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“Solve the Big Problems”
Blended learning remains at the top of higher education/technology issues lists despite having been in practice on college and university campuses for 20 years. However, a review of blended learning research literature suggests...
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Mid and Low Vowels in Southeastern French
Alain Thomas
Sep 30, 2014
In this article, we present the partial results of a survey of French pronunciationin southeastern France, where the local variants are more and more threatened bystandard French (SF). In order to document this process, we have...
The Gift of Drugs
Mohammed Hamdan
Dec 14, 2022
This article argues that Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater subverts the colonial representation of foreign places by providing a counter geographical narrative of English imperialism. De Quincey’s...
Francitan vs. Standard French Pronunciation in Southeastern France
Alain Thomas
Nov 19, 2013
This article presents the results of a survey on French pronunciation in the Nice (France) area, which attempts to determine whether southern pronunciation is being lost in that region and, if so, to what extent, on which...
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...
A System Dynamics Approach to SME Resilience Under the Economic Stress of the COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic reshapes our knowledge and reconceptualises our belief in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) as more flexible and resilient than bigger organisations under difficult socioeconomic conditions. The critical...
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Delivering Higher Education in Public Health Emergencies
Thomas Songu
Jan 01, 2022
With the general closure of universities and schools in Sierra Leone due to the COVID-19 pandemic, digital learning has become a credible alternative to maintain students in educational, training, and research links. The study...
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A Liberating Curricula as a Social Responsibility for Promoting Social Justice and Student Success Within the UK Higher Education Institution (HEI)
Dave Thomas
Jul 20, 2018
Integrating corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities as part of a higher education institution (HEI) organisational strategies and practices to address economic and social inequality is no longer a new phenomenon. This...
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The Method and Structure of Schelling’s Late Philosophy
Thomas Buchheim
Dec 20, 2020
The period of Schelling’s final mature philosophy started with his appointment to Berlin (1840), where he undertook a profound revision of his Philosophy of Mythology and Revelation (which he still considered to be purely...
Organization and Management Past to Present
Thomas Joseph
Apr 01, 2020
This article examined the historical evolution of organization and management theories and their applicability to practice in modern enterprise. Management and organizational theories each add something to the awareness of what...
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Ethics in Organization and Management
Thomas Joseph
Jul 01, 2020
A fundamental challenge for scholars and practitioners of organization and management is the integration of theoretical ethics with practical decision-making. This article discusses the historical evolution of ethics in...
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Comparing Phonetic Characteristics of African American and European American Speech
African American English (AAE) has been studied more heavily, by far, than anyother forms of American English. Nevertheless, much of the emphasis has beenplaced on morphosyntactic variants and its phonetic characteristics are...
McShane’s Influence on My Understanding of Lonergan (and of myself)
Pierrot Lambert
Mar 16, 2022
Pierrot Lambert is the author of Bernard Lonergan: Introduction à sa vie et à son œuvre (Montréal: Guérin, 2008), co-author (with Charlotte Tansey and Cathleen Going) of Caring about Meaning: Patterns in the Life of Bernard...
Pinellas Bayway Bridge Replacement
Thomas Wadden
Apr 18, 2013
Pinellas County is comprised of various coastal cities located on the west coast of Florida, U.S. With over 50 kilometres of sandy beaches, this area is a popular destination for regional, national and international visitors. As...
Need We Train Online Instructors?
In an online setting, it is critical to understand the factors that influence learning outcomes and student satisfaction. Group work or collaborative learning is frequently prescribed as a vital part of online classes. Learning...
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Economic, Agronomic, and Environmental Benefits From the Adoption of Precision Agriculture Technologies
Precision agriculture (PA) as an integrated information- and production-based farming system is designed to delivery high-end technology solutions to increase farm production efficiency and profitability while minimizing...
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Concrete Ceilings
This research consisted of qualitative interviews with 21 Black women who currently held, had held, or were qualified for managerial-level positions in the public service sector. The research questions were as follows: (1) What...
Emergent Bilinguals in Rural Schools
This chapter explores rural teacher attitudes towards emergent bilinguals at the secondary level before, during, and after translanguaging professional development. Within the current political climate, accountability measures...
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Achieving Conformance to Document Standards
In the context of long-term archival of digital assets, file formats that are standardized and designed for longevity such as PDF/A are preferred. However, due to the complexity of and ambiguities in PDF standards, it is far...
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A Framework to Identify Influences of Environmental Legislation on Corporate Green Intellectual Capital, Innovation, and Environmental Performance
The aim of this paper is to examine the Porter hypothesis which defines that environmental regulations, under certain circumstances, could have positive effects on corporate environmental and economic performance. The majority...
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Restoration of the Barataria Basin Barrier Islands
Steven Thomas Kent
Apr 09, 2013
Barataria Bay is located on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, immediately south of New Orleans, LA. The southern half of the basin consists of approximately 1,900km2 of marshland and 600km2 of swampland. These wetlands are all...
Knowledge Sharing and the Improvement of Service Delivery in an Academic Library
Knowledge can play an important role in ascertaining an organization’s competitive edge if the knowledge of employees is nurtured and utilized as an asset with a potential to improve service delivery. The study focused on...
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Allocation of Residential Areas in Smart Insular Communities
Smart cities and communities constitute urban environments where cities' potential, ICTs, and human capital are intelligently interconnected under the framework of sustainability. Citizens form a city's identity while ICTs...
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Confounding Complexity of Machine Action
Henrik Sætra
Jan 01, 2021
In this article, the core concepts in Thomas Hobbes's framework of representation and responsibility are applied to the question of machine responsibility and the responsibility gap and the retribution gap. The method is...
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