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Showing 1 to 20 of 9121 for “"contexts"”.
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One Problem, Two Contexts
… isomorphic problems but in radically different contexts. Analysis of their thinking and reasoning as they worked to solve and explain each problem demonstrates that the thinking and reasoning that emerged in each problem responded to clear purposes that the problems elicited in these students. …
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Incremental Learning in Regression Contexts
Incremental or Online Learning is a Machine Learning paradigm in which models are updated with each new incoming data sample. In the real world, these models are usually deployed on Data Streams, that are potentially infinite in size and therefore cannot be tackled by common Batch or Offline …
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Source Memory in Social Contexts
… addressed the role of source memory in social contexts and memory for source identity. Four experiments were designed to investigate the effects of information valence, target familiarity, and source congruence. 120 participants viewed a series of negative and positive statements about two …
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Exploring Contexts of Ubiquitous Structures
The following is the written source of my ideas and the execution of their place in my work used for my MFA thesis exhibition. In this body of work, I have approached the same subject matter -- social structures -- through various techniques and media. I have chosen this subject matter after …
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Categorising variables in medical contexts
Many medical studies involve modelling the relationship between an outcome variable and a series of one or more continuous/interval scaled discrete explanatory variables. It is common practice in many of these studies for some, or indeed all, of the continuous/interval scaled discrete explanatory …
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Gereint and its Welsh Contexts
… tradition. The text is placed in its Welsh contexts, historical and literary, and interpretations are considered. Without reference to the French "romance” tradition, a purposeful “native tale” can be discerned. There are three substantive chapters, which address the following: an …
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Modal auxiliary verbs and contexts
… in expressing past tense, sequence of tense contexts (Abusch 1997), and the distribution of perfect aspect. The formal grammar distinguishes parts of the meaning of sentences with modal auxiliary verbs that can be represented in terms of composition of temporal and aspectual expressions with …
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Covert modals in root contexts
In this thesis, I examine two related constructions, Imperatives and Greek Root Subjunctives. I argue that Imperatives and Root Subjunctives should be studied in parallel, as this comparison reveals their individual properties better. The first puzzle that I address is the known ambiguity of these …
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Johannine Wisdom Christology in Chinese contexts
Modern Johannine scholarship has generally agreed that Jewish wisdom literature constitutes the background to the concept of the Logos in the Fourth Gospel. However, regarding the topic of Johannine Wisdom Christology (JWC), there are still gaps and questions remaining after previous studies. While …
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Kristevan theory: meanings, contexts, feminist "uses"
In the first two sections of this thesis, I interpret aspects of Kristeva's theories and contextualise her thought by means of original insights and some secondary materiaI also include a series of twenty-one art-works as a fictocritical gesture within the text. It becomes clear that there are …
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Queer Italy: Contexts, Antecedents and Representations
… the historical, political and representational contexts behind the current plea for civil unions that lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transsexuals and queers are advocating in Italy. The dissertation expands current scholarship concerned with the links between identity, subjectivity and sexuality in …
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Chinese Englishes: History, Contexts, and Texts
The current profile of attitudinal range and functional domains demonstrates the magnitude of English influence and depth of penetration in Chinese society. It is argued that nativization of English in China forms a CLINE, for the degrees of nativization in terms of English as a medium of …
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Mobile media distribution in developing contexts
… number of mobile phones being used in developing contexts, such as Africa. A large percentage of these phones have the capability to take photographs and transmit them freely using Bluetooth. In order to provide people with media on their mobile phones public displays are becoming more common. …
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Motor car aesthetics : The contexts of design.
The original, probably naive, aim of the research was to quantify the proportions of car bodies and plot these graphically, with a view to extrapolating future developments. There are a number of objections to such a scheme, the most fundamental being that it pre-supposes an evolutionary process …
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The Auchinleck Manuscript: Contexts, Texts and Audience
This study of six of forty-five texts in the Auchinleck Manuscript (Edinburgh, Advocates' Library 19.2.1) examines certain didactic pieces and "romances," showing how they mutually reenforce and illuminate each other, and offer insights into the tastes and interests of the audience. They testify to …
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Low income family housing within urban contexts
… face the housing problem. These stages are the contexts of the housing problem. PART TWO of this work establishes the hypothesis that the prototypes of the housing solution depend on the comparative stages of urbanization. A matrix model will be proposed for comparison and analysis of the …
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Exploring couple relationships in challenging coparenting contexts
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. School of Social Work, 2010
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Studies on Macrophage Migration in Pathological Contexts
Macrophages play key roles following nerve injury releasing cytokines and chemokines thought to be involved in the development and maintenance of neuropathic pain. ATP is a transporter of chemical energy, but can also act as an extracellular signalling molecule that signals through purinergic …
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