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Showing 1 to 20 of 69 for “"shared knowledge"”.
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Controlling Behavior with Shared Knowledge
… The central idea of this dissertation is that shared knowledge can be used as a powerful tool to control AI agents’ behavior. This dissertation explores the utilization of shared knowledge in constructing coherent narratives and enhancing the expression of shared knowledge in Reinforcement …
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The Construction of Shared Knowledge through Asynchronous Dialogue
… of learners use asynchronous dialogue to build shared knowledge together over time. To do this, it takes a sociocultural approach, with a situated focus on learners' social and temporal settings as well as on the tools they employ. It utilises concepts developed to support understanding of …
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Socio-cognitive analysis of engineering systems design : shared knowledge, process, and product
… systems is done by people -- each with their own knowledge, thoughts, and views about the system being designed. To understand the implications of this social dimension, the Integrated Concurrent Engineering (ICE) environment, a real-world setting for conceptual space mission design, is examined …
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Building shared knowledge for EOR technologies: Screening guideline constructions, dashboards, and advanced data analysis
… recovery (EOR) technology requires comprehensive knowledge and experiences based on existing EOR projects. EOR screening guidelines and EOR reservoir analog are served as such knowledge which are considered as the first step for a reservoir engineer to determine the next step techniques to improve …
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A Culture for Encouraging Shared Knowledge: The Current State of Undergraduate Research in the Humanities across the Nation and at Virginia Tech
Over the last two decades, higher education administrations have seen the importance of undergraduate students having been exposed to research be increasingly emphasized. Higher education institutions have taken strides to incorporate research into the undergraduate curricula, with the natural …
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Young Children's Understanding of the Relationship Between Conventionality and Communication
… the conventionality of language, the notion that shared knowledge of the meanings of linguistic symbols enables communication using those symbols. Three studies investigate whether monolingual children recognize that different speakers share knowledge of lexical conventions, in this case the …
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Process and relation analysis : capturing architectural thought
… in Munich. William Pena's work introduces a shared knowledge base to enhance the user programming process. This shared knowledge base consists of cards pinned up on a board. The cards contain comments made during a meeting that can be viewed by all participants. In this project, we …
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Trustworthy and Efficient Knowledge Sharing across Tasks in Deep Neural Networks
… the necessity for DNNs to share and transfer knowledge reliably and effectively between tasks. To solve this problem, we first develop a human understandable NeuroChains from the pre-trained model for each task, aiming to illuminate the reasoning process of the model for the given task and to …
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Structured articulation of knowledge: The influence of question response structure on recipient attitude
… the importance of proactively managing their knowledge transactions, to remain competitive. While research on knowledge sharing is gaining the attention of researchers, almost invariably their focus has been on the factors influencing knowledge transfer at the macro-level in large …
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Bureaucratic and individual knowledge and action in the public services units of an academic library
This study examined the patterns of knowledge and action demonstrated by public services staff in interactions with users. It was a three-month ethnographic study of five public services units in an academic library, using participant observation. The data were analyzed by a framework …
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Understanding SME resilience: a bibliometric and thematic review of empirical research
… combining bibliographic coupling to identify shared knowledge foundations with reflexive, citation-led thematic analysis of those foundations. By examining how foundational citations are applied within clustered studies, the review identifies recurring conceptual frameworks, enabling traits, …
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Aprenentatge col·laboratiu amb suport de l'ordinador. Influència de la demanda en el procés i els resultats d'aprenentatge
… test whether the change that is produced in the shared knowledge is the result of the collaborative process or a product of the learning process. To reach these goals, a quasi-experimental study has been conducted with a pre-post-test design, and the learning process and results of forty-nine …
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How generalists function as a community of practice in a community college one-stop student service center
… learners, they need to develop college knowledge, referring to understanding college admission, financial aid, college culture, and the college system. One approach that community colleges are implementing to support their students through the transition into their institution is the …
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Investigating the linkage between business objectives and information technology objectives : a multiple case study in the insurance industry
… which would potentially influence linkage: 1) shared knowledge between IS and business executives, 2) previous IT implementation history, 3) frequency of communication between IS and business executives, and 4) connections between IT and business planning processes. The data collection process …
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A Community of Practice Using Computer -Mediated Communication for Legitimate Peripheral Participation
… finding of the study is that only a low level of shared knowledge is needed in order for LPP to occur. This means that the Forum is able to accommodate the shifting ""locations"" of brewers with varying degrees of experience on their trajectories toward ""full participation"". Moreover, I suggest …
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Professional Learning in Cooperative Extension: Understanding Opportunities for Social Learning and the use of Computer Mediated Technologies
… and actually participating in an exchange of shared knowledge. As virtual learning continues to become more prominent in the workplace in an effort to help adults work and collaborate, learners will need to continually generate a network of communities to engage in practice. This study …
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Cultural translation from Chinese to English: a case study of the problems in the translation and interpretation of selected contemporary texts
… reflected through the common human values and shared knowledge that is always structured as part of a historical system, constantly changing and evolving under the impact of social, political and economic events. To achieve the best result possible, it is also contended that seemingly opposing …
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Men's friendships as social justice: negotiating masculinities and certainty
… Leisure activities were spaces where shared knowledge was created that increased the informants’ perceived levels of certainty in interactions that allowed them to negotiate masculinity expectations through a wider range of inclusive behaviors. Inclusive masculinity and relational …
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Social knowledge of food: How and why people talk about foods
Social knowledge about food was investigated from a social contingency perspective (Guerin, 1994, 1998, 2004), a functional linguistic approach that considers language use having functions both to establish 'facts' in order to control listeners, and to maintain social relationships with words. In …
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Towards a search engine for functionally appropriate, Web-enabled models and simulations
… services are explicitly represented using a shared knowledge representation of concepts and rules. Simulation publishers are responsible of semantically marking up the interfaces with such ontological annotations. In contrast to such an approach, this work proposes a flexible, implicit, …
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