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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Distance effect"”.
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The Dual-Route Model of Order Judgment: Factors Influencing Task Performance and the Reverse Distance Effect
… number comparison tasks, people show a canonical distance effect (CDE): They are slower to compare numbers that are close together (e.g., 4-5) than those that are far apart (e.g., 4-9). However, when judging if sequences such as 1-2-3 or 2-1-3 are in ascending order, people are faster on sequences …
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An empirical study of attitudes towards green urban development
… Previous hedonic literature on the comprehensive effect of compact development is limited. Also, spatial dependence in the data, something likely endemic to compact development, has not yet been thoroughly addressed. This study uses a spatial fixed-effect model, a spatial-autoregressive model with …
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Identify experts through Revealed Confidence : application to Wisdom of Crowds
… prediction of our theoretical result that the distance effect indeed affects belief-updating henceforth RC algorithm's performance, which should be carefully controlled for in order to optimize the algorithm..
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The salience of part-whole relatedness on reasoning about relative magnitude
… of part-whole pairs and unrelated controls. The effect of symbolic distance was much smaller for part-whole pairs than for unrelated controls. This attenuation of the symbolic distance effect is inconsistent with most models of comparative judgment because they propose that relative magnitude is …
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Spatial structuring in trait variation in Polyommatus icarus in a functional context
… genetic structuring, with an isolation by distance effect. Enzyme diversity of P. icarus butterflies in the British Isles is lower than on mainland Europe, indicative of a past bottleneck. This, combined with selection on, or drift in, the allozymes could cause for a lack of population …
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Improving Object Classification in X-ray Luggage Inspection
… methods have increasingly been used as an effective means for the automatic detection of explosives. While a number of devices are now commercially available, most of these technologies are not yet mature. The purpose of this research has been to investigate methods for using x-ray …
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Practical Impacts of Galvanic Corrosion in Water Service Lines and Premise Plumbing
… have also been raised. Galvanic corrosion can be effectively stopped by isolating the dissimilar metals; however, completely eliminating electrical continuity may not always be practical or allowed by code. Instead, increasing separation distance between the two metals was hypothesized to …
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Growth release of trees following fine-scale canopy disturbances in old-growth forests of coastal British Columbia, Canada
… releases, but identity of the tree species and distance from the gap center were also important predictors. Western hemlock and Pacific silver fir were often growing slowly both in the canopy and subcanopy, giving them tremendous potential to release. For these species, releases were generally …
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Extending Space-Time Putative Hazard Models to Detect Latent Risk Features
… area count data with a focus on the time-varying distance-decline effect and possible latent period switching detection. The application of the proposed method is applied to a real small area health outcome data example. </p><p>In Part III, the analysis of multiple health outcomes around a …
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Distance Effects in Similarity Based Free Categorization
… Of particular interest was how temporal distance between similar objects affects the likelihood that people will put them into the same novel category. Participants engaged in a free categorization task referred to as <em>binomial labeling</em>. This task required participants to generate …
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Memory Bias in the Use of Accounting Information: An Examination of Affective Responses and Retrieval of Information in Accounting Decision Making
This dissertation is based on the Kida-Smith (1995) model of "The encoding and retrievability of numerical data." It is concerned with the variable conditions under which a positive affective response (i.e., a decision or opinion that results in a positive valence) on previously viewed accounting …
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Fruit to Sapling: an Ontogenetically Integrated Study of Tree Recruitment in an Amazonian Rainforest
… that seed fall decreases sharply with increasing distance from fruiting trees, with disproportionately large contributions from a very small fraction of all trees. Patterns of seed fall, although idiosyncratic for individual species, tended to relate to dispersal syndrome. Intact seeds were found …
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Essays on Small Remote Island Economies (SRIES)
… of production was shaped by quotas. A distance effect on trade is revealed as trade with relatively remote partners declined post-MFA. The results of a unit-value analysis support the thesis that those SRIEs that survived moved up the value-chain or upgraded to maintain competitiveness. …
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Essays on Mechanisms Underlying Belief Updating with Applications in Wisdom of Crowds
… lack of information). Second, I show that the distance effect (i.e., the weight on advice tends to decrease as the distance between the initial estimate and the advice increases), a widely documented empirical pattern in advice-taking, can be a consequence of people updating their beliefs …
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Determining the human ability to judge inertia during a dynamic pushing task
… of repeated trials about the absolute error. Distance to the target (2 or 6 m), amount of load (25, 45, or 90 kg), and apparent size of the load (small or large) were manipulated in the dynamic pushing experiment. Hypothesis testing was used to determine whether performance exhibited a …