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The goal of this study is to determine what makes the Islamic State (ISIS) persuasive from an anthropological linguistic perspective by comparing the prosody (patterns of rhythm and sound) of a well-known ISIS spokesman, Abu Muhammed al-Adnani, and that of a well-known moderate Sunni cleric, Sheikh Adnan Ibrahim. Specifically, pitch, intensity (loudness) and duration of words are compared between the speakers in order to identify prosodic features that may appeal to ISIS supporters vs. moderate Sunni Muslims. ISIS is a terrorist organization that diverges from major forms of Islam (Sunni and Shia) in its jihadist ideologies (among many other variables), while Sheikh Adnan Ibrahim represents a thoroughly distinct ideology as a follower of the most prominent form of Islam, Sunni Islam that preaches against terrorism. Two samples of oratory from each speaker have been studied by extracting prosodic markers, using the linguistic software Praat.. The syllabic and lexically segmented data has then been tested utilizing empirical methods to statistically analyze correlations between prosodic markers of each individual speaker. Results have led to the identification of divergence in prosodic markers between speakers—specifically in duration and intensity. Al-Adnani’s rate of speech is much lower than Sheikh Adnan Ibrahim. Essentially, al-Adnani speaks much slower than Adnan Ibrahim. Further, al-Adnani speaks significantly louder than Adnan Ibrahim according to the derived mean intensity value for each speaker. Finally, results for coefficient of variation of rhythm reveal surprisingly similar values—both speakers are utilizing a similar rhythmic pattern.http://opus.ipfw.edu/stu_symp2016/1029/thumbnail.jp

Although argument by analogy is studied and featured in many computational models, less appreciated is the ability to reason over analogies (RoA); i.e., not only being able to produce inferences in accordance with arguments by analogy, but having the ability to negate analogies, recognize and learn to avoid bad analogies, compare the relative strengths of analogies, reason about them nonmonotonically, evaluate hypothetical analogies, and so on. To do all of these things, one needs the ability to represent analogies (and not just the products of analogies) in such a way that the analogies themselves can be objects of reasoning processes (including analogy). We take a first step toward the full ability to reason over analogies by presenting a formalization, based on the cognitive event calculus, that treats analogical mappings and hypothetical inferences as objects between which confidence can be propagated. We will argue that computational models of analogy (both descriptive and normative) will need to use such a formalization, and then we show that our formalization provides a new way to evaluate analogical arguments

In this project I analyze and translate from French to English the collection Poèmes de prison, written by Zhor Zerari, an Algerian writer and militant who was imprisoned and tortured under the French government in Algeria during the Algerian War of Independence. My annotated and glossed translation will note and reflect significant poetic conventions, themes, and images. I will also present, interrogate, and analyze the translation process including important cultural, political, and historical aspects of the source language, providing a brief overview of French colonial activity in Algeria and the place of women in the resistance movement. I highlight theoretical, cultural, and linguistic problems in translation and suggest possible solutions. I present this analysis of my process in order to further understand the implications of feminist and “postcolonial” translation theory and practice in women’s writing and demonstrate the importance of these translations to the larger context of contemporary literature and language studies, French colonialization, Algerian Independence and the legacy of French censorship. I hope to expose and address a lack of access to texts like Zerari’s in literature and language study. This project is intended to complicate Western understandings of French colonization in Algeria, women militants and their role in independence efforts, and the translation of francophone poetry.http://opus.ipfw.edu/stu_symp2016/1002/thumbnail.jp

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We examined how ethnic identity, interethnic conflict, and prejudice are related among African Americans, Asian Americans, and White Americans. As expected, group identity only predicted prejudice expressed by Whites. Also, group identity mediated the relationship between perceived conflict and prejudice for Whites, but not for Asian Americans or African Americans

This study examines the relationships between social networking behaviors (e.g. positive and negative posts about the relationship) and known personality and romantic relationship variables. Results indicated many of these behaviors are negatively associated with relationship satisfaction and commitment. Furthermore, different personality types engage in similar behaviors, but with different motivations

