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Showing 1 to 20 of 174 for “"Empirical Evaluation"”.
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Towards Empirical Evaluation of Software Security Risk
This thesis provides empirical metrics for different vectors for vulnerability introduction, with a particular focus on cryptographic software. Through quantitative analysis of source code and vulnerability metrics from a variety of cryptographic libraries, we arrive at a more precise notion of …
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Empirical evaluation of South African share analysts’ performance
This paper sets out to evaluate whether investment recommendations of South African share analysts provide any value to an investor in the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE). The study focuses on the creation of a portfolio based on the recommendations by analysts between December 2002 and July …
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Empirical Evaluation of DSGE Models for Emerging Countries
… collection of three essays aimed to evaluate the empirical performance of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models in explaining the behavior of macroeconomic dynamics in emerging countries. </p><p>Chapter 1, which is joint work with M. Uribe and R. Pancrazzi, investigates the …
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Empirical Evaluation of a Technology-rich Learning Environment
In the fall of 1996, the Computer Science Department at Virginia Tech initiated a joint project with a local school district, to determine how ready access to networked computing in the fifth grade would affect students. Called the PCs for Families (PCF) project, its goal was to learn what could be …
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Empirical Evaluation of Graph-Anonymized Metrics for JIT Defect Prediction
Software analytics data, housed in version control and issue report repositories, serves pivotal roles in organizational tasks like predicting code bugs and selecting code reviewers. Yet, individual organizations often lack the breadth of data needed for these analytics, making data sharing …
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An Empirical Evaluation of Multi-Resource Scheduling for Moldable Workflows
… application performance. This thesis performs an empirical evaluation of a recently proposed multi-resource scheduling algorithm for minimizing the overall completion time (or makespan) of computational workflows comprised of moldable parallel jobs. Moldable parallel jobs allow the scheduler to …
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A Security Benchmarking Framework for Empirical Evaluation of Container Confinement
… thesis presents Houdini, a modular framework for empirically testing container confinement. Houdini executes scripted tests, called tricks, inside an isolated virtual machine to observe whether features like namespaces, cgroups, seccomp, and AppArmor are enforced at runtime. By simulating …
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Mechanistic-Empirical Evaluation of Mn/ROAD Mainline Flexible Pavement Sections
… Department of Transportation (IDOT) Mechanistic-Empirical (M-E) based flexible pavement design procedures and concepts. Illinois has used M-E design procedures for the design of full-depth asphalt concrete (FDAC) and conventional flexible pavements (CFP) sections since the late 1980's. The …
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An Empirical Evaluation of Property-Liability Insurance Financial Ratemaking Models
… insurers over the past fifteen to twenty years. Empirical model estimates of underwriting profit margins for twenty-three individual stock insurance companies are compared with actual underwriting results over the 1973-1989 period. This approach differs from previous research that has used …
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An empirical evaluation of multivariate sequential procedures for testing means
The purpose of this study is to make an empirical evaluation of Multivariate Sequential Procedures for Testing Means as proposed by J. E. Jackson. This was done by simulated sampling from a multivariate normal population with known means, both when the variance-covariance matrix is assumed known …
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An empirical evaluation of the latent structure of cognitive analgesia strategies
Factors influencing the effectiveness of cognitive strategies for analgesia were assessed using a cold pressor pain task with 96 subjects. Subjects rated pain during baseline and post-treatment exposures to the ice water pain stimulus. Between trials, subjects in four groups were trained in the use …
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Three-dimensional displays for commercial aircraft: A theoretical and empirical evaluation
The requirements for a modern comparison of two-dimensional and three-dimensional perspective displays for aviation are outlined. Previous studies making such a comparison are discussed, and found to not contain the displays and tasks required to fully evaluate the relative tradeoffs of two- and …
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Empirical evaluation of constraint-based and score-based causal discovery algorithms
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-20 without embargo terms
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Normality of JSE Returns: Macro-outliers, Micro-outliers: an Empirical Evaluation
Previous work on the empirical distribution of security returns has found that equity returns are not normally distributed. These findings have brought the applicability of certain asset allocation and pricing frameworks into question. This study examines whether the removal of a priori …
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Market Betas on the JSE: Factor selection, estimation and empirical evaluation
… filter to narrow the sample of stocks for empirical evaluation. Instead, an examination is made of the significance of beta values at the point at which they are estimated. This is accomplished by means of a rolling window of regressions. It is shown that, while most stocks do exhibit betas …
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An Empirical Evaluation of LLMs for the Assessment of Subjective Qualities
… The scale itself, the survey design, and the evaluation questions have all undergone multiple rounds of iteration informed by study tester feedback to improve clarity, consistency, and reliability for the final study. Comparisons between human-generated ratings and LLM-generated ratings for …
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Empirical Evaluation of Edge Computing for Smart Building Streaming IoT Applications
Smart buildings are one of the most important emerging applications of Internet of Things (IoT). The astronomical growth in IoT devices, data generated from these devices and ubiquitous connectivity have given rise to a new computing paradigm, referred to as "Edge computing", which argues for data …
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An empirical evaluation of Edwin H. Sutherland's theory of differential association
… This thesis was designed to expand the range of empirical knowledge concerning this theory by investigating its validity and usefulness in explaining delinquent behavior among members of a selected population. A sample of college sophomores was utilized for this purpose. These subjects appeared …
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Empirical Evaluation of Models Used to Predict Torso Muscle Recruitment Patterns
… between internal moments (at L3/L4) determined empirically and measured with a force plate, indicating that the maximum muscle stress selected and/or the anatomy used were faulty. The activation pattern database collected also fills a gap in the literature by considering static loading patterns …
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