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Showing 1 to 20 of 11971 for “"Explain"”.
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Can Neoclassical Trade Theory Explain Congressional Voting?
… key political and economic components that help explain the voting behavior of Congress.</p>
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Do psychiatric diagnoses explain? : A philosophical investigation
This thesis is a philosophical examination of the explanatory roles of diagnoses in psychiatry. In medicine, diagnoses normally serve as causal explanations of patients’ symptoms. Given that psychiatry is a discipline whose practice is shaped by medical traditions, it is often implied that its …
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Preschoolers' Use of Personality Traits to Predict and Explain Behavior
… may influence children’s ability to predict and explain behavior. For example, previous research has shown that children are aware of trait information and that children as young as age 5 use trait-based information to predict future behavior. Preschoolers are also aware of gender stereotypes and …
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Compartmentalization evaluated to explain discrepancies calculating cartilage fixed charge density
Recent studies on methods of detecting the early onset of arthritic cartilage degradation using NMR-based techniques have shown that such detection is possible. The use of sodium NMR observations, along with an ideal Donnan single compartment model of cartilage, has already been validated as a …
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A Sequential Modeling Approach to Explain Complex Processes and Systems
… is to develop the proper thermodynamics model to explain and to predict the observed TGTs. The resulting residuals provide the fundamental information on degradation. The current engineering models are ad hoc adaptations of the underlying thermodynamics not properly tuned by actual data. …
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A Machine Learning-Based Heuristic to Explain Game-Theoretic Models
… requires only 4.5 out of the 9 input features to explain its predictions effectively for a particular application. Therefore, our ensemble heuristic enhances the interpretability of game-theoretic optimization solutions, simplifying explanations and making them accessible to those without …
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'To explain the other to myself': Fanon, Ramasamy and Identity Politics
This thesis compares the identity politics of Frantz Fanon and ‘Periyar’ EV Ramasamy. After framing an interpretative paradigm through which the core ideas of Fanon could be deciphered, an interpretation of Fanon as a rigorous critic of identity politics is arrived at. Exploring Fanon’s strained …
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Can mutual trust explain the diversity-performance relationship? A meta-analysis
… 2007) to examine underlying mechanisms that can explain the diversity-outcomes relationship. This showed age, gender, value, and function diversity to be related to performance through mutual trust. Furthermore, this study explores whether contextual (e.g., team distribution) as well as …
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Using foreign currencies to explain the nominal exchange rate of rand
The Rand-US Dollar exchange rate has been very volatile since the unification of the duo-exchange rate in 1995. Many researchers have successfully found some economic variables as the long-run determinants of Rand exchange rate. This paper tries to substitute those economic variables with some …
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Do macroeconomic variables explain future stock market movements in South Africa?
This study aims to address the empirical question of whether macroeconomic variables drive future stock market returns in South Africa. If found, the macroeconomic variables would therefore constitute useful predictive information for the future FTSE/JSE All Share Index. The data was examined from …
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I can explain : the work of art is no longer necessary
The bulk of our knowledge of the international art world, and in many cases within the local South African art scene, is based largely on what we read in magazines, art books and the art press. To most individuals these exhibitions exist mainly in written form and within the viewer's personal …
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Deriving traditional reproductive regimes to explain subnational fertility differentials in Zambia
This thesis applies multivariate statistical techniques to six data sets to account for past and present-day features underlying ethnic fertility differentials in Zambia.
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Using foreign currencies to explain the nominal exchange rate of Rand
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Acting from character : how virtue and vice explain praise and blame
This dissertation offers a theory of praise and blame: praiseworthy acts manifest virtue and blameworthy acts are incompatible with virtue. Despite its simplicity, proposals like mine have been largely ignored. After all, don't good people sometimes deserve blame, and bad people sometimes deserve …
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The application of Strumpel's behavioral economic model to explain financial behavior
… to apply Strumpel's behavioral economic model to explain personal financial behavior. Three categories of variables as identified by the model determined the independent variables in the study. These variable groups were defined as the objective environment consisting of financial life cycle …
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Reading Motivation In Upper Elementary Students: How Children Explain Reading For Pleasure
This qualitative study investigated the phenomenon of the pleasure reading experience in fourth and fifth grade students. The purpose of the study was to create a dialogue with children regarding their leisure reading habits in an effort to inform our understanding of aliteracy, a term that refers …
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Can hydrological niche segregation explain species distributions in an aquifer-dependent wetland?
Aim: To investigate post-fire succession in fynbos wetland plant communities, test whether these species segregate along fine-scale hydrological gradients and to identify species potentially most sensitive to groundwater abstraction. Intro: Hydrological gradients, which form between permanently …
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Social foundations of education in the elementary classroom: Four teachers explain their practices.
… in the elementary classroom: Four teachers explain their practices.
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Detect, Explain, Ground: A Sustainable Pipeline for Robust Large Language Model–Powered Agents
… on this finding, we propose a novel "monitor-explain-escalate" architecture. In this system, a lightweight detector provides real-time analysis and escalates high-risk conversational turns to a stronger model, preserving quality while significantly reducing costs. Finally, to address the core …
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