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Showing 1 to 20 of 60 for “"Webpages"”.
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Real time detection of malicious webpages using machine learning techniques
… today's Internet, online content and especially webpages have increased exponentially. Alongside this huge rise, the number of users has also amplified considerably in the past two decades. Most responsible institutions such as banks and governments follow specific rules and regulations regarding …
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Developing a generalized intelligent agent by processing information on webpages
In this thesis, I designed and implemented a framework for reinforcement learning (RL) agents to interact with a web environment. With this framework, I introduce a new challenge for RL agents to learn human activity on the web. By defining a series of tasks such as using the web as a navigable …
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Expanding the Usage of Web Archives by Recommending Archived Webpages Using Only the URI
… archives are a window to view past versions of webpages. When a user requests a webpage on the live Web, such as http://tripadvisor.com/where_to_t ravel/, the webpage may not be found, which results in an HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) 404 response. The user then may search for the webpage …
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Digital Environments of Reception and Governance: A Landscape Analysis of Immigration-Related Webpages on U.S. State Websites
… immigrant communities on 413 immigration-related webpages across all 50 U.S. state governments’ official websites. Data was collected in four categories for each webpage: its bureaucratic orientation, the government agency of origin, its form of address for immigrants, and its level of language …
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The Girl Who Cried "Why?": Using Inquiry/Constructivist Methodology to Create Integrated History/English Webpages with Academy Sophmores
<p>This study examines the use of inquiry/ constructivist methodology to teach Academy sophomores an integrated exploration of industrialization, Latin American studies, and poetry through the use of webpage design. The study includes a detailed definition of this methodology as well as a …
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Trans-Pacific Popular Mediascape: In Search of Girlhood Through Korean Immigrant Teenage Girls' Image-Production and Webculture
… Korean girls in the specific context of webpages created through a Korean social networking website called Cyworld. Their webpages are understood as personal narratives about what it means to be a Korean girl, which are informed by trans-Pacific popular cultural experiences. This research …
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Intelligent Event Focused Crawling
… importance by the ratio of number of relevant webpages to non-relevant webpages found during crawling a website. We combined the textual content information and source importance into a single relevance score. For the focused crawler to work well, it needs a diverse set of high quality seed …
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The Online Communication of Corporate Social Investment: How is the intricate task approached by South African companies?
… by conducting a content analysis of the CSI webpages of highly regarded South African companies, an in-depth semiotic and discourse analysis of two award-wining company webpages (Pick n Pay and Investec), and lastly a practical case study wherein a communications strategy was designed for …
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Structured entity querying over unstructured text
The web is a collection of unstructured webpages. This characteristic makes it very hard for users to search complex queries -- in most of the times, queries are just plain text and it is very difficult for users to describe the internal relationships that they contain. The EntityRank system allows …
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Google as a bookmarking tool
… the power of Google to locate previously visited webpages. Instead of bookmarking webpages by their URL, this process is based on addressing pages by their Google URL, which is a short sequence of words that, when queried in Google, locates the desired webpage as the top search result. Good …
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The appropriation and mastery of cultural tools in computer supported collaborative literacy practices
… in particular for constructing collaboratively WebPages in History. <br></br><br></br>In the first part of the thesis the two themes are critically explored through a literature review of sociocultural theory, literacy, and lCT, and through two pilot studies. In the first study, I investigate …
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Event-related Collections Understanding and Services
… collections, including both tweets and webpages, have valuable information, and are worth exploring in interdisciplinary research and education. Unfortunately, such data is noisy, so this variety of information has not been adequately exploited. Further, for better understanding, more …
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Webpage rank using Bayes' rule and connected components
… by Google which measures the importance of the webpages by their probability of being visited. However, the bottleneck of the PageRank computing speed is the power iteration process applied on the huge webgraph of WWW, which involves approximately 50 billion webpages. In this thesis a novel …
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Design and implementation of a user-adaptive website with information palettes
… that can infer a user's cognitive style from the webpages he or she visits and serve adaptive information palettes with content suited for that cognitive style.Specifically, the system first assigns ratings to each webpage, defining how each one rates along a set of cognitive style dimensions. …
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Platforming Hate: An Analysis of Incel Ideology on Reddit’s r/Braincels
… in 2019. Data was collected in the form of 183 webpages retrieved from the internet archival tool archive.today, which saves offline copies of webpages that are liable to be deleted. This yielded three distinct types of data that could be analysed: 4 webpages authored by the subreddit’s …
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The Effect of Social Networking on Grief
… collected from 20 <em>in memoriam</em> profile webpages on Facebook and MySpace. The deceased were between the ages of six months and 32 years. Results indicate that society is using social media as a form of support and comfort in times of loss.</p>
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Factors influencing the perceived usefulness of an information delivery website among the United States resident viewership
… rating forms, comments sent to authors, and Webpages referred to friends. Using multiple regression analysis, the following variables were analyzed to determine if a model exists that explains a significant portion of the variance in the viewers’ overall perception of usefulness: age; gender; …
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Automatic record extraction for the World Wide Web
… techniques to effectively extract records from webpages.
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ATTACKS AND COUNTERMEASURES FOR WEBVIEW ON MOBILE SYSTEMS
… rich interactions between mobile apps and webpages loaded inside WebView. Through its APIs, WebView enables the two-way interaction. However, the design of WebView changes the landscape of the Web, especially from the security perspective.</p> <p>This dissertation conducts a comprehensive …
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