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  2. Manifest and latent functions and dysfunctions - Wikipedia

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    Manifest functions are the consequences that people see, observe or even expect. It is explicitly stated and understood by the participants in the relevant action. The manifest function of a rain dance, according to Merton in his 1957 Social Theory and Social Structure, is to produce rain, and this outcome is intended and desired by people participating in the ritual.

  3. Markov decision process - Wikipedia

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    A policy that maximizes the function above is called an optimal policy and is usually denoted . A particular MDP may have multiple distinct optimal policies. Because of the Markov property, it can be shown that the optimal policy is a function of the current state, as assumed above.

  4. Tonkawa language - Wikipedia

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    Nouns function as free themes, or stems, in Tonkawa. There is a limit of only two or three affixes that can compound with a noun. However, there are cases of a bound theme occurring in noun compounds, which occurs with the suffix -an is added.

  5. Broadbent's filter model of attention - Wikipedia

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    Broadbent was the first to describe the human attentional processing system using an information processing metaphor. [2] In this view, Broadbent proposed a so-called "early selection" view of attention, such that humans process information with limited capacity and select information to be processed early.

  6. Sentence function - Wikipedia

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    An exclamative is a sentence type in English that typically expresses a feeling or emotion, but does not use one of the other structures. It often has the form as in the examples below of [WH + Complement + Subject + Verb], but can be minor sentences (i.e. without a verb) such as [WH + Complement] How wonderful!.

  7. Moral universalizability - Wikipedia

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    Considerations of the aforementioned need to handle evil-doers has also motivated some defenders of ideal rule consequentialism to suggest modified versions which permit only rules which produce at least as great a balance of good over bad results when 90% (or some other fraction) of any given population practice it, which requires us to follow ...

  8. Small-signal model - Wikipedia

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    For example, the total input voltage to the aforementioned transistor would be denoted as (). The small-signal model of the total signal is then the sum of the DC component and the small-signal component of the total signal, or in algebraic notation, v I N ( t ) = V I N + v i n ( t ) {\displaystyle v_{\mathrm {IN} }(t)=V_{\mathrm {IN} }+v ...

  9. List of datasets for machine-learning research - Wikipedia

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    A collection of Vietnamese multiple-choice questions for evaluating MRC models. This corpus includes 2,783 Vietnamese multiple-choice questions. 2,783 Question-answer pairs Question Answering/Machine Reading Comprehension 2020 [335] Nguyen et al. Open-Domain Question Answering Goes Conversational via Question Rewriting