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Trumping Reason
Roy Schwartzman
Jun 04, 2021
Why does support for Donald Trump remain resilient despite the preponderance of arguments and evidence that should refute so many of his claims? The answer lies in how Trump's rhetoric fully embraces intuitively based rationales...
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Service, Openness and Engagement as Digitally-Based Enablers of Public Value?
Jeffrey Roy
Jul 01, 2019
Public value creation is increasingly viewed as a central pivot of a government's digital transformation. The objective of this article is twofold: to better understand some of the major inhibitors of public value creation...
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COVIDiots and Cogency
The COVID-19 pandemic in the United States spawns a perplexing polemic. Intransigent coronavirus skeptics who defy public health recommendations often get cast as ideological zealots or as perniciously ignorant. Both...
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Risky Jews
Roy Schwartzman
Jun 04, 2021
Focusing on many previously untranslated articles in popular national magazines and newspapers, as well as works by prominent racial theorists, this chapter traces how outrage was systematically fomented against Jews in Nazi-era...
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Artificial Intelligence-Empowered Chatbot for Effective COVID-19 Information Delivery to Older Adults
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic poses a threat to the everyday life of people worldwide and brings challenges to the global health system. During this outbreak, it is critical to find creative ways to extend the...
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Whale Optimization Algorithm-Based DG Allotment for Loss Minimization of Distribution Networks
For optimum placement of distributed generation (DG) units in balanced radial distribution network for loss minimization, implementation of whale optimization algorithm (WOA), a state-of-the-art meta-heuristic optimization...
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Oppositional GOA Applied to Renewable Energy-Based Multi-Objective Economic Emission Dispatch
The renewable economic emission transmit is a significant and new assignment in the modern power system. This article develops oppositional grasshopper optimization algorithm (OGOA) which depends on the social dealings of the...
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Impact of Service Quality on Satisfaction
In this present work, Retail Service Quality Scale (RSQS) developed by Dabholkar et. al. (1996) has been used to measure service quality. For the purpose of examining the dimensionality of the scales a confirmatory factor...
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Melanoma Detection From Lesion Images Using Optimized Features Selected by Metaheuristic Algorithms
This paper deals with a simple but efficient method for detection of deadly malignant melanoma with optimized hand-crafted feature sets selected by three alternative metaheuristic algorithms, namely Particle Swarm Optimization...
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Backtracking Search Algorithm With Single and Multi-Objective Function for the Solution of Optimal Power Flow Problem
This manuscript investigates the performance of the backtracking search algorithm (BSA) to minimize various objectives for an economical and secure power system. A variety of single and multi - objectives are delineated and...
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Beyond the Rupture
Meighan Mantei
Dec 12, 2021
This article presents an autoethnographic exploration into the disruption of my PhD field research with children and youth because of the COVID-19 pandemic. My exploration bridges what Roy has called the “rupture” of the...
Ranking Barriers of Supply Chain Management by MCDM Method During Disaster Management
Disasters are often described as a result of the combination of the exposure to a hazard, the conditions of vulnerability that are present, and insufficient capacity or measures to reduce or cope with the potential negative...
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Determinants of Influencer Credibility and Platform Credibility to Understand the Effectiveness of Indian Fashion Influencers
The concept of influencer marketing refers to the use of selected influencers to create and promote branded content to the influencer’s followers and the brand’s selected target market. Fashion Influencers on social media are...
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Evaluation of Diagnostic Performance of Machine Learning Algorithms to Classify the Fetal Heart Rate Baseline From Cardiotocograph
Cardiotocography (CTG) is the widely used cost-effective, non-invasive technique to monitor the fetal heart and mother’s uterine contraction pressure to assess the wellbeing of the fetus. The most important parameters of fetal...
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Smart Technologies, Digital Competencies, and Workforce Development
A mixed methods case study of the Government of Canada provides a lens through which the skills development and training and development challenges confronting the public sector in an era of digitization and smart technologies...
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An Efficient Fog Layer Task Scheduling Algorithm for Multi-Tiered IoT Healthcare Systems
IoT-based healthcare systems are becoming popular due to the extreme benefits patients, families, physicians, hospitals, and insurance companies are getting. Cloud is used traditionally for almost every IoT application, but...
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Taxonomy on EEG Artifacts Removal Methods, Issues, and Healthcare Applications
Electroencephalogram (EEG) signals are progressively growing data widely known as biomedical big data, which is applied in biomedical and healthcare research. The measurement and processing of EEG signal result in the...
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