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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Role of context."”.
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The role of context in meaning and understanding
In this work the concept of 'context' is considered in five main points. First, context is seen as always necessary for an adequate explication of the concepts of meaning and understanding. Context always plays a role and is not merely brought into consideration when handling a special class of …
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The Role of Context in Stimulus-Response Binding and Retrieval
… compared with the target and the distractor, the context (i.e., an additional stimulus presented together with the target and the distractor, but not associated with any response keys throughout the whole course of the task), which is considered as task-irrelevant, did not receive that much …
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The role of context in infant preference for father's voice
… voices over an unfamiliar male voice within the context of normal father-infant interaction, i.e., infant-directed (ID) speech. Twenty Caucasian male and female four-month-olds were tested in a visual-fixation preference procedure. Attentional preference was measured by the amount of time the …
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Interpretation of Overt Pronouns in L1 and L2 Japanese: The Role of Context
<p>This dissertation examines the interpretation of Japanese overt 3rd person pronouns by native (N=21) and advanced L1-English/L2-Japanese (N=20) speakers, using interpretation, reaction-time, and eye-tracking data. Previous studies have investigated L1 and L2 pronoun interpretation in …
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The Role of Context in Understanding and Predicting Pedestrian Behavior in Urban Traffic Scenes
Today, one of the major challenges faced by autonomous vehicles (AVs) is the ability to drive in urban environments. Such a task requires interactions between AVs and other road users, in particular pedestrians, to resolve various traffic ambiguities. To interact with pedestrians, AVs must be able …
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The Role of Context in Work-Family Challenges and the Implications for Children's Development
… occur when an individual has to perform multiple roles: their role as a paid employee, and their unpaid role as a parent of children. Performing multiple roles can lead to intrapersonal conflict because it becomes more difficult to perform each role successfully, due to competing demands on time, …
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The Role of Context in Work-Family Challenges and the Implications for Children's Development
… occur when an individual has to perform multiple roles: their role as a paid employee, and their unpaid role as a parent of children. Performing multiple roles can lead to intrapersonal conflict because it becomes more difficult to perform each role successfully, due to competing demands on time, …
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The Role of Context-Specific Information in The Management of Instruction in Continuing Professional Education: An Exploratory Study
The broad area of administrative strategies designed to enhance participants' satisfaction with their continuing education experiences was addressed. Of the four basic points of administrative intervention (participants, instructors, topic area, and context) this study focused on administrativ
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Location, Location, Location: Assessing the Role of Context in Moderating the Relationship Between Childhood Adversity and Mental Health Burden
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) have profound mental health implications throughout the life course. While literature has focused on individual risk factors for ACEs and their burden on health, there are social and physical environmental contextual factors outside the individual that have been …
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Perceptions of police use of force: the role of context-specific factors, police legitimacy, and belief in a just world
… explain variations in how acceptable police use of force is perceived to be among a Canadian sample. Four text-based vignettes depicting a police use of force encounter were used in the current study. The vignettes manipulated two factors that were hypothesized to influence perceptions of police …
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The role of context in the practice and use of internal evaluation activities: A case study from business and industry
… facilitating use involves consideration of several perspectives simultaneously. This research provided a comprehensive understanding of the practice and use of internal evaluation activities in a particular context: the management of employee training in a business setting. The …
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Benchmark beating and its implications for earnings management : the role of context specific capital market incentives and analysts' cash flow forecasts
This doctoral thesis re-examines the phenomenon of ‘benchmark beating’, and the extent to which it is likely to reflect earnings management. To address this issue, the thesis considers two links between benchmark beating and earnings management, and these are outlined in two separate research …
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The role of context in instructional design: A case study examining the re-purposing of web-based master's degree courses for use in Malawi
This case study examined how contextual factors influenced the adaptation of on-line courses created in the United States as they were re-purposed for use in Malawi. The investigation starts and ends within Year Two of a five year project funded by the United States Agency for International …
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Exploring the role of context in emerging adults' experiences of occupational possibilities and occupational choice in a community in the Western Cape: a narrative inquiry
… transition into adulthood. Understanding how contexts shape the occupational possibilities and occupational choice of emerging adults will allow occupational therapists, who work with emerging adults in constraining contexts, to better support their transition into adulthood, promote …
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Genome Signatures Reveal the Importance of Context Dependent Codon Bias In A Range of Bacterial Genomes
<p>The relationship of nucleotide context on fifteen evolutionarily distinct bacterial species was investigated for all four and six codon families to identify the role of context dependency on synonymous codon usage. Genome signatures of four nucleotide words were used to identify the …
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Learning and applying model-based visual context
I believe that context's ability to reduce the ambiguity of an input signal makes it a vital constraint for understanding the real world. I specifically examine the role of context in vision and how a model-based approach can aid visual search and recognition. Through the implementation of a system …
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Framing for creativity : the impact of framing a task for gains and losses on risk perceptions and creative performance
This study examined the role of context in an individual's creative performance on a task. 231 undergraduate students participated in a lab experiment to assess the role of taks framing on creative performance. A modified version of Antes and Mumford (2010)'s creativity in-basket was used, with …
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Campaign and network effects on electoral participation: The various facets of mobilization and interpersonal influence
The thesis investigates the impact of extra-individual factors on electoral participation, by providing a comprehensive theoretical framework aimed at highlighting the role of context. In particular, it analyzes the key-concepts of mobilization and interpersonal influence, with a focus on the …
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Examining the Impact of Guided Memory Retrieval on Intrusive Memories: An Online Trauma Film Paradigm Study
Intrusive memories are a cardinal symptom of chronic post-traumatic mental health problems (e.g., Brewin et al., 2010). Post-event memory processing may be a key facilitator of remission of intrusive memories (Marks et al., 2018). Contextual processing has been proposed to decrease unwanted …
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