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Showing 1 to 20 of 503 for “"I-test"”.
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Distribution-Free Trends Test To Determine The Construct Validity Of An Anti-Social Criminal Attitudes Scale
<p>The Sawilosky's I-Test was developed to as an alternative method to evaluate construct validity, more specifically, in regards to the Multitrait-Multimethod Matrix designed by Campbell and Fiske (1959). Typically, researchers use a method by Campbell and Fiske that involves a subjective …
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It's About Time: The Dynamics of Information Processing in Political Campaigns
… over a period of ten to twelve weeks. Empirical tests assess the temporal relationships between information exposure and information effects with respect to candidate evaluation. First, I test for the possibility that transient exposure to character and issue information produces transient …
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Decision-making in the primate brain : formation, location, and causal manipulation
… of three main experiments. In the first, I test whether sensory evidence is accumulated differentially for motion in the frontoparallel plane (i.e. 2D motion; left/right) compared to motion through depth (i.e. 3D motion; towards/away). I show that integration of 3D motion is different than …
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Causes of rarity in glade-endemic plants: Implications for responses to climate change
… including hot, xeric habitats. In Chapter Two, I test two hypotheses concerning reproductive specialization in endemic plants and their common congeners: CC). I quantify morphological traits that are associated with stress-adaptation and reproductive specialization, pollinator behavior, and …
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Chemically-Mediated Mate Location and Recognition in Longhorned Beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)
… strategies by the adults. In this study, I test the hypothesis that adult longhorned beetles are attracted to volatile compounds emanating from larval host plants. Once on the larval host, the mating strategy is scramble and interference competition among males for females. I also find that …
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The effects of hearing on the development and expression of the self
… of the self through the use of the "Who Am I" test, an open ended test entitled "The Person You Are" and an adaptation of Gordon's self configuration scheme to the "Who Am I" test served as measures to the problem at hand. The data revealed that the inability to hear and so to verbally …
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What Determines the Allocation of Government Resources to Local Areas?
… to individual counties in the United States. I test competing hypothesis that government resources are allocated to advance political motives, equitable redistribution, or output efficiency. Contrary to previous studies on federal spending, I find that political motives play almost no role in …
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Validation of methods for adjusting construction cost estimates by project location
… evaluations. The Global Moran’s I test was used to assess proximity-based spatial interpolation, which was implemented in the current method. In addition, comparisons of the current method and alternative methods were statistically assessed. The statistical analysis consisted of box …
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Presidents and Terminal Logic Behavior: Term Limits and Executive Action In the United States, Brazil, and Argentina
… Using a cyclical model of presidential tenure, I test hypotheses linking presidential periods to presidents' use of decrees. I test for TLB using increased decree issuance as its proxy. In the case of the United States, I use event count models and find TLB has its strongest effect on presidents …
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Managerial Limits to International Expansion by Acquisitions and Greenfields: An Empirical Examination of Japanese Direct Investments in the United States
I test these hypotheses using a sample of Japanese manufacturing investments made in the United States between 1978 and 1990. The results show that Japanese firms that followed acquisition strategies had lower growth than those that employed greenfield strategies in three cases: (1) when the …
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Extensions to behavioral genetic programming
… behavioral genetic programming methodology. I test the performance of the implementation of behavioral genetic programming along with several extensions.
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Three Essays on Economic Value Creation through Decisions and Cooperation
… Using a controlled laboratory experiment, I test whether identical advice to “stay the course” is equally effective when delivered by a human expert or an AI-based advisor. I found that the presence of advice, regardless of the source, led to more advantageous outcomes relative to no advice. …
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Empire's Law: A Hartian Critique of the Potential of Fuller's and Radbruch's Theories to Address Legal Colonialism
… of legal colonialism writ small. In Chapter 2, I test the legality of Huson by applying Fuller’s eight principles to the Court’s decision. I conclude that, according to Fuller, Huson is law because it (at least plausibly) aligns with the inner morality of law. I suggest that Fuller’s theory would …
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The Benefits of Mandatory Disclosure: Evidence from Regulation S-X Article 11
… by two theories of mandated disclosure, I test whether pro formas improve analyst forecasts or mitigate incentive alignment problems. Using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design, I provide evidence that pro formas reduce post-acquisition forecast errors and improve target selection. The …
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Islam, sex, and sect : a quantitative look at women's rights in the Middle East.
… 1139 college students in Kuwait. Specifically, I test whether religious sect, religious school of thought, political identity, religious experience, religious salience, and religious practice have direct effects on women's rights attitudes, while controlling for gender, in a majority-Muslim …
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Indigenous Environmental Conflicts in Mexico, 2007-2020: a Neoliberal and Environmental Justice Perspective on Collective Grievances
… for whom territoriality is crucial. I test this hypothesis utilizing an analysis of state-level international trade and indigenous environmental conflicts from 2007-2020. While my findings do not support this hypothesis, they do foster hopeful implications for the state of indigenous …
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Predicting minimum savings in Thai villages
… are determined by a minimum savings policy. I test this model empirically against data from the Townsend Thai Monthly Survey. Each household's income distribution, measure of risk aversion. and hyperbolic discount rate are estimated and then inputted into the model. In the overall sample., the …
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Presidential Instability in a Developing Country: Reassessing South Korean Politics from a State-Society Relations Perspective
… capitalist society. In support of my thesis, I test three hypotheses. Hypotheses one and two posit Korea’s tenacious traditional and cultural traits as an internal modifier of capitalism and the nation’s dependent nature of its relationships with the United States and Japan as an external factor …
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What causes credibility? : reputation, power, and assessments of credibility during crises
… looking at the adversaries' previous actions? I test the reputation hypothesis against a hypothesis which I call the "power/interests" hypothesis. This hypothesis posits that decision makers assess the credibility of an adversary's threats by assessing the current balance of power and interests; …
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Differential impact of monetary policy: a sectoral approach
The proposition tested in the thesis is that actual money growth is not systematically related to output growth of selected manufacturing sectors. Given that money growth is found to be non-neutral, two further tests are undertaken. First, I test the rational expectations hypothesis that only …
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