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Showing 1 to 20 of 951 for “"Reject"”.
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A Study of Reject Inference Techniques
… not be available for those applicants who were "rejected." Theuse of reject inference to adjust credit scorecard models for the missing data representedby rejected loan applications is common practice, and several approaches are used intoday's financial industry.The use of mixture models presents …
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Design of Asymmetric Slope Fractional Band Reject Filters
… techniques of designing asymmetric-slope band reject filters. Two new non-conventional transfer functions are presented based on the concept of fractional Laplacian operator, s^(α) where 0 < α < 1. It is possible to achieve asymmetric slopes, large values of notch magnitude up to 90 dB and high …
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Select Reject Reconfigure: Editing Speech in Artists’ Direct Address to Camera
This practice-based thesis offers a new approach to editing processes that take place during the recording and subsequent editing of an individual speaking directly to a camera. Rosalind Krauss identified all performance to camera as narcissistic (1976), which includes the subset of artists’ direct …
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Questioning 'colourdness,: Tracing the identity development of people who chose to reject 'coloured identity'
… all of whom reside in Cape Town, and all of whom rejected 'coloured' identity. It investigates ways in which the participants used different ideologies to repudiate their 'legal identity' - 'coloured identity'. The thesis utilised the Nigrescence model to locate and to describe the identity …
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Eligible Families Who Reject Adc -- a Comparative Analysis of Their Economic Alternatives, Income Expectations, and Financial Status
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Failure to Reject the p-value is Not the Same as Accepting it: The Development, Validation, and Administration of the KPVMI Instrument
The purpose of this study was to investigate on a national scale the baseline level of p-value fluency of future researchers (i.e., doctoral students). To that end, two research questions were investigated. The first research question, Can a sufficiently reliable and valid measure of p-value …
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Saying ‘No’: A biographical analysis of the experiences of women with a genetic predisposition to developing breast/ovarian cancer who reject risk reducing surgery
Background: Genetic technologies have identified some of the genes implicated in cancer susceptibility. Women with mutations in breast/ovarian cancer-susceptibility genes (BRCA1 and 2) have a lifetime combined risk of breast/ovarian cancer of more than 80%. Risk reducing surgery (RRS) reduces …
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Factors Underlying Local Education Agency Decisions to Adopt or Reject the Use of a Minimum Competency Test as a Requirement for High School Graduation
… the characteristics of those districts that have rejected the opportunity to tie a minimum competency test to high school graduation and the reasons of their representatives.
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“THEY PRESSED THE REJECT BUTTON, BUT WE’LL HELP YOU PRESS ON”: INVESTIGATING THE NATURE AND OUTCOMES OF SUPPORTIVE COMMUNICATION IN COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY FACULTY WHO HAVE FACED WRITING REJECTION
… and university faculty who have faced writing rejection. Specifically, no past research has explored how different kinds and amounts of support from professional sources influence
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Pressure screening studies with wood pulp
… tanks in series, are developed to describe reject thickening behaviour of long and short screens. The first model uses a single one row of tanks to model steady flow from feed to accept and from feed to reject streams of a screen. A back-flow model, which had two rows of well-mixed tanks, …
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A Deafening Silence: Various School Systems' Reactions to Student Sexual Victimization by School Personnel
… for the school systems decisions to accept or reject a report of sexual victimization of students, the levels of acceptance or rejection indicated by their reactions to the reports, and the aftermaths of the choices.</p><p>Data were gathered primarily through in-depth interviews with victims …
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Robust and Lightweight Localization and Dense Mapping for Multi-Robot Systems
… Pairwise Consistency Maximization (PCM) to reject outliers in the loop closure measurements. The second approach, named meshLAMP, is an extension of LAMP that uses Graduated Non-Convexity to reject ouliers and creates a lightweight mesh map of the environment. To address the limitations in …
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Statistical aspects of credit scoring
… In Chapter 6 we consider different approaches to reject inference, the procedure of allocating class membership probabilities to the rejects. One reason for needing reject inference is to reduce the sample selection bias that results from using a sample consisting only of accepted applicants to …
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A Preliminary Investigation Comparing Craniofacial Metric Measurements and 3D Virtual Measurements
… original 48 measurements, 33 (68.75%) fail to reject the null and 10 (20.83%) reject the null with the remaining 5 (10.41%) being unknown due to n=1 because of skull damage. The measurements that proved highly reliable were those associated with specific landmarks, and not those measurements …
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The impact of new equity financing on firms' investment, dividend and debt-financing decisions
… studies using American data, this study does not reject MM's independence theorem on the relation between the investment and dividend decisions of the firm. However, there is strong evidence that capital structure does affect the investment decision of the firm. Furthermore, this thesis provides …
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Labor risk sharing
… with these fixed effects. Our results lead us to reject the null of full risk sharing since non-labor income has a significant negative effect on participation. In most specifications it also has a significant but small negative effect on hours worked conditional on participation. In light of …
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The benefits of structured training on manufacturing process ramp-up : a process based cost model approach
… metrics, unplanned equipment downtime and reject rate, a series of analyses are presented. A framework for conducting analyses is developed using Process Based Cost Modeling. This framework is applied to various automobile part manufacturing processes. The results indicate that production …
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Developing a framework of quality in radiographic service delivery in Ghana
… assurance and quality control procedures: reject film analysis and diagnostic reference levels. Phase 2 was a qualitative design which used semi-structured interviews of six radiographers, six patients and three managers to further explore and explain the quality of service issues …
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Samuel Rutherford's Response to the Antinomian Controversy in England and its Impact on His Doctrine of Sanctification
… companions, are convinced that the Antinomians reject believers’ obligation to pursue sanctification, because they reject the first two premises which are key to the third. However,through the analysis of the treatises of representative Antinomian figures,it will bedemonstratedthat Rutherford …
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