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Performance assertion checking
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1992.
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Enhancing quality of assertion generation: methods for automatic assertion generation and evaluation
… and evaluating register transfer level (RTL) assertions. We detail the GoldMine methodology and each of its data mining algorithms. We introduce the Best-Gain Decision Forest algorithm to mine concise RTL assertions. We develop an assertion ranking methodology. We define assertion importance, …
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Bipartite Assertion: A New Account of Assertion, Defined in Terms of Responsibility and Explicit Presentation
Assertion is a speech act that stands at the intersection of the philosophy of language and social epistemology. It is a phenomenon that bears on such wide-ranging topics as testimony, truth, meaning, knowledge and trust. It is thus no surprise that analytic philosophers have devoted innumerable …
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Deep Assertion discovery using word embeddings
… with big data. In this thesis, we propose an assertion framework that dynamically refines the triplets to form factual tuples called ‘assertions’ from multiple free-text sources. The framework is built using a pipeline approach to discover the significant features (words) and map them to the …
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An analysis of a didactic approach to assertion training compared to a behavioral approach to assertion training
… study was to determine if a didactic approach to assertion training (AT) that focused on cognitive skills was as effective as a behavioral approach to assertion training in a study population of overweight women who resided in an American military community in Germany. The study sought to …
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Understanding assertion and truth in relation to metaphor
… Davies 1984), and the semantic criterion – non-assertion of claims (Loewenberg, 1975; Davies 1982), are all not appropriate determinants of the truth-evaluability of metaphors. To evaluate metaphors qua metaphors for truth, I draw on Brandom's (1983, 1994, 2000) inferentialist pragmatics, in …
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A Behavioral Assessment Methodology Applied to the Measurement of Assertion
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T21:07:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7511819.pdf: 8748845 bytes, checksum: dcc1a881b6bdc93dd06d49465b682023 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1974
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Assertion training and in vivo exposure as treatment for agoraphobia
… in a treatment outcome study that compared assertion training and in vivo exposure according to a multiple baseline across subjects experimental design. Dependent measures included (1) self-report; (2) self-monitoring of daily anxiety, stress-related physical symptoms, and psychotropic …
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Does the Permanently Reinvested Earnings Assertion Influence Perceptions of Credit Risk?
… of the permanently reinvested earnings (PRE) assertion on the financial reporting environment has grown tremendously. Under Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) 740, a firm making the PRE assertion is able to avoid recognizing residual U.S. taxes on earnings of its foreign subsidiaries so …
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Post-GDR memory--cultural discourses of loss and assertion in reunified Germany
… German generational engagements with loss and assertion after 1989 into four chapters. Each generation forms a different discursive constellation: melancholic mourning: (Christa Wolf - chapter one), ambivalence (Lutz Rathenow and Thomas Brussig - chapter two), reappropriation (Jana Hensel and …
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The Scope Of The Possible: Canadian Courts, Emotion, And The Assertion Of Crown Sovereignty
This thesis considers emotion and the role emotion plays in judicial reasoning in three Aboriginal title decisions. The aim of this analysis is to draw to the surface emotional undercurrents and commitments that, together with other currents, impact the direction of judicial reasoning in these …
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Carnisaurs and Capital: Assertion and Preservation of Hegemony in the Novels of Michael Crichton
Although Michael Crichton's novels have achieved tremendous popularity over the past three decades, the state of critical examination has stagnated. At present only a handful of publications, including a flawed book-length study, illuminates an author who conceived the popular science fiction …
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Effect of assertion headings and expandable examples in online engineering textbooks on student performance and satisfaction
… that summarize the text in that section (assertion headings) could improve student comprehension. Student feedback in the preliminary phases of our study compelled us to explore whether or not hand-drawn figures have any effect on student course satisfaction and self-efficacy. We studied …
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Glory Stands Beside Our Grief: the Maryland United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Assertion of Their Identity
This project analyzes the position of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Maryland Division as a Lost Cause organization in a border state, and argues how the women sought respect from the national UDC chapter and divisions of former Confederate states. Women of the Maryland UDC believed …
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The Effects of Assertion Training and Cognitive Restructuring on The Assertive Behavior and Situational Discomfort of College Women
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Studying the impact of early test termination due to assertion failure on code coverage and spectrum-based fault localization
An assertion is commonly used to validate the expected program’s behavior (e.g., if the returned value of a method equals an expected value) in software testing. Although it is a recommended practice to use only one assertion in a single test to avoid code smell (e.g., Assertion Roulette), we …
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