The revised NOHS ethical code will be examined in this session. Approved and instituted in 2015, new features of the code will be presented and a discussion with attendees will be solicited. A comparison of the NOHS ethical code and the HS-BCP ethical code will also be offered

Most paleo-environmental models argue that Earth’s atmosphere underwent a change from mildly reducing and anoxic, to its present oxygen-rich character sometime after the evolutionary advent of oxygenic photosynthesis in cyanobacteria in the Great Oxidation Event (GOE), the timing of which remains a matter of contention. Presently favored estimates from the geochemical rock record place the GOE between 2.45-2.22 billion years ago (Ga), while fossil or molecular evidence for oxygenation is of a much later and uncertain date (2.1-1.65 Ga). We estimated that the minimal evolutionary age of scytonemin, an indole-alkaloid used by cyanobacteria as an ultraviolet-A (UVA) sunscreen, is approximately 2.3 ± 0.8 Ga through phylogenetic reconstruction of several genes that encode for proteins involved in the biosynthesis of scytonemin, as calibrated against the cyanobacterial fossil record. Since the biologically useful form of scytonemin requires an oxidizing environment, and UVA radiation is only damaging in the presence of free oxygen, the minimal age of the scytonemin biosynthetic operon places a direct constraint on the minimal age of the GOE. Our findings significantly push back in time the biological evidence, providing genomics-derived support for geochemical constraints of the timing of the GOE

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Korey Nowels is currently an IPFW senior majoring in Social Studies Education. As long as he has been able to study those subjects in school, Mr. Nowels has had a profound interest in the study of the humanities and the social sciences. This interest has not only compelled him to learn more about these subjects through his course work, but has also influenced his choice of major. He hopes to instill in his future students an appreciation for history and social science similar to the one he possess, and by doing so, he hopes to impact his community in meaningful way

The solute specificity profiles (transport and binding) for the nucleobase cation symporter 1 (NCS1) proteins, from the closely related C4 grasses Zea mays and Setaria viridis, differ from that of Arabidopsis thaliana and Chlamydomonas reinhardtii NCS1. Solute specificity profiles for NCS1 from Z. mays (ZmNCS1) and S. viridis (SvNCS1) were determined through heterologous complementation studies in NCS1- deficient Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains. The four Viridiplantae NCS1 proteins transport the purines adenine and guanine, but unlike the dicot and algal NCS1, grass NCS1 proteins fail to transport the pyrimidine uracil. Despite the high level of amino acid sequence similarity, ZmNCS1 and SvNCS1 display distinct solute transport and recognition profiles. SvNCS1 transports adenine, guanine, hypoxanthine, cytosine, and allantoin and competitively binds xanthine and uric acid. ZmNCS1 transports adenine, guanine, and cytosine and competitively binds, 5-fluorocytosine, hypoxanthine, xanthine, and uric acid. The differences in grass NCS1 profiles are due to a limited number of amino acid alterations. These amino acid residues do not correspond to amino acids essential for overall solute and cation binding or solute transport, as previously identified in bacterial and fungal NCS1, but rather may represent residues involved in subtle solute discrimination. The data presented here reveal that within Viridiplantae, NCS1 proteins transport a broad range of nucleobase compounds and that the solute specificity profile varies with species

IPFW has run an institutional repository on the Digital Commons platform since 2009, but the adoption of a campus wide open access policy in the Spring of 2015 led to a greater sense of awareness of and concern about issues of repository content for many faculty members. The role of our librarians as educators in issues pertaining to open access and scholarly communications has thus become more important than ever. In the summer of 2015, we began to hear concerns from faculty that some articles included in our repository were from open access journals of dubious quality-- some published by what have come be known in the scholarly communications field as u22predatory publishers.u22 These faculty members expressed hesitation about including their own future works in our repository, fearing harm to their professional reputations through u22guilt by association.u22 Some even seemed to equate open access publishing in general with poor quality and/or predatory publishing. In response to these concerns, we began an informational campaign designed to educate faculty as to the nature and purpose of an open access institutional repository, contemporary scholarly communications issues such as the threat of predatory publishers, and methods and criteria for determining publisher quality. Thus far, we have held two presentations for faculty about issues surrounding open access and determining publisher quality, and we have completed an extensive study comparing a snapshot of the contents of our repository against Beallu27s List, an online list of predatory publishers. This study has provided us with hard data showing the extent of the “predatory journal problem” in our institutional repository to be quite minor and confined to only a few specific individuals and departments. It is our hope that the results of this study will help to assuage fears and begin to shape official policy as we continue to educate our faculty, promote our institutional repository, and implement our open access policy

