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Showing 1 to 20 of 168 for “"Main idea"”.
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Arabic rhetoric: Main idea, development, parallelism, and word repetition
… research on the elements of Arabic rhetoric of: main idea, development in body paragraphs, parallelism, and word repetition. It examines the rhetorical tendencies of native Arabic-speaking students from Saudi Arabia and one way these elements of Arabic rhetoric are reflected in essays as a whole …
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Strategies for Identifying the Main Idea of Expository Passages: An Experimental Study
… teach remedial reading students to identify the main idea of expository passages. These interventions were based upon research in cognitive psychology and task analysis, and were implemented via a computer-assisted instruction program. The study randomly assigned students to treatments in a 2 x 2 …
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Eschatological Approval in the Epistle of James
… of the epistle. First, we make a case that the main idea is developed in the introductory prologue. The repeated themes in the beginning (Jas 1:2–3), middle (1:12), and end (1:25) of the prologue reveal a double-inclusio that points to 1:12 as a key saying that sums up the main idea: the author …
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Self-Regulated Strategy Development and a Low-Intensity Behavior Strategy: Intensified TWA and Mindful Breathing to Improve the Reading Comprehension Skills of Middle School Students with Learning and Behavioral Disorders
… resource room. The variables of number of main idea and details, length of retell, order of main idea and details, number of self-instructions, number of observed mindful breathing, and goal-setting were examined. Across all participants, the BC-SMD was 1.46 (SE = 0.35) which suggests a …
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Promoting Voluntary Reading of a Group of Seventh-Grade Students in an Urban Setting
… of the study proved significant in the areas of main idea and attitude change when the experimental group was compared with the combined control groups. In the future, information from this study can be used as a basis for generating similar ideas and strategies that might address this issue most …
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The interaction of goal orientation and interest on students' use of self-regulated learning strategies
… dependent variables: student's total score on main-idea selection, additional cognitive strategies, and of metacognitive strategies. There were significant (p < .05) main effects for task interest and goal orientation on the main-idea selection measure. Students who reported having a high …
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Twisted Manolescu-Floer spectra for Seiberg-Witten monopoles
… homology groups recover Floer homology. The main idea is to apply finite dimensional approximation technique and Conley index theory to Seiberg-Witten theory of 3-manifolds. Another part of the construction involves a concept of twisted parametrized spectra introduced by Douglas. We also …
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Timing, learning/study strategies, and self-efficacy : factors impacting reading comprehension for postsecondary students with dyslexia.
… to achieving higher scores in identifying the main idea, reduced anxiety, and increased motivation, as well as the number of years of intervention received. Interestingly, the findings of this quasi-experimental design suggested that whether a student was diagnosed early or late with dyslexia …
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Semi-finished modular cells
… as a finished unit. In both cases, the cell is mainly an assembly of smaller components that can possibly be recycled and reused after dismantling without additional reprocessing. The main idea behind the cell is to employ simple and small elements to achieve sustainable design.
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Improving Machine Learning Through Oracle Learning
… learning algorithms, oracle learning. The main idea in oracle learning is that instead of training directly on a set of data, a learning model is trained to approximate a given oracle's behavior on a set of data. This can be beneficial in situations where it is easier to obtain an oracle …
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Tenth Order Mock Theta Functions in Ramanujan's Lost Notebook
… by D. Hickerson are playing key roles, the other main idea is transforming mock theta function identities into the theta function identities.
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Dual Fixed-Size Ordinally Forgetting Encoding (FOFE) For Natural Language Processing
… Processing (NLP) tasks, called dual-FOFE. The main idea behind dual-FOFE is that it allows the encoding to be done with two different forgetting factors; this would resolve the original FOFEs dilemma in choosing between the benefits offered by having either small or large values for its single …
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Pit House Revival: An Exercise in Composition
… across an array of disciplines. This is the main idea behind what this work has come to call Dow's Theory of Oneness. That composition as a structural approach to the space-arts can act as a Rosetta stone, giving artists a broad spectrum of discipline, being "at once architects, sculptors, …
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Analysis of the uncertainty of wind power predictions
… value and real value are likely to occur. The main idea is to assess the prediction uncertainty not only in terms of annual averages and for individual wind farms but to introduce a new situation dependent approach to the uncertainty and, in addition, to analyse the benefits of predicting the …
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The Twenty-First Century Mechanistic Theory of Human Cognition: A Critical Appraisal
… theories in the field of cognitive science. The main idea is to provide an account of what human neuro-cognitive complex mechanisms are and how to explain them. The theory proposes an ambitious revolutionary unified view of human cognition that can provide foundations and theoretical unification …
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The In-Betweenness: Work Space of the Future
… productivity and even mental health. The main idea here is to design different spaces with different degrees of openness. These spaces start from being completely closed to completely open and just being defining by a single wall, roof or floor. And it also include every other degree of …
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The Look of Math
… geometric, diagrammatic, or organic. The main idea is not “math can be art,” but rather that math has a look, which is not the same thing as math’s inner structure, and which is exploitable in nonmathematical ways. However, math has special properties that amplify its importance as some …
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Sezoninė parodų erdvė ir lauko kavinė. Dizaino projektas /
… and solution for some city problems. The main idea of the Project is to promote the exhibition attendance and interest in the arts , especially among young people, and at the same time to create another seasonal cozy space, which are very popular .
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Detecting Routing Misbehavior In Mobile Ad Hoc Network
… will participate in the route discovery and maintenance processes but refuse to forward data packets. Therefore, we propose the 2ACK scheme that serves as an add-on technique for routing schemes to detect routing misbehavior and to mitigate their adverse effect. The main idea of the 2ACK …
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The impact of reward and punishment on visual attention during naturalistic visual search: valence or salience?
… for motivational salience. After reviewing the main existing literature in this field (Chapter 1), I will describe a series of studies which examine how reward and punishment impact visual attention through the analysis of behavioral measures (Chapter 2) and fMRI activation (Chapter 3 and 4). …
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