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An exploration of strategies to convey evaluation in the "NoteBook" texts
… some of the strategies used by writers to convey explicit and implicit interpersonal meanings in order to help non-native learners read more critically. In particular, the study attempted to account for some resources of indirect evaluation which have been little described so far. The …
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Installing Environmental Stewardship: Installation Artworks and the Capacity to Convey Nature Experience
With the Scientific Revolution, the scientific method excluded the intrinsic tie between humans and nature. Our understanding of the natural world becomes increasingly limited as over-controlled experiments continue to disregard the naturally occurring variables and interdependent relationships …
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An Experimental Study of the Ability to Select Words to Convey Intended Meaning
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An Environmental User Interface (EUI) Framework to Convey Environmental Contexts In Interactive Systems Design
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates 488 million people worldwide suffer from a visual impairment and of these about 327 million have severe visual impairments. Some individuals with severe visual impairments can navigate and orient independently in well-known surroundings, but even for …
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In-between fixation and movement : on the generation of microsaccades and what they convey about saccade generation
Microsaccades are an important component of the small eye movements that constitute fixation, the basis of visual perception. The specific function of microsaccades has been a long-standing research problem. Only recently, conclusive evidence emerged, showing that microsaccades aid both visual …
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Graphical Encoding for Information Visualization: Using Icon Color, Shape, and Size to Convey Nominal and Quantitative Data
… color, shape, size, position, etc.) used to convey encoded, semantic information. Research in the areas of psychophysics of visual search and identification tasks, graphical perception, and graphical language development provides scientific guidance for design and evaluation of graphical …
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A Re-Examination of the Market's Reaction to Quarterly Dividend Change Announcement
… dividend changes: (1) dividend increases that convey favorable information about the firm's future profitability, (2) dividend increases that convey unfavorable information about the firm's future profitability, (3) dividend decreases that convey favorable information about the firm's future …
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Enabling the use of Heterogeneous Computing for Bioinformatics
… work attempts to make an heterogeneous system, Convey HC-1, with an x86-based host processor and FPGA-based co-processor, accessible to bioinformaticians. First, a highly efficient dynamic programming based Smith-Waterman kernel is implemented in hardware, which is able to achieve a peak …
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System to Enhance Communication for Minimally Verbal Individual with Autism
… interface, I aim to classify and better convey the intentions of individuals with nv/mvASD, and the meanings of what they want to convey to others. This paper demonstrates new possibilities to better understand nv/mvASD individuals’ vocalization intent by using machine learning and to …
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Attitudes of Pre-service Teachers Toward Computational Thinking in Education
… thinking, before and after an intervention, to convey the importance of integrating computational thinking into K-12 curricula. The two-week, course-embedded intervention introduced pre-service teachers, with varying academic specialties, to computational thinking practices and their utility. …
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Animated Films and Linguistic Stereotypes: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Accent Use in Disney Animated Films
… that they are not neutral, and are likely to convey messages about society linguistic ideologies. This study aims to find out if Disney animated films released in 2016 use accents to express the nature of the characters. A discourse analysis is conducted with two animated films produced by …
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Playing the truth : the nondual perspective in performance
… are, equally, repositories of wisdom able to convey much more than argument or aptitude in language and meter – they carry experiential information of a human condition. I propose that it is the actor's task to convey that information, more accurately to recreate the experience with the …
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Playing with good and evil : videogames and moral philosophy
… Drawing on theory suggesting that videogames can convey ideas, I will argue that the videogame medium is capable of modeling and critiquing elements of moral philosophy in a unique manner. To make this argument, I first address a number of questions about the proper definition of videogames, how …
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Historical study and adaptation of Hawaiian folk dances for physical education classes
… as well as hand and arm motions, are used to convey the meaning and rhythm of the music . This style is not readily adaptable to the high school situation, nor does it lend itself to transmission by written form. The ancient danses, on the other hand, relied upon the hands and arms to convey …
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Concealing and revealing: Visions of transcendence in Jan Van Eyck and Mark Rothko
… both use symbolism, color, space, and light to convey their intentions, Van Eyck directly connects his religious imagery to Catholic dogma, seeking to provide his viewers with the comfort of God’s salvation. Rothko, using abstraction to convey existential and global considerations, uses a …
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Developing a virtual city for emergency preparedness planning and training
… and training fail or lack the ability to convey training on a broad scale and timely fashion. Skill sets that are required for planning, mitigation, response and recovery issues are lost through information overload or failure to identify other channels in which to convey the information. …
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Fractured pedagogy : the design and implementation fault line in architectural knowledge : a conceptual and historical analysis
… data are contrasted: exhibition catalogues which convey what individual architects say to each other about their work, and official reports which convey what institutional representatives of the organised profession say about failures in the work of architects. These data sets are contradictory, …
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Food in Agatha Christie
… aims to explore what messages food and drink can convey in Agatha Christie's two novels (And Then There Were None; Ordeal by Innocence) and in the BBC's visual representations.
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Protocolo y Ordenación de Banderas. Repercusión Mediática en la Prensa Española
… countries as well as communication tools able to convey different messages through their use. This thesis will research the treatment of information of the flags and their uses by the Spanish press and the approach used to develop this type of information. The media prepare their information from …
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