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Showing 1 to 20 of 158 for “"Representativeness"”.
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Can Representativeness Decrease Youth Violence in Juvenile Detention Facilities?
<p>Using the theory on Representative Bureaucracy, this study considers the minority representative role, which suggests that administrators who are minorities are more inclined to represent minority interests. This study examined whether officers perceive themselves as advocates based on shared …
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Problems of representation and representativeness in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's fiction
Using a nexus of discourse theory, the French Feminism of Helene Cixous and the deconstructive Marxist Feminism of Gayatri Spivak, this work examines the production of the sign 'woman' in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's fiction. I locate Ngugi's semiotics of the feminine in the conflicting discursive …
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Effect of field-of-view on perceived representativeness and preference of visual simulations
… to 120 degrees, were judged by 47 people. Image representativeness was analyzed by evaluating viewer response of the images to the actual scene. Statistical analysis revealed that simulations with fields-of-view > 40 and ≤ 90 degrees may best represent the test sites, regardless of the scenes …
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Speak to me only with thine ayes? The representativeness of professional EU advocacy groups
… groups professionalise and lose their representativeness. They argue that as a result the positions put forward by EU groups no longer represent the interests of their members and supporters, because these have no or little say in the formation of EU positions. It follows that the …
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Are juries representative? An examination of the representativeness of jury panels in Hamilton County Tennessee
… This is the first known study to examine the representativeness of juries. The legal implications and suggestions for future research will be discussed.
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Methodology for characterization of representativeness uncertainty in performance indicator measurements of thermal and nuclear power plants
… to characterize, assess and quantify the representativeness uncertainty in performance indicator measurements in thermal and nuclear plants is presented. The representativeness uncertainty arises from the inherent heterogeneity or the variability of the quantity being measured or from the …
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Exploring the Reach and Representativeness of Participants Enrolled in a Behavioral Intervention Targeting Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption
BACKGROUND: Understanding the reach and representativeness of participants enrolled in behavioral trials, including nutrition and physical activity trials, helps inform the generalizability of study findings and potential public health impacts. Exploring the reach and representativeness of trials …
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Measuring travel equity and representativeness : opportunities and challenges of using smartphone-based travel survey in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
… patterns depicted by the data, analyzes the representativeness of participants, and demonstrates how the data can be used to help evaluate travel equity in the city. Although the pilot implementation reveals several technical and social challenges in adopting this data collection technology …
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An assessment of the representativeness of elected and appointed school board members in selected school districts in Virginia and Kentucky
… more representative. For purposes of this paper, representativeness was defined as the replication in the school board of certain local demographic features, including occupation, level of family income, years of formal schooling, race, sex, place of work, age, and native born. The states selected …
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Transformation of the Public Service under Fiscal and Constitutional Constraints: An Analysis of the Relationship between Human Resource Development and Representativeness.
… for the employment of new staff to improve the representativeness of the civil service, whilst at the same time increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of government, and generating significant savings to help reduce the fiscal deficit and release resource for productive investment. Budget …
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Strategic revegetation planning in an agricultural landscape: A spatial information technology approach
… one of the first assessments of the adequacy and representativeness of remnants in an agricultural region and one of the first attempts to apply these landscape-scale conservation principles to the field of restoration ecology. The adequacy of the remnant ecological system is assessed in terms of …
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Measuring tackle and ruck technique in rugby union
… this thesis were (1) to assess the validity and representativeness of the contact assessment tool, and (2) to identify factors which may affect the degree to which contact technique developed in training transfers to matches. Methods: Tackle, ball-carry and ruck technique of players competing at …
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ICANN or ICANN't Represent Internet Users
… Code. The analysis found that the descriptive representativeness was low. The ICANN Board does not mirror Internet users: few women have served on the Board, those with technical educational backgrounds dominated, and the regions were not represented proportionate to their use of the Internet. …
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When more is less : identifying biases in large Icelandic corpora
… corpus. In this project, I seek to evaluate the representativeness of Icelandic corpora, as well as evaluating sampling- and societal biases that may occur in them and models trained on them. I apply exploratory analysis as well as the Word Embedding Association Test (WEAT) to demonstrate biases …
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A comparative study of contractor performance based on Japanese, UK and US construction practice
… own limitations in terms of comparability and/or representativeness of data. Having undertaken an international review of contractor performance, the research has: e defined 'best practice' for contractors and established criteria to evaluate contractor performance and practice in terms of …
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The role of parliaments in the resilience of non-democratic regimes : a case study of the Iranian parliament (Majles)
… opposed to autonomy, exclusiveness as opposed to representativeness and secrecy as opposed to deliberativeness. With respect to these criteria, it is demonstrated that Majles is marked as a subordinated institution, caught between powerful and influential formal and informal institutions. Majles …
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Same action, different reaction? Exploring the impact of legal profession, defendant race, and prospective juror race on perceptions of juror excusals
… particularly in efforts to facilitate jury representativeness and improve the public’s confidence in the administration of justice. The present research is an initial investigation into whether judicial juror exclusions are perceived differently than those of lawyers, as well as to replicate …
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EVALUATING THE PERFORMANCE OF BIOMETRIC APPROACHES FOR VERIFICATION AND MONITORING IN COMMERCIAL FOREST CARBON ACCOUNTING
… sites and tree rings data to assess the representativeness of interannual climate variability on tree growth. Differences in magnitude between NEPEC and NEPBM were sensitive to variations in meteorological conditions, tree species composition, stand age, and biases in allometric …
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Language barriers in clinical trials: Exploring impacts on continuity and participants’ engagement and effective mitigation strategies
… addressing these challenges, the diversity and representativeness of clinical trials can be improved.</p>
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Participação e controle social de políticas públicas: o caso do Conselho Estadual de Saúde da Paraíba
… with the aim of analyzing the concept of representativeness of the CES/PB on participation and social control of sectoral policies, as well as identify key issues and decisions implemented from 2013. This is An exploratory descriptive study of a highly qualitative nature. Semi-structured …
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