https://www.temple.edu/news/2025/08/reward-requirement-new-tipping-culture
In recent years, tipping has expanded far beyond sit-down restaurants. Customers are now prompted to tip at quick-service counters, fast-food chains and coffee shops—often before receiving any service at all. What was once a way to reward good service has become an expected step in many transactions, sparking frustration, confusion and even guilt. Lu Lu, an associate professor at Temple ...
http://exhibits.temple.edu/s/william-still/page/negro-spirituals
Negro spirituals were created and sung by enslaved Africans. The songs are very beautiful and contain coded messages used by enslaved Africans to convey hidden signals for escaping, hiding and expressing danger as well as discontent with slavery. (1) Oh Lord How Come Me Here Lord, how come me here? Lord, how come me here? Lord, how come me here? I wish I never was born There ain’t no freedom ...
https://news.temple.edu/news/2024-09-20/flappy-bird-return-after-10-year-hiatus-true-story-behind-world-s-most-viral-mobile
Temple University film and media arts faculty member Thomas Sharpe discusses the rise, fall and 2025 return of Flappy Bird, the world’s most viral mobile game.
https://law.temple.edu/aer/publication/trial-advocacy-basics-3rd-edition-nita/
March 16, 2022 In December 2016, when reviewing the second edition of BASIC TRIAL ADVOCACY, I wrote the following: NITA – the National Institute for Trial Advocacy – deserves great credit for providing [advocacy lessons] in a concise, reader-friendly form in TRIAL ADVOCACY BASICS (NITA, 2016) by Molly Townes O’Brien and Gary S. Gildin. BASICS is an effective resource, whether the reader ...
https://sites.temple.edu/anadolu/douglass-garrison-collaboration-on-abolition-of-slavery/
Dismantling Slavery is the first book to address the partnership between two giants of abolition—Douglass and Garrison—simultaneously. While underscoring the evolution of abolitionist discourse, Dismantling Slavery unveils the true nature of the friendship between Douglass and Garrison, a key ingredient often overlooked by scholars. Drawing on the writings, speeches, and experiences that ...
https://cst.temple.edu/news/2023/05/biotech-entrepreneur-vaccine-leader-charles-tsan-jian-chen-receive-honorary-degree-cst-graduation-ceremony
Charles Tsan-Jian Chen, a world leader and entrepreneur in the biotech industry with more than four decades of accomplishments in developing, producing and implementing forefront vaccine and diagnostic technologies benefiting human and animal health, will be awarded an honorary doctoral degree from Temple University at the College of Science and Technology's graduation ceremony on Friday, May ...
https://cis.temple.edu/~wu/research/publications/Publication_files/Social-Aware%20DT-Assisted%20Service%20Provisioning%20in%20Serverless%20Edge%20Computing.pdf
Social-Aware DT-Assisted Service Provisioning in Serverless Edge Computing Jing Li†, Jianping Wang†, Weifa Liang†, Jie Wu¶, Quan Chen§, and Zichuan Xu$ † Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, P. R. China ¶ Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA
https://sites.temple.edu/dwolf/files/2020/06/Dissoi-Logoi-EGE.pdf
1. Orientation to the Text It is generally agreed that the text T that we call the Dissoi Logoi was originally composed within the first decade or so after the Peloponnesian War. The single most compelling piece of evidence in support of this dating is the text’s description of the Spartans victory
https://cis.temple.edu/~jiewu/teaching/Spring%202013/01-savvides-localization-wireless-sensor-networks-fine-grained.pdf
Abstract— Wireless communication systems have become increasingly common because of advances in radio and embedded system technologies. In recent years, a new class of applications that networks these wireless de-vices together is evolving. A representative of this class that has received considerable attention from the research community is the wireless sensor network. Such a sensor ...
https://cis.temple.edu/~jiewu/research/publications/Publication_files/Distributed_Deep_Multi-Agent_Reinforcement_Learning_for_Cooperative_Edge_Caching_in_Internet-of-Vehicles.pdf
Abstract—Edge caching is a promising approach to reduce duplicate content transmission in Internet-of-Vehicles (IoVs). Sev-eral Reinforcement Learning (RL) based edge caching methods have been proposed to improve the resource utilization and reduce the backhaul trafic load. However, they only obtain the local sub-optimal solution, as they neglect the influence from environments by other ...