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Taylor, Craig. "Literature, Moral Reflection and Ambiguity." Philosophy 86, no. 1 (December 21, 2010): 75–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s003181911000063x.

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AbstractWhile a number of philosophers have argued recently that it is through our emotional response to certain literary works that we might achieve particular moral understanding, what has not been discussed in detail in this connection are works which generate conflicting responses in the reader; which is to say literary works in which there is significant element of ambiguity. Consider Joseph Conrad's novel Lord Jim. I argue that in making sense of our potentially conflicting responses to this novel, and specifically to its central character Jim, we may gain a richer sense of the ways in which literature may contribute to moral understanding – in this case by contributing to an understanding of our own character, its blind spots and its limitations.

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Nguyen Hong, Hanh. "The aesthetic meaning of ambiguity in literature." Journal of Science Social Science 67, no. 3 (July 2022): 19–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.18173/2354-1067.2022-0037.

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“Ambiguity” was first proposed by W.Empson in his work Seven types of ambiguity (1930). According to him, ambiguity "is an undefined meaning, an intention to express many kinds of things that allow for many interpretations". Ambiguity can be classified into two forms: ambiguously definite polysemy and ambiguously indefinite polysemy. Ambiguity is a characteristic aspect of artistic thinking. it dominates and leaves its mark on the artistic creation process. Ambiguity is an important quality in literary life: it opens the endless field of meaning, making literature the key to helping people open the door to dominate all aspects of human life; It is the aspect that makes the aesthetics of literature; Ambiguity promotes the imagination, cocreation of the reader; it is a measure of the artist's talent in creating a breakthrough of words and a sense of artistic innovation.

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Cinpoeş, Radu. "Literature as the Art of Ambiguity." Southeastern Europe 29, no. 1 (2002): 119–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187633302x00151.

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Al-Najjar, Nabil I., and Jonathan Weinstein. "THE AMBIGUITY AVERSION LITERATURE: A CRITICAL ASSESSMENT." Economics and Philosophy 25, no. 3 (November 2009): 249–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s026626710999023x.

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We provide a critical assessment of the ambiguity aversion literature, which we characterize in terms of the view that Ellsberg choices are rational responses to ambiguity, to be explained by relaxing Savage's Sure-Thing principle and adding an ambiguity-aversion postulate. First, admitting Ellsberg choices as rational leads to behaviour, such as sensitivity to irrelevant sunk cost, or aversion to information, which most economists would consider absurd or irrational. Second, we argue that the mathematical objects referred to as “beliefs” in the ambiguity aversion literature have little to do with how an economist or game theorist understands and uses the concept. This is because of the lack of a useful notion of updating. Third, the anomaly of the Ellsberg choices can be explained simply and without tampering with the foundations of choice theory. These choices can arise when decision makers form heuristics that serve them well in real-life situations where odds are manipulable, and misapply them to experimental settings.

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Nehring, Klaus. "COPING RATIONALLY WITH AMBIGUITY: ROBUSTNESS VERSUS AMBIGUITY-AVERSION." Economics and Philosophy 25, no. 3 (November 2009): 303–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266267109990265.

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Al-Najjar and Weinstein (2009) argue that the extant literature on ambiguity aversion is not successful in accounting for Ellsberg choices as rational responses to ambiguity. We concur, and propose that rational choice under ambiguity aims at robustness rather than avoidance of ambiguity. A central argument explains why robust choice is intrinsically context-dependent and legitimately violates standard choice consistency conditions. If choice consistency is forced, however, ambiguity-aversion emerges as a semi-rational response to ambiguity.

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Atherton, Catherine. "Apollonius Dyscolus and the ambiguity of ambiguity." Classical Quarterly 45, no. 2 (December 1995): 441–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0009838800043512.

