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Learning from opinions
… making based on subjective evaluations, or opinions, are not only common aspects of human learning but are fundamental engineering challenges due to the hidden uncertainty. The objective of this work is to establish fundamentals of learning from opinions by addressing key problems that rely …
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Kenneth Tynan: Dramatic Opinions
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Criminologists' Opinions On Correctional Rehabilitation
<p>Over the last four decades, rehabilitation as a central goal of corrections has received much criticism. While opinion polls reveal the public is generally punitive, there is evidence that citizens also support the rehabilitation of offenders. It is less clear what contemporary criminologists …
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Lithographers' opinions about waterless lithography
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Precision of Fairness Opinions: An Empirical Analysis
… market for mergers and acquisitions, fairness opinions are a de-facto standard in the United States of America to protect management from litigation risks by any of the involved parties. Previous court rulings have highlighted that management cannot rely on internally generated valuation …
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Designing technologies for exposure to diverse opinions
"Exposure to diverse opinions can help individuals develop accurate beliefs, make better decisions, and become more understanding and tolerant persons. It is also necessary for the governance of a stable and democratic society. However, the exposure is often limited by people's natural tendency …
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The Influence of Opinions on Remembering Revisited
… appeared to demonstrate a relationship between opinions and active remembering. Typically, subjects' memory for long thematic prose passages was tested after a delay. In contrast, results of research after 1956, in which subjects were required to recall immediately a small set of terse …
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Mining Multifaceted Customer Opinions from Online Reviews
… proposes a new method of extracting customer opinions and opinion targets from reviews with the Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extraction (ASTE) algorithm and then identifying theoretical constructs critical for product development with a posteriori interpretation method. We demonstrate the value of …
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The relationship between age and conservative opinions
… of the relationship between age and conservative opinions on contemporary issues. In this manner an empirical demonstration of the theoretical relationship between age and conservatism was accomplished. Additionally, an analysis of the relative importance of age as an independent variable related …
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Parental Opinions of Cooperative Learning in Elementary Schools
The purpose of this study was to determine the opinions of parents towards cooperative learning in elementary classrooms. Parental opinions of teaching social-skills and the use of group grades were also investigated. A need for parent education on the research and use of cooperative learning was …
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Generating comparative summaries of contradictory opinions in text
… to extract comparable sentences from each set of opinions and generate a comparative summary containing a set of contrastive sentence pairs. We formally formulate the problem as an optimization problem and propose two general methods for generating a comparative summary using the framework, both …
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Identities and issue opinions : learning from climate change
… I explore the formation of issue-specific opinions, in particular public opinion about climate change in the United States. More specifically, I analyze whether people use social groups and identities as mental "shortcuts" in order to form an opinion about complicated political topics such …
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West Virginia state legislators' opinions of local mass media
… House of Delegates and Senate regarding their opinions of local mass media found that the majority of lawmakers felt local mass media had little influence on their decision making process. The legislators did not, however, view the media as neutral sources of political information. …
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Perceptions of public relations: key communicators share their opinions
… to many people on a daily basis and share their opinions with others) in today's society feel about the public relations field; second, show that positive public relations does take place; and third, change the negative perceptions society holds for public relations, so that public relations will …
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Impact of new financial aid trend: attitudes and opinions
<p>The purpose of this study was to assess the attitudes of administrators towards the new financial aid trend that was initiated by some well-endowed private universities, and its impact on colleges and universities. The study also explored personal attitudes towards need and merit based aid, and …
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Elementary Teacher and Elementary Undergraduate Opinions of Cooperative Learning
The purpose of this study was to determine the opinions of elementary teachers and undergraduates toward cooperative learning structures. The data was gathered from a questionnaire designed by Becky Southard. Elementary teachers and elementary undergraduates were surveyed to determine their …
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Faculty opinions concerning desirable administrative behavior of the director
Thesis (M.S.)--Boston University
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EKNOT: Event Knowledge from News and Opinions on Twitter
… picture of what happened and the public’s opinions. For each event, EKNOT provides multi-dimensional summaries: a) a summary from news for an objective description; b) a summary from tweets containing opinions/sentiments; c) an en- tity graph which illustrates the major players involved and …
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