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Showing 1 to 20 of 1141 for “"intentional"”.
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Intentional forgetting in depressed states
… this thesis was to extend previous research on intentional forgetting in depressed states. The first experiment used the think/no-think paradigm, and found that although dysphoric individuals were significantly worse at suppressing emotional (positive and negative) words than non-dysphoric …
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Intentional fragmentation for material storage
A novel technique (location-relaxed storage) of mixing products within warehouse storage bins is presented and evaluated. Analyses of warehouse operations, storage space efficiency, error sensitivity, and placement policies are presented and compared to traditional warehousing techniques. The major …
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A defense of intentional realism
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1997.
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Design and implementation of intentional names
Thesis (S.B. and M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1999.
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Intentional Information Fragmentation in Email Management
… al., 2004). It is typically assumed that IF is unintentional, and occurs as a result of the many applications and devices we use to do our daily work. It is further assumed that IF is "bad" or has negative consequences. In this thesis, I study when IF occurs intentionally. Intentional IF (IIF) …
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A Global Memory Model of Intentional Forgetting
Intentional forgetting is a phenomenon that has been studied by memory researchers since 1968 (Bjork, LaBerge, & Legrand, 1968), however a formal model to explain directed forgetting has not yet been developed. In this paper, I will review the literature on directed forgetting and discuss the …
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Intentional Inclusion: Investigating Equitable Education and Intersectional EdTech
… new conceptual and methodological framework for intentional inclusion in education.
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Modes of Abstraction: Intentional Versus Incidental Concept Learning
Although learning often occurs in environments where the learner is not a deliberate problem solver, almost all studies of concept learning have proceeded as if explicit analysis was the only available learning mode. In this set of experiments the capability of nonanalytic learning to capture the …
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Online Support for Intentional, Teacher Community of Practice
… of instructional settings. The literature on intentional CoP suggests that the greatest challenges are a sense of interdependence among CoP members, the authenticity of the practice or purpose, and a trajectory for the CoP's future. The purpose of this case study was to attend to these issues …
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Measuring the Relationship Between Reflexive and Intentional ANS Response
The dynamic behaviors of a complex organism are explained via voluntary and involuntary action. One underpinning of this system is organized and facilitated by the autonomic nervous system, integrating information from conscious and non-conscious centers in a seemingly hierarchical fashion. As a …
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Understanding voluntary turnover from an intentional change theory perspective
The present study used the intentional change theory to understand why so many people choose to leave their jobs, by exploring the possible influence of a discrepancy between a person’s ideal and real selves (RISG) and their perceptions of the learning and development resources that their employers …
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Intentional Classroom Humor in Nursing : a Multiple Case Study
… to examine the perceived connections between the intentional use of humor in the nursing classroom and student learning in the cognitive and affective domains while seeking to understand student and teacher perceptions and responses to humor.</p> <p><em> Method.</em> This study used a case study …
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Microcontroller (8051-core) instruction susceptibility to intentional electromagnetic interference (IEMI)
Intentional Electromagnetic Interference (IEMI) is a rising threat to the electronic systems that are used and depended upon in everyday life of civil society. To address this threat, it is important to develop an understanding of what IEMI is and how it can be used to disrupt sophisticated …
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Plan Acquisition Through Intentional Learning in BDI Multi-Agent Systems
… learning, the BDI agency has been extended by Intentional Learning (IL) operating at three levels: belief adjustment, plan selection, and plan acquisition. The latter makes it possible to increase the agent’s catalogue of skills by generating new procedural knowledge to be used onwards. The …
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Intentional and Unintentional Light Emission Diode in Power Electronics applications
… LEDs technology has been widely studied as an “Intentional” source of light in Power Electronics. In such a context, a LED light bulb can be assumed as a combination of LED semiconductor materials and a ballast circuit, where the LED driver circuit plays a fundamental role from a power quality …
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Effects of episodic familiarity and statistical regularity On intentional forgetting
Intentional forgetting of unwanted information is an essential cognitive function often studied using the item-method directed forgetting (DF) procedure, whereby cuing some study materials with a Forget instruction impairs their memory compared to cuing with a Remember (R) instruction. Across seven …
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Event-related potentials during auditory discrimination: attentional and intentional effects
The purpose of this dissertation study was to assess the neurophysiological activity associated with selective attention, response selection, and response inhibition. The subjects were 27 right-handed college students, 14 men and 13 women, aged 18-21. They performed a go/no-go auditory …
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Commitment, religiosity, and alienation: a study of seven intentional communities
The study was concerned with the communal movement as an illustration of Sorokin's thesis. Sorokin maintains that our culture is moving from a sensate or this-worldly form to an ideational or other-worldly definition of reality. It was shown through the works of Kanter and Fairfield that the …
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Walking My Talk as an Intentional, Embodied (Co)constructed Environmental Educator
Exploring the question (how) can I use personal change to inspire educational and social/cultural change, this work was embodied and action orientated with a thesis that the doing (action) is as important as the thinking and talking about it. A threedimensional model of exploring personal change …
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