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Showing 1 to 20 of 102 for “"Common Language"”.
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Towards a Common Language: Social Movements and Vernacular Publics in Telugu, 1900-1956
… the ruptures in the constitution of vernacular languages, and in the publics these languages generate, to posit that the vernacular and its publics are unendingly fractured. This fracturing is significant for comparative and regional literary studies, where even as scholars attend to the …
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‘The People’s Glossary’: Using dialogic art to create a common language for User-led Museum practice
It is understood that language is a powerful mediator of social hierarchy with great influence to emancipate, educate or exclude. Meanwhile, discourses centred on expertise, representation and authorship have re-emerged as priorities in collections of contemporary art due to pressures for them to …
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Local identities in a common language: the iconography of Hellenistic funerary stelai from eastern Greek poleis
… monuments. This dissertation analyses the visual language of Hellenistic funerary stelae from eastern Greek poleis, thereby challenging the notion of a uniform "eastern Greek" iconography. The thesis focuses on the combination of tradition and innovation in the pictorial language of the monuments, …
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Addressing Articulation and Common Language between 11th and 12th Grade 'English Language Arts and College-Level English in the California Community College
… into a community college English course and common language between Common Core State Standards and college-level English course content.</p>
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Participation, collaboration and language use in English Foreign Language adult learning groups that share or do not share a common language besides English
… composed of people who share or do not share a common language (besides English)?" I carried out the research at English Foreign Language (EFL) classes which were held for peoples of Africa. Data were collected through audio and audio-visual recordings, field notes and semi-structured follow-up …
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Learning to Ground Multi-Agent Communication with Autoencoders
Communication requires having a common language, a lingua franca, between agents. This language could emerge via a consensus process between agents, but this may require many generations of trial and error. Alternatively, the lingua franca can be given by the environment, where agents ground their …
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THE IMPACT OF MULTILINGUALISM ON THE DEMOCRATIC LEGITIMACY OF THE EUROPEAN UNION: IS CREATING A SOLIDLY DEFINED EUROPEAN DEMOS THE ANSWER TO THE EU’S LANGUAGE PROBLEM?
… as the relative rather than absolute equality of languages, and translation errors that lead to non-uniform law due to the impossibility of perfect translation. This directly limits the application of the legal certainty aspect of the Rule of Law, thus putting into question the EU’s democratic …
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Flexible Computation of the Well-Founded Semantics of Normal Logic Programs
… for the well-founded semantics using a common data structure and provides a common language to describe their evaluation strategy. This rewriting system gives the formal background to analyze and combine different evaluation strategies in a common framework, or to design new algorithms …
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Universal semantic communication
… between two intelligent parties who share no common language or background? We propose that this problem can be rigorously addressed by explicitly focusing on the goals of the communication. We propose a theoretical framework in which we can address when and to what extent such semantic …
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Empirical Evaluation for Gender-Based DIF in an International Assessment: The Case of PIRLS
… within and across three countries which speak a common language. The study employed logistic binomial regression in order to detect uniform and nonuniform DIF items within and across the three randomly selected countries. The findings clearly indicated the presence of uniform and nonuniform DIF …
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Traditional Story as a Tool in Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment.
… used in group sessions that gave the women a common reference point and a common language to frame discussions. Using story in the IOP sessions helped to create a safe, supportive environment as well as creating an opening for discussions about trauma and abuse, and other significant issues. …
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Improving Professional Learning Community Structures for Enhanced Professional Practice
… PLC survey was then coded for general themes and common language. The PLC Survey found that in past practice PLCs were absent within District ABC and collaboration among teachers was inconsistent and ineffective. Based upon the findings of the PLC survey I developed this Change Plan to include the …
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'Equivocity' and Metaphorical Meaning
… of a theoretical continuum, have much in common and that their views share common problems that infect the entire continuum. Finally, an alternative to the Authoritarian-Anarchist continuum is proposed, and an argument made (1) against an absolute distinction between literal and figurative …
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Membership Functions for a Fuzzy Relational Database: A Comparison of the Direct Rating and New Random Proportional Methods
… to retrieve images by using fuzzy queries whose common-language descriptions are defined by the consensus of a particular user community. The fuzzy set, which is presentation of fuzzy attribute values of the images, is determined through membership function. This paper compares two methods of …
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A Systematic Approach for Cybersecurity Risk Management
… The CRC tool can be used as a common language for sharing ideas and solutions to cyber risk management. Ultimately, the CRC provides details for implementing solutions to managing cyber risks in a concise and standardized manner.
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Evaluation of the usability and usefulness of automatic speech recognition among users in South Africa [electronic resource]
… combination gives meaningful sound patterns in languages. There exists a set of phonemes for every language group, and associated with each group is the method of pronunciation called the accent. A language group could be identified by the accent in their speech; accent is the set of …
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An evaluation of factors that influence service contract quality.
… the same challenges and must work together in a common language, common management principles, common standards and common goals.
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Constructing Educational Criticism Of Online Courses: A Model For Implementation By Practitioners
… line of research is necessary as the basis for a common language with which we can begin to speak holistically about online courses. In this dissertation, I attempt to generate better questions about the nature of online instructional environments. By combining prior works related to educational …
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Evaluation of the usability and usefulness of automatic speech recognition among users in South Africa
… their usability and usefulness among different language groups in South Africa which use English as a common language. Of particular interest was the effect of African accents on the performance of the ASR systems. ASR technology is widely used and researched in the developed world with reported …
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The Hebrew-Jewish Disconnection
<p>A common language creates a cultural community regardless of geographical boundaries. In the Jewish community this language is Hebrew. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship that American Jews have with the Hebrew language in terms of comprehension, the value they place on …
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