in this paper we set out to accomplish several goals. primarily, we seek to re-interpret guy debord’s (1967) work the society of the spectacle in light of modern-day schooling, principally within north america (although we recognize the global connectivity inherent in any current discussion of formal education). in addition, we aim to utilize debord’s conceptualizations as a series of means and...

in this paper we set out to accomplish several goals. primarily, we seek to re-interpret guy debord’s (1967) work the society of the spectacle in light of modern-day schooling, principally within north america (although we recognize the global connectivity inherent in any current discussion of formal education). in addition, we aim to utilize debord’s conceptualizations as a series of means and...

A parallel corpus of texts in English and in Inuktitut, an Inuit language, is presented. These texts are from the Nunavut Hansards. The parallel texts are processed in two phases, the sentence alignment phase and the word correspondence phase. Our sentence alignment technique achieves a precision of 91.4% and a recall of 92.3%. Our word correspondence technique is aimed at providing the broades...

In recent years, “News Curation Services” that recommend news articles on the internet to user have been popular. In this study, we propose a new “News Curation Service” that collects and recommends novel articles by using semantic relationships between events in the news articles that a user feels interest. The semantic relationships between events are represented by Linked Data. In order to r...

News materials are reports on events occurring in a given time and location. Looking at the influence of individual event, an event that has news reported worldwide is strategically more important than one that is only covered by local news agencies. In fact, news coverage of an event can accurately determine the event’s importance and potential impact on the society. In this paper, we present ...

WEMM:Department of Animal Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27695-7621. JB, JO’C: Department of Anatomy, Physiological Science and Radiology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27695-8401.␣ AB, GN: United States Animal Health Technical Services, The Upjohn Company, Kalamazoo, Michigan 49001. Effect of injecting sows with prostaglandin F2α ...

William C. Goodman Employment in hospitals is subject to influences that are not related to the business cycle and responds to the business cycle in an unusual way. The trends of employment in hospitals therefore contrast with those of total employment, especially during cyclical downturns. Apart from the effect of the business cycle, demographic and technological changes influence hospital job...

Based on the insights learned from the case analysis of the Facebook News Feed outcry, we develop a theoretical understanding that identifies major drivers and impediments of information disclosure in Online Social Networks (OSNs). Research propositions are derived to highlight the roles of privacy behavioral responses, privacy concerns, perceived information control, trust in OSN providers, tr...