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Wigmore, Angela Michelle. "Speech-based creation and editing of mathematical content." Thesis, Kingston University, 2011. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/23729/.
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For most people, the creation and editing of mathematical text in electronic documents is a slow, tedious and error-prone activity. For people with disabilities, especially blindness or severe visual impairments, this is far more of a problem. The lack of easy access to good mathematical resources limits the educational and career opportunities for people with such disabilities. Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) could enable both able-bodied and people who are physically disabled gain better access to mathematics. However, whilst ASR has improved over recent years, most speech recognition systems do not support the input and editing of dictated mathematical expressions. In this thesis, we present results of studies of how students and staff at Kingston University, of various levels of mathematical achievement, read-out given expressions in English. Furthermore, we analyse evidence, both from our own studies, and from transcriptions of mathematics classes recorded in the British National Corpus (BNC), that people do consistently place pauses to mark the grouping of subexpressions. The results from this enabled us to create an innovative context-free attribute grammar capable of capturing a high proportion of GCSE-Ievel spoken mathematics, of which can be syntactically incorrect and/or incomplete. This attribute grammar was implemented, tested and evaluated in our prototype system TalkMaths. We also compiled statistics of "common sequences" of mathematics-related keywords from these two sources, with a view to using these to develop a "predictive model" for use in our system. We implemented and evaluated a prototype system TalkMaths, that enables the dictation of mathematical expressions, up to approximately GCSE level, and converts them into various electronic document formats Our evaluations of this system showed that people of various levels of mathematical ability can learn how to produce electronic mathematical documents by speech. These studies have demonstrated that producing mathematical documents by speech is a viable alternative to using the keyboard & mouse, especially for those who rely on speech recognition software to use a computer. A novel editing paradigm, based on a "hybrid grid" is proposed, implemented and tested in a further usability study. Although the evaluation of this editing paradigm is incomplete, it has demonstrated that it is promising and worthy of further research.
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McLeod, Sharynne, S. Verdon, C. Bowden, and A. Lynn Williams. "Multilingual Children with Speech Sound Disorders: Creation of a Position Paper." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2056.
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Della, Corte Giuseppe. "Text and Speech Alignment Methods for Speech Translation Corpora Creation : Augmenting English LibriVox Recordings with Italian Textual Translations." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-413064.
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The recent uprise of end-to-end speech translation models requires a new generation of parallel corpora, composed of a large amount of source language speech utterances aligned with their target language textual translations. We hereby show a pipeline and a set of methods to collect hundreds of hours of English audio-book recordings and align them with their Italian textual translations, using exclusively public domain resources gathered semi-automatically from the web. The pipeline consists in three main areas: text collection, bilingual text alignment, and forced alignment. For the text collection task, we show how to automatically find e-book titles in a target language by using machine translation, web information retrieval, and named entity recognition and translation techniques. For the bilingual text alignment task, we investigated three methods: the Gale–Church algorithm in conjunction with a small-size hand-crafted bilingual dictionary, the Gale–Church algorithm in conjunction with a bigger bilingual dictionary automatically inferred through statistical machine translation, and bilingual text alignment by computing the vector similarity of multilingual embeddings of concatenation of consecutive sentences. Our findings seem to indicate that the consecutive-sentence-embeddings similarity computation approach manages to improve the alignment of difficult sentences by indirectly performing sentence re-segmentation. For the forced alignment task, we give a theoretical overview of the preferred method depending on the properties of the text to be aligned with the audio, suggesting and using a TTS-DTW (text-to-speech and dynamic time warping) based approach in our pipeline. The result of our experiments is a publicly available multi-modal corpus composed of about 130 hours of English speech aligned with its Italian textual translation and split in 60561 triplets of English audio, English transcript, and Italian textual translation. We also post-processed the corpus so as to extract 40-MFCCs features from the audio segments and released them as a data-set.
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Nkosi, Mpho Caselinah. "Creation of a pronunciation dictionary for automatic speech recognition : a morphological approach." Thesis, University of Limpopo (Turfloop Campus), 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/1030.
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Thesis (M.Sc. (Computer Science)) --University of Limpopo, 2012Pronunciation dictionaries or lexicons play an important role in guiding the predictive powers of an Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) system. As the use of automatic speech recognition systems increases, there is a need for the development of dictionaries that cover a large number of inflected word forms to enhance the performance of ASR systems. The main purpose of this study is to investigate the contribution of the morphological approach to creating a more comprehensive and broadly representative Northern Sotho pronunciation dictionary for Automatic Speech Recognition systems. The Northern Sotho verbs together with morphological rules are used to generate more valid inflected word forms in the Northern Sotho language for the creation of a pronunciation dictionary. The pronunciation dictionary is developed using the Dictionary Maker tool. The Hidden Markov Model Toolkit is used to develop a simple ASR system in order to evaluate the performance of the ASR system when using the created pronunciation dictionary.
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Twengström, Moira, and Viktor Mörsell. "Evaluating regular and speech-based text entry for creation of smartphone based addresses." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-282810.
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Billions of people on earth lack a home address. In this paper we are investigating an approach to solve this using an address system where addresses consists of a GPS location and a description of how you find your way to the house when you are within close distance to the GPS location. The aim of the paper is to measure if said description has higher quality when it’s given using speech-based or regular text entry. Our findings indicate that speech based text input gives 1.7 times more information in about 5.5 times less time. From a usability standpoint there was no indicated difference, but as the experiments were carried out during perfect conditions it is concluded that speech-based text entry would likely present more of a challenge for the users. When and if speech recognition is more widely adopted into systems for everyday use, speech-based text entry will be a good asset for increasing the amount of information collected from users in navigational contexts.Det uppskattas att över en miljard människor lever utan en adress. Den här studien siktar till att förbättra en applösning som använder genererade adresser bestående av GPS-koordinater och en tillhörande beskrivning. Beskrivningen är menad att vägleda användaren när hon befinner sig i närområdet för att komplettera GPS-punktens eventuella osäkerhet. Syftet är att undersöka om en sådan beskrivning är av bättre kvalitet om den skapas med röstigenkänning än med vanlig text-input. Resultaten visar att röstbaserad input ger 1.7 gånger mer information än om användarna får skriva direkt i sin mobiltelefon och spenderar i snitt 5.5 gånger mindre tid med uppgiften. Användarnas utvärdering indikerar ingen skillnad i användarvänlighet, men eftersom experimenten utförts under perfekta förhållanden slås det fast att röstbaserad input förmodligen skulle innebära mer av en utmaning för användare. När och om röstigenkänning blir en mer integrerad del i vardagstekniken skulle röstbaserad text-input vara ett användbart medel att öka mängden information man får ut av användarnas egna beskrivningar.
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Dyar, Samuel S. "A multimodal speech interface for dynamic creation and retrieval of geographical landmarks on a mobile device." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/62638.
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Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2010.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 140).
As mobile devices become more powerful, researchers look to develop innovative applications that use new and effective means of input. Furthermore, developers must exploit the device's many capabilities (GPS, camera, touch screen, etc) in order to make equally powerful applications. This thesis presents the development of a multimodal system that allows users to create and share informative geographical landmarks using Android-powered smart-phones. The content associated with each landmark is dynamically integrated into the system's vocabulary, which allows users to easily use speech to access landmarks by the information related to them. The initial results of releasing the application on the Android Market have been encouraging, but also suggest that improvements need to be made to the system.
by Samuel S. Dyar.
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Dlavane, Fio Dolly Gaebeng. "The creation of identity through dialogue in Se se jeleng rre by J.M. Ntsime / Fio Dolly Gaebeng Dlavane." Thesis, North-West University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/1349.
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Čapek, Karel. "Vytvoření webové aplikace pro objektivní analýzu hypokinetické dysartrie ve frameworku Django." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta elektrotechniky a komunikačních technologií, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-316968.
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This master´s thesis deals with the calculation of parameters that would be able to differentiate healthy speech and speech impaired by hypokinetic dysarthria. There was staged hypokinetic dysarthria, which is a motoric disorder of speech and vocal tract. Were studied speech signal processing methods. Further parameters were studied, which could well differentiate healthy and diseased speech. Subsequently, these parameters were programmed in Python programming language. The next step was to create a web application in Django framework, which is used for the analysis of the dyzartic speech.
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Nguyen, Cong Duc. "Creation and distribution of real-time content a case study in provisioning immersive voice communications to networked games /." Access electronically, 2006. http://www.library.uow.edu.au/adt-NWU/public/adt-NWU20070110.164837/index.html.
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Deol, Raman Kaur. "The creation of the Khalsa : a study into the rhetorical strategies of collective identity transformation." Scholarly Commons, 2009. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/724.
