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Personas, the Pandemic, and Inclusive, Synthetic, Smart City Planning
In the era of COVID-19 planners, and more broadly, city administrators and policy makers, have learned to cope with the accelerated pace of change, the broad band of uncertainty, and the need for rapid decision-making...
Published by: IGI Global
Mothers and Whores
Sydney White
Sep 25, 2012
This research paper argues that the intimate link between popular culture stereotypes and the media manifests in, and influences, the experience of women in politics. It analyses two major stereotypes and applies these themes to...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Using Social Media to Facilitate Instruction and Increase Marketing in Global Higher Education
The technological revolution of the past two decades has changed global higher education, particularly with the impact of social media. There are two primary functions of social media in higher education: instruction and...
Social Networking Education Educational Technologies Media and Communications Library and Information Science
Published by: IGI Global
The Application of Andragogy for the Advanced Diploma Program in Education at Saudi Arabia's Taif University
This study's aim was to explore advanced diploma program students' perceptions about the application and importance of andragogy. The study also investigated if there is a difference, by gender, among the learners' point of view...
Published by: IGI Global
Design of a Blockchain-Based Smart Contract Model for Child Labor Alleviation
The achievements of west and central Africa in producing more than 60% of the world's cocoa, and sub-Saharan Africa's achievement in producing 13% of the world's cotton, hide child labor. These significant levels of production...
Digital Divide & Developing Countries Computer Science and Information Technology IT Research and Theory
Published by: IGI Global
Through Individualistic Criticisms
Sarah Stanley
Aug 17, 2009
With the ever evolving international environment, individual stability is becoming a more pressing concern. Free trade and globalization have made the average person more interconnected and aware of people from different...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Exploration of ICT Appropriation by Disabled People and Its Effect on Self-Perceived Normalcy
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are omnipresent and define the interactions in society. Within society, there are vulnerable groups of people for whom ICT use is more challenging. Disabled people are the most...
Published by: IGI Global
Off-Farm Income Effect on Farmer Response to Climate Change in the Northern Region of Ghana
This study assessed the effect of off-farm income on maize farmers' responses to climate change in the Tolon district of Northern Region of Ghana. Using multi-stage sampling technique and semi-structured questionnaires, 150...
Published by: IGI Global
Resilience in Crisis
Teacher action research serves as a framework that can transform practice while supporting inquiry, investigation, and problem-solving. This chapter provides a research report on the challenges experienced, strategies used, and...
Research Methods Education Curriculum Development and Instructional Design Social Sciences and Humanities Library and Information Science
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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...
Environmental Technologies Environmental, Agricultural, and Physical Sciences Environmental Science and Technologies
Published by: IGI Global
An Effective Multiple Linear Regression-Based Forecasting Model for Demand-Based Constructive Farming
Demand planning plays a very strategic role in improving the performance of every business, as the planning for a whole lot of other activities depends on the accuracy and validity of this exercise. The field of agriculture is...
Published by: IGI Global
Benefits Measurement of a Plan to Reduce Hypertension in a Healthcare Foundation Using the BCTool
Leandro Pereira, Vânia Patrício, António Fernandes, José Santos, Ricardo Santos, Carlos Jerónimo, Francisco Simões
Nov 01, 2021
The hypertension is a well know problem and associated with a high salt consuming is one of the commonest chronic diseases.To measure the impact of this consuming it has been applied the methodology provided by the Business Case...
Published by: IGI Global
Health Detection of Wheat Crop Using Pattern Recognition and Image Processing
Agriculture plays a vital role in India's economy. 44% of the employment in India is engaged in agriculture and allied activities and it also contributes 17% of the gross value added. As most of the country's people are in the...
Published by: IGI Global
Puffin Island Lighouse
Sarah F Kean
Apr 09, 2013
Paper outlines the history of the Puffin Island lighthouse, why it was needed, and why it changed from a granite structure to a wood one.
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
A Knowledge Approach for the Library Sciences
Like chemistry's table of elements, the knowledge spectrum organizes a large amount of information about knowledge, dividing intelligent behavior into its essential cognitive elements. This paper describes a way to catalog...
Published by: IGI Global
Deconstructing the Romanticization of Solidarity
This article explores how COVID-19 has impacted our understanding of our frontline practice and professional identity as four doctoral social work students. When the pandemic unfolded, we were completing a collaborative...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
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
Improvement of Data Stream Decision Trees
The classification of data streams has become a significant and active research area. The principal characteristics of data streams are a large amount of arrival data, the high speed and rate of its arrival, and the change of...
Published by: IGI Global
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