Global ETD Search
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Showing 1 to 20 of 92 for “"still-face"”.
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Sex Differences in Mother-Infant Interaction
… and infant behaviors were analyzed within the still-face paradigm, a paradigm which allows for examination of mother-infant interaction in normal, stressful, and recovery situations. It was hypothesized that infant boys would react with more negativity than girls to the stressful phases of the …
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Transition Issues in Educational Audiology
… cochlear implants), children with hearing loss still face a host of issues throughout the educational process, particularly during transitional periods. This literature review examines the existing research discussing these issues, including transitions from childhood to adolescence, high school …
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Political Liberalism and LGBTQ+ Citizens
… of this thesis is that freedom and equality have still not been secured for LGBTQ+ citizens in liberal societies. This thesis identifies several areas in which LGBTQ+ citizens still face injustice, in both the law and the family. It leverages the theoretical resources of political liberalism – a …
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The (mis)representation of interracial couples in television advertisements
… couples are becoming more common, but they still face stigmatization and discrimination. The present study aimed to gain a preliminarily understanding of if and how interracial couples are represented in television advertisements. This study performed a content analysis of 543 couples in …
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Creating constructivist learning environments with digital storytelling
… of such technologies. However, education systems still face many challenges: one of these challenges is how to enhance student engagement to provide better educational outcomes. It has become increasingly important to use innovative pedagogical models to engage learners. Digital storytelling is …
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Escaping the Chicano Patriarchy: Chicana and Queer Chican@ Identity Struggles in the Chican@ Novel and in America
… Chicanas and queer Chican@s themselves still face racial, gender-based, and sexual oppression from dominant, hegemonic American social forces and from some heterosexist male members of their own ethnic group. This thesis is an exploration of how Chicana and queer Chican@ authors present …
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AstroBug: automatic game bug detection using deep learning
… hold great promise for improving testing, they still face several challenges that need to be addressed to be effective in practice. In this work, we have introduced a new framework to detect perceptual bugs using a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) network, which detects bugs in games as anomalies. …
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How emerging technologies transform governance and market practices through disintermediation
… traditional curators, underrepresented artists still face valuation disparities, yet strategic self-curation can partially reduce these gaps. The third essay explores how the structure and content of DAO forum discussions shape voter turnout, showing that reasoned, inclusive discourse increases …
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How emerging technologies transform governance and market practices through disintermediation
… traditional curators, underrepresented artists still face valuation disparities, yet strategic self-curation can partially reduce these gaps. The third essay explores how the structure and content of DAO forum discussions shape voter turnout, showing that reasoned, inclusive discourse increases …
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Women’s Rights And Public Confidence: The Connection Between International Human Rights Norms And Public Confidence In Women’s Organizations
… are particular objects of distress in that they still face the most inequality globally. Despite the need for better women’s rights, public confidence in women’s organizations is varied widely. This paper explains the variations in public confidence of women’s organizations. I argue that the …
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CASE STUDY OF SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT IN THE DOD
… are best suited for the transition but will still face challenges. Management and DevSecOps teams can overcome these challenges by focusing on their people, processes, and tools.
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Facial Expression Recognition: Fusion of A Human Vision System Model and A statistical framework
Automatic facial expression recognition from still face (color and gray-level) images is acknowledged to be complex in view of significant variations in the physiognomy of faces with respect to head pose, environment illumination and person-identity. Even assuming illumination and pose invariance …
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Marriage Migration, Citizenship, and Vulnerability: The International Marriage Broker Regulation Act (IMBRA)
… Act fails to address six key vulnerabilities faced by female marriage migrants. For this reason, women immigrating to the United States to marry a spouse after introduction through a marriage broker still face an increased likelihood of domestic violence and even death. The author concludes …
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What Makes Your Business A Winner: Empirical Analysis Using the Department of Defense Contracts with Small Manufacturing Firms
… of small businesses. However the latter still face numerous challenges when it comes to securing government contracts and building manufacturing capabilities. Focusing on small manufacturing firms contracting with the Department of Defense(DoD), this study sought to empirically evaluate …
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Beyond Scaling: Frontiers of Retrieval-Augmented LMs
… training data and model sizes. However, they still face key limitations, including hallucinations and outdated knowledge, which undermine their reliability especially in expert domains like scientific research and software development. In this thesis, I argue that overcoming these challenges …
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Unlocking the potential of small and medium sized enterprises in West Africa : a path for reform and action
… in these emerging markets, West African SMEs still face many constraints in their development, particularly in accessing financial and other types of resources. This thesis analyses the causes of the constraints faced by small enterprise in countries member of the West Africa Economic and …
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Improving and Analyzing Model Merging Methods for Adaptation
… However, we find that these approaches still face limitations when layers within models are representationally incompatible. Our findings highlight the importance of designing new approaches for model merging that operate on well-defined input and output spaces, similar to how humans …
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Out of the Closet and into Sport: An Analysis of Openly Lesbian Athletes
… it would be likely that lesbian athletes face rejection from their teammates. However, the recent cultural shift that views LGBT individuals more positively, would posit that lesbian athletes have a much easier time coming out today than they did decades ago. To examine the coming out …
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The Influence of Inheritance Systems on Poverty among HIV/AIDS Infected Widows, The Case of Shinyanga Town
… right to land and other properties, women still face serious problems in claiming and securing their rights due to harmful customary norms and practices.
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How the sustainability transition in energy is transforming the built environment of South African cities
… have grown through consumer demand for EG, they still face resistance from the existing energy regime, needing further development in policy and regulation in order for South Africa’s ST to support a more complex web of distributed and embedded generation, mostly underpinned by RE technologies.
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