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We Collect Answers
We Collect Answers is an investigation of language, religion, translation, community participation, and ritual and poetry. This written statement is presented alongside an exhibition of paintings and ceramic works structured around a ritual of exchange encouraging social participation. The work …
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Questions and answers in English.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics. Thesis. 1972. Ph.D.
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Negative answers to some positivity questions
We construct counterexamples to a number of questions related to positivity properties of line bundles on algebraic varieties. The examples are based on studying the geometry of varieties that admit pseudo automorphisms of positive entropy, and in particular on the action of standard Cremona …
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How to Rank Answers in Text Mining
… thesis, we mainly focus on case studies about answers. We present the methodology CEW-DTW and assess its performance about ranking quality. Based on the CEW-DTW, we improve this methodology by combining Kullback-Leibler divergence with CEW-DTW, since Kullback-Leibler divergence can check the …
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Modeling nitrogen transport with the ANSWERS model
… a nitrogen transport model is incorporated into ANSWERS, a distributed parameter watershed model. The nitrogen model simulates nitrogen transformations of applied fertilizer and soil nitrogen in the soil. Dissolved nitrogen transport in surface runoff is modeled by assuming complete mixing of the …
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Aggregation of student answers in a classroom setting
… not have enough time to poll all students for answers to questions, although it would be the best method for discovering students' misconceptions. The aggregator module of a system called Classroom Learning Partner provides a solution to this problem by collecting answers students wirelessly …
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Verbs and nouns in awake neurosurgery: needs and answers
Awake surgery is a surgical procedure applied to people with brain tumors. Patients are kept awake during surgery to perform language tasks during electrical stimulation of cortico-subcortical brain structures. When the application of electrical pulses to the brain repeatedly triggers errors, this …
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APPROXIMATE: A Query Processor That Produces Monotonically Improving Approximate Answers
… called APPROXIMATE, that makes approximate answers available if part of the database is unavailable or if there is not enough time to produce an exact answer. The accuracy of the approximate answers produced improves monotonically with the amount of data retrieved to produce the result. …
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Mock jurors' perceptions of "I don't know" answers in child testimony
… that greater numbers of “I don’t know” answers during questioning negatively impacted mock jurors’ perceptions of children’s honesty and cognitive ability, but making jurors aware of the “I don’t know” instruction mitigated some of these negative effects. Findings from this study can be …
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Financial cooperatives: regulatory and supervisory answers for South Africa and Malawi
The regulatory and supervisory framework of financial co-operatives in South Africa consists of the Cooperatives Act (No. 14 of 2005), the Co-operatives Bank Act (No. 40 of 2007), Banks Act Exemption (Notice 620 of 2014) and the Financial Sector Regulation Act (No. 9 of 2017). In Malawi, the …
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How Do Java Developers Reuse StackOverflow Answers in Their GitHub Projects?
… better understand the characterization of SO answers that are reused by GitHub projects. For this study, we conducted an empirical study to investigate the SO answers reused by Java code from public GitHub projects. We used a hybrid approach to ensure precise results: code clone detection, …
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Community and Thread Methods for Identifying Best Answers in Online Question Answering Communities
… recently investigated the measurement of quality answers in Question Answering (Q&A) communities in the form of automatic best answer identification. Previous approaches have focused on manual user annotations and diverse features based on intuition for identifying best answers and proved …
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Why even ask? : on the pragmatics of questions and the semantics of answers
This work investigates the semantics-pragmatics and syntax-pragmatics interface of interrogatives, focusing on the effect of presupposition-triggering expressions like even and Negative Polarity Items (NPIs). In exploring these cases, I aim is to contribute new empirical evidence and theoretical …
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Identification and presentation of student answers to in-class exercises in classroom learning partner
… math and science classrooms. Our system collects answers sent by students for in-class exercises and allows the teacher to browse through these answers, annotate them, and display them to the class on a public projector. Through the incorporation of a novel feature of classifying and sorting …
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Predicting Sediment Detachment and Channel Scour in the Process-Based Planning Model ANSWERS-2000
ANSWERS-2000, a continuous simulation, distributed parameter nonpoint source model for simulating runoff, sediment, and nutrients from disturbed watersheds was updated to include a critical-shear rill detachment subroutine, an improved interrill detachment subroutine, and a channel scour …
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Turning To The Bottle For Answers: Identifying Racial Differences in Predictors of Risk Drinking Among College Women
Epidemiological data suggest that alcohol use and related problems have increased among college women. The current study examined psychosocial predictors of risk drinking in a sample of college women (N=360), whether race moderated this relationship. Potential predictors included: daily smoker; …
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