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The Khalsa is a militant sect of the Sikh religion officially created by Guru Gobind on Baisakhi Day in 1699. Sikhism, as a religion and culture, existed within the overarching structure of lndian society during the reign of the Muslim Mughal Empire. Over the course of its history, Sikhism sought to evolve and adapt to internal and external pressures, and the creation of the Khalsa was a momentous and transformational step in that evolutionary process.
Using Kenneth Burke's guilt-redemption cycle as a model, this study analyses the events that created the Khalsa. The study found that historical and social pressures provided the rhetorical exigence for the creation of the Khalsa. Guru Gobind isolated and used the guilt of the Sikhs people, the guilt of being passive observers in the face of external pressures, the guilt of living in caste-organized society, the guilt of living in a bureaucratic system wherein the priests had seized power and control, and the guilt of living without external markers of the faith. These sources of guilt were brought to the forefront by Guru Gobind, and resolved through the symbolic sacrifice of five men, after which Guru Gobind created the Khalsa as an answer. Through the Khalsa, its symbols and rituals, the Sikhs were provided with a way to escape the flaws and guilt of the old order.
The creation of the Khalsa was an important milestone in the evolution of the Sikh culture and religion. Through this study, the processes and methods of this identity transformation were isolated. Guru Gobind activated social and collective levels of identity through the medium of performance in order to transform his audience of Sikhs into the Khalsa.
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Anderson, Ehry. "Figures of speech." Thesis, Boston University, 1994. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/37999.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Boston UniversityPLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.
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Amorim, Kariny Louizy Silva (Kariny Louizy Amorim da Rocha Vanderlei –. no curriculum lattes). "O discurso reportado em manuscritos escolares brasileiros e franceses: um estudo contrastivo a partir do gênero “contos etiológicos”." Universidade Federal de Alagoas, 2013. http://www.repositorio.ufal.br/handle/riufal/1549.
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The reported speech is a fundamental component in children's fictional narratives,
fulfilling a representational role of an utterance another in a given utterance (Bakhtin and Voloshinov, 1995). In studies on the production of this type of text written by young scribes in the school, Boré (2009, 2010) points to the importance of dialogue, signaling it as an element capable of acting as an "engine" of the invention, boosting the deployment of storytelling and writing. However, while recognizing the relevance of these investigations conducted by the author, speech development reported in their written statements proves to be a subject still little explored in the context of language acquisition, especially if you look from the perspective of analysis involving the comparison between different languages . Based on these assumptions – they also bring a strong link with the theoretical postulates related to Bakhtin's notions of dialogism and polyphony, and studies in the field of speech reported – developed by Authier-Revuz – and anchored, even in a contribution theoretical and methodological arising Genetics Textbook – from which we conceive of writing as a process – and Enunciation Linguistics, in this work, we are dedicated to investigating the differences and similarities regarding the presence of reported speech found in manuscripts of short stories etiological invented by dyads newly literate students at a school in Brazil and one from France. These manuscripts were collected from the immersion of both groups of students in reading this particular genre – which also known as "origin tale", consists of a fictional narrative that seeks to explain the origin of beings, properties, nature phenomena, etc. (Cascudo, 2006) – and the realization of didactic proposals and similar textual production, made in the classroom of each school in both countries. This expedient gathered more than 80 productions, among which we selected 34 students of French and 37 Brazilians to be analyzed here and, from
them, describing the ways in which these students belong, in their texts, this type of discourse, dialogue represented. Our observations suggest, therefore, that such a discursive element is present in more than half the number of manuscripts produced by both the French and the Brazilian students. However, the latter employ it in his tales with a significantly higher frequency than the first. In turn, the reported speech form that predominates in the composition of narratives, both for students and for those of Brazil in France, is the direct discourse (DD), which seems to confirm the hypothesis raised by the theoretical framework assumed in this work, namely: the dialogical structure represented the DD would be reminiscent of dialogic inner speech that would allow these young clerks set up a fictional universe. Thus, we believe it is possible for these students to supplement their storytelling skills.Fundação de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Alagoas
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O discurso reportado é um componente fundamental nas narrativas ficcionais infantis, cumprindo um papel de representação de uma enunciação outra em uma dada enunciação (BAKHTIN e VOLOSHINOV, 1995). Em estudos voltados para a produção escrita deste tipo de texto por jovens escreventes no âmbito escolar, Boré (2009, 2010) aponta a importância do diálogo, sinalizando-o como elemento capaz de atuar enquanto “motor” para a invenção, impulsionando o desdobramento da narrativa e da escritura. Entretanto, embora se reconheça a relevância destas investigações realizadas pela autora, o desenvolvimento do discurso reportado em suas manifestações escritas revela-se uma temática ainda muito pouco explorada no âmbito da aquisição da linguagem, sobretudo se olhada sob uma perspectiva de análise que envolva a comparação entre línguas diferentes. Com base nestes pressupostos – que trazem ainda uma forte ligação com os postulados teóricos bakhtinianos relacionados às noções de dialogismo e de polifonia, e com estudos no campo do discurso reportado desenvolvidos por Authier-Revuz – e ancorados, ainda, em um aporte teórico-metodológico advindo da Genética de Textos – desde o qual concebemos a escritura como um processo – e da Linguística da Enunciação, neste trabalho, nos dedicamos a investigar as diferenças e as semelhanças no que toca à presença do discurso reportado encontradas em manuscritos de contos etiológicos inventados por díades de alunos recém-alfabetizados em uma escola do Brasil e outra da França. Tais manuscritos foram coletados a partir da imersão de ambos os grupos de alunos na leitura deste gênero em particular – o qual, também conhecido como “conto de origem”, consiste em uma narrativa ficcional que busca explicar a origem de seres, propriedades, fenômenos da natureza, etc. (CASCUDO, 2006) – e da realização de propostas didáticas e de produção textual semelhantes, efetuadas na sala de aula de cada uma das escolas nos dois países. Deste expediente reunimos mais de 80 produções, dentre as quais selecionamos 34 dos alunos brasileiros e 37 dos franceses para serem aqui analisadas e para, a partir delas, descrevermos os modos através dos quais estes alunos inserem, em seus textos, este tipo de discurso, o diálogo representado. Nossas observações indiciam, portanto, que tal elemento discursivo está presente em mais da metade do conjunto de manuscritos produzidos, tanto pelos alunos franceses quanto pelos brasileiros. Porém, estes últimos o empregam em seus contos com uma frequência significativamente maior que os primeiros. Por sua vez, a forma de discurso reportado que predomina na composição das narrativas, tanto para os alunos do Brasil quanto para os da França, é o discurso direto (DD), o que parece confirmar as hipóteses levantadas pelo quadro teórico assumido neste trabalho, qual seja: a estrutura dialogal do DD representado seria uma reminiscência do discurso interior dialógico que permitiria a estes jovens escreventes criarem um universo ficcional. Assim, acreditamos, é possível para estes alunos ampliarem a sua capacidade narrativa.
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Lima, Felipe Alves. "A arte da fala: um percurso da palavra para a pedagogia do teatro?" Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/27/27155/tde-07112017-150734/.
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Esta dissertação analisa aspectos do processo de criação teatral a partir da Arte da Fala - idealizada por Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) e sua esposa Marie Steiner -, conforme o programa curricular da Escola Waldorf Micael de São Paulo, de modo a demarcar o campo de questões que configuram, para o professor e o aluno, as relações possíveis entre pedagogia, trabalho prático da voz/fala e processos de criação. Mostra um caminho prático para uma fala artística, por meio da qual se manifestam as forças formadoras da palavra encontrando, na própria linguagem, a essência deste trabalho. A partir dessa prerrogativa, levanta questões no campo pedagógico teatral que abarcam a diversidade e o número de alunos de um grupo escolar e que visam o desenvolvimento da fala, uma vez que na pedagogia Waldorf o trabalho artístico é o condutor de todo o percurso escolar. Segundo Steiner, este percurso pedagógico traz uma sensibilização para o aluno e se reflete nas relações do dizer em cada setênio de sua vida escolar, abrindo um campo de pesquisa da fala que abrange também as outras áreas artísticas desenvolvidas na escola.This dissertation analyses aspects of the process of theatrical creation from the standpoint of Art of Speech - designed by Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) and his wife Marie Steiner - according to the curriculum of the Waldorf Micael School of São Paulo, in order to demarcate the field of questions that configure, for the teacher and the student, the possible relationships between pedagogy, practical work of voice/speech and creation process. It shows a practical way to an artistic speech, through which the forming forces of the word are revealed, finding in the language itself the essence of this work. Based on this prerogative, it raises questions in the field of Pedagogical theatre that encompass the diversity and the number of students of a school group and that aim at the development of speech, since in Waldorf pedagogy the artistic work is the driver of the entire school journey. According to Steiner, this pedagogical trajectory brings sensitization to the student and it is reflected on the relationships of saying in each septennium of his/her school life, opening a field of speech research that also covers others artistic areas developed in the school.