Crowdsourcing is becoming recognized as a powerful tool that organizations can use in order to get work done, this by freelancers and non-employees. We conceptualize crowdsourcing as a subcategory of outsourcing, with compensated crowdsourcing representing situations in which individuals performing the work receive some sort of payment for accomplishing the organization’s tasks. Herein, we discuss how sites that create a crowd, such as Amazon Mechanical Turk, can be powerful tools for business purposes. We highlight the general features of crowdsourcing sites, offering examples drawn from current crowdsourcing sites. We then examine the wide range of tasks that can be accomplished through crowdsourcing sites. Large online worker community websites and forums have been created around such crowdsourcing sites, and we describe the functions they generally play for crowdsourced workers. We also describe how these functions offer opportunities and challenges for organizations. We close by discussing major considerations organizations need to take into account when trying to harness the power of the crowd through compensated crowdsourcing sites

Unusual preservation of small primaspid trilobites may provide a key to interpretation of an enigmatic, apparently organically textured surface or sedimentary structure in the subtidal Upper Ordovician (Katian) Kope Formation of northern Kentucky. A thin, elliptical lens of silty mudstone in the lower Kope Formation (Pioneer Valley submember, Southgate Member, C-1 Sequence) has several unique features mainly present on its basal surface, as a hyporelief, but also to a limited extent on the upper surface. Toward one end, the basal surface has sinuous fluting that terminates at the other end in a complex of conjoined, flattened, ellipsoidal or spatulate lobes that is partly overlain by an outlier of the primary lens. The basal surface has small-scale corrugations (3 to 4 mm wide) and polygonal reticulation variably developed. Articulated exoskeletons of small, spinose primaspid trilobites [Primaspis crosotus (Locke)] occur mostly with their ventral surfaces applied directly to the textured surfaces (i.e., dorsal side down). On some lobes the reticulate texturing wraps around from the basal to the upper surface and is covered with minute rounded pustules (~ 0.3 mm). These enigmatic features are interpreted either as a recumbent microbial mat or an erect three-dimensional organism that was smothered and infilled by influx of silty sediment, preserved ultimately as a mold in hyporelief with trilobites in life position. Evidence for similar organic structures has not been previously reported from the Kope Formation. The taphonomic processes responsible for their preservation carry paleoenvironmental implications for possible microbial or macroalgal biotas within photic depths, and complex mediation of episodic depositional processes by organic biofilms or tissues

Fuel cells are energy storage devices analogous to batteries in which electrochemical energy is directly converted into electrical energy. The main difference between a fuel cell and a battery is that a fuel cell is an open system allowing for chemicals to flow through while a battery is a closed system. As a consequence, a fuel cell can be turned off by simply stopping the flow. Fuel cells are also very energy dense, due to the fact that it is possible to store the chemicals that flow through them in separate tanks. Additionally, fuel cells do not pollute and, in theory, have a high current efficiency, making them an ideal long-lasting, flexible power source. Research in direct borohydride-hydrogen peroxide fuel cells is still in its early stages, but results have been promising and the assembly process of a low-cost stack design needs to be investigated. This paper concentrates on the development of a computational fluid dynamics model for the flow in a fuel cell with ionic potassium borohydride as the fuel and hydrogen peroxide as the oxidizer. Once this model is developed and verified, it is used in conjunction with the system chemistry to determine the maximum number of cells that can be stacked and the corresponding flow rate that allows every cell to produce power without running out of reactant. The solution is dependent on the current per square centimeter produced by test cells. The results of this study show that a test cell producing 0.4 A/cm2 can be scaled up to a stack of 15 cells with a flow rate of 115 ml/min using the analyzed stack design. Furthermore, a detailed analysis of the internal flow through a single cell is conducted to determine possible locations for design improvement to accommodate a large number of high-power stacks (50 or more cells). These results show that the present cell design is adequate for initial stack testing, but not for making large high-powered stacks. Refinements of the fuel cell design will need to be done in the future to allow for more cells to be stacked for higher power outputs. The most important issue to address is reduction of the differential pressure at the inlet and outlet of the cell by eliminating the use of narrow tubing.http://opus.ipfw.edu/stu_symp2016/1061/thumbnail.jp

