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Improving Shipping Efficiency Industry-Led Consortium Blockchain Smart Contact
COVID-19 has recently affected global trade flows, and the primary reason is that shipping failed to adapt rapidly to meet the need for on-time delivery. Given blockchain's “revolutionary” potential, this paper aims to...
Published by: IGI Global
Review of Eric L. Jenkins, Free to Say No? Free Will and Augustine’s Evolving Doctrines of Grace and Election (Cambridge
Seamus O'Neill
Mar 23, 2016
Eric Jenkins’ Free to Say No? Free Will and Augustine’s Evolving Doctrines of Grace and Election is a relatively concise and highly readable investigation into Augustine’s changing position on the freedom of the will and various...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
The Mind of Sustainability
The authors introduce the science of Mind Genomics to explore what specific messages drive a person to say they will be interested in sustainability and motivated to do something. The messages are the nature of the message and...
Published by: IGI Global
Retention of Regional French Vocabulary
Anne Violin-Wigent
Sep 30, 2014
With the development of mass media and compulsory state education, standardFrench has extended its scope, at the detriment of regional languages and dialects. In this study, I investigate the extent to which regional vocabulary...
Published by: Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association
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
Evaluation and Comparative Analysis of Semantic Web-Based Strategies for Enhancing Educational System Development
Educators have been calling for reform for a decade. Recent technical breakthroughs have led to various improvements in the semantic web-based education system. After last year's COVID-19 outbreak, development quickened. Many...
Published by: IGI Global
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...
Published by: Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association
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
An Item Response Theory Approach to Enhance Peer Assessment Effectiveness in Massive Open Online Courses
Massive open on-line courses (MOOCs) are effective and flexible resources to educate, train, and empower populations. Peer assessment (PA) provides a powerful pedagogical strategy to support educational activities and foster...
Published by: IGI Global
The Education of Immigrant and Refugee Students in NL
James Scott Johnston
Dec 20, 2018
Philosophy of education is variously understood; to some, it is the discipline in education that gets at ‘big questions’ or ‘first things,’ i.e. metaphysical and moral grounds, principles, and rules that purport to provide a...
Published by: The Morning Watch: Educational and Social Analysis
The Phenomenon of the Voice
Robert E. Dunn
Nov 19, 2013
Let me begin with an anecdote. A dear friend, who is a fine instrumentalist, recently recounted to me the following experience. He was working with some instrumentalists and some singers. At one point in the rehearsal, he said...
Published by: Faculty of Education
Research on Value-Added Effect of Venture Capital on Enterprises Based on Data Mining Technology
Nini Xu
Feb 21, 2022
Based on data mining technology, this paper introduces venture capital, which is an external strategic investor factor, and takes the maximization of enterprise value as the goal, and discusses the characteristics of the optimal...
Published by: IGI Global
Augustine’s ‘Si comprehendis, non est Deus’ – To what extent is God incomprehensible?
Jean Grondin
Feb 05, 2018
The idea of God is one from which contemporary philosophy, to say nothing ofWestern society at large, seems to have turned away from or replaced by otherquests. There is however no greater and more vital subject than the idea of...
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
"YOU DEAL WITH WHAT SHE SENDS"
Nicholas Hartmann
Dec 09, 2013
ON A FREQUENT BASIS IN the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, a father, knowing that he will not be able to say goodbye to his children in the early hours of the morning, gives them a more intense goodnight hug before...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
KEQ NIT MEHSI LIWIHTOMON? WHY DO YOU SAY IT THAT WAY? USING LINGUISTIC KNOWLEDGE IN NATIVE LANGUAGE CURRICULUM
Robert M. Leavitt
Jul 30, 2013
Incorporating linguistic knowledge into native language curriculum is essential if learners are to find their way into the language's structure, patterns, and ways of constructing meanings and expressing ideas. For example...
Published by: Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association
Uvvatuq Naluallangniaqtugut (I Humbly Hope We Run Into Game)
Uvvatuq naluallangniaqtugut (I humbly hope we run into game) is a phrase an Iñupiaq person would say before going out hunting in the Selawik dialect. We believe all things have a spirit, including animals. If a hunter announces...
Published by: The Morning Watch: Educational and Social Analysis
Advanced Counselling
Chris Cumby
Mar 17, 2017
Student counsellors must develop introspective awareness over the course of their programs. This may be a difficult task for some, as it requires patience, self-awareness, and the motivation to develop the skill more fully. As a...
Published by: The Morning Watch: Educational and Social Analysis
Editor's Note
Sean J. McGrath
Aug 29, 2018
The North American Schelling Society (NASS) was founded in 2011 with the intention of raising F.W.J. Schelling’s profile in the English-speaking academy by facilitating the collaborative research of those philosophers who work...
Published by: Memorial University Libraries
“Spiritual Acoustics”
Kevin Hart
Aug 28, 2017
Kierkegaard steadily maintains, against Lessing, that Jesus’s contemporaries had no advantage as regards faith merely because they had personal experience of him. It is a view proposed both by Johannes Climacus and...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland