This paper discusses a drawback of the system—the time required to apply it—and discusses two valuable strengths: revealing how the words functioned in civil engineering discourse and identifying words not overtly connected to engineering (e.g., existing or using) that could be easily overlooked by an instructor.doi:10...
The commitment to personal and civil discourse but not to civic discourse moderated how individuals understand their interactions with others on Facebook. Civic and civil goals were associated with one another, but only civil goals aligned with personal image goals well enough to moderate other ...
Issues and events that affect our lives and the societies we live, such as civil liberties and presidential elections, usually cause people to debate policies and beliefs. By observing some of that discourse, one gets the feeling that a noticeable amount of it suffers from the7...
The reliance on PDS and MGNREGS during the COVID-19 recovery for the economically stricken workers offers a shining example of the importance of these two programs and its future potential to guard against the newer risks which any economic and biophysical changes might bring. High levels of maln...
(2007). Successful implementation of user-centered game-based learning in higher education: An example from civil engineering. Computers & Education, 3(49), 873–890. Emery, E. D., & Enger, T. P. (1972). Computer Gaming and Learning in an Introductory Economics Course. Journal of ...
Friedan and other activists started to get increasingly angry that the sex-discrimination section of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 wasn’t being taken seriously. A tearful Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawyer took Friedan aside and pleaded with her to “start an NAACP for wo...
.of potential interest beyond the community of Civil War historians and scholars of American History. Major events which were subjects of public discourse and press reporting in their time were effectively written out of history, for political advantage for some and to achieve final conflict ...
One example of such a weapon is the famousStuxnet virus. The virus propagated itself through computer systems and removable media, remaining benign until it installed itself on a specific type of computer which controlled the centrifuges used to enrich uranium for Iran’s nuclear program. At this...
It’s very difficult to find good statistics on this, because – guess what – the government doesn’t collect data. They claim, for example, that monitoring the number of people using food banks would place too much of a burden on the volunteers who run them. (Seriously.) ...
Are field boundary hedgerows the earliest example of a nature-based solution? 2 Nature-based solutions Definitions of nature-based solutions abound, and the search for a practicable definition is ongoing (Eggermont et al., 2015). The earliest IUCN definition sees nature-based solutions as “actions...