his dissertation analyzes how local knowledge improves environmental decisions. The premise is that controlling pollution and addressing public health disparities are not problems that professionals alone can solve. Concerned lay publics, especially low-income populations and people of color that experience…

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Most neural network learning algorithms cannot use knowledge other than what is provided in the training data. Initialized using random weights, they cannot use prior knowledge such as knowledge stored in previously trained networks. This manuscript thesis addresses this problem.…

Resumen Este estudio se realizó con el objetivo de analizar la forma en que se prepara a los estudiantes de grado de una universidad española en el componente de didáctica para la enseñanza del inglés en la primaria. Como métodos…

by Kimberly G. Waters., Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2002., Includes bibliographical references (p. 45-46).

Conversational interfaces have received much attention as a promising natural communication channel between humans and computers. A typical conversational interface consists of three major systems: speech understanding, dialog management and spoken language generation. In such a conversational interface, speech recognition…

The activity of designing and developing large, complex, discrete, physical, and engineered products faces the challenges in the physical product system, the organization of people, and the larger systems in which the product resides-the natural and societal systems. This thesis…

On peut se tourner dans l'histoire et vers le philosophe grec Aristote pour trouver les préoccupations philosophiques sur la signification du concept de théorie et de la relation entre la théorie, la connaissance et la pratique. Ce qui est clair…

Islam as ad-din (way of life) outlined value systems established by al-Quran and al-hadith in every aspect of life. The underlying principle of the Islamic values is the well beings of human life and the ‘alam (environment).  This study aims…

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