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Using the Semantic Web Rule Language in the Development of Ontology-Driven Applications

The Semantic Web Rule Language (SWRL) is an expressive OWL-based rule language. SWRL allows users to write Horn-like rules that can be expressed in terms of OWL concepts to provide more powerful deductive reasoning capabilities than OWL alone. Semantically, SWRL is built on the same description logic foundation as OWL and provides similar strong formal guarantees when performing inference. Due to its description logics foundation, rule-based applications developed using SWRL have a number of relatively novel characteristics. For example, SWRL shares OWL’s open world assumption so certain types of rules that assume a closed world may be difficult or impossible to write in SWRL. In addition, all inference in SWRL is monotonic so deductions cannot be updated or retracted. These formal characteristic have a strong influence on the development and use of SWRL rules in ontology-driven applications. In this chapter, we describe the primary features of SWRL and outline how, despite some limitations, SWRL can be used to dramatically increase amount of knowledge that be represented in OWL ontologies.
Alumni Perspectives: Using Membership Within Black Fraternities To Promote Black Male Solidarity At Historically Black Colleges.

This dissertation examined the extent to which the sense of community, belonging, purpose and support of Black fraternities could be used as to enhance undergraduate black males’ persistence to graduation. Guided by a sense of community theoretical framework, semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight Black males who are Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) alumnus and members of Black fraternities. Data analysis revealed that membership within fraternities, as well as institutional cues, contributed to both positive and negative perceptions of sense of community experienced by Black males attending HBCUs. Recommendations for fraternity members and decision-makers at HBCUs include the implementation of cross-collaborative programs between Black male undergraduates who are members of fraternities and those who are not, and the consistent use of positive Black male imagery on university websites.
Primary Teachers' Knowledge and Beliefs as Predictors of Intention to Provide Evidence-Based Reading Instruction

Primary Teachers’ Knowledge and Beliefs as Predictors of Intention to Provide Evidence-Based Reading Instruction by Brandi L. Harrold MS, Walden University, 2014 BA, University of Montana, Missoula, 1999 Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Psychology
From party to leader mobilization? The personalization of voter turnout

Partisan dealignment has been frequently advanced as a pivotal driver of the personalization of voting behavior. As voters’ long-term attachments with parties have eroded, it is argued that partisanship has lost importance relative to short-term factors, like voters’ evaluations of party leaders. Such theoretical reasoning has been applied recurrently in research dedicated to explaining vote choice. However, we hypothesize that dealignment can downplay partisanship’s impact vis-à-vis leaders in the same way regarding turnout decisions. This article aims at demonstrating the importance of voters’ evaluations of party leaders in their probability to turn out in parliamentary elections through a novel data set pooling 52 national election surveys from 13 Western European parliamentary democracies between 1974 and 2016. The results confirm the increasing relevance of leaders in explaining turnout decisions and a decline of partisanship’s mobilizing ability. These trends are further accentuated among individuals with a television-dominated media diet, demonstrating the role of media change in driving this process.
Psychosocial Aspects of Stress in Current University Students

The presented article deals with current issues of contemporary university students in the context of the effects of psychosocial aspects of stress. University students represent a specific population group, which is influenced by multiple stressors associated with the transition from the high school to university environment, problems of adaptation to the new environment associated with the academic load, the transition from adolescence to adulthood associated with accepting new roles, the anticipation of the future associated with fulfillment of the social expectations, etc. The existing research shows that the student population has poorer health than the non-studying population of the same age. Analyzing the profile of a university student appears to be an important aspect that can contribute to the creation of preventive programs to reduce or compensate the burden in the student’s population and to identify topics for effective intervention in university counseling.
Modelling Deception Detection in Text

As organizations and government agencies work diligently to detect financial irregularities, malfeasance, fraud and criminal activities through intercepted communication, there is an increasing interest in devising an automated model/tool for deception detection. We build on Pennebaker’s empirical model which suggests that deception in text leaves a linguistic signature characterised by changes in frequency of four categories of words: first-person pronouns, exclusive words, negative emotion words, and action words. By applying the model to the Enron email dataset and using an unsupervised matrix-decomposition technique, we explore the differential use of these cue-words/categories in deception detection. Instead of focusing on the predictive power of the individual cue-words, we construct a descriptive model which helps us to understand the multivariate profile of deception based on several linguistic dimensions and highlights the qualitative differences between deceptive and truthful communication. This descriptive model can not only help detect unusual and deceptive communication, but also possibly rank messages along a scale of relative deceptiveness (for instance from strategic negotiation and spin to deception and blatant lying). The model is unintrusive, requires minimal human intervention and, by following the defined pre-processing steps it may be applied to new datasets from different domains. i
The Institutionalization of Anti-Business Protest, 1960–1995

