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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"mental map"”.
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A Study of the Relationship Between Current Event Knowledge and the Ability to Construct a Mental Map of the World
… event knowledge and the ability to construct a mental map of the world. It was hypothesized that participates with more current event knowledge would demonstrate better mental mapping abilities. The study was designed using two activities recommended for 12th graders by Geography for Life, …
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Lord Aberdeen and Conservative Foreign Policy, 1841-1846
… contextualised by an analysis of Aberdeen’s ‘mental map’, in order to reconstruct the personal influences and reasoning behind Conservative foreign policy. The study then engages with Aberdeen’s dealings in Europe, where it provides an alternative interpretation of the Anglo-French entente. It …
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Quantifying the Benefits of Immersion for Procedural Training
… whether immersive VEs are beneficial for purely mental activities, such as memorizing a procedure. In this thesis, we present two experiments to identify benefits of immersion for a procedural training process. The first experiment is a between-subjects experiment comparing two levels of …
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Spatial signatures and mental maps: Using offenders’ activity locations to enhance geographic profiling for crime investigations
… of a crime location thus reflects the ‘mental map’ of the offender: the locations they are familiar with from their everyday activities, such as where they live, work, go to school or visit family and friends. Previous empirical research suggests that people are more likely to commit …
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Beyond Generosity: The Action Logics in Philanthropy
… in philanthropy? This study employed developmental psychology to explore this question. Developmental theorists agree that an adult develops in sequential stages over the course of a lifetime, gradually adopting an increasingly complex mental map. An individual’s developmental stage at any …
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"Family is Really All Over The Place:" Ethnic Identity Formation Within A Transnational Network
… a multi-directional and transnational network, a mental map that included nodal points across the globe. This project argues that the identity of Campani depended less on formalized ethnic associations and more on informal networks of family to develop a sense of identity. Focusing on this …
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Spontaneous directional preferences in taxonomically and ecologically distinct organisms: examining cues and underlying mechanisms
… may help to organize multiple locales into a 'mental map' of familiar space. Given the importance of magnetic input in many aspects of spatial behavior, another important finding was that magnetic alignment of yearling turtles was disrupted by high levels of maternally transferred mercury, an …
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Multiset Model Selection and Averaging, and Interactive Storytelling
… algorithms often do not agree with user's mental map of the data. Hence systems that incorporate feedback through visual interaction from the user are of immediate importance. We pro- pose a visual analytic framework in which such interactions are naturally incorporated in to the existing …
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Efficient visual navigation of hierarchically structured graphs
… after expansion or contraction. As our experimental results on randomly generated graphs show, the average time for updating the drawing is around 50 % of the time for redrawing for dense graphs and below 20 % for sparse graphs. Also, the performance gain is not at the expense of quality as …
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Traces de terre, traces d'encre... La rappresentazione dello spazio nella letteratura caraibica. (Francofona e Anglofona)
… from the first colonization until the départementalisation. The first paragraph “The colonized space: historical-political excursus” the explores the history of the European colonization that marked forever the theatre of the relationship between Europe, Africa and the New World. This social …
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The Image from the Road: Towards Mapping the Phenomenological
… cognitive geography research, is the ‘cognitive map’, a concept that suggests “that people hold a map-like database in their minds to which they can add and use to tackle geographical tasks”. Kevin Lynch, an urban planner in the 1960s, was an early adopter of the cognitive map approach to reveal …
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Job Perceptions of Social Workers
… in minimising interviewer bias and it enables a mental map to be drawn in a way which makes it easier to measure change and to make comparisons between people. The technique has high face validity for interviewees and has been shown to help them to find a vocabulary with which to express …