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Showing 1 to 20 of 248 for “"comprehending"”.
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Comprehending counterfactuals
Counterfactual reasoning, an understanding of events that are counter to reality, or false, is an essential ingredient of our everyday cognition. Counterfactual situations are frequently depicted through language, yet surprisingly little is known of how they are processed during reading or …
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Comprehending and Evaluating Competition
Confusion and disagreement about the nature and value of competition are common.
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Comprehending Mandarin Relative Clauses: Ambiguity, Locality and Expectation
The second goal of these experiments was to find out what kinds of cues help Mandarin speakers disambiguate sentences that are temporarily ambiguous. Previous studies have found that Mandarin speakers make rapid use of animacy cues (Lin & Garnsey, 2010), and the studies reported here show that they …
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Computing and Comprehending Topology: Persistence and Hierarchical Morse Complexes
The thesis also gives algorithms for computing the theoretically defined measures or structures in each case. Using persistence, we may distinguish between topological noise and features of a space. This differentiation enables us to simplify a space topologically. To denoise two-dimensional …
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The Effect of Reciprocal Teaching on Comprehending Content Area Text
The purpose of this study was to compare the comprehension of content area material through the Reciprocal Teaching and the Basic Teaching Methods. The subjects involved were twenty-four students in a fourth grade urban school setting. There was one heterogeneously group of students who were …
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A Study of the Nature and Significance of the Skills for Comprehending Difficult Poetry
This is a study of the process of comprehending poetry, especially difficult poetry. The investigation analyzes the process of reading poetry for understanding by examining four categories of difficulty delineated by George Steiner. The skills of each category are identified along with their …
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Distinctive Strategies of Older Deaf Students in Comprehending Relativized Sentences in Isolation and in Paragraphs (Syntactic Structures, 10-18 Years, Dominant, Error, Frequency of Use)
Three types of distinctive syntactic structures found in 135 older (10-18 years) deaf students' written relativized sentences were studied to determine their frequency of use. Both the frequency with which deaf students use these strategies and the frequencies of use of each type of strategy were …
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Italian undergraduate students comprehending economics and business texts in English as a foreign language : a case study of language-conceptual transfer strategies used in reading domain-specific texts
… transfer in Italian undergraduates comprehending domain-specific texts in the Faculty of Economics, University of Florence, Italy. The method adopted is primarily qualitative, with quantitative support.
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Thinking self after bowel cancer: an embodied interpretation and art-iculation
… cancer survivorship by focusing on survivors’ “comprehending” of self vis-à-vis cancer, specifically by exploring embodied dimensions of their comprehending. This approach sits within an interpretive phenomenological paradigm. It draws, in particular, on theories that are aligned with embodied …
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Thinking self after bowel cancer: an embodied interpretation and art-iculation.
… cancer survivorship by focusing on survivors’ “comprehending” of self vis-à-vis cancer, specifically by exploring embodied dimensions of their comprehending. This approach sits within an interpretive phenomenological paradigm. It draws, in particular, on theories that are aligned with embodied …
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Architecture: An Instrument of Time
Architecture can become a catalyst for comprehending the phenomenon of time. Although many dimensions of time exist, the focus here is on the understanding of time related to a person in a space, an amplification of time related to the universe such as sun and moon cycles, and a recognition of time …
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The Top-Down and Bottom-Up Processing of Ongoing Speech by Aphasic Subjects
… were divided into two groups (n = 5), one high comprehending and one low. The accuracy data from these subgroups were analyzed with a procedure parallel to that used for subject groups overall. Results of this analysis indicated that high comprehending aphasic subjects made fewer errors on the …
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Research, design and construction of a team of Small Size League Soccer robots for RoboCup Soccer
… systems that an outsider is capable of comprehending.
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Towards an understanding of the benefits of utilising Anglo-African literature as source material in the enrichment of mother tongue educational texts
This study is an attempt at comprehending the language in education dilemma in south Africa. It has been suggested that literature be used in the development of home language education curricula. Independent research conducted for this thesis has led to the notion that educationdisadvantages …
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Public relations, preparedness, and the transportation disadvantaged in a post-disaster environment
… of the campaign, paying attention to it, and comprehending it. I also interviewed them to learn if they were engaging in risk identification (recognizing that a disaster threat exists), risk assessment (recognizing that the threat can affect them personally), protective action search …
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Functions of Code-switching in EFL Classrooms with Native and Non-native Speaker Teachers: A Qualitative Study in A Turkish University
… ‘motivating, activating and drawing attention’, ‘comprehending’, ‘feeling free while expressing meaning’, ‘cultural orientation’, ‘naturality’, ‘negotiation’, and ‘feeling secure and relaxed’. Results indicated that there were not many noteworthy differences between the functions of code switching …
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Teorie dell’autorità e del potere nell’Islam sciita secondo l’opera di ʿAlī Fayyāḍ
… Hezbollah human environment, also with a view to comprehending the theory of po-litical authority through the study of the intellectual structure underpinning the religious au-thority. The intention is to go further the usual approaches of Security studies that all too often prevail in this …
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University Students' Perceptions, Interpretations, and Preferences Regarding Two -Dimensional and Three -Dimensional Concept Mapping
… concept mapping environment for viewing and comprehending complex, multiple-perspective information and resulted in five prominent conclusions emerging from this study. First, information interpretation is similar for both environments. Second, visualizing content from multiple perspectives …
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Barbielândia e suas cores: uma análise semiótica do filme de Greta Gerwig
This study is focused on comprehending how the representation of Barbielândia is constructed in the film directed by Greta Gerwig. For this research, topics such as the story of the Barbie doll, the construction of its identity as a product of the Cultural Industry, the culture of Barbie, and the …
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