My poster seeks to explore the function of the Old English Hexateuch (Cotton Claudius BIV) within the context of Anglo-Saxon culture and what can be learned about this culture through their own understanding and interpretation of the Hexateuch. The focus of my research is on both the formation and the reception of this manuscript, particularly regarding the illustrations that comprise the text (394 in all). The inclusion of these highly contextualized illustrations suggests that this manuscript was intended for the laity that likely would not have had the ability to read. Consequently, the paintings are not perfect representations of the text; rather, they are portrayals of Old Testament stories within Anglo-Saxon culture, in order to enable all interacting with the manuscript to gain a better understanding of the passages being dealt with. Though many of the pictures are incomplete (or missing entirely) they reveal a great deal about the values of Anglo-Saxon culture, especially regarding the ascetic qualities of nature and architecture. My poster seeks to highlight some of these aesthetic values in order to expose greater concerns within the culture. Additionally, in order to gain a sense of how exactly the people would have interacted with the manuscript, my research briefly explores the history of the Benedictine Abbey of Saint Augustine—the origin of the manuscript and the epicenter of cultural creation within Anglo-Saxon culture.http://opus.ipfw.edu/stu_symp2016/1019/thumbnail.jp

This paper examines the gender performance magnified in dating TV shows widespread in post-socialist China. Focusing on the reconstruction of gender identities by participants of Fei Cheng Wu Rao (If You Are the One), representative of the dating show genre, the analysis sheds light on how both female and male participants navigate the quandaries of evolving gender politics—the intertwined fomentations of the derogatory “sheng nü” ( “leftover women”) discourse and the new hegemonic ideals. The paper argues that the returning of patriarchal construction of gender in the post-socialist state is exacerbated the neoliberal commercialization and marketization accentuating the exchange value of love and marriage, and remapping the class codes onto both feminine and masculine bodies

Increased political corruption and cheating in a wide diversity of practices such as sports and academic examinations are becoming two of the most important problems affecting contemporary societies. Political corruption, especially in the developing world, has reached such a colossal scale that many scholars have identified it - and not lack of economic resources per se - as the most important problem confronting the prospects of economic and social development. In the developed world corruption is also growing. In the U.S. and Europe many serving officials have been indicted on numerous counts. Different from corruption but closely related to it, cheating represents another serious challenge. Dishonesty in taking examinations has become common in many parts of the world. Cheating, it is claimed, is anathema to sport, yet the use steroids in competitive sports is too common to be ignored. The scholarly literature agrees in that these forms of deviance occur within the framework of particular sub-cultures that work to normalize such practices. Some forms of corruption are accepted among political circles. Studies on cheating at exams show that many students justify helping friends they are close to. In professional sports many athletes see “fair play” like an expression of amateurism. Normative frameworks have been put in place to curb dishonesty such as the U.N. Convention Against Corruption. Severe punishment now awaits exam cheaters, and new testing techniques are used to detect doping in sports. However, beyond such disciplinary responses lies the need to acquire a deeper understanding of the general cultural forces driving these harmful trends. It is my contention that the work of George Simmel on the Tragedy of Culture, which duels on the massive growth of objective cultural products, and their overwhelming impact over the subjective culture of individuals, can shed light upon the problem at stake

Messages transmitted between a receiver and a transmitter are used to maximize a communication data rate. In particular, a multicarrier modulation system uses messages that are sent from the receiver to the transmitter to exchange one or more sets of optimized communication parameters. The transmitter then stores these communication parameters and when transmitting to that particular receiver, the transmitter utilizes the stored parameters in an effort to maximize the data rate to that receiver. Likewise, when the receiver receives packets from that particular transmitter, the receiver can utilize the stored communication parameters for reception