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Showing 1 to 20 of 7321 for “"Learn"”.
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Reading to Learn
Traditional machine learning systems are trained on vast quantities of annotated data or experience. These systems often do not generalize to new, related problems that emerge after training, such as conversing about new topics or interacting with new environments. This thesis introduces Reading to …
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Pets that learn
Thesis (M.S.V.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1989.
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A Space to Learn
… throughout life’s spectrum to create a space to learn. This dissertation is a collection of work that I have written throughout my time at the CUNY Graduate Center. The chapters herein represent an arch of my learning over the past five years. The title, A Space to Learn, has multiple meanings. …
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Learning to Learn Concept Descriptions
… the recent advances in the field of Deep Learning in order to design suitable Neural Network architectures capable to learn by examples how to perform this transformation. Since no pre-existing dataset was available to adequately train Neural Networks for this task, we designed a data …
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How preschoolers learn from television.
… study investigates how preschool aged children learn through television throughout the creation of an original narrative, The Topaz Troop. Children are exposed to an assortment of media devices from an early age, and parents continue to seek out quality educational content to enhance their …
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When will they (ever) learn?
Learning is an often given explanation for why social networks improve performance. For example, a closed network allows individuals to identify and share best practices and to coordinate joint problem solving and each is conducive for learning. Despite the widespread belief that networks affect …
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Can Baseball Help Students Learn Statistics?
Can Baseball Help Students Learn Statistics?
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Analyzing How Students Learn Differential Equations
… we will analyze how to study how students learn differential equations. First, we will analyze what is generally taught in a differential equations course so we can establish the importance of what students are learning and give a sense of what they are learning. We will then establish what …
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Do customers learn from stock prices?
… demand. I develop a model in which customers learn about a firm's product quality partially from its stock price. This learning induces feedback from the price to customer demand. Furthermore, the firm manager adjusts product launch decisions in anticipation of these demand shifts. Consistent …
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Characterizations of how neural networks learn
… has led to many recent advances in machine learning. However, the mechanisms underlying how neural networks learn from data are largely opaque. This thesis develops a mechanistic understanding of how neural networks learn in several settings, as well as new tools to analyze trained networks. …
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A theoretically-based curriculum incorporating reading to learn and writing to learn in sixth-grade social studies
… research related to schema theory, reading to learn theory, and writing to learn theory. Learning principles and instructional principles were derived from each theory to serve as guidelines for selecting instructional strategies from the research to be included in the curriculum. The content …
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If We Could Learn to Learn from Pain: A Contemporary Literary Ethics of Women's Suffering and Self-Sacrifice
<p>This dissertation explores suffering and self-sacrifice in literature and theory from 1950 to the present, highlighting the concern with suffering in numerous women writers' texts as well as the way several contemporary discussions of ethics--including feminisms, theologies, and …
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Ędwadewáyęsta Ohwęjádeh: We Learn from the Earth
Earth-based education is an Ǫgwehǫ:weh (Original People) approach to seeding Hodinohsó:ni’ (People of the Longhouse) cultural knowledge and it is the knowledge that will catalyze stronger Ǫgwehǫ:weh communities. To regain alignment with Hodinohsó:ni’ ways, a Hodinohsó:ni’ Waldorf-inspired School …
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L1 adaptive control within Learn-to-Fly
… presents the development and flight testing of a learning control framework that was combined with real-time modeling and real-time guidance algorithms to test the feasibility of the NASA Learn-to-Fly concept. The objective of Learn-to-Fly is to reduce or eliminate the need for ground-based …
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Poverty mapping : what can we really learn?
I examine the problem of poverty mapping. I explain the difficulties of small area estimation arising from data sparseness and argue that any attempt to overcome this fundamental problem has to take the form of a conditional homogeneity assumption.
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The Relationship Between City Planning and Related Learning: To Learn Continuingly or to Learn Continuously, That Is the Polemic
… relationship between city planning and related learning"? This looks at the learning that engages city planners during the process of solving real life presenting situations. Does this learning occur continuingly or continuously? Is this knowledge tacit or explicit? This research is based on an …
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CAN TODDLERS LEARN NOVEL WORDS FROM EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS?
… study employed a mixed design to assess word learning in infants under the age of two. Four conditions were used to see if babies who watched an infant-directed DVD at least six times over two weeks, or who watched an infant-directed DVD with parental mediation at least six times over two …
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Rethinking Mathematical Proofs and the Opportunity to Learn
… to scaffold content to reach different levels of learners, as this conceptual process may be more difficult for some. This curriculum project includes materials designed to supplement existing units on geometric proof. These materials intend for students to both frequently practice with components …
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