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Hartmann, L. "Perceived ambiguity, ambiguity attitude and strategic ambiguity in games." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/35581.
Full textEmms, Martin Thomas. "Logical ambiguity." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/26487.
Full textTan, Vaughn. "Intentional ambiguity." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10785.
Full textBroll, Udo, and Kit Pong Wong. "Ambiguity and the Incentive to Export." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2014. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-150499.
Full textIngram, Doug. "Ambiguity in Ecclesiastes /." New York [u.a.] : T & T Clark International, 2006. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip067/2006001136.html.
Full textRanjous, Majd. "Lexical ambiguity processing." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.549666.
Full textMaron, Oded 1971. "Learning from Ambiguity." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/47515.
Full textJoyce, Graham. "Ambiguity and resolution." Thesis, Nottingham Trent University, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.396265.
Full textNemes, Linda M. "Relevance of ambiguity." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53297.
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Hlongwana, Colfar. "Ambiguity in XiTsonga." Thesis, University of Limpopo, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/1768.
Full textThe aim of this study is to investigate ambiguity in Xitsonga. There are many kinds of ambiguity, but the study mainly focuses on lexical and structural ambiguity. Lexical ambiguity occurs at word level and is caused by homonyms (homophones and homographs) and polysemes. Structural ambiguity occurs at sentence level. This kind of ambiguity manifests in the structure of the sentence itself. Data were collected through self-observation as a native Xitsonga speaker. Words and sentences with multiple meanings in Xitsonga were listed and tree diagrams were used to illustrate and disambiguate ambiguity. The study reveals that, like other languages, Xitsonga has words and sentences with double or many meanings. KEYWORDS AMBIGUITY, LEXICAL AMBIGUITY, STRUCTURAL AMBIGUITY, HOMONYM, HOMOPHONES, HOMOGRAPHS, POLYSEMES.
Uslu, Hasan Faruk. "Flexicurity: A Deliberate Ambiguity?" Master's thesis, METU, 2008. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12609753/index.pdf.
Full texts ambiguity in order to absorb all the main actors into the debate in line with its own policy preferences.
Atherton, C. "The Stoics on ambiguity." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.384302.
Full textWalsh, David M. A. "Kinematic GPS ambiguity resolution." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.239858.
Full textHamilton, Graham Andrew. "Aspects of visual ambiguity." Thesis, University of Lincoln, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.441669.
Full textAngelopoulos, Angelos. "Value allocation under ambiguity." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2015. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/value-allocation-under-ambiguity(b55bcab5-a756-41e9-aa8e-f6bc9dc54a3e).html.
Full textKosovac, Dennis Steven. "untitled, ambiguity and architecture." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/127848.
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Includes bibliographical references (page 151).
This thesis seeks to expand Robert Venturi's concept of ambiguity in architecture to include meanings that, extending beyond the formal and semiotic, are rooted in narrative. It takes as a precedent the work of Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel, two artists whose book Evidence explores both formal and narrative ambiguity in photography. This expanded definition of ambiguity evokes the mercurial and conflicting thoughts, feelings, facts, and memories that are at the core of architectural experience yet remain conspicuously absent from contemporary discourse. untitled consists of four books that collectively and equally constitute the thesis. Each book can be intepereted independently or in dialogue with its companions. Braddock, Pennsylvania is a steel town downriver from Pittsburgh, in Allegheny County. The town's dualities are manifest in the narrative tensions between past and present, mind and body, growth and decay.
It is home to the first Carnegie Free Library in the US as well as to the Edgar Thomson Steel Works - one of America's earliest, and still-operating, steel mills. Braddock Avenue runs the length of the town and serves as a mile-long Main Street that encompasses the breadth of the town's vernacular American architectural history. The thesis takes as its site the empty lots along Braddock Ave. that now make up nearly half of the streetscape. Without speculating on the uncertain future of the town's industry, the project engages the divergent narratives of the town by imagining a renewal of Braddock Avenue. A formal strategy of mirroring the existing urban fabric is deployed in an act analogous to the production of photographic images. Where possible, existing buildings are mirrored onto adjacent empty lots; in this act each building is isolated, duplicated, and transformed.
