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Showing 1 to 20 of 474 for “"timeline"”.
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Content Selection for Timeline Generation from Single History Articles
… the problem of content selection for timeline generation from single history articles. While the task of timeline generation has been addressed before, most previous approaches assume the existence of a large corpus of history articles from the same era. They exploit the fact that …
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Merging static and dynamic visual media along an event timeline
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1998.
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Psychometric Evaluation of the Timeline Followback for Exercise among Young Adults
… measure adapted for exercise called the Timeline Followback for Exercise (TLFB-E). Study one examined criterion, convergent, and predictive validity. Study two examined test-retest reliability. <strong><em>Methods:</em></strong> Study one participants (<em>N </em>= 66) were college …
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Using the Timeline Followback to Identify Time Windows Representative of Annual Posttreatment Drinking
Using 12-month post treatment Timeline Followback drinking reports, data extrapolated from shorter time windows (e.g., 1 month, 6 months) were used to estimate total annual drinking. The objective was to determine whether data from a shorter time window would provide an estimate of annual drinking …
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Assessment of Panic Frequency: Reliability and Validity of a Timeline Follow-Back Method
Given the central role of panic attacks in the diagnosis of panic disorder, an adequate measure of panic attacks is essential. Panic frequency is routinely assessed either by simply asking individuals to estimate the number of panic attacks experienced during a given time in a questionnaire or …
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Speed Through Flexibility: Shortening the Acquisition Timeline of U.S. Defense Capabilities Using Flexible Systems
… to field needed capabilities on a relevant timeline. Despite many proposals to speed the process through reform, significant changes have remained elusive due to the complex stakeholder landscape. Therefore, acquisition techniques that can increase the speed of fielding required capabilities …
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Enhancing Search Engine Results: A Comparative Study of Graph and Timeline Visualizations for Semantic and Temporal Relationship Discovery
<p>In today’s digital age, search engines have become indispensable tools for finding information among the corpus of billions of webpages. The standard that most search engines follow is to display search results in a list-based format arranged according to a ranking algorithm. Although this …
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Using Space to Remember Time
… to this challenge is to engage the mental timeline, a linear projection of time onto space. Although adults and older children spontaneously activate the mental timeline when remembering the order of events, the mental timeline is slow to develop, and little is known about the interaction …
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DUET: Distinct but United Event-based Timelines
… for years. Many applications stick to a linear timeline to display the events, leading to large downtime gaps when sparse events occur throughout the day. However, linear timelines create a natural sense of temporal perception since users can easily tell what time of day certain events occur. …
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Understanding sketch-and-speech descriptions of machines
… These interactions are captured in PhysInk's timeline - a causal graph of physical events - which is used to build a deeper understanding of behavior. The events capture the geometry of movement and contact between objects, while the timeline captures the causal relationships between events. …
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Progenitor or Mere Predecessor: A Study of Ukiyo-e's Place in the Development of Modern Manga Through the Works of Rumiko Takahashi
… comics, scholars have struggled determining the timeline of this art form. While some historians begin their narrative as far back as the twelfth century with examples of art that might be classified as "pre-manga," some academics choose to cite the start point manga's timeline in the nineteenth …
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Identifying and analyzing the hiring process for the Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration
… potential areas for reducing the overall process timeline and be used as a training tool to illustrate how the hiring process progresses. Existing models only show major steps in the process which can mask sources of delay, communication issues, and confusion. The developed model delves deeper …
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Psychosocial factors associated with self-management and well-being in childhood chronic illness
… completed questionnaires. Results indicated timeline-cyclical beliefs and treatment concerns were associated with self-management. Timeline-cyclical, identity, treatment control and coherence were correlated with well-being. In terms of self-efficacy, young people with high levels of …
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Continuous-time Latent-variable Models for Time Series
… Typically, these models represent a timeline as a sequence of discrete states and therefore assume that observations occur at regular intervals. However, this assumption does not always hold. An illustrative example is medical records, where a patient is screened only when the need …
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You don't know what you don't know: Investigating the information needs of clients of web based public sector information services
… approach of Brenda Dervin with its accompanying timeline interview methodology suggested itself as an in-depth way to elicit the information needs of potential users of online information services. However, timeline interview protocols require long, complex and highly structured interviews. This …
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Implementing a Rib Fracture Management Pathway and PIC Scoring Tool to Reduce ICU Readmissions
… readmissions were due to respiratory causes. The timeline guided the creation, deployment, and evaluation of the project over a two phase, one and one half year period. Methods included analysis of the data, meetings with lead team members to define the scope of the problem and identify processes. …
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Case study of Cape Wind : identifying success and failure modes of offshore wind projects
… that eventually led to huge delays affecting its timeline. Understanding what happened in this particular project and what could have been done differently could help the industry go forward with new plans to develop offshore wind in the United States. In this paper, we have built a System …
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The many faces of Rob Ford: the representation of politician deviance, dishonesty and denial
… established through the creation of a 45 event timeline and a content analysis of the articles in the newspaper, Toronto Star that discussed each of the timeline events. The findings suggest that the journalists frame Ford as being incompetent most of the time, corrupt some of the time and a …
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