Catalogue Search | MBRL
Are you sure you want to remove the book from the shelf?
{{itemTitle}}
249,425
result(s) for
"TITLE"
Sort by:
Girls with guts! : the road to breaking barriers and bashing records
\"A celebration of the strength, endurance, and athleticism of women and girls, this picture book cites examples of women athletes from the late 1800s up through the 1970s, sharing how women refused to take no for an answer, and how finally, they pushed for a law to protect their right to play, compete, and be athletes.\"-- Publisher's description.
Book
Non Alphanumeric Characters in the Title of Research Papers in Two Indian LIS journals A Comparative Study
The study is undertaken to compare the use of non-alphanumeric characters in the titles of articles published in the IASLIC Bulletin (IB) and the Annals of Library and Information Studies (ALIS). This study is based on the total 567 publications appeared on IB and ALIS between the year 2011 and 2021. This study includes the distribution of publications by year, patterns of authorship, and the use of five often used non-alphanumeric characters: colon, comma, hyphen, question mark, and parenthesis. ALIS published 336 papers and IB published 231 articles over the study period, with an average relative growth rate (RGR) of 1.63 %. Cooperative authoring is more prevalent in both journals. The outcome also shows that 389 titles-216 in ALIS and 173 in IB-of the total 567 contributions appeared with non-alphanumeric characters. The colon (:) is the most often used alpha numeric character; in ALIS (78.85 %) and IB (64.51 %), double authors use it frequently. The study is an original research work intends to have a profound and noteworthy effect on researchers and library patrons who delve into the world of non-alphanumeric characters in research paper titles.
Journal Article
Citizens by degree : higher education policy and the changing gender dynamics of American citizenship
\"What explains the progress that American women have made since the 1960s? While many point to the feminist movement, this book argues that higher education policies paved the way for women to surpass men as the recipients of bachelor's degrees and helped them move toward full, first-class citizenship\"-- Provided by publisher.
Book
Conquest by law : how the discovery of America dispossessed indigenous peoples of their lands
In 1823, Chief Justice John Marshall handed down a Supreme Court decision of monumental importance in defining the rights of indigenous peoples throughout the English-speaking world (the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand). At the heart of the decision for Johnson v. M'Intosh was a “discovery doctrine” that gave rights of ownership to the European sovereigns who “discovered” the land and converted the indigenous owners into tenants. Though its meaning and intention has been fiercely disputed, more than 175 years later, this doctrine remains the law of the land. In 1991, while investigating the discovery doctrine's historical origins this book's author made a startling find: in the basement of a Pennsylvania furniture-maker, he discovered a trunk with the complete corporate records of the Illinois and Wabash Land Companies, the plaintiffs in Johnson v. M'Intosh. This book provides a complete and troubling account of the European “discovery” of the Americas, detailing how a spurious claim gave rise to a doctrine — intended to be of limited application — which itself gave rise to a massive displacement of persons and the creation of a law that governs indigenous people and their lands to this day.
eBook
The White Possessive
The White Possessiveexplores the links between race, sovereignty, and possession through themes of property: owning property, being property, and becoming propertyless. Focusing on the Australian Aboriginal context, Aileen Moreton-Robinson questions current race theory in the first world and its preoccupation with foregrounding slavery and migration. The nation, she argues, is socially and culturally constructed as a white possession.
Moreton-Robinson reveals how the core values of Australian national identity continue to have their roots in Britishness and colonization, built on the disavowal of Indigenous sovereignty. Whiteness studies literature is central to Moreton-Robinson's reasoning, and she shows how blackness works as a white epistemological tool that bolsters the social production of whiteness-displacing Indigenous sovereignties and rendering them invisible in a civil rights discourse, thereby sidestepping thorny issues of settler colonialism.
Throughout this critical examination Moreton-Robinson proposes a bold new agenda for critical Indigenous studies, one that involves deeper analysis of how the prerogatives of white possession function within the role of disciplines.
eBook
Automatic title completion for Stack Overflow posts and GitHub issues
Title quality is important for different software engineering communities. For example, in Stack Overflow, posts with low-quality question titles often discourage potential answerers. In GitHub, issues with low-quality titles can make it difficult for developers to grasp the core idea of the problem. In previous studies, researchers mainly focused on generating titles from scratch by analyzing the body contents, such as the post body for Stack Overflow question title generation (SOTG) and the issue body for issue title generation (ISTG). However, the quality of the generated titles is still limited by the information available in the body contents. A more effective way is to provide accurate completion suggestions when developers compose titles. Inspired by this idea, we are the first to study the problem of automatic title completion for software engineering title generation tasks and propose the approach TC4SETG. Specifically, we first preprocess the gathered titles to form incomplete titles (i.e., tip information provided by developers) for simulating the title completion scene. Then we construct the input by concatenating the incomplete title with the body’s content. Finally, we fine-tune the pre-trained model CodeT5 to learn the title completion patterns effectively. To evaluate the effectiveness of TC4SETG, we selected 189,655 high-quality posts from Stack Overflow by covering eight popular programming languages for the SOTG task and 333,563 issues in the top-200 starred repositories on GitHub for the ISTG task. Our empirical results show that compared with the approaches of generating question titles from scratch, our proposed approach TC4SETG is more practical in automatic and human evaluation. Our experimental results demonstrate that TC4SETG outperforms corresponding state-of-the-art baselines in the SOTG task by a minimum of 25.82% and in the ISTG task by at least 45.48% in terms of ROUGE-L. Therefore, our study provides a new direction for studying automatic software engineering title generation and calls for more researchers to investigate this direction in the future.
Journal Article