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Apollonius Dyscolus’ use of ambiguity in grammatical problem-solving has in recent years had the benefit of two scholarly studies. David Blank, in the course of his analysis of the Syntax as a whole (1982), has described the broad functions which Apollonius assigns to ambiguity. Jean Lallot's 1988 paper, ‘Apollonius Dyscole et l'ambigüité linguistique: problemes et solutions’, is devoted exclusively to the treatment of linguistic ambiguity in Apollonius’ work. Yet it is to be feared that the flood of light thrown by these scholars on what had been an unregarded corner of ancient grammar has shown up rather more than Apollonius would have cared to admit, both about the nature, and about the prospects for success, of the enterprise on which he was engaged. At the same time, certain structural features of ancient grammar, at least of the ancient grammar which Apollonius himself constructed, have come into sharper focus: features clear enough with the benefit of hindsight, but glimpsed, it appears, all too dimly by Apollonius himslf. It is now worryingly clear not only that ambiguity was ambiguous for Apollonius, but also that the ambiguity of ambiguity represented a genuine threat to the coherence and value of his work. In this paper I set out to justify both these claims.

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Botti, Antonio, and Antonella Monda. "Goal Ambiguity in Public Organizations: A Systematic Literature Review." International Journal of Business and Management 14, no. 7 (June 15, 2019): 137. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijbm.v14n7p137.

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In the literature on the public-private organizations is well known that public organizations have more ambiguous elements than private ones, such as ideology and objectives, that negatively influence the enthusiasm (Brunsson, 1986), motivation and performance of public employees (Pandey & Raney, 2006), as well as organizational performance (Chun & Raney, 2005). The close relationship with performance led many public administration scholars to deepen the concept of goal ambiguity in public management. However, given the lack of a univocal conceptualization of the phenomenon, the present work aims to contextualize goal ambiguity in the public administration, carrying out a systematic literature review. The results bring out goal ambiguity methods of measurement, its antecedents and consequences and the relationship between goal ambiguity and performance. From a theoretical point of view, the study allows systematizing the contributions on goal ambiguity, while from a practical point of view, a thorough knowledge of the concept allows public managers and policy-makers to obtain valuable information for the achievement of good organizational performance.

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Gao, Ying. "Translation Strategies of Ambiguity in English Language and Literature." Journal of Contemporary Educational Research 8, no. 2 (February 25, 2024): 138–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.26689/jcer.v8i2.6151.

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The translation of English language and literary works has always been crucial for cross-cultural communication. However, a key challenge in translating such works is the accurate communication of ambiguity, which refers to expressions deliberately used in English texts with unclear meanings. These expressions are often poetic and carry deep symbols and implications, adding a unique charm to literary works. This article explores the manifestations of ambiguity in English language and literature and the translation strategies that can be employed to optimize the translation of ambiguity in the English language and literature.

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Konlechner, Stefan, and Véronique Ambrosini. "Issues and Trends in Causal Ambiguity Research: A Review and Assessment." Journal of Management 45, no. 6 (March 12, 2019): 2352–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0149206319836163.

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Causal ambiguity relates to ambiguity as to how organizational actions and results, inputs and outcomes, or competencies and advantage are linked. Causal ambiguity is important because of its organizational performance implications. Over the last 25 years, research has analyzed the concept from various theoretical angles. As a result, the literature is fragmented and presents different, and sometimes contradictory, views on the concept. In this article, we systematically review the literature on causal ambiguity and develop a framework incorporating the types, antecedents, and consequences of causal ambiguity for both organizational performance and organizational learning. We disentangle the arrays of conceptualizations and operationalizations present in the literature, and we isolate distinct streams in causal ambiguity research. One stream of research concentrates on causal ambiguity as an interfirm barrier to imitation, a second relates to causal ambiguity as an intrafirm barrier to factor mobility, and a third focuses on causal ambiguity as a potential trigger for intrafirm learning. Our review also helps to consolidate research on the substitution dilemma, the causal ambiguity paradox, and the challenge of learning under causal ambiguity. Finally, we develop a coherent set of implications for management practice, and we provide an agenda for further research.

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Amna, Anis R., and Geert Poels. "Ambiguity in user stories: A systematic literature review." Information and Software Technology 145 (May 2022): 106824. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2022.106824.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Ambiguity in literature"

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Butler, Jennifer. "Ambiguity in nineteenth-century russian literature and opera." Online version, 2004. http://bibpurl.oclc.org/web/30681.

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Spitzer, Michael. "Ambiguity and paradox in Beethoven's late style." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.239541.