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Stoel-Gammon, Carol, and A. Lynn Williams. "Early Phonological Development: Creating an Assessment Test." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1999.
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This paper describes a new protocol for assessing the phonological systems of two-year-olds with typical development and older children with delays in vocabulary acquisition. The test (Profiles of Early Expressive Phonological Skills (PEEPS), ) differs from currently available assessments in that age of acquisition, based on lexical norms from the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Developmental Inventories, served as the primary criterion for creating a word list. Phonetic and semantic properties of the words were also considered in selecting items for the test. Productions of words using the PEEPS protocol have been gathered from a group of children with typical development and another group with cleft lip and/or palate. By 24 months of age, the children with typical development produced more than 90% of the target words and the children with atypical development produced 73% of the words. Regarding administration, the time needed for administering the protocol decreased with age.
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Stoel-Gammon, Carol, and A. Lynn Williams. "Early Phonological Development: Creating an Assessment Test." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2064.
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Kattula, Steven R. "motus et re-creation: Movement and re-creation on accotink creek." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/36431.
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Speed has long been equated with "progress". The Romans' paved roads begot much of this concept, allowing faster travel that improved communication, commerce, and enabled control over vast territories. Additionally paved surfaces whisked insect-breeding water away from homes, improving the health of those in town. Today, part-and-parcel of the definition of the developed world are tremendous amounts of solid surfaces, mostly asphalt and concrete, to move mechanized devices and water quickly. Even the shoes we wear could be seen as complementary technological devices, cushioning our feet to allow us to barrel forward more quickly along firm, manmade foundations. But the push towards this progress has had destructive consequences on our environment, including, but not limited to, our stream valleys.
Often abutting intense, impervious development, the stream valley watersheds have morphed from spongy spines dense with aquatic life to de-facto storm sewers, with thick foliage merely masking severe erosion and paltry ecosystems. Quite simply, the speed at which the water is pushed down the ever-narrowed corridors as paved development encroaches, coupled with pollution from this fast runoff, renders the former fish streams dead.
The recent advent of nature trails (following a mix of old hunting paths and former gristmill horse-cart ways), along unbuildable flood plains has exposed this problem in the Accotink stream valley in Northern Virginia. This thesis addresses the topic of water runoff of the Accotink stream valley and trail network. After analyzing and studying the area as a whole, the thesis focused on two scales: the larger scale of Fairfax Circle in Fairfax City in suburban Northern Virginia and a piece of this area -- a small section that acts as a threshold from urban village to natural park/trail/creek bed. This smaller section is also along the most eroded section of the Accotink Creek. At the "master plan" scale, the thesis transforms Fairfax Circle to a "village" using environmental remediation design principals to repair and regenerate this environmentally-degraded area. At the architectural scale, the thesis examines the site through the lens of the regional trail network along the stream valleys and the potential urban village at Fairfax Circle to design a trail-stop fitness center that straddles the break between conceptual urban space and repaired, stormwater-soaking stream valley.Master of Architecture
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Hrušovský, Enrik. "Automatická klasifikace výslovnosti hlásky R." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta elektrotechniky a komunikačních technologií, 2018. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-377664.
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This diploma thesis deals with automatic clasification of vowel R. Purpose of this thesis is to made program for detection of pronounciation of speech defects at vowel R in children. In thesis are processed parts as speech creation, speech therapy, dyslalia and subsequently speech signal processing and analysis methods. In the last part is designed software for automatic detection of pronounciation of vowel R. For recognition of pronounciation is used algorithm MFCC for extracting features. This features are subsequently classified by neural network to the group of correct or incorrect pronounciation and is evaluated classification success.
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Boggs, Teresa, and M. Baker. "Creating Together; Art for Children with Special Needs." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2003. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1533.
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Lyons, A. "The breadbasket of Europe : [Accompanied by] Perpetual speech : Hollis Frampton's 'Gloria!' as lyric poem." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.679046.
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e Breadbasket of Europe, a new collection of poems, maps linguistic and social contours of places I've lived and traveled - Ireland, the U.S., Poland, and Ukraine - through the pinning down of a chorus of voices. Perpetual Speech: Hollis Frampton's Gloria! as Lyric Poem Gloria! was a film in which Hollis Frampton made radical inroads in illumina~ing the 'tense mutuality' between language and cinema that obsessed him from his earliest efforts in poetry and film. I argue that Frampton's last film project opens new pathways for poetic language, particularly the lyric poem, to fmd expression in the 'camera arts' through its deftly original invocations of perpetual speech. I explore Frampton's early relationship with Ezra Pound and the shaping influence of Pound's poetics of voices, locutions and multi-lingual translation on Frampton's critical investigations of cinematic language. I frame Gloria! (1979) as the work in which Frampton's assumption and disavowal of Pound is complete and 'made new' by means of a purpose-built, digital transportation for the lyric voice in Gloria!. The fact that Frampton's grandmother taught him to read and write on a typewriter is seen as highly significant and explored through a number of lenses. I draw connections between Frampton's nascent 'fmgerings' of a keyboard with his pioneering work years later at SUNY Buffalo's Digital Arts Lab in writing code that would allow him to feature a digital "typewriter voice" in Gloria!. By displacing elements within the digital text of the film to other aural and visual components, Frampton mines expressive elements within lyric language and shows how these can be adapted to the imminent medium he called 'the counter-machine to the machine of language'. In doing so, Frampton opens the way for lyric poetry's place in a digital world.
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Phear, Nicolette. "Creating Space| Engaging Deliberation about Climate Action." Thesis, Prescott College, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3642993.
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In the United States public discourse, climate change is often framed as a polarized and intractable issue. The purpose of this dissertation was to explore deliberation about climate action, and to evaluate whether effective responses to climate change can be facilitated through new structures and processes that enable and encourage dialogue on the subject of how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Working with sustainability leaders at the University of Montana and in the community of Missoula, Montana, the author convened three public deliberations, in which a variety of solutions to climate change were discussed. Three questions guided this study: 1) what motivated individuals to engage in deliberation about climate action; 2) how did individual engagement vary and affect the quality of the deliberation; and 3) how effective were the deliberations in building a sense of individual agency and generating collaborative action strategies to address climate change. Based on a rigorous statistical analysis of survey responses combined with qualitative data, this action research study offers a holistic exploration of the three deliberative events convened. The deliberative processes generated collaborative action strategies and increased participants' sense of agency to take action on climate change; the findings also revealed differences in the ways individuals engaged and affected the quality of the overall group deliberation. This dissertation contributes to the literature on collaborative responses and collective action on climate change, broadens understanding of deliberative processes, and provides new insight into opportunities for leading deliberation about climate action.
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Boucher, Romagne Hoyt. "Creative breakthrough emergence| A conversational accomplishment." Thesis, Fielding Graduate University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3642065.
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Many people, organizations, institutions, and governments want and need to generate creative breakthroughs and foster creativity, but are not aware of what conversational conditions make their occurrence more likely. The creative collaborative process is dependent upon communication. There have been few studies that have analyzed in situ group creativity with a robust communication theory capable of showing what actual kinds of conversations create new and useful meaning. The purpose of this research was to identify conversational conditions that facilitate creative breakthroughs in collaborative workgroups.
A case study is presented of a 4-month creative collaboration between members of a design consultancy and a senior university design class tasked with designing 21st century communication products for a well-known greeting-card company client. The research design utilized a social constructionist communication theory, the coordinated management of meaning, (CMM). Creative breakthrough moments were identified in three different interactions from questionnaires and videotaped data. Reflective interviews of all the participants also enabled insight into the creative breakthrough moments and the narrative process that developed new meaning. The videotaped conversational patterns that produced those creative breakthrough moments were then recursively examined and analyzed with conversational analysis, CMM research methodology, and figurative language. Six specific conversational conditions were discerned as present in creative breakthrough emergence.
A reflexive pattern of critique, relationship, responsibility, idea generation, and reframing authorship enabled participants to co-evolve design narratives that made new meaning. Creative breakthroughs and new creative meaning emerged from an improvisational structure of six specific conversational conditions. By participating within this improvisational structure, group members utilized critique as a creative springboard for innovation and took fresh perspectives. These findings are counter to the dominant themes in design and sociocultural literature that nonjudgmental conditions, brainstorming, and individuals building on input are the main pathways for creativity.
