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Showing 1 to 20 of 64 for “"words and phrases"”.
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The "Wizards" Guide and Chapters
… two-part project is a combination of research and creative writing. The first part is a guide to characters, words, and phrases in the author’s fictional world. The second part consists of a prologue and two chapters from the novel. The chapters were written using the guide for inspiration. …
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Communicating Community at Tesla Motors: Maintaining Corporate Values in Blogging Communities
… engage employees can help researchers and practitioners better understand how to effectively communicate and engage employees to create an efficient and collaborative work environment. This research sought to discover if Tesla Motors strategically communicated values from its Master …
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Perceptions about language development of isiXhosa-speaking primary caregivers of young children receiving speech-language therapy in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
… regarding their child’s language development and their role in the language development process are important to their willingness to use intervention strategies (Kaiser, & Hancock, 2003; Leffel, & Suskind, 2013). Furthermore, studies suggest that the severity of child language difficulties …
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Fire, Poison, and Black Tears : Metaphors of Emotion in Rebétiko
… songs full of sorrow, disappointment, and misfortune, as well as passion and romance, but also of cheerful songs of revelry and a carefree attitude to life. Rebétiko as a music style developed in the Greek-speaking world and its diaspora in the early twentieth century. It consists of …
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Propaganda and Poetry during the Great War.
… significant role in the war effort than articles and pamphlets. A campaign of extraordinary language filled with abstract and spiritualized words and phrases concealed the realities of the War. Archaic language and lofty phrases hid the horrible truth of modern mechanical warfare. The majority and …
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Syntactically annotated Ngrams for Google Books
… Google Books Ngram Corpus, describing how often words and phrases were used over a period of five centuries, in eight languages; it aggregates data from 6% of all books ever published. This new edition introduces syntactic annotations: words are tagged with their part-of-speech, and head-modifier …
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Was the patient cured? : understanding semantic categories and their relationship in patient records
… a narrative patient report, we first identify and remove information that compromises privacy (de-identification); next we recognize words and phrases in the text belonging to semantic categories of interest to doctors (semantic category recognition). For disease and symptoms, we determine …
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Consumer Motivation and the Privacy Paradox
There is a gap between intention and action that people experience when faced with protecting their digital data privacy. Known as the privacy paradox, it is the idea that what a person says they believe (protecting their data privacy is paramount) is not reflective of how they act (relinquishing …
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Remembering you read “doctoral dissertation”: Phrase frequency effects in recall and recognition memory
Speakers understand and produce common words like cat more easily than less common words like panther. Similarly, this pattern of behavior shows up at larger levels, processing common combinations of words like alcoholic beverages more quickly than less common ones like psychic nephew. As a result, …
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A Pointillism Approach for Natural Language Processing of Social Media
… tasks typically start with the basic unit of words, and then from words and their meanings a big picture is constructed about what the meanings of documents or other larger constructs are in terms of the topics discussed. Social media is very challenging for natural language processing because …
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Modeling the role of blogging in librarianship
… phenomenological study examines the motivations and experiences of librarians who author professionally-focused Weblogs. I constructed a model of librarianship based on Wilson and Buckland. The results show a close fit between librarian bloggers and the ideals of the field as expressed by two …
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Verbal description of pain by patients with cancer
… demonstrated an incongruence between patients' and nurses' perceptions of pain which may lead nurses to not appreciate or heed their patients' reports of pain. Part of this problem may lie with pain assessment. This descriptive exploratory study was designed to determine what words, similes, and …
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Do Baseline Language Impairment Measures Predict Anomia Treatment Outcome?
… Several studies have produced conflicting and, therefore, inconclusive results concerning whether treatment specifics can be tailored towards a given patient's impairment level.</p><p>This study proposed that pre-treatment indicators of deficit type may be able to predict anomia treatment …
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Automatic Extraction of Computer Science Concept Phrases Using a Hybrid Machine Learning Paradigm
… of computer science-related employment is expanding quickly. Software engineer has been chosen as the best job for 2023 based on pay, stress level, opportunity for professional growth, and balance between work and personal life. This was decided by a rankings of different news, journals, and …
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Gestalt Language Processing in Accredited Communication Sciences and Disorders Programs
<p>The language development and usage of autistic individuals has become a controversial topic in many of the disciplines and professions providing support to these individuals. As a result, two theories of language processing have been proposed. Analytical language processing suggests that …
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Evolution of Trending Topics in Mechanical Engineering Research Theses
As new concepts and technologies emerge, researchers in mechanical engineering have focused on various areas of study. This thesis seeks to understand the evolution of research topics over time and identify which subjects have been favored at different points. To accomplish this goal, the titles of …
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A Business Analytics Approach to Corporate Sustainability Analysis
… have called for increased transparency and as corporations have recognized the benefits of considering corporate sustainability. As a result, there has been a dramatic increase in disclosure both through corporate statements and through annual reports in which companies will describe the …
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Distributional semantic phrases vs. semantic distributional nonsense: Adjective Modification in Compositional Distributional Semantics
… distributional representations of adjective-noun phrases, as well as provide insight into various linguistic phenomena by extracting unsupervised cues from these distributional representations. First, I investigate degrees of adjective modification. I contrast three types of adjectival modifiers – …
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Translation techniques in the Solomonic narrative of OG 2 Chronicles as evinced by OG 2 Chr 4-6
… examination of the Solomon narrative (2 Chr 1-9) and a narrow focus on three specific passages found in 2 Par 4-6 which, when taken together, exhibit contrasting translation styles. It is predominantly true and established that within any given passage the translator of 2 Chronicles takes varying …
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Implementing linguistic text anticipation in a writing device for the disabled
… of the microcomputer has provided the severely handicapped with the means to create text. Instead of using a keyboard, the disabled typist is able to scan and select linguistic items with an appropriate input switch. The resulting communication rate is, however, prohibitively slow for writing and …
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