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Moderation of Personality Test Validity
Personality testing can be an adequate instrument for prediction of future job performance. However, the predictive ability of these tests has been only moderate at best. This researcher attempted to determine if feedback would help improve the predictive ability of personality tests. The results …
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Algorithmically supported moderation in children's online communities
The moderation of harassment and cyberbullying on online platforms has become a heavily publicized issue in the past few years. Popular websites such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube employ human moderators to moderate user-generated con- tent. In this thesis, we propose an automated approach to …
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Content-Moderation for End-to-End-Encrypted Platforms
… order to increase trust in a blocklisted content moderation system, it is necessary to involve multiple, independent parties in creation of the blocklist. In particular, we envision a setting where a group of trusted auditors, e.g., law enforcement, and child safety groups, publish a common …
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Automating the moderation process in GEO using trust metrics
… thesis, we propose an algorithm to automate the moderation process and we implement the algorithm in an open scientific knowledge base application called Global Energy Observatory (GEO). Using Trust Metrics, user's contributions can be automatically accepted without waiting for the moderators to …
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Moderation of age-related cognitive decline in older adults
Prior research has demonstrated a general decline in cognitive performance with age, especially in Fluid Intelligence. This study sought to find a way to slow, halt, or reverse the age-related decline in Fluid Intelligence. Participants aged 50 and older with no prior experience working crossword …
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Making Sense of Digital Content Moderation from the Margins
… dissertation, Making Sense of Digital Content Moderation from the Margins, examines how content creators who are marginalized by race, sexuality, gender, ethnicity, and disability understand their experiences of content moderation on the social media platform TikTok. Using critical interface …
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Implicit And Explicit Racial Attitudes: Moderation Of Racial Typicality Evaluations
Previous research has shown that racial images representing more typical Afrocentric phenotypic characteristics result in more negative evaluations, whether assessed by explicit or implicit attitudes measures. However, the factors that define and moderate the perception of racial typicality have …
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Mood and moderation: Alternative images of Senate reelection seeking behavior
Representation requires a degree of responsiveness on the part of legislators to voter preferences. This effort examines a model of responsiveness built on an ideological voter-senator linkage and implicitly confined to only the last stage of each senator's term and finds it wanting. Given …
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Squadbox : a tool to combat email harassment using friendsourced moderation
Online harassment is both a social and technical problem, and has yet to be successfully solved. In order to better understand the issue and the challenges surrounding it, we conducted interviews with eighteen recipients of online harassment to understand their current strategies for coping, …
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Eating disorder symptoms and quality of life: a role for moderation?
The thesis commences with a review of the literature on eating disorder (ED) symptoms and Quality of Life (QoL). Limitations of the research are discussed, and gaps in understanding are identified. The review concludes with a discussion on the measurement of QoL in ED research, and summarises the …
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Behind the screen: the hidden digital labor of commercial content moderation
Commercial content moderation (CCM) is the practice of screening of user-generated content (UGC) posted to Internet sites, social media platforms and other online outlets that encourage and rely upon such material to generate visits to and participation from users. Despite being essential to the …
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Towards the downstream effects of insufficient content moderation on the internet
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-19 without embargo terms
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3D Reactor Physics Modelling Of Reduced-Moderation Water Reactor (RMWR) Fuel
The Reduced-Moderation Water Reactor (RMWR) is an innovative water-cooled reactor with some of the characteristics of a fast neutron reactor, which can achieve a high conversion ratio of more than 1.0 and a negative void reactivity coefficient. The conception of RMWR is built on established Boiling …
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Essays on the Impacts of the Great Moderation on Business Cycle Modeling
… comprehensive analysis of research on the "Great Moderation" and its impact on business cycle modeling. In the presence of a less volatile aggregate economy, the methods of modeling business cycles have fundamentally changed along with the ability to detect turning points in the business cycle …
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Moderation by depression and anxiety of connectivity among brain areas associated with motivation
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Zoning and occupancy-moderation for residential space-conditioning under demand-driven electricity pricing
Occupancy-moderated zonal space-conditioning (OZS) refers to the partitioning of a residence into different zones and independently operating the space-conditioning equipment of each zone based on its occupancy. OZS remains largely unexplored in spite of its potential to reduce the cost of …
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