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Showing 1 to 20 of 89 for “"Formality"”.
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RECURSIVELY GENERATING FORMALITY QUASI-ISOMORPHISMS WITH APPLICATIONS TO DEFORMATION QUANTIZATION
Formality quasi-isomorphisms Cobar(C) -> O are a necessary component of the machinery used in deformation quantization to produce quantized algebras of observables, however they are often constructed via transcendental methods, resulting in computational difficulties and quasi-isomorphisms defined …
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Formality Style Transfer Within and Across Languages with Limited Supervision
… present a new perspective which closely connects formality transfer and machine translation: we aim to control style in language generation with a focus on rewriting English or translating French to English with a desired formality. These are challenging tasks because annotated examples of style …
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A proof of Tsygan's formality conjecture for an arbitrary smooth manifold
Proofs of Tsygan's formality conjectures for chains would unlock important algebraic tools which might lead to new generalizations of the Atiyah-Patodi-Singer index theorem and the Riemann-Roch-Hirzebruch theorem. Despite this pivotal role in the traditional investigations and the efforts of …
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On the fringes of formality : organizational capability in street-level bureaucracies in Brazil
… bureaucrats - what I call the fringes of formality behavior - that is associated with more positive bureaucratic administrative- outputs in the front-line units. Middle-tier bureaucrats practicing this behavior exhibit three main characteristics: initiative, a focus on strategic functions, …
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Balancing flexibility and formality in product development at a high growth technology company
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management; and, Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1998.
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(In)formality in Africa: Exploring the social and cultural factors influencing mobile payment non-adoption by informal traders in Cape Town
This research explores and identifies the various reasons for which informal traders in Cape Town, South Africa, do not adopt mobile payment technology and prefer cash. In the informal economy, a cash preference creates challenges such as financial exclusion (Bromley, 2006; Donner & Tellez, 2008; …
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Conversation understanding and realistic artificial crash data generation with deep learning
… understanding includes conversational outcome, formality, and politeness prediction. For conversation outcome prediction, we use recorded audio calls collected from a partnering Fortune 500 firm that captures conversations between inside salespeople and business customers. Analysis of …
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Age and dress of professors: influence on students' first impressions of teaching effectiveness
… theory, the variables of age of professors, formality of dress of professors, and class of student were tested for their influence on college students' expectations of the teaching effectiveness of college professors in a first impression situation. A rating questionnaire containing ten …
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Equivalence checking of retimed circuits
… aim of the thesis is to improve the ability of Formality, an equivalence checking tool written at Synopsys, to handle retimed circuits. At the beginning of this project Formality already had an implementation of peripheral retiming, an algorithm that can handle a large set of retimed circuits. …
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Koszul Complexes, Local Cohomology, Universal Resolutions, and Cohomological Support Varieties
… on module resolutions, namely Golodity and formality, and A-infinity algebras. We go over some of the definitions of formality and Golodity in terms of A-infinity algebras while providing some explanations regarding the bridges between them in the language of Massey products. We explicitly …
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Evaluating the effectiveness of strategic planning within the Middle Eastern public sector
… in Dubai. This includes an assessment of the formality of the strategic planning formation process, determining the influence of the external contextual and internal organisational barriers on the formality of the planning process, and evaluating the quality of the strategic plan document …
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OMBUDS AND TITLE IX COORDINATORS: PROCEDURAL CONVERGENCE OF UNIVERSITY DISPUTE RESOLUTION MECHANISMS FOR HANDLING SEXUAL MISCONDUCT
… ways, both face some pressures favoring formality and others favoring informality. In responding to these cross-cutting pressures, the two offices have converged (but not fully) toward a hybrid that blends elements of formality and informality. Drawing on theories of non-law ordering, …
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"The Art of the Scop: Traditional Poetics in the Old English ""Genesis A"""
… to the narrative, and especially to signal formality in speeches."
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Compliance of small firms with the value added tax : a study of the supply chain of small parts for buses in Columbia
… of urban transportation-towards higher formality (all firms are now registered and firm owners hold legal titles of their property and machinery). They are informal in that they have varying degrees of compliance with State regulations (most notably tax and labor). Thus, most firms in …
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An Empirical Evaluation of LLMs for the Assessment of Subjective Qualities
… subjective attributes, such as the level of formality in a piece of writing, and produce content matching these subjective attributes remains unclear and underexplored. This research develops a methodology to study how LLMs evaluate subjective attributes. It has three primary contributions: …
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Programų sistemų įsigijimo kelias /
… it is useful to employ an adequate level of formality for those processes according to the characteristics of the acquisition project. The ways of software acquisition was defined in accordance with defined software types and characteristics of acquisition projects. That can be used as a …
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Approaches and attitudes of managers to collective bargaining in North East Scotland.
… of negotiation, the scope of bargaining and the formality with which industrial relations were conducted. In contrast, the results of the survey demonstrated that the operational nature of the oil-related industries was such that industrial relations were predominarttly non-negotiatory; however, …
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Public art in Massachusetts : an analysis of municipal-based practices and approaches
… vary immensely, many having lower capacity, formality or activity than others. Most operate on shoestring budgets and rely on occasional grants, donations or fundraising opportunities in order to commission artwork. This thesis explores the different approaches to public art taken by …
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Cross-cultural pragmatics: Politeness for the customer in spoken aspects of service in the restaurant in Australian English and Japanese
… linguistic forms to show a high level of formality such as terms of address and specific types of formulaic expression such as ' I (don 't) think ... ' or ' I (don't) believe' . The speaker may be intending to speak politely in a considerate way. But the hearer's reaction may be quite …
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