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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Snell"”.
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Face off : automatic versus controlled processing: does a shift in processing affect facial recognition?
… Navon letters do (Perfect, Weston, Dennis, & Snell, 2008), thus providing an alternative explanation for the mechanism underlying the verbal overshadowing effect (Schooler & Engstler-Schooler, 1990).
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Enlargement of Filtration, Backward Stochastic Differential Equations and Optimal Stopping Problems
… information. A very useful decomposition of the Snell envelope is derived. The thesis is rounded out with several applications of certain key results to topical fields in mathematical finance such as utility optimisation, risk metrics and Snell envelopes.
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A study into the abstraction and integration of hardware and software for accelerated product development in a broadcast environment
… investigates some of the engineering challenges Snell & Wilcox and AmberFin are facing as the companies adapt to creating products for the IT-based workflows being used by modern broadcasters. The research topics include the Material eXchange Format (MXF), multimedia processing frameworks, grid …
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Intracellular antioxidant and DNA repair enzymes as correlates of stress resistance and longevity in vertebrates
… and longevities; (2) a comparison of long-lived Snell dwarf mice and their normallittermates; and (3) a comparison of hypometabolic animals undergoing hibernation or estivation with their active counterparts. The activities of the five major intracellular antioxidant enzymes as well as the two …
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MENTAL HEALTH IMPAIRMENT AND HUMAN CAPITAL ACQUISITION: UNDERAGE DRINKING AS A PREDICTOR OF CONCOMITANT ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE AND POOR EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
… p = 0.001 < .05, accounting for 1.26% (Cox and Snell R square), 1.3% (Log Likelihood Pseudo R square), to 7.9% (Nagelkerke R square) of the variance in CADAPEA. However, adding demographic variables to the model made UDHISTORY a much stronger and more statistically significant predictor. The …
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Few-shot text classification with distributional signatures
… networks learned on lexical knowledge (Snell et al., 2017) in both few-shot text classification and relation classification by a significant margin across six benchmark datasets (20.0% on average in 1-shot classification).
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Mathematical Models For Swing Options And Subprime Mortgage Derivatives.
… differential equations and the theory of Snell envelopes. Once the model is constructed, one can use numerical techniques to solve the pricing problem and compute a replicating strategy using forward contracts. The recent burst of the real estate bubble has drawn a lot of attention to the …
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The Influence of Masculinity on Self-Authorship in College Men
… study in college. The Masculine Behavior Scale (Snell, 1996) was utilized to organize participants into three groups: high scorers, medium scorers, and low scorers, which allowed me to further examine their experiences within the dimensions of Self-Authorship. Analysis of the data revealed three …
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Investigating Injury Pathology of Blast-induced Polytrauma and Assessing the Therapeutic Role of Hemostatic Nanoparticles after Blast Exposure
… military conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan (Snell and Halter 2010). In addition to elevated number of blast-induced traumatic brain injuries due to increased military conflicts overseas and the usage of improvised explosive devices, the incidence of blast-induced polytrauma has risen due to …
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The case of 'unwanted flexibility' : a study of temporary agency workers in the U.K
… Meager 1986; Matuski and Hill 1998; Lepak and Snell 1999; Houseman et al 2003). Organisationally sound manpower strategies are thus reasoned to be those that deliberately incorporate agency workers in a thoughtful, strategic and continually advantageous way. From this perspective, it is assumed …
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Relationships Among Peer Teaching Experiences and Self-Reported Leadership Practices of Medical Residents
… experiences via incidental learning (Dandavino, Snell, and Wiseman, 2007; Ten Cate & Durning, 2007a; Micari, Gould, & Lainez, 2010; Vira, 2015). The purpose of this study was to explore the relationships among peer teaching experiences during undergraduate medical education (UGME) and …
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Inferência sobre os parâmetros da distribuição Birnbaum-Saunders bi-paramétrica
… obtidas a partir de esquemas analíticos [Cox & Snell (1968); Firth (1993)] e por bootstrap [Efron (1979)]. Também apresentamos intervalos de confiança do tipo assintótico, bootstrap percentil, bootstrap BCa e bootstrap-t para os parâmetros desta distribuição. Apresentamos testes de hipóteses …
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Mechanisms of Credential Inflation in the United States Aerospace and Defense Industry
… (Pearson and Deviance), Pseudo-R2 (Cox, Snell, Nagelkerke, McFadden), parallel lines, Principal Components Analysis, and parameter model estimation. Findings indicate managerial preference for the Credential Theory mechanism of credential inflation rather than the Human Capital Theory. …
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Metasurface Implementation in Optic Fibers
… επικεντρώνεται στον Γενικευμένο Νόμο του Snell, ο οποίος επιτρέπει τον έλεγχο της διάδοσης του φωτός μέσω τεχνητά επιβαλλόμενων ασυνεχειών φάσης στην επιφάνεια διάδοσης και αποτελεί τη βάση της θεωρίας των μεταϋλικών και εν συνεχεία των μεταεπιφανειών. Δίνεται ιδιαίτερη έμφαση στη μελέτη …
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Técnicas de análise de sobrevivência para sujeitos infetados com HIV
… do modelo por análise dos resíduos de cox-snell, resíduos Martingala e resíduos deviance. Verificou-se, pelo modelo de regressão de Cox, que fazer profilaxia INH e CTX bem como integrar os grupos de apoio à adesão comunitária contribui no aumento do tempo de sobrevivência dos pacientes. Por …
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Assessing attitudes of administrators, core content teachers, and special education teachers at the middle school level toward the inclusion of special education students into general education classes
… Wisnieski and Alper (1994) and recently Janney, Snell, Beers, and Raynes (1995).
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Falls And Hospitalized Cancer Patients
… model as a whole explained between 27% (Cox and Snell R square) and 38.6% (Nagelkerke R squared) of the variance in falls, and classified 80.8% of cases. The strongest predictor of falls was lung cancer, recording an odds ratio of 3.87. This indicated that participants who had lung cancer were …
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Can Badges in Gamified Systems Promote Weight-Related Behavior Change?
The current global prevalence of obesity among children and young adults is much higher than in previous decades. Despite efforts to prevent childhood obesity, motivation is a barrier to weight-related behavior change. Pediatric experts have attributed the epidemic to sedentary lifestyles partially …
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The Impact of Drop-in Centers on the Long Term Mentally Ill
Drop-in centers for individuals with serious and persistent mental illness offer a unique and perhaps under-recognized environment option for adjunct treatment. The current study examines and evaluates components thought to be a part of an enriched drop-in center experience that contribute to …
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A Critical Analysis of Victims' Experiences and State Responses to a Corporate Killing
An explicit starting point for this research is to give a voice to the experiences of the victims of safety crime. The accounts of such victims are missing from the criminal justice arena and academia. This research will attempt, in part, to fill the gap in the following ways. First, the …
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