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Showing 1 to 20 of 79 for “"Learning mechanisms"”.
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Incorporating Memory and Learning Mechanisms Into Meta-RaPS
… It is proposed that incorporating memory and learning mechanisms into Meta-RaPS, which is currently classified as a memoryless metaheuristic, can help the algorithm produce higher quality results.</p> <p>The proposed Meta-RaPS versions were created by taking different perspectives of learning. …
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Assessing Motivational and Associative Learning Mechanisms Underlying Compulsive Drinking
… to drug-paired stimuli via associative learning processes may provide this additional motivation. To evaluate if alcohol-paired stimuli enhance alcohol seeking, selectively bred crossed High Alcohol Preferring mice experienced Pavlovian conditioning procedures with an alcohol …
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Investigating Organisational Learning Mechanisms (OLMs) and elements shaping organisational learning in selected universities in Nigeria
This study explores the process of organisational learning in selected universities in Nigeria. OL is essential in an organisation’s ability to survive, grow, adapt and respond to environmental dynamics and changes. Universities as institutions of learning play significant roles in shaping …
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Supporting the learner's playfulness and creativity as learning mechanisms: design specifications for interactive interfaces in arts museums.
… of insight development as a mechanism for learning about the creative arts is that it allows the learner to discover uses of the presented materials that are self-relevant, therefore demonstrating utility in regard to their subjective cognitive style. Artistic concepts are defined as a …
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Universal Transfer Learning
Our distance measures and learning algorithms are based on powerful, elegant and beautiful ideas from the field of Algorithmic Information Theory. While developing our transfer learning mechanisms we also derive results that are interesting in and of themselves. We also developed practical …
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Non-equilibrium physics: from spin glasses to machine and neural learning
… processing tasks such as error correction, learning, and optimization. Despite the empirical success of utilizing these systems for intelligent tasks, the underlying principles that govern their emergent intelligent behaviors remain largely unknown. In this thesis, we aim to characterize …
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Organisational Learning and Capability Development in Mature Medium-sized Firms: An Exploration from an Enactment Perpsective.
… It also proposes that organizational design and learning processes play a key role in the development of organisational capabilities. The research uses qualitative interviews within a case study research design. It studies six medium-sized, mature organisations operating successfully in a variety …
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Organisational learning and capability development in mature medium-sized firms : an exploration from an enactment perspective
… It also proposes that organizational design and learning processes play a key role in the development of organisational capabilities. The research uses qualitative interviews within a case study research design. It studies six medium-sized, mature organisations operating successfully in a variety …
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A Time-Series Analysis Of Implicit Learning And Tacit Knowledge And The Heuristic Value Of Methods Used To Substantiate The Cognitive Unconscious
… of debate persist in the field of implicit learning (il): (1) whether learning and the subsequent knowledge acquired during artificial grammar learning (agl) tasks are best characterized as conscious or unconscious, (2) whether the acquired knowledge is bound more to physical characteristics …
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Gender-Based Adoption of Agricultural, Health and Family Planning Technologies by Individuals Within Rural Households: The Malawi Case
… characteristics, but maximizes social learning mechanisms which provide opportunities to exchange information and ideas in a series of facilitated discussion groups and creating social pressure for appropriate adoption practices. (Abstract shortened by UMI.).
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An exploration of adolescents' thoughts about their sexually abusive behaviour : a qualitative study
… The results indicate a role of social-learning mechanisms in the process of sexual offending by adolescents and highlight the likely differences that may be evident between this population and models of understanding adult sex offenders. Regret and Guiltalongside attempts to understand …
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Solar capabilities : promoting, technological learning in South Africa's photovoltaic supply industry
I explore the mechanisms through which technological capabilities have been built in the market for photovoltaic (PV) module and balance of system (BOS) manufacture in South Africa. Drawing on the literature on technology transfer and economic development, my aim is to identify the relative …
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Learning and support of ‘older adults’ in the use of Information and Communications Technologies: a framework to enhance technology engagement
… knowledge and understanding of ‘older adult’ learning (those aged 50 and over) and Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) with respect to the new dynamics of ageing (e.g. changing motivations, requirements, preferences and ‘learning capacities’). From this knowledge, understanding …
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Predicting Anxiety From Parent And Childhood Variables
… project was to examine the potential role of learning from parents as a risk factor in the development of child anxiety, with a particular emphasis on three learning mechanisms: modeling, information transfer, and reinforcement of anxious behaviors. The third goal of this project was to …
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Exploring Peer Learning in the Context of Dyadic Interactions in Kindergarten Aged Children
… from each other. Previously studied have been mechanisms used by adults during peer learning, but not the mechanisms used by children during unscripted peer learning interactions. Knowing the specific mechanisms used during these interactions will help to identify foundational skills necessary …
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Exploits in Concurrency for Boolean Satisfiability
… solvers with advanced conflict resolution, learning mechanisms, and sophisticated heuristics. There have been some successful demonstrations of massively parallel and hardware-accelerated solvers for SAT, but these have failed to find their way into mainstream usage. This document first …
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Coming to agreement: representation and processing of English subject-verb agreement in acquisition
… online comprehension, and discusses possible learning mechanisms that might result in the observed patterns. The findings presented here suggest that 2- and 3-year-old English-learners treat agreement as a primarily syntactic relationship, and are able to deploy their knowledge of agreement …
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THE DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN ADAPTIVE CHESS GAME
… continued interest in playing. A proper adaptive learning mechanism is required to further this human player’s motivation. During this project, past achievements of adaptive learning on computer chess game play are reviewed and adaptive learning mechanisms in computer chess game play is proposed. …
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Electrophysiology, agent-based modeling and inverse optimal control applications in neuroethology
… by integrating sensation, internal state and learning in the virtual agent, replicating the particular behavioral selection process of the Pleurobranchaea. Finally, we propose two Markov decision processes to model how the animal makes decisions in its environment. Given the observed …
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Motivated Agents
… and decision-making is through reinforcement learning, which relies on external reward-based learning mechanisms to influence the agent’s behavior. While rewards are a primary incentive for learning both in the brain and in machines, recent studies have shown that reward signals in the brain …
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