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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"conceptual structures"”.
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Back annotation for conceptual structures
… in an intermediate graphical notation called conceptual graphs. A preliminary tool called the Model Generator can produce a graphical display from conceptual graphs which helps the user visualize the model contained in the conceptual graph. The Back Annotator which is described in this thesis …
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Extracting conceptual structures from multiple sources
This thesis extracts conceptual structures from multiple sources: Wordnet, Web Corpora and Wikipedia. The conceptual structures extracted from Wordnet and Web Corpora are inspired by the feature norm effort in cognitive psychology. The conceptual structure extracted from Wikipedia makes the …
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Susanne K. Langer's Epistemology of Mind as an Interpretive Resource for Music Education
… her career, Langer presented and developed five conceptual structures: abstraction, intuition (insight), imagination, metaphorical thought, and propositional thought. Each of these ideas, with the eventual inclusion of memory, constructed the Langerian model of mind. Because of the natural human …
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Mental models in manifesto texts : the case of students for a democratic society and weatherman
… both propositional and imagistic approaches to conceptual structure suggested in sociological, psychological and linguistic literatures. By reviewing contemporary representational formats for the internal structure of mental models, my aim is to develop a framework for demonstrating conceptual …
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The development, interview testing, and generalization of a theory based model of conceptual structurres for solving routine trigonometry problems
Richard Skemp's theory of conceptual structures (schemas) was adapted by hypothesizing two types of schemast (a) an underlying parent schema; and (b) a problem solving schema which contains paths for problem solving. Three interpretations of the definitions of the trigonometric functions were …
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University Students' Perceptions, Interpretations, and Preferences Regarding Two -Dimensional and Three -Dimensional Concept Mapping
… usage varies. Overly simple or overly complex conceptual structures/domains are not appropriate for illustration as conceptual maps. Fourth, the two mapping environments focus attention on different levels. Three-dimensional maps promote understanding of the ""big picture"" while …
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The Casta paintings of Colonial Mexico : the politics of constructing social order through art
This thesis examines the conceptual structures and political contexts of race mixture depicted in Las Castas Mexicanas, a genre of colonial Mexican painting. The first chapter places this genre in historiographical perspective, and provides the conceptual contexts within which this author analyzes …
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Outer Reaches of the Palindrome
… fifth chapter argues the palindrome and parallel conceptual structures as examples of recursion, then presents examples of recursion in language/grammar, art, and computer science. The sixth chapter uses instances of the recursive equiangular spiral throughout nature to introduce recursion and …
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Teoria Básica das Estruturas Conceptuais
… algumas propostas informais de outros autores. [Conceptual Structures is a knowledge representation formalism based on graphs, the so called conceptual graphs. The theory was initially developed by John Sowa 10 years ago. Since then, it has been used by a growing scientific community in many …
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Tailoring Messages within the Stages of Change
… by incorporating components from the four main conceptual structures found in the literature. In the first study, the Stages of Change Model was used to segment the sample into four distinct groups (precontemplative, contemplative, action, and maintenance). The behavioral determinants for …
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Conceptualizing a vision of the good life among mid-career faculty.
… ontology, the research sought to uncover the conceptual structures and generative mechanisms that shaped their vision of the good life. Thirty post-tenured faculty from diverse institutions across the United States participated in semi-structured interviews designed to elicit both personal and …
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Conceptualizing a vision of the good life among mid-career faculty.
… ontology, the research sought to uncover the conceptual structures and generative mechanisms that shaped their vision of the good life. Thirty post-tenured faculty from diverse institutions across the United States participated in semi-structured interviews designed to elicit both personal and …
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Neural language models and human linguistic knowledge
… may require specific inductive biases and conceptual structures.
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Making sense of making sense: A microgenetic multiple case study of five students’ developing conceptual compounds related to physics
… that science: ‘doesn’t make sense’. Different conceptualisations of learning are analysed leading to the development of the concept of making sense as the formation or modification of a conceptual compound in which concepts are related in a coherent causal system that may be transferred to …
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Conceptual problems in theory appraisal
… of this thesis is to examine the role of conceptual problems in scientific change, especially in the processes of theory appraisal. In the thesis I begin with a review of Buchdahl's, Toulmin's, and Laudan's works on conceptual problems. In the review I show that, although all these writers …
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Similarity Detection Based on Semantic Distance
… basic language processing methodologies with the conceptual framework of WordNet, semantic distance is used to measure the similarity between documents. Noun and verb word concepts are transformed into paths that represent their physical location within the WordNet hierarchy. Path prefixes are …
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Describing and testing a measure of Confucian self: a preliminary validity study
… to describe Confucian ethics by presenting its conceptual structures and comparing it with Western ethics, and to develop and test a measure of the Confucian self. The theoretical foundations for Confucian ethics and the Confucian self were formulated from the theoretical domains of Confucian …
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Exploring students’ patterns of reasoning
… and RTOP score. In addition, we analyzed conceptual structure of students’ responses, based on conceptual classification schemes, and clustered students’ responses into six categories. We derived regression model, to estimate the relationship between the sophistication of the categories of …
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A Thing Is What We Say It Is: Referential Communication and Indirect Category Learning
… hypotheses. Referential communication generates conceptual homogeneity (H3) and enhances indirect category learning (H1), though simple rules are learned earlier and better than complex relationships (H2). In explaining the learning advantages observed among dyadic learners, I argue that …
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Multirretículos y reducción de atributos en retículos de conceptos multiadjuntos
… It is a theory of data analysis which identifies conceptual structures among data sets. Specifically, it is a tool for extracting pieces of information from databases that contain a set of attributes A and a set of objects B together with a relationship between them. These pieces of information …
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