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Showing 1 to 20 of 694 for “"anticipate"”.
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The innate ability of pet dogs to spontaneously anticipate epileptic seizures
The main aim of this Study was to investigate anecdotal claims of spontaneous seizure alerting behaviour by pet dogs and then to attempt to elucidate the sensory mechanism they used for doing so. Little was known about this topic when I started my research in 2014, when, to the best of my …
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What Does It Mean To Preservice Mathematics Teachers To Anticipate Student Responses?
… was conducted to understand what it means to anticipate student responses for preservice mathematics teachers in a lesson study group. Lesson study literature indicates that anticipating student responses is to anticipate conceptual development from the students' perspective, and the purpose …
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Revealed corruption and electoral accountability in Brazil: How politicians anticipate voting behavior
… or others being investigated for corruption in unanticipated ways. This dissertation uses data from a long-running anti-corruption program in Brazil to expand on the unintended consequences of anti-corruption interventions that stem from politicians' strategic behavior. The first chapter shows …
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Blinded by Boredom: Examining the Effect of Boredom on the Ability to Anticipate Meaningful Experience
Boredom is a common human experience that can have surprisingly deleterious consequences. In a world brimming with opportunities for satisfying engagement, it seems unlikely that anyone would be able to remain bored for long. However, research suggests that people sometimes struggle to rid …
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Where are the cookies? Three-year-olds use number-marked verbs to anticipate upcoming nouns
… but also that children use it predictively to anticipate the number features of an upcoming noun. Children were both faster and more likely to switch gaze away from a mismatching distractor picture when they heard an informative agreeing verb (is/are). This is both one of the earliest …
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Cerebello-striatal connectivity and implicit learning in autism spectrum disorders
… cerebella, striatum, and an impaired ability to anticipate implicit learning sequences; also, previous research indicates anatomic connections among these regions. Investigating distinctions in connectivity and impairments in the ability to anticipate implicit sequences linked to ASD would help …
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Predictive vision
… with the goal to develop robust methods that anticipate the next events that may happen in images or videos. Importantly, we develop methods for eciently scaling learning algorithms to learn an extensive set of rules that enable richer visual understanding. While large annotated datasets fuel …
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Predictions in a dynamic world: the adaptive role of the Active Prediction Network
… effective behaviour depends on the capacity to anticipate the unfolding of future events. Accordingly, predictive mechanisms have been investigated across multiple cognitive domains, including visual perception, social cognition, and language comprehension. While extensive research has focused …
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A Test of Future Planning Ability in the Rat
… in order to maintain the pleasantness of the anticipated flavour. However the results were inconclusive: there was no significant difference between the proportion of the congruous and the incongruous flavours consumed, suggesting that the current group of animals was not capable of …
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Korean industrialization: Competing hypotheses
… of static comparative advantage or did Korea anticipate comparative advantage? We will attempt to answer this question through three essays.
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Multi-Sensor Data Fusion
… correlated, are close to them. Human can also anticipate the future action because our brain is able to decode all information received to understand the future occurrences and to make a decision. The overall design of machines that anticipate future actions is still an open issue in Computer …
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Access and anticipation
… this explanation fails for agents who anticipate violating access; and such agents can in fact intentionally bias their investigations. Since this possibility remains counterintuitive when we focus on alleged counterexamples to access, this is a serious problem for externalism. Chapters …
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Design of a Blacksburg recreation facility
… in relation to where we've been and where we anticipate going." Francis Ching This thesis illustrates the exploration of path and space relationships to establish an order for supporting a range of activities.
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Validity Coefficients, Norm Tables, and Expectancy Tables Based on Central Washington State College Students’ Performance on the Washington Pre-College Tests
… in counseling students who are present or anticipate attending CWSC.
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The transition of Taiwan's upper secondary education
… into Taiwan's current situation in order to anticipate the future development of the school system.
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Anticipated work-family conflict amongst Commerce students at the University of Cape Town (UCT)
… of balancing the dual roles or work and family anticipate the conflict that the multiple role combination may entail. Anticipated work-family conflict (AWFC) was studied amongst a sample of 962 students from the Commerce Faculty at the University of Cape 'lawn (UCT). Based on social-cognitive …
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Market Foresight Capability: Determinants And New Product Outcomes
… our knowledge remains regarding the ability to anticipate future market conditions. This research seeks to address this lacuna by exploring a firm's market foresight capability, defined as the organizational capability that allows the firm to anticipate emerging shifts in the market before they …
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Predicting Political Revolution
… data collected from public domain sources. I anticipate being able to create a predictive model that provides a probability forecast of a country undergoing political revolution within a two year time-frame.</p>
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Dismissal threats and the efficacy of performance-based incentives
… threats are present, I expect employees to anticipate less negative affect and exert less effort in response to penalties, but I do not expect employees to anticipate less positive affect and exert less effort in response to bonuses. I generally find support for the underlying theory: in all …
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