Key Words: Creative breakthrough, conversational conditions, facilitate, in vivo collaborative workgroups, relational responsibility moves, new meaning-making, improvisational language structure, figurative language, CMM, social constructionist communication theory, creative and generous listening, creative collaboration
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Hetzel, Eugene David. "The mad rhetoric: Toward a rigor on radical creativity and its function in consciousness as a communicative principle." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2007. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3293.
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This thesis explores three creative works, "The music of Erich Zann" by H.P. Lovecraft; the film "Eraserhead" by David Lynch; and the "Self-Portrait (blue)" by Vincent Van Gogh, as examples of different forms of mad rhetorics as a way in which to demonstrate the application of the theory of "mad rhetorics" and the role "radical creativity" plays in the construction of mad rhetorics by "mad rhetors" play in society.
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Kartalidis, Nikolaos. "Speech recognition in construction equipment : Creating a voice assistant for an autonomous wheel loader." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för informatik och media, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-356208.
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This thesis sets out to explore possible applications of speech recognition in construction equipment and autonomous machines. Advancements in autonomous vehicle technology mean that soon, vehicles like wheel loaders will be able perform tasks without human operators. Those vehicles still require a method of interaction with humans and recent improvements in speech recognition mean that it is possible for a natural voice-based interface to be used. The research question of this thesis is the extent to which voice control can replace hand-operated controls in an intelligent autonomous machine. Interviews and observation sessions took place in order to identify the requirements such a speech interface would have to fulfill. Next, a design process took place in order to build a prototype of such system, followed by test sessions to evaluate it. The prototype demonstrated positive attributes, with great learnability and ease of operation, but speech recognition errors meant low performance, and overall user satisfaction.Detta examensarbete ämnar utforska möjliga tillämpningar av taligenkänning i byggutrustning samt självstyrande fordon. Framsteg i självstyrande fordonsteknologi visar att fordon som hjullastare kommer kunna utföra uppgifter själv, utan operatörer, inom kort framtid. I nuläget krävs ännu människor för att interagera med maskinen. Men nya framsteg i röststyrning visar att röstbaserade gränssnitt kan tillämpas. Forskningsfrågan i detta arbete är: Till vilken utsträckning kan röststyrning ersätta handmanövrerade instrument i ett intelligent självstyrt fordon? En etnografisk forskning ägde rum för att identifiera de krav som ett sådant gränssnitt skulle behöva uppfylla. En designprocess ägde rum för att utveckla en prototyp för ett sådant system. Prototypen utvärderades genom tester och påvisade positiva egenskaper. Den visade sig vara både lätt att lära samt enkel vid användning. Teknologin i taligenkänning påvisade dock brister genom dålig prestanda samt låg användarnöjdhet.
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Příkazský, David. "Analýza hlasivkových pulzů." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta elektrotechniky a komunikačních technologií, 2018. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-377323.
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The work is about the estimation of vocal pulses from the speech record. Contains a description of the process of speech production, description of the instruments for the measurement of vocal pulses, an overview of software tools for estimating vocal pulses from the speech signal. Description of IAIF and Sahoo method for estimating vocal pulses. The Graphic User Interface in MATLAB is created for easier control of mentioned methods.
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Norkevičius, Giedrius. "Method for creating phone duration models using very large, multi-speaker, automatically annotated speech corpus." Doctoral thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2011. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2011~D_20110201_144440-12017.
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Two heretofore unanalyzed aspects are addressed in this dissertation:
1. Building a model capable of predicting phone duration of Lithuanian.
All existing investigations of phone durations of Lithuanian were performed by linguists. Usually these investigations are the kind of exploratory statistics and are limited to a single factor, affecting phone duration, analysis. Phone duration dependencies on contextual factors were estimated and written in explicit form (decision tree) in this work by means of machine learning method.
2. Construction of language independent method for creating phone duration models using very large, multi-speaker, automatically annotated speech corpus.
Most of the researchers worldwide use speech corpus that are: relatively small scale, single speaker, manually annotated or at least validated by experts. Usually the referred reasons are: using multi-speaker speech corpora is inappropriate because different speakers have different pronunciation manners and speak in different speech rate; automatically annotated corpuses lack accuracy. The created method for phone duration modeling enables the use of such corpus. The main components of the created method are: the reduction of noisy data in speech corpus; normalization of speaker specific phone durations by using phone type clustering.
The performed listening tests of synthesized speech, showed that: the perceived naturalness is affected by the underlying phones durations; The use of contextual... [to full text]Disertacijoje nagrinėjamos dvi iki šiol netyrinėtos problemos: 1. Lietuvių kalbos garsų trukmių prognozavimo modelių kūrimas Iki šiol visi darbai, kuriuose yra nagrinėjamos lietuvių kalbos garsų trukmės, yra atlikti kalbininkų, tačiau šie tyrimai yra daugiau aprašomosios statistikos pobūdžio ir apsiriboja pavienių požymių įtakos garso trukmei analize. Šiame darbe, mašininio mokymo algoritmo pagalba, požymių įtaka garsų trukmei yra išmokstama iš duomenų ir užrašoma sprendimo medžio pavidalu. 2. Nuo kalbos nepriklausomų garsų trukmių prognozavimo modelių kūrimo metodas, naudojant didelės apimties daugelio, kalbėtojų automatiškai, anotuotą garsyną. Dėl skirtingų kalbėtojų tarties specifikos ir dėl automatinio anotavimo netikslumų, kuriant garsų trukmės modelius visame pasaulyje yra apsiribojama vieno kalbėtojo ekspertų anotuotais nedidelės apimties garsynais. Darbe pasiūlyti skirtingų kalbėtojų tarties ypatybių normalizavimo ir garsyno duomenų triukšmo atmetimo algoritmai leidžia garsų trukmių modelių kūrimui naudoti didelės apimties, daugelio kalbėtojų automatiškai anotuotus garsynus. Darbo metu atliktas audicinis tyrimas, kurio pagalba parodoma, kad šnekos signalą sudarančių garsų trukmės turi įtakos klausytojų/respondentų suvokiamam šnekos signalo natūralumui; kontekstinės informacijos panaudojimas garsų trukmių prognozavimo uždavinio sprendime yra svarbus faktorius įtakojantis sintezuotos šnekos natūralumą; natūralaus šnekos signalo atžvilgiu, geriausiai vertinamas yra... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]
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Kendrick, Paul. "Blind estimation of room acoustic parameters from speech and music signals." Thesis, University of Salford, 2009. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/15820/.
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The acoustic character of a space is often quantified using objective room acoustic parameters. The measurement of these parameters is difficult in occupied conditions and thus measurements are usually performed when the space is un-occupied. This is despite the knowledge that occupancy can impact significantly on the measured parameter value. Within this thesis new methods are developed by which naturalistic signals such as speech and music can be used to perform acoustic parameter measurement. Adoption of naturalistic signals enables passive measurement during orchestral performances and spoken announcements, thus facilitating easy in-situ measurement. Two methods are described within this work; (1) a method utilising artificial neural networks where a network is taught to recognise acoustic parameters from received, reverberated signals and (2) a method based on the maximum likelihood estimation of the decay curve of the room from which parameters are then calculated. (1) The development of the neural network method focuses on a new pre-processor for use with music signals. The pre-processor utilises a narrow band filter bank with centre frequencies chosen based on the equal temperament scale. The success of a machine learning method is linked to the quality of the training data and therefore realistic acoustic simulation algorithms were used to generate a large database of room impulse responses. Room models were defined with realistic randomly generated geometries and surface properties; these models were then used to predict the room impulse responses. (2) In the second approach, a statistical model of the decay of sound in a room was further developed. This model uses a maximum likelihood (ML) framework to yield a number of decay curve estimates from a received reverberant signal. The success of the method depends on a number of stages developed for the algorithm; (a) a pre-processor to select appropriate decay phases for estimation purposes, (b) a rigorous optimisation algorithm to ensure the correct maximum likelihood estimate is found and (c) a method to yield a single optimum decay curve estimate from which the parameters are calculated. The ANN and ML methods were tested using orchestral music and speech signals. The ANN method tended to perform well when estimating the early decay time (EDT), for speech and music signals the error was within the subjective difference limens. However, accuracy was reduced for the reverberation time (Rt) and other parameters. By contrast the ML method performed well for Rt with results for both speech and music within the difference limens for reasonable (<4s) reverberation time. In addition reasonable accuracy was found for EDT, Clarity (C80), Centre time (Ts) and Deutichkeit (D). The ML method is also capable of producing accurate estimates of the binaural parameters Early Lateral Energy Fraction (LEF) and the late lateral strength (LG). A number of real world measurements were carried out in concert halls where the ML accuracy was shown to be sufficient for most parameters. The ML method has the advantage over the ANN method due to its truly blind nature (the ANN method requires a period of learning and is therefore semi-blind). The ML method uses gaps of silence between notes or utterances, when these silence regions are not present the method does not produce an estimate. Accurate estimation requires a long recording (hours of music or many minutes of speech) to ensure that at least some silent regions are present. This thesis shows that, given a sufficiently long recording, accurate estimates of many acoustic parameters can be obtained directly from speech and music. Further extensions to the ML method detailed in this thesis combine the ML estimated decay curve with cepstral methods which detect the locations of early reflections. This improves the accuracy of many of the parameter estimates.
