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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Multiple Participants"”.
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Leave any noise at the signal : participation art online
… encourage creative collaboration among diverse participants. The thesis traces the history of participation in artistic movements and early networked communication to contextualize a series of projects at the intersection of performance and participation online. Projects include WikiPhone, in …
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MacVisSTA: A System for Multimodal Analysis of Human Communication and Interaction
… of embodied communication requires access to multiple data sources such as multistream video and audio, various derived and meta-data such as gesture, head, posture, facial expression and gaze information. This thesis presents the data collection, annotation, and analysis for multiple …
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Developing Better Models for Dialogue Threads and Responses
… for dialogue disentanglement. Specifically, multiple threads of discussions in the same dialogue are disentangled and organized to single topic threads. This research can help users to more easily follow up on the topics discussed in complex dialogues. We propose a hierarchical model by …
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An Ethnographic Study of a Literacy Program in a High-Poverty, Ethnically Diverse Elementary School within the Context of No Child Left Behind
… within a specific context and setting from multiple participants' frames of reference and from the researcher's perspective as a participant observer. The researcher analyzed the data, identified patterns, and categorized them into a set of assertions about this school. The discussion of the …
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An investigation into corporate governance practices at tier 3 state owned enterprises in Namibia
… approach, a qualitative design, and a multiple case study method have been adopted, with a convenience sample constituted of multiple participants, in order to gain a deeper understanding and different perspectives. To ensure triangulation, multiple data collection instruments were …
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Exploring work life balance among entry-level admissions representatives
… This study focused upon describing what multiple participants in the research experienced as they interacted with a phenomenon. The perceptions from the participants detailed challenges with work-life balance. The perceptions shared by the participants indicated a dissatisfaction with …
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How Latinas’ views of campus climate and gender role expectations contribute to their persistence at a two-year Hispanic serving institution
This qualitative case study with multiple participants explored how the perception of campus climate and gender role expectations contributes to Latinas’ persistence at a two-year Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) in the Midwest. Guided by the work of Hurtado and Carter (1997) and social support …
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Integrating environmental and health and safety management system in the oil and gas sectors: a case study of Nigeria
… approach were used for data collection from multiple participants. To analyse the study findings, SPSS and Nvivo data analysis programs were used. The study found that using an integrated environmental, health, and safety management system to reduce pollution in the oil and gas industry could …
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Development of a Collaborative Decision-Making Framework to Improve the Patients’ Service Quality in the Intensive Care Unit During the COVID-19 Pandemic
… quickly, accurately and efficiently including multiple stake-holders. Especially during this COVID-19 pandemic, service improvement decisions in Intensive Care Units (ICU) are considered to be a critical factor. Many implemented solutions in the healthcare sector become unsustainable in the …
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Advancing the Implementation of CLAS Standards to Support Health of South Asian Americans
… or barriers, including examples from multiple participants. Findings show that while there is enforcement of cultural competency training in the workplace, lack of clear understanding and/or delineation between CLAS and other training promoting health equity is evident amongst …
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Adapting Single-View View Synthesis with Multiplane Images for 3D Video Chat
… video chatting and video conferencing with multiple participants are more prevalent than ever today as we continue to tackle the pandemic. Bringing a 3D feel to video chat has always been a hot topic in Vision and Graphics communities. In this thesis, we have employed novel view synthesis in …
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An exploratory study of the perception and attitudes of social work students towards mental health in Malawi
… method is an exploratory qualitative design with multiple participants. Seventeen Social Work students were the unit of study, selected according to a purposive and discriminant sampling design. Data was collected using a semi-structured interview schedule, and recorded during an in-depth …
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"This is the fluffy robot that only speaks French" : language use between preschoolers, their families, and a social robot while sharing virtual toys
… establishing a shared physical context between multiple participants without absorbing all of the children's focus onto digital content, a hybrid physical and digital interface was iteratively designed and play-tested. This interface took the form of a "café table" on which the child and robot …
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An Investigation of the Impact of Student Government Involvement at one Public Historically Black University on the Career Choice of African American Student Participants
… influence on career choice for African-American participants, and to enlighten educators about role and value of collegiate student government participation. If participation in student government and involvement in leadership activities is important in the overall development of a student, then …
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Valutazione ambientale strategica e governance territoriale: metodologie e procedure
… requires the reconstruction of behaviour of the multiple participants, called stakehorders, which act in these processes. An important governance tool, useful in guiding the plan of action to the paradigm of sustainable development, is the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA). Compared to its …
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Interaction in musical time
… for focusing the analysis on the interaction of multiple participants, instead of trying to measure the performance or mind-states of the individuals. This interactionist approach requires a specific set of analysis tools. For this purpose, I distinguish rhytmic synchronisation from entrainment …
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Revisiting Fraud Detection From The Language Of Financial Reports
… fraud within the MD&A section. To achieve this, multiple text classification experiments were conducted, each centered on a distinct neural network architecture. The best performance was obtained by a Transformer model that achieved a new state-of-the-art F1-score of 77% and an accuracy of 91%; …
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Quality in Higher Education: Perspectives from Front-Line Faculty in the United States
… for Research Question 1 was all 20 faculty participants defined quality in higher education either partially or solely in terms of student outcomes. These outcomes included student learning outcomes, vocational outcomes, and contribution to society outcomes. In regards to Research Question …
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Data Bandwidth Reduction Techniques For Distributed Embedded Simulatio
… coherence between the independent views of multiple participants at distributed locations is essential in an Embedded Simulation environment. Currently, the Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) protocol maintains coherence by broadcasting the entity state streams from each simulation …
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Innovation and Advocacy in Perinatal Harm Reduction by Birth Workers and Perinatal Workforce Providers: A Qualitative Study Utilizing Narrative Inquiry
… providers. The first paper also combines multiple participants into four case studies to examine the application of PHR. In anthology format, the third paper uses co-created narratives from seven of the 16 original participants. Findings: This research aims to define perinatal harm …
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