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Examining How Novices, Apprenticing Experts, and Disciplinary Experts Approach Reading Academic Texts
… (apprentices) and three English professors (experts) was examined. Participants’ (n=4) quantitative measures increased, while their qualitative measures showed an increase in reading strategy application and verbalizations. A meta-analysis of quantitative and qualitative data showed that …
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Experts and creativity in programming
… It is based on answering the question, “How do experts perceive creativity in programming”. There is not much research in the area of creativity and programming, and this work bridges the gap between academia and my community of practice. In order to have a better understanding of the role of …
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A modified experts algorithm : using correlation to speed convergence with very large sets of experts
… a modification to the Exploration-Exploitation Experts algorithm - (EEE). The EEE is a generalization of the standard experts algorithm which is designed for use in reactive environments. In these problems, the algorithm is only able to learn about the expert that it follows at any given stage. …
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Finding local experts from Yelp dataset
Local experts are people who have special expertise in an area, but that expertise is limited to a geographical region. It makes sense to say that someone is a global expert on quantum physics, but it is hard to find someone who knows all about the best ice-cream places anywhere in the world. This …
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Occupational invocation : managing experts through occupational norms
… by rewarding, punishing, and socializing experts, these practices are difficult to implement when expert workers are contracted from outside of the organization. I show how managers can manage expert contractors through a process I label occupational invocation. In this process, managers …
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How Experts Learn: The Role of Deliberate Practice
The aim of this thesis was to examine how experts learn using the theory of deliberate practice. Expert and intermediate Gaelic football players practiced kicking, with their learning being assessed between a pre-test and retention test. A novel method to measure the tenets of deliberate practice …
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Multivariate Comparison of Experts' Versus Users' Reviews Online
This study aims to compare and contrast professional critics’ movie reviews with those of general public users’ to understand the differences and similarities between both and its effect. This will allow better informed decisions to be made highlighting when and for what ends the use of each type …
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Video pretrained transformer with an ensemble of experts
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2025-08-01
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On consulting a set of experts and searching
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1996.
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Multi-source domain adaptation with mixture of experts
We propose a mixture-of-experts approach for unsupervised domain adaptation from multiple sources. The key idea is to explicitly capture the relationship between a target example and different source domains. This relationship, expressed by a point-to-set metric, determines how to combine …
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Cost of Equity Estimation Techniques used by Valuation Experts
… methods and parameters used by valuation experts in the Czech Republic in the period between 1997 and 2009. Our findings suggest that the most popular model for cost of equity estimation is CAPM, which is followed by the heuristic build up model. In the case of CAPM, risk premiums for …
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Fate calculation experts : diviners seeking legitimation in contemporary China
While anthropology has had an extensive interest in divination, little attention has been given to the problem of divination's social and political legitimacy. Divination in China has often been stigmatised as immoral and illegal 'superstition', and contemporary Chinese diviners' practice is often …
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Fate calculation experts : diviners seeking legitimation in contemporary China
While anthropology has had an extensive interest in divination, little attention has been given to the problem of divination's social and political legitimacy. Divination in China has often been stigmatised as immoral and illegal 'superstition', and contemporary Chinese diviners' practice is often …
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Japanese and U. S. mothers' concerns and experts' advice : content analyses of mothers' questions on online message boards and experts' advice in parenting magazines
… mothers' childrearing concerns and the advice by experts in the two countries were similar in some areas but differed markedly in others, such as within the sleep domain. The similarities suggest some globalization of childrearing practices in that both countries are importing advice from other …
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Attitudes and assumptions of children's ministry experts concerning cultural relevancy
Contributors to children's ministry produce many resources that are consumed by local congregations, determining the direction of their evangelism and discipleship with children. Chapter 1 describes the purpose of this research which was to investigate the attitudes and assumptions of significant …
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Improving instructional explanations in netbased communication between experts and laypersons
… for laypersons to enlist the assistance of experts. Not only can laypersons retrieve expert information publicly available from the World Wide Web but they can also obtain personal advice from experts in a one-to-one fashion. In order to communicate with laypersons effectively, experts must …
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Identify experts through Revealed Confidence : application to Wisdom of Crowds
… improves Wisdom of Crowds (WoC) by identifying experts from the crowds. We highlight the important distinction between first- and second-order uncertainty, which also serves as an explanation for rational overconfidence. Under our proposed belief updating mechanism, we analyze the performance of …
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The role of scientific and technical experts in environmental mediation
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1986.
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