ABSTRACT The target a social movement selects is important for the type of tactic employed. Research suggests the state can use both a carrot (access) and stick (repression) to encourage conventional protest. Although corporations are more vulnerable to disruptive protest than the state, we suspect that historical developments, both in terms of the overall institutionalization of protest and the growing power of businesses, may encourage greater routinization of anti-business protest as well. Analyses from a dataset of over 7,000 events directed at state and business targets from 1960 to 1995 show that anti-business protests became increasingly routinized in the late twentieth century and provide suggestive evidence that businesses employ similar carrot and stick measures to channel dissent. Given more recent changes in the political economy of the United States, we suspect that these trends have only become more pronounced in recent years.
Traffic Sign Detection via Graph-Based Ranking and Segmentation Algorithms

The majority of existing traffic sign detection systems utilize color or shape information, but the methods remain limited in regard to detecting and segmenting traffic signs from a complex background. In this paper, we propose a novel graph-based traffic sign detection approach that consists of a saliency measure stage, a graph-based ranking stage, and a multithreshold segmentation stage. Because the graph-based ranking algorithm with specified color and saliency combines the information of color, saliency, spatial, and contextual relationship of nodes, it is more discriminative and robust than the other systems in terms of handling various illumination conditions, shape rotations, and scale changes from traffic sign images. Furthermore, the proposed multithreshold segmentation algorithm focuses on all the nodes with a nonzero ranking score, which can effectively solve problems such as complex background, occlusion, various illumination conditions, and so on. The results for three public traffic sign sets show that our proposed approach leads to better performance than the current state-of-the-art methods. Moreover, the results are satisfactory even for images containing traffic signs that have been rotated or undergone occlusion, as well as for images that were photographed under different weather and illumination conditions.
Capturing the relations between teacher educators’ opportunities for professional growth, work pressure, work related basic needs satisfaction, and teacher educators’ researcherly disposition

ABSTRACT Grounded in the Self-Determination Theory, this study examines the relations between teacher educators’ experienced work pressure and opportunities for professional growth, their work related basic needs satisfaction (i.e. autonomy, competence and relatedness) and their researcherly disposition (i.e. being a smart consumer of research, being able to conduct research, conducting research and valuing research). A large-scale survey study was conducted, involving 944 teacher educators working within teaching-intensive teacher education institutions. The results of SEM-analyses show that teacher educators’ opportunities for growth as well as the experienced work pressure are significantly related to the satisfaction of teacher educators’ basic psychological needs at work. In turn, positive relations were identified between the satisfaction of the basic psychological needs and teacher educators’ researcherly disposition.
Collegiality and women teachers in elementary and middle school settings : the caring relationship and nurturing interdependence.

COLLEGIALITY AND WOMEN TEACHERS IN ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOL SETTINGS: THE CARING RELATIONSHIP AND NURTURING INTERDEPENDENCE MAY 1992 IRENE J TAAFAKI, B.ED.(HONS), UNIVERSITY OF READING, ENGLAND M.ED. UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS Ed.D. , UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS Directed by: Professor R. Mason Bunker Understanding the ways of working and interacting among teachers within the culture of the school continues to be incomplete. Women comprise over 80% of elementary teachers yet there has been scant acknowledgement that gender may be a contributing factor to our knowledge of this aspect of school culture. This study, in two parts, employed ethnographic research methodology that values the emic (insiders) perspective to examine the form and content of teacher collegiality in elementary and middle school settings in an urban area of a north eastern state. It involved an exploration and application of the insights and theoretical assumptions from the scholarship on women to examine the ways gender influences teachers' construction, maintainence and utilization of collegial relationships. This study found women teachers involved in an interpersonal social and cultural setting. Their relationships were based upon the expression of the caring relationship which offered informally constructed professional and personal support systems in the face of the contradictions, constraints, dilemmas and frustrations of practice. The study presents a theoretical model that posits a definition of collegiality among teachers as a process which moves teachers from a naive orientation towards interdependence to a more fully conscious interdependence. At the highest phase more fully conscious interdependence involves self-directed participation in joint enterprise around the tasks of teaching and the work of the school and commitment to community building. It includes engagement in activities of interpersonal and connected knowing. Nurturance, as an expression of the caring relationship, is demonstrated through the willingness to engage in dialogue and narrative. It is identified as the dynamic that facilitates the process of collegiality from naive to conscious interdependence. The study suggests that culture of collegiality constructed by the social and psychological orientations of the women teachers is an important part of our knowledge school culture. It recommends that the issue of gender becomes a seriously considered explicit element in the structuring of schools and the reconceptualization of teacher development programs, placing greater value on the activities of the caring relationship as essential and necessary preconditions to the realization of interdependence and the engagement in joint enterprise.
A STATUS ANALYSIS OF THE INTEGRATED PHYSICAL EDUCATION IN HONG KONG ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS

