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Showing 1 to 20 of 345 for “"In focus"”.
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Presuppositions in focus
… dissertation explores how presuppositions and focus interact. It takes as its starting point a puzzle about expressions like even and its cross linguistic kin in declarative sentences that deny presuppositions: these focus-sensitive scalar additive operators can be used in negative …
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Ethiopia in Focus: Photography, Nationalism, Diaspora, and Modernization
<p>This dissertation examines photographic representations of Ethiopian identity. It focuses on Emperor Haile Selassie I as a recuperative figure in Pan-African contexts, images by court photographer and later London studio portraitist Shemelis Desta, and contemporary works created by Ethiopian …
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A history of 'relevance' : South African psychology in focus
This thesis investigates the historical and discursive contours of the "relevance" debate in South African psychology. It begins by contextualizing the debate, detailing how appeals for "relevance" in the broader discipline proliferated during the sixties and seventies in American, European and …
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Habilitation in focus : A human service organization and its challenges
This dissertation explores intervention practices for children and young persons with developmental disabilities. It focuses especially health and medically related services provided by the local children habilitation centres (CHC: s), where everyday services are carried out by interprofessional …
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Rim-Mounted Reconfigurable Surfaces for Interference Nulling in Focus-Fed Axisymmetric Reflector Antenna Systems
… paraboloidal reflector antenna to mitigate interference through nulling for radio astronomy applications. The ERS is a reflectarray that consists of multiple elements, which can be electronically controlled to modify the reflected field. Previous research focused on a "conformal" system with …
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The loci of learning in focus : a qualitative study of grade 7 students' conceptions of 'school' and 'learning'
This study investigates the conceptions of 'school' and 'learning' held by twenty grade 7 students between the ages of 12 and 15. While the subjects' participating in the research were selected from two Cape Town metropolitan schools in close proximity, the schools were situated within vastly …
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Sessile serrated lesions in focus: Examining temporal trends, patient risk factors, and the role of the endoscopist in lesion detection
Serrated polyps of the colorectum have become increasingly recognized as an important clinical entity, as these precursor lesions are hypothesized to be responsible for up to 25% of sporadic cases of colorectal cancer. Much confusion exists regarding these polyps; particularly, their classification …
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A computational model of visual attention.
… Human Visual System (HVS) selects most important information from a scene. Visual attention models are computational or mathematical models developed to predict this information. The performance of the state-of-the-art visual attention models is limited in terms of prediction accuracy and …
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Increasing the Buy-In and Effectiveness of a Social and Emotional Learning Class Program in a Single Sex, Urban and Charter High School: Social and Emotional Learning Specialists and Student Perceptions of Its Implementation.
<p>Social-emotional learning has yet to be implemented in many schools in America. Without adequate social and emotional skills, students struggle to navigate their academic and social environments. Students attending a single-sex, urban charter school participated in focus groups and completed …
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Estrogen receptor involvement in the response of human keratinocytes to ultraviolet B irradiation
The signaling mechanisms involved in UVB-induced skin cancer are complex and although the scope of this work is inherently limited in focus, the findings may provide insight into how estrogen receptor signaling impacts cell growth, senescence, and apoptosis to protect keratinocytes. Additional …
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The Effects of Focus During Sentence Comprehension
In a series of experiments I investigated the effects of linguistic focus on people's memory for words in sentences. I tested whether using phrases like "It was the ... " and "There was this ... " to focus on a particular word, enhances memory for particular types of information about the word, …
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Advanced Algorithmic Approaches for Improving Image Quality in 2D and 3D Holographic Displays
… is an advanced three-dimensional (3D) imaging and visualisation technology capable of reconstructing realistic 3D scenes. Despite decades of concentrated effort, holographic 3D displays are still struggling to meet the demands required for a consumer-ready solution. This thesis addresses …
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Fake Feature and Valuation From Context
This thesis offers a new account of a persisting puzzle in the theory of ellipsis and association with focus: the fact that φ-featural content on full DPs and on bound pronouns can sometimes be ignored in focus alternatives and in calculating identity for ellipsis (‘Fake Features’). I present new …
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Access to educational and health care services for school-age children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
… services and health care services for ameliorating its symptoms and problems. Both civil rights legislation and special education legislation support educational services for children with ADHD, but a change in special education legislative policy on ADHD occurred in 1997 that was expected to …
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The Ideology of the Federal Policy and Institutional Review Boards and its Effects on Research
… Policy for the protection of human subjects in research is built on a positivist ideology which effects Institutional Review Boards (IRB) and the research it reviews. An ideological criticism of the regulations through a positivist and postmodernist perspective reveals its initial purpose for …
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An ethnographic investigation of information seeking in the primary classroom
… a school-based study that was undertaken to investigate the information-seeking behaviour of primary school children. A review of the literature in the area of child information behaviour was undertaken. Five key areas of interest were identified for investigation: how children define success …
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The ‘Ought’ of Flourishing in Elizabeth Anscombe’s ‘Modern Moral Philosophy’ and Philippa Foot’s Natural Goodness
… embarked on arguably one of her first forays into moral philosophy in a landmark article, published in 1958 at age thirty-nine, entitled ‘Modern Moral Philosophy’. The work can be read as the writing of a devout Catholic seeking (sceptically), for those with no religion, a coherent and …
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Contemporary Egyptian music
This study examines the music, lives, works, and culture of Contemporary Egyptian Music and its composers. The music, sometimes referred to as Egyptian Western-influenced art music or Twentieth Century Egyptian music, constitutes a small yet important branch of the overall Egyptian music domain and …
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Extending the depth of focus using digital image filtering
Two types of image processing methods capable of forming a composite image from a set of image slices which have in-focus as well as out-of-focus segments are discussed. The first type is based on space domain operations and has been discussed in the literature. The second type, to be introduced, …
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