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	Modality Component to Host Environment DOM Requirements and Capabilities Assessment
		Modality components perform interface tasks pertinent to their particular interface modality (e.g voice, pen, visual display).
		This subsection describes the interfaces that a modality component may choose to enable to allow the host environment to directly manipulate the component.
		These are the interfaces necessary for events to be passed from the modality component to the host environment.
	www.w3.org /TR/modality-interface (1856 words)

	Modality
		In discussing epistematically modal utterances, Lyons distinguishes between "objective epistemic modality" and "subjective epistemic modality." Objective epistemic modality states an "unqualified assertion of the possibility of a proposition," while subjective epistemic modality qualifies "the assertion of the factuality of the proposition" (Lyons 1977:750).
		Modality and/or evidentiality marking in the speech of both interlocutors is significant in revealing their respective propositional attitudes and different cognitive processes in math problem solving.
		By focusing on expressions of modality, this paper has demonstrated that the linguistic behavior of an individual is significantly related to his or her cognitive processes.
	www.iuj.ac.jp /faculty/mkahmed/modality.html (6053 words)

	The New Modality API in Java SE 6
		A modal dialog box is one that blocks input to some other top-level windows in the application, except for any windows created with the dialog box as their owner.
		The modal dialog box captures the window focus until it is closed, usually in response to a button press.
		Changing the modality type for a visible dialog box may have no effect until the dialog box is hidden and then shown again.
	java.sun.com /developer/technicalArticles/J2SE/Desktop/javase6/modality (2016 words)

	Medieval Theories of Modality (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		There are four modal paradigms in ancient philosophy: the ‘statistical’ or ‘temporal frequency interpretation’ of modality, the model of possibility as a potency, the model of antecedent necessities and possibilities with respect to a certain moment of time (diachronic modalities), and the model of possibility as non-contradictoriness.
		Modal terms refer to the one and only world of ours and classify the types of things and events on the basis of their occurrence.
		It was embraced by Marsilius of Inghen, Albert of Saxony, and Jodocus Trutfetter.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/modality-medieval (7007 words)

	A BRIEF GLOSSARY OF MODALITY
		Modality is ‘another name for mood, but one applied more specially to certain distinctions concerned with the speaker’s estimate of the relation between the actor and the accomplishment of some event’ (Trask).
		Modality is indicated by various means (subjunctive, modal verbs, parenthetical verbs, sentence adverbials, matrix verbs), but some of these (subjunctive, modal verbs) can also be found in object clauses with a merely syntactic function (cf Schneider 1999 ch.
		Modal auxiliaries (i) attribute properties to the subject of a sentence, (ii) determine the illocutionary potential of a sentence (the range of illoc.
	dinamico.unibg.it /anglistica/slin/modgloss.htm (5027 words)

	The AWT Modality (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Modality priority is arranged by the strength of blocking: modeless, document-modal, application-modal and toolkit-modal.
		After the modal dialog M is shown, it becomes blocked by the first shown dialog from the first group (if there are any), all the windows from the second one become blocked by M, and all the windows from the third group remain untouched.
		When a modal dialog blocks a window, the user may not be able to maximize or minimize the blocked window— however, the actual behavior is unspecified and platform-dependent.
	download.java.net /jdk6/docs/api/java/awt/doc-files/Modality.html (1391 words)

	TOWARDS A TOOL FOR PREDICTING SPEECH FUNCTIONALITY
		A unimodal modality is a modality which may form a component of a multimodal interface [4].
		The speech output modalities are numbered 2 and 6 at the generic level of the taxonomy in Figure 3, and 6a, 6b and 6c at the atomic level.
		Modality theory thus includes a large number of generalisations of the form "Acoustic output is..." or "Discourse output is..." which go into the understanding of individual unimodal modalities but which are only visible at taxonomy level in so far as the terms "acoustics" or "discourse" are being used to characterise individual unimodal modalities.
	cslu.cse.ogi.edu /fsj/issues/issue1/index.html (13742 words)

