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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Conceptual spaces"”.
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A model for information retrieval driven by conceptual spaces
… Concept Analysis enables the extraction of conceptual spaces (formal contexts)that are based on sub-graphs from the original structure of the semantic model. The types of conceptual spaces built in this case are limited by the KOSs structural relations relevant to retrieval: exact match, …
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Toward meaningful communication: engineering semantics with the geometry of conceptual spaces
… an approach termed "semantic communication with conceptual spaces," which is based on the geometric conceptual spaces model of meaning. Conceptual spaces offer a general, expressive, and interpretable mechanism by which a system can utilize semantic knowledge and optimize its operation around …
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The Mirror Men: An integrated approach to profiling male fashion innovators in London by using self-concept and gender theories
… exclusively utilises 'sexuality' within two conceptual spaces: the first one in the form of community-constructed environments as actual consumption platforms, and the second one as abstract, transitory, or experiential spaces, in which a male feels comfortable expressing or acknowledging his …
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Searching for knowledge. The neurophysiology behind the exploration of hippocampal cognitive maps.
… that hippocampal rhythms support exploration of conceptual domains, further strengthening the parallels between spatial and mnemonic exploration. I will then show that attention underlies exploration of visual space giving rise to the grid-like response, a typical signature of spatial navigation. …
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Keep Austin Queer: Performativity of Queer Space in Austin, Texas
Queer spaces can be physical or conceptual spaces, depending on the people who are occupying them. Austin, Texas is a city known for its progressive nature, even while being a city in the middle of Texas. That being said, Austin does not have an overabundance of physical queer spaces as other …
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What’s in a cognitive map? Action representations in the hippocampal-entorhinal system
… representation of learned actions in a conceptual space. To this end, I taught participants to associate numerically labelled states with specific mathematical operations, and examined neural pattern similarity as a function of action distribution similarity. Entorhinal neural pattern …
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Hidden in Plain Sight: the Nat Images of Myanmar
… guardians spirits of very different physical and conceptual spaces. Art is used to frame this narrative, and as nats have been made in such a wide variety of media and across all time periods, their imagery reflects how devotees have interacted with their temporal and spiritual worlds throughout …
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Hidden in Plain Sight: the Nat Images of Myanmar
… guardians spirits of very different physical and conceptual spaces. Art is used to frame this narrative, and as nats have been made in such a wide variety of media and across all time periods, their imagery reflects how devotees have interacted with their temporal and spiritual worlds throughout …
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Shape changing composite material design for interactions
… from two aspects: the technical aspects and the conceptual aspects. The technical aspects are identified with the interplays of three features of nature: natural structural mechanisms, natural stimuli and natural transformation mechanisms. The conceptual aspects is summarized in two conceptual …
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Posthuman Creative Styling can a creative writer’s style of writing be described as procedural?
… The thesis uses practice to inform an original conceptual space model, based on quality dimensions and dynamic-inter operation of spaces. This model gives an example of the procedures which a posthuman creative writer uses when engaged in creative styling. It suggests an original formulation for …
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Ballads for Remembering
… and academic outputs fold and knead together conceptual spaces; playful and engaging imaginings that slip through our habitual systematic thinking in linear time, space, and forward progress. In the form of three Ballads, I look at time, space, and emergence (Ballad 1), offer a critical …
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Mindfulness and Embodiment in the Design of a Synthetic Experience
… informed thesis, based on work related to conceptual spaces I have developed from looking at how space and time are designed in panoramas, in film, though Virtual Reality (VR) and through scientific visualizations, specifically astronomy related ones, and the immersive interactives I …
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Gamekeeper turned poacher: discursive shifts in apprenticeship reform in England, 2011-2021
… relations. Good use of what Dowling calls ‘conceptual spaces’ and what Bravenboer terms ‘discursive spaces’ is made in the finding of oppositions and alliances identified within each text.
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Muslim identity and Islamic faith in Sarajevo.
… Islam provides a "double identity", two ways of conceptualising collective identity. On the one hand Islam distinguishes Muslims from their Serb/Orthodox and Croat/Catholic neighbours, whilst on the other it gives them membership in a worldwide religious community transcending the bounds of …
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Contemporary art and the search for history—the emergence of the artist-historian
… and regional), as well as creating different conceptual spaces (between the amnesic, mnemonic, and virtual spaces), where they can pursue history. Finally, throughout this dissertation, I look to Foucault as the theoretical armature for my own work, yet I am as much concerned with the …
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Young people, situated learning, and peace praxis at the margins of everyday life
… epistemologies of peace validated in spatial and conceptual spaces of ‘conflict-affected peace’, such as ‘everyday peace’ and ‘peacebuilding’. Instead, it has drawn attention to the possible polemologic vestiges of peace; and questions why peace is rarely investigated independently, and so often …