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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"positive evidence"”.
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Effects of positive evidence, indirect negative evidence and form-function transparency on second language acquisition: Evidence from L2 Chinese and L2 Thai
… The results are interpreted in terms of roles of positive evidence and form-function transparency. In general, L2 learners tend to acquire a TL structure earlier when they can receive positive evidence in TL input and when a form-function connection of the structure is transparent. Nonetheless, …
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A study of tribopolymerization under fretting conditions
… volume of the disk by over 650/0; furthermore, positive evidence of polystyrene was found via FTIRM. These results support the hypothesis proposed by Kajdas that addition-type tribopolymerization can be initiated by exo-electron emission. Under these conditions of expected relatively low surface …
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Left-orderability of Dehn surgeries on knot complements
… These two families of knots gives some positive evidence for a question of Xinghua Gao.
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Comparing Training Effects of Virtual Reality Flight Simulation to Conventional PC-Based Flight Simulation
… motivation for usage. This work contributed positive evidence that VR flight simulation has a large potential to be an effective flight training and provided a foundation for future research to continue exploring the training effect of VR flight simulation.</p> <p>Keywords: virtual reality, …
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Integrating Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness Interventions into Urban High Schools for the Benefit of both Teachers and Students
… of students across the country. Growing positive evidence supports the use of mindfulness-based approaches to help adolescents cope with the impact of toxic stress and complex trauma. This dissertation will examine the impact that toxic stress and complex trauma have on both students and …
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Spanish-Speaking Learners' Acquisition of English VPE and WH-Extraction Out of VPE
… wh-extraction from VPE-internal islands without positive evidence (which is identified as the Poverty of Stimulus problem)? The results of the first two experiments showed that Spanish-speakers transferred three of the four L1=Spanish VPE descriptive properties (related to functional categories) …
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The development and validation of a conditional reasoning test of withdrawal
… pointed to a subset of items (13 of 25) with positive evidence of predictive validity and indicated that the items assess largely heterogeneous content, possessing low internal consistency. Results of hypothesis testing revealed positive and statistically significant predictive relationships …
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Notions of justice through drama
… of learning. The results revealed sufficient positive evidence to indicate that concrete recommendations be considered by The Western Australian Curriculum Council for inclusion in Drama syllabi to further strengthen the Council's thrust for a values-based curriculum in Western Australian …
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Smart Search Engine For Information Retrieval
… this project, the experiment result demonstrates positive evidence that meet the smart search theory. In the theory proposed in this project, the smart search aims to determine a set of keywords for any web documents, by which the semantic meanings of the documents can be uniquely identified. …
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Learnability, representation, and language : a Bayesian approach
… tradeoff can handle sparse evidence may lead to a new perspective on how humans reason based on the noisy and impoverished data in the world. The learnability arguments I consider all ultimately stem from the impoverishment of the input either because it lacks negative …
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Prediction markets for cost and risk assessment
… and data collected from simulations, we found positive evidence that prediction markets can supplement the use of current estimation and risk assessment methodologies when deployed correctly, and help keep a check on the pulse of an organization by preparing it for any future events or outcomes.
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Explaining Racial Discrepancies in Verbal Memory Assessment with Joint Estimation of Life Course Social Inequalities and Measurement Bias
… on the measurement of memory not only removed evidence for racial group differences but provided positive evidence overall that the two racial groups had equivalent overall memory abilities. While promising as a new approach to understanding test data, additional evaluation, particularly with …
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Plague in the Graeco-Roman world, 430 B.C.-A.D. 600
… 430 B.C. - A.D. 600, in an attempt to find positive evidence for the existence of bubonic plague in the ancient world. Most major studies on the Black Death have concerned themselves with the great pandemics of the Middle Ages and none (to my knowledge), have systematically examined the …
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Infants' reasoning about animals
… behaviors as privileged, then small amounts of evidence that an animal of a kind engages in a specific behavior may lead to rapid generalization of the same behavior to the entire kind. Using this generalization method, I investigate infants’ expectations about two kind-specific behaviors of …
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Nominal phrases in English and Japanese speakers' L2 Mandarin grammars
… between these two. Moreover, the rarity of the positive evidence is argued to play a crucial role in English and Japanese L2ers' acquisition of the co-occurrence of determinative elements, which highlights the importance of input frequency in L2 acquisition. It is also believed to be responsible …
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Leading the Economy: Do both the banking sector and stock market development independently lead economic activity in South Africa? Evidence from South Africa using Granger-causality tests
… stationarity tests to provide more conclusive evidence of the data’s stationarity before Granger-causality testing is performed. The additional stationarity tests in this study establish that some time series data, which Sayed et al. (2017) concluded to be stationary, is in fact not stationary, …
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The Tyndale House Greek New Testament and Nestle-Aland Tradition as Complementary, Not Competitive Critical Editions
… to their full potential. Chapter 1 surveys three positives and four negatives about the THGNT among reviewers, then explains the THGNT’s text-critical methodology, and the dissertation argument. Chapter 2 discusses the critical texts of the THGNT and NA27/28, focusing on: (1) why we need a new …
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The acquisition of the Pro-drop parameter by non-native speakers of Spanish
… takes place on the basis of fairly minimal positive evidence derived from the linguistic environment. Recent discussions of parameter setting in SLA have proposed various interpretations of this process. Two different models can be proposed: non-access to UG vs access to UG. The non-access …
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Neural substrate of emotion in man : a study in methodology
… such statistical controls provide suggestive evidence of a specific emotional deficit, they cannot completely eliminate the possibility that the frontal deficit is secondary to perceptuo-motor or cognitive impairment. Experimental strategies designed to provide more positive evidence of a …
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High-Dimensional Inference with Heterogeneous Data
… 'Mixed Sparse Linear Regression', we bring novel evidence towards the existence of a statistical price to pay for computational efficiency. In the high-dimensional setting where the sample size $n$ and signal sparsity $k$ are allowed to be sublinear in the covariate dimension $p$, we prove via the …
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