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Showing 1 to 20 of 66 for “"multimodal approach"”.
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Image sense disambiguation : a multimodal approach
… to collect training data has limited most approaches to the several hundred object categories available in the labeled datasets. While human-annotated image data is scarce, additional sources of information can be used as weak labels, reducing the need for human supervision. In this thesis, …
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A multimodal approach to the assessment and treatment of children with learning difficulties
… the potential effectiveness of applying a Multimodal approach - as described by Lazarus (1976, 1981) - to trying to help children with learning difficulties referred through schools to a Child Guidance Service. It was the intention, as far as possible, to work within the normal constraints …
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Argument as design: a multimodal approach to academic argument in a digital age
… the potentials and constraints of adopting a multimodal approach to constructing academic argument. The research is situated within a seminar, in a second year Media course. Within this context, the study identifies the semiotic resources that students draw on and examines how they are …
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Investigating a Multimodal Approach to Clinical Diagnosis of Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer’s Disease
… measure that can definitively diagnose either. A multimodal approach must be implemented by clinicians and investigated by researchers to ensure early and accurate diagnosis. This study used multivariate logistic regression to analyze how two neuropsychological screening tests, two brain …
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Scenario pedagogy as a negotiated, multimodal approach to developing professional communication practices in higher education
… of teaching. In particular, a negotiated and multimodal pedagogical approach which I have coined scenario pedagogy is of interest. Scenario pedagogy involves embedding an entire curriculum into a topical and authentic scenario, relevant to a particular group of students in higher education. …
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A multimodal approach to investigate the effects of respiration on Fontan flow to inform strategies for circulatory support
… flow, and to design and evaluate promising approaches for the circulatory support. We develop a biomimetic respiratory simulator with integrated circulatory Fontan flow loop that shows high physiological fidelity. Vascular models with physiological compliance values interact with the …
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Systemic Functional Linguistics in the Community College Composition Class: A Multimodal Approach to Teaching Composition Using the Metalanguage of SFL
… of a systemic functional linguistics (SFL) approach to teaching composition at the community college level. The study took place over the course of a semester in two developmental college composition classes using the language of SFL to teach writing through multimodal assignments. The study …
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Analysis of rainfall data in Sicily from 2002 to 2023: a multimodal approach. [Analisi dei dati di precipitazione in Sicilia dal 2002 al 2023: un approccio multimodale]
I cambiamenti climatici stanno modificando la frequenza e l’intensità degli eventi estremi, con impatti significativi sull’ambiente e sulla società, in particolare nelle regioni mediterranee. Questa tesi analizza l’evoluzione dei regimi di precipitazione in Sicilia dal 2002 al 2023, combinando …
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Effect of a multi-modal approach on developing number sense in Grade 8 learners in Ncamagoro circuit, Kavango West region
… This study investigated the effects of a multimodal approach on the development of number sense in Grade 8 learners. It was guided by two research questions: “1. What are the effects of a multimodal approach on the development of number sense in Grade 8 learners? 2. How does the multimodal …
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The Materiality of the Self: A Multimodal, Communicative Approach to Identity
The purpose of this dissertation is to propose a multimodal approach as an alternative way of theorizing and researching identity. The multimodal approach utilizes four modes of interaction--multidirectional interpellation, spatiality, temporality, and corporealit--to explore the processes of …
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Context sensitive road planning for developing countries
… to produce a more comprehensive, holistic and multimodal approach to practice. A description of the context, defined in terms of land use, socioeconomic, environmental and transport information, was developed and forms the basis of a method for making recommendations for road infrastructure …
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Understanding language through visual imagination
This thesis introduces a multimodal approach to natural language understanding by presenting a generative language-vision model that can generate videos for sentences and a comprehensive approach for using this capability to solve natural language inference, video captioning and video completion …
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Productivity Measurement of Call Centre Agents using a Multimodal Classification Approach
… in call centres using various deep learning approaches. Calls recorded in a call centre are modelled and classified into high- or low-performance evaluations categorised as productive or nonproductive calls. The proposed conceptual model considers a deep learning network approach to model the …
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Use Case Oriented Medical Visual Information Retrieval & System Evaluation
… and attached images. This thesis proposes a multimodal approach for medical case-based retrieval with focus on the integration of visual information connected to text. Furthermore, the ImageCLEFmed evaluation campaign was organised during this thesis promoting medical retrieval system …
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Model-based quantitative combinatorial optical microscopy for extracting clinical imaging biomarkers
… the particular sample under study, an integrated approach in which all modalities are acquired in a simultaneous, co-registered manner can prove advantageous in obtaining a more complete understanding of the sample under study. While this multimodal approach to biomedical imaging is beginning to …
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Automatic, Careful Online Packing of Groceries Using a Soft Robotic Manipulator and Multimodal Sensing
… the use of soft robotic manipulators with multimodal sensing for estimating the physical properties of unknown objects to enable sorting and packing. Although bin packing has been a key benchmark task for robotic manipulation, the community has mainly focused on the placement of rigid …
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