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Description:: The task of classification has been increasingly attracting attention from researchers in recent years. The objective is to assign labels given attributes of samples. The classification task is practical in real-world applications and is widely explored in fields such as computer vision, natural language processing and information retrieval. The recent...
Keyword:: neural networks, classification, machine learning, and deep learning
Subject:: Artificial intelligence
Creator:: Xu, Yiming
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15370 and etdadmin_upload_778963

Description:: œRuling Sexuality: Law, Expertise, and the Making of Sexual Knowledge, brings together approaches from the sociologies of science, law, and sexualities to examine how the institutions of law and science jointly render sexual subjects legible to state institutions by measuring and categorizing sexualities. Through the comparative study of asylum claims...
Keyword:: science, classification, knowledge, law, and sexuality
Subject:: Sociology
Creator:: Stefan Vogler
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 09/30/2019
Date Modified:: 11/20/2019
Date Created:: 1/1/2018
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Drawing on over 400 legal decisions and other documentary materials, 40 semi-structured interviews with legal and scientific actors, and hundreds of hours of multi-sited ethnographic observation, I offer a fine-grained analysis of how expert evaluative practices become institutionalized in legal settings and result in divergent understandings of sexuality within the...
Keyword:: science, classification, knowledge, law, and sexuality
Subject:: Sociology
Creator:: Stefan Vogler
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 06/23/2019
Date Modified:: 06/23/2019
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Classifying patients to diagnose and treat disease, ensure access to medical care, adhere to standards of quality, contain costs, and fulfill contractual obligations is critical to the delivery of healthcare. While classification is a fundamental standardizing process in healthcare, as a social process it is the product of negotiations, organizational...
Keyword:: social construction, classification, and HIV/AIDS
Subject:: Sociology
Creator:: Rebecca Culyba
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 10/01/2018
Date Modified:: 10/01/2018
Date Created:: 2008-12-05
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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