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Showing 1 to 20 of 1660 for “"Ask"”.
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Surveys as communication : it's not just what you ask, but how you ask it
… in future surveys. This study also found that asking open-ended survey questions may interact with self-expression to increase the willingness of the respondent to endorse a campaign related to the topic covered in the survey. While neither outcome- nor value-relevant involvement appeared to …
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EML - Ask, Tell and Listen
… producing agent that not only can "ask" and "tell" (as KQML performatives) but also perform an active "listen" allowing agents not just to receive messages but to interpret them in light of context proactively. This shift supports interoperability among diverse agents, enhances …
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When Designers Ask, "What If?"
… into future worlds is a powerful tool for asking why this world is the way it is and how we can make it better” (Finn).</p>
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Ask the Doctor, He Might Know!
This is the culmination of my own creation, a piece that represents what it means for me to be a writer, and what it means to be a person living, and dying in the world.
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Learning to Ask Like a Physician
Existing question answering (QA) datasets derived from electronic health records (EHR) are artificially generated and, as a result, fail to capture realistic physician information needs. We present Discharge Summary Clinical Questions (DiSCQ), a newly curated question dataset composed of 2,000+ …
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Teaching Machines to Ask Useful Clarification Questions
… collaborate with humans unless they can ask questions. Asking questions is also a natural way for machines to express uncertainty, a task of increasing importance in an automated society. In the field of natural language processing, despite decades of work on question answering, there is …
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Ends, Norms, and Representations: Why ask "Why?" in Biology?
In this dissertation I address three philosophical problems in the philosophy of biology united by the underlying, and interlocking, issues of the explanatory role of teleological, normative, and representational concepts in biology. In the first chapter, I argue that extant accounts of functions …
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Teaching grade fives to ask investigable questions in science
… Area that relates to children's abilities to ask questions that they can investigate themselves. Children struggle to formulate questions that can be used for investigations, and so they need to be taught how to do this. However, there is a paucity of research literature providing empirical …
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Anxiety and sport : time to ask what rather than why
Approaches to the study of anxiety in sport have tended to rely on the use of questionnaires to assess levels of competitive anxiety. The development of the Competitive State Anxiety Inventory-2 (Martens et aI., 1982) has according to Jones (1995) led to considerable research investigating the …
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Bid-Ask Spread Modelling in the South African Bond Market
Pitsillis and Taylor (2014) calculate bid-ask spread estimates of South African government bonds over a single year, using the models of De Jong and Rindi (2009) and Huang and Stoll (1997). This dissertation tests the effectiveness of both models by comparing the modelled equity spread estimates …
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Three essays on the cost components of the bid-ask spread
… on the adverse selection component of the bid-ask spread. A regime switching model applied to the trading process leads to a parsimonious model of the time-series evolution of the bid-ask spread in which market participants use trade data to answer the following question: Is there currently …
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Do Women Ask? Gender Differences in Applying for Internal Job Openings
Gender differences in application behavior can contribute to gender inequality in hiring outcomes. People are unlikely to be selected for jobs if they do not put themselves forward to be considered for positions. This paper focuses on understanding supply-side mechanisms that may stifle female …
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Ask a librarian: The profession, professional identities, and constitutive rhetoric of librarians
Institutions can be powerful influences on our personal and work lives and can constrain and enable our behaviors. It is through communication that institutions are created and sustained.Professions, institutionalized occupations, are one example of institutions that play an important role in …
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Synonymous question generation: Learning to ask in different ways using variational autoencoders
… graphs (KGs) to enable machines to learn how to ask semantically equivalent natural language questions with lexical and syntactical variety from KGs. To the best of our knowledge, this problem has not yet been explored in the literature. We propose explicitly modeling variations in natural …
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Creating Links: Building an Educational Platform to Ask Relevant Questions in Education
… Third, we document an RCT where Math tutors were asked to dedicate some time per week to teach Socioemotional learning skills. We show that this had a positive effect on learning. Moreover, it also caused tutors to teach longer Math classes. Students showed more trust in their tutors, and …
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The Effects of Multiple Listing on Bid-Ask Spreads for Equity Options
… of equity options leads to lower bid-ask spreads because of increased competition. This competition can come in two forms, actual or potential, both of which are theorized to have the same effect on spreads. A model of the determinants of the bid-ask spread was formulated. Separate …
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Ask & tell, just don't perform: military discourses of (in)security and sexual identity.
… which contributed to a repeal of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, calls into question how changing discourses about gay and lesbian service members rhetorically construct queer citizenship. To answer this question, theories of gender and sexuality performance, corporeal rhetoric, and …
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The components of the bid-ask spread: evidence from the corn futures market
The student, Quanbiao Shang, accepted the attached license on 2016-04-26 at 12:56.
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