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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"knowledge-how"”.
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Contrastive knowledge how
… empiricists are notorious for claiming that knowledge-how is a complex disposition or ability that is directly exhibited in action. This dissertation evaluates that claim against the background of contemporary cognitive science. More specifically, it develops a broadly cognitivist theory of …
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Skill and Virtue after 'Know-How'
… a kind of skill in light of the discussions of ‘knowledge-how’ that begin with Gilbert Ryle. Chapter 1 offers an account of Ryle’s interest in the notion of knowledge-how as partially underpinned by the hope that ethical virtue might be well-understood as a kind of skill. The chapter concludes, …
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Knowing How: An Empirical, Functionalist Approach
<p>Only very recently has the subject of knowledge how and its relation to propositional knowledge, or knowledge that, been given much attention by philosophers. In recent debates on the subject, positions tend to divide around the question: is knowledge how (KH) reducible to, or a kind of, …
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Biblical Literalism And Implications For Learning
… everything we learn is scaffolded onto prior knowledge, how and what we learn is infinitely complex. There are many factors influencing learning, including environment, social and institutional attitudes, access, conditioning and biases. Among the social and environmental factors, religious …
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From the Ground Up: Journeys Through the Leitrim Landscape
… lens through which to view alternative forms of knowledge past and present. In the physical act of journeying through the landscape, by boat and on foot, I have encountered evidence of a range of social structures linked to place including: ‘off-the-grid’ living, community education, political …
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Developing affect-aware robot tutors
… human or computer, is assessing a student's knowledge: how do you determine what another person knows or doesn't know? Previous algorithmic solutions to this problem include the popular Bayesian Knowledge Tracing algorithm and other inferential methods. However, these methods do not draw on …
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Teaching Strategies to Improve Intercultural Competence of Business English Major Students in Jiangxi Province of China
… of intercultural competence. They also show their evaluation of intercultural teaching and provide some suggestions for teaching. Conclusions made from this study include the identified barriers of intercultural teaching and intercultural teaching strategies for developing business …
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Design management absorption in SMEs with little or no prior design experience
This thesis studies, how eight SMEs with little or no design experience absorb new design management knowledge, how they build design management capabilities during innovation processes, and how able or unable they are to turn potential into realised absorptive capacity. Furthermore, this thesis …
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An analysis of epistemology in the book of Proverbs in relationship to the sources of knowledge used in evangelical Sunday School curriculum
… concentrated on epistemology, leaving a gap of knowledge in curriculum development. By the term epistemology, the study looked at only one question from the study of knowledge, "How does a person acquire knowledge?" Research revealed that the manner in which a writer of curriculum views how a …
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Artifact-based reflective interviews for identifying pragmatic epistemological resources
… Describing students' understanding of physics knowledge and reasoning is the basis for much productive research; however, such research fails to account for certain types of student learning difficulties. In this dissertation, I explore one source of student difficulty: personal epistemology, …
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Improving instruments: equatoria, astrolabes, and the practices of monastic astronomy in late medieval England
… about the practices of medieval astronomers: how they obtained and passed on their knowledge; how they drew up and used mathematical tables; how they drafted the treatises in which they found words to express their ideas and inventions for their particular audiences. This thesis uses a case …
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Neglected Virtues: Love, Hope and Humility
… I examine the connection between love and knowledge in Murdoch’s The Sovereignty of Good. Murdoch makes the strange suggestion that love is a form of knowledge. How do we reconcile this claim with love’s heterogeneous and messy everyday manifestations? I develop an interpretation of …
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Functional and Pathological States of the Protein Tau Investigated with Solid-State NMR
… to play key roles in the maintenance of neurons. However, tau is found to pathologically aggregate into specific fibrillar structures in a number of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, which is the most common neurodegenerative disease in humans. Each disease is characterized …
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Lying: Strategies to Manage Undesirable Communicative Situations in Japan and New Zealand
This study explores how Japanese and New Zealand people manage undesirable communicative situations by applying lying strategies, specifically, how they manage refusal situations by using untruthful excuses. Lying is a communicative strategy that people sometimes adopt to manage undesirable …
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Algorithmic aspects of some combinatorial problems in bioinformatics
… about molecular structures and processes and the knowledge how to prepare, structure, and analyze this data and even more to predict relations based on this data, is the driving force within this field.In this thesis, we study models and combinatorial problems arising from current bioinformatics …
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How visual representations affect undergraduate students’ use and understanding of engineering concepts during problem solving
… converting solar energy into electricity. However, their levelized cost of electricity (i.e., $/MW*h) is currently too high to compete with traditional electricity sources. One way to lower this cost is to increase the solar cell’s power conversion efficiency, which is often limited by …
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Empirical evidence that proves a serious game is an educationally effective tool for learning computer programming constructs at the computational thinking level
… (GBL), to impart theoretical and applied knowledge, especially in the Computer Science discipline. Despite several years of considerable effort, the empirical evidence in the GBL literature is still missing, specifically that which identifies what students learn from a serious game …
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Multilingual teacher-talk in Secondary school classrooms in Yola, North-East Nigeria: Exploring the interface of language and knowledge using legitimation code theory and terminology theory
… that language „a‟ is used for presentational knowledge, and language „b‟ is used for explanatory knowledge, and these claims have not been subjected to sustained scrutiny. Secondly, codeswitching and translanguaging increasingly have been the dominant and exclusive frameworks used, and this …
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Epistemological implications of representational pluralism
… that, although epistemology is the theory of knowledge, epistemologists generally operate as though their field is simply the theory of propositional knowledge. Epistemologists generally assume that knowledge is a certain type of belief relation to a true proposition. However, cognitive …
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