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Explanations for Autonomous Agents
… motivates the study of mechanisms for obtaining explanations that are compatible with human reasoning. However, the design of explainable systems often does not consider the impact that explanations could bring to machine and human agents alike. This thesis explores this challenge. Our approach …
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Disease Kinds and Functional Explanations.
… kinds and their members have with function-based explanations. More precisely, in the first part of the thesis I investigate whether diseased organisms, grouped together on grounds of their shared pathological features, could form natural kinds, taking into account that the paradigmatic natural …
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Psychological explanations in HIV/AIDS counselling
This research investigated the extent to which explanations of the aetiology, course, treatment, and prognosis of Human Immuno-Deficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) are shared or differ between African health workers (counsellors) and their African clients who are …
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Explanations of the Success of Science
Many bodies of modern scientific theory (such as both Newtonian and relativistic physics) have proven to be remarkably successful at predicting future observable phenomena. Some philosophers have seen this success as calling for deeper explanation: what is it about these theories that makes them so …
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Generating self-explanations in undergraduate nursing education
… this study is to test the use of generating self-explanations in nursing education as it relates to student academic achievement in theoretical nursing courses. With the study being built upon a framework of cognitive constructivism, a mixed methods approach was used to examine the academic …
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Experiencing Racial Profiling: Process, Effects and Explanations
… of racial profiling is included, and several explanations for law enforcement behavior emerged out of the interviews, including ideas of black criminality, acceptance, disrespect, and the presence of window tint. Furthermore, several significant effects emerged including a lowering of opinion …
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Computing explanations for interactive constraint-based systems
… by showing the consequences of his requirements. Explanations are the ideal tool for providing this assistance. However, existing notions of explanations fail to provide sufficient information. We define new forms of explanations that aim to be more informative. Even if explanation generation is a …
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Local and diverse explanations for autonomous systems
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-19 without embargo terms
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Understanding naturally conveyed explanations of device behavior
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2000.
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Activity Analysis; Finding Explanations for Sets of Events
Automatic activity recognition is the computational process of analysing visual input and reasoning about detections to understand the performed events. In all but the simplest scenarios, an activity involves multiple interleaved events, some related and others independent. The activity in a car …
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Explanations and communicative constraints in naturally occurring discourse
… thesis are some aspects of the expression of explanations in spoken discourse. The study of explanations has occupied the attention of many researchers in social psychology and in neighbouring disciplines; the study of talk has occupied an even greater number. In the thesis I try to integrate …
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Generating Natural Language Explanations For Entailments In Ontologies
… advancing knowledge and techniques in generating explanations for entailments in OWL ontologies. We build on earlier work on identifying minimal subsets of the ontology from which an entailment can be drawn---known technically as justifications. Our main focus is on planning (at a logical level) …
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Students' explanations in complex learning of disciplinary programming
… this dissertation explores students explanations of these worked examples in two engineering courses with different levels of transparency: a programming course in materials science and engineering glass box and a thermodynamics course involving computational representations black …
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Visualizing the Invisible: Generating Explanations of Scientific Phenomena
… Visualizations have many advantages over verbal explanations, especially for science, so asking students to produce visual rather than verbal explanations should improve their learning. This hypothesis was tested in two domains, a mechanical system and a chemical system. The explanations were …
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Working with violent clients : staff explanations and actions
… the circumstances under consideration. Possible explanations of the gender differences found are discussed.
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