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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Local Experts"”.
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Finding local experts from Yelp dataset
Local experts are people who have special expertise in an area, but that expertise is limited to a geographical region. It makes sense to say that someone is a global expert on quantum physics, but it is hard to find someone who knows all about the best ice-cream places anywhere in the world. This …
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Geometric planning for VLSI routing and robot motion
… algorithmic paradigm, called planning with local experts, where the given global planning problem is decomposed into a set of subproblems that are each solved efficiently in a prescribed sequence and then the solutions of the subproblems are merged together.
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Probabilistic methods for drug discovery
… techniques currently available to the domain experts is that the user is directly involved in the data mining process and advanced machine learning algorithms are employed for better projection. A hierarchical visualisation model guided by a domain expert allows them to obtain an informed …
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Toward Geo-social Information Systems: Methods and Algorithms
… identifying words in tweets with a strong local geo-scope, the location estimator places 51% of Twitter users within 100 miles of their actual location. (ii): we investigate a set of 22 million check-ins across 220,000 users and report a quantitative assessment of human mobility patterns by …
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Strategies to Increase Andean Potato Cultivation and Preservation in Ecuador
… and a document analysis co-developed with local experts to identify key strategies that target public interest in Andean potato cultivars. Twelve strategy options were preliminarily identified and narrowed down to the six most applicable options, having added socio-economic and …
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Characterization of internal and external variables of the health food industry in Peru
… area. With the participation of a group of local experts familiar with the industry and based on a structural analysis that evaluates the levels of motor skills and dependency, the interrelationship between the actors and variables for the study system was determined. The evidence presents …
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Creating Values of Heritage: An Analysis of Policy Processes of Candidacy to UNESCO's World Heritage List
… key agents in the various case studies, both at local level (promoters, local experts,consultants) and at national level with officials from the UNESCO Office of the Ministry of Culture. The data analysis was structured according to the principles of grounded theory and was ultimately based on a …
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Igbobuagu: An Exploration of Performance Practices, Aesthetics, and Symbolism in Igbo Traditional Instrumental Music
… informal interviews, and verification with local experts–it examines the genre’s performance practices, aesthetic values, and symbolic elements, revealing Igbobuagu as a living archive that encodes communal values and historical memory. Drawing on the communal philosophies articulated by …
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An investigation into a community information database system in the northeast of Thailand: Community empowerment through community learning centres
… was to ascertain levels of information needs and local knowledge, and to identify ten local experts from ICN for subsequent In-depth Interviews. Data obtained in this way were analysed then classified into a retrievable form of knowledge. A model community information database system (CIDS) was …
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The impact of intercultural differences in change agentry interventions in technology transfer
… group trained by the aid organization to be local "experts" in the use of cookstoves.</p> <p>The research contributes to a deeper understanding of the relationships between change agents and client recipients by contributing a,n intercultural perspective to discussions of the diffusion of …
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Analyzing the Politics of Development Funding, Competition, and Corruption in the Ch’orti’ Maya Area
… that such structures remain despite efforts of local development agencies to promote a better quality of life through project implementation. Throughout eight weeks of ethnographic fieldwork in the summer of 2015, I interviewed ten local development practitioners and seven local experts, and I …
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GATHERING A CONSENSUS VIEW OF HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY COMPETENCIES IN SINGAPORE: A DELPHI STUDY
… key health psychology competencies valued by local experts (n=24). 28 competencies emerged in the domains of Assessment, Intervention and Multidisciplinary Work. Through secondary qualitative analyses, we explored why locally-practicing experts might appraise the importance of key health …
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Seismic retrofit of precast panel buildings in Eastern Europe
… cases as much as 85%. During the thesis, several local experts and practicing structural engineers were interviewed and consulted. For this study it is assumed that the building has a close statistical representation of other buildings with similar structural system both in Bulgaria and …
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Precision Aggregated Local Models
… at partition boundaries. Modern methods like local approximate GPs (LAGPs) imply effectively infinite partitioning and are thus pathologically good and bad in this regard. Model averaging, an alternative to divide-and-conquer, can maintain absolute continuity but often over-smooth, diminishing …
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Bridging the Health Divide: Achieving Equitable Healthcare Access in Kenya through Artificial Intelligence
… the importance of human-AI collaboration, with local experts and community representatives playing crucial roles in refining and implementing AI-generated concepts. Challenges identified include data quality and availability in rural settings, the need for ongoing model refinement, and the …
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Development of an Environmental Law Curriculum for Kosovo Universities
… litigation are nonexistent. There are not many experts who can be consulted or who can help draft the environmental laws Kosovo must enact in order to harmonize its laws with those of the European Union. Lawyers having proper and formal training for doing the Environmental Impact Assessment are …
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Development of an Environmental Law Curriculum for Kosovo Universities
… litigation are nonexistent. There are not many experts who can be consulted or who can help draft the environmental laws Kosovo must enact in order to harmonize its laws with those of the European Union. Lawyers having proper and formal training for doing the Environmental Impact Assessment are …
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Communicating Transitional Justice and Peacebuilding: How does storytelling challenge the meta-conflict in Northern Ireland?
… semi-structured interviews with storytelling experts and facilitators, to present a rich account of the methods of grassroots peace work in Northern Ireland. In addition to an account of local experts from across the spectrum of storytelling projects this thesis presents an alternative …
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KNOWLEDGES, CONTROVERSIES AND FLOODS: national-scale flood management in Bangladesh
… explores the views, beliefs and knowledges of experts responsible for flood management in Bangladesh. As one of the most disaster-prone nations on Earth, and in response to the neglect of power-holding experts within the existing literature, this project analyses the differences between …
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A land evaluation model for irrigated crops using multi-criteria analysis.
… topography and erosion hazard were evaluated. Local experts used their experience and assigned different weights based on crop requirements through pairwise comparison matrix. The combination of these methods was aimed at developing existing land evaluation model in the study area that was …
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