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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"shared language"”.
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Specification and implementation of the Larch shared language
… The aim is to implement a formal specification language, to write a non-trivial specification and to employ formal methods of specification during software development. As a result, one should have a thorough understanding of a formal specification language, and the practical implications of …
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Emotive Materials : towards a shared language of the meaning of materials
… to establish guidelines and provide a common language that enables designers to influence materials development and connect designers and researchers in a more effective way than is currently possible. This will promote unique research of materials and expand their range of use. Such a tool …
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A proto-pattern language for human-computer interaction.
… of the growing new technology. We need a shared language for communicating insights and experiences to resolve common difficult problems encountered in this field. One way to create a shared language is to build a pattern language. A language of this sort is a collection of patterns which …
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The grain of the voice of the cyborg
… ability of vocalic body constructions to utilize shared language for novel and insightful evaluations of vocal timbre in electronic music. The author suggests that discussions of the vocalic body can benefit future theorizations of vocal timbre.
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Meaningful materialism : collectors relationship to their objects
The shared language, attitudes, practices and patterns of those who participate in “collecting" in the lower mainland area of British Columbia are described. Recurring themes and patterns emerge in the analysis of data obtained through interviews with thirty collector-informants. The …
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A formal methods safe harbor
… that the FTC and manufacturers could use as a shared language to explain what classes of software vulnerability a manufacturer will defend against. We outline the authority of the FTC in regards to poor data security practices as unfair practices and how our safe harbor would both provide …
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Educating For Social Impact: An Exploration Of The Pathways Of Public Service And Civic Engagement Framework
… within higher education is the lack of a shared framework to unify language and practice across an institution. One framework gaining popularity among Community Engagement Professionals (CEPs) is the Pathways of Public Service and Civic Engagement. The purpose of this basic qualitative …
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Garifuna: the birth and rise of an identity through contact langugage and contact culture
Garífuna is the language of the Garífuna people, African descendants who live mostly on the Atlantic coast of Belize, Guatemala and Honduras (including some communities in the United States). Labeled linguistically as an Arawak language, Garífuna also displays influences from other languages as a …
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DESIGNING FOUNDATIONAL STRATEGIES FOR DEVELOPING A FAMILY OF FOOD SYSTEMS SUSTAINABILITY ONTOLOGIES
… with regard to sustainability – a participatory shared language would highly benefit in clarifying and possibly harmonizing the diverse perspectives, metrics, and approaches that currently exist on sustainability. To deal with those shortcomings, this PhD dissertation provides a toolkit of solid …
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Pathologizing and Criminalizing Intoxication: Addiction, Psychoactive Drugs, and the Ideological Underpinnings of the War on Drugs
… doctors and churchmen, who used a shared language of contagion, disease, and slavery to problematize intoxication simultaneously as a medical and criminal condition. Building on Enlightenment English temperance thought, which was transferred into the United States by physician …
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Systemic Functional Linguistics in the Community College Composition Class: A Multimodal Approach to Teaching Composition Using the Metalanguage of SFL
… college composition classes using the language of SFL to teach writing through multimodal assignments. The study was developed in response to the increasing diversity in writing skills and educational goals of students in the community college composition class. The increase in …
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An investigation into the learning experience of textile designers and makers: examining the relationship between experiential learning and 'intelligent making'.
… reflective observation, analysis and evaluation. Shared reflection describes the nature of the process and may enable each maker to restructure their own practice. One advantage of this research is the enhancement of a shared language for textile makers and an evolving reflexive textile …
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Transatlantic transactions: writing hispanism at the centennial of 1892
… a transatlantic Hispanic identity based on shared language, race and “spirit.” Hispanism offered them an alternative to the Anglo-Saxon and French modernities from which they were excluded as peripheral not-yet-modern nations. Both Latin American and Spanish authors implemented the myth of …
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A seat at the table : an instrumental case study on the personal and professional strategies of resistance Black women professionals adapt while employed at a predominantly White institution.
… Thought also gives Black Women professionals a shared language and narrative to center in White spaces. Black women professionals can use their collective agency and voice to disrupt the systems and structures that no longer serve them. In turn, this gives them the freedom to adapt sustainable …
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Constructing Hegemony: The Latin American Boom and the Book Industries of Spain and Mexico, 1963-1967
… of construction of hegemony in the Spanish-language publishing world in the 1960s. It compares the book industries of Spain and Mexico to understand how the Spanish rather than the Mexican industry established itself as the main one of their shared language. The empirical research design …
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Faith, Fatherhood, and the Ethics of Care: Exploring Father–Daughter Relationships in South Africa
… fathers and daughters participate in shared processes of listening, accountability, and repair. These everyday interactions reveal care as something continually negotiated rather than assumed. Authority and tenderness, autonomy and guidance, are not opposites but tensions that require …
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Touching the hero: bodies, boundaries and blood in the Old French Cycle des Narbonnais
… which the poems concern themselves, there is a shared language of touch that creates bonds between those men, excluding those who are ineligible: women, peasants, children and Saracens. The ritualised public touch of the dubbing ceremony marks the knight’s entry into this community, and …
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SOCIO-COGNITIVE FOUNDATIONS OF ENTREPRENEURIAL VENTURING
… exchange and refine ideas through a form of shared cognition. In the second study, I surveyed 172 technology entrepreneurs to determine the effects of learning style and learning flexibility on iterative decision methods and innovation decision speed, behavioral mediators hypothesized to …
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Interventions That Move: Characterizing the Language of Therapist Responses to High Patient Arousal
… seeks to identify whether certain therapist language features are linked to the facilitation of patients’ movement from Arousal to Symbolizing. Using treatment transcripts from the RP Group Data Base, cases of high patient Arousal were divided into intervention trajectory categories based on …
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Co-framing employability: mapping transferable skills with media students (mobilising articulations through practice).
… an important pedagogic issue to address. Using a shared language (Youth Employment UK, 2017) methods focused specifically on supporting our key argument that student articulation of their transferable skills represents the nexus upon which employability and curriculum converge. The development of …
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