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Lyman, John andrew. ""Pudd'nhead Wilson", Ambiguity, and Enslavement by Language." W&M ScholarWorks, 1997. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626123.

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Hlongwana, Colfar. "Ambiguity in XiTsonga." Thesis, University of Limpopo, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/1768.

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Thesis (M.A. (Translation studies and Lingustics)) --University of Limpopo, 2015
The aim of this study is to investigate ambiguity in Xitsonga. There are many kinds of ambiguity, but the study mainly focuses on lexical and structural ambiguity. Lexical ambiguity occurs at word level and is caused by homonyms (homophones and homographs) and polysemes. Structural ambiguity occurs at sentence level. This kind of ambiguity manifests in the structure of the sentence itself. Data were collected through self-observation as a native Xitsonga speaker. Words and sentences with multiple meanings in Xitsonga were listed and tree diagrams were used to illustrate and disambiguate ambiguity. The study reveals that, like other languages, Xitsonga has words and sentences with double or many meanings. KEYWORDS AMBIGUITY, LEXICAL AMBIGUITY, STRUCTURAL AMBIGUITY, HOMONYM, HOMOPHONES, HOMOGRAPHS, POLYSEMES.

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Kao, Chia-li. "Imperialist ambiguity and ambivalence in Japanese and Taiwanese literature, 1895-1945." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3345077.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Comparative Literature, 2008.
Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Oct. 5, 2009). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-02, Section: A, page: 0570.

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Li, Wanlin. "Global Ambiguity in Early American Gothic: A Cultural Rhetorical Analysis." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1433333747.

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Cobb, Helen Anne. "Representations of Elizabeth I : three sites of ambiguity and contradiction." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1990. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:281007c5-e015-4c64-b9dc-9f4db8ac4f46.

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This thesis looks at three themes in representations of the Queen in Elizabethan literature. They are: the problem of representing a female ruler; the relation between the cult of Elizabeth and the cult of the Virgin Mary; and representations of Elizabeth as Cynthia, the moon-goddess. These topics are seen as focal points for problematic issues in panegyric. The first part of the thesis looks at the problem of reconciling the "masculine" virtues of the ideal ruler with ideal "feminine" virtues, in the figure of Elizabeth. Some panegyric stressed her "masculine" qualities; but, more often, her uniqueness as perfect woman was extolled. However, apparent praise of "feminine" virtues like peacefulness and mercifulness could veil implicit criticism of the effeminisation of the state. In Elizabeth's sex can be found reasons for the proliferation and complexity of fictional personae for her: first, she had to be shown to possess all the virtues, masculine and feminine, even when those virtues were incompatible or contradictory. Secondly, a masculine idea of woman as enigma, incomprehensible and ultimately unrepresentable, was magnified in the figure of a female monarch. The second section examines the theory, popularised by Frances Yates and Roy Strong, that Elizabeth was a Protestant "substitute" for the Virgin Mary, who filled a "psychological gap" for the populace after the Reformation. It considers the extent of contradiction between opposition to idolatry, and belief in the spiritual status of the ruler; and the longstanding exchange of imagery between secular and sacred literature. The relations between the cult of the Virgin and representations of Elizabeth were complex and various. Some apparent examples of Marian imagery in panegyric of Elizabeth were part of the use of religious imagery in the discourse of courtly love; some were attempts to appropriate the "magical" symbolic qualities of virginity in general for the Protestant cause; some were typological readings of Marian myths as narrative structures with which to mythologise contemporary history. Direct identification of Elizabeth with the Virgin only became prevalent in the later years of the reign, particularly in elegies for her death. Finally, the thesis looks at moon-imagery in panegyric of Elizabeth as a means for apparent praise which contains undertones of criticism and disillusionment. The moon-image was particularly a means of expressing anxiety regarding mutability, as Elizabeth's advancing age added to the problem of her sex, and foregrounded the issue of her mortality.

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Barnum, Elizabeth Aileen. "Non-reified space| Henry James's critique of capitalism through abstractness and ambiguity." Thesis, The University of North Dakota, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3714360.

