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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"semantic cues"”.
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Flexible, wide-area storage for distributed systems using semantic cues
… WheelFS allows applications to adjust the semantics of their data via semantic cues, which provide application control over consistency, failure handling, and file and replica placement. This dissertation describes a particular set of semantic cues that reflect the specific challenges that …
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The effect of phonological and semantic cues on word retrieval in adults
… ability to name pictures accurately and quickly. Cues are used to help individuals with word retrieval difficulties in fmding specific words. Two commonly used cues are semantic and phonological cues. Semantic cues can be information about the word the person is trying to retrieve, such as its …
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Chronic accessibility of virtue-trait inferences : a social-cognitive approach to the moral personality
… dispositional terms or by words that were linked semantically to the sentences. Within the spontaneous processing condition, dispositional cues prompted twice as much recall as semantic cues among participants with high moral chronic accessibility whereas semantic cues prompted twice as much …
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Efficient file distribution in a flexible,wide-area file system
… such as consistency versus availability, using semantic cues. One key feature that many applications require from any storage system is efficient file distribution. The storage system needs to be able to serve files quickly, even large or popular ones, and allow users and applications to quickly …
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Learning Sim-to-Real Robot Parkour from RGB Images
… However, depth information inherently lacks the semantic information present in RGB images. This thesis investigates the application of an RGB visual locomotion policy for navigating complex environments, specifically focusing on extreme parkour terrain. While RGB data offers a deeper …
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Convergent probabilistic cues do not trigger syntactic adaptation in relative clause garden-path constructions
… experiments that tested whether co-occurring cues (explicit comprehension questions, preceding semantic cues, and font color) can help facilitate adaptation to reduced relative/main verb garden path sentences. Results suggest that readers do not overcome pre-existing predictive biases by …
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"Doing and Viewing Gender" : a lens-model approach to the communicative construction of gender in task-oriented groups
… indicated that participants used semiotic cues differently, depending on their own gender, their gender-hypothesis and the concept in question. For example, in Study 1 women used more syntactic cues and men more pragmatic cues, while both used the same amount of semantic cues to infer …
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The effects of price promotion on consumers' price beliefs
… examine the differential effects of two types of semantic cues. However, in the research, no differences were found between absolute and relative savings presentation formats. Findings as well as several issues about the measurement of internal reference price, the effects of an exaggerated …
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Identifying External Cross-references using Natural Language Processing (NLP)
… in our approach involve: (i) a taxonomy of semantic cues for identifying cross-references, (ii) a taxonomy of grammatical structures for supporting various combinations of word roles in a sentence, (iii) APA standards for validating cross-references, and (iv) third party access for …
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Sensitivity to (sub)lexical cues as a function of cognitive profile and language abilities
… language comprehension, multiple linguistic cues have to be integrated rapidly by readers and listeners when they encounter morphologically simple and complex words. However, there is no compelling evidence to suggest that this process is identical for everyone. The aim of this thesis is to …
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Classifying complex topics using spatial-semantic document visualization: An evaluation of an interaction model to support open-ended search tasks
… the static structured context of a spatial-semantic visualization of this retrieved document set. Our thesis is that unsupervised spatial-semantic visualization can automatically classify retrieved documents into a two-level hierarchy of relevance. In particular we hypothesise that the …
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Reading words and reading minds: an investigation of the skills of children diagnosed with hyperlexia
… over time, whether the subjects can access the semantic system and understand words they read as well as the manner in which they approach the learning of novel words (whether semantic cues help or hinder the learning of new words). Findings from the first set of questions leads to a further …
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L2 Representations and Processing of Chinese Nominal Phrases by Speakers of Classifier and Non-Classifier Languages
… However, we discovered that the weighting of semantic cues from classifiers in L1 significantly impacts learners’ sensitivity to classifier-noun agreement and disagreement in L2 processing. We therefore contend that the presence or absence of classifiers in L1 can substantially influence L2 …
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Ecopornography and the Commodification of Extinction: The Rhetoric of Natural History Filmmaking, 1895-Present
… world. These films employ familiar syntactic and semantic cues such as sentimental parent/offspring interactions, authoritative narration that limits the ability of the audience to interpret freely, and a musical score that influences the viewer?s emotional response to certain scenes. The net …
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Saccadic decision-making in dynamic real-world scenes
… interconnected model revealed the importance of semantic cues in object-based attention. The third study extended these insights by empirically investigating how top-down expectations about scene dynamics shape gaze behavior. We found that even in visually identical scenes, expectations about …
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Assisted reading as a remedial reading technique at the high school level: a psycholinguistic evaluation
… use of the graphophonic, syntactic, and semantic cue systems involvement in reading by means of a whole language approach. The underlying assumption of this study was that students who experience problems in learning to read can be helped if reading is presented in the context of whole …
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Information enforcement in learning with graphics : improving syllogistic reasoning skills
… trained learners emphasise the use of semantic cues during learning and problem solving.<br></br><br></br>A card-sorting task investigated learners' preferences for parts of the graphical lexicon used in the diagram systems. Preferences for the EULER lexicon increased difficulty in …
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L1 and L2 Processing of Filler-Gap Dependencies in Mandarin Chinese Speakers: Evidence from Self-Paced Reading Times and Event-Related Potentials
… mechanisms in response to both syntactic and semantic cues. Three experiments were conducted in the dissertation. Experiment 1 used a self-paced reading paradigm to investigate how L1 English speakers and L2 speakers with L1 Mandarin Chinese process filler-gap dependencies with varying …
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Correlating Visual Speaker Gestures with Measures of Audience Engagement to Aid Video Browsing
… debates, speaker gestures can be a source of semantic cues for video browsing. We hypothesize that certain human gestures, which can be automatically identified through techniques of computer vision, can convey significant information that are correlated to audience engagement. We present a …
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The reanalysis and interpretation of garden-path sentences by native speakers and second language learners
… claims that L2 learners underuse structural cues during real time processing, and that to compensate, they rely predominantly on lexical-semantic cues (Clashen & Felser, 2006). What has not been considered on this view is the use of lexically-associated structural cues, such as verb bias. …
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