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Showing 1 to 20 of 416 for “"Ambiguities"”.
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Sign Ambiguities of Gaussian Sums
… formula giving an infinite class of new sign ambiguities and we resolve the ambiguous sign by using the Stickelberger's theorem.
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Ambiguities in range-based system identification
Blind linear system identification (or recovery) arises in several applications in engineering (e.g. channel equalization, super-resolution, MRI and SAR image formation). This is a special case of a bi-linear inverse problem, and is sometimes equivalent to range-based operator recovery. The aim of …
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Segment-based image matting using inpainting to resolve ambiguities
Image Matting and Compositing [6, 25] - the extraction of a foreground element from an image and overlaying it over a different background - are two important operations in digital image manipulation. The extraction of the foreground element and its composition over an existing background is …
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L1 attrition in Italian: Pronominal reference and (pseudo-)relative parsing ambiguities
… with (pseudo-)relative clause attachment ambiguities. We argue that this is an interesting comparison as such attachment ambiguities involve two ambiguities which are both conditioned by principles of computational efficiency at the level of the parser and are not related to discourse. In …
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Linguistic Ambiguities, the Transmissional Process, and the Earliest Recoverable Language of Buddhism
… in the surviving witnesses uncovers linguistic ambiguities which are phonologically cognate, but semantically unclear, pointing to an earlier, underlying linguistic form of which the witnesses are translations. Sanskritizations of earlier Prakrit transmissions are particularly revealing as they …
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Prepositional Phrase Attachment Ambiguities in Declarative and Interrogative Contexts: Oral Reading Data
<p>Certain English sentences containing multiple prepositional phrases (e.g., <em>She had planned to cram the paperwork in the drawer into her briefcase</em>) have been reported to be prone to mis-parsing of a kind that is standardly called a “garden path.” The mis-parse stems from the temporary …
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Architecture as Performance: The Trace of Performance with Ambiguities of Spatial Sequence
… an occupant’s first arrival, and yet open to ‘ambiguities’ of interpretation. The inhabitable experience is therefore conceived as an interactive relationship that fluctuates between the ordered conditions of the spatial system (a form of architectural control) and the open-ended and …
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‘Just as strenuous a nationalist as ever’, W.B. Yeats and postcolonialism: tensions, ambiguities, and uncertainties
This study investigates William Butler Yeats’s relationship to the issues of colonialism and anti-colonialism and his stance as a postcolonial poet. A considerable part of Yeats criticism has read him either as a revolutionary and anti-colonial figure or a poet with reactionary and colonialist …
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"""Civil"" Societies and ""Evil"" States: Ambiguities of Women's NGO Organizing and Patriarchy in Post -Soviet Ukraine"
"This work articulates to ongoing studies of civil society and social organizations that examine the range of informal interpersonal practices that configure new social orders in post-Soviet countries. My dissertation adds to studies of local organizational practices, transnational interventions, …
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An eye-tracking investigation into the role of contextual biases in the resolution of attachment ambiguities
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-11 without embargo terms
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THE MYTH OF THE SLAVELESS SOCIETY: BLACK POLITICS AND THE AMBIGUITIES OF ANTISLAVERY IN MASSACHUSETTS, 1641-1783
The “Myth of the Slaveless Society” explores antislavery sentiment in Massachusetts from the founding of the colony to the legal abolition of slavery in the newfound state in 1783. It argues that white colonists there told a story of themselves, to themselves, that denied the reality of chattel …
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The politics of leadership organizing in informal settlements: ambiguities of speaking publicly and mediating conflicting institutional logics
This thesis examines the politics of leadership organizing in three informal settlements in Cape Town. Building on the facts that internal informal settlement politics is tense and leadership organizing fragmented and fluid, I focus on the politics of leadership organizing as internal negotiations …
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NGOs and the transformational state : theorizing the ambiguities of educational development and change in post-apartheid South Africa
… of the structure-agency debate, how tensions and ambiguities are generated within the symbolic order, through the manifestations of power and authority within the policy-making process and through the allocation of resources determine space and contextual realities within which NGOs operate. The …
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A critical examination of the legal ambiguities surrounding labour tenants in terms of the Land Reform (Labour Tenants) Act.
The history of South Africa includes the recognition of labour tenants with the numerous enactment of legislation.9 The Land Reform (Labour Tenant) Act (LTA) was enacted to redress the past injustices suffered by labour tenants.10 However since the enactment it only had one amendment, which did not …
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Creator and Creation: Artistic Development in Herman Melville’s Pierre; or, the Ambiguities and James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
… of Herman Melville’s <em>Pierre; or, the Ambiguities</em> (1852) and James Joyce’s <em>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man</em> (1916), Pierre Glendinning and Stephen Dedalus, as well as Isabel Banford, a supporting character in Melville’s novel, to illustrate how the tensions of …
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