	11 Modality: Categories & Types
		The term modality may be used in the sense of a 'category of modality', or in the sense of a 'type of modality'.
		Quantity, or extensional modality, is the primary type of modality, and is the one which was thoroughly dealt with by Aristotle.
		In the case of extensional modality, we are dealing with instances of a universal; in that of temporal modality, with moments of an existence; in natural modality, with causal conditions.
	www.thelogician.net /2_future_logic/2_chapter_11.htm (4274 words)

	LOGI: The modality level
		The general lesson learned from the human visual modality is that modalities are not microtheories, that modalities are not flat representations of the pixel level, and that modalities are functionally characterized by successive layers of successively more elaborate feature structure.
		Modalities are one of the best exhibitions of this evolutionary design pattern - ascending layers of adaptive complexity - which also appears, albeit in very different form, in the ascending code-modality-concept-thought-deliberation model of the human mind.
		Abandoning the human modalities appears to introduce an additional fragile dependency on the correctness of the AI theory, in that substituting novel sensory modalities for the human ones would appear to require a correct understanding of the nature of sensory modalities and how they contribute to intelligence.
	www.singinst.org /LOGI/levels/modality.html (4402 words)

	LD OnLine :: The Content's Best Modality Is Key
		Second, modality does have an impact on learning, but this impact is the same for all students.
		Each modality is effective in carrying certain types of information: If it's important that children know what something looks like, sounds like, or feels like, they should experience the object in that modality.
		One hundred twenty-eight students were classified according to their best modality and then taught new vocabulary words with instructional materials that were visual, auditory, kinesthetic, or combined (meaning all three modalities were used).
	www.ldonline.org /article/12447 (1327 words)

	AFT - Publications - American Educator - Summer 2005 - Ask the Cognitive Scientist
		For example, a common error in studies of modality is a failure to ensure that the lesson plans and materials are equivalent in every way except modality (since that is the only way to be sure that any effect found is due to modality).
		Modality gives us an easily understood way to think about the differences among children and it offers a hopeful message—a relatively easy adjustment to teaching practice may provide a boost to kids who are struggling.
		Modality theory may also seem correct because, as we have discussed, children probably do differ in their abilities with different types of memories.
	www.aft.org /pubs-reports/american_educator/issues/summer2005/cogsci.htm (3655 words)

	What is mood and modality?
		Mood is one of a set of distinctive forms that are used to signal modality.
		Modality is a facet of illocutionary force, signaled by grammatical devices (that is, moods), that expresses
		If, in addition, modality is used to refer to meanings expressed by lexical means as well as grammatical, it is effectively a synonym of illocutionary force.
	www.sil.org /linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsMoodAndModality.htm (185 words)

	MODALITY (Site not responding. Last check: )
		I propose that humans are born with a sensitivity to particular distributional, rhythmical, and temporal patterns unique to aspects of natural language structure, along specific physical dimensions (temporal "sing-song" prosodic patterning and bite-sized, maximally-contrasting syllable segments--both levels of language organization that are found in spoken and signed languages).
		One novel implication here is that language modality, be it spoken or signed, is highly plastic and may be neurologically set after birth.
		Significance: Prevailing research on very young bilinguals, however, had reported that bilingual babies under 20 months exhibted language delay and confusion relative to monolingual babies because they ostensibly had a single, fused representation of their two native languages, which they were only able to sort out over the first three years of life.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~lpetitto/langAc.html (1403 words)

	Semiotics for Beginners: Modality and Representation
		In making sense of a text, its interpreters make 'modality judgements' about it, drawing on their knowledge of the world and of the medium.
		Modality cues within texts include both formal features of the medium and content features such as the following (typical high modality cues are listed here as the first in each pair), though it is their interaction and interpretation, of course, which is most important.
		Modality judgements involve comparisons of textual representations with models drawn from the everyday world and with models based on the genre; they are therefore obviously dependent on relevant experience of both the world and the medium.
	www.aber.ac.uk /media/Documents/S4B/sem02a.html (8030 words)

