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Showing 1 to 20 of 3368 for “"socially"”.
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Socially Defined "PMS"
… behaviors and social interactions. PMS is socially constructed in a such a way that women's biology is problematic, abnormal, and overwhelmingly negative. In addition, the expression PMS is used so broadly that its usefulness as a descriptor is questioned.</p> <p>Clinicians are encouraged …
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Socially constructive individualism ..
This item was digitized by the Internet Archive. Typewritten sheets in cover. Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University Bibliography: p. [98]-107.
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Socially Motivated Vocal Learning
… 3 and 4 study human vocal learning in the socially motivated contexts in which human infants typically learn language. Chapter 3 studies early phonological learning within a social reinforcement paradigm wherein specific features of the interaction between mothers and infants guide the …
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Socially guided machine learning
… contributions towards the understanding of this Socially Guided Machine Learning scenario. While the topic of human input to machine learning algorithms has been explored to some extent, prior works have not gone far enough to understand what people will try to communicate when teaching a machine …
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Kairoscope : coordinating time socially
… thus allowing people to coordinate events socially and on the fly, without worrying about precision. This thesis explores the creation of Kairoscope, rooted in ideas behind our perception of time, and created with the goals of reducing time-related stress, optimizing for use of time, and …
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Understanding the entrepreneur as socially constructed.
… the entrepreneur as a social construct and the socially constructed nature of entrepreneurship. It builds upon a limited number of extant studies considering the socially constructed nature of entrepreneurship by focusing upon achieving a Verstehen' of these 'constructions' as articulated in …
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Promiserver : procedurally executed, socially enforced microcontracts
This thesis envisions the future of trust and social commitment in a highly connected society. Starting with a distributed, democratized labor force and economies of efficient niche production and consumption, we predict radical shifts in the meaning and methods of commitment and the institutions …
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Robot designed for socially acceptable navigation
… interact and cooperate with pedestrians in a socially acceptable manner. The "rules of the road" no longer apply -- there are no lanes or street signs, and pedestrians don't use turn signals when cutting through crowds. This thesis describes the hardware and software architecture of a robot …
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Socially Positive Behaviors as Self-Handicapping
… self-handicapping narrowly, focusing on socially negative behaviors such as drinking and procrastination. The current research sought to broaden the conceptualization of self-handicapping by considering socially positive behaviors. Eighty-nine female participants were given an impossible …
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Artificial Emotional Intelligence in Socially Assistive Robots
… machines and robots for healthcare applications. Socially Assistive Robotics (SAR) is a subfield in robotics that aims at developing robots that can provide companionship to assist people with social interaction and companionship. For example, residents living in housing designed for older adults …
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VirtualHome: Building Socially Intelligent Agents via Simulation
While remarkable progress has been made in building autonomous agents that can help us at complex tasks, these have typically been studied in isolated environments. To build agents that can be deployed in the real world, we need to study them in more human-centric settings, where they can interact …
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How network structure impacts socially reinforced diffusion?
Social scientists have long studied adoption choices that depend on the number of prior adopters. What is the effect of network structure on such adoption dynamics? The emerging consensus holds that when agents require a high reinforcement threshold for adoption, clustered networks are better …
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Increasing social interaction in socially isolated preschool children
… social interaction and peer acceptance in socially isolated pre school children. It investigated whether children's stories a lone, and children' s stories paired with instrument playing led to improved peer ratings and an increase in social interaction during the following s mall group and …
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Snapshot photography : a phatic, socially constructed mnemonic technology
… on the premise that snapshot photography is a socially constructed, phatic, mnemonic mark-making technology with origins in parietal forms of visual expression.
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Investigating Socially Supported Technical Assistance for Older Adults
The growing older adult population and increased technology use benefit healthy aging, but older adults often face barriers to managing it effectively. Limited access to helpful resources usually leads them to seek support from individuals within their social circles, which we term ``technology …
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Engineering an adaptive and socially- aware feedback acquisition.
Self-adaptive software systems are characterised by their ability to monitor changes in their dynamic environment and react to these changes when needed. Adaptation is driven by these changes in the internal state of the system and its external environment. Social Adaptation is a kind of adaptation …
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Living information as a socially-mediated high school
(cont.) In this blurred area, a project/group-based curriculum can be developed to involve casual work areas that can fluctuate in size, based on the specifications of the project. Through the cultivation of this type of environment, the social energies of the students can begin to infect the rigid …
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MeBot : A robotic platform for socially embodied telepresence
… were measured. Our results show that a socially expressive robot was found to be more engaging and likable than a static one. It was also found that expressiveness contributes to more psychological involvement and better cooperation.
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Social Skills among Socially Anxious Children in Iceland
… was to examine the nature of social skills in socially anxious children from a social learning theory perspective. The reasons why socially anxious children often perform poorly in social situations have not yet been fully resolved. Is it due to lack of social skills or are these children too …
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