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Publication date: 1 March 2008

James R. Moore

This article examines the continued salience of ethnic identity and ethnic conflicts in world politics; this is especially important given the central role that ethnicity plays in…

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This article examines the continued salience of ethnic identity and ethnic conflicts in world politics; this is especially important given the central role that ethnicity plays in world politics, especially many developing world countries. The author argues that teachers and teacher educators must understand the pivotal role that ethnicity continues to play in world politics, especially in post-colonial African and Asian societies. Teaching about global issues, such as the current war in Iraq, population patterns in the former Soviet Union, and the genocide in Sudan, requires a deep understanding of ethnicity and its major perspectives. Moreover, by adopting a non-linear perspective, students can understand that traditional societies will reassert their ethnic identities as they confront the powerful and dynamic forces of globalization. Finally, the article will establish the links between ethnicity and multicultural and global education, especially the National Council for the Social Studies major curriculum standards.

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Social Studies Research and Practice, vol. 3 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1933-5415

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Publication date: 1 March 2016

James R. Moore

The first amendment, a crucial component of American constitutional law, is under attack from various groups advocating for censorship in universities and public schools. The…

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The first amendment, a crucial component of American constitutional law, is under attack from various groups advocating for censorship in universities and public schools. The censors assert that restrictive speech codes preventing anyone from engaging in any expression deemed hateful, offensive, defamatory, insulting, or critical of sacred religious or political beliefs and values are necessary in a multicultural society. These speech codes restrict critical comments about race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, physical characteristics, and other traits in the name of tolerance, sensitivity, and respect. Many hate speech codes are a violation of the first amendment and have been struck down by federal and state courts. They persist in jurisdictions where they have been ruled unconstitutional; most universities and public schools have speech codes. This assault on the first amendment might be a concern to all citizens, especially university professors and social studies educators responsible for teaching students about the democratic ideals enshrined in our constitution. Teachers should resist unconstitutional speech codes and teach their students that the purpose of the first amendment is to protect radical, offensive, critical, and controversial speech.

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Social Studies Research and Practice, vol. 11 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1933-5415

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Lean Six Sigma in Higher Education Institutions
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ISBN: 978-1-80382-602-8

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Publication date: 9 January 2025

P. Sandhya, K. Shreyaas, R. Jayaraj and Ganesh Raja Rajeswari

One of the major challenges faced by the world at present is management and treatment of waste. Especially, waste such as polyethylene (plastics) is non-degradable and is causing…

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Purpose

One of the major challenges faced by the world at present is management and treatment of waste. Especially, waste such as polyethylene (plastics) is non-degradable and is causing great damage to our environment. Aquatic environment is one among them that is getting affected by these plastic wastes. Water pollution is a great issue faced in many countries and steps to reduce it are being taken on a wide scale. Unwanted aquatic plants grown in ponds and lakes create problems like totally covering up the surface of the lake that blocks the sunlight for aquatic species and also reducing their total storage. Identifying such unwanted plants and plastics is a very essential part in treating and management of waste. Detection and classification help us to achieve this. With the help of satellites, drone-shot images of many oceans are captured, and the amount of plastic content present is detected using artificial intelligence. In artificial intelligence, we have many algorithms and platforms that help us to achieve object detection. Tensorflow is one such framework that helps us to perform object detection with the help of pre-trained models present in it, and thus, it is used in this study. Object detection uses computer vision to detect objects from images. Convolutional neural networks are a subset of machine learning that is helpful in image processing – in other words, processing of pixel data. In this study, we used the ResNet-50 model involving transfer learning for classifying unwanted plants and plastics. Lakes and ponds are the major places among the other aquatic environments where these kinds of wastes are found, and therefore, this study concentrates on waste present in these aquatic bodies. The lakes and ponds present near residential areas act as a place for storing excess rainwater, which prevents flooding. Many cities, especially residential areas, face a lot of water stagnation problems during the rainy season. Ponds and lakes near these areas contain unwanted plants and plastics present, which makes it a problem to store the rainwater that comes during monsoon. Another problem is that they don’t provide sunlight to enter deep into water, making the aquatic species difficult to survive. Preserving and maintaining such lakes from getting filled with non-degradable plastics and unwanted plant growth becomes very important. Therefore, the lakes and ponds present in such residential areas would be useful to detect the unwanted waste.

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In this study, the focus is on detection and classification of the plastics and unwanted plants. The dataset is very important for this study, which is an image dataset. There was not any readily available image data of unwanted plastics available online, and therefore, the images were captured from the lakes and ponds in Kanchipuram district. Images of duckweed, plastics, bulrush and leaves of sky lotus were taken. This dataset consisted a total of 200 images, with 50 images belonging to each category. Having this as the dataset, detection and classification were carried out.

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The object detection took place for the plastic, duckweed, bulrush and leaves of sky lotus and the performance metrics such as precision and recall was evaluated to test the accuracy of the detections. Precision is used to calculate the number of correctly identified positive identifications. This is done by dividing the sum of true positives and false positives from the number of true positives. True positives are nothing but the number of correct predictions of positive identifications, and false positives are the number of false predictions of positive identifications. Similarly, recall is used to calculate the number of actual positives identified. We can calculate recall by dividing the sum of true positives and false negatives from the total number of true positives. Here false negatives are the number of false predictions of false identification. This performance metrics was evaluated for the trained model, and we obtained an average precision of 0.81 and an average recall of 0.86. The high precision and recall values of our model show that the model produces accurate results. Therefore, the model is producing good performance in detecting the unwanted plants and plastics from lakes and ponds. The evaluation results were visualized with the help of TensorBoard and are available in fig-4 and fig-5. The loss rate is visualized and is available in fig-6. We can see that the loss rate has reduced over the steps as we pass from 1,000 to 4000th step.

