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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Subjective knowledge"”.
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What the Fuck is This?: Aesthetic Nature of Being or Ontology in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins
… the world instead of Cartesian absolutes. This subjective knowledge does not compete against objective knowledge but simply recognizes the use that poetic language has for communicating the subjective knowledge from experience of being as it unfolds for us. The major movements of the thesis …
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White Sands
… expectations: of systematic rationality and subjective knowledge, of play and display. I understand that my work productively fails to r-r-resolve contradictions about the way things are.
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The design and implementation of a visual analytics task to support experimental research on human reasoning with uncertain knowledge
… judgments and predictions based on uncertain knowledge. The interactive visualization presents experimental participants with a series of binary (yes/no, T/F, etc.) general knowledge or prediction questions, and requires participants to answer these questions and also provide a probability or …
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Imprecise probability and decision in civil engineering : Dempster-Shafer theory and application
… One major concern has been that information or knowledge, no matter how weak or sparse, must necessarily be represented by conventional, precisely specified, probabilities. This has lead to thedevelopment of statistical methods which allow for more flexible expressions of both information …
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Fashion and sustainability: increasing knowledge about slow fashion through an educational module
… of environmental values, shopping values, and knowledge of slow fashion. The methodology took place in three phases: a focus group, pre-educational survey and educational module to measure pre- and post-education differences, and post-educational survey, resulting in 163 usable responses for …
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Fuzzy technology application for mobile positioning in cellular communication
… systems there is generally two classes of knowledge: objective knowledge, which can be quantified using the laws of traditional mathematics, and subjective or intelligent knowledge, that cannot be modeled mathematically but can be expressed in linguistical terms. Fuzzy Logic (FL) is a …
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Consumers' subjective and objective knowledge of genetically modified food in a South African context
… previous studies have demonstrated that consumer knowledge of GM crops is relatively low and raises the question of whether South Africans have sufficient knowledge and the ability to make informed decisions with regard to GM food products. Furthermore, it is unknown whether mandatory GM labelling …
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Ranking Aggregation Based on Belief Function Theory
… framework, that allows for the combination of subjective knowledge in a non Bayesian way. This innovative application of belief functions to rankings, allows us to encode different sources of a priori knowledge about the correctness of the ranking positions and also to weigh the reliability of …
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Spatial Optimization Techniques for School Redistricting
… own plans in the way they see fit based on their subjective knowledge and expertise. In this dissertation, we propose algorithmic techniques for solving the problem of (school) redistricting, which is an NP-hard problem. We primarily investigate optimization-based algorithms for solving the …
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Political knowledge and social media use in the digital media system
… how social media exposure affects political knowledge among the American public. Political knowledge is central to any understanding of citizen competence, yet key questions remain about how to best increase citizens’ information levels. My dissertation project assesses to what extent the …
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Functional foods and adult consumers' consumption behavior: Adaptation and comparison of theoretical models
… the PMT, TpB, and ERE; an objective nutrition knowledge questionnaire developed from previous research; Gould’s (1988) Health Consciousness Scale; and demographic information. A convenience sample of 465 adults from a Southwestern university completed the final survey questionnaire during April …
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How individuals experience and make sense of their problematic mephedrone use : an interpretative phenomenological analysis
… However, to date no research has explored the subjective experience of problematic club drug use to substantiate an understanding of users’ psychological treatment needs or the subjective psychological motivations to use club drugs, or how such users self-identify rather than being categorised …