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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Race Effects"”.
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Submarine motion simulation including zero forward speed and propeller race effects
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering, 1990.
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Investigation of Gender and Race Effects on Promotion in Departments of Geography in the United States
… in academic promotion associated with gender or race within the discipline of geography in the United States. Professors were identified between 1991 and 2007 using the Association of American Geographers’ Guides and Directories. For each institution, males were matched to female assistant …
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Neighbourhood effects in educational outcomes with non-random assignment : a memberships approach
… to analyse the role that neighbourhood and race effects play in determining academic performance. In particular, I am interested in ascertaining whether allocation to a particular residence, or group of residences, affects the academic outcomes of first year students. This paper departs from …
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Overweight and Obesity: A Comparative Study of Black and White Non-Hispanic Women in the United States
… support, smoking, health coverage, and age, race is the most important predictor of body mass index. Consistent with previous studies, strong race effects still remained.
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Race, class and the quality of life of black people
… (1980) argued that social class has superseded race as the most important determinant of life chances for black Americans. His statements have sparked a heated debate in the sociology of race relations. This dissertation is an empirical test of the “declining significance of race" thesis in …
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An investigation of test bias of a kindergarten screening battery in predicting achievement and educational placement for American Indians and Caucasians
… educational placement) varied as a function of race. The subjects were 702 elementary school students, approximately 176 per grade, in kindergarten, first, third, and fourth grade. Approximately 45 students per grade were American Indian, with the remainder Caucasian.Multiple regression analysis …
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Race and Neighborhood SES Differences in the Development Trajectories of Type 1 Diabetes Management of Caucasian and Ethnic Minority Youth
… severe long-term consequences with debilitating effects in adulthood. Adolescence is a particularly difficult period of time for Caucasian youth as they evidence characteristic declines in metabolic control. There is some cross-sectional evidence that racial disparities in pediatric diabetes …
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REPURPOSING DEEPFAKES FOR SOCIAL GOOD: THEORY, EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE, AND AI SYSTEMS FOR BIAS MEASUREMENT AND MITIGATION
… easily manipulate bias-sensitive attributes like race or age while keeping all other content identical to isolate the causal effects of bias. However, such manipulation is extremely difficult in visual contexts. Prior bias research has relied predominantly on comparisons between natural images of …
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Differential Prediction: Understanding a Tool for Detecting Rating Bias in Performance Ratings
… differential constructs approach and the direct effects approach. One purpose of this study was to examine how the direct effects approach, and more specifically differential prediction analysis, is more useful than the other two approaches in examining the existence of rating bias. However, the …
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"Race" Conditioning Social Cohesion in the Post-Apartheid Cape Town Neighbourhood
This study explores whether and how race effects and shapes social integration in the post-apartheid Cape Town neighbourhood. The underlying questions are whether and how the racial classifications inherited from apartheid are meaningful when residents negotiate, determine and arrange their …