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Showing 1 to 20 of 102 for “"Naturalness"”.
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Are Grounding and Naturalness Related?
Grounding and Naturalness have been two important concepts in the Metaphysician's toolbox. They are both used to cash out the notion of fundamentality; that is, proponents of both concepts propose certain criteria for counting a property/fact as more fundamental than another. In this paper, I will …
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Ethics Naturally: An Environmental Ethic Based on Naturalness
… base an environmental ethic on a quality called naturalness. I examine it in terms of quantification, namely, as to whether it can quantified? I then apply the concept to specific areas such as restoration and conservation to create an environmental ethic and to show how such an ethic would be …
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How Still the Riddle Lies; Emily Dickinson's Sense of Naturalness
Beauchesne, Jill, M.A., Autumn 2006 Literature Abstract: How Still the Riddle Lies Robert Baker, Chair Louise Economides Phil Condon The tradition of “nature writing” in the United States draws heavily on the literary movements of Romanticism and Transcendentalism. Wordsworth’s meditative walks, …
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How Still the Riddle Lies; Emily Dickinson's Sense of Naturalness
Beauchesne, Jill, M.A., Autumn 2006 Literature Abstract: How Still the Riddle Lies Robert Baker, Chair Louise Economides Phil Condon The tradition of “nature writing” in the United States draws heavily on the literary movements of Romanticism and Transcendentalism. Wordsworth’s meditative walks, …
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Assessing The Biophysical Naturalness Of Grassland In Eastern North Dakota With Hyperspectral Imagery
<p>Over the past two decades, non-native species within grassland communities have quickly developed due to human migration and commerce. Invasive species like Smooth Brome grass (Bromus inermis) and Kentucky Blue Grass (Poa pratensis), seriously threaten conservation of native grasslands. This …
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Authorities and naturalness beyond neo-pragmatism and deconstructionism. Optimization of economic distribution and well-being as a means of going beyond dialectical failures
In the first part of my dissertation I demonstrate that Rorty’s neo-pragmatism and Derrida's openness to the Other give rise, in their practical applications, to the same arbitrariness as the one usually attributed to a society shaped by Hegelian dialectic. A problem arises, in a deconstructive …
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Defending Deflationary Heuristics Against Hyperintensional Manoeuvres
… analyses of fundamentality: for example, naturalness or grounding-variants. I seek to defang these hyperintensional manoeuvres. I argue that naturalness and grounding should be interpreted as subjective or interest-relative notions that cannot sustain substantive dispute. If fundamentality …
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The Death and Life of the Polis
… this notion of a natural polis, what I call the Naturalness Thesis, is fundamentally important to Aristotle's political philosophy. The Naturalness Thesis is discussed in only one place by Aristotle, and it is found alongside two further claims—the claim that humans are the most political animal …
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Communicative Error Evaluation: A Study of American Native Speakers' Evaluations and Interpretations of Deviant Utterances Written by Arab Efl Learners
… differences between judged intelligibility and naturalness; (2) to investigate the extent to which error type (grammatical or semantic) and immediate linguistic context affect the intelligibility, naturalness, and interpretability of deviant utterances; and (3) to provide a validation measure …
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True Connections: High-Quality Connections in a Post-COVID-19 Landscape
… Westman, 2001) and media theories (e.g., media naturalness theory; Kock, 2004) to highlight the importance of relational interactions and assess whether those interactions can still thrive in a virtual setting. These studies investigate high quality connections (HQCs; Dutton, 2003) – momentary, …
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On natural and probabilisic effects during acquisition of morphophonemic alternations
… There are contrary findings about the role of naturalness. A natural process is grounded in phonetics; they are easy to learn, even in second language acquisition when adults have to learn certain processes that do not occur in their native language. There is also evidence that unnatural – …
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Treatment of Ataxic Dysarthria Using a Modified Be Clear Approach: A Pilot Study
… ratings of articulation clarity and speech naturalness across three time points (pre-treatment, immediately post-treatment, and 1-month maintenance). Outcome measures of transcription intelligibility and psychosocial impact were also included. Results suggest improvements across perceptual …
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The rhetoric of ecological restoration: Ethnography in the Cook County Forest Preserves
… part, I look at how participants talked about naturalness and the contexts in which these definitions were invoked. My conclusions were that although ecological restoration requires massive human involvement in nature, it does not necessarily remove the nature-culture divide, and that …
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Conversation and Performance in Seventeenth-Century French Salon Culture
… between interlocutors under a guise of refined "naturalness." It was integral to aristocratic culture, as were the polite arts of singing, poetic recitation, acting, voiced reading, and impersonation. However, all of these performances presented certain risks for salonniers, for through them the …
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Time-domain concatenative text-to-speech synthesis.
… and adjusts segmental durations to improve naturalness. This manual technique for constructing the timing database has been evaluated. Since the timing data is linked to an expert judge's perception, an investigation examined whether the expert judge's perception of speech naturalness is …
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Nature in electroacoustic music
… types and sources, and where the idea of `naturalness' within a musical context is approached through an examination of certain sound-behaviours. Reference is made to compositional methods used in the six works.
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Analysis and evaluation of a traditional cultural landscape as a basis for its conservation management : a case study in Vikos-Aoos National Park - Greece
… criteria, i.e. plant species diversity, rarity, naturalness and restorability all plant communities were further evaluated for their contribution in nature conservation. The phytodiversity and the presence of rare plant species were quantified, while their naturalness and restorability were …
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The effects of part–of–speech tagging on text–to–speech synthesis for resource–scarce languages
… is more natural text-to-speech (TTS) voices. Naturalness is primarily determined by prosody and it is shown that many aspects of prosodic modelling is, in turn, dependent on part-of-speech (POS) information. Solving the POS problem is, therefore, a prudent first step towards meeting the goal …
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An investigation of speech synthesis parameters
… (using a FAAF test); and (5) measurement of naturalness. Principal results are: synthesizer types (1) to (4) are all-pole models, formally equivalent in the steady state. But when the parameters of any of the models are interpolated, consequences for motion of vocal tract resonances …
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Particle Ellipses in Japanese
… When one of these conditions is satisfied, the naturalness of case particle ellipsis (or retention) varies from "totally natural" to "totally unnatural" depending on the particle and the function it performs. To describe this phenomenon, I hypothesize that there is a hierarchical relation among …
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