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Adaptive learning: toward an intentional model for learning process guidance based on learner’s motivation (open access)

Adaptive learning: toward an intentional model for learning process guidance based on learner’s motivation

Article describes how, the goal of ITS is to support learning content, activities, and resources, adapted to the specific needs of the individual learner and influenced by learner’s motivation. This research proposes an intentional model that adopts Map formalism to support personalized learning guidance by considering learner’s motivation.
Date: December 5, 2022
Creator: Bayounes, Walid; Saâdi, Bayoudh Ines & Kinshuk
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Temporal Variations and Spatial Disparities in Public Sentiment Toward COVID-19 and Preventive Practices in the United States: Infodemiology Study of Tweets (open access)

Temporal Variations and Spatial Disparities in Public Sentiment Toward COVID-19 and Preventive Practices in the United States: Infodemiology Study of Tweets

Article discusses how, during the COVID-19 pandemic, US public health authorities and county, state, and federal governments recommended or ordered certain preventative practices, such as wearing masks, to reduce the spread of the disease. The purpose of this study was to understand the variations in public sentiment toward COVID-19 and the recommended or ordered preventive practices from the temporal and spatial perspectives, as well as how the variations in public sentiment are related to geographical and socioeconomic factors.
Date: December 30, 2021
Creator: Kahanek, Alexander; Yu, Xinchen; Hong, Lingzi; Cleveland, Ana D., 1943- & Philbrick, Jodi
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Correction: Adaptive learning: toward an intentional model for learning process guidance based on learner’s motivation (open access)

Correction: Adaptive learning: toward an intentional model for learning process guidance based on learner’s motivation

Correction to article changes the name of one of the authors.
Date: December 19, 2022
Creator: Bayoues, Walid; Saâdi, Ines Bayoudh & Kinshuk
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Collaborative Research: CISE-MSI: RCBP-RF: CPS, CNS: Emergency Response and Evacuation Training for Active Shooter Events (open access)

Collaborative Research: CISE-MSI: RCBP-RF: CPS, CNS: Emergency Response and Evacuation Training for Active Shooter Events

Data management plan for the grant "Collaborative Research: CISE-MSI: RCBP-RF: CPS, CNS: Emergency Response and Evacuation Training for Active Shooter Events."
Date: 2022-12-15/2023-09-30
Creator: Sharma, Sharad
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Performance of the folk song 'Azan dindao makge'

This song is about a person who finds it hard to know himself or his position in the society. The singer is from Maguilong village.
Date: December 28, 2021
Creator: Mataina, Wichamdinbo
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Retelling of the traditional story 'Nnanah racham'

This folk tale is about a girl who went to the farm and was followed by a ghost. The story was narrated by Wichamdinbo Mataina of Maguilong village.
Date: December 28, 2021
Creator: Mataina, Wichamdinbo
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Performance of a folk song 'Niureng lui Iniu ahuliu tu'

This folk song is about a man who could not win the heart of his lover. The legendary composer of the song is Niureng of Kalalong village. The singer is from Nzau village, Nagaland. This video was recorded by Azanbou Nbung.
Date: December 10, 2020
Creator: Mataina, Wichamdinbo
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Computational modeling of human reasoning processes for interpretable visual knowledge: a case study with radiographers (open access)

Computational modeling of human reasoning processes for interpretable visual knowledge: a case study with radiographers

Article proposing a computational method to quantify and dissect visual reasoning. The method characterizes spatial and temporal features and identifies common and contrast visual reasoning patterns to extract significant gaze activities. The visual reasoning patterns are explainable and can be compared among different groups to discover strategy differences. Empirical observations show that the method can capture the temporal and spatial features of human visual attention and distinguish expertise level. By revealing task-related reasoning processes, this method demonstrates potential for explaining human visual understanding.
Date: December 10, 2020
Creator: Li, Yuan; Cao, Hongfei; Allen, Carla M.; Wang, Xin; Erdelez, Sanda & Shyu, Chi-Ren
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Paradigm Shift Toward Digital Neuropsychology and High-Dimensional Neuropsychological Assessments: Review (open access)

Paradigm Shift Toward Digital Neuropsychology and High-Dimensional Neuropsychological Assessments: Review

