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Showing 1 to 20 of 67 for “"useful knowledge"”.
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The shifting shape of useful knowledge in literacy teaching
… and how teachers are positioned to use the knowledge generated to inform literacy education in schools. It draws on the candidate's published work from specific intervention and research projects to examine, on one hand, how a variety of research paradigms position teachers and teaching in …
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Print and British imperialism : the society for the diffusion of useful knowledge, 1826-46
… between the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (SDUK) and British imperialism. Founded in 1826 the Society aimed to offer cheap and informative texts to those who had limited access to schooling, namely the British working-classes. The SDUK published on a wide range of topics, …
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What counts as useful knowledge? perceptions of a group of adult learners in higher education
… it seeks to examine what adult learners value as useful knowledge regarding the course they have done. The study focuses on a group of part-time adult learners who are, or have been, studying adult education at the Diploma and Advanced Certificate Levels, and who are themselves experienced …
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The Love of Learning in the Industrialized Age: Useful Knowledge, Imagination, and the Education of the Nineteenth-Century British Working Classes
… century century Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge promises a selection of “useful and entertaining” information: 1). But from a glance at the issue’s contents the modern reader is hard–pressed to identify what use can be found in articles on Van Diemen's …
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Virtual Reality as Navigation Tool: Creating Interactive Environments For Individuals With Visual Impairments
… Some of the challenges are developing useful knowledge of the user’s surroundings and effectively conveying that information to the user. This thesis examines the feasibility of using virtual environments conveyed via auditory feedback as part of an autonomous mobility assistance …
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Ice Island Deterioration in the Canadian Arctic: Rates, Patterns and Model Evaluation
Knowledge regarding the deterioration processes of large tabular icebergs, known as ice islands, is limited within the Canadian Arctic. This study analyzed ice island deterioration through two aspects: 1) horizontal (areal) and 2) vertical (surface melt or ‘ablation’). Satellite images were …
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Scalable methods for storage, processing and analysis of sequencing datasets
… sequencing datasets and efficiently extract the useful knowledge within them. This thesis consists of four research contributions on these two fronts. First, we present a computational framework that leverages the redundancy within large genomic datasets for performing faster read-mapping while …
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The Spread of Hindu-Arabic Numerals in the European Tradition of Practical Arithmetic: a Socio-Economic Perspective (13th–16th centuries)
… a long-run history of transmission of useful knowledge from the Arabic world to the origins of the so-called European ‘little divergence’. During the commercial revolution of the 13th century, Italian international merchant-bankers started to adopt Arabic mathematics in their business …
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Development of Enhanced Neural Decision Tree Model and Application of Data Mining Techniques for Modeling of Petroleum Datasets
… applied to petroleum datasets. so as to extract useful information such as: correlations and interdependencies among the attributes. This helps to better understand important characteristics that can increase oil production. The two data mining techniques, Artificial Neural Networks and the …
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Spatial user interface : augmenting human sensibilities in a domestic kitchen
… that the water was hot by its red color. Useful knowledge about cooking, safety, and using home appliances can be embedded with sensors into the physical environment.
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Technology as an essential tool for the design of didactic material for online education.
… system, and it is no longer just a provider of knowledge, but also a co-creator of information, a mentor, and an evaluator. Technological improvements in education have made life easier for students and have come to provide useful knowledge. It is of utmost importance to evaluate and foster a …
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Characterization and quality of soils developing on a mountaintop removal coal mine
… modifications to Soil Taxonomy reveal more useful knowledge. The calculated productivity index showed the minesoils as a group to be less productive than native soils, but the older minesoils were similar to the native soils.
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Crossing from Hearing to Deaf Worlds: Hearing Border Crossers as Participatory Designers in Healthcare Instruction
… with Deaf people. Hearing border crossers hold useful knowledge that will shed light in facilitating communication between Deaf patients and hearing healthcare professionals. Using symbolic interactionism as the epistemological framework, qualitative interviews were conducted with three clusters …
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Exploring link, text and spatial-temporal data in social media
… social media setting. Specifically I will mine useful knowledge from social media by taking advantage of the heterogenous information including link, text and spatial-temporal data. First, I propose a link recommendation framework to enhance the link structure inside social media. Second, I use …
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Feature Selection for High-risk Pattern Discovery in Medical Data
… been accumulated. Mining such data could provide useful knowledge for health care provider to improve the quality of the service been delivered. One application is to identify the patients at high-risk of severe chronic or recurrent illness. Traditionally, statistical data analysis is used in …
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An examination of debt financing of growth oriented SMEs in Nigeria
… both theoretical and practical contributions to knowledge. Theoretically, it has contributed by developing an analytical model which improves our understanding of SME debt financing and its impact on the growth oriented SMEs in Nigeria and the African context. In terms of contribution to …
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Where is my geography, where is your geography.
… The epistemology of the research paper as knowledge will be formed through the examining some lived experience with giving voice to silenced stories; throughout doing the investigation. Findings in the research scrutinize interviews with three immigrant women in Ireland who tell their …
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Essays On The Role Of Competitor-Specific Human Capital On Initial Public Offerings (ipos) Performance
… on human capital, competitive dynamics, and knowledge-based view of the firm, this dissertation identifies important antecedents that result in higher degree of impact of such human capital on the IPO firm, and IPO firm's capabilities absorb such knowledge that results in higher valuations at …
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Praxis, Critical Pedagogy and Critical Adult and Community Education
… the dynamic interaction between ‘really useful knowledge’, the educators and the learners, in the learning environment, lacked an ingredient that I sought to uncover in the study. What do adult educators do that enables them and the learners to act upon the world? The literature centred …
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A statistical framework for extraction of structured knowledge from biological/biotechnological systems
… systems, a significant amount of knowledge has still remained unraveled. However, recent advances in high throughput technologies have offered new opportunities to understand these complex systems by providing us with huge amounts of data about these systems. Unlike traditional …
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