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Newcomer Integration and Academic Support in Newfoundland and Labrador
This article extracts eight points for discussion from many years of research in newcomer academic support and social integration in Newfoundland and Labrador. These points include: transportation to school for newcomer...
Published by: The Morning Watch: Educational and Social Analysis
Newcomers, Creative Spaces, and Connection Through Art
Historically, the island of Newfoundland has had a culturally homogeneous population. For this reason, newcomers report a distressing insider/outsider dynamic of disconnect and challenges accessing local social support systems...
Published by: The Morning Watch: Educational and Social Analysis
Relationship Between Computer-Mediated Communication Competence and Attitude Toward Using Frog VLE Among Secondary School Teachers
This study aims at examining the relationship between teacher computer-mediated communication (CMC) competence and teacher attitude toward using Frog VLE a virtual learning platform. This is a non-experimental research using a...
Published by: IGI Global
I Think We Should…
Hengbin Yan
Jul 01, 2019
High-frequency recurrent word combinations known as lexical bundles are an essential component in the second language development. However, existing research on second language lexical bundle use has focused on writing...
Published by: IGI Global
Enhancing Effective Teaching and Learning of ICT in the Schools for the Blind in Ghana
The paper examines role of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Special Education in Ghana. Taking the relevant literature as the guiding principle, the paper addresses the opportunities, barriers and challenges...
Published by: IGI Global
Selecting Mobile Services in Cloud and Edge Environment by Moth-Flame Optimization Algorithm
Mobile edge computing is playing an increasingly important role in the rise of mobile internet technology. Services deployed on edge servers nearby mobile users would provide computing capabilities with low latency and high...
Published by: IGI Global
Challenges Encountered During Synchronous Online Collaborative Writing via Google Docs
Mufeeda Irshad
Nov 01, 2022
This study investigated (1) the challenges encountered by a heterogeneous group of first year undergraduates during a synchronous on-line collaborative writing activity conducted through Google Classroom using Google Docs and...
Published by: IGI Global
Making Mobile Health Information Advice Persuasive
As M-Health apps become more popular, users can access more mobile health information (MHI) through these platforms. Yet one preeminent question among both researchers and practitioners is how to bridge the gap between simply...
Published by: IGI Global
A Many-Objective Practical Swarm Optimization Based on Mixture Uniform Design and Game Mechanism
In recent years, multi-objective optimization algorithms, especially many-objective optimization algorithms, have developed rapidly and effectively.Among them, the algorithm based on particle swarm optimization has the...
Published by: IGI Global
Time Effective Cloud Resource Scheduling Method for Data-Intensive Smart Systems
The cloud computing platforms are being deployed nowadays for resource scheduling of real time data intensive applications. Cloud computing still deals with the challenge of time oriented effective scheduling for resource...
Published by: IGI Global
Strong Robustness Watermarking Algorithm Based on Lifting Wavelet Transform and Hessenberg Decomposition
Watermark imperceptibility and robustness in the present watermarking algorithm based on discrete wavelet transform (DWT) could be weakened due to data truncation. To solve this problem, a strong robustness watermarking...
Published by: IGI Global
Study on Water-Atmosphere Interface Distribution and Concentration Fluctuation Intensities of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers in Great Lake
In this study, the water-atmosphere interfaces distribution and concentration fluctuation intensities of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in Great Lake were analyzed. Based on the selected significant quantum descriptors...
Chinese Students' Perceptions of Using Mobile Devices for English Learning
The advance of mobile technology has turned portable, handheld devices into an integral part of students' daily life, and also paved the way for the rise of mobile assisted language learning. This study focused on how Chinese...
Published by: IGI Global
Development of an Eye Response-Based Mental Workload Evaluation Method
This study proposed an eye responses-based mental workload (E-MWL) evaluation method in nuclear power plants (NPPs) when performing the task via a user interface control. The fuzzy theory was used to combine four eye response...
Published by: IGI Global
The Impact of Virtual Integration on Innovation Speed
In the current environment, rapid innovation has become an essential source of time-based competitive advantage. Based on the theory of organizational information processing, this work explores the effects of virtual integration...
Published by: IGI Global
ROP Defense Using Trie Graph for System Security
Most Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) / Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) cannot defend the attacks from a Return Oriented Program (ROP) which applies code reusing and exploiting techniques without the need for code injection....
Published by: IGI Global
Water Resources Security Evaluation Based on Matter Element Model in the Yellow River Basin
Water resource is a major limitation of human survival and development. Water security assessment is an important task in the environmental protection and control of water. The solution to assess the grade of water security in...
An Agent-based Simulation-optimization Coupling Approach for Device Allocation and Operation Control in Response to Offshore Oil Spills
The efficiency of offshore oil spill response not only relies on an efficaciously global decision/planning in devices combination and allocation, but also depends on the timely control for response devices (e.g., skimmers and...
Severity and Longitudinal Course of Depression, Anxiety and Post-Traumatic Stress in Paediatric and Young Adult Cancer Patients
Ainsley Ryan Yan Bin Lee, Chun En Yau, Chen Ee Low, Jiaqi Li, Roger C M Ho, Cyrus Su Hui Ho
Apr 11, 2023
Background
A diagnosis of cancer and treatment may constitute a highly traumatic period for paediatric cancer patients (PYACPs). However, no review has comprehensively analysed how the mental health of PYACPs is acutely...
Depression Meta-Analysis Anxiety Post-traumatic stress Childhood Cancer Psychosocial Oncology Supportive Care In Cancer paediatric cancer
Published by: Journal of clinical medicine
A Study on Pollution in Livestock and Poultry Breeding in Shiyan City
With the investigation and research of agricultural ecology situation, the pollution characteristics of livestock manure were indicated by the statistical analysis of data as well as the effect of livestock and poultry breeding...
Do We Trust the Internet?
The threat profile of spyware is increasing rapidly when we consider the pervasiveness of computing in everyday life. The surreptitious nature of spyware can lead to information mining, data theft and exploitation of stolen...
Published by: IGI Global
At the Juncture of TESL, Multicultural Education, and Newcomer Integration
Xuemei Li
Dec 20, 2018
Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL) may not be a familiar term for many people in Newfoundland and Labrador, and TESL professionals in the province are a very small group. One can easily count the numbers of ESL...
Published by: The Morning Watch: Educational and Social Analysis
Analysis of Differences in Electrochemical Performance Between Coin and Pouch Cells for
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Battery Applications
Yeonguk Son, Hyungyeon Cha, Taeyong Lee, Yujin Kim, Adam Boies, Jaephil Cho, Michael De Volder
Apr 07, 2023
Small coin cell batteries are predominantly used for testing lithium‐ion batteries (LIBs) in academia because they require small amounts of material and are easy to assemble. However, insufficient attention is given to...
Do You Speak Chinese, Mandarin, or Cantonese? An Explanation Based on a Native Chinese Speaker’s Early Experience
Cheng Li
Dec 20, 2018
This article reports on my early experiences with learning and speaking varieties of Chinese, responding to the curious questions on the power relationship between Mandarin and other dialects in China today. A series of...
Published by: The Morning Watch: Educational and Social Analysis
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