	Praveen's Blog : Weblog
		Modality is always one of my favorite topics just for the fact that lot of interesting customer feedbacks flow in frequently.
		By default, a window's modal exclusion property is turned off in the sense that it gets blocked by default if it falls within the scope of blocking of any of the modal dialog that is made visible.
		Before using any of the Modality or Exclusion types, check whether it is supported by your platform by calling the methods isModalitySupported(), isModalExclusionTypeSupported() provided in the java.awt.Toolkit class.
	blogs.sun.com /praveenm/entry/awt_modality_enhancements_in_java (1060 words)

	A BRIEF GLOSSARY OF MODALITY
		Modality is ‘another name for mood, but one applied more specially to certain distinctions concerned with the speaker’s estimate of the relation between the actor and the accomplishment of some event’ (Trask).
		Modality is indicated by various means (subjunctive, modal verbs, parenthetical verbs, sentence adverbials, matrix verbs), but some of these (subjunctive, modal verbs) can also be found in object clauses with a merely syntactic function (cf Schneider 1999 ch.
		Modal auxiliaries (i) attribute properties to the subject of a sentence, (ii) determine the illocutionary potential of a sentence (the range of illoc.
	wwwesterni.unibg.it /anglistica/slin/modgloss.htm (5027 words)

	The Old New Thing : Modality, part 1: UI-modality vs code-modality
		Arguing that a modal Open Dialog is in some way better than modeless one can be done from the programmer's perspective, but the user would obviously prefer to be able to switch from window to window as they please.
		If we are using modal dialog boxes to lock us into an underlying state, then I believe that a read-only window is a superior choice, since it allows the user to look back to the window for reference if they need to (Chen touched on this in the original post).
		Instead of using a modal dialog, I propose that the properties are displayed in a pane to the side of the document.
	blogs.msdn.com /oldnewthing/archive/2005/02/18/376080.aspx (3929 words)

	21 Logical Modality
		The context-specific concepts of logical modality are built on the awareness that: at every stage of knowledge, some things somehow seem 'true', other things somehow seem 'false', yet others seem 'problematic'; and that these attributes often vary with the growth of experience and reasoning.
		There is a marked quantitative analogy (this, some, all), so that we can refer to them as 'categories of modality'; and there is a broad qualitative analogy (inclusion or exclusion in a wider perspective), yet with enough difference that we can refer to them as distinct 'types of modality'.
		The many-contexts concepts of logical modality are formed by reference to the awareness that there are items of knowledge which somehow would seem to be true or false no matter what developments in knowledge may conceivably take shape, while others seem somehow more dependent on empirical evidence for their acceptance or rejection.
	www.thelogician.net /2_future_logic/2_chapter_21.htm (3147 words)

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		Modalism is the thesis that modal operators, not quantifiers over possibilities, are the fundamental means of expressing facts about what is and is not possible.
		"The Semantics of Modal Notions and the Indeterminacy of Ontology", Synthese 21: 408-424.
		Modality 'de re' is vindicated: a property belongs to the real essence of a thing if every counterpart of the thing, in every possible world, has the property.
	fas-philosophy.rutgers.edu /~sider/teaching/modality_bib.htm (13258 words)

	Mammographic Modality
		A mammographic modality is a technology for radiography of the breast, such as screen-film mammography, full field digital mammography, and xeromammography.
		Spot compression and magnification are techniques used with a mammographic modality, but are not to be considered separate mammographic modalities in and of themselves.
		Because this small receptor cannot image the entire breast, it cannot generally be used for screening examinations and in almost all cases is limited to only a portion of the breast for either interventional or diagnostic purposes.
	www.fda.gov /CDRH/MAMMOGRAPHY/robohelp/mammographic_modality.htm (801 words)

