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Showing 1 to 20 of 221 for “"Exemplars"”.
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Is attention necessary for the representational advantage of good exemplars over bad exemplars?
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-05-01
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The role of exemplars in speech comprehension
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The Role of Moral Exemplars in Stanley Hauer's Ethics
… with particular focus on the role of moral exemplars in his theory. Hauerwas emphasizes the role of what are called "moral exemplars" in his virtue ethics. These are people or characters of narratives that best exemplify virtue. A theory is exemplarist if the moral concepts of the theory are …
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Transferability and Alignment of Program Exemplars in Teacher Preparation
… goal of this study was to determine if program exemplars from traditional teacher preparation were transferable to, and aligned with, non-traditional teacher preparation. An online survey ascertained program providers’ perceptions about the efficiency of non-traditional programs in Georgia based …
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The perception of good and bad natural scene category exemplars
… indicating that the advantage conferred by good exemplars is invariant to inversion. Finally, the good and bad images were analyzed using an objective estimate of image typicality, and this factor was also shown to predict observers' ability to detect the images. These results document a close …
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Using Inquiry to Teach the Common Core State Standards: Two Exemplars
This curriculum project offers two inquiry-based lessons for secondary mathematics teachers. One lesson is a culminating scavenger hunt for systems of linear equations. This lesson incorporates five principles of instruction and four levels of inquiry: confirmation inquiry, structured inquiry, …
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Formalism and Contextualism in Moral Education: An Analysis of Two Exemplars
The dissertation aims to analyze the theories of Lawrence Kohlberg and Carol Gilligan as representatives of the formalist and the contextualist traditions in moral theory. It first examines problems that each theory leaves unresolved and explicates the apparent conflict and tension that exist …
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A study of peer-nominated exemplars of social justice commitment in counseling and psychology
… and experiences of 18 peer-nominated exemplars of social justice practice in psychology and counseling. A 9 question semi-structured interview was conducted with each participant addressing 4 research questions: What is social justice in counseling and psychology? How did the exemplar …
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Inherent Instabilities and Discontinuities: The Kuramoto-Sivashinsky Equation and a Suspension Flow as Exemplars
In this thesis, we will be studying two problems with significant small-time asymptotic structures with inherent instabilities and discontinuities. First, we consider the concentration of particles in suspension in a shear flow near a plane-wall, in which an inherent particle-free layer close to …
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The use of self-instruction with multiple exemplars to teach generalized problem-solving to individuals with severe mental retardation
… self-instruction in combination with multiple exemplars to produce a generalized problem-solving response. Specifically, four residents of a group home who had severe mental retardation were taught to use the problem-solving strategy to solve task-related problems. The combined strategy …
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Aging and Selective Attention in Causal Learning
… employing similarity as a cue to causality. Exemplars from six food categories (A+, B-, C+, D-. E+, F-) were presented to both young and older adults in two contiguous training phases. Training Phase 1 included exemplars from categories A+, B-, C+, D-. Training Phase 2 included exemplars from …
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Categorizing Fetal Heart Rate Variability with and without Visual Aids
… (FHR) variability with and without the use of exemplars. Clinicians and undergraduate students were asked to inspect FHR images and determine into which of four categories they belonged. Each participant took part in three conditions: one in which they were provided exemplars of prototypical …
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An Examination of Agreement and Disagreement in Perceptions of the Morally Exceptional
… and disagreement in perceptions of moral exemplars across people. To the extent that agreement existed, the second purpose was to identify personality characteristics that may comprise the core of perceived moral exceptionalism across people. To the extent that disagreement existed, the …
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A study and development of Bayesian exemplar based models
… pastexperience consists of stereotypes and exemplars that depict common situations.In order for a computer to reason in a similar way, the identification andrepresentation of exemplars is required. This research aims to investigate anddevelop a new model, called FReBE, that uses Family …
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Chemometrics applied to the discrimination of synthetic fibers by microspectrophotometry
… visible spectra from eleven blue acrylic exemplars dyed with varying compositions of dyes were discriminated from one another using agglomerative hierarchical clustering (AHC), principal component analysis (PCA), and discriminant analysis (DA). AHC and PCA results agreed showing similar …
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Vowel production variation in college students based on social integration
… as a collection of episodic memories known as exemplars, which form “exemplar clouds” (Drager & Kirtley, 2016). Originally used to model phonetic classification in perception, the exemplar theory has been extended to speech production with evidence that the perception-production loop can cause …
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Improving Collection Understanding for Web Archives with Storytelling: Shining Light Into Dark and Stormy Archives
… develop and test a framework to select the best exemplars that represent a collection. We establish that algorithms produced from these primitives select exemplars that are otherwise undiscoverable using conventional search engine methods. We generate story metadata to improve the information …
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The effects of levels of sentential context on scope of reference for contextually defined categories
… by high constraints only. In Experiment 2, when exemplars were presented as targets in a lexical decision task, facilitation increased with each increase in constraint. In Experiment 3, high constraints facilitated decision times of more appropriate exemplars, but inhibited decision times for …
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Harry Broudy's Theory of Aesthetic Education as General Education
… with development of feeling and value by exemplars and cultivates enlightened cherishing. Aesthetic education orders feeling as the intellectual studies order thought. The aesthetic aspects of experience provide an important access to feeling and therefore to choice and action. The arts …
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