Patrick Brown is an independent scholar in Honolulu, Hawaii. Before moving to Hawaii, he taught in the philosophy department and the school of law at Seattle University. Brown received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Boston...
This study examines two aspects of the role of gender in linguistic attitudes. First, it studies the issue of the dimensions which underlie linguistic attitudes, in particular whether features of masculinity and femininity play...
There is a predicted potential of 42 000MW stored in tidal energy off the coast of Canada which remains widely untapped by the energy industries.Although there has been significant research and development done in the tidal...
James Duffy received his Ph.D. from Fordham University. Currently he teaches English as a second language at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey in Mexico. He is also coordinating a series of ongoing...
A century of British colonial rule over a population of Chinese majority has resulted in a special culture of Hong Kong. While the local people have maintained a considerable amount of the traditional Chinese culture, a very...
The COVID-19 pandemic was associated with significant increases in sleep disorder symptoms and chronic worry. We previously demonstrated that worry about the pandemic was more strongly associated with subsequent insomnia than...
This fourth essay carries forward the search for a normative empirical economics by focusing on the challenge of finding out just what could be meant by speaking of money as promise. While the essay does not blossom out into a...
Knowledge of vocal improvised music, whether demonstrated by high or low obscure pitch sounds, the beating of the chest while making music sounds, vocal pitch matching or vocal animation with or without the use of technology...
This first essay of the volume sets the scene for the cumulative work of the five contributors. The issue is the emergence of a genuine science of economics that is based on identifying the real, and simple, variables of...
Singers both rejoice and suffer under the weight of their instrument. It becomes not only a major part of their identity but, in many cases, it becomes their central or "master status" (Hughes, 1945). This research examines the...
We provide this introduction as a brief attempt at supplying a wider context for the essays in the tribute volume. We intend it only as a kind of invitation to begin the climb toward what Phil called “expectational reading and...
This article is an exegesis of the works of Karl Marx and other Marxist theoreticians concerning how ideological constructions play a role in the formation of social relations of production and the reproduction of these...
The key concepts of digital forensic investigation in cloud computing are examination and investigation. Cybercriminals target cloud-based web applications due to presence of vulnerabilities. Forensic investigation is a complex...
James Duffy received his Ph.D. from Fordham University. Currently he teaches English as a second language at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey in Mexico. He is also coordinating a series of ongoing...
Non-Factoid Question Answering (QA) is the next generation of textual QA systems, which gives passage level summaries for a natural language query, posted by the user. The main issue lies in the appropriateness of the generated...
Teacher professional development programs typically do not meet teachers' ongoing, long-term needs that arise. In this chapter, the authors forward a systematic framework called responsive online professional development (ROPD)...