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Showing 1 to 20 of 8898 for “"agreement"”.
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Agreement Webs
<p> In the context of a subjective binary medical decision based on a diagnostic test we propose and study a nonlinear hierarchical model. The model includes a latent propensity-to-disease effect for each item (e.g. patient mammogram, MRI, radiograph, ultra sound, etc) and two effects for each …
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Clitics and agreement
… derived in the syntax by treating the clitics as agreement heads that identify null arguments in their specifiers. In contrast to previous accounts, the need for phonological operations is drastically reduced, being restricted to sentences containing only a verb (in which prosodic inversion …
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Conjunctions and Grammatical Agreement
… plural nouns were stronger enforcers of plural agreement than conjoined singular subjects in both Lebanese Arabic and English. Adjacency also played a role, as plural nouns in furthest conjunct position did not enforce plural agreement in the same way as plural nouns that were linearly adjacent …
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Coming to agreement: representation and processing of English subject-verb agreement in acquisition
… In this project, we use subject-verb agreement as a tool for investigating how young children learn and process formal linguistic relationships, considering both classic questions about the role of semantic and syntactic- distributional knowledge in acquisition, and questions about the …
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Exploring Collaborative Agreement in Interactions
… research, the concept of Enforced Collaborative Agreement (ECA) is introduced and explored. ECA is a type of interaction whereby collaborative agreement is required in order to play a digital game. It is believed that ECA games would make co-located children play together in an equitable and …
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Optimal algorithms for Byzantine agreement
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mathematics, 1988.
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Agreement as a fallible operation
… thesis, I argue that the obligatory nature of agreement in [phi]-features (henceforth, [phi]-agreement) cannot be captured by appealing to "derivational time-bombs"-elements of the initial representation that cannot be part of a well-formed, end-of-the-derivation structure, and which are …
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The Differential Relations of Perceived Goal Agreement and Actual Goal Agreement With Early Therapeutic Outcome
… the influence of perceived and actual goal agreement between therapist and client on measures of early change. The results from 24 therapeutic dyads at 3 university counseling centers support the hypothesis that actual goal agreement between therapist and client is related to early change, …
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Practical, scalable algorithms for Byzantine agreement
… in designing reliable algorithms is Byzantine agreement. For reasons of scalability, message complexity is a critical resource for this problem. Unfortunately, previous solutions to Byzantine agreement require each processor to send $O(n)$ messages, where $n$ is the total number of processors …
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Model-Based Measures of Interrater Agreement
… used for the assessment of the strength of agreement among raters, each classifying subjects as e.g. diseased or not. Nelson and Edwards (2008) propose a generalized linear mixed model for the agreement process, showing that Cohen's κ can seriously underestimate agreement and proposing …
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Model-Based Measures Of Interrater Agreement
<p>Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common type of dementia in the elderly. Currently, there is no preventive or curative treatment available for this disease and it has become the sixth leading cause of death for people of all ages and the fifth leading cause of death in people age 65 and …
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Argument licensing and agreement in Zulu
… core grammatical phenomena - case licensing, agreement, the EPP - through the lens of the Bantu language Zulu. Zulu has a number of remarkable and puzzling properties whose analysis affords us new insight on the interaction between these components. Despite a number of unusual-looking …
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What Factors are Associated with Multilateral Environmental Agreement Noncompliance, and can Agreement Provisions be Designed to Mitigate them?
… practitioners with multilateral environmental agreement (MEA) expertise to answer two questions: 1) what factors are associated with MEA noncompliance; and 2) is there a relationship between the design of MEA provisions and compliance with those provisions. Practitioners overwhelmingly …
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N-gram models of agreement in language
… many fewer more general cases, and morphological agreement is made accessible in abstraction. The result is a more compact model that gives better complexity estimates than is possible from the conventional approach.
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Clause structure, agreement and case in Gitksan
… is able to account for the complex case and agreement facts observed in declarative Gitksan sentences. The thesis is structured in the following way. Chapter 1 briefly sketches the theoretical framework I assume, while Chapter 2 consists of a short introduction to some salient aspects of …
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Assessing Inter-rater Agreement for Compositional Data
… novel methodology for assessing inter-rate agreement based on compositional data. This is needed because existing agreement measures either involve converting the vector to a univariate value, thereby losing information, or they fail to account for the sum-to-one restriction. We propose a …
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Verb agreement and case marking in Burushaski
<p>Burushaski verb agreement and case marking phenomena are complex and have not been described adequately by any current theory of syntax. In particular, no explanation has yet been given as to why a variety of nominals can trigger agreement in the verbal prefix. In some cases the apparent subject …
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