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Showing 1 to 20 of 11954 for “"represent"”.
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Photography and its failure to represent
… engagement with how images embody notions of representational failure because they present themselves as image in support of a fiction of reality. What this means philosophically, is that there is no access to reality other than through representations that fail to represent. Underpinned by …
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ICANN or ICANN't Represent Internet Users
… controversy surrounding ICANN is whether it can represent a global society as a private entity and whether that private entity can represent Internet users. I focus my study on ICANN's Board of Directors. I evaluated the Board on the dimensions of descriptive, substantive, and formal …
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How should compilers represent fork-join parallelism?
… can be embedded into a compiler's intermediate representation (IR). Mainstream compilers typically treat parallel linguistic constructs as syntactic sugar for function calls into a parallel runtime. These calls prevent the compiler from performing optimizations across parallel control …
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Using Sound to Represent Uncertainty in Spatial Data
… sets are extensive or complex. Using sound to represent some of these data (sonification) is a way of avoiding visual overload. This thesis creates a conceptual model showing how sonification can be used to represent spatial data and evaluates a number of elements within the conceptual model. …
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Young Children's Use of Dolls to Represent Themselves
… use the location of a sticker on one person or representation to guide their placement of a similar sticker in the corresponding location on another person or representation. This task allows for investigation of children's ability with the symbolic task faced in a clinical or forensic …
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The validity of using grip strength to represent total body strength and of using a 1Rm bench press to represent upper body strength
… demonstrate that grip strength was an adequate representation of total body strength. However, a correlation of.72483 was sufficient evidence to suggest that a 1RM bench press test is an adequate representation of upper body strength.
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Developing a design methodology to represent paradoxes in gameplay systems
This thesis aims to provide a preliminary framework for developers aiming to utilize paradoxes as part of their game design. Research has shown that games do not follow the laws of paradoxes while integrating paradoxes as part of their design. As such, these games misinterpret paradoxes with two …
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Does analyst forecast dispersion represent investors' perceived uncertainty toward earnings?
… that analyst forecast dispersion on average represents information asymmetry among analysts rather than analysts’ uncertainty toward earnings numbers. Further tests show that this negative relationship is more pronounced in the subsample with lower earnings quality where analyst forecast …
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Inferring the Existence of Geometric Primitives to Represent Non-Discriminable Data
… algorithm that uses only geometric primitives to represent an input pointcloud. In addition to the problems faced in general primitive fitting, non-discriminable data presents additional data association challenges. We propose to address these challenges by estimating the existence rather than …
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How to Represent a Country in a Foreign Land: Italian Cancelleria
It is my intention that the building be both sympathetic to its urban and historic context and clear in the development of a new identity for an embassy complex. The building makes careful connections to the proportions and geometries of classical Italian architecture, while establishing landmark …
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Can Arabs Represent America? The Performativity of U.S-Arab Mediated Public Diplomacy
… of dissidents, acted as legitimate speakers and representors on behalf of both America and its ideals, as well as their audiences behind the Iron Curtain who yearned for those ideals. American policy towards the Communist Block was consistent and did not undermine its claims for espousing …
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Making the Forest Together: Young Children Represent a Shared Experience in Clay
This thesis examines the strategies young children use to develop a common set of goals when collaborating on a group art work. Teachers at Sabot School spend a great deal of time in discussion of children's group work. By concentrating on one project in my preschool classroom, I reached a greater …
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HOW DO NOVICE AND EXPERT LEARNERS REPRESENT, UNDERSTAND, AND DISCUSS GEOLOGIC TIME?
<p>This dissertation examined the representations novice and expert learners constructed for the geologic timescale. Learners engaged in a three-part activity. The purpose was to compare novice learners’ representations to those of expert learners. This provided insight into the similarities and …
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Comparisons of computational methods to represent electron transport in nonequilibrium plasma devices
Low pressure optically triggered pseudosparks, or Back-Lit Thyratrons (BLT), are inherently multidimensional transient devices. The method employed to model electron transport in such devices is therefore problematic. A versatile model for these switches with which to compare different modeling …
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Dead Presidents to Represent Me? Hip-Hop's Conflicted Legacy of Power and Protest
Hip-hop has long served as a voice for marginalized communities, addressing issues such as systemic racism, economic inequality, and political oppression. From its early days with artists like Public Enemy, 2Pac, and N.W.A. to its modern mainstream dominance, the genre has shaped and been shaped by …
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Ridgelets: A promising new wavelet-like transform to represent objects with linear singularities
… namely the Ridgelet transform. This new representation tool exploits the ability of wavelets to deal with point singularities. In fact, the Ridgelet transform is equivalent to a one-dimensional wavelet transform in the Radon domain. By doing so, a line singularity is transformed into a …
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Using the Unified Modeling Language (UML) to represent artefacts in the Zachman Frameword
… lifecycle. The importance of providing graphical representations to describe conceptual ideas will be stressed. A short history will be provided of the origins of UML as well as a description of the diagrams used. Since UML is a language and not a methodology a brief discussion regarding a …
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Using learning designs to represent and assess reflective learning for undergraduate medical students
… medical students. PDPs provide a documentary representation of the students’ internal reflections on their previous experiences and future learning needs and LD supports the sharing and reuse of learning designs by providing a conceptual vocabulary for describing the active nature of teaching …
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Who do representatives represent? ? estimating the importance of electoral coalition preferences in California
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1998.
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