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Werschmidt, Carol Louise. "Creation and implementation of off-line programming for a high speed machining robot." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/16912.
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Will, Thomas. "Creating a dynamic speech dialogue : how to implement dialogue initiatives and question selection strategies with VoiceXML agents /." Saarbrücken : VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2007. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=3040741&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
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SARAIVA, JOANA MARTINS. "THE CREATION OF SAMBAJAZZ: SPEECHES ON THE MUSICAL SCENE OF COPACABANA IN THE LATE-FIFITIES AND EARLYSIXTIES." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2007. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=11513@1.
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CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICOEste trabalho visa discutir a invenção do sambajazz a partir da definição deste estilo como o som de copacabana. Através de pesquisa realizada em acervos radiofônicos e fonográficos e em periódicos da época, contextualizo a produção musical bem como as disputas discursivas em torno do seu significado na cena carioca do final dos anos 50. Apresento o debate em torno da descaracterização ou modernização do samba a partir da influência do jazz, polarizado entre saudosistas e modernos. Em seguida, a partir dos discursos acima apresentados, identifico e problematizo alguns dos hábitos recorrentes e estruturantes na maneira de se escutar e pensar a música popular brasileira.
This work discusses the creation of sambajazz, from the definition of this style as the sound of Copacabana. Through research carried out in radiophonics and phonographic assortments as well as newspapers of the time, I contextualize the musical production as well as the different discourses applied to its meaning within the carioca scene of the late-fifties. Firstly, I present the debate around the decharacterization or modernization of samba through the influence of jazz, polarized between saudosistas and modernos. Secondly, thought the above presented discourses, I identify and question some of the structural and frequent habits in the way of listening and thinking about brazilian popular music.
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Richardson, Rishi Allen. "Creating Destiny: Crafting a Historical Tale Based upon the Life of Emmeline B. Wells." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2008. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1934.
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This study examines the process and procedures employed by storytellers to craft an oral historical narrative. Contemporary storytellers are working toward a transferable methodology and this work is an effort toward that end. Using the various procedures described by nearly 20 storytellers, a single process is assembled. The methodology is then tested, checking for transferability.
The case study used to test the methodology is based on the life of Emmeline B. Wells, the fifth Relief Society President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Wells was born in Massachusetts and emigrated to the west in 1848. She edited a leading suffrage paper of her time, The Woman's Exponent. Wells also worked, unsuccessfully, to repeal anti-polygamy laws.
Engaging the methodology, through the means of this case study, the paper outlines both the contemporary storytellers' crafting processes as well as her own experiences. As gaps in the descriptive model are noted, techniques are discovered to strengthen the procedure. Through replication of this process, insight will be provided into a transferable methodology.
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Stovboun, Alexei. "A tool for creating high-speed, memory efficient derivative codes for large scale applications." Ohio : Ohio University, 2000. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1172868688.
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Latil, Arnaud. "Création et droits fondamentaux." Thesis, Lyon 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011LYO30073/document.
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L’approche juridique de la notion de création est confuse. Elle est traditionnellement envisagée à travers les droits de propriété intellectuelle (droit d’auteur, brevet, dessins et modèles, etc.). Mais cette approche est insuffisante. Les droits fondamentaux permettent de s’en apercevoir. En effet, la création constitue à la fois une activité humaine (un acte créatif) et un objet de propriété (un bien créatif). L’acte créatif est garanti par la liberté de création. La nature de cette dernière demeure toutefois incertaine. Elle oscille entre un rattachement à la liberté d’expression ou à la liberté du commerce et de l’industrie. De plus, le test de proportionnalité conduit à examiner les limites de la liberté de création à l’aune des « lois du genre créatif ». Les droits fondamentaux invitent alors à dépasser la conception de l’acte créatif compris comme un message.Le bien créatif est protégé par le droit de propriété. Les droits fondamentaux conduisent cependant à remettre en cause la conception française des biens créatifs en soulignant davantage leur dimension économique. De plus, le test de proportionnalité implique de redessiner les limites du droit de propriété en tenant compte de ses fonctions sociales. En définitive, les droits fondamentaux brouillent la frontière entre le droit de propriété et le droit de la concurrence déloyaleThe legal approach to the notion of creation is vague. It is traditionally considered in the light of intellectual property rights (copyright, patent, design, etc.), but this approach is insufficient. Fundamental rights show us this. They let us distinguish between its different dimensions: creation as both a human activity (a creative act) and an object of property (a creative good). The freedom of creation protects and ensures the creative act. However, the nature of the former remains unclear. It fluctuates between falling within the freedom of expression and the freedom to conduct a business. Furthermore, the proportionality test leads to the limits of creative freedom being examined in terms of “laws of the creative type”. Fundamental rights then require us to go beyond the concept of the creative act as a message.The creative good is protected by property law. Fundamental rights, however, bring into question the French concept of a creative good by further emphasising their economic aspect. Moreover, the proportionality test means retracing the boundaries of property law by taking into account its social functions. Fundamental rights therefore blur the line between property law and unfair competition law
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Oliveira, Carila Aparecida de. "O PROCEDIMENTO CRIATIVO EM NARRATIVAS CURTAS DE AGUINALDO JOSÉ GONÇALVES." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás, 2015. http://localhost:8080/tede/handle/tede/3240.
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Previous issue date: 2015-12-17In this thesis, we study the short narratives O mundo crepuscular Hortência, Os três destinos de Luzia and Nos degraus que se bifurcam, in Das estampas, Aguinaldo José Gonçalves, to get to the homological understanding of the creative procedure in which the narratives were woven, seeking generators elements of tension effect; the rhizomatic lines; universes poetic text; the diegetic speech; the dialogues between signs; thematic choices with their mythological overlapping, besides analyzing osmosis look, which form the set of signic movements that interact with each other. For such studies, we seek artists, theorists and critics of literature as Proust, Edgar Alan Poe, Julio Cortázar, for your critical role about short-story and because tale by Gonçalves O mundo crepuscular Hortência refers to Cortázar Continuidade dos parques, and others mentioned or linked to the narratives under study. Thus, the main objective of this study is the analysis short narratives by Gonçalves, highlighting that the stories narrated with their signs work metrically become mere pretexts for the suggestive context of how is the creative procedure of short narrative, in the stylistics of creator of the work that distinguishes the literary art to put in signs and arts dialogue with her artistic that mirrors the selfpoetic speech.
Nesta dissertação, procuramos estudar os contos O mundo crepuscular de Hortência, Os três destinos de Luzia e Nos degraus que se bifurcam, da obra Das estampas, de Aguinaldo José Gonçalves, para se chegar à compreensão mais homológica do procedimento criativo em que as narrativas foram tecidas, buscando os elementos geradores do efeito tensional; as linhas rizomáticas; os universos poéticos textuais; o discurso diegético; os diálogos entre signos; as escolhas temáticas com suas imbricações mitológicas, além de analisar a osmose do olhar, que formam o conjunto dos movimentos sígnicos que dialogam entre si. Para tais estudos, buscamos artistas, teóricos e críticos da Literatura como Proust, Edgar Alan Poe, Julio Cortázar, pela sua atuação crítica sobre contos e porque o conto de Gonçalves O mundo crepuscular de Hortência remete ao de Cortázar Continuidade dos parques, e outros citados ou vinculados às narrativas em estudo. Dessa forma, o objetivo central deste estudo consiste na análise de contos de Gonçalves, destacando que as estórias narradas com seus signos trabalhados metricamente tornam-se meros pretextos para a conjuntura sugestiva de como se dá o procedimento criativo da narrativa curta, sob a estilística do criador da obra que singulariza a arte literária ao por em diálogo signos e artes, com sua artística que espelha o discurso metapoético.
