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Showing 1 to 20 of 145 for “"Minimalist"”.
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Japanese gapping in minimalist syntax
… is made possible by the assumptions of the Minimalist Program, such as the operations Select, Copy and Merge, and principles of economy. I propose that sosite has a special function of copying lexical items in a numeration due to its intrinsic property of reduplicating items. This operation …
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Phrase structure in minimalist syntax
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1995.
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Minimalist multi-agent filtering and guidance
… or state estimation. Instead, we follow a minimalist approach that takes advantage of the wild motions of bodies in their environment. The bodies move within regions connected by gates that enforce specific flows or provide simple sensor feedback. More specifically, five types of gates are …
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Acquiring minimalist grammars via constraint satisfaction
… thesis shows how to algorithmically construct a Minimalist Grammar lexicon that produces a specified set of MG derivations. This thesis introduces a mathematical structure, a Collection of Constraints, that captures the logical constraints, including those that arise as a consequence of the …
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Design of a minimalist autonomous robotic vehicle
… design alternatives for the creation of a minimalist autonomous robotic vehicle, based on the Ford Escape. The work builds on prior work performed by the MIT DARPA Urban Challenge team, which competed in the national DARPA Urban Challenge NQE and UCE events in October and November 2007. The …
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Harmonic Data: AI Music, EDM Transcription, & Minimalist Jazz
<p>This thesis presents research in the domains of music theory and music technology. The topics of the three chapters are as follows: (1) the technical and artistic limitations of artificial intelligence when generating music, (2) the transcription of electronic dance music (EDM) using a hybrid …
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Minimalist Models and Methods for Visibility-Based Tasks
This dissertation proposes minimal models for solving visibility-based robotic tasks. It introduces strategies that handle sensing and actuation uncertainty while avoiding precise state estimations. This is done by analyzing the space of sensing and actuation histories, the history information …
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Minimalist Hardware Architectures for Agent Tracking and Guidance
… requirements for solving a task. This minimalist approach lies in contrast to the common practice of first taking an existing sensory motor system, and only afterwards determining how to apply the robotic system to the task. While it may seem convenient to simply apply existing hardware …
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The Sinitic Nominal Phrase Structure: A Minimalist Perspective
… of Chomsky’s (2000, 2001, 2004) Phase-based Minimalist Programme. Furthermore, given the assumption of the Split-DP Hypothesis, this study proposes that the DP in Sinitic languages is also not a unitary projection but an articulated array of functional projections, including DforceP, DfocusP, …
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minimUML: A Minimalist Approach to UML Diagraming for Early Computer Science Education
Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagraming is commonly used in introductory Computer Science to teach basic object-oriented design, but there appears to be a lack of suitable software to support this task well. Many of the available programs focus on developing code and not on enhancing learning. …
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The Interaction of Linear and Vertical Time in Minimalist and Postminimalist Piano Music
Minimalist compositions thwart most attempts at analysis given their remarkable simplicity. Moreover, minimalist works are deliberately non-manipulative in order to allow the listener freedom in constructing his or her own experience. For formalist analysis of this music to be of value, it must …
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Minimalist Approach to End-to-End Vision Language Navigation with Multi-Modal Foundation Model Features
… and agent guidance. We introduce MiniNav, a minimalist framework employing frozen vision-language foundation models as patch-wise feature extractors, avoiding data and compute heavy fine-tuning and cumbersome language model reasoning. Our lightweight control policies (∼ 10⁵ trainable …
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Minimalist and Traditional Training Methods for Older Adults: A Comparative Study in a Software Environment
It is important to utilize training that facilitates the best learning and performance on real tasks. Much research has been conducted to develop theories of learning and determine beneficial training characteristics. Still, this research often remains as separated characteristic recommendations …
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Vocal Minimalism: An analysis and pedagogical approach to minimalist vocal techniques in new works for choir
… exacerbated by the lack of pedagogy for teaching minimalist techniques to non-professional singers, and in some cases, a disregard for the voice's limitations and opportunities. This document seeks to encourage increased inclusion of the human voice in choral compositions that utilize minimalist …
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Minimalist versus conventional running shoes : effects on lower limb injury incidence, pain and muscle function experienced distance runners
… by calf muscle training), from conventional to minimalist running shoes 1) increased the risk of lower limb pain or injury and 2) improved lower limb muscle function (endurance, flexibility and power) in experienced distance runners. In addition, the effects of the transition on runner …
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Word order and information structure in Romeyka: A syntax and semantics interface account of order in a minimalist system
… in the light of recent developments within the minimalist program. I specifically pursue a principled explanation of word order within the biolinguistic perspective. In that sense, I entertain the thesis that all properties of the faculty of language contribute to a computationally efficient …
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Authoring of Help by End-users in an Online Community Network
… of guiding the end-users to create a better minimalist help document than a more traditional and comprehensive one. The users' performance and preferences were used to compare the two approaches. The study also focused on users' preference to using minimalist help documents versus traditional …
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Aspects of the syntax of Spanish nominal expressions
… principles and assumptions constituting the Minimalist Program (MP). A central concern of the study is the major theoretical reconceptualization of nominal structure known as the DP Hypothesis, an analysis of nominal expressions as being headed by D, rather than by N, as in the traditional …
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