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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"disjunctions"”.
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Optimizing Queries with Disjunctions
Despite decades of research into query optimization, optimizing queries with disjunctive predicate expressions remains a challenge. Solutions employed by existing systems (if any) are often simplistic and lead to much redundant work being performed by the execution engine. In this thesis, we …
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Testing the Nonextensionality of Support Theory: A Generalization to Dual Disjunctions
These results show ST generalizes to dual disjunctions. Slight increases from detailing out all hypotheses simultaneously were not statistically significant, implying the extensionality principle holds with dual disjunctions. Implications for ST, the conjunction error, overconfidence, and …
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Disjunctions and convergences: a study of stakeholders' perceptions of public participation in service delivery in Cape Town's Blikkiesdorp
This study aimed to investigate the disjunctions and convergences between key stakeholder groups' perceptions of a public participatory relationship between The City of Cape Town Municipality and the Blikkiesdorp community. The key instruments for this research were semi-structured interviews, …
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"We did it for the Kids," Housing Policies, Race, and Class: An Ethnographic Case Study of a Resident Council in a Public Housing Neighborhood
… of this research is to describe and explain the disjunctions between HUD's expectations for the resident council as an active agent for community building and the actual practices of the resident council. This research shows seven disjunctions stand in the way of the desired relationship between …
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Assessing Stakeholder Perceptions in Participatory Infrastructure Upgrades - a Case Study of Project Silvertown in Cape Town
… findings in this study were that • there were disjunctions within the spheres of government relating to policy interpretations; • there were known disjunctions on project vision and outcomes between stakeholder groups that were not resolved; • there were disjunctions relating to stakeholder …
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Formal and philological inquiries into the nature of interrogatives, indefinites, disjunction, and focus in Sinhala and other languages
… focus, interrogatives, indefinites, and disjunctions---and the connections between these elements. This study focusses on the analysis of such elements in Sinhala, with comparison to Malayalam, Tlingit, and Japanese. The central part of the study concerns the proper syntactic and semantic …
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Definable families of finite Vapnik Chervonenkis dimension
… families of sets, with respect to long disjunctions and conjunctions. If the growth in VC dimension is linear in the number of disjunctions, then the theory under consideration has a certain kind of good structure. We have found a general class of theories in which this structure …
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Programming in three dimensions
… more precisely, to distinguish between logical disjunctions and conjunctions, and between sum and product types.
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Ignorance and grammar
… - cannot provide a satisfactory account of disjunctions like Al drank some or all of the beers. As I will show, the meaning of these sentences is characterized by the presence of grammatical ignorance implicatures. In this they differ from their simpler alternatives. I will show how the …
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Systematic studies on the subtribe Disinae (Orchidaceae)
… is analysed using the taxonomic rank of the disjunctions between the centres as an indication of the age of the disjunctions. The postulated history is then compared to modern ideas on the recent African palaeoenvironments. On this evidence it is suggested that the Disinae migrated northwards …
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(DIS)JOINING (DIS)JUNCTURE
… The project departs from the position that the disjunctions of a place can in fact be the site of shifting perceptions and unexpected connection, as is asserted by Stuart Hall in "Maps of Emergency: Fault Lines and Tectonic Plates": ..."Of course, fault lines… are also productive. Those escaping …
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Whose development? A cultural analysis of an AusAID English language project in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic
… with Lao examples, the study then examines the disjunctions between these values and those of the dominant development discourse with its roots in the Eurocentric notion of modernity, and its current neo-liberal economic agenda. The theme of disjunction features throughout this study, which …
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Dietary ecology and niche separation among three closely related species (Parapapio jonesi, Pp. whitei and Pp. broomi) of South African Plio-Pleistocene Cercopithecoidea from Makapansgat Limeworks site
… of fossil cercopithecoid dietary ecology report disjunctions between dietary and taxonomic groupings, possibly as a result of the use of fragmentary specimens or isolated teeth and ensuing taxonomic uncertainty, or perhaps because of problems in the taxonomy itself. Because such taxonomic …
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Positive Polarity and Exhaustivity in Sinhala: A Study of its Implications for Grammar
… to the distribution and interpretation of disjunctions and indefinites formed with the two particles in contexts of negation, modals, quantifiers and intensional operators, that none of the previous accounts has captured. It proposes to analyze the grammar of the two particles based on …
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Agents of History: Women and Royal Politics in Early Modern Historical Narratives and Plays
… the narratives and plays as intertexts whose disjunctions have real effects on audiences and readers. I analyze Richard III, The True Tragedy of Richard III, Edward IV, Henry VIII, and Perkin Warbeck as thoughtful dramatic revisions of narrative history that invite readers and audiences to …
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A visualized framework for representing uncertain and incomplete temporal knowledge
… and versatile, allowing logical conjunctions and disjunctions of both absolute and relative temporal relations, such as “Before”, “Meets”, “Overlaps”, “Starts”, “During”, and “Finishes”, etc. In terms of a visualized framework, Visual Time provides a user-friendly environment for describing …
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Scalar implicatures and the grammar of plurality and disjunction
… relevant not only for the meaning of plurals and disjunctions, but also for their distribution in language. For example, the computation of scalar implicatures will be shown to be the decisive factor regulating the patterns of (un)grammaticality of plural agreement with disjunctive noun phrases …
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Who Cares? Exploring the inequalities of the role of special needs assistants and positioning of care in education
… of care in education in Ireland, analysing the disjunctions in differing conceptualisations of the SNA role between policy makers and SNA workers. A qualitative transformative methodology, using the lens of critical and feminist theory, gives voice to the SNA participants who illustrate the …
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The large pavement at Qasr el-Lebia in Cyrenaica: episodes, narratives and transformations.
… – of a late antique predilection for disjunctions, puzzles and puns. After this wide-ranging review, the thesis returns to the most immediate context for the floor – its architectural setting. Inconclusive without further excavation, it nevertheless explores the possibility, based …
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