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Rusnjak, MBA Andreas. "ENTREPRENEURIAL BUSINESS MODELING IM KONTEXT EINER ERFOLGSFAKTORENORIENTIERTEN STRATEGIE-ENTWICKLUNG." Doctoral thesis, Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2013. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-118684.
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Der e/mCommerce Markt ist einer der am stärksten wachsenden Märkte für den Absatz von Waren und Dienstleistungen in Deutschland. Bis 2020 wird erwartet, dass 20% des Umsatzes aus dem Einzelhandel (Non-Food) über elektronische Medien abgewickelt werden. Um erfolgreich in diesen Markt eindringen und bestehen zu können, sind genaue Kenntnisse über den Kunden und die relevanten Marktstrukturen sowie die Beherrschung der notwendigen Technologien notwendig. Die Entwicklungen des Internet und dessen Möglichkeiten (Web 1.0 → Web 3.0) sowie des Nutzerverhaltens zeigen auf, dass über die Technologie, die Produkte oder über den Preis alleine keine Wettbewerbsvorteile mehr generiert werden können. Marken- und Multi-Channel-Management, Serviceleistungen, die Interaktion mit dem Kunden sowie die Interaktion der Kunden untereinander (z.B. User Driven Innovation, Social Media bzw. Social Commerce) und die Beachtung relevanter Erfolgsfaktoren rücken damit verstärkt in den Fokus, um Raum und Potenziale für geeignete Strategien zur Generierung von Wettbewerbsvorteilen zu schaffen. Auf lange Sicht werden sich daher nur die Anbieter behaupten können, deren Business Models genau auf den Zielmarkt und die Kundenbedürfnisse zugeschnitten sind bzw. neue Märkte durch das Wecken neuer Bedürfnisse erschließen oder durch eine geschickte Gestaltung ihrer Business Models Effizienzvorteile und damit auch Kostenvorteile gegenüber dem Wettbewerb realisieren. Unternehmen wie Amazon, Dell, Ryan Air, 3M, Xerox, Virgin, Nintendo, Würth, Nokia, Lego, facebook, Google, etc. stellen eindrucksvoll dar, wie die (teils revolutionäre) Neuentwicklung bzw. Transformation ganzer Business Models oder Teile davon, häufig auch als Business Model Innovation bezeichnet, zu neuen Erlösquellen, Kundenzuwachs oder Wettbewerbsvorteilen führen kann.
Business Modeling kann dabei zusammenfassend als der Vorgang zur Erstellung eines Business Models bezeichnet werden, wobei Business Modeling nicht gleich Business Modeling ist. Diese Arbeit unterscheidet zwischen Entrepreneurial Business Modeling und Formal Business Modeling und befasst sich in ihrer Zielsetzung primär mit der Herleitung des Begriffs Entrepreneurial Business Modeling sowie damit verbundener Methoden und Werkzeuge. Dabei wird eine Einordnung in das Requirements-Engineering vorgenommen sowie ein Vorgehensmodell für Entrepreneurial Business Modeling und ein Business Model-Framework, zur Darstellung und Beschreibung von Business Models, entwickelt. Sowohl das Vorgehensmodell als auch das Business Model-Framework sollen dabei den Anspruch der Allgemeingültigkeit erfüllen. Zusätzlich werden zwei Prototypen vorgestellt, die Entrepreneurial Business Modeling-Aktivitäten unterstützen sollen. Vier Fallbeispiele aus dem studentischen und wirtschaftlichen Umfeld stellen die Praxistauglichkeit der im Rahmen dieser Niederschrift erarbeiteten Artefakte unter Beweis und deuten auch auf eine bestimmte Allgemeingültigkeit hin. Diese praxisorientierte Arbeit ermöglicht einen grundlegenden Einblick in ein junges Forschungsgebiet, stellt damit eine solide Ausgangsbasis für weitere Forschungen dar und schließt mit entsprechenden Empfehlungen dahingehend.
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Adams, Timothy Lee. "Discourse and Conflict: The President Barack H. Obama Birth Certificate Controversy and the New Media." TopSCHOLAR®, 2011. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1071.
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A creative exploration of the consequences of public speech in the era of freely accessible, social media, as the author, a former elections official, records and explores the consequences of public dissent in the case of President Barack Obama’s eligibility controversy. This non-fiction narrative culminates with the author’s analysis and observations on both his personal experiences and the state of public speech and political power in contemporary America.
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Fraser, Henry. "Copyright and culture : a qualitative theory." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2018. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:cd4e645a-7e45-4309-bc68-e115e1fa306d.
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Copyright is conventionally justified as an incentive to produce and disseminate works of authorship. We can justify and theorise copyright more richly, not least because empirical evidence does not support the incentive narrative. Rather than focussing on quantitative matters such as the number of works incentivised and produced, we should consider copyright's qualitative influence on culture. A threshold objection to such an approach is the risk of cultural paternalism. This objection can be overcome. Rather than specifying paternalistic standards of merit for works, we can target the conditions under which their creation and consumption takes place. I argue, firstly, that we should adopt the following high-level principles: (i) that the conditions of creation and consumption of works should be conducive to democratic deliberation (democracy) and (ii) that they should facilitate the development of human capabilities (autonomy). Secondly, I propose that we pursue three mid-level objectives, which are helpful indicia of democracy and autonomy: - a fair and wide distribution of communicative and cultural power (inclusiveness); - diversity in the content and perspectives available to the public (diversity); and - conditions that permit authors and users of works to engage rigorously with the conventions of the media in which they operate (rigour). It is often said that copyright obstructs important qualitative objectives, like freedom of expression, and that we could better pursue these goals by weakening copyright and relying on non-proprietary alternatives. My approach produces a more optimistic, but also more complicated, view of copyright. While copyright's qualitative influence is not optimal, reductions in the strength and scope of copyright sometimes produces conditions and incentive structures that are worse for inclusiveness, diversity and rigour than stronger copyright. For example, both attention and wealth are highly concentrated in networked information economies driven by free sharing of content, and this is bad for diversity or inclusiveness. Online business models, based on surveillance of users' consumption of free works, are corrosive of autonomy and democracy. Merely removing copyright-based restrictions on the sharing of works is not a panacea for copyright's ills. A qualitative theory such as mine equips us to better understand and calibrate more richly the trade-offs involved in copyright policy decisions, and encourages us to treat copyright as part of a broader, qualitatively-oriented information and cultural policy.
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von, Wenckstern Michael. "Web applications using the Google Web Toolkit." Master's thesis, Technische Universitaet Bergakademie Freiberg Universitaetsbibliothek "Georgius Agricola", 2013. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:105-qucosa-115009.
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This diploma thesis describes how to create or convert traditional Java programs to desktop-like rich internet applications with the Google Web Toolkit. The Google Web Toolkit is an open source development environment, which translates Java code to browser and device independent HTML and JavaScript. Most of the GWT framework parts, including the Java to JavaScript compiler as well as important security issues of websites will be introduced. The famous Agricola board game will be implemented in the Model-View-Presenter pattern to show that complex user interfaces can be created with the Google Web Toolkit. The Google Web Toolkit framework will be compared with the JavaServer Faces one to find out which toolkit is the right one for the next web projectDiese Diplomarbeit beschreibt die Erzeugung desktopähnlicher Anwendungen mit dem Google Web Toolkit und die Umwandlung klassischer Java-Programme in diese. Das Google Web Toolkit ist eine Open-Source-Entwicklungsumgebung, die Java-Code in browserunabhängiges als auch in geräteübergreifendes HTML und JavaScript übersetzt. Vorgestellt wird der Großteil des GWT Frameworks inklusive des Java zu JavaScript-Compilers sowie wichtige Sicherheitsaspekte von Internetseiten. Um zu zeigen, dass auch komplizierte graphische Oberflächen mit dem Google Web Toolkit erzeugt werden können, wird das bekannte Brettspiel Agricola mittels Model-View-Presenter Designmuster implementiert. Zur Ermittlung der richtigen Technologie für das nächste Webprojekt findet ein Vergleich zwischen dem Google Web Toolkit und JavaServer Faces statt
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Huang, Wei Jay, and 黃偉杰. "An Application of Speech-Text Alignment in Speech Recognition to the Creation of Audio-Books with Speech-Text Synchronization." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/56499100456762437913.
