Artificial intelligence is currently poised to expand into complex problem spaces, such as medicine, law enforcement, and other high stakes domains. For applications such as decision support to be trustworthy and helpful, the system must account for the individual context and nu…
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Contexto e objetivos Com permanente expansão da adoção de Processos Clínicos Eletrónicos (PCE) e a sua influência na prática clínica, a adaptabilidade dos médicos foi posta à prova. Foram identificados desafios no fluxo de trabalho e mudanças necessárias no uso de PCE. A anamnes…
Forecasting the success of megaprojects is a very difficult and important task because of the complexity of such projects, as well as the large capital investment that is required for the completion of these projects. One could argue that forecasting is not needed in this contex…
Agile methods are being adopted in the software development industry increasingly and even beyond this sector. Outsourcing software development from developing countries in the Global South is increasing in the industry. With Lebanon being the hub for outsourcing software for th…
O presente trabalho procura analisar um tema cuja visibilidade permanece algo reduzida. Esta ‘nova’ forma de abuso apropria-se das vulnerabilidades tradicionais e locais, mas também das ferramentas que, enquanto sociedade, agora nos encontramos altamente dependentes. Nomeadament…
This thesis sheds light on two of the most heavily contested concepts in social sciences and sociolinguistics: ‘community’, in its inter-relation with ‘language’. I draw on the example of Arabic in Manchester, UK, to develop a comprehensive ethnographic approach to studying ‘lan…
The growing presence and impact of social media has changed the way people communicate with one another, interact with news, and view the world. Therefore, online social media presents a unique opportunity to examine human behavior in a collaborative environment. The rapid adopt…
This dissertation examines translation phenomena in Singapore from colonial to contemporary times, arguing that they are better understood as performative acts where their symbolic meaning is more significant than their semantic content. Acts of literary translation are performa…
This study explores intergenerational racial injustice conversations in Asian American households by focusing on conversations that occurred following the death of George Floyd. Asian American historical oppression, Eastern versus Western ideologies, and intergenerational commun…
Pipeline operators continuously seek to improve reliability, safety and reduce corrosion and maintenance costs. Cathodic protection (CP) systems is a secondary external corrosion-prevention mechanism for underground pipelines. Two types of CP exist, namely, sacrificial anode CP …
Every government needs to understand how can local cultural resources generate economic results. There are over 1000 ancient towns in China, with its five-millennium history. All these towns have abundant cultural and touristic resources waiting to be transformed into economic b…
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder with a prevalence of approximately 1% children worldwide. ASD is characterized by deficits in social communication and interaction and the presence of restricted interests and repetitive behaviours. Genetic alterati…
What is the symbolic potential of Glitch in popular culture? That question animates this cultural critique, which argues that modern representations of glitch phenomena in popular culture are part of a significant pattern of communication. In the age of hyper-networked, polymedi…
Communication is central to our species’ success, from facilitating collective action to supercharging cumulative cultural evolution. Yet across human evolutionary history and to the present day, communication carries with it the threat of misinformation and manipulation. For co…
Within contemporary American political discourse, the right is understood as ‘owning’ morality, which allegedly confers a rhetorical and partisan power that the left lacks due to its religiously diverse and partly areligious constituency and unwillingness to make universal state…
pale shadows of cracked kettles is a 15-minute composition written for SATB choir and two percussionists which explores language and communication in both their strengths and shortcomings. The piece does not feature a set text, but it does pull keywords from various quotes about…
In daily life, moral judgments are embedded in dynamic, complex, and contextualized environments. As we reason about morally right or wrong behaviors, our personal history shapes how we judge who did what to whom, where, when, and why. Yet, surprisingly little is known about how…
What follows discusses how BBC’s Dracula uses character representations, scripted dialogue, and narrative to challenge and perpetuate the dominant ideologies of our society. Dracula exposes the tensions in the growing cultural acceptance of, but also increased resistance to, the…
In this dissertation, I explore how crossing national borders has made me aware of the many identity borders that I have crossed as a transnational Chinese, and how I am caught up in identity politics between the “Chinese,” who do not necessarily always identify as “Chinese” in …