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Despite Henry James’s reputation as a novelist of upper class manners, many critics have argued that his work also contains well-grounded criticism of capitalism and consumer culture. An even larger number of writers have analyzed James’s idiosyncratic style, characterized by ambiguity and abstractness. Where these two analytic approaches overlap, the area examined in this dissertation, James makes a deeper critique of capitalism’s redefinition of human purpose and its reification of the human mind and consciousness. James suggests, through his ambiguous and abstract language, that open-ended language which rejects concrete and conceptual meaning can gesture toward a space in which people can reclaim their full humanity and reject the reification of life – a space that is non-reified. Moreover, this non-reified space, while it can help an individual redefine her subjectivity, is brought to fruition when people share deeply intersubjective connections. By applying to four James novels the Marxist elaboration of commodification and reification by Georg Lukács, the detailed analysis of Jamesian grammar and syntax by Seymour Chatman, and the phenomenological discussions of language and intersubjectivity by Maurice Merleau-Ponty, as well as the views of Gertrude Stein on the importance of allowing linguistic space that is not already filled with meaning, this dissertation finds James’s gesture toward a space in which people can be fully human, experience each other as fully human, and rediscover language as a powerful force for mutual creation of the next moment and, from there, the world.

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Hanstedt, Paul Stephen. "Defining a middle-class aristocracy: labor, leisure, and ambiguity in four victorian novels /." The Ohio State University, 1996. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487935958846836.

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Munro, Allan John. "Ambiguity and deception in the covert texts of South African Theatre : 1976-1996 /." Connect to resource, 1998. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=osu1261072987.

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Books on the topic "Ambiguity in literature"

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name, No. Literature and racial ambiguity. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2001.

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Kędzia-Klebeko, Beata. Ambiguïté et ses contraires. Szczecin: Université de Szczecin, 2011.

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Paul, Bogaards, Rooryck Johan, Smith P. J, and Landheer Ronald, eds. Quitte, ou, Double sens: Articles sur l'ambiguïté offerts à Ronald Landheer. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2001.

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William, Empson. Seven types of ambiguity. London: Hogarth, 1991.

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William, Empson. Seven types of ambiguity. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1995.

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Ramphos, Stelios. Fate and ambiguity in Oedipus the King. Boston: Somerset Hall Press, 2005.

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Ruggieri, Luisiana. Giovanni Boccaccio ambiguo e trasgressivo nel Ninfale fiesolano. Pescara: Tracce, 1995.

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Gaaloul, Nadia. L'ambiguïté dans les Nouvelles complètes de Paul Morand. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2022.

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Polhill, Marian E. Diz vliegende bîspel: Ambiguity in Medieval and Early Modern literature. Göttingen: V&R unipress, 2020.

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Cherchi, Paolo. Andreas and the ambiguity of courtly love. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994.

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Book chapters on the topic "Ambiguity in literature"

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Sutton-Spence, Rachel, and Michiko Kaneko. "Neologism and Ambiguity." In Introducing Sign Language Literature, 129–40. London: Macmillan Education UK, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-93179-8_12.

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Morrison, Susan Signe. "Codification: The Anxiety of Ambiguity." In The Literature of Waste, 17–27. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137394446_2.

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Ladd, Roger A. "The Deliberate Ambiguity of Chaucer’s Anxious Merchants." In Antimercantilism in Late Medieval English Literature, 77–100. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230111981_4.

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Svelstad, Per Esben. "The Political Ambiguity of Pastoral." In Same-Sex Desire and the Environment in Norwegian Literature, 1908–1979, 153–92. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56030-9_4.

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Jayemanne, Darshana. "What Is Rhyparography? The Ambiguity of the Framing Device." In Performativity in Art, Literature, and Videogames, 55–78. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54451-9_3.

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Daya, Shari. "Modernity as ambiguity in Vikram Chandra’s Sacred Games." In The Routledge Companion on Architecture, Literature and The City, 25–36. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2018.: Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315613154-3.

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Schuurman, Anne. "Demonic Ambiguity: Debt in the Friar-Summoner Sequence." In Money, Commerce, and Economics in Late Medieval English Literature, 77–91. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71900-9_6.

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Kamalisarvestani, Mehrak. "Polyphony and Ambiguity in Shahriar Mandanipour's The Courage of Love." In Routledge Handbook of Post Classical and Contemporary Persian Literature, 373–92. London: Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315124230-18.

