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  2. Convergence research - Wikipedia

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    Convergence research aims to solve complex problems employing transdisciplinarity. [1] While academic disciplines are useful for identifying and conveying coherent bodies of knowledge , some problems require collaboration among disciplines, including both enhanced understanding of scientific phenomena as well as resolving social issues .

  3. Communication accommodation theory - Wikipedia

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    Since speech is a way to express group membership, people adopt convergence or divergence in communication to "signal a salient group distinctiveness, so as to reinforce a social identity". [9] Communication accommodation thus, becomes a tool to emphasize group distinctiveness in a positive way, and strengthen the individual's social identity.

  4. Ivan D. London and Miriam London - Wikipedia

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    For the past quarter century they have […] gather[ed] stories of the lives of hundred of individuals, and trace[d] the sources of convergence and divergence within and between them. […] Additionally, they have written extensively on research and interview methods necessary to gather relevant information. […] Their work deserves close ...

  5. List of examples of convergent evolution - Wikipedia

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    [28] [29] Other hearing genes also show convergence between echolocating taxa. [30] A genome-wide study of convergence published in 2013 analysed 22 mammal genomes and revealed that tens of genes have undergone the same replacements in echolocating bats and cetaceans, with many of these genes encoding proteins that function in hearing and ...

  6. D. Lawrence Kincaid - Wikipedia

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    D. Lawrence Kincaid (born 1945) is an American communication researcher who originated the convergence theory of communication. He was a senior advisor for the Research and Evaluation Division of the Center for Communication Programs and an associate scientist in the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

  7. Divergence (statistics) - Wikipedia

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    The dual divergence to a Bregman divergence is the divergence generated by the convex conjugate F * of the Bregman generator of the original divergence. For example, for the squared Euclidean distance, the generator is ⁠ x 2 {\displaystyle x^{2}} ⁠ , while for the relative entropy the generator is the negative entropy ⁠ x log ⁡ x ...

  8. Kullback–Leibler divergence - Wikipedia

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    Numerous references to earlier uses of the symmetrized divergence and to other statistical distances are given in Kullback (1959, pp. 6–7, §1.3 Divergence). The asymmetric "directed divergence" has come to be known as the Kullback–Leibler divergence, while the symmetrized "divergence" is now referred to as the Jeffreys divergence.

  9. Convergence-divergence zone - Wikipedia

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    The theory of convergence-divergence zones [1] [2] was proposed by Antonio Damasio, in 1989, to explain the neural mechanisms of recollection.It also helps to explain other forms of consciousness: creative imagination, thought, the formation of beliefs and motivations ...