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Presuppositions in focus
… dissertation explores how presuppositions and focus interact. It takes as its starting point a puzzle about expressions like even and its cross linguistic kin in declarative sentences that deny presuppositions: these focus-sensitive scalar additive operators can be used in negative …
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Focus Sensitive Coordination
This thesis investigates the role of the Focus Sensitive Operators (FSOs) even and also when found inside of a coordination. Coordinations of this form are called Focus Sensitive Coordinations (FSC) and include or even, and even, and also, not only...but also, let alone, and as well as. I argue …
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Focus and discourse stress
English utterances contain a peak stress prominence that is known variously as primary phrasal stress, nuclear stress, sentence stress, or more precisely, discourse stress, which is typically understood to mark new information or contrasts in sentences. Learners may have difficulties communicating …
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Givenness, focus, and prosody
… I investigate the grammatical effects of focus and the inseparable phenomenon of givenness. As Schwarzschild (1999) has proposed, a proper understanding of givenness eliminates the need for a separate concept of focus, which is notoriously hard to define, either semantically, …
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Movement out of focus
… of overt and covert movement on association with focus. The interpretation of focus-sensitive operators such as only and even depends on the presence of a focused constituent in their scope. I document the complex conditions under which operators are able to associate with a focused constituent …
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Focus on Basque movements
… and (ii) to explain the so-called preverbal focus position in Basque in terms of the new NSR and prosodic principles imposed on focused phrases. With respect to the NSR, I argue that certain generalizations about stress above the word level can be reduced to two basic syntactic properties of …
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Project governance : coming into focus?
… and research needs to become more rigorous and focused.
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Focus, polarity and framing effects
The experiments reported in this thesis examine a reader's ability to draw inferences about a situation from desires, emotion words and logically equivalent frames. Previous research has provided evidence that listeners (or readers) are able to make inferences about current or presupposed states …
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Focus+Context via Snaking Paths
Focus+context visualizations reveal specific structures in high detail while effectively depicting its surroundings, often relying on transitions between the two areas to provide context. We present an approach to generate focus+context visualizations depicting cylindrical structures along snaking …
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Focus and context for volume visualization
… on the information visualization concept of focus and context. The framework was implemented through direct programming of the graphics processor and integrated into a volume rendering system. The application was evaluated by a number of medical professionals related to the field of …
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How Regulatory Focus Impacts Knowledge Accessibility
The current research applies Regulatory Focus Theory (Higgins, 1997) and a new framework for knowledge accessibility called Relevance of a Representation (Eitam & Higgins, 2010) to examine how the strength of promotion ideal goals (i.e. one's hopes and aspirations) and the strength of prevention …
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Kalibrace mikroskopu Alicona Infinite Focus 4
… zaoberá kalibráciou a stanovením neistôt merania focus variation mikroskopu Alicona Infinite Focus G4. Spolu s kalibráciou bolo realizované meranie zvolených parametrov na súčiastke s výpočtom neistôt meraní. Súčasťou práce je taktiež popis procesu kalibrácie a s ňou spojená terminológia, ako aj …
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Media Focus in Afghanistan News Coverage
<p>This study explored the Media Focus in Afghanistan News Coverage to examine what categories of Afghanistan-related news received the largest amount of coverage during periods from 2010 to 2012. This study covered reports in The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, and The Daily …
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Self-regulation and Regulatory Focus Theory: Regulation in Response to Goal Discrepancy Feedback in a Regulatory Focus Framework
Regulatory focus theory is a motivational orientation theory encompassing two regulatory systems: promotion focus and prevention focus. Promotion focused individuals tend to seek success, implement risky tactics, and an eager goal pursuit. Prevention focused individuals tend to avoid failure, …
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A Focus on Making Great Problem-Solvers
The main focus of this research was to design and implement a strategy that students could use to help them in problem-solving multistep problems that are the main focus of state assessments. Related literature focused on four major steps that should be used when problem-solving. These four steps …
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Attentional Focus Strategies of Multi-Sport Athletes.
… this study was to determine (a) the attentional focus strategies used by triathletes during the three stages of an Olympic distance triathlon, (b) if level of experience influences the attentional focus strategies used by triathletes, and (c) whether there is a relationship between athletes …
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Developmental coordination disorder: a focus on handwriting
Background. Developmental coordination disorder (DCD), is the term used to refer to children who present with motor coordination difficulties, unexplained by a general-medical condition, intellectual disability or known neurological impairment. Difficulties with handwriting are often included in …
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