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Lot, Nicolas, and Benoît Journé. "The Unsung Virtues of Ambiguity in Subcontracted Work." In SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology, 97–106. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35163-1_10.

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AbstractAcademic literature deems ambiguity must be eliminated or pushed outside these organizations, since it is considered to weaken risk management. Based on a qualitative study, this chapter demonstrates that ambiguity can offer a powerful means to facilitate coordination between stakeholders involved in preparing and carrying out complex and hazardous activities. This assumes that ambiguity is accepted and managed rather than eliminated. To turn ambiguity into an advantage, it is important to be able to discuss multiple interpretations, choose ‘the best one’ and negotiate or create new ones in order to produce a shared frame of reference that is appropriate to the situation. Management systems can be designed to support these discussions of multiple interpretations ahead of work being carried out. We show that ambiguity is managed ‘cold’, outside the process of action, and during action, depending on the quality of interactions between the relevant stakeholders and the soft skills employed by those involved.

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Blümer, Agnes. "Translating Ambiguity: The Translation of Dual Address in Children’s Fantasy During the 1950s and 1960s." In Translating and Transmediating Children’s Literature, 291–302. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52527-9_15.

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Conference papers on the topic "Ambiguity in literature"

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Bano, Muneera. "Addressing the challenges of requirements ambiguity: A review of empirical literature." In 2015 IEEE Fifth International Workshop on Empirical Requirements Engineering (EmpiRE). IEEE, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/empire.2015.7431303.

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Nipu, Ayesha Siddika, and Urmee Pal. "A machine learning approach on latent semantic analysis for ambiguity checking on Bengali literature." In 2017 20th International Conference of Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT). IEEE, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/iccitechn.2017.8281797.

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Royd Howard, Grant, Sam Lubbe, and Rembrandt Klopper. "Green IS: Enabling, Transforming, Both, or Neither?" In InSITE 2015: Informing Science + IT Education Conferences: USA. Informing Science Institute, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/2108.

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The problem addressed in this paper is the ambiguity that exists in the usage of the terms “enable” and “transform” and their related forms in the Green IS literature. This ambiguity creates uncertainty, both conceptual and practical, about the precise role of Green IS in these research and use contexts. Consequently, the exact relationship between Green IS and environmental sustainability can be obscured. The objective then was to disambiguate these terms and their related forms by defining them independently from the Green IS literature, and subsequently using those independent meanings to content analyze their use in the top journals in the IS field. The results provided evidence that the enabling role was far more prominent than the transforming role. Nevertheless, while distinct, both roles are are equally significant and valuable for environmental sustainability. However, based on the relative frequencies, the enabling role of Green IS provides more frequent environmental sustainability returns. Thus, it may be preferable for Green IS research to focus on exposing the enabling capabilities of Green IS for optimal success in the multitudinous environmental sustainability scenarios.

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Ferguson, Scott, Afreen Siddiqi, Kemper Lewis, and Olivier L. de Weck. "Flexible and Reconfigurable Systems: Nomenclature and Review." In ASME 2007 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. ASMEDC, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2007-35745.

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The demands on today’s products have become increasingly complex as customers expect enhanced performance across a variety of diverse and changing system operating conditions. Reconfigurable systems are capable of undergoing changes in order to meet new objectives, function effectively in varying operating environments, and deliver value in dynamic market conditions. Research in the design of such responsive and changeable systems, however, currently faces impediments in effective and clear discourse due to ambiguity in terminology. Definitions of the terms flexibility and reconfigurability, two related concepts in reconfigurable system design, are explored based on their original lexical meanings and current understanding in design literature. Design techniques that incorporate flexibility both in the design (form) and performance (function) space are presented. Based upon this literature survey, a classification scheme for flexibility is proposed, and its application to reconfigurable system design is explored. This paper also presents recent methodologies for reconfigurable system design and poses important research questions that remain to be investigated.

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Sunkanmi Adeyemi, Benjamen, Clinton Aigbavboa, and Wellington D Thwala. "Legal Factors in the Nigerian Construction Industry." In 13th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2022). AHFE International, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1002361.

