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Showing 1 to 20 of 274 for “"In real-life"”.
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Towards understanding facial movements in real life
… assumed that there is a reliable one-to-one mapping between a certain configuration of facial movements and the specific emotional state that is supposedly signals. One common way to test this one-to-one hypothesis is to ask people to deliberately pose the facial configurations that they believe …
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Laugh out loud in real life : women's humor and fan identity
The emerging field of fan studies has, until recently, been defined only by the research that has taken place within it. Almost universally, this research focuses on self-identified fans. However, scholars are beginning to examine and debate what the limits of the field should be. This study argues …
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“This will never happen in real life”: Cape Town tweens' responses to represented violence in digital games
… video game violence, and to retaliatory violence in particular. Many video game narratives present retaliation by the playable character as necessary and justified within the narrative and ludus rules of the game. Children's own perspectives on video game violence are rarely examined, especially …
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CO-HESION! : REDISCOVERING THE NEW WAYS OF CONNECTING. LIVING AND SOCIALISING IN A (POST-)DIGITAL ERA.
… the rise of technological advancements and the internet over the past few decades, having a constant virtual connection has become a norm for society. As we progress towards utilising digital platforms such as social media as our primary mode of social interactions, it is necessary not to forgo …
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Tests for uncharacteristic changes in time series data and the effects of outliers on forecasts
… made and should also assist those engaged in time series forecasting in real life situations in industry,government and elsewhere. The problem of testing a set of data for outliers is not new in statistics,methods having been proposed for the general linear model. However, there are very …
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A game-based intervention for the reduction of statistical cognitive biases
… education most directly applicable to everyday life. Yet, the methodologies traditionally used to cover these topics in school render the material formal and difficult to apply. In this thesis, I describe a game design that develops probabilistic concepts in real-life situations. Psychologists …
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Children, television, and families: A content analysis of prime-time family programs and an examination of the influence of children's family structure on their perceptions of TV and real families
In a project examining the relationship between portrayals of families on prime time television and children's perceptions of families in real-life and on television, three studies were conducted. The project was guided by social constructivist theory, which proposes that children's interpretations …
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The role of intercultural communicative competence in the acquisition of English as an Additional Language for Arab Learners: A hermeneutic phenomenological study
This hermeneutic phenomenological study examines Arab female newcomers’ lived experiences in an English as an Additional Language (EAL) program and their acquisition of intercultural communicative competence. Two in-depth semi structured interviews were conducted with seven students enrolled in the …
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Dealing with uncertainty : a comparison of robust optimization and partially observable Markov decision processes
Uncertainty is often present in real-life problems. Deciding how to deal with this uncertainty can be difficult. The proper formulation of a problem can be the larger part of the work required to solve it. This thesis is intended to be used by a decision maker to determine how best to formulate a …
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Algorithm and mechanism design with nonlinear preferences
In real life, many combinatorial and economic problems have nonlinear objectives and constraints, where the nonlinearities typically arise from different risk preferences, non-rationality, etc. Solving these problems is often computationally hard but can be beneficial by providing more revenue or …
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DECISION MAKING IN LIFE CHOICES
… to better understand how decisions are made in “real life contexts”, with the aim of focusing on health and mainly on how cancer patients and survivors decide to participate in psychological interventions that aim to improve the quality of life. Three studies have been designed to understand …
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Theoretical Development of Creative Thinking: The Role of Integrative Thinking and Social Cognition
Creative thinking is the psychological mechanism underlying the descriptive process that produces real-life creative outcomes. However, the connection between individual creative thinking and real-life creativity remains unclear. For example, the widely employed psychometric tools for creative …
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Net-PPI : mapping the human interactome with machine learned models
The miracle of life is only possible thanks to a wide range of biochemical interactions between assortments of molecular agents. Amidst these agents, which enable all cellular activities, proteins are undoubtedly among the most important groups. Proteins facilitate countless intra- and …
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Handicapped car lifting seat
Currently there is a lack of assistance in automobile usage for the older people of our society. In an attempt to combat this problem, this thesis designs and builds a working conceptual model of a handicapped car lifting seat. An initial cost analysis is performed, an apparatus is designed, all …
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Lattice Based Elastic Metamaterials with Ultra-wide Stopbands at Low Frequency
… metamaterials (EMMs) with periodically engineered cells exhibit unprecedented properties. One exotic attribute of EMMs is the bandgap, in which elastic waves， within specific frequency ranges are prohibited from transmitting. While putting EMMs into use in real-life applications, …
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Polymers and plastrons : active and passive drag reduction in wall-bounded turbulent flows
Frictional energy dissipation in wall-bounded turbulence is ubiquitous in modern engineering systems, ranging from the flow of liquids through pipelines, to the drag-inducing boundary layer around ships and submarines. The effective mitigation of this frictional drag is therefore of great practical …
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Implementing Control-oriented Meta-learning on Hardware
Unpredictable weather conditions pose a daunting challenge for the robust control of unmanned aerial vehicles, also known as drones. The control-oriented meta-learning algorithm aims to solve this problem by learning a controller that can adapt to dynamic environments. This algorithm has already …
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Church, chapel and clergy in Margaret Oliphant's Chronicles of Carlingford
This thesis examines the fictional works of Magaret Oliphant’s Chronicles of Carlingford in order to explain her understanding of the significance of Church and Chapel communities and their clergymen within an insular and atypical provincial community in mid-nineteenth century England. By drawing …
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Interval Estimation for the Ratio of Percentiles from Two Independent Populations.
<p>Percentiles are used everyday in descriptive statistics and data analysis. In real life, many quantities are normally distributed and normal percentiles are often used to describe those quantities. In life sciences, distributions like exponential, uniform, Weibull and many others are used to …
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