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Showing 1 to 20 of 1499 for “"ambiguity"”.
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URL location ambiguity
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2024-12-01
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Learning from Ambiguity
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1998.
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Relevance of ambiguity
Many times it is not an answer towards which we struggle but instead the formulation of the question. The answer then becomes the lifelong quest. This thesis I believe to be the formulation of that question and my architectural career the pursuit of the answer.
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Techniques in Ambiguity
The thesis investigates how ambiguity - created through a smooth, continuous building envelope- can be used to alter the perception and understanding of discrete typological or primitive forms with a focus on material expression. The use of basic, primitive forms is tied to a contemporary discourse …
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Tending to scalar ambiguity
… inviting landscape architects to tend to the ambiguity, nuance and scalar complexity of landscapes.
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untitled, ambiguity and architecture
… seeks to expand Robert Venturi's concept of ambiguity in architecture to include meanings that, extending beyond the formal and semiotic, are rooted in narrative. It takes as a precedent the work of Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel, two artists whose book Evidence explores both formal and …
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Ambiguity, ambiguity aversion and the coverage of uncertain risks : the case of the insurer
Ambiguity aversion is defined as an aversion to any mean-preserving spread in the probability space. Using the Smooth Ambiguity Model proposed by Klibanoff, Marinacci and Mukerji (2005), we show that ambiguity aversion results in a reduction in the proportion of insurance coverage offered by an …
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Ambiguity Aversion in Commodity Markets
… model misspecification, adopt the framework of ambiguity aversion to protect themselves, and utilize a robust indifference pricing framework for valuation and hedging. Most exotic financial options written on commodities are valued by discretizing continuous-time and state models. Thus, in the …
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Anxiety's Ambiguity: via Kierkegaard & Heidegger
This dissertation produces a systematic account of anxiety, and does so by way of interpreting the account of anxiety given to us by Kierkegaard and Heidegger. The methodology of this dissertation is such that it interprets the anxiety in Kierkegaard through Heidegger’s lens, and also interprets …
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Thesis on implementation under ambiguity
… we introduce the idea of implementation under ambiguity. In particular, we study maximin efficient notions of an ambiguous asymmetric information economy (i.e., economies where agents' preferences are maximin). The interest on the maximin efficient notions lies in the fact that they are always …
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Ambiguity Aversion: Adoption, Uptake, and Trends
<p>What is ambiguity aversion and what is its role as a determinant of technology adoption? This study develops and implements a novel ambiguity preference instrument in the context of an ongoing RCT pilot program in southwest Uganda promoting adoption of an improved variety of sweet potato. No …
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Essays on Decision Making under Ambiguity
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Ambiguity in the Song of Songs
… the new interpretative possibilites that this ambiguity leads to, when it is approached asking the question "What does this poem do?" as opposed to "What does it say or mean?" The Song of Songs, whether through the eyes and minds of ancient or modern commentators, has been seen as portraying a …
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Electrophysiological investigations of lexical ambiguity resolution
… advantage of a very common phenomenon, lexical ambiguity, to address the question of how human brains resolve the one-to-many mapping problems in language comprehension (e.g. whether the word 'watch' should be interpreted as a timing device or an action). Specifically, in a series of studies, I …
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Essays on signaling games under ambiguity
This dissertation studies two-person signaling games where the players are assumed to be Choquet expected utility maximizers a la Schmeidler (1989). The sender sends an ambiguous message to the receiver who updates his non-additive belief according to a f-Bayesian updating rule of Gilboa and …
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Mind the Ambiguity! Exploring How Goal Ambiguity Influences the Role of Information and Worldviews in Decision-Making
Goal ambiguity—defined as the presence of multiple, conflicting goal dimensions without prioritisation—is a defining feature of ill-structured, strategic decisions. When goals are ambiguous, decision-makers must interpret and determine for themselves which outcomes to pursue and how to assess …
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Intolerance of ambiguity: Measurement and construct validation.
Intolerance of ambiguity: Measurement and construct validation.
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Ambiguity resolution of adults with low literacy
… high-literacy adults were less affected by the ambiguity, but the low-literacy adults showed larger ambiguity effects that tended to get larger with age. Collectively, these results suggest that uncontrolled activation of word meanings can impact online comprehension among older adults.
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Ambiguity resolution and constraints on syntactic processing
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, 1993.
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Robust Inference via Optimal Transport Ambiguity Sets
… thesis, we formalize distribution shifts via ambiguity sets—metric neighborhoods in the space of probability measures defined by distances such as the Wasserstein metric—and demonstrate that leveraging these ambiguity sets endows two widely used statistical algorithms with distributional …
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