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The purpose of this study was to review literature on various legal factors in the Nigerian construction industry (NCI). This research utilised various sources of information from previous studies on conference papers, articles in journals, and so on. Various keywords were utilised to search for the information related to the subject matter of this study. Moreover, some of the legal factors revealed from literature are regulations regarding the environment, professional codes of practices, health and safety regulations, permit, tax and insurance, interpretation of contractual documents, fiduciary relations, misrepresentation, incapability of procurement system, right of clients to change design, avoidance of responsibility, and ambiguity of work legislation. The study likewise discusses legal theories such as natural legal and legal positivism theory. Thereafter, the legal principles in the NCI were discussed. However, this study increases the knowledge of construction stakeholders. It is highly recommended that all factors that can result to legal issues should be avoided, in order to improve the efficiency of the NCI.

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Okudan, Gu¨l E., and Susan Mohammed. "An Investigation on the Students’ Perception of Dissection Effectiveness in a Redesign Context." In ASME 2008 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. ASMEDC, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2008-50125.

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Disassemble/Analyze/Assemble (DAA) activities involve the disassembly, analysis, and assembly of an artifact. Such activities are frequently made a part of the undergraduate engineering curricula in the United States (and elsewhere) as they provide useful ‘hands-on’ active learning components that can be easily integrated into various courses. DAA activities are central to product dissection and reverse engineering, terms which have been used interchangeably in the engineering design education literature and course titles. In some cases these activities are coupled with redesign activities, paving the way for a good context and providing a background for a meaningful engineering design. Despite this fact, however, based on our review of the literature it is not clear how do these DAA activities help with the redesign activity, if at all. Accordingly, in this paper we present results of our data collection that aimed at uncovering students’ perception regarding if DAA activities help with redesign (e.g., is it easier to redesign after dissection?). Overall, students had positive perceptions toward dissection, specifically with regards to its impact on redesign. We also report on the relation of student perceptions to design task, team functioning, and tolerance for ambiguity.

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Xie, Yuanyuan, and Xingjian Xue. "First Principle Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy Simulation for SOFCs." In ASME 2010 8th International Conference on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology. ASMEDC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/fuelcell2010-33101.

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Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) is a widely utilized experimental method for fundamental mechanism understanding and diagnosis of solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs). However, EIS experimental results are in general interpreted using equivalent circuit model method. When EIS response induced by very complicated multi-physics processes in SOFC is approximated with a simple equivalent circuit, it will inevitably lead to ambiguity. In this research, first principle EIS simulation method is developed to link multi-physics processes of a button cell to EIS response. The EIS modeling method is validated using experimental data from open literature. The validated EIS model is employed to investigate SOFC performance. Simulation results indicate that EIS response contains a plethora of SOFC behavior information that collectively contributed by intrinsic SOFC material property, porous microstructure, as well as operating conditions. The simulation method developed in this research can be potentially utilized for interpretation and de-convolution of experimental EIS results.

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Midha, Ashok, Tony W. Norton, and Larry L. Howell. "On the Nomenclature and Classification of Compliant Mechanisms: The Components of Mechanisms." In ASME 1992 Design Technical Conferences. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc1992-0386.

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Abstract Compliant mechanisms gain some or all of their mobility from the flexibility of their members rather than from rigid-body joints only. Compliant mechanisms are desirable since they require fewer parts, and have less wear, noise, and backlash than their rigid-body counterpart mechanisms. The field of compliant mechanisms is important, and is expected to continue to grow as materials with superior properties are developed. Inasmuch as evolution of efficient design techniques is viewed as essential research activity, a parallel, systematic development of appropriate vocabulary (nomenclature, classification, etc.) is of primary importance. This paper proposes standard nomenclature for the components of compliant mechanisms and discusses the relevant issues involved in this process. Definitions for components, such as “links” and “joints,” remove ambiguity that has been associated with these terms in the past. A concerted effort is made to be consistent with current literature on both rigid-body mechanisms and compliant mechanisms whenever possible.

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Potekhin, Alexander. "Lexical and Syntactic Features for Reader Rating Prediction." In Dialogue. RSUH, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.28995/2075-7182-2022-21-1140-1148.