The purpose of this study was to analyze the current status of integrated physical education (PE) in general PE classes at elementary schools in Hong Kong. A questionnaire and cover letter were sent to 115 participants. A follow-up was made to contact nonrespondents two weeks after the initial dissemination of questionnaires. Of those that were surveyed, 72.17% (N=83) responded. The results indicated that there were 12 different types of students with disabilities integrated into general setting. Most inclusive classrooms integrated 1-3 students with disabilities and class sizes varying widely from school to school. Teachers received limited personnel support, faced more serious barriers for integration in the future, and possessed the need for professional development. Seven valuable implications of the results were discussed.
How and with What Frequency do Social Studies Teachers Ask Questions?

Bu arastirmada, sosyal bilgiler ogretmenlerinin sinif ici ders isleme sureclerinde sormus olduklari sorularin duzeyini ve miktarini incelemek ve orneklerle betimleyerek yorumlamak amaclanmistir. Nitel arastirma yontemlerinden durum calismasinin kullanildigi arastirmanin calisma grubunu 2013-2014 egitim ve ogretim yilinda Sakarya ilinde dordu devlet ortaokulunda bir tanesi ozel ortaokulda gorev yapan iki erkek iki kadin olmak uzere dort sosyal bilgiler ogretmeni olusturmustur. Veri toplama araci olarak ise arastirmacilar tarafindan gelistirilen “Gozlem Formu, “Gorusme Formu” ve “Video Kayitlari” kullanilmistir. Arastirmada elde edilen veriler betimsel analiz yontemiyle analiz edilmistir. Arastirmanin sonuclarina gore sosyal bilgiler ogretmenlerinin en cok alt duzeyde nitelendirilebilecek basit hatirlama ve bellek sorulari ile yakinsak sorular yani kabul edilebilir tek cevabi olan turde sorular sordugu sonucuna ulasilmistir. Ogretmenler ogrencilere degerlendirme sorulari da yoneltmistir ancak iraksak sorularin az, isleyisle ilgili sorularin ise hic sorulmadigi tespit edilmistir. Ogretmenler genellikle en fazla soruyu ogrenme ogretme surecleri esnasinda sormus, derslerin giris bolumunde az soru sorulmus sonuc bolumlerinde ise soru sorma davranisi gozlemlenmemistir.
Exploring subjective career success using the Kaleidoscope Career Model

Orientation: Currently, the workplace consists of four different generations of employees, of which the youngest, Generation Y (Gen Y), will become more prevalent in the next few years. Therefore, attracting and retaining employees of this generation are essential for organisations.Research purpose: The aim of the present study was to investigate how Gen Y IT employees experience career success by using the Kaleidoscope Career Model (KCM) as an interpretive lens.Motivation for the study: Generation Y remains an understudied cohort with regard to perceptions of career success. Motivated by the potential value of constructing contexts, which promote career success among Gen Y, the KCM was used as a framework for exploring meanings associated with career success among this cohort.Research approach/design and method: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with a purposive voluntary sample of 24 Gen Y IT employees. Data were analysed in a two-step process by, firstly, identifying elements associated with the central parameters of the KCM and, secondly, collating these to identify various sub-dimensions of each parameter, to identify associated meanings for subjective career success.Main findings: The findings describe more richly the needs for authenticity (i.e. making a difference or work as an enabler of lifestyle), balance (within time and over time) and challenge (i.e. career success implies growth/turning problems into opportunities or goal attainment as signifier of success) as means to experience career success, specifically expanding the description of balance, where employees try to maintain a work–life balance not only within but also over time (synchronic vs. diachronic balance). Practical/managerial implications: The findings have value for management and human resource practitioners with regard to the implementation of employment practices that will enhance perceptions of career success among Gen Y IT employees and the development of a supportive culture which underpin the latter.Contribution/value-add: This study adds to our knowledge of Gen Y’s perceptions of career success with particular emphasis on authenticity, balance and challenge. It furthermore contributes to career success literature by adding a career development lens to the latter.
Psychological Testing Principles And Applications

