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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Knowledge content"”.
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Implicitly coded knowledge--content-based representations of image sequences
Thesis (M.S.V.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1991.
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Political knowledge and social media use in the digital media system
… how social media exposure affects political knowledge among the American public. Political knowledge is central to any understanding of citizen competence, yet key questions remain about how to best increase citizens’ information levels. My dissertation project assesses to what extent the …
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XML-Based Agent Scripts and Inference Mechanisms
… is to enable pattern-based, stimulus-response knowledge content to be served, received and processed over the Web, or offline, in the manner similar to HTML and XML. In this thesis, we describe a system that converts the AIML scripts to Prolog clauses and reuses them as part of a knowledge …
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A quantitative study focusing on the effect of electronic portfolios in teacher education
… a survey that measured perceived technology knowledge, content knowledge and pedagogical knowledge. Survey respondents (n=189) were sorted into groups based on whether or not they developed an electronic portfolio as part of their teacher preparation program. These groups were compared with …
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Knowledge refinement for a formulation system.
This thesis describes the application of the knowledge refinement tool KRUST to the design system TFS, whose task is tablet formulation for a major pharmaceutical company. KRUST has already been successfully applied to a variety of classificatory problems, and a generic refinement framework is …
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A knowledge sharing framework for improving the testing processes in global product development
In new product development, knowledge is the key to innovation. In order to remain competitive in today’s engineering world, knowledge is a crucial asset for organisations that enable them to gain a sustainable competitive edge. An extensive industrial investigation has been conducted in this …
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The epistemic properties in a typical engineering science course and its relation to student success: a case study
… This research project looks at the nature of the knowledge content of the various engineering courses in a university curriculum and its potential impact on students’ performance which might result into low throughput rate. The study, therefore, investigates the epistemic properties of a typical …
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Knowledge in form : design projections for a museum for learning and environment
… to stay in touch with the full informational content of the physical materials and processes involved in that production. This thesis strives toward an attitude toward design which respects the information and knowledge content of the components and processes of architecture as a complex …
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Undergraduates’ Preparedness for College-Level Work in STEM: The Importance of Reading and Understanding Scientific Theories, Arguments, and Data
… article and assessment of comprehension, content knowledge and scientific argument quality. Over a hundred undergraduates in one-hundred-level Earth science classes responded to 29 multiple choice questions, in a regular class setting. Thereafter, reading, and scientific literacy …
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What Happens While We Learn? The Idiosyncratic Nature of Learning from Experience
… detailed analysis of the cognitive processes and knowledge development which occur during learning events, a new perspective to help interpret the dynamics and complexities of in-situ learning. I adopt a refined view of learning which anticipates the interplay between discrete processes and …
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Designing web-based adaptive learning environment : distils as an example
… activities in an ascending order of the student knowledge status. In DISTILS, a Web page is associated with a HTML Learning Model (HLM) to describe its knowledge content. The ALG extracts the HLM, collects the status of students' knowledge in HLM, and presents a knowledge map illustrating where …
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Overcoming Global Ignorance: Developing Geographic Literacy in a World Regional Geography Course
… and universities in terms of basic geographic knowledge? What are the societal consequences of failing to address geographic ignorance, and what instructional methodology could successfully address the problem? Once baseline geographic knowledge is assessed in the classroom, how can it be …
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Exploiting available domain knowledge to improve the retrieval and recommendation of Digital Cultural Heritage materials
… materials, because they usually have no domain knowledge and also lack the experience of which precise keyword terms to use to search and discover new information. As an attempt to mitigate the issues explained above, recommender systems and visual search interfaces have been used by millions of …
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The relationship between teachers' pedagogical content knowledge about electrostatics and learners' performance
… the relationship between teachers' pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) about electrostatics and learners' performance in the topic. Two in-service and two pre-service physical science teachers, together with their learners, agreed to participate in the study. The PCK of the teachers was viewed …