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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"joint activity"”.
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Retinal ensemble coding under dynamic conditions
… visual features, this study investigates how the activity of retinal ganglion cells encodes motion information under dynamic light intensity conditions. Multiple turtle and carp retinal ganglion cell responses to visual stimulation were recorded extracellularly. Encoding on different time scales …
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Systematic approaches to the study of cognition in Western art music performance
… Chapters 3 through 5 draw on Herbert H. Clark’s joint activity theory of language use to conceptualize music-making, taking into account context, process, and other domains of musical activity. Finally, Chapter 6, in addition to re-defining "virtuosity" for the 21st century instrumentalist, …
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Savoring the Shared Life: Strengthening Marriages Through Collaborative Legacy Writing
… solitary writing endeavor is explored as a joint activity in CLW, where couples co-author shared legacy pieces based on their happiest experiences together. The proposed intervention features a three-step collaborative writing process where couples learn evidence-based mechanisms for …
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Trade barriers to grain cooperatives in exporting
… not have an effective, centralized mechanism to jointly manage and control grain flow so as to expedite grain exporting. Until this problem is solved, any joint activity will probably end in failure.
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Essays in Bargaining and Cooperative Game Theory with an Application to Environmental Negotiations
… in order to undertake a mutually beneficial joint activity, the parties must agree on the division of the gains granted by it. The self-interested nature that is supposed to characterize the same parties might then become a serious obstacle to the collectively rational choice of cooperating. …
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An Exploratory Study of Involving Parents in E-book Joint Reading with Voice Agents
Parent-child interactions during joint reading play an important role in young children's cognitive and language development. However, contemporary digital book formats---such as e-books or audiobooks---often overlook the role of the parent in reading the text, by either dubbing voice narration …
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Investigations into children’s participation and agency: working towards change in classroom practices and cultures
… as participation in social practices; as joint activity, mediated by other people and cultural activities and artefacts. The second strand was based in these understandings of learning but explored, and also developed communicative practices in classrooms and children’s role in …
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Mokinių pilietiškumo ugdymo raiška mokykloje /
… citizenship: social aspects, this is not only a joint activity with friends but also the search for new acquaintances. Of course, this is greatly influenced by the example of active citizens in the circle of relatives and maybe even joint activities, various organizations, and most importantly, …
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Number sense in a secondary school context
… lessons as contexts for distributed mathematical activity. Two Year 9 classes and one Year 10 class from the same school constituted case studies; two case studies were lower band and one was middle band. All three teachers continued with their normal mathematics programmes. Using an …
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A needs-based approach to activity generation for travel demand analysis/
… for behavioral enhancement of conventional activity-based travel demand models. Operational activity-based models specify activity generation models based on empirical considerations which are weakly founded in a behavioral theory. This thesis aims to enhance the specification of the …
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Friction and lubrication behaviour of metal-on-metal and ZTA ceramic-on-CFR PEEK hip prostheses. Friction and lubrication behaviour of metal-on-metal hip resurfacing and ZTA ceramic heads versus CFR PEEK cups wiith various diameters and clearances using serum-based lubricants with various viscosities.
The natural hip joint in healthy people has a very low friction with very little (or no) wear. It works as a dynamically loaded bearing and is subjected to about 1-2 million cycles of loading per year. The applied load is the body weight which is tripled when walking and even higher during other …
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Modeling Social Group Interactions for Realistic Crowd Behaviors
… navigation in a group is viewed as performing a joint activity which requires maintaining a state of common ground among group members regarding walking strategies and route choices. That is, group members communicate with, and adapt their behaviors to each other in order to maintain group …
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Analysis of Wireless Networks With Massive Connectivity
… multiple-output (MIMO) networks with joint antenna selection and user scheduling. We propose a two-step iterative procedure to maximize the EE. In each iteration, bisection search and random selection are used first to determine a subset of antennas with the users selected before, and …
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Phenotypic and biochemical characterization of atrazine and HPPD-resistant waterhemp (amaranthus tuberculatus) populations
… (POST) herbicide programs without soil residual activity combined with no-till practices, it has become one of the most important weeds in Illinois and across the Midwest in regards to corn and soybean production. Research has indicated that multiple herbicide resistances can be found within one …
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Implicaciones de la interactividad en la argumentación en clase de matemáticas
En la tesis doctoral que se presenta nos propusimos como objetivo principal avanzar en la comprensión de la actividad discursiva en el aula y su potencial en los procesos de enseñanza y aprendizaje, en particular, cuando el profesor asume una postura epistemológica radical y sociocultural sobre lo …