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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"conceptual space"”.
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MULTIPLE STRUCTURE RECOVERY VIA PREFERENCE ANALYSIS IN CONCEPTUAL SPACE
… and robustness. In particular, we derive a conceptual space in which preference analysis is robustly performed thanks to three different formulations of multiple structures recovery, i.e. linkage clustering, spectral analysis and set coverage. In this way we are able to propose new and …
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From the Unexpected to the Unbelievable: Thetics, Miratives and Exclamatives in Conceptual Space
This study investigates the relationship between three linguistic functions: thetics, miratives and exclamatives. Thetics are an information structure configuration that conveys that the information is new to the addressee. The thetic subtypes selected for this study are the following: existentials …
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Toward meaningful communication: engineering semantics with the geometry of conceptual spaces
… an approach termed "semantic communication with conceptual spaces," which is based on the geometric conceptual spaces model of meaning. Conceptual spaces offer a general, expressive, and interpretable mechanism by which a system can utilize semantic knowledge and optimize its operation around …
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The ties that bind: Irish homes and post-war emigration to North London
… within and between homes within the diaspora space of post-Second-World-War migration from Ireland to North London. As conceived by cultural theorist Avtar Brah, diaspora space is a conceptual space that encompasses the sending and host societies and the people who migrate and “stay put”. This …
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Building Cultural Bridges: American Women Missionaries in Korea 1885-1910
… connections with Korean women, the creation of spaces within American homes that met Confucian expectations for women and the production of a "middle ground," a conceptual space of (mis)understanding and new understandings that facilitated cross-cultural interaction. These bridges helped a …
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Concepts and Schemas: Representational Format for Structured Knowledge
… between the neural processing of physical space and of abstract knowledge, such that the established neural mechanisms for spatial navigation may also shed light on how we represent conceptual knowledge. In this thesis, we present a set of behavioural experiments examining the …
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Parole In The Penal System: Towards A Relational Theory Of Penality
… practices of the system and the physical and conceptual space within which it is located, become too great to be sustained.
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Socio-cognitive analysis of engineering systems design : shared knowledge, process, and product
… (ICE) environment, a real-world setting for conceptual space mission design, is examined from technical and social perspectives. An integrated analysis demonstrates a relationship among shared knowledge, process, and product. The design process is analyzed using a parameter-based Design …
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To Change Is to Be: The Kalasha of Pakistan’s Afghan Frontier and the Age of Heritage
… points of different heritages which offers the conceptual space to explore both dissonant and creative outcomes. The final contribution is to argue for a theorisation of heritage narratives as malleable and capable of being combined and in so doing nuance the prevalent understanding of heritage …
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Cosmographic Origins for a New Classicism
… geometry and the math of higher dimensional space begin to break free of their abstract character as these symbolic disciplines now inform and reconcile the reality of cosmic space. It is therefore appropriate to understand the cosmography of today in relation to the new science paradigm. As …
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What’s in a cognitive map? Action representations in the hippocampal-entorhinal system
… representation of learned actions in a conceptual space. To this end, I taught participants to associate numerically labelled states with specific mathematical operations, and examined neural pattern similarity as a function of action distribution similarity. Entorhinal neural pattern …
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Posthuman Creative Styling can a creative writer’s style of writing be described as procedural?
… The thesis uses practice to inform an original conceptual space model, based on quality dimensions and dynamic-inter operation of spaces. This model gives an example of the procedures which a posthuman creative writer uses when engaged in creative styling. It suggests an original formulation for …
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Representational redescription and the development of cognitive flexibility
… the possession of an overview of the relevant conceptual space. Chunking is achieved through a re-representation of behaviour and the environment, rather than a direct operation on representations. The BAIRN system (Wallace, Klahr & Bluff, 1987) is suggested as providing the basis for an …
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Performance and Analysis of a Deployable Diffractive Optical Element for Small Satellite Missions
As space missions push toward smaller, lighter, and more deployable instrumentation, diffractive optical elements (DOEs) offer a compelling alternative to traditional optics. Their ability to focus light through engineered phase profiles rather than curved surfaces allows for large-aperture, flat …
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An examination and confirmation of a macro theory of conversations through a realization of the protologic Lp by microscopic simulation
… called Lp which describes the interaction of conceptual entities. Lp contains injunctions as to how entities can and may interact, including how they may conflict and how their conflict may be resolved. Unlike existing software implementations based on Conversation Theory, Lp in its pure form …
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Negotiated Access: Haccessibility, Autonomy, and Infrastructure in the Age of the Abstraction
… enclosing or encircling systems, entities, or spaces. It is the gap, the small room for maneuver, between ourselves and the physical or social environment.</p> <p>The project begins with local and concrete challenges and radiates outward to analyze and critique broader structures, forces, and …
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A Thomistic principle of virtue individuation.
… subject, object, and mode. It also maps out the conceptual space -- the taxonomy of virtues -- that individual virtues may inhabit. With the conceptual apparatus thus established, in chapter five I explicated the Thomistic principle of virtue individuation. I demonstrate and test Aquinas's method …
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The rhetorics of community space: critical events in Champaign-Urbana's Black Freedom Movement
Item withdrawn by Mark Zulauf (zulauf@illinois.edu) on 2013-04-10T16:12:18Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Theses & Dissertations (ID: 1) No. of bitstreams: 3 Burns_Michael.pdf: 21086020 bytes, checksum: 094293ee59cc012a6156292a0c15d66a (MD5) Burns_Michael.docx: 5225373 bytes, …
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Reassembling anti-oppressive teaching practices in professionally qualifying youth and community work education
… online during the COVID-19 pandemic. It was conceptualised as a rhizomatic research assemblage (Deleuze and Guattari, 2014), orientated by phEmaterialism (Niccolini, Zarabadi and Ringrose, 2018), and drew on Manning’s (2016) account of ‘staging a minor disruption’ in taken-for-granted …
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English language learner autonomy in the Vietnamese higher education context: enabling factors and barriers arising from assessment practice
Learner autonomy has gained particular attention in Vietnamese higher education since a major education reform launched in 2005. Although a number of studies have been conducted to investigate the concept in the Vietnamese higher education context, most of them have focused on exploring teachers’ …
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