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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"conceptual meaning"”.
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Investigating the Effects of Perceptual Complexity versus Conceptual Meaning on the Neural Correlates of Visual Working Memory
… delay activity (CDA) have also been noted for meaningful stimuli, despite being thought of as a neural marker of a fixed working memory capacity. The current study aimed to elucidate the mechanisms underlying improved memory performance for real-world objects by isolating the relative …
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New Covariance-Based Feature Extraction Methods for Classification and Prediction of High-Dimensional Data
… of the original features, we are able to gain a conceptual meaning of the new representation of the data which is appealing for man-machine interface. We evaluate these methods on data sets with varying sample sizes and on financial time series, and are able to show improved classification and …
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Interpretable semantic representations from neural language models and computer vision
… characterised by clear, recognisable units of meaning. Even though these models have produced state-of-the-art performance on natural language tasks, it has come at the cost of interpretability of both the models and the word representations derived from them. Because of their lack of …
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Primordial Mental Activity: Archetypal Constellations in Mystical Experiences and in the Creative Processes of Psychotic Patients
… for the learning of attribution of meaning to experiences, PMA depends on a non-logical approach to subject-object relations, demonstrating the fluidity of the frontiers of inner/outer realities. Considering the nature of archetypal energy as bipolar, composed by an affective pole …
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The effects of normal ageing and processing style on explicit and implicit memory
… there is evidence that ageing does not affect conceptual (meaning-based) and perceptual (feature-based) processing equally, yet processing demands have varied in prior studies. The aim of this thesis is to understand how the type of cognitive processing affects the magnitude of age effects on …
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Mapping Caribbean Histories: Glissant, Walcott, and the Counter-Poetics of Modernity
… also begin to think anew the very philosophical (conceptual) meaning of history itself. Furthermore, rather than seeing modernity (its histories and practices) as distinct from and antithetical to the histories of slavery and colonialism, this paper emphasises the need to reconstruct this relation …
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More than just "plug-and-chug": Exploring how physics students make sense with equations
… Research (PER) literature investigates students' conceptual understanding in physics, these investigations focus on qualitative, conceptual reasoning. Even in modeling expert problem solving, attention to conceptual understanding means a focus on initial qualitative analysis of the problem; the …
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Semantic Sentiment Analysis of Microblogs
… is negative in the context "pain'') or the conceptual meaning associated with the words (e.g., "Ebola" is negative when its associated semantic concept is "Virus"). This thesis investigates the role of words' semantics in sentiment analysis of microblogs, aiming mainly at addressing the …
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A multimodal social semiotic analysis of lecturer pedagogy for the physics concept of angular motion in physiotherapy education
… problems, they do not always have the necessary conceptual understanding to use their procedures appropriately and flexibly in other disciplines. Physics education researchers also demonstrate that accessing, learning, and communicating the conceptual and procedural knowledge involves using the …
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Embodied reflective practice : the embodied nature of reflection-in-action
… non-verbal embodied experience shaping action, conceptual meaning and verbal articulations of practice. This thesis therefore suggests modifications to theories of reflective practice in the visual arts, by incorporating theories of embodied mind in the development of additional reflective …
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Optimizing perspectives: a classic grounded theory of stakeholder perceptions on WSDB influence in Uganda's water sector
… categorization processes which cultivated the conceptual core category Optimizing Perspectives from codes, primary sub-core categories and secondary sub-core categories. Four primary sub-core categories and thirteen secondary sub-core categories cultivated discovery of Optimizing Perspectives. …
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The concept of holiness in the Pauline epistles
… on the word "holiness." This survey examines the conceptual meaning of the word in the nature of God and in the ritual setting, and also the common definition for the descriptive usage in persons and things. Chapter 3 examines the pharisaic concept of holiness, and compares this with the concept …
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Innovation Patterns in the Design-Driven Industries. Opening Up the 'Made in Italy'
… design-driven industries are driven by producing meanings, forming the discourse where communication plays a key role. This work explores what modularity means in production opening up the perspective toward the aesthetic and semantic realm of production of goods. Furthermore in search for the …