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Showing 1 to 20 of 75 for “"contiguity"”.
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Intervention effects in German : a contiguity approach
This paper explores to what extent Richards' Contiguity Theory can insightfully be applied to so-called Intervention Effects in German, a set of phenomena which were originally described as constraining the syntax in an interesting way and have mostly been studied in Alternative Semantics terms by …
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A Study on Catalytic Sites Contiguity in Cu-ZnO-Based Catalysts for CO2 Hydrogenation to Methanol
… has proposed the concept of Catalytic Sites Contiguity (CSC) to describe how arrangements and proximity of catalytic sites affect the catalytic performance for carbon dioxide (CO2) conversion reactions. This work continues to investigate the CSC-performance relationship of CO2 hydrogenation …
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An Extension of the Reinforcement Contiguity Issue – The Effect of Retention in the Goal Box After Reinforcement
This study investigated one prediction of Guthrie's theory of learning (1936, 1952)--that retention in the goal box after reinforcement increases the likelihood of incompatible responses to the goal stimuli and, thus, decreases learning. Three measures of learning were used: number of trials to …
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Are Associations All You Need? Overcoming the Problem of One-to-Many Association and Nonlinear Relationships with Contiguity in a Bidirectional Associative Memory Framework
… thesis investigated how mechanisms related to contiguity could help explain the link between biology and cognition through an information signal processing model. It focused on using recurrent neural associative memories, specifically, a biological and cognitively plausible Bidirectional …
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Input and output order of recall as early markers of cognitive decline
… effects) and output (i.e., temporal vs. spatial contiguity) of free recall in younger vs. healthy older individuals and in older adults with cognitive decline. In study 1 (Chapter 4), primacy (intended as the tendency to better remember items presented at the beginning of a list compared to the …
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The Effects of Age and Task Timing Characteristics on Contingency Judgment
… on contingency judgments. Varying the temporal contiguity of events, to test the simultaneity mechanism of processing speed, affected young adults’ contingency judgments. Older adults’ judgments were less accurate overall, and young adults’ judgments were similarly less accurate when there was …
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The effects of taste quality and spatial location on the potentiation of an aversion to a non-gustatory stimulus
Taste potentiation--Spatial and temporal contiguity--No-choice suppression of ingestion--Palatable and unpalatable tastes--Distal auditory stimulus--Variant distal locations.
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The effects of taste quality and spatial location on the potentiation of an aversion to a non-gustatory stimulus
Taste potentiation--Spatial and temporal contiguity--No-choice suppression of ingestion--Palatable and unpalatable tastes--Distal auditory stimulus--Variant distal locations.
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The influence of the microstructural shape on the mechanical behaviour of interpenetrating phase composites
… of phase shape was connected to the increased contiguity of the superior phase within the IPC for the cylindrical model, which allowed similar levels of long-range continuity with smaller amounts of the superior phase (compared to the spherical model). An examination of microstructural stress …
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THE AESTHETICS OF AUTHORITY: EMOTIONS, DEVOTION AND POWER IN THE SINHALA BUDDHIST LITERATURE OF MEDIEVAL SRI LANKA
… significance in medieval Sri Lanka of the contiguity of these themes, as well as that of the conflation the personage of king with the Buddha.
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The Forgotten Trope: Metonymy in Poetic Action
… trope is developed, centred on the notion of contiguity as proposed by Jakobson but now re-interpreted as lexical contiguity: by way of revising the theory of semantic fields, it is suggested that metonymy is best understood as a shift within a semantic field, conceptualising the field itself …
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Designing Contiguous and Minimally Fragmented Nature Conservation Reserve Networks
… two important spatial criteria, namely reserve contiguity and minimal fragmentation, using graph theoretic approaches and linear integer programming. The optimization methods presented in those studies are modified to improve computational efficiency of the solution procedure, which may be …
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Phonological pitch
… with no universal upper limit. Second, the Contiguity Hypothesis states that tone groups in rules must always form contiguous sets, though these groups can vary from rule to rule. Phonological Pitch can be so simple because the power of the grammatical theory is constrained with …
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Ditranzitivní konstrukce v současné češtině
… by the combination of the verb meaning and the contiguity relation between its both arguments. The corpus-based analysis is used to examine the co-occurence of structural determinants (discourse accessibility, pronominality, phrase length) with respective variants and the possibility to predict …
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Effects of an argumentation-based instruction on grade 10 learners' understanding of the causes of pollution at a river site
… Pattern (TAP) and Ogunniyi's (1995) Contiguity Argumentation Theory (CAT).
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Unsupervised learning of invariant object representation in primate visual cortex
… position tolerance. Second, similar temporal contiguity manipulation of experience with object images at different sizes similarly reshaped IT size tolerance. These instances of experience-induced effect were similar in magnitude, grew gradually stronger with increasing visual experience, and …
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Multiple-scale habitat models of benthic fish abundance in riffles
… microhabitat patches were non-contiguous while contiguity had no effect on logperch abundance. Multiple regressions showed area of suitable habitat and patch contiguity accounted for 42 %, 34 %, and 33 % of variation in darter, logperch, and jumprock abundances, respectively. Estimates of area …
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The Women and Peace Hypothesis in the Age of Nancy Pelosi: Can Female Leaders Bring About World Peace?
… capabilities, military expenditures, and contiguity, I find moderate support for the women and peace hypothesis. This support continues when democratic system type is interacted with the measured office. While women do not affect a nation’s likelihood of violent conflict to the same degree …
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The edge flaking of tungsten carbide hardmetal cermets under repetitive impact loading
… order to explain the edge flaking performance. Contiguity and mean-free path are found to have important influences on the edge flaking performance. The performances of the various grades of hardmetal cermets are compared in an attempt to rank them in relation to their susceptibility to edge …
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Modeling canopy foliar traits and disturbance interactions in central Texas woodlands.
… initiation is shown to be a function of fuel contiguity levels not achieved by average CBD mapping.
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