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Showing 1 to 20 of 77 for “"jargon"”.
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Neologism production in jargon aphasia
This study investigates a jargon speaker, LT, whose connected speech is composed almost entirely of neologisms. Despite the general intelligibility of his speech, LT is able to produce discrete responses in picture naming tasks. Neologisms were investigated for their phonemic content. Non word …
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Impact of physicians’ medical jargon use on patient behavior
<p>An open and easy communication is the key to building doctor-patient relationships. It has become increasingly important for doctors to use the right language with their patients. Since doctor-patient communication may include complex technical language and/or medical terminology, it is often …
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The Effects of Jargon on Parent Acceptability and Implementation of Behavioral Interventions
Most professions develop unique jargon and terminology for the practitioners oftheir field to use, and the field of behavioral science is no exception to this practice. Theapplied branch of behavioral science demands a remarkable interdependence betweenanalysts and change agents in the environment, …
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Effective Knowledge Transfer: A Terminological Perspective - Dismantling The Jargon Barrier To Knowledge About Computer Security
The research is concerned with the terminological problems that computer users experience when they try to formulate their knowledge needs and attempt to access information contained in computer manuals or online help systems while building up their knowledge. This is the recognized but unresolved …
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Effective knowledge transfer: a terminological perspective - Dismantling the jargon barrier to knowledge about computer security
The research is concerned with the terminological problems that computer users experience when they try to formulate their knowledge needs and attempt to access information contained in computer manuals or online help systems while building up their knowledge. This is the recognised but unresolved …
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Combating abuse on social media platforms using natural language processing
… the detection and interpretation of dark jargon: Bad actors on social media often obfuscate their malicious intentions (e.g., selling malware) by using dark jargon, which are benign looking words that have hidden meanings especially among communities in underground forums. For example, …
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An analysis of the experiences of learners who completed a university-based programme for trade union women what factors facilitated or hindered their 'plough back' of learning to build their trade union organization?
… union organisation. The trade union jargon used to describe this phenomenon is 'plough back'. The question that led to this research was whether the concept of 'plough back' was practically implemented in the case of a university course commissioned by the National Education Health …
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Towards answering unanswerable questions: data augmentation for enhanced medical domain question answering
… medical knowledge to simplify complex, medical jargon. More specifically, we focus on addressing real-world unanswerable ques tions related to diagnoses and medication. This research first explores methods for addressing out-of-schema questions by assessing how incorporating an unseen schema, …
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Sociolinguistic Dimensions of Nurse Practitioner Practice: A Question of Power
… informing, controlling and professional jargon. Instances of sociolinguistic power were identified in the processes that controlled the pace and direction of the office visits and potentially truncated data gathering. Controlling language, including warning and command statements, and the …
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Trickster's Taxonomy
… variations, homophones and various sets of jargon</p>
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Towards Scalable Structured Data from Clinical Text
… since clinical notes are written in their own jargon-heavy dialect, patient histories can contain hundreds of notes, and there is often minimal labeled data. In this thesis, I tackle these barriers from three interconnected angles: (i) the design of human-AI teams to speed up annotation …
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Goal Drought
… role in this work, and the collection mixes both jargon and more casual and conversational language to try and link the more technical or “insider” aspects of the game to the everyday lives of people who do and do not follow it.</p>
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Änderungen der intestinalen Permeabilität mit systemischer Zytokinaktivierung nach grossen Operationen bei der Entstehung des Multiorganversagens
Nach grossen Operationen wird eine überschießende Immunantwort (SIRS) beobachtet, die als wichtige Ursache des Multiorgandysfunktionssyndroms (MODS) angesehen wird. Der Pathomechanismus dieses frühpostoperativen SIRS ist nicht bekannt. Bei der "Darm-Sepsis-Hypothese" geht man davon aus, dass der …
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The Decline of Indian Tribal Sovereignty in the Nineteenth Century
… form hell". To our cynical generation this jargon of concealed desires seems the ultimate in hypocrisy but it should be remembered that such an attitude was not an isolated phenomenon; it was merely one of the high points in an imperialism which is as old as modern civilization.</p> …
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"As Our Elders Taught Us to Speak It": Chinuk Wawa and the Process of Creating Authenticity
<p>Chinuk Wawa (also called Chinook Jargon) began as a trading language of the Pacific Northwest in the late eighteenth century. As it developed, it became the major heritage language of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde, an intertribal nation located in Oregon. Now, as older speakers of …
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DCG-UPUP-Away : automatic symbol acquisition through grounding to unknowns
… Instead, the real world is full of confusing jargon and unique objects that are nearly impossible to anticipate and therefore train for. This thesis presents a model called the Distributed Correspondence Graph - Unknown Phrase, Unknown Percept - Away (DCG-UPUP-Away) that augments the state of …
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JamNSync: A User-Friendly, Latency-Agnostic Virtual Rehearsal Platform for Music Ensembles
… and require extensive knowledge of network jargon. JamNSync, designed with musicians in mind, proposes a hassle-free alternative. The JamNSync web application offers a recording-based, synchronous rehearsal experience using a novel consensus protocol. Each musician only needs a basic …
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Improving Patient Access and Comprehension of Clinical Notes: Leveraging Large Language Models to Enhance Readability and Understanding
… accountability. However, the presence of medical jargon, abbreviations, and complex medical concepts within clinical notes hinders patient comprehension, thus diminishing the positive effects of note accessibility. These notes, primarily intended for clinicians, often appear disorganized and …
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Rationality without representation
… are representational-that they have, in the jargon, truth-conditions. I use this to provide a solution to the 'negation problem' for metaethical expressivism. In Chapter 2 ('Structuring logical space') I sketch an account of mathematical practice along non-representational lines. I show how …
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