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"Rape me, I’m Irish"
Jemma Tosh
Dec 31, 2015
Well documented experiences of the Irish diaspora in England include humiliation, discrimination, and higher rates of suicide and psychiatric intervention (Hickman, 2000). However, the construction of the Irish in relation to...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
The Expansion of Approximant /r/ in Dutch
Renée Van Bezooijen
Sep 30, 2014
In present-day Standard Dutch as spoken in the Netherlands, three main categories of pronunciation variants of Irl can be distinguished, namely alveolar /r/, uvular /r/, and approximant /r/. Approximant /r/, the focus of this...
Published by: Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association
STOP AND GO (AWAY)
TO UNDERSTAND THE LINGUISTIC CLIMATE of Newfoundland, one must look not only at the linguistic variation that exists among Newfoundland speakers, but also at what underlies and drives this variation. It is clear that social...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Supporting Patient-led Initiatives to Improve Healthcare
In modern times, the main disease structure has changed from infectious disease to chronic disease, and many people are now living with illness. Despite the patients' current situation, society still expects people with disease...
Published by: IGI Global
Paratext Analysis of Patronage Factors
Hu Liu
Jan 01, 2021
Drawing on André Lefevere's rewriting theory, this paper endeavours to explore how Howard Goldblatt translates Mo Yan's novel Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out (hereafter referred to as L&D) with regard to patronage control by...
Published by: IGI Global
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...
Published by: IGI Global
Better Not Let Me Know
Customers' concerns about inappropriate use of personal information can create potential threats that jeopardize the proliferation of emerging markets. This study aims at investigating how the adaptive and maladaptive responses...
Published by: IGI Global
The Phenomenon of the Voice
Robert E. Dunn
Nov 19, 2013
Let me begin with an anecdote. A dear friend, who is a fine instrumentalist, recently recounted to me the following experience. He was working with some instrumentalists and some singers. At one point in the rehearsal, he said...
Published by: Faculty of Education
My Nail-biting Challenge
Abena Boachie
Oct 01, 2018
This paper is a three-week journey of gathering personal data about my nail-biting challenge. It borrows the idea from the “Dear data Project” by Georgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec to frame a personal experience with nail-biting...
Published by: The Morning Watch: Educational and Social Analysis
A Diagnosis of Schizophrenia
Joanna Ruth Fox
Jun 23, 2015
I reflect on how lived experiences that are derived from service user expert knowledge have the potential to confront stigmatization, which is encountered widely by people who have a diagnosis of schizophrenia. The implications...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Dialectic and the Emergence of Explicit Metaphysics
David Oyler
Feb 24, 2020
I am going to sketch the personal role of dialectic in the emergence of explicit metaphysics. Of necessity, it is a sketch since a full account would require more than an essay. If we consider the full sweep of Lonergan’s views...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
A Flipped Instructional Design as an Online Pedagogy Enabling Student Learning in an ODeL Course
Micheal van Wyk
Nov 01, 2021
The growing body of literature is reporting positive results when it comes to flipped learning which across disciplines and contexts involves student-centered, technology-integrated teaching. Using a systematic scoping review...
Published by: IGI Global
End-User Perceptions on Information Security
Shandre Jansen van Rensburg
Nov 01, 2021
Information is a vital asset needed by many organizations to function effectively. However, this asset can easily be compromised thus its protection is crucial to the efficacy of an organization. A common information security...
Published by: IGI Global
Sewing the quilt of fragmented experiences
Haley Toll
Oct 01, 2018
In this reflexive self-study, I interweave the heuristic analysis of dreams with reflections on research and data collection processes, as a first-year PhD student, to discover and contemplate my personal ontologies and...
Published by: The Morning Watch: Educational and Social Analysis
Between Violence and Its Representation
Teresa Macías
Feb 02, 2016
This paper explores the ethics of archival research by reflecting on the challenges of doing research with highly descriptive and gruesome archived testimonies of torture. This reflection leads me to unpack the character of...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
How to Humanize Technology in Smart Cities
Zvi Weinstein
Jul 01, 2020
The article describes a personal point of view on the relationships between technology innovations in smart cities and how they are used for the benefits of the residents. Are they technologically or humanly characterized? Are...
Published by: IGI Global
Convolutional Neural Network Integrated With Fuzzy Rules for Decision Making in Brain Tumor Diagnosis
Conventional methods used in brain tumors detection, diagnosis, and classification such as magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography scanning technologies are unbridged in their results. This paper presents a proposed...
Published by: IGI Global
Incomplete reporting of complex interventions
Reporting of intervention research has been inadequate for many years. The development and promotion of freely available checklists aims to address this problem by providing researchers with a list of items that require...
reproducibility complex interventions Research Integrity Journal Editors Submission Guidelines Reporting Checklists Humans Publishing Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic Checklist
Published by: Trials
Can You Help Me Stay Fit?
The main purpose of this study is to reveal the impact of consumer satisfaction on continuance intention to use wearable fitness devices. Building upon the IS Continuance Intention Model, the authors explored the effects of...
Published by: IGI Global
Academic Experiences of “Zoom-Fatigue” as a Virtual Streaming Phenomenon During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This phenomenological exploratory multiple-case study design was conducted at an open distance e-learning university and a traditional contact residential university and it was found that the participants viewed video...
Published by: IGI Global
How Lifestyle Medicine Drove Me to the Hospital
Claire Neilson
Jan 31, 2023
A personal story of healthy living taken too far by a first year medical student
Published by: Memorial University Libraries
Research on the Aging Voice
Published by: Faculty of Education
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