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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Open-mind"”.
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Alternativas financieras para el fortalecimiento del nivel de solvencia de la empresa Open Mind Colombia S.A.S.
Open Mind es una mediana empresa creada hace más de 14 años con líneas de negocio en los segmentos de las pautas publicitarias en medios alternativos y, el diseño y fabricación de materiales publicitarios y de exhibición en puntos de venta con una facturación promedio que supera los $6.000.000 …
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Learning common sense knowledge from user interaction and principal component analysis
… in multiple natural languages, as part of the Open Mind Common Sense project. The knowledge that Open Mind collects from volunteer contributors is represented as a semantic network called ConceptNet. Using principal component analysis on the graph structure of ConceptNet yields AnalogySpace, a …
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Reification and the Closed Mind
<p>What does it mean to have an open mind? Is it desirable? Are we therefore to avoid its opposite, a closed mind? How shall we proceed in producing an open mind or avoiding its opposite a closed mind? The terms open and closed are commonly used as if the meanings of the terms were clear and the …
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Leadership Style and Listening Practices of IMB Team Leaders: A Correlational Study
… practices of attention, empathy, memory, open mind, respect, and response. A correlational analysis using Pearson r was conducted between leadership styles and listening practices. Further analysis was conducted to determine which leadership style was most significantly correlated with …
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Vyresnių paauglių požiūris į kultūrinę įvairovę kaip į tolerancijos raiškos prielaidą /
… how to look at the world with curiosity, an open mind, and the limitations. The object of study - vocational school aged teenagers approach to cultural diversity in the context of tolerance expression. The aim - to explore vocational school aged adolescent attitudes toward cultural diversity …
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ComicKit : knowledge acquisition of story scripts
… ComicKit follows on the successful model of Open Mind Common Sense, a web-based activity that thousands of people around the world contributed bits of common sense knowledge to. It is hoped that many people will contribute a few hundred thousand stories through ComicKit, and build a large …
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Wupperthal: listening to the past
… a journey I encourage the reader to take with an open mind, taking time to savour the richness of the peoples' experiences. It is their quest for legitimacy, a combined search for truth, and my personal adventure.
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Screening African Conflicts : the different faces of Africa's child soldiers - Afro-pessimistic / Afro-optimistic portrayals on screen
… in armed conflicts. By bearing these factors in mind when delving into this complex subject matter, helped in ascertaining the ways in which certain modalities of thinking about Africa, as well as her child soldiers, influence Western perspectives, convictions and beliefs via a variety of media. …
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Improving an image annotation and retrieval agent using commonsense and personal knowledge
… General relationships are garnered from Open Mind, a commonsense knowledge repository. Because consumer photography is very personal, a repository of information specific to the user is also included to bridge the gap.
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Hamlet: Red, an adaptation
… were recently depicted in the films Dangerous Minds and Stand and Deliver, in which the lives of these students were transformed because the teachers were courageous enough to be non-traditional. People with an innate passion for teaching are the types of educators who are willing to explore …
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Student Learning Style Preferences and Performance on Standardized Achievement Tests
… and guidance, and (7) educators should keep an open mind and be wary of generalizations in the area of student learning style.
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Ludus ex machina : toward computational play
… work. Operating like this requires a curious and open mind, a willingness to eschew reward and occasionally break the rules, and a desire to explore for the sake of exploring. These behaviors fly in the face of traditional implementations of computation, and raise difficult questions about the …
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Engineering Tolerance: Origins of Multicultural Education Policies in the Atlantic World from 1941 to 1988
… subject of policymaking— attempts to shape the minds of citizens through education and schooling. Resulting policies were remarkably similar, in that these were policies that reorganized schools systems and repurposed education to establish in their children a new, more tolerant, and open …
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Understanding Empathy in the Experiences of Undergraduate Engineering Students in Service-Learning Programs
… a sense of responsibility to others, keeping an open mind, inquiring of stakeholders, seeing others' points of view, understanding others' situations, being able to adjust goals and compromise and recognizing and/or welcoming difference. Additionally, I found both elements of participants' …
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Gnarly Buttons: Composer-Performer Collaboration in Contemporary Accordion Music
… to approach the collaborative situation with an open mind, encouraging curiosity and exploration. In this context, the accordionists’ influence in the collaborative process can become more pronounced, potentially increasing the performer’s impact on the resulting music. This dissertation explores …
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An exploratory study of collaboration among early childhood development non-profit organisations in the Western Cape Province
… and understanding of the ECD sector and an open mind approach. On the other hand, the factors inhibiting collaboration among ECD NPOs include shortage of resources, competitiveness, time constraints, organisational culture differences, fear of the unknown and geographical location. …
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The Corvette in Literature and Culture: Material Object and Persistent Image
… This is not an easy process; it has demanded an open mind to materials not often looked at in an English dissertation. The Corvette and its image are described in four areas and a conclusion: * The Corvette: the Empty, the American, and the Deadly Signifier (the original that becomes America's …
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A Qualitative Study of the Experiences with Administrative Support of Veteran Teachers at the Secondary Level
… and appreciative. Administrators who maintain an open door policy, keep an open mind, and express a sincere interest in listening to the teachers also make them feel supported. Moreover, veteran teachers feel respected as professionals when administrators value their input and trust them to do …
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Exploring Instructors’ Creativity Fostering Behaviors in Design Education
… enthusiastic, and flexible, as well as having an open mind and empathy for students. Second, design instructors believe creativity is required in the design field, and enhancing students’ creativity is important in the classroom. Third, there are several activities and practices that design …
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Optimización de bioensayos alelopaticos: aplicación en la búsqueda de herbicidas naturales
… Sanchez performed this work with a permanent mind on applied aspects of allelochemicals in agriculture. This quality is too rare in science not to mention it. For instance, he developed a method allowing searching for biological activity of chemicals, he built a new tool to allow scientists to …
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