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Showing 1 to 20 of 476 for “"naming"”.
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Naming without necessity
In this thesis I argue that we should break with the dominant Kripkean tradition concerning natural kind terms and theoretical identity. I claim that there is just no interesting connection between the metaphysics and semantics of natural kind terms, and demonstrate this by constructing a version …
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Anthropomorphic bias in naming
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, 1999.
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Understanding Internet Naming: From the Modern DNS Ecosystem to New Directions in Naming
… current and proposed implementations ofInternet naming schemes. Creating reliable naming systems requires an up-to-date understanding of the current system's real-world operation.Therefore, our first goal is to understand the modern client-side Domain Name System (DNS) ecosystem through empirical …
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Network Dynamics of Visual Naming
<p>Recognition and naming of objects and actions are fundamental components of language. They involve several different systems working in coordination to accomplish a complex behavior. During visual naming, sensory and semantic processing are carried out by dedicated cortical substrates in the …
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A new Internet Naming System
In this thesis I describe my research activities and results of the last 4 years. I also provide an outlook and guidelines on how to proceed with our project, that we named SEDNS - Security-Enhanced Domain Name System. This project’s ambitions are to complement DNS, the Domain Name System, in a way …
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Naming in the Mzimela tribal area
Naming among Black people results from specific events that have taken place prior or after a certain occurence, for instance, some places and personal names, are named after some historical events and family matters that has taken place. The main aim in this research paper is to get and follow …
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Scalability in an International Naming System
Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2000.
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Boston Naming Test with Latencies (BNT-L)
… to establish a modified version of the Boston Naming Test (BNT) that includes latency times, the Boston Naming Test of Latencies (BNT-L), in order to improve the instrument's sensitivity to mild to moderate word-finding impairment. Experiment 1: Latency times on the 60-item BNT (Goodglass et …
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Distributed naming in a factored operating system
… describes the design and implementation of the naming system in fos, including the naming and messaging system within each application and the distributed name service itself. Scaling numbers for the name service are presented for various workloads, as well as end-to-end performance numbers for …
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Naming and discovery in networks : architecture and economics
… problem concerns the limitations of traditional naming and discovery schemes in terms of service differentiation and economic incentives. One of the recurring themes in the community is the need to separate an entity's identifier from its locator to enhance mobility and security. Separation of …
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Colour and Naming in Healthy and Aphasic People
… subjects to evaluate the influence of colour on naming pictures of objects. We designed a completely new stimulus set based on images of 140 common real objects that were inspired by the Snodgrass and Vanderwart picture set (1980). We were especially interested whether there is a difference in …
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Labels and Tags: A New Look at Naming
… are able to provide solutions to the problems of naming where other theories fail.
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Naming and Addressing in Interconnected Computer Networks (Protocol)
… network or a joint-network. In this thesis, the naming and addressing problems in the internetwork environment are studied. Four naming and addressing schemes for the bit-string I-names are designed. In these naming and addressing schemes, bit-string I-names of entities are used in the packet …
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A context-sensitive meta-classifier for color-naming
… extent of semantic contextual effects on color naming. An evaluation of the algorithm based on the corpus gathered in this experiment is then tendered.
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Naming and synchronization in a decentralized computer system.
Thesis. 1979. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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Linear graph reduction : confronting the cost of naming
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1992.
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Naming and Namelessness in English and French Medieval Romance
This study aims to demonstrate that naming and namelessness are among the major themes of romance. Because the genre is notoriously difficult to define, many scholars consider romance as containing a critical number of themes: chivalry, love, questing, the marvellous, the progress of a hero(ine). …
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The Relation Between Components of Naming and Conditioned Seeing
… behavior was related to the demonstration of the naming capability. In Experiment 1, participants demonstrated a correlation between drawing responses and speaker responses in a test for naming (i.e., incidental learning of language) (r(10) = .702, p less than .02). In Experiment 2, I tested for …
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The power & politics of naming: literary onomastics within dystopian fiction
… composition. The control exercised over such naming is a major feature of the genre, but has received little scholarly attention. As a specialised genre, the number of core novels used to define the boundaries is relatively small, and thus allows research as a series in order to buil an …
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