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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"human capabilities"”.
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Human Capabilities and Collectivist Justice
… and Martha Nussbaum, has been a stalwart of the human development literature for the last 30 years, and its core ideals underwrite the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals. This dissertation offers a new version of the approach, rejecting many of its ideological commitments to …
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Measurement technologies to enhance human capabilities via Mixed Reality
In the relentless pursuit of human progress, technological innovations have always played a key role in shaping our society. In recent years, the convergence of innovative measurement technologies with Mixed Reality (MR) has emerged as a groundbreaking paradigm, offering transformative solutions to …
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Extended Reality (XR) for the Internet of Ability (IoA): A framework to enhance human capabilities
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Design and Control of Two Under-Actuated Upper Body Exoskeletons for Augmenting Human Capabilities in Lifting
… need to be strong yet light, so that the human body can support the exoskeleton, while the exoskeleton can support the activity that is being performed. This calls for under-actuated systems, which help in avoiding unnecessary mass due to additional actuators, while providing the same …
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Developing guidelines to strengthen the human capabilities of parents with children with developmental disabilities using an Interdisciplinary team approach
… team collaboration in strengthening the human capabilities of parents of children with DD, particularly in primary health care settings. Despite the involvement of various professionals such as physiotherapists, occupational and speech therapists, social workers, and paediatricians, …
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A retrospective review of educational interventions and innovations using actor network theory. Creating learning designs that develop human capabilities by purposeful assembly of heterogenous actors
… either support or limit possibilities for human flourishing. Focusing on the notion of agency freedom, I connect the capability approach to agile work practices and self-organisation. The thesis concludes with a proposal that flips actor network theory from being an analysis tool to a …
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Human development, capabilities and university-industry partnerships: A case study of the Institute for Postharvest Loss
… institutes is growing, their role in global, human development is under researched given the tension between academic and entrepreneurial missions or private benefits versus public good. This qualitative case study explores the role of a socially inspired, university-industry institute in …
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Examining Urban Poverty, Inequalities and Human Capability Development In The Context of Adjustment: The Case of Vingunguti and Buguruni Settlements, Dar-es-Salaam
… on “Examining Urban Poverty, Inequalities and Human Capability Development in the Context of Adjustment: The Case of Vingunguti and Buguruni Settlements, Dar-es-salaam” has investigated the association between three interrelated variables, namely human capability development levels in relation …
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Examining Urban Poverty, Inequalities and Human Capability Development In The Context of Adjustment: The Case of Vingunguti and Buguruni Settlements, Dar-es-Salaam
… on “Examining Urban Poverty, Inequalities and Human Capability Development in the Context of Adjustment: The Case of Vingunguti and Buguruni Settlements, Dar-es-salaam” has investigated the association between three interrelated variables, namely human capability development levels in relation …
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Confident Learning for Machines and Humans
The coupling of machine intelligence and human intelligence has the potential to empower humans with augmented capabilities (e.g., improving rhyme-density while writing song lyrics, enhancing empathy via emotion detection, and personalizing learning in online courses). Unfortunately, humans operate …
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Generating and presenting string frequency measurements of Project Gutenberg texts
<p>The electronic age has increased the range of human capabilities to such an extent that the expectations about appropriate empirical linguistic analysis are changing. A hundred years ago, linguistics was largely an empirical manual process that produced information intended for humans. Today, …
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Introducing the Common Good Index and a Common Good Immigration Ethic
… anthropology based in Martha Nussbaum's human functioning capabilities approach and through developing a Common Good Index (CGI). This CGI is a set of twelve sociological indicator, which measures the common good through measuring to what extent basic levels of human capabilities are …
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Strategies for real estate brokers to compete in an increasingly technology-driven market: exploring the value of information search and transaction management
… resolution still heavily rely on the broker's human skills, suggesting a balanced need for technological and human elements in brokerage services. The research concludes that successful real estate brokers in a technology-driven market are those who effectively blend technology with their …
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Cyborg Psychology: The Art & Science of Designing Human-AI Systems that Support Human Flourishing
… understanding the psychological implications of human-AI interaction is crucial for developing systems that truly support human capabilities. This dissertation introduces “Cyborg Psychology,” an interdisciplinary, human-centered approach to understanding how AI systems influence human …
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Quantifying the environmental impact on individuals' well-being in risk analysis
… environment affect society in ways that exceed human and property losses. Environmental damages caused by disasters are often continuous, influencing a broader portion of society, and might continually affect future generations moreso than the acute impacts associated with human health risks. As …
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Towards developing an understanding of factors influencing care giving provided to children between birth and 6 years within the Groblershoop community
… to children from birth to six years. Using the Human Capabilities Approach and the Ethics of Care Perspective, this study seeks to examine the resources that are available for caring in Groblershoop. It also explores how the factors above (personal, social and environmental) play a role in how …
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Relational learning for a sustainable future: An eco -spiritual model
… challenges as we enter the new millennium as human choices and practices have repeatedly led to environmental degradation. Increasingly there are individuals and groups seeking to address this environmental crisis and move toward more sustainable patterns of living. But in order to make …
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An international study of curricular organizers for the study of technology
… are innovation; invention; creative; extends human capabilities (physical, social ,and intellectual); a process (change, individual, corporate, design, creative, and systematic); extension of human potential; problem solving; purposeful human manipulation of the material world; closely linked …
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Synergizing human-machine intelligence: Visualizing, labeling, and mining the electronic health record
… every aspect of our lives. The key challenge for humans and machines is how we can make better use of such data. Imagine what would happen if you were to have intelligent machines that could give you insight into the data. Insight that will enable you to better 1) reason about, 2) learn, and 3) …
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Nature-Inspired Multi-Objective Optimisation and Transparent Knowledge Discovery via Hierarchical Fuzzy Modelling
Knowledge discovery is one of the most important human activities, which helps people recognise and understand some of the intricacies associated with the ancient and modern worlds. With the rapid development in the human capabilities to both generate and collect data, the discovery of knowledge …
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