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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Layman"”.
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CMSVega: A Content Management System for the Layman
… use right away. Simplicity is key when targeting layman users who have no web development knowledge. This project aims to create a simple and intuitive content management system, CMSVega, which users can pick up and use with minimal web development knowledge. A blind study was conducted to compare …
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The Rebellion of James Eustace, Viscount Baltinglass III , 1580 - 81: A study of the causes, course and consequences of the response of an Anglo - Irish Catholic layman to Elizabethan religious repression
Traditionally the Baltinglass rebellion was seen as a Catholic crusade led by a zealous but misguided idealist. This was based on the view that James Eustace, Viscount Baltinglass 111, was motivated by religious fervour and was prepared to risk his position as a privileged member of the Pale elite …
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Age Differences in Judging the Frequency of Events.
It is generally recognized by layman and scientist alike that memory functioning decreases to some extent due to aging. Most of the available literature focuses on age changes in memory with respect to storage and retrieval deficits. However, a lack of evidence exists related to some of the more …
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The history of Sutter's Fort, 1839-1931
… covered the history of his famous Fort. To the layman the fort itself may seem unimportant, but when we stop to consider that it was an outpost of civilization penetrating the wilderness of Central California, offering shelter to those who pioneered before us; we must confess that its existence …
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Perception of ethnic distinctiveness by a group of Mexican-Americans : case study in a housing project in East Austin
… resources. The characteristics that in the layman's opinion are pervasive among his own group and his attitudes toward these characteristics are the main focus of this dissertation. In addition, the features that are emphasized as symbols of Mexican-American identity are also presented. …
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A correlative study of the anti-literal in modern art, music, and literature
… seeks merely to indicate in simple language the layman can understand, conditions, forces, and stimuli in the artist's milieu which are potential motivations of his artistic idiom<sup>2</sup> and through the examination of those influential factors, to try to discover why the artist chose the …
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Recomendr-entity recommendation based on ad-hoc dimensions
… find out about the opinions and experiences of layman people. But, simultaneously, this huge eruption of data has made it difficult to reach to a conclusion. In this thesis, I develop a novel recommendation system, Recomendr that can help users digest all the reviews about an entity and compare …
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Zukunft des Personenluftverkehrs : Flugroutenverkehrs- und -wahlprognose ; Nachfrageanalyse durch stochastische Nutzenmaximierung (RUM) sowie szenariotechnische Routen- und Angebotsbestimmung relationsabhängiger Nachfragemengen als Elemente zur Prognose routenspezifischer Passagierzahlen im internationalen Personenluftverkehr
… transportation. This makes it even for a layman possible to achieve good forecasting results on the very small level of routes. Today this is of high importance for the planning of airports, for improving the competitiveness of airlines and alliances. In addition this helps macroeconomists …
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The Reporting of Rape in UK Online News: Examining the Potential Impact of the #MeToo Movement on News Framing
… influences public perceptions and discourse (Layman, 2020). News representation shapes societal attitudes, impacts legal and policy responses, and can influence survivors’ willingness to come forward (Schwark and Bohner, 2019). This dissertation aims to examine whether the #MeToo movement has …
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An assessment of the state of science journalism in Namibia : A case study of the Namibian, Namibian sun, and New Era newspapers
… take their work beyond academic circles to the layman. This is often done by science journalists who have the expertise to report scientific news in a fashion that is less technical. The main objectives of the study were to assess the criteria used by the Namibian print media to determine the …
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Effective Knowledge Transfer: A Terminological Perspective - Dismantling The Jargon Barrier To Knowledge About Computer Security
… of communication between the specialist and the layman. The initial hypothesis was that computer users, through their knowledge of language, have some prior knowledge of the subdomain of computing they are trying to come to terms with, and that language can be a facilitating mechanism, or an …
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From Bradford Moor to Silver Dale. The life, work, and legacy of W. Riley, 1866-1961
… a Methodist local preacher and an important layman within northern Methodism. He wrote 39 books, published many stories and articles, and was a busy lecturer. Riley located most of his 30 novels in the Yorkshire Dales and has left a legacy of vivid portraits of people and places in the dales …
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Effective knowledge transfer: a terminological perspective - Dismantling the jargon barrier to knowledge about computer security
… of communication between the specialist and the layman. The initial hypothesis was that computer users, through their knowledge of language, have some prior knowledge of the subdomain of computing they are trying to come to terms with, and that language can be a facilitating mechanism, or an …
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Customizable application for personal information management
… we introduce a new application geared toward the layman end user to help resolve this lack of personalization when managing data. With this tool, users can store any collection of information (i.e. to do lists, address book, DVD collection), customize how they want to view and browse that data, …
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The cybernetics of socio-economic change and development - Social technology: The organisation of the change and evolution of socio-economic systems
… facing man, the importance that the average layman understands this approach and the questions tackled in this investigation. These critical questions concern the converging trends in socio-economic evolution that mankind is facing. Some of these trends are physical, some are socio-mental. …
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Fatawa and their development since the early Islamic era
… a single enquiry regarding ritual worship by a layman may produce multiple answers based on different understandings of the Qur’ān and Hadīth (Prophetic statements). Likewise, the author discusses the classical Islamic ideal regarding the role of a mufti (an issuer of Islamic legal rulings) and …
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The importance of the study of anatomy to the figure artist
… force is given to few, but each one of us, layman or artist, cherishes a spark that may - who knows - start in another artist a conflagration. Then whether the work produced the trivial or profound, the student of "Life" may give thanks that he pursues an ageless quest of inexhaustible …
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The Leadership Process and Its Effects on Self-Managed Work Groups in American Manufacturing Companies
… many theories and models offered to assist the layman to become an effective leader. Most of these theories have been based on management models, that is, models that adapt management behaviors and goals into what the authors call leadership. These theories fall into several categories: great …
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Visual Place Recognition under Severe Viewpoint and Appearance Changes
… component of SLAM is a well-known paradigm. In layman terms, at a certain place/location within an environment, a robot needs to decide whether it’s the same place experienced before? Visual Place Recognition utilizing Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) has made a major contribution in the …
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Structure-Property-Transfection Relationships in Polycation-mediated Non-viral DNA Delivery
Non-viral gene delivery agents, such as cationic polyelectrolytes, are attractive replacements to viruses due to the absence of potential immunogenic risk and the ability to tune their macromolecular structure. Although non-viral vectors possess numerous design advantages, several investigators …
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