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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"unrepresentative"”.
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A Methodological Exploration of Mailed Survey Research in a Post Disaster Setting
… data from a survey in this setting will be unrepresentative of the pre-disaster population. Spatial analysis of the response combined with a comparison of the collected data to known census data identifies the ways in which the data is unrepresentative. Knowledge of the data shortcomings …
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Geração, comunicação e absorção de conhecimento científico-tecnológico em sociedade dependente: um estudo de caso: o programa de engenharia química
… sectors of the economy, i.e., irregular and unrepresentative informal contacts, high degree of communication in Professional Conferences but unsystematic publication of schorlarly works in professional journals. This low degree of interaction was found to occur within a situation of …
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Childhood mourning : a critical evaluation of psychoanalytic views.
… whether generalisations are being made from an unrepresentative sample; and what role cognitive conceptions of death have in affecting bereavement reactions.
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Exploring the acute affect of de-coupled batting drills on the gaze behaviour and decision-making of elite baseball players
… explained by the athletes’ prolonged exposure to unrepresentative practice activities and their subsequent skill in recalibration at switching between tasks.
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Poetics of the videogame setpiece
… action gameplay, which-despite being generally unrepresentative of a game's 'normal' functions-tend to receive prominent placement in the marketing campaigns that produce desire for the games they appear in. As prevalent as they have become, these setpieces (as they are called in gamers' …
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Performance Improvement through Velocity Triangle Optimization-Driven Redesign for Mitigating the Horseshoe Vortex in Axial Turbines
… conditions, i.e., the velocity triangles are unrepresentative of actual boundary conditions. This airfoil shape optimization approach utilizes actual incoming span-wise boundary conditions, obtained from 3D CFD, to establish new velocity triangles at the hub and tip regions, and to redesign …
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Pupil attitudes: a longitudinal study of children's attitudes to science at transfer from primary to secondary school
… samples, many of which were small or unrepresentative, and furthermore that there has often been inadequate control of potentially influential variables. The present work employs a longitudinal study of over 3000 children, between 10 and 12 years old, from schools in Essex. Data has …
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Fatigue Performance and Shear Demand Distributions of Clustered Shear Connectors in Composite Bridge Girders
… this assumed shear demand distribution may be unrepresentative. Understanding shear transfer and resulting demands on headed studs in composite beams are important for ensuring adequate composite design. This study investigates stud demands in composite bridge girders using large-scale fatigue …
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Invention? Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Nature of De Gestis Britonum
… that shares commonalities with his work as being unrepresentative of the legend as it may have existed prior to Geoffrey’s influence. This dissertation examines the assumptions behind the charges of fraud and invention and how they have held back attempts to reconstruct the ‘pre-Galfridian’ …
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RELIABILITY OF PROXY RESPONDENTS WHO REPORT COMMUNICATIVE PARTICIPATION FOR PERSONS WITH APHASIA
… in administration techniques, and using unrepresentative language scores. The CPIB may be used with PWA with intact receptive language to assess communicative participation but may not be appropriate for individuals with impaired receptive language. Preliminary results indicate that …
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RELIABILITY OF PROXY RESPONDENTS WHO REPORT COMMUNICATIVE PARTICIPATION FOR PERSONS WITH APHASIA
… in administration techniques, and using unrepresentative language scores. The CPIB may be used with PWA with intact receptive language to assess communicative participation but may not be appropriate for individuals with impaired receptive language. Preliminary results indicate that …
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Stability and Robustness of Radiomic Features Due to Volumetric Uncertainty in Pancreatic Cancer
… data integration and model building to prevent unrepresentative results.
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Correlates of political alignment: Jumping off the balancing bandwagon
… aligning with leaders of unstable or politically unrepresentative states, as the latter are less likely to be in a position to return the favor. After providing a general explanation of alignment, the dissertation demonstrates that not all alignments are created equal. The willingness of rulers to …
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The perceived scarcity of land and the role of civic authorities in resolving land disputes: Chowa Mpanga area in Kabwe peri-urban.
… by insecurity, inequality and weak or unrepresentative institutions, such grievances may be aggravated through sheer neglect or predatory and discriminatory policies. In Africa land is held in high esteem by all members of society, it is appreciated by all members of the community as it …
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The perceived scarcity of land and the role of civic authorities in resolving land disputes: Chowa Mpanga area in Kabwe peri-urban.
… by insecurity, inequality and weak or unrepresentative institutions, such grievances may be aggravated through sheer neglect or predatory and discriminatory policies. In Africa land is held in high esteem by all members of society, it is appreciated by all members of the community as it …
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The formation of the schools of design, 1830 - 1850, with special reference to Manchester, Birmingham and Leeds
… in favour of design schools were put by a few unrepresentative individuals. Since local initiative was so important in establishing provincial Schools of Design, the particular circumstances surrounding their formation in Manchester, Birmingham and Leeds, is closely studied. An industrial need …
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A framework for evaluating the sustainability of advanced powertrains
… hampered by limited production data, along with unrepresentative inventories for various specialist materials. Trade-offs between parameters may result in batteries with superior lifetimes only offering whole life CO2e emissions reductions under limited scenarios when used in BEVs. The research …
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Development and analysis of a homogeneous long-term precipitation network (1850-2015) and assessment of historic droughts for the island of Ireland
… Ireland is drought prone but recent decades are unrepresentative of the longer-term drought climatology. Finally, long-term homogenous precipitation records are further utilised to reconstruct river flows at twelve study catchments to 1850. Reconstructed flows are analysed to identify periods of …
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Generating Trustworthy Synthetic Data
… it may be privacy-sensitive, unfair, unbalanced, unrepresentative, or it may simply not exist for the setting of interest. These limitations continuously constrain how the machine learning (ML) community operates---from training to testing, from model development to deployment. Synthetic data is a …
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Fracture Toughness Based Models for the Prediction of Power Consumption, Product Size, and Capacity of Jaw Crushers
… of rock material using inadequate and unrepresentative tests, and the desire to limit secondary breakage, resulting in the conservative selection and operation of jaw crushers. A method for predicting the power consumption, product size, and volumetric capacity of jaw crushers based on …
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