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The work was originally carried out in the Kanchipuram district of Tamil Nadu.

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Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal, vol. ahead-of-print no. ahead-of-print
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1477-7835

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Publication date: 26 March 2020

Llewella Chapman

On 2 September 2015, it was announced that Tom Ford would again be ‘dressing James Bond’, Daniel Craig, in Spectre (Mendes, 2015) after tailoring his suits for Quantum of Solace

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On 2 September 2015, it was announced that Tom Ford would again be ‘dressing James Bond’, Daniel Craig, in Spectre (Mendes, 2015) after tailoring his suits for Quantum of Solace (Forster, 2008) and Skyfall (Mendes, 2012). Ford noted that ‘James Bond epitomises the Tom Ford man in his elegance, style and love of luxury. It is an honour to move forward with this iconic character’.

  With the press launch of ‘Bond 25’(and now titled No Time to Die) on 25 April 2019, it is reasonable to speculate that Ford will once again be employed as James Bond’s tailor of choice, given that it is likely to be Craig’s last outing as 007. Previous actors playing the role of James Bond have all had different tailors. Sean Connery was tailored by Anthony Sinclair and George Lazenby by Dimitro ‘Dimi’ Major. Roger Moore recommended his own personal tailors Cyril Castle, Angelo Vitucci and Douglas Hayward. For Timothy Dalton, Stefano Ricci provided the suits, and Pierce Brosnan was dressed by Brioni. Therefore, this chapter will analyse the role of tailoring within the James Bond films, and how this in turn contributes to the look and character of this film franchise more generally. It aims to understand how different tailors have contributed to the masculinity of Bond: an agent dressed to thrill as well as to kill.

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From Blofeld to Moneypenny: Gender in James Bond
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ISBN: 978-1-83867-163-1

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Publication date: 26 March 2020

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From Blofeld to Moneypenny: Gender in James Bond
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ISBN: 978-1-83867-163-1

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Publication date: 1 January 2005

Lan Xia and Kent B. Monroe

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Review of Marketing Research
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ISBN: 978-0-85724-723-0

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Publication date: 26 March 2020

James Chapman

The enduring popular image of James Bond is (in the words of the theatrical trailer for Dr No) ‘the gentleman agent with the licence to kill’. Yet the screen Bond is hardly a hero…

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The enduring popular image of James Bond is (in the words of the theatrical trailer for Dr No) ‘the gentleman agent with the licence to kill’. Yet the screen Bond is hardly a hero in the manner of gentlemanly archetypes such as Cary Grant and David Niven (reputedly Ian Fleming’s preferred choice for the role). This chapter will explore how the image of Bond in the films has changed over time both in response to wider social and cultural archetypes of masculinity and due to the different performance styles of the various actors to play the role: Sean Connery, whose rough-hewn Scottishness can be seen as a means of representing the ‘otherness’ of Fleming’s character (‘Bond always knew there was something alien and un-English about himself’); George Lazenby, whose one-off appearance as an emotionally damaged Bond in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service anticipated later portrayals of the character; the parodic variant of Roger Moore; the brooding Byronic hero of Timothy Dalton; the ‘Milk Tray Man’ charm of Pierce Brosnan; and Daniel Craig, whose combination of bull-in-a-china-shop physicality and vulnerable masculinity (literally so in Casino Royale) has by common consent successfully transformed Bond from a cartoon superman into a twenty-first century action hero.

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From Blofeld to Moneypenny: Gender in James Bond
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ISBN: 978-1-83867-163-1

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Publication date: 13 August 2018

Robert L. Dipboye

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The Emerald Review of Industrial and Organizational Psychology
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ISBN: 978-1-78743-786-9

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Publication date: 13 December 2023

Donna Y. Ford, James L. Moore and Ezekiel Peebles

This chapter focuses on two aspects of the achievement gap – underachievement and low achievement among Black males in urban school contexts. More specifically, the authors…

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This chapter focuses on two aspects of the achievement gap – underachievement and low achievement among Black males in urban school contexts. More specifically, the authors explain several problems/issues confronting Black male students in P-12 gifted and talented, advanced placement, and special education programs, along with the school-to-prison pipeline – inequitable discipline in the form of suspensions and expulsions. We parse underrepresentation and overrepresentation for this student group. A central part of this discussion is grounded in the achievement gap literature on Black students in general with implications for Black males in particular. Another fundamental aspect of this discussion is the need for educators to adopt an anti-racist (social justice or civil rights) and cultural competence approach to their work, which means being equity-based and culturally responsive in philosophy and action. Suggestions for closing the achievement gap and otherwise improving the achievement of Black males are provided for educators. We also compel educators to go beyond talking about equity by setting quantifiable equity goals for minimum and maximum percentages (and numbers).

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Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Education
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ISBN: 978-1-80455-578-1

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