The buildings' bounds are reproduced inversely while their materiality and tectonic languages are replaced by new mass timber structural systems and surfaces. Together with these mirrored forms, the sharply differing color of light reflected on these new materials evokes divergent memories and feelings associated with the work of photographers like Diane Arbus and Stephen Shore, who capture the melancholy, peculiarities and optimism of American urban abjection. The dialectic between the town and the mill is represented by a new community center inserted at the heart of Braddock Avenue, radically skewed on an open site adjacent to the Carnegie Library. This singular anomaly is a distorted mirror of the building forms found in the Edgar Thomson Steel Mill, representing the capacity of mirroring to make architecture participate in an expanding field.
The new building's typology, materiality, tectonics, and programs collectively evoke divergent readings that are at once historic and speculative, sacred and profane.
by Dennis Steven Kosovac.
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M.Arch. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture
Kang, Yu. "Risk, ambiguity, and insurance /." Digital version accessible at:, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
Full textCouanau, Quentin. "Ambiguity in dynamic contexts." Thesis, Paris 1, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PA01E010.
Full textThis thesis focuses on the consequences of ambiguity aversion in dynamic contexts in economics. In particular, we focus on the consequences of ambiguity aversion in irreversible investment problems, and in dynamic moral hazard problems in continuous-time. The first chapter reviews the literature on ambiguity in dynamic contexts, and reviews existing models as well as their applications in economics and finance. The second chapter deals with irreversible investment in the monopoly case and under perfect competition, under ambiguous volatility. The notion of ambiguous volatility requires the use of recent tools in non linear expectation theory. We show that the optimal entry strategy of a monopoly under ambiguous volatility implies investing sooner than the perfectly competitive equilibrium under volatility ambiguity. The third chapter builds on the results of the second chapter and treats a special case of imperfect competition. The last chapter deals with a dynamic principal-agent problem under moral in continuous-time, in which agents perceive ambiguity about the drift of the relevant process. We show that under certain conditions, the optimal contract is linear in final output. We then use this result to discuss the effect of ambiguity aversion on the incentive power of the optimal contract and the informativeness principle
Rider, Jan K. (Jan Kathleen). "Ambiguity of Loss, Anticipatory Grief, and Boundary Ambiguity in Caregiver Spouses and Parents." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1993. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278288/.
Full textGorla, Tommaso. "Orienting the Uncertain : Visual Ambiguity in Painting and Picture Writing." Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019EHES0054.
Full textThis research investigates deliberate use of visual ambiguity in art as a potential tool for orienting the beholder’s response and enhancing image-affect. By investigating case-studies from Renaissance art, and comparing them with further modern examples as well as ethnographic cases, the aim of this thesis is to show the prerogatives of ambiguity as an inference-producing device, capable of generating processes of abduction that will not only engage the beholder further in their dialogue with the image, but will also direct thought along precise paths, whose affective charge relies precisely in their fluctuating and unsettled nature. Between art history and cognitive anthropology, this research also tries to explore the ways in which such devices for thought-orientation find a potential stability according to the specific regime of gaze in which they are situated
Main, Daphne. "Auditor decision making under ambiguity : a test of the Einhorn and Hogarth ambiguity model." Connect to resource, 1990. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=osu1265296896.
Full textChelwa, Grieve. "Ambiguity, ambiguity aversion and the coverage of uncertain risks : the case of the insurer." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10215.
Full textBoren, Shedrick John. "Ignoring Ambiguity: Legitimating Clinical Decisions." Scholarly Repository, 2008. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/170.
Full textZhang, Jiankang. "Three essays on subjective ambiguity." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ35378.pdf.
Full textLiu, Qin. "Resolving ambiguity in computational stereo." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0028/MQ40746.pdf.
Full textRowe, Thomas. "Competing claims, risk and ambiguity." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2017. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3584/.
Full textLoke, Wei Sue. "The myth of 'semantic ambiguity'." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.621109.
Full textPang, Wei. "Ambiguity in macroeconomics and finance." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.668336.
Full textAckerman, Lauren Marie. "In uences on Parsing Ambiguity." Thesis, Northwestern University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3741393.
Full textThe primary goal of this dissertation is to characterize the relative strength of two of the influences on the parser’s behavior during ambiguity resolution: coreference dependency formation and verb frame preference. I find that coreference dependency formation exerts a stronger influence on the parser than does verb frame preference, even when verb frame preference is maximized in transitively biased frames.
