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Showing 1 to 20 of 43554 for “"Context"”.
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Ada : context-sensitive context-sensing on mobile devices
… design, implementation, and evaluation of Ada, a context-sensing service for mobile devices. Ada explores new points in the accuracy-energy-responsiveness design space for mobile context sensing. The service exports an API that allows a client to express interest in one or more context types …
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In Context
… body of work found in my thesis exhibition, In Context. The role of family and childhood are discussed and related to the work. The feminist writers bell hooks, Jane Tompkins, and Hélène Cixous are cited as influential to the initial exploration of my content. Artists discussed include Louise …
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Context-Aware Mobility: A Distributed Approach to Context Management
… around the user needs and capabilities is named context-aware mobility management. Context refers to the information describing the surroundings of the user as well as his/her behaviour, and additional semantic information that could optimise the adaption process. Context management normally …
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Context modeling : extending the parametric object model with design context
Context can be described as the totality of ideas, situations and information that (a) related to, (b) provide the origins for, and (c) influence our response, perspective or judgment of a thing. Design always takes place in a context. However, current Computer Aided Architectural Design (CAAD) …
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Context-sensitive multimedia
Thesis (M.S.V.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1993.
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Interactions with context
My dissertation asks how we affect conversational context and how it affects us when we participate in any conversation -- including philosophical conversations. Chapter 1 argues that speakers make pragmatic presuppositions when they use proper names. I appeal to these presuppositions in giving a …
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Skyscrapers in context
… exposed to several different levels of"contexts, which are mainly defined by the distance between the viewer and the tall buildings. Awareness of these contexts is important in understanding or evaluating skyscraper design. Since the people are the judge of whether or not a building is …
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Presuppositions in context
… of particular expressions and the conversational contexts in which utterances containing those expressions may be used. A series of behavioral experiments examine what children in the preschool age range know about the pragmatic principles governing presupposition, and how they come to acquire …
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Context : Echo Park
Thesis (M.Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1982.
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Design In Context
… reality; the most important being the building's context. Architecture without a site is conjecture and speculation and though it may have its place in some realm of study, it can never be real. For an idea to be manifested, it must be built someplace on this Earth and therefore I believe that …
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A Multilayer Framework for Quality of Context in Context-Aware Systems
Context-aware systems use context information to decide what adaptation actions to perform in response to changes in their environment. Depending on applications, context information includes physical context (e.g. temperature and location), user context (e.g. user preferences and user activity), …
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Rich-context: an unsupervised context-driven recommender system based on user reviews
… the most part, however, they have done this in a context-insensitive way. Yet it is clear that a knowledge of the context in which a user intends to consume a product or service is desirable to ensure that the recommended products and services match the intended context. Context-Aware Recommender …
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Context in Question Answering
… Many models for this task rely on some form of contextual information that leads from the question to the answer. This context plays a crucial role in how well models perform. Using the right context when answering a question can be the difference between a model achieving superhuman …
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Spenser’s Prothalamion in Context
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Context-specific metabolic predictions
… the activity through metabolic reactions in a context-specific way; only reactions that are required in a cellular context, e.g., cell type, developmental stage or environmental condition, are usually active, while the rest remain inactive. The context-specificity of metabolism can be captured …
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Chopin's Cantabile in Context
… term and concept of cantabile developed in the context of Italian opera, where it characterized a slow-moving, lyrical aria; but in and after the eighteenth century it assumed a far broader role in European composition and performance, providing a defined and recognizable context for …
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Context Driven Scene Understanding
… labels. In this dissertation, we present context driven approaches leveraging relationships between objects in the scene to improve both the accuracy and efficiency of scene understanding. In the first part, we describe an approach to jointly solve the segmentation and recognition problem …
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Context Aware Textual Entailment
… progresses and additional facts become known and context changes. It is often the case that we do not know an aspect of the story with certainty but rather believe it to be the case; i.e., what we know is associated with uncertainty or ambiguity. In this research a method has been developed to …
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Learning Context-Sensitive Control
… thought to underlie control-learning: its context-sensitivity, reward-sensitivity, and implicit nature. Two chapters use standard control-learning paradigms that manipulate the proportion of (easy) Stroop congruent trials within blocks and for specific stimuli. Here, I show that people can …
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HIV: a biopsychosocial context
… were feeling difficulty with placing themselves contextually into wider society. The research unveils a various number of coping strategies of the participants, which includes split, knowledge, fantasy and spirituality. These were designed to increase a sense of internal Control and stabilise …
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