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Finding a correlation between the structural features of the text and its reception has recently become a challenging task of computational linguistics. However, the correlation between the reader’s reception of a literary work and its linguistic features suffers from the ambiguity of many textual parameters, which can be considered in calculations. Concerning Russian-language literature, such a process is complicated by the lack of representative databases of reader reviews and by rather noticeable discrepancies in the methods of text data analysis. In this paper, I propose to investigate the possibility of predicting the rating of a text only by its lexical and syntactic features. To design an experiment, four steps were taken: First, a corpus of Russian novels of different genres was built. Next, the literary rating was scraped from bookstore LitRes via a devised parser. Due to the small size of the corpus, the obtained results were manually cleaned to avoid ambiguity of text ratings. Most of data preprocessing was the selection of linguistic features to be considered. 23 different parameters were extracted after designing a proper software to mine those features. The final part o f the work was focused on checking whether the lexical and syntactic parameters correlate with the texts rating and setting a proper predictive model. Random Forest, Cat Boost, Logistic, Linear Regression, and K-Nearest Neighbors algorithms were compared. Since the coefficient of determination for the regression approach had a poor value, it was decided to move on to the classification problem, which brought more significant r esults. The obtained results confirmed the existence of a correlation between the structure of texts and their ratings and shed a light on new prospects in the research of the features of the text and its perception.

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Bubshait, Abdulrahman, and Birendra Jha. "Resolving Ambiguity in 2008-2015 Irving-Dallas Seismicity by Coupling Geomechanical Models at Fort Worth Basin and Barnett Reservoir Scales." In SPE Reservoir Simulation Conference. SPE, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/212170-ms.

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Abstract The activation mechanism of Irving-Dallas events is not well understood as it is shrouded in ambiguity due to many earthquakes located relatively far (>15 km) from production and injection wells. This requires a modeling approach that can quantify spatiotemporal propagation of production- and injection-induced stresses from wells to the faults while resolving fault geometry, stratigraphy, and well activity. However, constructing one such detailed model for the entire basin is computationally prohibitive due to the millions of grid cells needed to discretize the basin at that resolution. Based on our analysis of the data on well activity and fault position, we employed a novel two-model approach that exploits the disparity in scales between the basin-scale injection analysis and the well-scale fault reactivation analysis. We construct a coarse-scale model of Ellenburger injection in the Fort Worth basin and a fine-scale flow-geomechanics model of the Dallas-Irving region containing the faults that hosted the seismicity and the production/injection wells in the region. We use the coarse model to provide time-dependent pressure boundary conditions to the fine-scale model. We analyze the spatiotemporal evolution of pressure fields at both basin and reservoir scales. Analysis of the results provides evidence for interaction between Barnett's production and Ellenburger's injection as well as pressure diffusion from Ellenburger into the basement along the through-going faults. It allows us to test the hypothesis of injection-induced reactivation as the causative mechanism for the Irving seismic events. Almost all injection-induced seismicity studies in the literature show how injection near a fault (well-to-fault distance < 10 km) can induce seismicity. We provide evidence of far-field injection-induced seismicity (well-to-fault distance > 80 km) by coupling basin-scale and reservoir-scale models and a multi-physics approach.

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Reports on the topic "Ambiguity in literature"

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Guidolin, Massimo, and Francesca Rinaldi. Ambiguity in Asset Pricing and Portfolio Choice: A Review of the Literature. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.20955/wp.2010.028.

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Avis, Rupert. South-south Cooperation. Institute of Development Studies, July 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/k4d.2022.133.

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This rapid literature review collates available literature on South-South cooperation (SSC) (including the origins of the concept and how is it explained by different developing countries). It draws on a diverse range of sources including academic and grey literature. Given the breadth of debates regarding SSC, this review should be considered as indicative of broad narratives. SSC, both the theoretical notion and its practical application, is a commonly accepted component in discussions of international development policy. However straight forward the concept of SSC might appear, the term is not without ambiguity and many commentators highlight that there is no agreed definition. SSC is broadly understood as the transfer and exchange of resources, technologies and knowledge between developing countries and has grown exponentially in recent years as a result of the increased engagement of ‘new’ or ‘(re)emerging’ development cooperation ‘providers’ from the South. However, the notion of SSC is neither new nor static, rather it has evolved in response to global developments.

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