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Using plain forms but still being polite: speech style shifting as an interactional phenomenon in Japanese native and non-native talk
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The Japanese language is known for its various styles of speech, conditioned by factors such as social status, formality, and gender. When a speaker switches between the speech styles within the same talk targeted at the same recipient, such a phenomenon is called speech style shifting...
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Using primary care electronic medical record data to establish a case definition and describe the burden of young-adult onset metabolic syndrome in Northern Alberta
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Background: There is little evidence on the prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MetS) in the younger adult Canadian population. Moreover, MetS is even less studied within the primary care setting due to multiple barriers including difficulty for providers to identify patients given the multitude of...
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Spring 2021
This dissertation demonstrates how to utilize data collected previously from different sources to facilitate learning and inference for a target task. Learning from scratch for a target task or environment can be expensive and time-consuming. To address this problem, we make three contributions...
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Spring 2016
Game theoretic solution concepts, such as Nash equilibrium strategies that are optimal against worst case opponents, provide guidance in finding desirable autonomous agent behaviour. In particular, we wish to approximate solutions to complex, dynamic tasks, such as negotiation or bidding in...
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Fall 2015
Extensive-form games are a powerful framework for modeling sequential multi-agent interactions. In extensive-form games with imperfect information, Nash equilibria are generally used as a solution concept, but computing a Nash equilibrium can be intractable in large games. Instead, a variety of...
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Spring 2020
Water is a resource crucial for the survival and growth of trees. Understanding water relations and how changes in water availability may affect the growth and survival of trees across spatial and temporal scales is critical to gain insights in the future of forests. Sap flow sensors allow...
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Spring 2019
Online advertising is one of the most lucrative forms of advertising, with digital ad-spending expected to reach $83 billion in 2017, making it one of the most important channels of advertising media. Contextual Advertising is a type of online display advertising that takes cues from the content...
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Spring 2010
Radiotherapy is often used to treat prostate cancer. While using high dose of radiation does kill cancer cells, it can cause toxicity in healthy tissues for some patients. It would be best to apply this treatment only to patients who are likely to be immune from such toxicity. This requires a...