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Showing 1 to 20 of 467 for “"revise"”.
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Searching for Mother: Chicana Writers Revise and Renew Malinche and Guadalupe
… Castillo, Sandra Cisneros and Pat Mora, not only revise traditional images of Malinche and Guadalupe, but also offer alternative constructions based, in part, on oral tradition and matriarchal authorities. Their writings question patriarchally-inscribed images of Malinche and Guadalupe that are …
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Building Blocks for Human-AI Alignment: Specify, Inspect, Model, and Revise
… be able to easily specify, inspect, model, and revise AI system and robot behaviors. These four interactions are critical building blocks for human-AI alignment. In this thesis, I study each of these problems. First, I study how experts write reward function specifications for reinforcement …
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Prepared for a world that no longer exists : white Afrikaner males revise identity for a transformed world
Following the peaceful transition in 1994 from apartheid to democracy, and the political realignment of power from the Afrikaner minority to the Black majority, South Africa has been thrust into a social climate of radical and far reaching change. As one formerly advantaged group in the new …
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“What the Hell is Revise?”: Student Approaches to Coursework in Developmental English at one Urban-Serving Community College
… disoriented by their professor requirement to “revise.” For the 18 students who reported passing at least the composition portion of their course, success was essentially a matter of developing the capacity to revise an unacceptable draft of an essay assignment into a satisfactory one using …
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An investigation of metalinguistic judgments in Broca's aphasia
… speakers, ages 33 to 78, were asked to judge, revise, and explain a corpus of sentences on a set of formal (created by the examiner) and informal (subject's spontaneous errors) tasks. The results of this study showed that the control and mild aphasic subjects were able to judge, revise, and …
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Probing the Probabilistic Reasoning and Belief Change Abilities of Preschool-Age Children
… those determinations to build and dynamically revise their beliefs. Past literature has generally investigated the belief change abilities of children using deterministic, experimenter-generated evidence in the lab (e.g., Bonawitz et al., 2019; Kimura & Gopnik, 2019; Macris & Sobel, 2017). …
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The Impact of Social Influence Pressure on CFO Judgments
… significantly increase CFOs’ willingness to revise their initial inventory adjustments in the direction preferred by the CEO. Although compliance pressure did not create perceived pressure in the CFOs, it generated an actual response (similar revision of the initial adjustment) similar to …
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The formative evaluation and revision of an instructional management system for business computer competencies
… purpose of this project was to (1) evaluate and revise a computer-based instructional management system developed to organize business computer competencies, and (2) develop and revise documentation for using the system. The instructional management system consists of a database and various …
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Income Classification Shifting and Financial Analysts’ Forecasts
… inflated through classification shifting and revise their future earnings forecast accordingly. Consistent with my prediction, I find that given the same amount of earnings news, analysts revise their future quarterly earnings forecasts by half as much for classification shifters than for …
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Creating a Web Presence for a Small Business Using a Holistic Content Strategy Approach
… content strategy process used and work done to revise a small business website, in order to better meet the content needs of both the business and its customers.</p>
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The Development of an Experimental and Cooperative Pilot Program in Elementary Guidance in Walla Walla County
… NDEA grant at the end of its first year, (2) to revise and amend the original objectives, and (3) to make recommendations pursuant the knowledge gained through the experimental and cooperative efforts of those involved.
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The introduction of computer-assisted-instruction to a first-year dental anatomy course for dental hygiene students
… Require participation and Evaluate and revise). For the purposes of this research, the researcher examines the use of theASSURE model as a methodological framework for the implementation and reflection of CAI with first-year dental hygiene students. The researcherAnalysed the students' …
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The Rise and Fall of Organised Political Freethought, 1870-1880
… from 1870 to 1880, and in so doing seeks to revise the historiographies on radical movements during the era of Reconstruction. In particular, the thesis also seeks to detail the influence of some of the most radical thinkers from the Age of Enlightenment upon the political and intellectual …
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Greek Letter Organization Membership and Socially Responsible Leadership: A Qualitative Study of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Member-Development Program
… in the overarching recommended solution: to revise the existing SAE member education program into a mission-focused, values-based, and aspirational goal-oriented program for lifelong development. Implementation of the recommendation would include using learning theory and leadership models …
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Shallow 3D Shear Wave Velocity Model and Revised Site Period Prediction Map for the Mexico City Basin
<p>The goal of this study was to revise the existing site period prediction map and to develop a shallow 3D shear wave velocity model of the Mexico City Basin. To accomplish this goal, an extensive literature review was performed to compile as much pertinent shear wave velocity and site period data …
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A tool to support the planning of ground delay programs subject to uncertain arrival capacities
… under the assumption that a traffic manager will revise the GDP at a later time, once additional information regarding arrival capacity forecasts has become available. Revising a program can significantly reduce its expected cost, but different programs may not respond in the same way to future …
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Conservatism in a Bayesian Probability Situation as a Function of the Sex of the Subject
… events. They were then given an opportunity to revise their estimates as additional information was experimentally introduced into the situation. These estimates were compared to estimates calculated from Bayes’ theorem.
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Hugh Gaitskell, the Labour Party and foreign affairs 1955-63
… over nationalisation, his ill-fated attempt to revise Clause IV and defeat at the 1960 Scarborough conference. This thesis addresses that imbalance by examining Gaitskell's contribution to foreign affairs and the following inter-related areas: bi-partisanship; policy formulation; internal …
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Hetrogenous impact of interest rates on retail firm prices : a product-level analysis using micro-data from Lesotho
… to an interest rate shock. Firms will either revise their prices upwards or downwards compared to keeping their prices constant. This ambiguity occurs when a firm's price is a function of price elasticity of demand and costs. A firm has to balance the need to pass on increased cost of the …
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Proposed Revisions To The Common Rule: Can IRBs Really Enhance Protections While Reducing Burdens?
… (HHS) announced its intention to significantly revise and update HHS regulations regarding human subject research for the first time since 1991, when it originally promulgated what has become known as the Common Rule. HHS further solicited comments to its proposed revisions contained in this …
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