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Showing 1 to 20 of 358 for “"Omission."”.
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The pericope adultrae: Theories of insertion & omission
Contains fulltext : 76519.pdf (author's version ) (Open Access)
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Canadian market reaction to dividend omission and resumption announcements
… activity surrounding announcements of dividend omissions and resumptions made by Canadian corporations. Significant negative abnormal returns are identified for a three-day announcement period. No significant shift in beta is found. The abnormal returns are not related to corporate size or to …
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Type I diabetes and insulin omission : an in-depth look
While insulin omission has been found to be a common behavior in those with type I diabetes, it has been primarily studied within the context of disordered eating behavior. Previous research supports medical providers and patients lack of comfort in discussing insulin omission. This study was …
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The Pragmatic Strategy of Main-Clause Omission in Japanese: Its Contrast with Hebrew, and Its Learnability
… NOT say; specifically, it deals with main-clause omission. This paper presents an empirical study on main-clause omission constraints in Japanese after the concessive particle <em>ga</em> (‘although’/’but’), the first known controlled experiment of its kind in the literature. It investigates, from …
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Analysis of ion channels with hidden Markov models : parameter identifiability and the problem of time interval omission
This thesis deals with a certain class of stochastic processes, namely the hidden Markov models. Hidden Markov models have proved to be an appropriate description for the ionic current through specialised proteins situated in the cell membrane. These ion channels open and close randomly and control …
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Tensions between didacticism, entertainment and translatorial practices: deletion and omission in the Arabic translations of Harry Potter
… or linguistic units that are deleted) and omissions (meaning or semantic load that is omitted) that occur in the Arabic translation of the series. A contrastive analysis is carried out between the ST and the TT in order to identify, examine and discuss trends in translation (deletions, …
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A method for identifying commission and omission errors for cultivated crops in the national land cover dataset (NLCD) 2006
… that identifies and analyzes the commission and omission errors for two agricultural classes mapped in NLCD 2006, quantifies the magnitude and spatial distribution of these errors over different geographic areas, and enumerates the causes of the errors regarding the land cover characterization …
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Linguistic and sociolinguistic aspects of the omission of sounds and syllables in isiXhosa speech: an explanatory guide for 2nd language learners of the language
… occurring phonological processes involved in the omission of sounds. To ensure that the research kept its focus on actual student needs, a short survey was conducted with 2nd language students of Xhosa at the university to ascertain the extent to which they see the development of listening skills …
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Top-down and bottom-up influences on action and inhibition
… this thesis investigated how commission and omission errors are influenced by the actual distribution of the responses required during the trials (bottom-up factor) and a response mapping rule provided in the beginning (top-down factor). Results indicated that the Go-trial proportion and the …
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Crowdsourcing moral psychology
… surveys with scenarios of the classic action/omission trolley problem, to collect ethical dilemma survey data internationally, in ten languages, for three variants of the trolley problem - one for remote action/omission with no double effect consideration, one for double effect consideration …
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Effects of mating mindsets on variety seeking
… seeking are driven by sensitivity to errors of omission. However, for female consumers, variety seeking behavior and sensitivity to errors of omission were not significantly different across mating and non-mating conditions. In closing, the author discusses theoretical and managerial …
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Diabetes Education Revisited: Addressing Inpatient Diabetes Care Through An Interactive Educational Video Module For Registered Nurses
… insulin-related medical errors found were (1) omission of rapid acting correction insulin, (2) omission of basal insulin, (3) omission of rapid acting insulin and, (4) administering bolus rapid acting insulin when patients are NPO. Pre-test to post-test scores on the training went from 49% to …
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The role of syntactic and discourse information in verb learning
… could work despite noisy input due to argument omission. The first three sets of experiments (Chapters 2) showed that 15- to 19-month-old infants use the number of nouns in a sentence to differentiate novel transitive and intransitive verbs. The results confirm a key prediction of …
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Continuous Processing Task (CPT) performance in children with attention deficit disorder with and without hyperactivity: effects of rate and control of pacing
… Performance was measured as number of omission errors, number of commission errors, number of specific types of commission errors, reaction time, and rate of self-pacing. The ADD/H group had a significantly slower mean RT than the normal control group. However, groups did not differ on …
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The ATIS Message: A Study in One-Way Communication
… word errors. The largest error was the error of omission, and the most errors were found in message item 11 of the remarks section. The lengthy and complex remarks section overtaxed the capacity of the short term memory and resulted in large numbers of omission errors.</p>
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Anxious impairment: exploring executive functions and anxiety in college students
… significantly correlated with the number of omission errors made on the inhibition task. Participants also made significantly different amounts of errors of omission on the vigilance task depending on which task was completed first. These findings may inform future research investigating the …
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O sistema prisional brasileiro frente à omissão estatal e ao estado de coisas inconstitucional: uma análise do controle jurisdicional de políticas públicas
… rights. Then, the question is whether State´s omission, who failed to ensure the protection of the incarcerated persons rights, can configure what the Colombian Constitutional Court has defined as an "Unconstitutional State of Fairs". From finding potential inability of the government to remedy …
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Analysis of the CNV waveform in the time and frequency domains.
… CNV response. This was discovered to be due to omission of the response from the algorithm being used, an omission ocurring in both techniques. To correct this the inclusion of a model of the response in the algorithm was proposed. A number of data sets were devised in order to investigatethis …
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A Detailed Examination of TO-infinitive Development in Typically Developing Preschool-age Children
… of TO-infinitive use and TO-particle omission errors in typically developing children between the ages of 3;0 and 4;11 (years; months).</p> <p>Method. The current study utilized 1294 language transcripts from the CHILDES database. TO-infinitive development and TO-particle omissions …
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