Browsing by Subject "learning"
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(2019-04-22)The purpose of this experiment was to examine the cognitive mechanisms by which an animal uses associations to learn about temporally ambiguous aversive events. Traditionally, associative learning using forwards conditioning, ...
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(2012-02-14)This study examined faculty perceptions of plagiarism in the classroom using a qualitative case study methodology. A single university was used for the case study to locate all data under a single institutional culture. A ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2007-09-17)Arrays of broadly-selective chemical sensors, also known as electronic noses, have been developed during the past two decades as a low-cost and high-throughput alternative to analytical instruments for the measurement of ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2008-10-10)This exploratory synthesis of research was the product of three years of dissertation research efforts that systematically reviewed 23 years of empirical articles between 1983 (or its inception) and 2006 from three of ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-11-15)When an engineering student attends four or five years of college to become a professional engineer one makes the assumption that they approach this learning process in such a way to gain the most knowledge possible. The ...
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(2019-05-21)The purpose of this study was to understand the adaptation process for undergraduate student veterans at a large research-intensive public university in the southwestern United States. The study of this adaptation process ...
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(2017-04-24)The activity-dependent regulation and maintenance of the neuromuscular junction, where the chemical synapse between motor neurons and muscle fibers initiating contraction occurs, play a critical role in the formation of ...
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Effects of Experience and Meaningfulness on Learning and Memory in a Sensory Restricted Environment (1984)This study examines two previously untested conditions in a sensory restricted environment: meaningfulness and experience. Meaningfulness was measured by employing three different levels of learning material. The learning ...
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(2018-05-29)The emergence of affordable Head Mounted Displays (HMD) means Virtual Reality (VR) systems are now available to wider audiences. Other than the key target audience, gamers, groups as diverse as oil and gas industries, ...
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(2012-10-19)This dissertation contains two essays which examine the roles that individual incentives, competition, and information play in network formation. In the first essay, I examine a model in which two competing groups offer ...
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(2016-12-05)Educators and students struggle with engagement in many educational settings and at all levels. A lack of engagement has been reported to contribute to an ever-widening gap between how students develop knowledge, skills, ...
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(2011-10-21)The purpose of this study was to determine teachers’ perceptions of the relationship of the Katy Management of Automated Curriculum (KMAC) system developed by Katy ISD in Katy, Texas, on planning for learning, delivery of ...
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(2015-08-12)Ability and knowledge tests are often used in academic and personnel settings to evaluate individuals. For numerous reasons, providing individuals the opportunity to retest is recommended by scientific and professional ...
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It's a Jungle Out There: Filtering High Quality Reviews From Amazon Using Attention-Based Modeling Today, a large amount of misinformation proliferates on the internet, including online review websites. Because of the prevalence of fake or unknowledgeable reviewers, there is a need for new models to order and filter ...
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(2009-06-02)This dissertation contains three essays on learning and risk aversion. In the first essay we consider how learning may lead to risk averse behavior. A learning rule is said to be risk averse if it is expected to add more ...
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(Texas Agricultural Extension Service, 1977)
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(2016-11-15)Reinforcement learning (RL) is a powerful method for learning policies in environments with delayed feedback in a model-free way. Another powerful method for obtaining control policies is the Linear Quadratic Regulator ...
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(Texas Agricultural Extension Service, 1977)
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(Texas Agricultural Extension Service, 1977)
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A Matter of Perspective: A Comparative Analysis of Field Grade and General Officer Lesson Learning (2017-05-08)The U.S. Army that emerged from the Cold War was largely an untested one, a condition which would quickly be altered by deployments throughout the 1990s. First in Panama, then in Iraq, Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia and elsewhere, ...