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A Tribute to Philip McShane
Robert Gerard Henman
Mar 16, 2022
Robert Henman lectured in philosophy, ethics, Child Studies, and Peace Studies at Mount St. Vincent University, Halifax, Canada for 35 years. He is the author of The Child as Quest (University Press of America, 1984), Global...
Letter from McShane to Henman
Philip McShane
Mar 21, 2022
A letter from Philip McShane to Robert Henman handwritten during the last week of June 2020.
Participatory E-Planning With Civic Crowdfunding
Robert Goodspeed
Apr 01, 2019
Civic crowdfunding, or recruiting participants and collecting financial donations online for local development projects with public benefits, is an increasingly popular method for participatory e-Planning at the neighborhood...
Published by: IGI Global
How Game Designers Can Account for Those With Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) When Designing Game Experiences
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a prevalent neurodevelopmental disability among gamers where individuals belonging to this group of conditions have difficulty understanding non-verbal cues. Though game accessibility is a focal...
Published by: IGI Global
Analyzing Strategic Entrepreneurship Among Women Entrepreneurs of Jammu and Kashmir
In an emerging nation like India, entrepreneurship has the ability to present a solution for many problems related to the economy. The Union territory (UT) of Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) has grave issues of high unemployment and low...
Published by: IGI Global
Designing and Adapting Services to Create Value Outside a Hospital Using Blockchain Architecture
As healthcare systems develop innovative services to create value for patients outside the hospital or clinical care facility, they face a major challenge. They need a communication architecture to support the sharing of...
Published by: IGI Global
Image Features Based Intelligent Apple Disease Prediction System
A pattern classifier (PC) is used to solve a variety of non-separable and complex computing problems. One of the key problems is to efficiently predict a type of disease in a typical fruit tree. The timely and accurately...
Published by: IGI Global
The Sensitivity of Research on COVID-19
Sumeer Gul, Rosy Jan
Jan 01, 2022
Beall’s list heavily used as a base for selection of predatory journals by large no. of research studies was ceased from internet in 2017. Thus, status of journal declared as predatory in list is debatable. To verify ...
Published by: IGI Global
The Evolution of Data Science
Is data science a new field of study or simply an extension or specialization of a discipline that already exists, such as statistics, computer science, or mathematics? This article explores the evolution of data science as a...
Published by: IGI Global
A Mediated Approach to the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE)
This paper examines the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) in relation to its implication for academic libraries in the 21st century. It sheds light on how technological development has had major impacts in the academic library...
Published by: IGI Global
Preserving the Pronunciations of Newfoundland: Place Names
Robert Hollett
Sep 10, 2013
The number of settlements scattered throughout the 230,130 square kilometres that compose Newfoundland and Labrador is shrinking rapidly. In 1921, the Newfoundland and Labrador census recorded 1489 communities. The 1991 census...
Teaching Foundations in Peace Studies
Robert Henman
Oct 20, 2010
This article explores the relation of serious theoretical reflection to effective teaching and practice. The article explores the curiosity of the human person as a foundation to Peace Studies. It also attempts to show that...
Pro-Environmental Behaviour of EU Citizens
This article examines the pro-environmental behaviour of EU citizens and the potential connection with their attitudes towards common environmental legislation and environmental standards. It analyses factors of the...
Published by: IGI Global
Efficiency and Equity in the Spatial Planning of Primary Schools
The shrinking populations of many regions in Portugal have led to a debate on the criteria which should guide the restructuring of public services at the local scale, and namely how to balance raising per capita costs with...
Published by: IGI Global
Enhanced Bootstrapping Algorithm for Automatic Annotation of Tweets
Annotations are critical in various text mining tasks such as opinion mining, sentiment analysis, word sense disambiguation. Supervised learning algorithms start with the training of the classifier and require manually annotated...
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A Cross-Country Network Analysis of Resilience Systems in Young Adults.
Multisystemic resilience has been conceptualised as involving a constellation of protective factors which operate at different levels to promote adaptation and thriving despite experiences of adversity. We used network modelling...
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Evaluating Social Change Games
The RETAIN Model is a game design and evaluation model for serious games. In this study, educators evaluated social change web-based and mobile app games using the RETAIN model rubric. In general, web-based games scored higher...
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Exploring Consumers' Intention to Adopt Mobile Payment Systems in Ghana
In this paper, we examined consumers’ intention to adopt and use mobile payment method in Ghana. Data for the study was obtained from a sample of 260 respondents through online and direct survey using structured questionnaire....
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Letters Never Written
Robert Pozeg
May 17, 2018
The form of this autoethnography is a set of letters that were never written. The letters tell a story of personal experience to convey content, underlying perspectives, and overarching topics. This story positions you to be an...

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