Article reviews opportunities for novel brain-behavior characterizations. Emphasis is placed on the increasing concern of neuropsychology with these topics and the need for development in these areas to maintain relevance as a scientific discipline and advance scientific developments.
Date: December 16, 2020
Creator: Parsons, Thomas D. & Duffield, Tyler
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Embracing Monsters (open access)

Embracing Monsters

This article proposes monsters are documents and examines the coding and decoding of monster documents through a functional ontology lens. This article was presented at the 2020 Annual Meeting of the Document Academy.
Date: December 3, 2020
Creator: O'Connor, Brian Clark & Bonnici, Laurie J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Assessment of ICT in Tertiary Education Applying Structural Equation Modeling and Rasch Model (open access)

Assessment of ICT in Tertiary Education Applying Structural Equation Modeling and Rasch Model

Article studies information and communication technology (ICT) in tertiary education. This article is part of the special collection: Educational Psychology & Counseling, Educational Psychology.
Date: December 21, 2020
Creator: Spector, J. Michael; Islam, A. Y. M. Atiquil; Gu, Xiaoqing & Crook, Charles
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Performance of a folk song 'Kata hi'

This is a Liangmai folk song composed by Ngoumaklak and sung by Hutonbou of Kuilong village, Tamenglong district Manipur.
Date: December 12, 2021
Creator: Mataina, Wichamdinbo
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Sound Systems of Zophei Dialects and Other Maraic Languages (open access)

The Sound Systems of Zophei Dialects and Other Maraic Languages

This dissertation presents in-depth description and analysis the Zophei sound system within the context of the closely-related Maraic languages. Zophei (or Zyphe, ISO 639-3 ZYP), a previously undocumented member of the Maraic branch of Kuki-Chin (or South-Central Tibeto-Burman) spoken in Southern Thantlang Township, Chin State, Burma/Myanmar and by thousands of speakers in Indianapolis, Indiana. Using primary data elicited during three years of fieldwork, the sound systems of Lawngtlang, Tlawngrang, and Nuitah Zophei are investigated in detail. Special attention is paid to the segmental, syllable structure, and tonal inventories. A long history of language contact in the Maraic-speaking world has brought on radical innovations in syllable structure, vowel systems, and tone that have, as of yet, seen little linguistic analysis. Outside of the present research program, no previous linguistic work on Zophei exists. As such, this thesis endeavors to describe and analyze the sound systems of Zophei varieties.
Date: December 2021
Creator: Lotven, Samson
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Collaborative Research: Diversifying Human-Centered Data Science through the Research and Design of Ethical Games (open access)

Collaborative Research: Diversifying Human-Centered Data Science through the Research and Design of Ethical Games

Data management plan for the grant, "Collaborative Research: Diversifying Human-Centered Data Science through the Research and Design of Ethical Games." This project studies collaborative learning in a virtual setting for groups of peers with conflicting methodological cultures and diverse backgrounds. An additional artifact of this two-year, interdisciplinary project will be a prototype of an educational game, targeted towards the underrepresented communities and the greater public, that will bring more people into critical conversations about the roles of AI and data science in our society. The primary aim of this research is the production of novel theories in learning sciences regarding collaborative learning in the face of diverse backgrounds and cultural norms.
Date: 2021-12-01/2023-11-30
Creator: Evans, Sarah
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Relationship Between Jobs and Soft Skills in the Technology  Sector: a Case Study in the City of Florianópolis (open access)

Relationship Between Jobs and Soft Skills in the Technology Sector: a Case Study in the City of Florianópolis

The Soft Skills theme has been presented and discussed by several academic and professional players: researchers, consultants, entrepreneurs and technicians in Human Resources. These are personal skills that go beyond technical competence, absolutely determining the performance of any organization. Understanding what they will be and how to develop these skills has been the challenge of the World Economic Forum (WEF), which periodically publishes reports mapping areas, professions and skills that will be trending in the coming years. So, this article seeks to answer which skills are requested in advertisements and job vacancies in the area of ​​ICT in the region of Florianópolis? with a double objective: [i] Identify whether companies in the creative economy segment, specifically technology, in the city of Florianópolis / SC are looking for soft skills in their job advertisements; and in this way [ii] Understand whether they are aligned with the trends presented by the WEF. For this, it carried out a qualitative research, classified as descriptive with an exploratory stage of analysis of the vacancies published in the LinkedIn and ACATE platforms, making it possible to conclude the importance of soft skills for the profile of technology professionals. It was also evident the difficulty in …
Date: December 2020
Creator: Vedovatto, Andreici Daiani; Vedovatto, Andreici Daiani; Gargioni, Sergio Luiz; Marques, Jamile Sabatini; Rath, Rafael & Karam-Koleski, Adriana
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Investigation of Differences in Sentiment from Tweets Related to  COVID-19 Between Canada and US Residents (open access)