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資訊工程學系
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This thesis is the use of speech-text alignment within the speech recognition technology to establish speech-text synchronized with audio books function. To handle part of the use of speech technology to HTK. HTK is a Cambridge University of developed a set of free software for speech recognition and speech training, but the HTK still has a restriction on duration of speech. Can not handle the speech of a long article, so we found a SailAlign. SailAlign is Southern California University in January 2011 to develop a set of software. Stressed that it would deal with a long article speech of the speech-text alignment effect. We will SailAlign slightly modified and download the entire novel of Tom Sawyer from LibriVox. Handled more than 6 hours of speech data. To get nearly 96% of the text cut out corresponding to the time point of the speech. Except for English speech data using SailAlign, we also try to deal with the Taiwanese speech data and Mandarin speech data. We found that SailAlign deal with different language data need substantial changes to the dictionary and acoustic models and language models. So we wrote a program called CguAlign. Used to force alignment in speech recognition to deal with the problem of speech-text alignment. CguAlign stressed that can handle multilingual speech data, and without the use of a large number of dictionaries and acoustic models and language models prepared in advance. It can achieve the effect of audio and text alignment, but only need to cut into the article the sentence level. Currently in use in English Data CguAlign same deal with the entire novel of Tom Sawyer. Get the same 91% of the effectiveness with SailAlign. In speech data portion of the Taiwanese, we use provided by the Ministry of Education the Ministry of Education Minnan read 140 articles. Handled over 11 hours of speech data. To get nearly 83% of the text cut out corresponding to the time point of the speech. In speech data portion of the Mandarin and download the entire novel of Laocanyouji from LibriVox. Handled more than eight hours of speech Data. To get nearly 96% of the text cut out corresponding to the time point of the speech. Finally, we will be Tom Sawyer 、Ministry of Education Minnan read and Laocanyouji processed data to set up YouTube and own web showing the effect of speech-text synchronization.
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Lai, Pei-Chun. "Speech-based metadata generation for web map search." Master's thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/113895.
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Dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Geospatial TechnologiesMetadata is indispensable for data discoverability and interoperability. Most datasets utilize automatic techniques to create metadata; nevertheless, metadata creation still requires manual interventions and editions, yet manually metadata creation is a tedious task. The study proposes a prototype that introduces speech recognition in the metadata creation process. Users can generate content by speaking. Afterward, the prototype transforms it into metadata with JSON-LD format, a popular metadata format and utilized by mainstream search engines. A user study was conducted to understand the impact of speech-based interaction on user performance and user satisfaction. The result showed no signi cant performance di erence between speech-based and typebased by the e ciency, slip rate, and di culty rating evaluation. In the user experience evaluation, participants consider the type-based metadata creation is pragmatic, and speech-based metadata creation is hedonic. It suggests that the mix-mode can complement mutually with the advantages of each and optimize the user experience.
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Filipenko, Yana. "Speech as Metaphor of Human Becoming According to St. Augustine of Hippo." Thesis, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10756/290841.
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Kim, Hana, Nancy Kho, Emily Yan, and Larry Rudolph. "commanimation: Creating and managing animations via speech." 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/3853.
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A speech controlled animation system is both a useful application program as well as a laboratory in which to investigate context aware applications as well as controlling errors. The user need not have prior knowledge or experience in animation and is yet able to create interesting and meaningful animation naturally and fluently. The system can be used in a number of applications ranging from PowerPoint presentations to simulations to children’s storytelling tools.Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA)
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Zhang, Jing-Chi, and 張景池. "Inquiry into Rudolf Steiner’s Creative Speechwith Concentration on Teacher’s Oral Speech." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/95yrrb.
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碩士國立中興大學
教師專業發展研究所
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This study focuses on Rudolf Steiner’s Creative Speech Theory proceeding to deeply analyze and discuss the authorized English version “ Creative Speech: the Formation Process of the Spoken Word ” translated from Rudolf Steiner and Mary Steiner-von Siver’s “ Methodik und Wesen der Sprachgestaltung＂, especially on teacher’s oral speech training and practice within the theory . In this definite work on a new art of speech, Steiner demonstrates how speech can be brought to everyday lives and teaching. Steiner’s argument, based upon “Anthroposophy ” ,is that the audible sound of speech is the end result of an inner process. Steiner advises the speaker to concentrate on what takes place before the mechanical production of sound is made in the physical organism. Such a spiritual vision will renew the annotation of teacher’s oral speech if it is applied in the teaching situations. This research, with pedagogical hermeneutic method, step by step aims at: first, probing into Rudolf Steiner’s life, the correlative historical documents, and his times and cultural backgrounds to understand how Rudolf Steiner formed the Creative Speech Theory ; secondly, enquiring about the content and additional exercises on Rudolf Steiner’s Creative Speech Theory to realize its actual application in teaching; finally, positively extracting Rudolf Steiner’s Creative Speech Theory to provide some suggestions on speech in everyday’s teaching for the educators of ordinary schools in Taiwan. The research, concentrating on teacher’s oral speech, results in some findings as follows: first, a qualified teacher is the key factor of successful theorization on Steiner’s Creative Speech , and the spoken and living word is one’s general capacity and disposition as a result of long and regular self-discipline for the teachers in Waldorf schools; secondly, Steiner’s Creative Speech theorization is provided with scientific, spiritual, artistic, and practical motives; thirdly, Steiner’s Creative Speech Theory concentrates on regulating the breath before speaking, speaking with breath, making the organs of speech supple and flexible, learning to hear the sounds and repeating what is well spoken, nurturing clear and natural speech, molding the sounds into forms, forming the art of speech, studying speech styles to speak properly, raising the aesthetic feeling of speech to speak beautifully, promoting speech art to speak well, intensifying speech empathy and ethics to speak correctly, and even treating speech impediments, etc; finally, they obtained so many multifaceted, widespread, animated, and living datum for the exercises on Steiner’s Creative Speech practices that can be applied to develop teacher’s usual oral speech capacity. According to the findings above in connection with the treatments on teacher’s oral speech to which native scholars devoted, the researcher firmly believes Steiner’s Creative Speech Theory can be applied in developing everyday teaching oral speech capacity for native teachers in ordinary schools. Thus, the researcher heartily appeals to the government and domestic Centers for Teacher Education for confronting the effect of teacher’s oral speech and offering systematic teacher’s oral speech discipline programs as soon as possible, and honestly recommend the actual and future teachers to educate themselves from developing teacher’s oral speech capacity and disposition, from the very first.
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Nelson, Lauri Gwen. ""This kind of circus, all in cordiality": Marcel Duchamp's speech "The Creative Act"." Thesis, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1911/13872.
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Marcel Duchamp's speech "The Creative Act" and the context of its delivery at the American Federation of Arts (A.F.A.) convention in Houston, Texas, in 1957 reveal the manifold nature of American art discourse during the second half of the 1950s. In contrast to overly-simplified histories of the period which maintain that formal concerns and artist-centered criticism predominated, this paper determines that Duchamp's speech and its acknowledgment of the spectator are not unusual for 1957. Nor is Duchamp as author completely consistent with the ideas of critical "indifference" said to be present in the speech. On the contrary, the artist, his speech, and the 1957 A.F.A. convention are reflective of their complex history: of the political and economic climate of the mid 1950s, of both American and French aesthetic philosophy, of a growing popular interest in the arts, and of the growing media presence within American art discourse.
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Lai, Zhi-Wei, and 賴志維. "Creative Design of Variable Speed Mechanism." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/htr7x5.
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碩士國立虎尾科技大學
機械設計工程研究所
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The variable speed mechanism includes reduction and increase transmission, is widely used in the robotics industry, medical industry, automotive, aerospace industries. With the demand for high-precision, high-speed ratio, high strength, the domestic variable speed mechanism have been unable to meet the robot industry''s strong demand, requiring active and innovative research and development. The main purpose of this study is to break all the world''s patent products, synthetic inventive products with global market potential, first of all, the use of creative mechanism design approach coupled with small teeth difference, muti-eccentric and multi-series design concept. First, Japanese Patent Nabtesco''s RV-20E as an exist design. The atlas of generalized kinematic chains can be obtained founded on the concepts of generalization and number synthesis. Through specialization, a generalized kinematic chain is converted to a specialized chain. A specialized chain subject to design constraints is called a feasible specialized chain. The atlas of specialized chains could be particularized into the corresponding schematic diagrams through the process of particularization. All the kinematic chain can be synthesized by a five-link transmission mechanism 16 kinds, 35 kinds of six links, 70 kinds of seven links, 116 kinds of eight links. Use CAD software to establish a solid model and use ABAQUS finite element software on the new continuous curve for contact stress, contact area, bending stress analysis of the optimal parameters of the tooth profile.
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Huang, Tsun-Ren, and 黃存仁. "Experience of Speed-Huang Tsun-Ren's Self Description of Ceramics Creation." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/72895089727597029158.
