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Showing 1 to 20 of 2677 for “"opinion"”.
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Fair Value Opinion Shopping
… provide empirical evidence related to fair value opinion shopping. Experiment 1 provides initial evidence that managers fair value opinion shop for external valuation professionals in the current regulatory environment. Further, the results of Experiment 1 suggest that informing managers that they …
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Opinion integration and summarization
… popular, more and more people express their opinions on the Web in various ways in real time. Such wide coverage of topics and abundance of users make the Web an extremely valuable source for mining people's opinions about all kinds of topics. However, since the opinions are usually expressed …
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Opinion Analysis through Constraint Optimisation
Opinion lexicon plays a vital role in sentiment classifi�cation. A previous study shows that a compositional model can be e�ective in sentiment classifi�cation. But such a model has been only applied using hand-crafted composition rules. The need for hand-crafted rules arise when dealing with …
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Corporal Punishment: Opinion Vs. Research
… with reliable scientific research, what are the opinions of the teachers entering the field regarding this topic? Current research provides little insight into the opinions of education students regarding the use of corporal punishment. This study is designed to examine the opinions of Teach …
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Opinion driven decision support system
Opinions on the web present a wealth of information that can be leveraged in our day to day decision making tasks ranging from which product to purchase to which doctor to consult for a particular ailment. Due to the large volume of opinions available from different sources across web, digesting …
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Coalitional game with opinion exchange
… apply if different participants hold different opinions about the payoff function that corresponds to each subset of the coalition. In this thesis, we propose a framework in which players can exchange opinions about their views of payoff functions and then decide the distribution of the value of …
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Patriotism Among Muslim American Opinion Leaders
<p>A significant degree of public opinion research has been conducted on Muslim Americans, but very little has focused on their perceptions. This study explores how opinion leaders address the question of patriotism, Americanness, hyphenated identities, and the implications of such a discourse. The …
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Public opinion and agriculture 1875-1900
… as it did in the contemporary response of public opinion to the fate of agriculture. It was not the economic fortunes of agriculture alone which excited contemporary interest. Rather, it was the effect of these on the role which agriculture played in the life of the nation and the effect on the …
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California Opinion on Lincoln to 1864
… has been confirmed in the course of time. Public opinion, almost a century after his death, can be classified as almost universal affection.</p> <p>This was not true during the period of this particular study. He emerged from near obscurity to become a national controversy. His lowliness of …
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Omaha City Services: An Opinion Survey
The purpose of this opinion survey was threefold: a. To determine perceptions of residents of six neighborhoods in Omaha of the quality of selected City services in their own neighborhoods and in other neighborhoods in relation to their own. These perceptions were to be solicited in terms of their …
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A Critical Engagement with Piratical Opinion
A study of the intellectual property crime commonly known as ‘file sharing’ using the file sharing websites on which users display their activity and post comments. As a guide I will use a meta-theoretical framework first developed by Roger Sibeon and then expanded by Tim Owen to help focus the …
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TONGS: TLDR; Opinion Network Guide System
… text processing. To extract features such as the opinion and subjectivity in text, sentiment analysis is applied to the corpus. In this thesis, we present the TONGS library for conducting sentiment analysis. TONGS uses Word2Vec within the TensorFlow library to convert words into vector space …
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Multiple aspect ranking for opinion analysis
… the problem of analyzing multiple related opinions in a text. For instance, in a restaurant review such opinions may include food, ambiance and service. We formulate this task as a multiple aspect ranking problem, where the goal is to produce a set of numerical scores, one for each aspect. …
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Interpretation of community opinion by leaders
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of City and Regional Planning, 1961.
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Contemporary Opinion of President Wilson's Fourteen Points
While one of the bloodiest conflicts in history still raced on the battle front of Europe, Woodrow Wilson President of the United states, determined to make the peace settlement not only an opportunity for nations to disarm, but also on Instrument for an enduring peace. Military victory to this …
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Public Opinion in Benjamin Constant's Political Thought
… all-pervasive use of the concept of ‘public opinion.’ The dissertation is divided into three main chapters, which unfold along chronological lines. The first chapter is devoted to the Directory period (1795-1799). The second chapter covers the years of Napoléon’s acme, from the fall of the …
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Social Networks, Public Opinion, and Foreign Policy
… that networks' effectiveness in shaping public opinion is largely dependent on the types of policies that dominate the national agenda. Policies with direct implications for average citizens, such as European integration, create an opportunity for extensive political discussions and critical …
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Analyzing the opinion dynamics models discrete & continuous
In this thesis we analyze some of the opinion dynamics in both discrete and continuous cases. In the discrete case, we will find some criteria under which we can say more about the behavior of the dynamics such as convergence of the agents to the same opinion, or consensus. For this purpose, we …
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Market and strategic analysis of opinion aggregators
… studies an emerging web phenomenon - online opinion aggregator. The thesis first defines what an opinion aggregator is and then applies a holistic framework to analyze the opinion aggregator to understand its key characteristics. The research then zooms in on one of the most popular opinion …
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Customer Focussed Technology Selection Using Expert Opinion. Incorporating the 'Voice of the Customer' and Expert Opinion in Technology Selection.
… due to resource limitations, expert opinion has been employed. A questionnaire has been developed to capture the experts’ opinions of the performance of the technologies in a non-linear Likert-type scale. The combination of expert opinion, where the experts are specialists in a range …
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