An Investigation of Differences in Sentiment from Tweets Related to COVID-19 Between Canada and US Residents

This study aims to understand how individuals communicated and acknowledged to COVID-19 pandemic on Twitter. It mainly focused on identifying and demonstrating the differences in the perspective of United States and Canadian residents.
Date: December 2020
Creator: Gone, Keshava Pallavi & Conrad, Colin
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Knowledge Management in the Technical Information Center/Library of a Navy Lab and as a Whole, as well as Metrics to Measure the Scientific Health of a R&D Center

In order to perform research data triangulation, there were three main sources of data: 1. External/Internal Survey of 15 Library Directors (5 in the Navy; 10 from Government/Universities), 2. Literature Review/Industry Best Practices, and 3. Navy Lab Interviews (Ten) . The results include "Harvest” the personal collections of classified and other materials (reach out to the end users to put documents in library repository); Need to modernize our workflow; Having research material that can be easily accessed for desktops; Need to share information and knowledge; Focus on the needs of your community and evolve with those needs.
Date: December 2020
Creator: Liebowitz, Jay
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Impact of Cognitive Styles on Different Stages of Knowledge Management Cycle (open access)

The Impact of Cognitive Styles on Different Stages of Knowledge Management Cycle

While explicit knowledge can be to some extent separated from human brain and stored in organizational memory, tacit knowledge cannot be detached from the individuals who possess it, therefore its management cannot rely primarily on technologies. This calls for knowledge-worker centered approach. Individuals with different cognitive styles process information differently and use a variety of reasoning patterns for decision making and building their personal knowledge bases. The paper overviews the potential applications of the construct of cognitive style to managerial practice in knowledge intensive organizations. It also presents a model that can help visualize the relationships between different cognitive styles and knowledge management processes. The model also demonstrates how such cognitive dimensions manifest themselves at different stages of KM cycle.
Date: December 2020
Creator: Pluzhenskaya, Marina
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Innovation Process Based on Customer Development in a Large Mature Company (open access)

Innovation Process Based on Customer Development in a Large Mature Company

The Customer Development process, widely used by startups, is designed with the aim that, at the end of a process of development of an innovation, the customer can see the maximum value in the product. But there are few studies on the application of this methodology in mature companies. The aim of this study was to assess whether it is indeed possible to apply the Customer Development process in a mature firm. This case study was built from a semi-structured interview with the Innovation manager and a UX Designer at that institution. It was possible to verify from the analysis of the interview that the company is able to apply only part of the Customer Development process in its new product innovation process. This paper is a case study and applied research, so it is not possible to make generalizations. In addition, this article considered interviews with only two individuals from the company, which may have limited results.
Date: December 2020
Creator: Reis, Kleiton & Baldessar, Maria Jose
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Intellectual Capital Creates Value for the Organization - What About Other Stakeholders? (open access)

Intellectual Capital Creates Value for the Organization - What About Other Stakeholders?

The ever-increasing market turbulence has turned today’s corporate landscape more competitive and complex. Particularly during the last two decades, the increased utilization of ICT systems and technologies globally transformed the services sector in terms of ease of business processes and improved client service delivery. However, in the current knowledge-based era, ICT-enabled systems and tools would only be meaningful if these are appropriately utilized by the knowledgeable and skilled workforce. However, leveraging these necessitates a knowledge-enabled work culture and recognizing that people are crucial to building a robust Intellectual Capital (IC) that is central to achieving long-term market competitiveness. IC comprising of intangible assets and knowledge resources is central to value creation for the firm as evident from the growth of the knowledge-based industries. Nevertheless, the true potential of IC for deriving value advantage for diverse organizational stakeholders has not been fully utilized. Hence, by conducting 12 face2face interviews with the senior executives within Australian Professional Service Firms (PSFs), this study offers renewed approach to IC valuation by introducing ‘Triple Value Bottom-line’ perspective in PSFs. The results highlight that the IC offers enormous potential towards deriving broader value outcomes for multiple organizational stakeholders.
Date: December 2020
Creator: Rehman, Junaid; Hawryszkiewycz, Igor; Sohaib, Osama & Namisango, Fatuma
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Speaker Independent, Continuous Speech Recognizer for  Kafi Noonoo, Afro-Asiatic Language in Ethiopia (open access)