Previous studies have shown local attachment bias initially directs the parser to an embedded object analysis in sentences like (1), in which the DP Annie’s melody is locally ambiguous between the embedded object (EO)/matrix subject (MS) analyses (Ferreira and Henderson, 1990).
(1) Whenever she was trying to casually hum Annie’s melody was beautiful.
Additionally, (1) contains a cataphoric pronoun she which triggers an active search for an antecedent, whereby the parser seeks the antecedent only in grammatically sanctioned positions, such as where the antecedent is not c-commanded by the pronoun (Kazanina et al., 2007; van Gompel and Liversedge, 2003). In (1), the closest potential antecedent is Annie. However, it can be the antecedent only if the DP that contains it is analyzed as the MS, thus outside the whenever-clause and not c-commanded by she. A bias toward an early cataphoric dependency formation could lead the parser to analyze the ambiguous DP as the MS. In (1), there is a bias toward a MS analysis from the antecedent search in addition to a bias toward the local attachment EO analysis.
I find that, regardless of the transitivity bias of the verb in the position of hums, the parser forms a dependency between the pronoun she and Annie. This indicates that dependency formation can supersede verb frame preferences and any default preference the parser may have toward local attachment (Phillips and Gibson, 1997). Moreover, I also observe effects attributable to both the MS and EO parses. This suggests that the parser builds both alternatives and maintains them in parallel. From this, I conclude that the parser prioritizes information from an ongoing dependency search over lexical properties during ambiguity resolution.
Zimmer, Elly Jane, and Elly Jane Zimmer. "Children's Awareness of Syntactic Ambiguity." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/620862.
Full textOwens, Ruth M. MD. "Visual Pleasure and Racial Ambiguity." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2018. https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2520.
Full textLinse, Charlotta. "Ambiguity at the heart of design work : Sensing and negotiating ambiguity in knowledge-creation work." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Industriell Management, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-206508.
Full textDen typ av arbete som tar sig an utvecklandet av nya produkter och tjänster omges ofta av oklarhet kring vad som skall skapas, hur den framtida marknaden ser ut samt vilka utmaningar som kommer att framträda under arbetets gång. Sådana oklarheter har studerats i design- och produktutvecklingsforskning, ofta under antagandet att oklarheterna bör undvikas och minimeras. Dock finns det även nyare forskning som pekar mot att oklarheter kan vara fördelaktiga i arbetet. Forskningen är dock begränsad vad gäller hur oklarheterna framträder i arbetet, hur praktiker förnimmer dessa oklarheter, samt hur en kan ta sig an dessa oklara situationer för att söka reducera eller dra nytta av potentialen i oklara situationer. Detta är olyckligt, då oklarhet ligger i skapandearbetets kärna. En sådan begränsad kunskapsbildning leder till förenklade antaganden kring oklarhetens roll i design- och produktutvecklingsarbete. Därtill får det rent praktiska konsekvenser då designkonsulternas praktik och yrkeskunnande delvis är höljd i dunkel, genom att deras förmåga att förnimma och förhandla oklarhet tidigare förbisetts. Syftet med denna forskning är således att studera hur oklarheter framträder samt förhandlas i skapandearbete, genom att stödja sig på empiriska studier av arbetet i två designkonsultföretag, utifrån ett praktikperspektiv. Resultaten visar både att oklarheter uppkommer och försvinner kontinuerligt i arbetet, samt beskriver fem förhandlingsaktiviteter: (1) skapa referenspunkter; (2) medla mellan perspektiv; (3) förankra i expertis; (4) avväpna framtida motstånd; och (5) skapa gemensamma visioner. Slutsatserna visar på att oklarheter skapar tolkningsutrymme i arbetet: i tvetydighetens många tolkningar öppnas ett utrymme för skapande och möjlighet till omtolkning. Därtill framkommer att förhandlingsaktiviteterna manövrerar i detta tolkningsutrymme, genom att nyttja eller minska oklarhetens många tolkningar.
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Richardson, Diane Fern, and Diane Fern Richardson. "Toward a Pedagogy of Ambiguity: Incorporating and Assessing Ambiguity in a Multiliteracies-Based Foreign Language Classroom." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/621855.
