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Showing 1 to 20 of 1082 for “"confusion"”.
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Confusion modelling for lip-reading
Lip-reading is mostly used as a means of communication by people with hearing di�fficulties. Recent work has explored the automation of this process, with the aim of building a speech recognition system entirely driven by lip movements. However, this work has so far produced poor results because of …
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Aspects of automation mode confusion
… has helped the operator, but at times operator confusion as to what the automation is doing has created dangerous situations that lead to property damage or loss of life. This problem, known as mode confusion, has been difficult to analyze and thus solutions tend to be reactive instead of …
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Priming consequences of Homophone Confusion
I investigate how reading a homophone (e.g. "bye")"a word that sounds the same as another but has different spelling and meaning"can prime judgments and behaviors related to the complementary homophone (e.g. "buy"). Initial reading processes use word sound, not word spelling, to activate word …
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Phone Confusion Analysis and Its Applications
… features was the motivation for the quantitative confusion analysis developed in this study, but it is not the only application. Confusion analysis has a wide range of human and machine related applications. Three such applications for hearing impaired listeners, children with reading …
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Modern individualism and identity confusion in istanbul
… of contradictory definitions, paradoxes and confusion typical to the practice of identities between tradition and modernity. In my study, I have situated these notions on different levels of ideology and shown the different outcomes of imported ideological notions in societies that are …
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Identifying mode confusion potential in software design
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2000.
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Preventing IPC-facilitated type confusion in Rust
Type-safe languages undertake to prevent the type confusion vulnerabilities that arise in type-unsafe languages such as C++. One such type-safe language is Rust, which provides powerful type safety guarantees [1]. However, these guarantees are valid only for a single compilation unit. That is, they …
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Jhakris and the urban Nepali conflict : chaos and confusion
<p>This study explored the intercultural conflict between urban Nepalis, who believe in Western medicine, and the Jhakris, Nepalese traditional healers. Nepalis in Western influenced urban areas made traditional healing practices illegal, resulting in violent arrests and beatings of Jhakris by …
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Confusion in the Karnatic Capital: Fusion in Chennai, India
This dissertation examines how a contested musical practice makes the problems of modernity in India audible. In particular, I look at the relationship between South Indian "fusion" musicians and India's recent economic and cultural growth attributed to the economic reforms of 1991. Fusion is the …
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Delirium: A CNL-Led Protocol to Clear Up the Confusion
<p><strong>Project objectives: </strong>Delirium is a form of organ failure defined as an acute change in cognition, evidenced by altered consciousness and impaired attention that fluctuates over time, and is associated with increased morbidity, mortality, and healthcare services utilization. In …
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Well-known trade mark protection: confusion in EU and Japan
… the protection of well-known trade marks against confusion in the European Community Trade Mark (CTM) and Japanese trademark systems, the author critically considers the difficulties in comprehensively defining ‘well-known trade mark’ in the relevant international trade mark instruments. After …
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Construct Confusion and Assessment Centers: A Person-Situation Interactionist Perspective
… advancement and job performance, considerable confusion remains regarding why this is the case. Traditional AC theory and practice suggest it is because the skill dimensions typically evaluated in ACs (e.g. such as critical thinking, organizing and planning, and stress tolerance) represent …
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Destruction as Rule: Containment, Censuring and Confusion in Pakistani Balochistan
This dissertation explores the contour and content of state-ordered destruction in the construction of state, territory, and subjects. To do so, it carries out a historical and ethnographic study of state violence, from the colonial era until today, in Pakistan’s southern province of Balochistan. …
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Advancing Learning Analytics: Detect and Predict Confusion in Learners Through AI
… thesis explores the detection and prediction of confusion—an essential epistemic emotion that influences positive and negative learning experiences. Using clickstream data from online platforms, this study develops predictive models with AI, specifically focusing on confusion in online learning. …
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Absent fathers and their impact on role confusion among adolescent males
… work practice with the symptomology of role confusion I individuation avoidance.
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Losses Disguised as Wins in Slot Machines: A Case of Contingency Confusion
Negative expected values typically define the behavior of gambling whereby a person risks more money than probabilistically will be returned. Modern slot machines represent the most popular topography of site gambling, and are thought to encourage irrational gambling behaviors through the …
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