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Showing 1 to 20 of 265 for “"talks"”.
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PEP Talks: Partnerships for Educational Planning Talks
<p>The PEP TALKS: Partnership for Education Planning Talks was an addition to the programs already offered at Butler County Children’s Center (BCCC). The goals of this program were to increase ease with transition for families from Early Intervention to Preschool Special Education services, to …
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Topic Identification from Spoken TED-Talks
Táto práca sa zaoberá problémom spracovania prirodzeného jazyka a následnej klasifikácie. Použité systémy boli modelované na TED-LIUM korpuse. Systém automatického spracovania jazyka bol modelovaný s použitím sady nástrojov Kaldi. Vo výsledku bol dosiahnutý WER s hodnotou 16.6\%. Problém …
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Laff-O-Tron: Laugh Prediction in TED Talks
… To do this, we create a corpus of over 1700 TED Talks retrieved from the TED website. We then adapted various techniques used by researchers to identify humor in text. We also investigated features that were specific to our public speaking environment. Using supervised learning, we try to …
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An investigation into university football coaches' team talks
Team talks have been defined as coaches gathering the players of their team in order for the coach’s thoughts to be delivered to the team, a practice common across team sports (Vargas-Tonsing and Bartholomew 2006). This study investigated the team talks of university football coaches from two …
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Negotiation strategies in American-North Korean nuclear talks, 1992-2013
North Korea's relationship with nuclear technology has concerned the world for decades. A wide array of negotiation methods from punitive sanctions to energy assistance have been attempted to dissuade the nation from developing its weapons program -- but every resolution has been temporary at best. …
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Money talks: investigating the relationship between linguistic diversity and financial inclusion
Differences in languages spoken within a population can be thought of as transaction costs that make economic activities more difficult. This perspective has motivated a host of academic literature analyzing the linguistic profile of countries in relation to different socio-economic variables. …
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A Moment of Failure: The Debate Surrounding the Strategic Arms Limitations Talks
… arsenals through the Strategic Arms Limitations Talks of 1972 and 1979 (SALT I and II). Following the success that SALT I had in de-escalating nuclear tensions, Soviet and American government officials continued to meet for the rest of the decade to work on a second round of talks. Ultimately, it …
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Tough Talks: An Action-Project Method Analysis of Parent-Child Conversations about Military Life
Military service can have significant impacts on the entire family system, including frequent relocations, parental deployments, and constant adjustments in family dynamics and support networks. Civilian spouses often bear the burden of managing childcare, family matters, and household …
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A strategy to study pathway cross-talks of cells under repetitive exposure to stimuli
In each individual cell, there are many signaling pathways that may interact or cross talk with each other. Especially, some can sense the same signal and go through different pathways but eventually converge at some points. Therefore repetitive signal stimulations may result in intricate cell …
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Examining the Six-Party Talks Process on North Korea: Dynamic Interactions among the Principal States
… of the principal states involved in nuclear talks on North Korea known as the Six-Party Talks (SPT). Despite the failure in achieving a primary objective of denuclearizing North Korea, the SPT were believed to provide interesting and informative cases to investigate dynamic interactions among …
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How Kindergartners' Talks and Drawings Inform Our Ways of Developing a Curriculum of Caring and Imagination
<p>This study explores how kindergartners' talks and drawings inform our ways of developing a curriculum of caring and imagination. The mandates of kidnergartners' curriculum tend to emphasize children's mastery of literacy skills while ignoring their natural development and imagination. Author's …
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"I definitely felt an exception" Discourse analysis : A father talks about his son’s transition to school
A single case study was conducted to explore how schools might better engage fathers in their children's education. Women traditionally mediate early years education, and communication from schools to parents is directed to mothers. Some fathers are more involved in the day-to-day care of their …
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A lot of these things nobody talks about: South Asian Muslims' perceptions of dating behaviours and abuse
The unique meanings people of varying cultures and religions assign to dating behaviours/abuse along with the context in which these meanings are created are largely neglected in dating abuse research. Applying intersectionality, I examine understandings of dating behaviours/abuse from the …
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Why Peace Processes Fail: A Conceptual Analysis of the Peace Talks between Turkey and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), 2009-2015
… to conventional wisdom on hurting stalemates, talks failed when parties reached near power parity following large and rapid shifts in the distribution of power in the region due to war in Syria and Iraq. A substantially empowered PKK emerged, causing great Turkish fears and uncertainty about …
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Media Focus in Afghanistan News Coverage
… studied to find what categories (process: peace talks, negotiation, and economic development; conflict: violence and military action; and politics and policy: USA, Afghanistan, and NATO) received the most coverage on Afghanistan. The purpose of this study was to examine focal points in media …
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Aspects of index theory
… in this thesis. In particular, the first chapter talks about general index theory, the second is a survey of the relations between the analytic and topological aspects of the index. The third talks about the index of pseudodifferential operators and the forth deals with differential complexes. The …
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Promoting Youth Development Through School-Based Group Mentoring
… behavioral, and scholastic outcomes for youth. TALKS Mentoring employs a cognitive-behavioral approach to youth mentoring that emphasizes leadership skill development through peer-to-peer and youth-adult interactions. The evaluation study was comprised of both qualitative and quantitative phases …
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Retorinės figūros TED kalbose verslo tema /
… analyses specific examples that were used in TED talks related to business: their impact in the speech and their frequency. Research also considers what would happen if rhetorical devices were not used or used less often. The subject of the research, rhetorical devices used in TED talks related to …
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