COVID-19 has again exposed the inequality and injustice of race power deeply rooted in patterns, discourses institutions. I am writing this article to bring attention how we need anti-racist feminism now even more than ever. Feminism social work offers an act engagement, realization, application praxis ideas that challenges normative response rethink marginalized oppressed individuals’ suppress...

This article contains the basic structural features of a same-named Ph.D. research thesis. The main tasks are to identify three focal fields with mythological elements, whether they phenomena, objects, people, or creatures that some believe and others doubt exist. These found in various collections folk stories, contemporary literary texts as well interviews storytellers. However, focus this is...

Telling a great story often involves a deliberate alteration of emotions. In this paper, we objectively measure and analyze the narrative trajectories of stories in public speaking and their impact on subjective ratings. We conduct the analysis using the transcripts of over 2000 TED talks and estimate potential audience response using over 5 million spontaneous annotations from the viewers. We ...

This report documents the program of the Dagstuhl Seminar 12381 “Privacy-Oriented Cryptography”, which took place at Schloss Dagstuhl in September 16-21, 2012. Being the first Dagstuhl seminar that explicitly aimed to combine cryptography and privacy research communities, it attracted a high number of participants, many of whom were new to Dagstuhl. In total, the seminar was attended by 39 inte...

This wonderful book, with a foreword by Dame Evelyn Glennie is an addition to literature that considers the relationship of music and people who engage in it with the sense of hearing developed in a different way. Evelyn Glennie talks about listening in terms of sharing ideas through physical means such as facial expression and the speed or intensity of movement. She goes further in stating tha...

The authors review all aspects of a Language Arts methods course for pre-service teachers, one which employs a multi-literacies pedagogy (The New London Group, 1996) and is taught at a laptop-based university. The course begins with a deliberate immersion into the complexities of multiple literacies, including digital literacy and critical literacy. The authors outline the course assignments, r...

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Approximate query answering has recently emerged as an effective method for generating a viable answer. Among various techniques for approximate query answering, wavelets have received a lot of attention. However, wavelet techniques minimizing the root squared error (i.e., the L2 norm error) have several problems such as the poor quality of reconstructed data when the original data is biased. I...