	Modality Preference Inventory
		The second highest score indicates the modality that boosts the primary strength.
		For example, a score of 23 in the visual modality indicates a strong visual learner.
		Such a learner benefits from the text, from filmstrips, charts, graphs, etc. If the second highest score is auditory, then the individual would benefit from audio tapes, lectures, etc. If you are strong kinesthetically, then taking notes and rewriting class notes will reinforce information.
	www.brookhavencollege.edu /learningstyle/modality_test.html (421 words)

	Modality: Metaphysics at Canadian Content
		You are in the protector modality when you have the capacity to kill or maim or stop aggression.
		concious entity, as it exists only when there is a point of existance however not necisarily at a logical or physical layer but an existential modality that encapsulates the true inherent purpose meaning and being of god.
		credit for but as they have no way to express it to us in adult language, and they eventually are "schooled" out of the introspective modality and we lose the ability before we know how to capture and develop it.
	www.canadiancontent.net /dir/Top/Society/Philosophy/Metaphysics/Modality (702 words)

	modality -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Modal logic, which studies the logical features of such concepts, originated with Aristotle, was extensively studied by logicians in antiquity and the European Middle Ages, and, for the most part, …
		Modal logic, which studies the logical features of such concepts, originated with Aristotle, was extensively studied by logicians in antiquity and the European Middle Ages, and, for the most part, was...
		Such sense modalities as seeing and hearing transmit depth and distance cues and are largely independent of one another.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9053137?tocId=9053137 (626 words)

	Health Care Financing Review: Dialysis modality selection among patients attending freestanding dialysis facilities - ...
		This modality requires the patient to be intravenously connected to a dialysis machine for a session lasting 3 to 4 hours, and to receive about three such sessions per week.
		Another less common modality is home hemodialysis, which is the same as in-center hemodialysis, except the patient uses a machine in his or her own home.
		In addition, the patient's modality choice may be constrained due to geographic location, or the fact that the patient's physician works at a facility that provides a limited range of modalities.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0795/is_n4_v18/ai_20598399 (1370 words)

	Modality Translation Services Program
		Modality Translation Services on Demand Making the World More Accessible For All - This paper, presented at the 2001 RESNA conference examines modality translation as it relates to accessibility and understandability.
		Modality Translation on the Grid - Real-Time, On-Demand Access to Information Across Modalities - This poster, first presented at SC2000, illustrates the concept of real-time, on-demand access to information across modalities.
		Modality Translation Services on Demand - This paper introduces the "Modality Translation Services" concept, which comprises a set of remote services to provide instant translation from one presentation mode to another, available anywhere at anytime.
	trace.wisc.edu /world/modtrans (278 words)

	Meaning, Reason, and Modality (ii) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Within the framework of a possible worlds semantics, the proposition a sentence expresses gets represented as the set of worlds at which the sentence is true.
		In order for the Core Thesis to forge links between meaning, reason, and modality, there must be a good number of instances of that thesis and not merely highly contrived and artificial instances such as J. Chalmers’ aim is to find an interpretation of the 2-D apparatus that has just this result.
		One might here consider other possible connections between reason and meaning or reason and modality available on Chalmers’s account, but to be a connection forged by that account, it will need to be one not available independent of its acceptance.
	www.bgsu.edu /departments/phil/faculty/dowell/MRM3.htm (4017 words)

	Mind and Modality
		Lecture 2 pushes deeper into the heart of modality, further investigating the conceivability/possibility relationship and the epistemology of modality (with some material on the scrutability of truth in general), and arguing for a sort of modal rationalism.
		Supports modal rationalism: when S is conceivable (approx: not-S is not a priori), S describes a possible world, at least according to its primary intension (although perhaps not according to its secondary intension).
		And this modal primitive is tied constitutively to the rational notions (if it's not, we won't be able to explain them): hence, constitutive ties between rational and modal notions.
	consc.net /papers/mm.html (6289 words)

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