This chapter examines the importance of “where” mobile work/life practices occur. By discussing excerpts of data collected through in-depth interviews with mobile professionals, we focus on the importance of place for mobility, and highlight the social character of place and the intrinsically social motivations of workers when making decisions regarding where to move. In order to show how the e...

The concept of blended learning, defined in a range of ways, has begun to change the nature of all teaching and learning in higher education. Information and communication technologies have impacted by providing a means of access to digital resources and interactive communication for all courses and the blending of pedagogy and technology has produced a range of approaches to teaching and learn...

We present and discuss quality assessment of visual blends based on how humans perceive them. This work represents part of a wider study aimed at determining the fundamental characteristics of a good blend. Based on the obtained insights, we hope to make a more comprehensible explanation of some less clear and not fully described aspects of the conceptual blending mechanism that play a fundamen...

I. Problem To maintain a competitive edge, the Ozark Table Grape Growers Association, Inc. (OTGGAI) is attempting to develop a strong alternative value added product in a new juice blend. This is necessary to utilize the less desirable grapes which fail to meet the fresh inspection/shipping standards. The Association has completed only its third year of operation and is composed of approximatel...

Throughout Pulitzer Prize-winning author Louis Bromfield’s long career in the first half of the twentieth century, he produced both fiction and non-fiction writings on a wide variety of subjects, but there was one topic that consistently reappeared in novels, short stories, essays, and non-fiction works: the blending of people and nature in the farm landscape. This paper will examine the landsc...

One form of analogical argument proceeds by comparing a disputed case (the target) with an agreed upon case (the source) to try to resolve the dispute. There is a variation on the preceding form of argument that has not been identified. This variation involves multiple sources, and it requires that the sources be combined or blended for the argument to work. Arguments supporting the Triple Cont...

Iran’s energy and petrochemical exports have recently been restricted by a series of international sanctions. This paper focuses on one of the country’s exports, namely methanol – a petrochemical increasingly used for fuel blending and traded at various locations worldwide – and empirically explores the relationships among the North American, European, and Asian markets to investigate the incid...

Assigning a positive or negative score to a word out of context (i.e. a word’s prior polarity) is a challenging task for sentiment analysis. In the literature, various approaches based on SentiWordNet have been proposed. In this paper, we compare the most often used techniques together with newly proposed ones and incorporate all of them in a learning framework to see whether blending them can ...

This paper is intended for new faculty and faculty who are new to using digital technologies and a learning management system in their instruction. As experienced faculty in the College of Education, the authors make a concerted effort to support faculty in their use of instructional technology. In this paper, the authors share their experiences with faculty who are taking early the early steps...

Study the effect of blending hydrophilic agent and water and oil repellent agent on cotton fabric property of antifouling and easy decontaminating. The study shows that blending could make the fabric have property of antifouling and easy decontaminating.