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Showing 1 to 20 of 180 for “"CDA"”.
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Computerized Dynamic Assessment of Vocabulary Knowledge (CDA-V): Vocabulary Depth Assessment and Zone of Proximal Development
… Computerized Dynamic Assessment of Vocabulary (CDA-V). The CDA-V is an existing depth of vocabulary assessment approached with Dynamic Assessment. The Word Associates Test (Read, 1993) and Graduated Prompts (Gutiérrez-Clellen & Peña, 2001), respectively. As a result of this combination, the …
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Summary of Essays on the Constitutional Application of the 1996 CDA Section 230 and Separation of Powers
<p>Chapter 1 explores the issue of when and whether Big Tech stops being a private actor and become a “state actor” under the entanglement-entwinement theory such that the U.S. Constitution applies to its conduct, whether social media platforms are common law “common carriers,” and the state …
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The Power of the Interpreter in the Business Domain: A CDA Approach to the Professional Interpreter’s Mediating Role
… the perspective of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). Given the dramatic increase in trade and economic exchanges between China and Western countries, business dialogue interpreting is the most frequently adopte d type of interpreting in China. Cross cultural business negotiation, with its …
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Bridging the gap between research and practice: construction and validation of a CDA-informed English reading test for China's twelfth graders
… advances in cognitive diagnostic assessment (CDA) move in this direction, most CDA studies of second language (L2) reading tend to identify examinees' mastery of skills by using the existing tests that were not originally designed for diagnostic purposes (e.g., Buck, Tatsuoka, & Kostin, 1997; …
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Robust and cheating-resilient power auctioning on Resource Constrained Smart Micro-Grids
The principle of Continuous Double Auctioning (CDA) is known to provide an efficient way of matching supply and demand among distributed selfish participants with limited information. However, the literature indicates that the classic CDA algorithms developed for grid-like applications are …
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Teachers' Perceptions And Realizations Of Critical Literacy
… Participants used critical discourse analysis (CDA) of student writing and student talk to uncover the ideologies at work in their classrooms. This study also investigated teachers' perceptions of tensions related to their work with critical literacy. This study extends ideas from the research …
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Rethinking the Role of the Landscape in Historic Interpretation: A Constructivist Design Approach to Interpreting Slavery in Appalachian Virginia
… presented. The Constructivist Design Approach (CDA) emphasizes the manipulation of form, scale, materials, and path to facilitate visitors' physical, psychological, and emotional immersion in their environment. The CDA was developed from three research areas: an epistemological grounding in …
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An examination of positioning in editorials, business and sports commentaries in the Lesotho weekly newspaper, Public Eye
… is premised on Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and selected approaches to media production so as to provide a sociopolitical and cultural context for textual analysis in the study. The study is organized into five chapters. Chapter 1 is an introduction which serves to give the background of …
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Investigating the Effects of Perceptual Complexity versus Conceptual Meaning on the Neural Correlates of Visual Working Memory
… amplitudes of the contralateral delay activity (CDA) have also been noted for meaningful stimuli, despite being thought of as a neural marker of a fixed working memory capacity. The current study aimed to elucidate the mechanisms underlying improved memory performance for real-world objects by …
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Understanding influences in policy-making : whole-school evaluation and discourse - a critique
… The study uses Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to reveal the major influences in the policy and to ask what important issues have been overlooked. The dissertation examines dominant discourses in the policy and the ways in which these discourses have been framed. Through a description of …
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Eye detection using discriminatory features and an efficient support vector machine
… method, clustering-based discriminant analysis (CDA), improves upon the popular Fisher linear discriminant (FLD) method. A major disadvantage of the FLD is that it may not be able to extract adequate features in order to achieve satisfactory performance, especially for two-class problems. To …
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Implementing a cognitive diagnostic assessment in an institutional test: a new networking model in language testing and experiment with a new psychometric model and task type
… are analyzed. Cognitive diagnostic assessment (CDA) has gained attention in language testing since late 90’s. A few models of this new assessment method have been applied to the response data of different language tests, yielding encouraging results in general. Most of these empirical studies …
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Exploring the Relationship between Long-Term Memory and Attention through Attentional Templates
… target changes contralateral delay activity (CDA), an event-related potential that is the putative marker of the amount of information maintained in VWM. It has been suggested that the disappearance of the CDA with an invariable target marks the transfer of the attentional template from VWM …
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The Framing of CSR Messages and how they are interlinked with Brand Heritage and Authenticity for selected UK Grocery Retailers.
… In phase two, a critical discourse analysis (CDA) proved an effective means to deconstruct the CSR reporting strategies that link to brand representations over an extensive time period for both UK brands. The findings from the study highlight how symbolic brand heritage references were …
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UK newspapers' reflection of inequity in higher education: a study using critical discourse analysis
… question of whether critical discourse analysis (CDA) played a useful role in this analysis in the data for this study. Two approaches to CDA were used; these were the corpus linguistics approach (CLA) and the social actors approach (SAA). The application of CDA in the context of Bourdieu’s …
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Effects of heavy metals on the physical activity and survival of freshwater clams
… other mine wastes throughout the Coeur D'Alene (CDA) drainage. After the mines closed, the area was declared a Superfund site by the Environmental Protection Agency and attention has focused on the human health consequences and environmental consequences of the contamination. In the current …
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Hand X-ray absorptiometry for measurement of bone mineral density on a slot-scanning X-ray imaging system
… fracture risk. Computed digital absorptiometry (CDA) has also been shown to be very effective at measuring the bone mass in hand bones using an aluminium step wedge as a calibration reference. In this project, the aim was to develop algorithm s for accurate measurement of BMD in hand bones on a …
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Trajectory Specification to Support High-Throughput Continuous Descent Approaches
Continuous descent approaches (CDAs) have demonstrated the ability to reduce aircraft fuel burn and noise, while trajectory-based operations (TBO) have been shown to improve the predictability and throughput of aircraft flows. Prior work has recognized the difficulty of implementing CDAs in …
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Statistical methods for learning sparse features
… which is named Complementary Dimension Analysis (CDA) since each sequentially added new dimension boosts the discriminative power of the reduced space. A couple of extensions of CDA are discussed in this thesis, including sparse CDA (sCDA) in which the reduced subspace involves only a small …
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