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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Exploration and evaluation"”.
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Learning in the social context : inference, exploration and evaluation in early childhood
… we master a language, acquire cultural norms, and develop naïve, yet rich, abstract, coherent theories about how the world works. How do young learners achieve such a feat? The goal of my thesis is to lay the groundwork for a unified account of a rational inference mechanism that underlies this …
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The unequal operation of power in Irish Education: An exploration and evaluation of the development and operation of the Section 29 Appeal System and the extent to which it has addressed power and inequality issues in Irish Education.
… the development of the Section 29 legislation and procedures from its origins in the 1990s to the end of the first decade of its operation in 2011 2. to determine the success of Section 29 in terms of achieving its aims 3. to utilise the Section 29 Appeal process to facilitate a critical …
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Spintronic device modeling and evaluation using modular approach to spintronics
… stage today. Riding on the backs of rapid growth and impressive advances in materials and phenomena, it has started to make headway in the memory industry as solid state magnetic memories (STT-MRAM) and is considered a possible candidate to replace the CMOS when its scaling reaches physical …
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Active prototyping : a computational framework for designing while making
… of rapid prototyping tools in design education and practice, designers still face a series of challenges related to their use, one of them being the way in which they use these machines to actively explore and enhance their ideas. At the same time, the concepts of continuous interaction with …
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PLACEIFY: A data-driven framework for evaluation-by-analogy in early-stage urban analysis and design
Within the field of urban design and planning, the explicit parameterization of many complex aspects of urban environments is a challenge. Specifically, the representation of ‘intangible’ experiential and affective qualities is often difficult, which makes the quantitative evaluation of such …
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Building capacity for diabetic eye screening and management in low-middle income countries: a mixed-methods approach
Worldwide, the burden of diabetes mellitus (DM) and its complications are becoming a major public health concern, particularly in low-middle income countries (LMICs), where 80% of people with DM (PwDM) reside. The main sight-threatening complication of DM is diabetic retinopathy (DR). Early …
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Is Marriage Education Effective? A Meta-Analytic Review of Marriage Education Programs
… Halford, Markman, Kline & Stanley, 2003; Reardon-Anderson, Stagner, Macomber, & Murray, 2004)? However, previous meta-analytic studies have been somewhat limited in their conclusions because they have reviewed a narrow portion of the marriage education spectrum (e.g. premarital education only, …
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Effects of IFRS adoption on the financial statements of Nigerian listed entities: the case of oil and gas companies
… of Nigerian Statement of Accounting Standards (SAS) or Nigerian GAAP (NG-GAAP) with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). By this pronouncement, all publicly listed companies and significant public interest entities in Nigeria were statutorily required to issue IFRS based …
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Usability of Social Tags in Digital Libraries for E-Learning Environment
… perspective. It defines social tagging tools and tests users’ perceptions about possible practices. Moreover, it evaluates the effect when using social tagging systems in digital libraries, to assess whether such a system enhances the search process, and to identify whether there is any …
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The quality of financial information in the extractive industries: a value relevance analysis
… industry is characterized by high levels of risk and uncertainty. These attributes create challenges when applying traditional accounting concepts (such as the revenue recognition and matching concepts) to the preparation of financial statements in the industry. The International Accounting …
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Geological and structural analysis of the Hwange area-Northwest Zimbabwe: using remotely sensed data and geographic information systems (GIS)
… continuous need to locate more targets for coal exploration and evaluation of geological structures in the north-west coalfields in Zimbabwe. Conventional methods of analysing geological structures and field mapping are being hindered by inaccessibility of some areas and thick covers of Recent …