Full textTitt, Raphael [Verfasser]. "Investigating the attitude towards ambiguity : Interindividual differences in automatic activations of evaluations of ambiguity / Raphael Titt." Tübingen : Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen, 2021. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:21-dspace-1192903.
Full textMeyer, Aaron M. "Eye-tracking investigations of lexical ambiguity." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/4141.
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Scandelius, Christina. "Strategic ambiguity in corporate sustainability communications." Thesis, Brunel University, 2014. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/12763.
Full textRostig, Grace. "Ambiguity in the Song of Songs." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ47791.pdf.
Full textTurpin, Anthony Joel. "An ambiguity of landscape and architecture." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/21724.
Full textTobelem-Foldvari, Sandrine. "Robust asset allocation under model ambiguity." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2010. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/262/.
Full textHsiao, Edward. "Addressing Ambiguity In Object Instance Detection." Research Showcase @ CMU, 2013. http://repository.cmu.edu/dissertations/309.
Full textYavorsky, William Christian. "Addiction : disturbing fixity and mobilising ambiguity." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.271272.
Full textTan, Runqing. "Impact of ambiguity on stock markets." Thesis, University of York, 2018. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/22867/.
Full textBroll, Udo, Peter Welzel, and Kit Pong Wong. "The banking firm under ambiguity aversion." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2016. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-209770.
Full textEvans, Samuel A. "Technological ambiguity & the Wassenaar Arrangement." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2009. http://eureka.sbs.ox.ac.uk/326/.
Full textLaw, Hoi Lun. "Reasonable doubt : ambiguity and film criticism." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2017. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.752726.
Full textFaria, Gonçalo Manuel Albuquerque Pereira Oliveira de. "Essays on Ambiguity about Stochastic Variance." Doctoral thesis, Faculdade de Economia da Universidade do Porto, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10216/44540.
Full textBassole, Dibazin Eugene. "Diplomatic ambiguity in interpreter-mediated communication." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/65534.
Full textFrench Lorsque l’on assiste au spectacle d’interprètes s’échinant dans leurs cabines à trouver le vrai sens d’une expression ambiguë, l’on se rend bien vite compte des effets redoutables de l’ambiguïté sur ces derniers. La question de l’ambiguïté en général, celle de l’ambiguïté du discours diplomatique en particulier, constitue une écharde dans le flanc de tout interprète. Alors, la question majeure qui se pose est de savoir «à quelles stratégies les interprètes peuvent-ils recourir pour faire face avec succès à l’ambiguïté diplomatique?». Comment les interprètes arrivent-ils à remédier aux problèmes d’ambiguïté diplomatique surgissant au cours de l’interprétation et qui requièrent une désambiguïsation sur le champ ? Ce mémoire traite de la question de l’ambiguïté diplomatique en situation de communication médiée par un interprète et vient en réponse aux interrogations et préoccupations ci-dessus. Ce mémoire aborde en premier chef la question de l’interprétation conçue comme un acte communicationnel dans la mesure où elle se définit comme un exercice de communication orale fait par un professionnel. Ensuite, un accent particulier sera mis sur l’ambigüité dans la communication diplomatique qui en recèle souvent; à son tour, l’ambiguïté entrave l’appréhension du sens [des mots ou concepts] auquel elle étroitement liée. C’est ici donc que se situe toute la problématique de l’ambiguïté diplomatique: l’ambiguïté diplomatique obstrue aussi bien la bonne compréhension que la réception du message à transmettre. Dès lors surgissent des difficultés d’interprétation. Au regard de ce qui précède, ce mémoire se veut pragmatique: susciter au sein des interprètes le réflexe de la recherche de techniques de résolution des problèmes de l’ambiguïté. Pour ce faire, un éventail de tactiques et stratégies susceptibles d’aider à clarifier et élucider les instances d’ambiguïté sera mis à disposition.
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Lee, Min Suk. "Essays on signaling games under ambiguity." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/73596.
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Qu, Xiangyu. "Essays on Decision Making under Ambiguity." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1338263880.
Full textHaynes, Jeffrey. "Anxiety's ambiguity : via Kierkegaard & Heidegger." Thesis, University of Essex, 2016. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/15955/.
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