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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Biodata"”.
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Biodata: A Thing of the Past? Examining the Predictibe Validity and User Reactions of Rationally-Selected, Empirically Keyed Biodata
… 2002), proving very costly to organizations. Biodata inventories represent one selection tool that is underutilized, due to being poorly understood and fear of negative user reactions (Hausknecht, Day, & Thomas, 2004). This research examined the incremental validity of rationally-selected, …
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Visual data mining in intrinsic hierarchical complex biodata
In der vorliegenden Arbeit werden neue Ansätze des visuellen Dataminings zur Analyse von intrinsisch hierarchischen komplexen Biodaten entwickelt. Die Anwendung dieser Verfahren wird anhand von Genexpressionsdaten aus dem Bereich der Biomedizin sowie von Gensequenzdaten im Bereich der Metagenomik …
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Comparing Five Empirical Biodata Scoring Methods for Personnel Selection
A biodata based personnel selection measure was created to improve the retention rate of Catalog Telemarketing Representatives at a major U.S. retail company. Five separate empirical biodata scoring methods were compared to examine their usefulness in predicting retention and reducing adverse …
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Using Biodata to Predict Alternative Measures of Training Period Turnover
… was utilized to add to what is known about biodata and turnover. Biodata items from 958 former and current employees in a manufacturing environment were used to develop models to predict a) which employees will turnover prior to completion of a ninety-day training period, b) who will leave …
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The validity of biodata as a selection tool within the Scottish accountancy profession.
… this thesis was to critically evaluate whether biodata could be used as a valid tool in the pre-selection process of trainee chartered accountants. Biographical details of recently qualified accountants who trained within the whole spectrum of ICAS training offices, were collected from a …
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The effects of biographical data on the prediction of domain knowledge
… test these hypotheses, participants completed a biodata measure, various ability and non-ability measures, and a set of domain knowledge tests. Hypotheses were evaluated in the context of regressions and structural equation modeling. Results showed that biodata had significant predictive validity …
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Graduate recruitment at professional entry level: clinical judgements and empirically derived methods of selection
… model approach to scoring biographical data (biodata) is explored here as a means of improving the selection function. Part I of this study develops predictive models for scoring the biodata of applicants to the profession. An original contribution is made by carefully comparing two empirical …
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Machine learning-driven integration of multimodal data for deciphering breast cancer heterogeneity
… BC heterogeneity based on the multi-modal biodata using the existing computational data analysis techniques. The first challenge is how to effectively combine the multi-modal biodata and find comprehensive and interpretable representations from them. Another challenge is how to address the …
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The relationship between biographical information and managerial potential as assessed on a sales management assessment centre
… is thus potentially valuable. One such means is biodata, or biographical information, upon which basis the selection of staff has traditionally occurred, in line with the truism that past behaviour is predictive of future success. This study was thus designed to identify the biographical …
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First line supervisors in the offshore oil and gas industry.
… what makes an effective supervisor in terms of biodata, personality, job satisfaction and perceptions of the work environment. The transformational model of Bass and Avolio (1990) was also adapted to assess leadership style. A specially designed semistructured questionnaire was developed. The …
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Ontological Machines: Subjectivity and Relational Desire in Immersive and Interactive Environments
… technology that captures real-time participant biodata to augment physical spaces with digital layers. <br/>
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Properties of a Resampling Validation Technique for Empirically Scoring Psychological Assessments
… blended empirical and a priori information for a biodata instrument. The results of these two experiments using empirical data confirmed many of the aspects of the simulations while pointing out some limitations of the simulated context. In general, the use of thresholds (minimum option-validities …
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Quality and extent of adherence on internal medicine discharge letters in a regional hospital in South Africa to prescribed guidelines. A retrospective audit
… Results: Nearly all clinical records contained biodata (100%), contact details (93%) and clinical details (93%). Only two-thirds of the folders contained information on other diagnoses(67%) and investigations matched clinical issues 63%.). The least compliant category was medication …
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Contemporary challenges facing the South African accounting profession: issues of selection, recruitment and transformation.
… additional validity for the technique of biodata-based selection through the use thereof to differentiate between students in a dual medium university who will, or will not, complete their accounting education programmes in a society exhibiting tacit exclusionary closure. The models …
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A bioinformatics framework for RNA structure mining, motif discovery and polyadenylation analysis
… can be downloaded from http://datalab.njitedu/biodata/rna/RSmatch/server.htm . The RADAR software has been applied to various datasets (genomes of various mammals, viruses and parasites) and our experimental results show that this approach is capable of detecting functionally important regions. …
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Novel tissue- and blood-based biomarkers in Barrett’s Esophagus and esophageal adenocarcinoma
… for liquids to improve comparability of biodata between research groups.