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Exploratory factor analysis of the Indonesian version of MMPI-2-RF Restructured Clinical (RC) Scales

The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) is the world’s most frequently used scale, both in clinical assessment and psychiatric setting. This measure has been revised several times with MMPI-2-RF (Restructured Form) being the latest version. The Restructured Clinical (RC) Scales, which contains nine sub-scales, is the primary clinical scale in MMPI-2-RF. This scale replaces the Clinical Scales from the previous version of MMPI. This research aimed to analyze the construct validity of the RC Scales using Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) technique. The sample of this research involved 279 participants (male = 26.5%; female = 73.5%) with an average of 21.63 years old. The obtained data was analyzed using EFA through Principal Component Analysis (PCA). Results showed that Restructured Clinical Scales consisted of one factor solution, namely psychological disorder. The number of the factors, as well as the structure, was different from the US version of MMPI-2-RF Restructured Clinical Scales. Through these findings, MMPI-2-RF users in Indonesia are expected to be more cautious when interpreting the Restructured Clinical Scales sub-scales score.
Known and Unknown Identities: Openness and Identity as Experienced by Adult Adoptees

Abstract This qualitative study investigates the relationship between openness and identity among 15 adoptees. Several studies have argued that a high degree of openness is important for the identity of adoptees. However, few have explored this relationship. Two types of openness (biographical knowledge and communicative openness) are used to categorize the empirical material, making it possible to shed light on how different types of openness influence identity. The findings suggest that there is no direct link between a high degree of openness and positive identity formation. Rather, the relationship appears to be situational and changeable as adoptees come of age.
Performance Beyond Economic Growth: Alternatives from Growth-Averse Enterprises in the Global South

Among other aims, degrowth calls for a deprioritization of economic growth as primary indicator of success. However, deprioritizing economic growth is challenging because it is the antithesis of business as we know it today. Yet, in this study, we find examples of enterprises operating in the renewable energy industry in the Global South, which deprioritize traditional economic growth as their preferred indicator of success. We interviewed 30 renewable energy enterprises (REEs) on the basis of an importance-performance analysis (IPA). Our findings confirm that conventional measures of financial performance are not universally applicable to all enterprises in the Global South. Specifically, we observed that the REEs that are least satisfied with conventional economic performance indicators possess two characteristics in common: (1) they have strong social motivations (e.g., energy access and poverty alleviation) and (2) they are averse to economic growth in the traditional sense. We draw insights from these REEs for the future of post-growth enterprise, including the importance of localness in success and performance appraisal as the Global South transitions toward degrowth. We also introduce 14 alternative performance indicators, suggested by the REEs themselves, which may help bring enterprises closer to post-growth orientation in the Global South.
Data-based decision-making for school improvement: Research insights and gaps

ABSTRACT Background: Data-based decision-making in education often focuses on the use of summative assessment data in order to bring about improvements in student achievement. However, many other sources of evidence are available across a wide range of indicators. There is potential for school leaders, teachers and students to use these diverse sources more fully to support their work on a range of school improvement goals. Purpose and sources of evidence: To explore data-based decision-making for school improvement, this theoretical paper discusses recent research and literature from different areas of data use in education. These areas include the use of formative assessment data, educational research study findings and ‘big data’. In particular, the discussion focuses on how school leaders and teachers can use different sources of data to improve the quality of education. Main argument: Based on the literature reviewed, an iterative model of data use for school improvement is described, consisting of defining goals for data use, collecting different types of data or evidence (e.g. formal data, informal data, research evidence and ‘big data’), sense-making, taking improvement actions and evaluation. Drawing on the literature, research insights are discussed for each of these components, as well as identification of the research gaps that still exist. It is noted that the process of data use does not happen in isolation: data use is influenced by system, organisation and team/individual level factors. Conclusions: When it comes to using data to improve the quality of teaching and learning, it is evident that some of the most important enablers and barriers include data literacy and leadership. However, what is less well understood is how we can promote the enablers and remove the barriers to unlock, more fully, the potential of data use. Only then can data use lead to sustainable school improvement.