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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"formal theory"”.
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Urban form as a transportation interchange: a formal theory.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Thesis. 1966. M.Arch.
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An analysis of the relationship between system size and structural differentiation within intercollegiate athletic departments
… investigation were to: (1) test Blau's (1970) formal theory of structural differentiation in sport organizations: (2) determine the validity of Blau's theoretical propositions in the context of organizational change; and (3) elaborate the theory by examining the relationship among structural …
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Aristotle's Explanation for the Value of the External Goods
… of worldly goods within the terms of his ethical theory in the Nicomachean Ethics. Aristotle claims that to live in a worthwhile and subjectively satisfying way--that is, to achieve eudaimonia--one needs such things as honor, wealth, friends, and political power. He groups these things together as …
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Change and stability: Agta kinship in a history of uncertainty
… or wage laborers. They work as kinfolk. I use a formal theory of kinship (Lehman and Witz 1974, Witz and Lehman 1979, Lehman 1993) to illustrate how Agta society operates through kinship. This study demonstrates that social relations are not necessarily products of economic systems.
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Shifting Paradigms: The Development of Nursing Identity in Foreign-Educated Physicians Retrained as Nurses Practicing in the United States
… The purpose of this study was to generate a theory that can explain the development of their nursing identity. Specific aims were to discover barriers that participants perceived as problematic in their transition to nursing and catalysts that influenced how they addressed the central …
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Movement theory inspired robot motion strategies and design of a bipedal walker
… poses at particular instants. Here, tools from formal theory help in producing high-level movement behaviors by conditioning transitions between these states. Secondly, high-level movements are investigated by designing a bipedal robot closely mapping key movements from human walking as …
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Some multivariate problems of a spatial model of voting under majority rule
… foundation, we make three contributions to the formal theory of public choice. First, we formulate a spatial model in which voters are heterogeneous both with respect to their most preferred social states and the manner in which they measure loss relative to their preferences, and within the …
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The shape of digital content : a computing language based on Gibson's ecological approach to visual perception and the theory of shape grammars
… Web" by relating Gibson's theories to the more formal theory of Shape Grammars developed by Professor of Design and Computation George Stiny. Stiny's work illustrates how the semantics of direct information, that is interacting with shapes as shapes, are very different from the semantics of …
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Augmented Conversation and Cognitive Apprenticeship Metamodel Based Intelligent Learning Activity Builder System
This research focused on a formal (theory based) approach to designing Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS) authoring tool involving two specific conventional pedagogical theories—Conversation Theory (CT) and Cognitive Apprenticeship (CA). The research conceptualised an Augmented Conversation and …
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Algebraic aspects of propositional logic
… whether a chosen formula is a theorem of a given theory of classical logic. In order to generalize this approach, we then describe varieties of universal algebra and some of their properties. Using this framework, we show in a general setting how a formal theory of propositional logic induces a …
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Interdependent diffusion : the social contagion of interacting beliefs
… interaction. The second paper introduces a formal theory of interdependent diffusion which attempts to explain the mechanisms by which micro-scale interactions between beliefs lead to macro-scale outcomes for societies. The third paper reports an online laboratory experiment to test whether …
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In the Shadow of Rivalry: Rebel Alliances and Civil War
… this inquiry, this dissertation presents a formal theory of alliance formation that takes into account both internal and external threats. The theory, presented in Chapter 2, focuses on how allying parties make decisions regarding resource mobilization for conflictual purposes, in the …
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An analysis of conjunctive-goal planning
This thesis develops a formal theory of planning, using a simple paradigm of planning that has been previously explored in work such as GPS, HACKER, STRIPS and NOAH. This thesis analyzes the goal interactions that occur when the goal is stated as a conjunction of sub-goals. In this analysis we …
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Deep concept reasoning: beyond the accuracy-interpretability trade-off
… by three key factors. Firstly, the absence of a formal and comprehensive theory undermines the field of explainable AI. This leads to ill-posed questions, induces re-discovery of similar ideas, and impedes researchers to approach the domain. Secondly, the explainable AI literature is mostly …
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Inuit Harvesting Strategies in the Canadian Arctic and Implications for Wildlife Management
… Netsilik Inuit are discussed and examined in a formal theory model to analyse what changes and effects occurred when the rifle was introduced to their subsistence economy. The evidence supporting the Pleistocene overkill theory and the claim that hunters over-exploited some of the major …
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The relationship between culturally responsive teaching practices and teacher's self-efficacy in K-8 urban choice schools
… of culturally responsive teaching and the formal theory as conceptualized by Gloria Ladson-Billings. Teachers had the beliefs and experiences necessary to support their culturally responsive teaching and felt administrative support in their work. Teachers felt successful in their work, had …
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Self-Preserving: Patterns Guiding the Experience of Interpersonal Conflict for Female Nursing Faculty
… of this study was to identify a substantive theory to explain and predict interpersonal conflict as it is experienced by nursing faculty. Gaining an understanding of this process may assist faculty and administrators of nursing education programs in dealing with interpersonal conflict in more …
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A grounded theory of affiliate marketing performance measurement in the tourism and hospitality context
… marketing measurement practices, and develops a theory of affiliate marketing performances measurement in tourism and hospitality. Relying on a grounded theory research strategy, the work undertakes qualitative analysis of 72 online forum discussions, 37 interviews and 40 questionnaires with the …
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Reasoning Using Higher-Order Abstract Syntax in a Higher-Order Logic Proof Environment: Improvements to Hybrid and a Case Study
… a series of improvements to the Hybrid system, a formal theory implemented in Isabelle/HOL to support specifying and reasoning about formal systems using higher-order abstract syntax (HOAS). We modify Hybrid's type of terms, which is built definitionally in terms of de Bruijn indices, to exclude …
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Mentoring Up: A Classical Grounded Theory Exploring the Proteges Perceptions of Nurse-to-Nurse Mentoring
… The purpose of this Classical Grounded Theory study was to understand the experience of mentoring from the perspective of the nurse protégé in the clinical setting and generate a substantive theory related to mentoring in clinical nursing. The Classical Grounded Theory procedures of …
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