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Naturalness
About: Naturalness is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1305 publications have been published within this topic receiving 31737 citations.
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01 Jan 2010TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined differences between two learning environments: audio-written conferencing and traditional face-to-face instruction and found similar achievement in the two environments, in addition, invisibility increased certain kinds of students' behavior: participation, risk taking, immediacy feeling, and flaming.
Abstract: This study examines differences between two learning environments : audio-written conferencing and traditional face-to-face instruction . We investigated whether medium richness [media richness theory ; Daft and Lengel (Research in organizational behavior. JAI, Greenwich, 1984)], medium naturalness [media naturalness theory ; Kock (IEEE Trans Prof Commun 48(2):117–130, 2005)], and invisibility influence students’ achievement, satisfaction , and behavior. In two research settings, a field study and a laboratory experiment, students were taught face-to-face and/or via an audio-written conferencing system; subject matter and teacher were constant. We found similar achievement in the two environments. Significant differences, in favor of face-to-face communication, were found regarding learner satisfaction. In addition, invisibility increased certain kinds of students’ behavior: participation, risk taking, immediacy feeling, and flaming. These findings were explained in terms of differences in media naturalness and as an effect of invisibility.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the topology of the universe is shown to be compact and the likelihood of its present state of high isotropy and near flatness arising from generic initial conditions.
Abstract: If the topology of the universe is compact we show how it significantly changes our assessment of the naturalness of the observed structure of the universe and the likelihood of its present state of high isotropy and near flatness arising from generic initial conditions. We also identify the most general cosmological models with compact space.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a model based on three ''assumptions'' is proposed, namely, geometric, electromagnetic, and electron mass, which is used to define the scale of space.
Abstract: We offer a model based upon three `assumptions'. The first is geometric, that the vacuum wavefunction is comprised of Euclid's fundamental geometric objects of space - point, line, plane, and volume elements - components of the geometric representation of Clifford algebra. The second is electromagnetic, that physical manifestation follows from introducing the dimensionless coupling constant \textbf{$\alpha$}. The third takes the electron mass to define the scale of space. Such a model is arguably maximally `natural'. Wavefunction interactions are modeled by the geometric product of Clifford algebra. What emerges is more naturalness. We offer an emergent definition.
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TL;DR: The authors found no support for the moderating role of food naturalness importance in the evaluation of clean (vs. regular) meat dishes and found that only omnivores higher in food technology neophobia evaluated clean meat dishes more negatively than regular meat dishes.
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TL;DR: This paper found that only omnivores higher (but not lower) in food technology neophobia evaluated clean meat dishes more negatively than regular meat dishes and found no support for the moderating role of food naturalness importance in the evaluation of clean (vs. regular) meat dishes.
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