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Showing 1 to 20 of 179 for “"expressiveness"”.
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Expressiveness of Concurrent Languages
… to go through different approaches for proving expressiveness properties in several concurrent languages. We analyse four different calculi exploiting for each one a different technique. We begin with the analysis of a synchronous language, we explore the expressiveness of a fragment of CCS! (a …
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Expressiveness and Decidability of Weighted Automata and Weighted Logics
… monadic second order (MSO) logic. To increase expressiveness, the fundamental idea underlying finite automata and regular languages was also extended to describe not only languages of strings, or words, but also of infinite words by Büchi and Muller, finite trees by Doner and Thatcher and …
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On the Expressiveness and Generalization of Hypergraph Neural Networks
… as a unified framework for analyzing the expressiveness, learning, and (structural) generalization of hypergraph neural networks (HyperGNNs). Specifically, we focus on how HyperGNNs can learn from finite datasets and generalize structurally to graph reasoning problems of arbitrary input …
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Family Emotional Expressiveness as a Mediator of Children's Social Competence
… of affective dimensions characterizing family expressiveness, and by extending prior laboratory-based work to the naturalistic environment. Fifty families of kindergarten girls and boys, varying by sociometric status, were videotaped in spontaneous dinner-table interactions. The parents …
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Family emotional expressiveness as a mediator of children's social competence
… of affective dimensions characterizing family expressiveness, and by extending prior laboratory-based work to the naturalistic environment. Fifty families of kindergarten girls and boys, varying by sociometric status, were videotaped in spontaneous dinnertable interactions. The parents …
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The effects of cry training on state anxiety and expressiveness in males
The purpose of the study was to evaluate the relationship between state-anxiety and affective expressions in written stories, and receiving or withholding a sad movie and receiving permission to cry in appropriate contexts. Subjects consisted of 124 undergraduate males and females, as well as 34 …
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A Contemporary Approach to Expressiveness in the Design of Digital Musical Instruments
… emergence, and human issues such as experience, expressiveness, skill, learning, and mastery. The notion of sketching in hardware and software is also developed in relation to the rapid iteration of multiple designs. Informed by this framework, seven new digital musical instruments are presented. …
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Pursuing the meaning of expressiveness: a holistic, radical contextualist account of lexical expressives
… in discourse and show how descriptiveness, expressiveness, a combination of both or a joint construction of them can all be part of the primary meanings. Overall, this dissertation provides a holistic classification of lexical expressives, a deeper understanding of their contribution to …
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Programmable Expressiveness in Non-Social Tasks: A Mixed-Methods Study of Middle School AI Learning
… the impact of such features in a context where expressiveness is not instructionally required. Method. We conducted a controlled, two-cohort study with 41 middle school students (ages 10–12) during a one-day AI-and-robotics workshop using the Doodlebot platform. Students in the experimental …
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The relationship of masculine gender role stress to emotional expressiveness, psychophysiological reactivity, and social support
… be. Ratings of the level of nonverbal and verbal expressiveness in subjects' responses were also obtained. Cardiovascular reactivity was measured during subjects' verbal and nonverbal responses.
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Self-endorsing effect of brand filters: How the self, self-congruity, and perceived self-expressiveness lead to persuasion
… and whether self-congruity and perceived self-expressiveness mediate the relationship between these variables. I conducted two laboratory experiments each with two conditions (self-endorsing vs. other-endorsing). In the first study, participants in the self-endorsing condition viewed their own …
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The role of systems-level variables in family adaptation to bereavement: a concept-validation study of cohesion and expressiveness
… have indicated that the concepts of cohesion and expressiveness in particular may be useful in explaining members' adjustment. Using both deductive and inductive methods this study developed a reliable behavioral coding system for observing family members as they described the story of a child's …
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A Case for Music as Therapy: “Healing and Purgation,” and the Expressiveness of Music from Antiquity through the Eighteenth Century
<p>This document provides evidence that music as therapy affects both the mind and physical body of the listener or music-maker. This document does not propose any evidence of modern-day clinical music therapy practice in the pages of history, but does support the belief that discussions of music, …
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An analysis of the relationship of gender and levels of instrumentality and expressiveness to the Eriksonian ego identity achievement of young adults
… defined as levels of instrumentality and expressiveness, to Eriksonian ego identity achievement in young adults. Erikson's theory of psychosocial development was the theoretical framework for the study. It was hypothesized that a regression model can predict ego identity from the …
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Investigating the mediating effects of family emotional expressiveness, language skills, social skills, on relationship between the early caregiving environment and future adolescent behavior outcomes
… Gergely, & Target, 2007). Language and emotional expressiveness are common themes that past research suggest are aspects of healthy and open parent-child interactions, and which may have associations with positive child outcomes (Carlson, Mandell, & Williams, 2004). Participants included 1359 …
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Assessing the validity of a discrete negative emotions measure and its relationship to psychological outcomes
… has investigated the effects of emotional expressiveness on different developmental outcomes. Whereas an abundance of work has examined positive and negative emotional expressiveness (Cassidy, Parke, Butkovsky, & Braungart, 1992; Cooley, 1992; Watson & Clark, 1984), little research has …
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Adolescent attachment : implications for adolescent interpersonal behavior
… with close friends, and a measure of emotional expressiveness (EES; Kring et al., 1994). The diary entries were coded to assess the hypothesized interpersonal manifestations (self-disclosure, emotional expressiveness, conflict, and positive versus negative valence) of attachment. Findings …
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