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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"Humanization"”.
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Humanization of computational learning in strategy games
I review and describe 4 popular techniques that computers use to play strategy games: minimax, alpha-beta pruning, Monte Carlo tree search, and neural networks. I then explain why I do not believe that people use any of these techniques to play strategy games. I support this claim by creating a new …
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Errors on the vertical: Santification, infra-humanization, and religious prejudice
… into new directions for research on infra-humanization and religious fundamentalism.
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Moving Toward Humanization in Education: Teacher Models in K-12 Settings
… practices and outcomes for minoritized students. Humanization, which centers the dignity and lived experiences of children, is a needed critical component. Drawing from the work of scholars such as Freire and del Carmen Salazar, this study sought to learn from the experiences of teachers who …
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EDUCATING HUMANIZATION: AN EXAMINATION INTO THE HUMANIZING PEDAGOGIES OF PAULO FREIRE
One way critical educators can understand and orient to Paulo Freire's work and the tradition he inspired is by turning their attention to the alienation and affirmation of what he describes as the "ontological vocation of being human." In this dissertation, I read across Freire's work in order to …
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Akane Kurashiki and the Humanization of Female Characters In Video Games
The popularity of video games continues to expand within both broader popular culture and academic research. Similar to the films and television shows before it, the medium has the ability to shape a player’s perceptions of the world around them, particularly with regards to gender. How women are …
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Cognitive determinants of infra-humanization: the role of illusory correlation and attentional processes
… This process is called out-group de/infra-humanization. Up to now it has been conceptualized mainly as a motivated phenomenon serving many intergroup functions. Research so far has not investigated the possibility that animalistic de/infra-humanization might also have cognitive …
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The humanization of Falstaff: audience experience and response in <i>Henry IV</i>
… more revelatory of Falstaff’s movement toward humanization.</p> <p>Beneath even so modest an aim, however, lies the problem of definition. What precisely am I talking about when I refer—as I shall again and again—to “the audience” or “the reader”? Who or what is “the audience”? It is best, …
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Opportunities for Humanization in the Relationship Between Service Providers and Their Homeless Clients
… was to uncover examples of and possibilities for humanization in the relationship between service providers and their homeless clients. Humanization, simply defined in this study, is the process through which a person stands in relation to another person in a way that affirms her or his humanity …
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Humanization of the Refugee as the Modern Subject in Mohsin Hamid’s <em>Exit West</em>
… refugee. In the first section titled “II. Humanization of Hamid’s Characters,” I discuss what distinguishes this novel from other forms of American Literature with its use of two central protagonists, the form and structure of the novel, the use of vignettes, magical realism, and its …
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Street Kids in Search of Humanization: Expanding Dominant Narratives Through Critical Ethnography and Stories of Lived Experience
This study draws on social theories such as critical theory and poststructuralism to deconstruct the current dominant narratives about street kids in large urban centers in Brazil, as well as to ground the method of this study: critical ethnography. The writing genre I chose to represent the street …
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A biblioterapia no contexto do câncer infantil: a leitura engrandece a alma
… João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil, with regard to the humanization process hospitalization. Emphasizes the Bibliotherapy as a viable resource to the formation of the individual and their (trans) formations life, given that much to talk about the therapeutic benefits of reading. Assumes that …
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Solidarity, saviors, and the scales of authority : (social) media practices of the U.S.-Mexico border
… by positive emotions, and predicated on the humanization of migrants. The Border Patrol, in turn, contours their authority through the appearance of control, self-referentiality, and a sole savior narrative. Although the agency’s messaging tends to reify national scales of the border, I find …
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Application of Intermediate Multi-Agent Systems to Integrated Algorithmic Composition and Expressive Performance of Music
… on expressive music performance algorithms for humanization. Every agent is initialized with a tune containing the same single note, and over the interaction period longer tunes are built through agent interaction. Agents will only learn tunes performed to them by other agents if the affective …
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Materials and Imagination: A Building of Fire and Water
… with these elements is often seen as an act of humanization. It is, however, these investigations that allow for such intimate relationships between humans and elements. This project is a fire station that demonstrates the impact fire and water has on man as well as the impact man has on fire …
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CRITICAL PEDAGOGY IN URBAN SCHOOLING: A GUIDE FOR CLASSROOM PRAXIS
… oppression, transformation, community-building, humanization, authority, dialogue, agency, instructional ideology, social reproduction, standards, curriculum, culture, learning, thinking, questioning, literacy, assessment, and pedagogy are explored from critical perspectives and discussed as they …
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More than Just Words. How the Communication Style Adopted by Brands Affect their Relationships with Consumers
… information to a brand. Results showed that the humanization of a brand decreases consumers’ propensity to reveal intimate information, because of higher embarrassment. In the third project, I investigated how the ease of reading a branded message affects consumer engagement with brands. Results …
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Essays on How Consumers Respond to Positive Brand-to-brand Interactions
… focal media figure. This effect is driven by the humanization of the media figure, such that these positive interactions allow the media figure to seem more human to the consumer. Together, these essays showcase how the public display of positive exchanges can help brands by enhancing consumer …
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Necessidades de familiares da pessoa internada em unidade de terapia intensiva: uma perspectiva compreensiva para a humanização do cuidar
… social relationship, bearing in mind that the humanization of care (human-action) does necessarily goes through the sharing of perspectives in life-world.
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Contribuições da Psicologia Hospitalar em um hospital do Interior baiano: uma avaliação de serviço
… and in the expansion of public debate on the humanization of care. Technological Product II, the Technical Assessment Report of the Hospital Psychology Service of the Vitória da Conquista Hospital Complex (CHVC), systematized field findings and presented managerial and structural …
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Opening the black box of outer space : the case of Jason-3
… humanized outer space. This paper looks at the humanization of outer space through the lens of JASON-3, an internationally collaborative satellite designed primarily to measure the topography of the Earth's oceans. A vast number of actors collaborated to enact the network that created JASON-3, …
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