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Laying the First Transatlantic Cable
Matthew Alexander
Apr 09, 2013
In the early 1800s the electrical telegraph was developed to transmit written messages through a wire. By 1850 there was a submarine telegraph cable laid beneath the English Channel followed by a cable across the Cabot Strait in...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Mathematical Models of Desire, Need, Attention, and Will Effort
Alexander Ovsich
Jan 25, 2017
According to Spinoza, “Love is nothing else but pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause”. Author proposes that desire is nothing else but a change of pleasure accompanied by the idea of its cause, that terms...
Biologically-Inspired Computing Computer Science and Information Technology Artificial Intelligence Media and Communications
Published by: IGI Global
Prevention and Resolution of Labor Disputes
The study covers preventive dispute resolution methods in industrial relations, as well as empirical testing of hypotheses regarding labor disputes in Russia. The hypothesis regarding the impact of the number of laid-off...
Published by: IGI Global
Infants, Toddlers, and Technology in Early Childhood Settings
This chapter addresses how early childhood professionals can implement technology in early childhood settings with infants and toddlers. Early childhood educators face complex expectations to ensure children learn and develop...
Educational Technologies Education K-12 Education Computer Science and Information Technology Social Sciences and Humanities
Published by: IGI Global
A single-cell comparison of adult and fetal human epicardium defines the age-associated changes in epicardial activity.
Buried graphene heterostructures for electrostatic doping of low-dimensional materials.
Alexander Gumprich, Julian Liedtke, Sarah Beck, Irina Chirca, Teja Potočnik, Jack Alexander-Webber, Stephan Hofmann, Stefan Tappertzhofen
Apr 13, 2023
The fabrication and characterization of steep slope transistor devices based on low-dimensional materials requires precise electrostatic doping profiles with steep spatial gradients in order to maintain maximum control over the...
Infants, Toddlers, and Technology in Early Childhood Settings
This chapter addresses how early childhood professionals can implement technology in early childhood settings with infants and toddlers. Early childhood educators face complex expectations to ensure children learn and develop...
Published by: IGI Global
Development of an Information Research Platform for Data-Driven Agriculture
Takahiro Kawamura, Tetsuo Katsuragi, Akio Kobayashi, Motoko Inatomi, Masataka Oshiro, Hisashi Eguchi
Jan 01, 2022
Comprehensive research data are acknowledged as a necessity for research acceleration. Research institutes and universities are engaged in developing research data management systems. The National Agriculture and Food Research...
Published by: IGI Global
Optimizing for High Resolution ADC Model With Combined Architecture
High resolution analog-digital conversion (ADC) is a key instrument to convert analog signals to digital signals, which is deployed in data acquisition system to match high resolution analog signals from seismometers systems. To...
Published by: IGI Global
Maxmin Data Range Heuristic-Based Initial Centroid Method of Partitional Clustering for Big Data Mining
The centroid-based clustering algorithm depends on the number of clusters, initial centroid, distance measures, and statistical approach of central tendencies. The initial centroid initialization algorithm defines convergence...
Published by: IGI Global
The Relationship of Classroom Behavior and Income Inequality to Literacy in Early Childhood
This chapter addresses the association between nurturing prosocial classroom behavior in young children, literacy, and income inequality. Literacy will be explored as it relates to social competence in the classroom as...
Culture & Population Studies Education Curriculum Development and Instructional Design Social Sciences and Humanities Media and Communications
Published by: IGI Global
The Relationship of Classroom Behavior and Income Inequality to Literacy in Early Childhood
This chapter addresses the association between nurturing prosocial classroom behavior in young children, literacy, and income inequality. Literacy will be explored as it relates to social competence in the classroom as...
Educational Technologies Education K-12 Education Computer Science and Information Technology Social Sciences and Humanities
Published by: IGI Global
A FRT - SVD Based Blind Medical Watermarking Technique for Telemedicine Applications
In this article, a blind and robust medical image watermarking technique based on Finite Ridgelet Transform (FRT) and Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) is proposed. A host medical image is first transformed into 16 × 16...
Published by: IGI Global
The Role of Business and Engineering Decisions in the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
Mark Alexander Reynolds
Apr 09, 2013
On April 20th, 2010, the semi-submersible oil rig Deepwater Horizon exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 crew members and allowing crude oil to spill continuously from the seabed. Despite numerous attempts to cap the leak...
Civil Engineering ENGI 8751, CASE STUDY, CIVIL, DEEPWATER HORIZON, OIL SPILL, ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER, BUSINESS ETHICS, OIL RIG
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Dynamic Impact of Government Expenditure and Debt Policy Instruments on Agricultural Growth in Nigeria
This research examined the impact of government expenditure and debt policy instruments on agricultural growth in Nigeria for the period 1980-2018. Findings revealed that, for every billion rise in aggregate government...
Global Information Technology Computer Science and Information Technology Global Information Technology
Published by: IGI Global
Powerpoint Presentation Evaluation Based on Aggregation of Quality Criteria
Today, there is no consensus about proper timing and conditions for integration of PowerPoint presentations into the educational process. But the model-based evaluation can make a decision-making process easier when it comes to...
Published by: IGI Global
Monitoring Practitioner's Skills in Pure-Tone Audiometry
So far, there exists no standard, to evaluate a practitioner's skills in pure-tone audiometry. To narrow the gap, this article presents an artificial patient (AP) emulating various types of hearing impairment. In contrast to...
Published by: IGI Global
Using Digital Technologies to Improve the Efficiency of Discussion Environments for Economics Students During COVID-19
The article is devoted to studying the impact of digital technologies on providing an efficient educational discussion environment against the background of isolation and social distancing caused by COVID-19 preventive measures....
Published by: IGI Global
The Terahertz Channel Modeling in Internet of Multimedia Design In-Body Antenna
In this paper, the authors have emphasized on the perspectives of the Terahertz channel modeling in Internet of multimedia nano things (IoMNT) networks. A modulation technique targeting body-centric network is discussed. An...
Published by: IGI Global
A single-cell comparison of adult and fetal human epicardium defines the age-associated changes in epicardial activity
Vincent R. Knight-Schrijver, Hongorzul Davaapil, Semih Bayraktar, Alexander D. B. Ross, Kazumasa Kanemaru, James Cranley, Monika Dabrowska, Minal Patel, Krzysztof Polanski, Xiaoling He, Ludovic Vallier, Sarah Teichmann, Laure Gambardella, Sanjay Sinha
Apr 11, 2023
Hybrid Firefly-Ontology-Based Clustering Algorithm for Analyzing Tweets to Extract Causal Factors
Social media especially Twitter has become ubiquitous among people where they express their opinions on various domains. This paper presents a Hybrid Firefly – Ontology-based Clustering (FF-OC) algorithm which attempts to...
Published by: IGI Global
The Role of Awareness for Complex Planning Task Performance
This study introduces the concept of microgames to support situated learning in order to foster situational awareness (SA) of planners in seaport container terminals. In today's complex working environments, it is often...
Published by: IGI Global
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