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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"levels of representation"”.
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Knowledge retention with genetic algorithms by multiple levels of representation
Low-level representations have proven to be good at certain kinds of adaptive learning. High-level representations make effective use of existing knowledge and perform inference well. To promote using both forms of representation cooperatively rather than engaging in the perennial sectarian debate …
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A Qualitative Analysis of School Leadership Behaviors and Levels of Representation of One Minority Population in Advanced Placement Courses in One Southeastern Virginia School District
This qualitative case study analyzes the underrepresentation of minority students in Advanced Placement (AP) courses in Virginia high schools and examines the influences that encourage school leaders to lessen the existing gaps at their assigned schools. Data from a division in southeastern …
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Gender dimension of representation of Police officers in high ranks in Zambia Police Service
Gender equality in all areas and at all levels was well appreciated by the world community especially when it’s promotion reached the climax during the fourth UN conference in Beijing in 1995 (Hilka, P. and Jeanne, V. 1995). Member states including Zambia participated in making declarations to …
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Gender dimension of representation of Police officers in high ranks in Zambia Police Service
Gender equality in all areas and at all levels was well appreciated by the world community especially when it’s promotion reached the climax during the fourth UN conference in Beijing in 1995 (Hilka, P. and Jeanne, V. 1995). Member states including Zambia participated in making declarations to …
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Perceptual learning of context-sensitive phonetic detail
[Abstract abbreviated due to inability of DSpace@Cambridge to display phonetic symbols. Please see the full abstract in the attached pdf file.] Although familiarity with a talker or accent is known to facilitate perception, it is not clear what underlies this phenomenon. Previous research has …
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Processing of Underlying and Surface Phonological Representations In Visual Word Recognition
<p>The current study investigated the nature of phonological codes used in visual word recognition. The phonological unit selected for the study was the underlying and surface representations of word-final two-consonant codas. The underlying representation consisted of both consonants whereas the …
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A incorporação do conceito de sistema na Ciência da Informação: um exercício metodológico para seu entendimento
Investigation of epistemological nature on the introduction of system concept in Informations Science via academic and operational practices of information system agents in Brazil. The response to the investigation is organized on Knowledge methodologically and threoretically based aiming at the …
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Verbs of pure change of state in English: projection, constructions and event structure
Role and Reference Grammar (RRG) is a theory of clausal relations whose strength lies in its typological validity and eclecticism. However, its system of lexical representation has some weaknesses, as it fails to satisfactorily explain the semantics of those structures that extend beyond the basic …
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Allen's Islamophobia and the British news media : a critical evaluation of Islamophobia as a concept and its application to the written news media in Britain between 2001 and 2008.
This Dissertation firstly regards the definition of Islamophobia by Christopher Allen and its development out of Orientalism. Secondly it regards the written news media between 2001 and 2008 which includes the events of 9/11 and 7/7. Then the levels of representation Islam and Muslims receive the …
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Text analysis of persuasive business writing: A sociolinguistic perspective
… by cohesion and coherence. Thirty compositions of native and nonnative speakers of English were scored for perceived persuasiveness, cohesion, and organizational coherence. The results of this study are intended to further the research in text analysis. A current issue in sociolinguistics is the …
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Membership representation in the issue-focus selection process of national environmental nonprofit organizations
Public interest groups, environmental nonprofit organizations (ENPOs) among them, play a large role in the formulation and implementation of public policy. Much of their legitimacy comes from their claim that they represent their members' interests. This thesis examines ENPO communication forms to …
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The design and development of specialized design tools for manufacturing equipment
… thesis examines the potential for a platform of modular design tools targeted at the design, analysis, and fabrication of process and manufacturing equipment through the development of the platform's first design tool: a web-based tool for the design and analysis of Cartesian positioning …
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Morphological Segmentation During Silent Reading
… study tested two hypotheses about the properties of morphological segmentation: (a) that it applies on phonemic representations, and (b) that it outputs affixal information that is taken up and used at representational levels higher than the lexical one. In two experiments, participants' …
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La representación social que los estudiantes poseen acerca de las reacciones químicas y su incidencia en la construcción del concepto de cambio químico
En la presente tesis se acepta que la construcción del concepto estructurante cambio químico se ve atravesado por la interpretación que a nivel social se le otorga a este fenómeno. Por tal motivo se considera que la teoría de las representaciones sociales puede enriquecer el campo de conocimientos …
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Evidence of Student Learning of Spectrophotometry and Intermolecular Forces in the Chemistry Laboratory
… and explanatory reasoning in the context of laboratory learning. The first strand of the research analyzed student perceptions of spectroscopy in contrast to gravimetric analysis through the methodological framework of phenomenography and then used the phenomenographic outcome space to …
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Conditional Neural Networks for Speech and Language Processing
… transformed the raw data to a suitable internal representation. Its extreme efficacy on multiple levels of representation and feature learning ensures this type of approaches can process high dimensional data. It integrates the feature representation, learning and recognition into a systematical …
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Eye movements and processing of semantic information in the parafovea during reading
… read a text, we obtain information at different levels of representation from abstract symbols. A reader’s ultimate aim is the extraction of the meaning of the words and the text. The reserach of eye movements in reading covers a broad range of psychological systems, ranging from low-level …
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Mental Representation and the Construction of Conceptual Understanding in Electronics Education
… can be difficult due to the hidden nature of the phenomena of interest. Developing understanding about electronics is therefore challenging because voltage cannot be readily observed; only the outcomes of the behaviour of voltage can be observed. Consequently modelling the phenomena of …
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A Study on the Level of Ethnic Representation of High School (9-12) Teachers to the Ethnic Representation of Students Enrolled in Each Comprehensive High School in the Commonwealth of Virginia
The ethnic composition of the United States is diversifying (NCES, 2014), which is altering the types of ethnicities seen in America’s school system. Beginning in the late 1980s and continuing into the two decades following, educators of ethnic minorities (e.g., Black, Hispanic, Asian) began …
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Computational measures of linguistic variation: a study of Arabic varieties
… pronunciation variation. I introduce the idea of measuring the amount of linguistic variation asymmetrically; the amount of linguistics variation between a speaker of variety A and a hearer of variety B is not necessarily equal to the amount of linguistic variation between a speaker of variety …
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