We Have on People's Willingness to Pay on Reducing Plastic Shopping Bags?
The Chinese government implemented the payment system for plastic shopping bags in 2008 and 2020. This study aims to analyze consumers' perceptions and purchase willingness of plastic shopping bags. Using information technology...
Published by: IGI Global
Popularity Prediction for Consumers' Product Recommendation Articles
Consumer product recommendation articles posted in Social Shopping Community (SSC) have become an important source of purchase information for other potential consumers. However, less effort has been put into understanding and...
Published by: IGI Global
EEB Project System Integration and Technology Sperimentation Matrix
Francesca Ugliotti
Jan 15, 2021
Today an increasing number of cities are equipping themselves with three-dimensional urban modelling and simulation platforms for energy management to integrate both spatial and semantic data for enabling better decision-making....
Urban & Regional Development Science and Engineering Civil Engineering Computer Science and Information Technology
Published by: IGI Global
Involvement of the Applied Translation Procedures in Compatibility of Persian Medical Terms With International Naming Criteria
Ali Zeinali
Jan 01, 2020
Medical language, as many technical languages, is rich with morphologically complex words. The increasing number of foreign words and specific terms incorporated into the native language are due to the ongoing development of...
Published by: IGI Global
Exploring the Issues for the Success of Multichannel Network Businesses in Korea
With the increasing popularity of online video content like YouTube carries, multichannel network (MCN) businesses have appeared. MCNs are organizations that partner with individual creators. They support production, promotion...
Published by: IGI Global
Poor Public Management and Public Governance Failure
John Ugoani
Jul 01, 2020
Nigeria is regarded as the giant of Africa because of its huge oil resource wealth. For years the country has been restoring peace in troubled countries. It also has the support of world leaders because of its strong advocacy...
Published by: IGI Global
The GJU Website Development Process and Best Practices
This paper introduces a website development process comprised of six phases: requirements, content, design, development, launch, and maintenance. In this context, a website is considered the primary marketing channel for a...
Published by: IGI Global
Visions of a More Sustainable Future of Work for the Underserved
For generations, humanity has experienced socioeconomic disparities that are yet unresolved. Although education and training have transformed some individuals in society, they have not addressed the broader issues of sustainable...
Knowledge Management Business and Management Economics and Economic Theory Government and Law Social Sciences and Humanities
Published by: IGI Global
Brought, Sought, and Taught
Skillification is a powerful concept that can drive better outcomes for students, employers, and institutions of higher education (IHEs). Successful use, however, requires IHEs to adopt a systems thinking mindset more than...
Higher Education Education Higher Education Social Sciences and Humanities Library and Information Science
Published by: IGI Global
Indices of linguistic presentation in Romanian texts of the sixteenth century
Margareta Manu Magda
May 23, 2014
The paper aims to identify certain markers of the semantic-pragmatic category of linguistic presentation in the Romanian documents and records of the 16th century. The theoretical framework consists of Discourse Analysis and...
Published by: Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association
Scholar Recommendation Based on High-Order Propagation of Knowledge Graphs
In a big data environment, traditional recommendation methods have limitations such as data sparseness and cold start, etc. In view of the rich semantics, excellent quality, and good structure of knowledge graphs, many...
Published by: IGI Global
The Impact of Risk-Aware Consumer Trust on CB E-Commerce Platforms and Purchase Intention
Cross-border e-commerce(CBRC) is increasingly affecting the value of traditional trade due to its rich variety, convenient operation, and free of time and space restrictions, and has also changed the consumer's Shopping habits....
Published by: IGI Global
Detection and Identification of Microbial Volatile Organic Compounds of the Green Mold Disease
Button mushrooms are one of the most commonly cultivated mushroom species facing different risks e.g.: viral, bacterial and fungal diseases. One of the most common problems is caused by Trichoderma aggressivum, or ‘green mould'...
Environmental Technologies Environmental, Agricultural, and Physical Sciences Environmental Science and Technologies
Published by: IGI Global
A Framework for Automated Scraping of Structured Data Records From the Deep Web Using Semantic Labeling
The intent of this research is to come up with an automated web scraping system which is capable of extracting structured data records embedded in semi-structured web pages. Most of the automated extraction techniques in the...
Published by: IGI Global
Data Warehouse and Interactive Map for Promoting Cultural Heritage in Saudi Arabia Using GIS
With the urbanization of various regions, many historical sites may be misrepresented or totally neglected. As more people move to urban areas with time, heritage areas are being abandoned or ignored. The roads leading to such...
Published by: IGI Global
Embracing Polyphony
Lori F. Clarke
Dec 20, 2016
This paper theorizes at the intersection of practices of improvisation and the Hearing Voices Network (HVN) approach—two ways of being with others that embrace polyphonic identity, democratic participation, and polyculture. The...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Enhanced Bootstrapping Algorithm for Automatic Annotation of Tweets
Annotations are critical in various text mining tasks such as opinion mining, sentiment analysis, word sense disambiguation. Supervised learning algorithms start with the training of the classifier and require manually annotated...
Published by: IGI Global
Policy Communication Through Artificial Intelligence in China and Western Countries
Yuyun Zhang
Jan 01, 2022
Communication has become the crucial key to a success of public policy both in China and Western countries. After more than thirty years of development, China and Western countries have made fruitful achievements. We made a...
Published by: IGI Global
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