Project Pad, an open-source endeavor under development at Northwestern University, is an integrated web-based set of tools for searching, organizing, annotating and analyzing objects from digital repositories, for integrating those objects and analyses into web-based projects and for group exchange and decision making. It supports synchronous interaction between users and interaction with media...

Implementation of authentic leadership can affect not only the nursing workforce and the profession but the healthcare delivery system and society as a whole. Creating a healthy work environment for nursing practice is crucial to maintain an adequate nursing workforce; the stressful nature of the profession often leads to burnout, disability, and high absenteeism and ultimately contributes to t...

This study aimed to understand how secondary mathematics teachers engage with learners during the teaching and learning process. A sample of six participants was purposively selected from a population ordinary level in one urban setting Zimbabwe. Field notes lesson observations audio-taped teachers’ narrations interviews constituted data for which thematic analysis technique then applied determ...

This study developed and tested a theory-based measure of authentic leadership using five separate samples obtained from China, Kenya, and the United States. Confirmatory factor analyses supported a higher order, multidimensional model of the authentic leadership construct (the Authentic Leadership Questionnaire [ALQ]) comprising leader self-awareness, relational transparency, internalized mora...

The rapid development of speech synthesis technology has significantly improved the naturalness and human-likeness synthetic speech. As technical barriers for are rapidly lowering, number illegal activities such as fraud extortion is increasing, posing a significant threat to authentication systems, automatic speaker verification. This paper proposes an end-to-end detection model based on audio...

Vocabulary is an important component of language proficiency which provides the basis for learners’ performance in other skills. But, since vocabulary learning seems to be so demanding, learners tend to forget newly-learnt words quite soon. In order to identify vocabulary learning conditions which can produce a more lasting effect, this study investigated the effect of three kinds of gloss cond...

With their audio-visual capacity, linguistic and non-linguistic content, WhatsApp group video calls appear to have great potential for encouraging EFL learners' speaking development. However, the literature has yet establish degree which promote English learning motivation self-efficacy, reduce anxiety, authentic self-assessment, or urge teachers students improve digital literacy. Therefore, th...

Handwriting experts are usually required to differentiate between authentic and forged signatures. Therefore, it is important to develop an objective system to identify forged handwriting, or at least to identify those handwritings that are likely to be forged. Forgers often forge handwriting in terms of shape and size by carefully copying or tracing the authentic handwriting. We hypothesize, t...