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Showing 1 to 20 of 185 for “"intelligible"”.
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Human intelligible positioning
… a symbolic addressing scheme, containing human intelligible symbols. However, street addresses can often be ambiguous or confusing and don't provide complete coverage of outdoor spaces. Latitude and longitude coordinates, a metric addressing scheme, are unambiguous and accommodate locations that …
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Toward More Intelligible Simultaneous Multi-channel Speech Enhancement and Recognition
<p>Traditional single-channel speech enhancement and separation methods focus on enhancing the target speech signal by suppressing the noise and interfering speech signal. The methods suffer from nonlinear distortion brought by the algorithm, which hurts the intelligibility of the speech and also …
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Intelligible models for learning categorical data via generalized fourier spectrum
Machine learning techniques have found ubiquitous applications in recent years and sophisticated models such as neural networks and ensemble methods have achieved impressive predictive performances. However, these models are hard to interpret and usually used as a blackbox. In applications where an …
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Making Queer Anti-capitalist Resistance Intelligible: Reading Queer Childhood in the Ruins of Neoliberalism
In challenging normative social relations, queer cultural studies has shied away from deploying historical materialist theoretical tools. My research addresses this gap by drawing these two literatures into conversation. I do so by investigating how global economic relations provide an allegorical …
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Making Change Intelligible: Why The Study of Human Kinds Is Just Science As Usual
This paper challenges the notion that the social sciences require a fundamentally different methodology from the natural sciences due to the interactivity of human kinds. By examining the concept of classificatory looping and its impact on human kinds, the author argues that understanding the …
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Toward a Performative Elision of the Intelligible Public: Pussy Riot, Riot Grrrl, and Race Riots
Using Judith Butler’s theory of performative subversion, this thesis investigates moments where subaltern political engagement happens outside of decorous political channels. With a heavy focus on Dick Hebdige’s bricolage, the work argues that commodification works against such moments. …
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Time as a Policy Mechanism and Intelligible Principle: An Examination of the National Emergencies Act
… This research conceptualizes time as the intelligible principle that Congress used to meet the judicial requirements for delegating functional responsibilities to the executive branch while retaining constitutional obligations and maintaining oversight of executive action. Sequences, …
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An Intelligible Software (CFA) Approach for Fiber-Reinforced Laminate Failure Analysis Including a Piecewise Representation of the Tsai-Wu Failure Criterion Using Excel and MatLab
… to provide a knowledgeable engineer with an intelligible software utensil for the design of fiber-reinforced laminates. Additionally, CFA's simplistic exploitation of Excel® and MatLab® make it an indispensable tool for engineering education instruction.</p> <p>CFA exhibits an immense …
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The Relationship Between Line and Tone
… is sensible through tone, and that which is intelligible through line. Tone and color were used to paint the sensible, geometric constructions were used to understand the intelligible. The constructed axonometric drawings became both sensible and intelligible in the way that their very …
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PROFOUND AND MULTIPLE LEARNING DISABILITIES AND LANGUAGE: AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE USE OF MEANINGFUL, INTELLIGIBLE SUB-VOCAL UTTERANCES BY CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS WITH PROFOUND AND MULTIPLE LEARNING DISABILITIES.
… sub vocal utterances, apparently meaningful and intelligible by 20 research participants. Consequently, the research hypothesis proposed that: Children and young adults designated PMLD can produce meaningful sub vocal utterances intelligible to listeners. The conclusions from the 4 phases of the …
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Actionable Visualization of Higher Dimensional Dynamical Processes
… thereby, advocating the need for an intelligible visualization. This thesis researched and developed a visualization framework that represents multi-dimensional dynamic and temporal process data in a potentially intelligible and actionable form. A prototype showing four different …
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Video quality requirements for South African Sign Language communications over mobile phones.
… video resolution and frame rate that supports intelligible cell phone based video communications in South African Sign Language.
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You Talkin' To Me? The Effect of Communication Barriers on Trust in Diverse Societies
… I consider whether groups who speak partly-intelligible languages suffer less of a trust deficit compared to those whose languages are completely unintelligible. Using large-N datasets from the European Union and former Yugoslavia, I find that communication barriers are indeed linked to …
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You Talkin' To Me? The Effect of Communication Barriers on Trust in Diverse Societies
… I consider whether groups who speak partly-intelligible languages suffer less of a trust deficit compared to those whose languages are completely unintelligible. Using large-N datasets from the European Union and former Yugoslavia, I find that communication barriers are indeed linked to …
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Presenza e significato della κίνησις nelle Enneadi di Plotino
… regarding the sensible reality, the other the intelligible reality. In the first part of my study I focus on κίνησις occurrences that appear in reference to the body and to those souls who are related with bodies; in the second part I analyze the construction of the intelligible reality in …
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The determinants of auditory distraction during reading: an eye-movement investigation.
… The first two experiments showed that intelligible speech disrupts eye-movements during reading mostly due to its semantic properties, which interfere with extracting the meaning of the text. This disruption was found to occur after the initial lexical processing of words and it …
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Human-Centered Optimization of Mobile Sign Language Video Communication
… rates can be relaxed while still providing intelligible American Sign Language (ASL) video, thereby reducing bandwidth and network load. I conducted a laboratory study in which pairs of fluent ASL signers held free-form conversations over an experimental smartphone app transmitting video at …
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Schizophrenia and the family : an application of Laing's theory to a descriptive study of four Coloured schizophrenic males, using Kelly's repertory grid
… descriptive study, an attempt was made to make intelligible the schizophrenia of four Coloured male schizophrenics by analysing their social-familial background in terms of Laing's concepts of invalidation and mystification. Data was obtained from structured and unstructured interviews with …
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An Architectural Follie on Monte San Giorgio
… is left to resolve: that which is solely of an intelligible nature and that which can exist within the physical limitations of our reality. While architectonic limitations are that of the physical, Architecture itself exists within both of these realms, the duality of the mind and of the body, …
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