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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"first contact"”.
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Virtual humans making first contact : teaching socially appropriate approaching behavior using deep reinforcement learning
Socially appropriate behavior of humans in public places is governed by various factors and rules. While these aspects have been previously well-explored for virtual humans engaged in focused interactions (e.g. conversations), the same is not true for unfocused interactions (e.g. merely being …
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From first contact to close encounters : a developmentally deep perceptual system for a humanoid robot
… and segments those objects without further contact. Both low-level and high-level visual features can also be learned in this way, and examples are presented for both: orientation detection and affordance recognition, respectively. The motivation for this work is simple. Training on large …
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Building strategy to penetrate deeper into the stagnant and unattractive contact lens market
… to penetrate deeper into the stagnant and mature contact lens market by focusing on adolescents. First, contact lens adoption is studied to strategically generate awareness and build community effect for increasing purchase. Second, the competition is analyzed broadly at an industry level to …
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Baseline measures of Primary Health Care Team functioning and overall Primary Health Care performance at Du Noon Community Health Centre
… using the ZA PCAT: 18.2% of users rated first contact-access as acceptable to good; 47,3% rated ongoing care as acceptable to good. The remaining subdomains of the ZA PCAT were rated as acceptable to good by at least 65% of the users. 33% of the providers (doctors and clinical nurse …
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Relationship of an Employee Assistance Program to Stress, Absenteeism, Intention to Leave, and Job Performance
… to fifty EAP users at the time of their first contact with EAP and two and four months later.
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Children and the Law: How Does Early Contact with Law Enforcement Predict Severity and Frequency of Offending Later in Life?
Based on observations recorded through police contact, this study examined the influence of individual and environmental factors on predicting involvement in offence type categories (Non-Violent; Violent; Sexual) in samples of children before and after the age of criminal responsibility (age 12). …
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Indigeneity on Display: Ethnographic Adventure Film in Amazonia
… stories, advancing popular tropes of indigenous first contact and the superiority of Western civilization. Focusing on a 1931 expedition to the Amazon which resulted in the creation of the first sync-sound ethnographic adventure film, titled Matto Grosso: The Great Brazilian Wilderness, I argue …
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Pre-cession government in Fiji
… otherwise have occurred. Between the time of the first contact with Europeans at the end of the eighteenth century, and the conversion of the people to Christianity in the fifth decade of the nineteenth, the greater part of the group came within the control of a small number of chiefs who extended …
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Pre-cession government in Fiji
… otherwise have occurred. Between the time of the first contact with Europeans at the end of the eighteenth century, and the conversion of the people to Christianity in the fifth decade of the nineteenth, the greater part of the group came within the control of a small number of chiefs who extended …
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Spatial analysis of development potential in South Africa : a study of theory and methods for the spatial analysis of urban and regional systems in the South African context
… - or interacts with another kind of space. My first contact with these ideas occurred during a regional study in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at U.C.T. The problems of analyzing these spaces and describing the structural relationships and interactions between them, prompted me …
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Story as a Weapon in Colonized America
From first contact, Europeans and Euro-Americans have been representing North American indigenous peoples in literature. Non-Indian authors colonized American Indian stories and re-presented them through a Western worldview, which distorted and misrepresented Indian peoples. Henry Wadsworth …
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Indian Health Funding: Time For Change
<p>Abstract</p> <p> Since the time of first contact with European immigrants, American Indians/Alaska Natives (AI/AN) have endeavored to protect their traditional ways of life, well-being, land bases, populations and forms of government. The policies of the United States toward its first peoples …
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Police-school intervention effects on students' attitudes: A case study
… There were several main findings of the study. First, contact with the school resource officer resulted in students holding significantly more positive attitudes towards the officer compared to students who did not have contact with him. Secondly, students who had contact with the school …
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Heavy Oil Recovery by Gas Assisted Gravity Drainage in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs
… from being immiscible with the oil to achieving first contact miscibility with the oil. In terms of recovery, the results were good in all tests and the oil recovery factor achieved ranged from 37 % to 43%, showing that even in a multi fractured system the oil can be recovered by gravity drainage …
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Pre-hospital paediatric healthcare services in emergency departments: perspectives for optimisation /
… of triage scales for children were done for the first time in Lithuania. Andersen's Behaviour Model of Health Service Utilization was applied in this thesis. The results and recommendation described in this thesis will provide basis for further scientific research in the pre-hospital children's …
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THE RATE OF DIFFUSION OF SODIUM SALICYLATE AND SALICYLIC ACID IN VARIOUS VEHICLES
… by the dermatologist for a variety of purposes. Contact dermatitis is an eczematous inflammation of the skin resulting from exposure of its unbroken surface to foreign material. It may result either from the primary irritant effect of the causative agent or from a specific acquired allergic …
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Me, myself, and my hyperego : understanding people through the aggregation of their digital footprints
… offered by online impression formation. The first work, Is Britney Spears Span?, examines a way of prototyping strangers on first contact by modeling their past behaviors across a social network. Landscape of Words identifies cultural and topical trends in large online publics. Personas is a …
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The Advanced Practice Nurse and Patient-Centered Medical Home: Maintaining Patient Focus, Meeting the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Triple Aim Through the Electronic Health Record
… are related to their ability to deliver first-contact access, and to develop long-term therapeutic relationships that focus on the person rather than the disease, improving patient health outcomes and reducing health care cost.</p> <p>The project focuses on developing a standardized …
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Learning science from technology
… position may be a more realistic achievement at first contact. A teaching package was designed so that the ideas of 11 - 15 year-old learners could be studied as they followed a course of study on electric current. Its effects were monitored by a range of qualitative research methods in six …
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On the Horizon: Toward a Revisioning of Environmentally-Engaged Arts Practices
… this new epoch locating its beginning alongside first contact and the birth of capital. While this thesis does not break new ground here, this view better allows us to consider social and political dimensions often lost in methodologies used in the sciences. I then follow a loosely chronological …
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