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Showing 1 to 20 of 59 for “"Cahill"”.
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Collaborative Justice: An Analysis of the Use of "Justice" in the Writings of Lisa Sowle Cahill
… in the writings of Catholic ethicist Lisa Sowle Cahill. Since 1990, Cahill has supported theological voices participating in the public forum, which she describes as a meeting ground for diverse intellectual and religious traditions. Good argumentation is necessary but not sufficient to resolve …
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Treebank-based grammar acquisition for German
… resources from the English Penn-II treebank (Cahill et al.,2002; Burke et al., 2004; Cahill, 2004). Best results for English show a dependency f-score of 82.73% (Cahill et al., 2008) against the PARC 700 dependency bank, outperforming the best hand-crafted grammar of Kaplan et al. (2004). …
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Requisitioned: American War Art of the Second World War
… for artists under the direction of Holger Cahill and, by extension, Edward Bruce. For the first time in history, the American public engaged with state-sponsored art. Due to a symbiotic relationship that formed between the State and the art community between the interwar years, 1933 and …
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The Effect of Speech-to-Text Software on Learning a New Writing Strategy
… cognitive resources (Kellogg, Whiteford, Turner, Cahill & Mertens, 2013). Several studies have shown that speech-to-text (STT) software can improve students' writing on a specific text (Higgins & Raskind, 1997; MacArthur & Cavalier, 2004; Quinlan, 2004); however, the question of whether STT can be …
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Individual Differences in Function Learning as They Relate to the Learning of Conceptual Information
… Data from two unpublished studies: McDaniel, Cahill, Robbins, & Trumpower, 2012; Fadler, Lee, Scullin, Shelton, & McDaniel, 2012) have demonstrated the stability of these two types of learning across a variety of different higher order problem-solving, concept-learning, and cognitive tasks. …
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Detection of Aneuploidy for Chromosomes 7 and 8 Using Fluorescence <i>In Situ</i> Hybridization in Patients with Aplastic Anemia and Sequencing of the Mitotic Checkpoint Gene hBUB1
… cell lines with high levels of aneuploidy (Cahill, et al., 1998). Although theoretically possible, conclusive evidence does not currently exist establishing a link between aneuploidy levels and mutations within a mitotic spindle checkpoint gene. <em>hBUB1</em> is the most characterized of …
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The Functional Cellular Identity and Interconversion of Human White, Beige, and Brown Adipocytes
… excretion route in adipocytes, similar to the Cahill cycle in muscle cells. To assess the interconversion of white to beige adipocytes, we benchmark a number of small molecules, peptides, and metabolites that have been reported to induce their interconversion in the past (so-called browning …
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A novel dependency-based evaluation metric for machine translation
… Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG) parser (Cahill et al. (2004)) for English, which produces a set of dependency triples for each input. The translation set is compared to the reference set, and the number of matches is calculated, giving the precision, recall, and f-score for that …
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Writing the Next Chapter: A Critical Case Study of Undocumented Immigrant College Students’ Lived Experiences
… use of a theoretical-sensitivity expert panel (Cahill, Kuhn, Schmoll, Lo, McNally, & Quintana, 2011). Several key themes emerged as a result of my analysis with regard to undocumented immigrant access and persistence at the post-secondary level. These themes included: Sense of Belonging, …
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An investigation into deviant morphology : issues in the implementation of a deep grammar for Indonesian
… translation and generation (Oepen et al. 2004; Cahill and Riester 2009; Graham 2011), and information extraction (MacKinlay et al. 2012), demonstrating the need for linguistically rich information to aid NLP tasks. Although these linguistically-motivated grammars are invaluable resources to the …
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An investigation into deviant morphology : issues in the implementation of a deep grammar for Indonesian
… translation and generation (Oepen et al. 2004; Cahill and Riester 2009; Graham 2011), and information extraction (MacKinlay et al. 2012), demonstrating the need for linguistically rich information to aid NLP tasks. Although these linguistically-motivated grammars are invaluable resources to the …
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Cerebral palsy, online social networks and change
… text size and Captcha (AbilityNet, 2008; Cahill and Hollier, 2009 andAsuncion, 2010) access to OSNs is often difficult. The overarching purpose of this PhD research is to understand the experiences and challenges faced when people with the physical disability cerebral palsy (cp) use OSNs. …
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Factors that influence the decisions parents make when choosing a secondary school for their children
The impetus for this portfolio is the accelerating drift of Australian school students from state-run, free government schools to fee-paying independent and/or Catholic schools within the non-government sector. Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data show that between 1996 and 2006, student …
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Governance in sport and recreation organisations : an analysis
This thesis examines emerging issues in the governance of non-profit sport and recreation organisations. Firstly, the thesis examines definitions of non-profit organisations and the contribution that non-profit organisations make to society, especially, the contribution to aspects of the civil …
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Rights without law: The role of privileges in convict rehabilitation in early colonial New South Wales (1788-1819)
This thesis is about the role of privileges in the rehabilitation of convicts in the British colony of New South Wales from 1788 until 1819. Privileges were special rights and benefits granted by the Crown to its subjects. They included pardoning a convict from serving the balance of their …
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Linking groundwater level fluctuations and water quality to vegetation and habitat condition in blanket bog ecosystems in Ireland
Understanding peatland hydrology and its interaction with the ecosystem as a whole has been relatively neglected until recent years. In the past, research has been more focused on raised bogs and blanket bogs have been somewhat neglected. This research aims to help bridge some gaps in knowledge …
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How Can I Effectively Teach Cursive Handwriting to Junior Infants?
This thesis aims to find ways in which cursive handwriting can be taught to junior infant pupils in an effective and child-centred manner, reflective of my ontological and epistemological values. Prior to embarking on this study, I was struggling to teach cursive handwriting to my junior infant …
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Spectro-astrometry as a Tool for Detecting Planets in Transitional Disks
The goal of understanding how our solar system formed has been a long standing one. We have already answered the question \is our solar system unique?" by detecting an ever-growing population of extra solar planets orbiting stars of many different sizes and temperatures. It is much easier to detect …
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Design and Analysis of Corrugated Conical Horn Antennas with Terahertz Applications
The focus of this thesis is the design and analysis of corrugated conical horn antennas for use in the THz region of the electromagnetic spectrum, for the company SWISSto12®. These antennas are designed to work across the industry standard WR frequency bands, as free-space radiators or as part of a …
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