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Showing 1 to 20 of 3303 for “"explaining"”.
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Explaining “explaining” : a phenomenological study of meaning making
… to explain these processes in order to “explain explaining”. A review of literature wove conceptual blending theory, encoding/decoding, and conceptual metaphor theory together as a framework from which to research this phenomenon. Using an interpretivist stance to research and phenomenology as …
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Explaining Viking expansion
Current scholarship regarding Scandinavia has neglected to give all but a cursory glance at the factors involved in Viking expansion. This thesis studies and explains employment opportunities, political motives, and societal norms as separate, individual motives that perpetuated Scandinavian …
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Explaining visible behaviour
This thesis presents a novel approach to the problem of behaviour modelling within computer vision. This technique is not based upon statistical measures of typicality, but upon building an understanding of the way people navigate towards a goal. Representing movement through the scene in terms of …
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Explaining Ezekiel’s Enigmatic Muteness
This dissertation explains the nature and significance of the prophet Ezekiel’s muteness as mentioned in Ezekiel 3:22–27, 24:25–27, and 33:21–22. It addresses the paradox of Ezekiel prophesying in verbal address and apparent reproof (see for example Ezek 11:13, 25; 13–14; 20; 24:18, 20) despite …
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Towards Explaining Variation in Entrainment
Entrainment refers to the tendency of human speakers to adapt to their interlocutors to become more similar to them. This affects various dimensions and occurs in many contexts, allowing for rich applications in human-computer interaction. However, it is not exhibited by every speaker in every …
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Calculating bully : explaining Chinese coercion
Since 1990, China has used coercion for territorial disputes, foreign arms sales to Taiwan, and foreign leaders' meetings with the Dalai Lama, despite adverse implications for its international image. China is also curiously selective in the timing, target, and tools of coercion: most cases of …
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Explaining Civil War Persistence in Afghanistan
This study asks why the civil war in Afghanistan persists. Put slightly differently, what is preventing the state/government from achieving outright victory, against the rebel organization/forces? A central theme in civil war research is that `weak states? are especially prone to (prolonged) civil …
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Explaining the U.S Failure in Afghanistan
<p>This thesis offers a comprehensive analysis of the trajectory of U.S. foreign policy in Afghanistan spanning multiple administrations from Obama to Biden, contextualizing it within broader shifts in American interventionism since the Cold War. An examination of the Obama, Trump, and Biden eras, …
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Explaining data in visual analytic systems
Data-driven decision making and data analysis has grown in both importance and availability in the past decade, and has seen increasing acceptance in the broader population. Visual tools are needed to help non-technical users explore and make sense of their datasets. However even with existing …
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Explaining Gendered Participation in Computer Science Education
Amongst scientific fields, computer science (CS) is the only one in which the percentage of women undergraduates has decreased since the 1980s; in the US and Canada, this percentage has hovered around 15%. Since the 1990s, a great deal of effort and resources have been put toward trying to improve …
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Explaining Retention in Community-Based Movement Organizations
An individual's initial acceptance of a recruitment pitch from a community-based social movement organization is usually based upon minimal information about the group and its efforts. It is only during the subsequent period of orientation that new members begin to learn more about the …
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Terrorist Kidnappings for Ransom: Explaining Hostage Outcomes
In the wake of the death of her son, James Foley, Diane Foley stated, "I pray that our government will be willing to learn from the mistakes that were made and to acknowledge that there are better ways for American citizens to be treated" (Cumming and Vinograd 2015). The recent American deaths at …
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Explaining Regime Change: A Directed Acyclic Graph
… of this study provide significant insights for explaining regime change and will continue to have substantive implications for the post-Arab Spring research agenda.
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Descriptive knowledge graph for explaining entity relationships
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms
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Explaining civil-military relations in Southeast Asia
Civil-military relations describe the interactions and balance of power between the civilians and the military in a nation state. Due to the organizational apparatus and capacity for forcible coercion that the military possesses, it can be an important determinant on whether a civilian government …
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Explaining Buyer Opportunism in Business-to-Business Relationships
The interaction among firms in the supply chain is necessary for business process execution and relationship success. One phenomenon of great significance to buyer-supplier relationships is opportunism. Opportunism is defined as behavior that is self-interest seeking with guile. It is manifested in …
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