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Utilizing forum meta-information to improve relevance in forum discovery
The World Wide Web is abundant with discussion forums about all sorts of topics, and it is becoming increasingly difficult for people to find quality forums about a certain topic in which to join. While many modern search engines crawl through discussion forums and return threads in various forums …
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Using docker to assist Q&A forum users
Q&A forums are today an important tool to assist developers in programming tasks. Unfortunately, contributions to these forums are often unclear and incomplete as developers typically adopt a liberal style when writing their posts. This dissertation reports on a study to evaluate the feasibility of …
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THE CRUCIBLE : PERFORMING ARTS FORUM FOR WILD RICE THEATRE
… designing not just a performing theatre, but a forum that forges a relationship with the fort structure and audiences. The fort is viewed as an urban carapace, with the idea of the theatre as the crucible and a caldera for presentation of issues. An interplay of lightness in structure is used to …
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Forum Theatre as Theatre for Development in East Africa
… or foster dialogue in a development context. Forum Theatre, developed by Brazilian Director Augusto Boal as part of his Theatre of the Oppressed movement has become one of the most widely used forms in TfD. This dissertation looks at the use of Forum Theatre specifically in public …
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Content analysis of cognitive distortions in pedophiles' online forum posts
… exploratory study examined pedophiles' website forum posts to determine if any posters demonstrated cognitive distortions. Four independent raters used content analysis to determine which cognitive distortions were demonstrated by the examined pedophiles. Results suggested that cognitive …
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Sending out Your Soul: An Entheogenic Forum Community Explored through Language
… thesis is to examine the discourse of an online forum community centered on an entheogenic medicine called ayahuasca. Ayahuasca is an indigenous brew made out of two hallucinogenic plants used by shaman of the upper Amazon regions of South America to send their souls to the supernatural world. …
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PILPUL : a 2D graphical virtual forum for exploring identity and values
Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1999.
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Patterning tectonics : the making of the forum on the Bund, Shanghai
Surface is only one of the fragmented parts of contemporary architecture. As the size of architecture increases, it is broken down into the crown, the surface and the structure for individual consideration. The Bund in Shanghai demonstrates the polarized approach between the contemporary and …
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Community policing forum : strategies of the youth in crime prevention at KwaMashu
This study is about the Community policing forum of Kwamashu and its strategy of putting the youth at the forefront in the fight against crime. The study was conducted on crime prevention with more emphasis placed on community participation as is the strategy of the Department of Safety and …
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Promoting Civility in Online Discussions: A Study of the Intelligent Conversation Forum
<p>Discussions on Internet forums show a higher tendency towards incivility than those conducted in person. This is partially caused by the anonymity of the web; therefore, some have suggested that the solution is requiring website commenters to provide their real names. There are many benefits to …
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iKNOWx Forum Search: a system for case retrieval in online medical forums
… model for case retrieval from online medical forums. This model uses semantic query weighting to obtain a more accurate representation of a case query. Semantic query weighting involves identifying descriptive words, such as those describing symptoms or medi- cation, and weighting those terms …
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A comparison of socially-motivated discussion forum models for learning management systems
… incorporation of sociallymotivated discussion forum models. This study proposes a Web-based application, which includes four different discussion forum models for LMSes, in order to test usability and student preferences. The purpose of this study was to compare two non-social discussion forums …
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Overcoming communications barriers in local government: Establishing networks through the public management forum
Forming communications networks between civilian government agencies and police departments -- Community-policing.
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Overcoming communications barriers in local government: Establishing networks through the public management forum
Forming communications networks between civilian government agencies and police departments -- Community-policing.
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Public education in the mass media : National Farm Radio Forum on CBC radio
The weekly radio program, National Farm Radio Forum (1940-1965) on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is the site of an examination of civic education in the mass media. The archived documentation of NFRF forms the corpus of my research. The subject of civic education is analyzed through a …
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An exploration of burnout and compassion fatigue in ABA providers in an online forum
Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) is a treatment for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). ABA providers develop treatment programs and face occupational hazards. This exploratory, qualitative research examined: 1) “How do ABA providers express experiences of burnout and compassion fatigue (CF) in an …
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Islamic Activism: The Socio-Political Dynamics of the Indonesian Forum of Islamic Society (FUI)
… established an umbrella movement called FUI (Forum Umat Islam or Forum of Islamic Society) in 2005, which has also been actively engaged in social movement activities. Unfortunately, unlike the other Islamic revivalist movements that emerged immediately after the fall of the Suharto regime …
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Feminist Solidarity Building And Working With Difference: The Case Of The Fiji Women’s Forum
… attached to that cause. The Fiji Women’s Forum (FWF), which comprises over a hundred members from 26 different organisations, served as the case study for this research. The methodology used in this research is narrative discourse analysis of field interviews and the data was analysed via …
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Crowdsourcing Cognitive Presence: A Quantitative Content Analysis of a K12 Educator MOOC Discussion Forum
… to engage with content and discussion forums similar to other online courses. Pedagogical components of MOOCs and the nature of learning are worth of examining due to issues involving scale, interaction and the role of the instructor (Ross, Sinclair, Know, Bayne & McLeod, 2014). The …
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