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Showing 1 to 20 of 1443 for “"Ambiguous"”.
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Ambiguous Form
This thesis is an exploration of the ambiguous form. "Ambiguous" means having multiple interpretations. Usually, a figurative presentation will direct people to a particular thing. On the contrary, if familiarity is provided as the only way, people can find a deceptive scenario, and associate it …
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Children’s handling of ambiguous input
… success revising interpretations based on ambiguous input (Experiments 1 and 2), 5- to 6- year old children failed to seek disambiguating information appropriately (Experiment 3). Although children treated their interpretations as if they were tentative, their failure to perform a simple …
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Predictors Of Perceiving Racism In Ambiguous Situations
The present study used a mixed-experimental analog design to examine 858 undergraduate students' reactions to a scenario depicting a store clerk being mildly rude to a customer. The ethnicity of the clerk and customer were manipulated. Results indicated that participants' beliefs regarding the …
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Handling ambiguous user input on touchscreen kiosks
Touchscreen kiosks are becoming an increasingly popular means of providing a wide arrange of services to the public. However, the principal drawback of these types of systems lies within the elevated error rates due to finger imprecision and screen miscalibration. These issues become worrisome, …
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Optimal long-term financing under ambiguous volatility
… action in which the principal and the agent have ambiguous beliefs about the volatility of the project cash flows. I describe a novel formulation that captures uncertainty about the underlying volatility process show how it affects the optimal contract. Ambiguity aversion generates endogenous …
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Disambiguating Biased Ambiguous Words: An Eye Movement Investigation
… in discourse representation when a biased ambiguous word (BAW) precedes a particular disambiguating context supporting either an initial dominant or a subordinate meaning. This experiment assumed that readers selected the dominant meaning before leaving the BAW; and when they encountered …
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Ambiguous Loss For Caregivers of Family Members With Dementia
… related dementias, and how caregivers experience ambiguous loss. Five caregivers of spouses with Alzheimer’s disease or related dementias participated in this study, recruited from the Alzheimer’s Society of London and Middlesex and the Alzheimer Outreach Services of McCormick Home. This was a …
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Happily Ever After? Ambiguous Closure in Modernist Children's Literature
This study explores the fruitful interchanges between modernist literary technique, the culture of modernity, and children's literature. While some recent scholarship has examined works that modernist authors like Eliot, Joyce, Woolf, and Cummings produced for child readers, modernist children's …
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Recognition of ambiguous pairs of totally unconstrained handwritten numerals
… is added after classification to distinguish the ambiguous numerals between two or more classes. Two recognition methods, structural method and statistical method, are used to overcome the limitations of a single method and deliver a much more reliable recognition system. The recognition rate is …
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Syntactic learning from ambiguous evidence : errors and end-states
In this thesis I explore the role of ambiguous evidence in first language acquisition by using a probabilistic learner for setting syntactic parameters. As ambiguous evidence is input to the learner that is compatible with multiple grammars or hypotheses, it poses learnability and acquisition …
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Producing Ambiguous Threats: The Xenos and Xenophobia in Postcolonial France
… and persecuted accordingly because they are ambiguous, that is, neither similar nor different, neither one thing nor its opposite. This research groups those subjects under the analytical term xenos (both the host and the guest in the ancient Greek hospitality) and studies three figures of …
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PERCEPTION OF RACISM IN AMBIGUOUS EVENTS: A CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY ANALYSIS
Previous research indicates that Black Americans are more likely than White Americans to think that racism still plays a role in current events. Mainstream accounts often explain these differences as the product of something about Black Americans that leads them to over-perceive racism. This paper …
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The Triple Double: Racially Ambiguous Afro-Latino Identities in America
… turn, this system has classified most racially ambiguous members of society into categories that fail to acknowledge the complexity of their ethnic and racial identities. These pre-determined classifications have lasting effects on the accessibility of opportunities and the social spaces …
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Ambiguous Borders: the European Commission and the reconstruction of borders
… to promote further integration and therefore, ambiguous border configurations in its discourse highlight current limitations to border transcendence that instead lead to multiplication and transformation of EU and European borders. The research provides a comprehensive examination of the …
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Ambiguous Freedom: A Grounded Theoretical Analysis of Life Outside Prison
Prisonization refers to the idea that prisoners assimilate to prison society, import criminogenic characteristics, and are deprived by prison culture. Post-carceral prisonization is the process by which excarcerated prisoners (EXP) are socialized by features of prisonization that persist after …
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Systemic Team Coaching in a Volatile, Uncertain, Complex & Ambiguous (VUCA) World
… within a VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous) world. The research investigates how these interventions can enhance team cohesion, communication, and adaptability. Utilizing an interpretative phenomenological approach, qualitative data was collected through semi-structured interviews …
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