Speaker Independent, Continuous Speech Recognizer for Kafi Noonoo, Afro-Asiatic Language in Ethiopia

This paper will report on a research to develop Speaker Independent, Continuous Speech Recognizer for Kafi Noonoo (Afro-Asiatic language that belongs to North Omotic sub family in Ethiopia) using Hidden Markov Modeling technique. The portable and open source toolkit called Hidden Markov Model (HMM) Toolkit is used to perform the experiment. The development of HMM based Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) requires both text and speech corpus for training and testing the HMM. In order to have a model that incorporates different features of the language, we included the different dialects of Kafi Noonoo in the corpus and then prepared the training and test corpus from the scratch, and after preprocessing we have sampled and performed feature extraction using Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC) feature extraction technique.
Date: December 2020
Creator: Asfaw, Zelalem & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Ontology Approach to Tourism Destinations in  Ethiopia (open access)

An Ontology Approach to Tourism Destinations in Ethiopia

Knowledge is awareness or familiarity gained by experiences of facts, data, and situations. Knowledge management includes techniques and processes to represent, store, search, integrate, and analyze knowledge that is available in digital form. Ontology is a formal explicit specification of a shared conceptualization of a domain of interest and it is a building block of the semantic web and formal description of knowledge. Ontologies capture the structure and knowledge about some domain of interest by describing the concepts in the domain and also the relationships that hold between those concepts. Even though Ethiopia has potential tourist destinations, the country is not benefited from its resources due to misperception about image of the country; lack of promoting the potential tourism resources of the country to the world; problems with sharing, searching and retrieval of tourist information. Thus, the country is forced to accept smaller number of tourists and not getting the benefits it deserves. The objective of this paper is to build ontology for Ethiopian Tourism so that it makes Ethiopian tourism destinations visible to international visitors. We use OWL language implemented in Protégé with other ontology development activities proposed in METHONTOLOGY to build Ethiopian tourism ontology. We also use OWL …
Date: December 2020
Creator: Hussen, Tijani; Beyene, Melkamu & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Dance on the Volcano – A Knowledge Management Perspective on Capacity Building in Times of Systemic Crises (open access)

The Dance on the Volcano – A Knowledge Management Perspective on Capacity Building in Times of Systemic Crises

Identifying support from Knowledge Management (KM) frameworks and Risk Management to build collective intelligence for handling systemic crises, triggered by the Corona virus disease 2019 (Covid-19)
Date: December 2020
Creator: Barachini, Franz & Stary, Christian
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Leveraging Geographical Disparities of Socio-Economic Factors to Predict Vulnerable Teenagers to Teen Birth: Chicago as A Case Study (open access)

Leveraging Geographical Disparities of Socio-Economic Factors to Predict Vulnerable Teenagers to Teen Birth: Chicago as A Case Study

Teen birth (TB) imposes serious health and economic burdens to both individuals and government. Various attempts have been made to overcome TB such as teen pregnancy prevention evidence-based programs. However, these programs might have declined teen birth rate (TBR), most of which do not address the influencing socio-economic factors linked to areas where teenagers live. This study is aimed at investigating socio-economic factors contributing to TB and identify their geographical disparities. The methodology was developed using the vulnerability theory to examine the complex relationship between TB and socio-economic factors. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) were employed to analyze census data. Findings suggest that socio-economically disadvantaged minorities, including unemployed black and uneducated Hispanic, are more vulnerable to TB. Additionally, geographic locations of communities where such teenager live are recognized. The outcomes verified the utility of the vulnerability theory to predict the geographical locations of vulnerable teens that can be leveraged by policymakers to allocate more health resources and perform place-specific interventions to effectively reduce TBR.
Date: December 2020
Creator: Sadeghinaeenifard, Fariba & Hawamdeh, Suliman M.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library