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Hybridization of Chaotic Maps and Gravitational Search Algorithm for Constrained Mechanical and Civil Engineering Design Frameworks
The Chaotic Gravitational Search Algorithm (CGSA) is a physics-based heuristic algorithm inspired by Newton's law of universal gravitation. It uses 10 chaotic maps for optimal global search and fast convergence rate. The...
Published by: IGI Global
Levy Flight and Chaos Theory-Based Gravitational Search Algorithm for Global Optimization
The Gravitational Search Algorithm (GSA) is one of the highly regarded population-based algorithms. It has been reported that GSA has a powerful global exploration capability but suffers from the limitations of getting stuck in...
Published by: IGI Global
The Challenges and Coping Strategies of KM Implementation in HEIs
The pace of competition has increased in every sphere of the economy, and to face such high level of competition, organizations look for sustainable competitive edge. Knowledge as a tool of competition has been found to be...
Published by: IGI Global
Higher Public Officials on Direct Citizen Participation in Turkey
Governments are expected to introduce public policies to empower citizens to engage in government business for various reasons including trust building. This chapter presents enablers/barriers before direct citizen participation...
Published by: IGI Global
Christ as Copula
Tyler Tritten
Mar 23, 2016
Focusing on F.W.J. Schelling’s lectures in Munich in the 1830s, published as Urfassung der Philosophie der Offenbarung,1 I will explicate Christ as the copula, i.e., the incarnation of the universal Word or Logos, in order to...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
A Parallel Between Music and Speech
John T. Hogan
Sep 10, 2013
The goal of this paper is to discuss a substantive rather than a formal parallel between language and music and to suggest that musical notation may have value in representing some speech materia!. The domain of interest is...
Published by: Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association
A Shift Towards Visualization in eLearning
The purpose of the study is to investigate the movement towards visualization in e-learning. The study methods include a survey and a theoretical modeling method. The study focuses on analyzing data from the 2020 public opinion...
Published by: IGI Global
Review of David Bentley Hart, The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss (New Haven and London
Michelle Rebidoux
May 16, 2016
One thing, certainly, can be said about David Bentley Hart’s book and it is this: that its author takes atheism very seriouslyor rather, the “New Atheism,” as it is called, a recent ideologico-cultural “movement” whose...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Green Innovation in the MENA Healthcare Industry
Drawing on the knowledge-based perspective, this research developed and tested a model consisting of five technological innovation characteristics (relative advantage, complexity, compatibility, observability, and triability) as...
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On Reconstructing the Middle Ground
Margaret E. Winters
Sep 05, 2013
In the introductory lecture in some beginning courses in historical linguistics, the instructor may discuss the ways in which one can explain points of resemblance between languages. These points of resemblance arise for one or...
Published by: Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association
Fostering Learner Agency Through Intentional Learning Design
Cathrael Kazin
Jun 24, 2022
This chapter argues that the conventional approach to education systematically inculcates passivity and strips learners of the capacity for meaningful and informed choice. Rather than promote student agency and self-direction...
Higher Education Education Higher Education Social Sciences and Humanities Library and Information Science
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Mergers and its Effects in Select Indian Iron and Steel Companies - A Study
Madhumita Dasgupta
Aug 31, 2022
As an important sphere of corporate strategy, Mergers and Acquisitions have been undergoing a sea change within the economic set -up since liberalization in India. Massive growth in both Foreign Direct Investment and Foreign...
Published by: Singh Publication
Bernard Lonergan’s Puzzling Comment About the Vis Cogitativa
William Zanardi
Sep 17, 2018
This essay is a demonstration of the first functional specialty, Research. As I understand it, the principle aim of the specialty is to assemble materials relevant to understanding some puzzling issue. The short text from...
Methodology, Functional Research, Philosophical Psychology vis cogitativa, superego, binding problem
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
A Cyber Sensor Model for Cyber-Physical-Social Systems
Engineering sustainable cyber-physical-social systems demand a transdisciplinary approach. Within an arbitrary domain, many systems, including those of the physical and cyber categories, may already be in-situ; however...
Environmental Technologies Environmental, Agricultural, and Physical Sciences Environmental Science and Technologies
Published by: IGI Global
Factors Affecting the Adoption of Self-Service Technology (SST) in the Public Sector
In the Netherlands, housing corporations are increasingly adopting self-service technologies (SSTs) to support affairs their tenants need to arrange. The purpose of the study is to examine the customers' motivations of using...
Published by: IGI Global
An Observation Protocol for Scaffolding Community of Inquiry and Its Exemplary Practices in Language MOOCs
As a response to a call to investigate the fundamental aspects regarding educational theory, research, designing and teaching of language massive open online courses (MOOCs), this study first developed a Community of Inquiry...
Published by: IGI Global
An Evaluation Study of an E-Learning Course at the Duhok Polytechnic University
In last decade, there has been a growing awareness in E-Learning which is the most recent type of distance education, and becomes a highly significant model of educational technology. Today e-Learning studies indicate that there...
Published by: IGI Global
By Means of Critical Theory
Gabriele Strohschen
Apr 03, 2020
So-termed non-traditional adult students have become a key target for marketing efforts in higher education, and non-conventional, accelerated paths to university-issued degrees are the lure du jour in the business of selling...
Published by: IGI Global
Predicting Customers Use of Electronic Government Services in Nigeria
This study examined how customers’ use of electronic government services in Nigeria were being predicted by supply- and demand-side variables such as; ICT deployment, customer readiness, perceived quality of e-government...
Published by: IGI Global
Transformational Leadership and Innovation for Competitive Advantage in Large Firms and SMEs
Wafa Ashoor
Jan 01, 2021
The aim of this study is to empirically investigate how transformational leadership (TL) practices encourage innovation for competitive advantage within the specific context of Saudi large firms and SMEs. Despite a profusion of...
Published by: IGI Global
Application of Representation Learning-Based Chronological Modeling for Network Intrusion Detection
An autoencoder has the potential to overcome the limitations of current intrusion detection methods by recognizing benign user activity rather than differentiating between benign and malicious activity. However, the line...
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Community from the Perspective of Life
Ruud Welten
Dec 20, 2016
My question is whether a phenomenology of community is possible. Phenomenologystarts from experience, in the Husserlian sense of Erlebnis. Now, can acommunity be experienced, and not empirically but rather...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Achieving Recommendation Intention in Mobile Banking
This study explores the critical elements driving the recommendation intention of mobile banking users in India. It explores the relationship between ease of use and recommendation intent via serially mediating roles of...
Published by: IGI Global
Blockchain-Enabled Electronic Health Records for Healthcare 4.0
Bipin Rai
Aug 11, 2022
Healthcare delivery is on the verge of a fundamental shift into the new era of smart and connected health care, termed Health Care 4.0. Sharing healthcare data is an important step in improving the healthcare system's...
Published by: IGI Global
Transcending the Line - Focusing on the Spot
Monika Wegmann
Sep 30, 2014
My research has shown that the east and the southeast of England are not homogeneous dialect areas and that the neat lines on dialect maps - boundaries and isoglosses alike-hide much of the internal variability. I have...
Published by: Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association
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