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Showing 1 to 20 of 234 for “"Task-based"”.
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Task-based user profiling for query refinement (toque)
… of queries spanning a period of time. A search task, consisting of a sequence of search queries serving the same information need, can be treated as an atomic unit for modeling user's search preferences and has been applied in improving the accuracy of search results. However, existing studies …
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Aqueduct: Task-based entry points in Android apps
… offer voice assistants to ease a variety of tasks. However, the actions that can be performed by current voice assistants are limited – a predefined set of built in actions like checking the weather, and a few hooks that can be built into third-party applications. To extend assistant actions …
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Task based performance feedback and subsequent worker performance
Recent task based performance feedback research has concentrated on investigation of the effects of feedback message characteristics to explain variance in individual's post feedback predicted performances. Results of this research have not been well integrated within existing performance feedback …
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Task-Based Mass Optimization of Reconfigurable Robotic Manipulator Systems
This work develops a method for implementing task-based mass optimization of modular, reconfigurable manipulators. Link and joint modules are selected from a library of potential parts and assembled into serial manipulator configurations. A genetic algorithm is used to search over the potential set …
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Learner-generated focus on lexical form during task-based interaction
… of focus on form through collaborative output tasks (Storch, 1998; Swain, 1998; Swain & Lapkin, 2001). The present study investigated the focus on form episodes that occurred when learners participated in task-based interaction and explored whether learners retained the lexical items targeted …
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Market failures, task-based production model and the agricultural productivity gap
La brecha de productividad agrícola es uno de los principales problemas de las economías en desarrollo. Las metodologías utilizadas para evaluar estos niveles de productividad dependen en gran medida de supuestos sobre la función de producción que, la mayoría de las veces, no tienen en cuenta la …
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Competency-based versus task-based job descriptions: effects on applicant attraction
… examined applicants’ attraction to organizations based on competency-based and task-based job descriptions. A total of 258 participants were from a Southeastern university, representing three different majors. The job descriptions were individualized based on academic major. Participants read both …
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A Task-based Programming Methodology Using MCA Standards for Multicore Systems
… difficult due to the system’s heterogeneity. Task parallelism is a classic approach to schedule work in parallel at the application level for symmetric or even asymmetric multicore processors (that may be heterogeneous in nature). A robust and efficient task-programming model to tackle …
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Designing a task-based syllabus and materials for Tyndale Level 1
… Level 1 program according to the principles of task-based language teaching, (3) a description of the pilot project which consisted of designing task-based materials and then piloting them with a Level 1 class at Tyndale, (4) the author's conclusions based on the pilot project. The three …
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Using task-based elicitation to measure effectiveness of counterfactual conditional instruction
… the feasibility of using meaning-focused tasks to evaluate the degree to which ESL / EFL learners are able to use counterfactual second conditionals and related grammatical structures to perform certain illocutionary acts. To this end the researcher attempted to create tasks for which the …
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Neural Alterations Influencing Skilled Reading In Adhd: A Task-Based Fmri Study
… and reading-related areas during various tasks. The general hypothesis was that ADHD/+RD would show more extensive alterations in attention-related areas and unique alterations in reading-related areas compared with the other two groups.</p> <p> The results indicated differences between …
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Psychotherapy Task-Based Assessment of Therapists' Multicultural Orientation: A Measurement Development Study
… develop a Multicultural Orientation Performance Task (MCO-PT) and coding system with therapists-in-training. For the MCO performance task, participants responded to eight brief simulated therapy situations that centered on the intersection of various cultural identities. Responses were recorded …
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Curricular innovations in an EFL program: A technology-enhanced task-based approach
… primary innovation is the implementation of a task-based approach to language learning through the use of Collaborative Projects. The secondary innovation is the use of technology as a supportive tool, a means through which the Collaborative Projects can be carried out. The context in which the …
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Examining of the Role of Affect on Worker Productivity: A Task-Based Analysis
… that happy workers may be better at certain tasks (e.g. tasks that require creativity or helpfulness), while less happy workers may be better at other tasks (e.g. tasks that require detail orientation or competition) and that this may account for the mixed past findings. Two studies were …
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Task-based language test specifications designed for an adult tefl context in Morocco
… of test specifications that generate content-based communicative achievement tests especially designed to suit the needs and interests of adult students in the context of an EFL course in Morocco. The tests are meant to bridge a gap between the teaching and evaluation of the course. Insights …
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PVIT: A task-based approach for design and evaluation of interactive visualizations for preferential choice
… claim to aid preferential choice, but some key tasks and steps from at least one of these areas are often overlooked. An added missing element in these proposals is an adequate user evaluation. In fact, the concept of a good evaluation in the field of information visualization is a topic of …
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The Limits of Perceived Control: Novel Task-Based Measures of Control under Effort and in Anhedonia
Previous research presents a paradox in relation to the value of exerting personal control such that personal control is generally reinforcing, but its value may also be limited in some individuals and under certain circumstances. Across two studies, this dissertation takes a step towards exploring …
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The Effects of Task-Based Documentation Versus Online Help Menu Documentation on the Acceptance of Information Technology
… of this study were (1) to identify and describe task-based documentation; (2) to identify and describe any purported changes in users attitudes when IT migration was preceded by task-based documentation; (3) to suggest implications of task-based documentation on users attitude toward IT …
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