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Showing 1 to 20 of 454 for “"Factual"”.
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Beyond factual to formulated silhouettes
… The role which the occluding contour, or Factual Silhouette, plays in structuring the sketch becomes increasingly minimal as more of the terrain becomes visible, as the viewpoint is raised.The aim of this research is to extend the set of occluding contours to encompass situations that are …
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Automatic Generation of Factual Questions from Video Documentaries
… A QG framework which allows the generation of factual questions from video documentaries has been developed and a number of evaluations to analyse the quality of the produced questions have been performed. The developed framework uses several readily available NLP tools to generate questions …
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Faith in view: religion and pirituality in factual British television 2000-2009
… in, the coverage of religion and spirituality in factual British television programming 2000-2009, focusing on mainstream terrestrial networks (BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Five) with a public service remit. The study employs a mixed-method approach with an emphasis on discourse. Working within a broadly …
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The Frankenbite: Ethics and Reality in the Post-Production of Factual Programming
Many scholars question the lack of formal appropriateness, transparency, and ethical consideration of reality television, as it applies techniques that compromise a truthful representation of real events for entertainment purpose. Editing, or the craft of rearranging video and audio to create new …
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Semantic and Factual Knowledge: A Reaction Time Study of Necessary and Invited Inferences
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The Role of Secondary Orality in the Construction of Factual Discourses about Colombian Corruption
… role of secondary orality in the construction of factual discourses about Colombian corruption. By performing a rhetorical analysis of the Colombian radio program Hora 20, I analyze how factual discourses about Colombian corruption are constructed through radio and, specifically, through secondary …
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An Experimental Study of Contact with the Elderly Upon Second-Grade Students' Attitudes and Factual Knowledge
… the children's or parents' perceptions and factual information concerning the elderly. The exception was that of children who had higher scores on factual information concerning the elderly also per ceived the elderly as stronger. 3. No strong relationship between children's and parents' …
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The construction and evaluation of an achievement test of factual material in United States history for grade eight
Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston University
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The effects of factual information on the attitudes of people toward a given culture : an American and Iranian example
… be affected as a result of presenting them with factual information about that culture through the use of audio-visual aids.One hundred and twenty high school students between ages of 13 - 18 who attended Burris Laboratory School in Muncie, IN. were randomly selected and assigned to an …
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From ‘talking Cure’ to ‘Bedlam’ : a study of the factors impacting on the construction of UK factual psychotherapy programming 1999 to 2013
This thesis extends research on UK factual television by investigating programming that has not previously been studied, and by utilising a mixed-method research design that situates textual analysis within broader cultural, professional and industrial contexts. It presents the findings of research …
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Effective factual TV content for young audiences : exploring new approaches to creating history documentaries for 6 - 12 -year - olds in digital UK television
… explores how to develop an exemplar documentary/factual digital TV format, using elements drawn from successful factual children’s TV programmes combined with some of my original ideas. I evaluate how effectively this exemplar documentary engages children, reflect critically upon the findings, …
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A study of predicting Topeka high school drop-outs one year in advance by means of three predictors: homeroom teacher’s judgment; homeroom pupils’ judgment; and factual information
Dissertation (Ph.D.)--University of Kansas, Education, 1953.
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Another way to skin a cat : Argument-Driven Inquiry in the human anatomy laboratory
… The subsequent lab exam assessed differences in factual learning compared to the standard labs. Study II implemented a modified ADI lab protocol for the final four weeks of a human anatomy course; using the previous semester's standard protocols as a control group. Factual learning and …
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Interpreting and Editing Memory in Large Transformer Language Models
This thesis investigates the mechanisms of factual recall in large language models. We first apply causal interventions to identify neuron activations that are decisive in a model’s factual predictions; surprisingly, we find that factual recall corresponds to a sparse, localizable computation in …
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Beef production in Virginia: organized subject matter, factual data, and related information on the important jobs in the beef production enterprise in Virginia for use of teachers and students of vocational agriculture
Beef cattle production in Virginia has increased steadily during the last few years. This increase has been brought about in a large part by the increase in the price of beef by a definite trend toward more livestock to provide profitable utilization of non-productive lands and to serve as a good …
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First and Second Language Readers Distinguishing Fact From Opinion: An Exploratory Study
… evaluated inferential evidentials as more factual than L2 readers; L1 readers evaluated the ambiguous simple sentence John was wrong as more factual than L2 readers. When it was included in combined sentences, L1 readers appeared to use this complement to evaluate the combined sentences. …
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