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碩士國立臺北教育大學
藝術與造形設計學系碩士班
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After the industrial revolution, manpower and animal power have been significantly replaced by machine power. The changes and advancement of the transportation created a competition between human and speed. Along with the information technology development, the whole society has started in the information revolution, and it has made a great impact on human. As a result, human’s demand for the efficiency of speed would last forever. Starting from the preface of the first chapter, the artist introduces his background of learning ceramic arts. The artist’s obsession for speed has induced his creating motivation. While cherishing the memories of the old days, he attempts to explore his slow-pace life in the past from this fast-moving society. Chapter 2 discusses the topics based on documents with respective creation examples as well as how other artists expressing their ideas through their creations when they face the conflict of speed. In chapter 3, the creation concept refers to the reflection of life. The artist transforms his life experience of speed into art pieces( art work) to demonstrate his thoughts. He uses clay as the primary material for his creation, and he also uses the process of his transformation as an expression through his work. Chapter 4 refers to the intent and technical skills for ceramic creation including material selection and burning method. In Chapter 5, a plan of exhibition is presented and explained. Chapter 6 draws a conclusion of the study. The artist decides his attitude toward life by reviewing the making process and the direction change of his creations, as well as associating the speed between himself and the society. Consequently, he can make up his mind toward his lifestyle by these connections
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Sexton, Amy Leuchtmann. "Creating characters and reconstructing texts: Evaluation in children's oral narrative re-tellings." Thesis, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1911/18018.
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This research analyzes the use of evaluative features in English language oral narrative re-tellings among a multi-lingual population of ninety-eight 2nd and 4th grade students. The results of the analyses strengthen our understanding of the use of evaluation by child narrators, suggesting that younger narrators reconstruct stories through re-creating the characters, while older children focus more on (precisely) reconstructing the text itself. Parallels with particular approaches to cognitive/psychological development are outlined, as are preliminary ramifications for educational methodology.
In the initial rounds of both qualitative and quantitative analyses, it was revealed that the employment of seven evaluative forms cited in earlier research (e.g., Peterson and McCabe 1983, Bamberg 1991, Reilly 1992) as among the most commonly used by the present age group (i.e., causals, compulsion words, emphatic pronunciation, gratuitous terms, hedges, lengthening, and negatives) was unable to account for differences in perceived narrative skill within the sample. The manipulation of these seven features was extremely homogenous across skill, age, and language groups. As a result, a second round of analyses was undertaken. Both qualitative and quantitative findings concurred that the use of two particular evaluative features (i.e., references to mental activity, and character speech ), in addition to the utilization of certain textual devices (i.e., the presentation of mental activity within causal constructions, deference to a third person "other" as the source of the narrative information, careful monitoring and marking of errors), were capable of distinguishing both skill and age groupings within the sample.
The manner in which the data from this research reflects the Vygotskian perspective on cognitive/psychological development is discussed. The educational implications of these findings---from assessment paradigms, to the planning of curriculum and instruction---are addressed. One of the major discoveries was that, counter to expectations, the multilingual subjects in this sample did not demonstrate divergent narrative forms based on their differing linguistic/cultural schemas. In fact, the perceived skill scores among the Limited English Proficient subjects appeased to be related to issues of fluency rather than differences in narrative form. These findings indicate that given a rich context in which information is repeatedly co-constructed, most language minority students are highly capable of both interpreting and reproducing information in a culturally/contextually prescribed manner.
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Yu, Tsung-Wei, and 游宗偉. "“Time, light, and speed”─the creation of moving graphic by using persistence of vision." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/63638517275815853245.
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碩士國立臺灣藝術大學
視覺傳達設計學系碩士班
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The human eye are so easily attracted by the moving objects, and used to be record what they had visually see by drawing them. In the Altamira cave of Spanish Santander had fund a serious of dynamic images of wild boar which believed may be drawn at fifteen thousand years ago. Since the early 19th century, as the vision persistence phenomenon have been proposed, a series of experimental studies had started in the Europe. Some vision-persistenced toys like Phenakistoscope, Zoetrope was created during the same period . Following the improvement of photography technology, also change the way of artistic creation. 1872 British Edward. Muybridge (1830-1904) set up the foundations for dynamic frame by using 24 cameras to capture the running horses. Obviously the Dadaism, Futurism...etc, also influenced by photography ; Europe op artists also had a lot of outstanding creations using the persistence of vision principle. In 2009 , a " futurism exhibition" was held at the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taiwan. Revealing not only the passionate of the speed ,technology and violence in the declaration of futurism but also the full of hope and confidence to the future, were all presented in their works since 1909. Vary different from the Renaissance works, the highly dynamic and the praise of technology are the biggest feature of futurism. This exhibition have 7 works, and the purpose of the research are trying to express the new idea to the futurism by using the vision-persistence in moving graphics, and offer an extension research to other postgraduates.
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Chi, Yu-Hsin, and 紀佑欣. "Creative Design of Multi-Speed Hub System for Bicycles." Thesis, 2002. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/03635857799480441723.
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碩士國立中山大學
機械與機電工程學系研究所
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A multi-speed drive hub is one of important components in transmission system. The purpose of this work is to develop a system methodology for the design of multi-speed bicycle drive hubs. First, identify the basic characteristics and design requirement of multi-speed drive hub. Second, using the useful gear trains. Third, a method is proposed to determine the feasible multi-speed sequence tables for each gear train. Fourth, an analytic method is formulated to synthesize the gear ratios and gear teeth according to a set of desired speed ratios. Fifth, the basic theory for transmission analysis of multi-speed drive hubs will be developed. The results of this work will be benefit to the development and design of multi-speed bicycle drive hubs.
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Cih-an, Luo, and 羅慈安. "Self-shooting and creating fragments: The photographic images of Jo Spence." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/48060548564586403402.
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碩士高雄師範大學
美術學系
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This study offers a critical interpretation of the family album, phototherapy and projects on women’s health produced by the English postmodern feminist and photographic artist, Jo Spence, during the period from 1979 to 1992. Based on the autobiography of Spence, critical visual methodologies, as well as the perspective of feminist theories and history of feminist practices, the author proposed that the images of the female body in the photographic works of Spence constitute a symbolic presentation of feminism photographic art and social practices. This study discusses the distinctive characteristics of Spence’s works according to the historical perspectives of photographic art, and explores the values and contributions of her works. The greatest finding of this study was that the phototherapy invented by Spence reflected a skill that matched photography with the field of gestalt therapy; the naming and contents of her photographic works mostly conformed to the practical skills of gestalt therapy. This reversed the perspectives of some of the critics who positioned her works as “iconoclasme” or “playing a female role under stereotype”. This study also deconstructs the statements of these critics by probing into the therapeutic field, and opens up another way to interpret the construction of Spence’s works.
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LIN, MEI-SHU, and 林美淑. "The Lesson Plan on Creative Teaching Method for Figures of Speech & Its Methodological Implications in a Elementary School Context." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/ajauvf.
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博士國立臺中教育大學
語文教育學系碩博士班
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The purpose of this research aims at exploring an alternative teaching approach applying the creative teaching method for figures of speech and its pedagogical implications. By means of the empirical research in a primary school context, we are able to examine such issues as what learning process the second-graders have experienced as well as to what extent they have improved. Moreover, after the act of implementing creative teaching for figures of speech, to what level have learners accredited in terms of academic achievements? In addition, what sorts of roles have teachers played or switched throughout the teaching process? Are there any reflections that we should take into further consideration? Are there any limitations have we encountered and how can we overcome each of them? We hope this study can not only benefit teachers in instructing figures of speech to the next level but also can be served as a reference for further research to come. As a qualitative research, we have implemented the creative teaching method for figures of speech in a experimental group consisting of 29 learners from Chan-Xin Elementary School for 18 weeks. All the data were collected in the forms of the pretest & post-test of self-evaluation titled Eighteen Ku-Fu Moves Checklist, learners' journals, class observation notes, post-interviews, learners' anecdotes, and activity sheets. Further, the data were analyzed and compared with the other data gathered from 5 respective control groups which were 5 classes picked up randomly from the classes of grade 2 to grade 5. The results underpinned the academic achievements in terms of figures of speech imply that: 1.After the act of implementing creative teaching method for figures of speech, second-graders have better comprehension in figures of speech. 2.Second-graders accredit the act of implementing creative teaching of figures of speech. 3.The act of implementing creative teaching method for figures of speech has enormously improved second-graders' cognition of figures of speech. 4.The act of implementing creative teaching method for figures of speech has assisted teachers with the teaching roles they play. 5.The act of implementing creative teaching method for figures of speech has a great potential for further research. In the end, based on the research findings, we propose more specific suggestions in three aspects which are : "to teachers", "to teaching material designers for figures of speech" and "to further researchers."