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Showing 1 to 20 of 176 for “"Subject Matter Experts"”.
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Auditors' Use of Formal Advice from Internal Firm Subject Matter Experts: The Impact of Advice Quality and Advice Awareness on Auditors' Judgments
… auditing a complex issue they often call upon subject matter experts to provide advice. While these experts are the knowledge experts in their area, the quality of the advice depends upon their ability to fully understand and incorporate client specific facts. PCAOB inspection reports suggest …
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SigPro: Enabling Subject Matter Expert Guidance in Feature Engineering
… feature engineering library in Python guided by Subject Matter Experts (SMEs). SigPro includes a suite of data processing building blocks, or primitives, as well as an algorithm to combine primitives to form feature engineering pipelines. These pipelines are in turn used to construct features for …
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An Outcome-Based Competency Model for Systems Engineering Trainees
… quantitative analysis of formal interviews of subject matter experts in the field of systems engineering workforce management. The refined model classifies 28 critical competencies for systems engineers into three tiers of workforce functionality: foundational, specialized, and leadership. The …
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A Content Validity Study of the Water Training Institute Curriculum
… Survey was developed and administered to subject matter experts to determine the importance of topics to the jobs that WTI graduates would most likely enter after graduation; the importance ratings were used as the criterion for the study. Subject matter experts in a Course Content …
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Quantifying Vulnerability to Critical Infrastructure
… logic construct for quantifying vulnerability. Subject-matter experts were queried to establish the shapes of value functions and importance (weights) in the model. Another set of subject-matter experts are queried to assess a notional clean water system with respect to each protection measure …
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Colorism and Local Policing: Setting the Foundation for More Expansive Research on Racial Discrimination at the Local Level
… by counter-behaviors (e.g., fair policing). Subject-matter experts and non-subject-matter experts were used to select the model that most accurately depicts the phenomenon. I used online focus groups and phone interviews with police officers, theorists (e.g., sociologists, psychologists), and …
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A New Method for the Examination of Policy Systems of Systems
… when compared against data gathered from subject matter experts during the interview process, provided a much more complete and holistic perspective of the policy relationships within the SoS, including identification of policy outliers. The third application enabled a systematic review of …
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Beyond Violence: Towards Equity and Safety in Canada’s Work Camps
… individuals working in these environments and subject matter experts, it aims to shed light on the challenges faced by women in industrial work camps and provide recommendations for effective mitigation measures. This study strives to contribute to systemic change in these environments by …
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A Structured Project-Risk Management and Life Cycle Framework for Complex Systems: Ship Repair and Maintenance (SR&M) Projects
… results of the analysis of survey data from subject matter experts indicate that a PRM and LCA of complex systems is a viable methodology. The framework was validated by subject matter experts and produced viable evidence that the proposed framework, if implemented, may have a 34% success …
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A Taxonomy of Effective Leader Behaviors in the Construction Industry
… methodology and rated by construction industry subject matter experts. Archival focus group data from 10 focus groups in three regions of the United States with 66 construction employees including plumbers, pipefitters, safety directors, superintendents, and training instructors were analyzed in …
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Data-Driven Detection of En-route Convective Weather Avoidance and Development of a Weather Assessment Model
… interactions without the aid of human subject matter experts poses a difficult challenge. Each interaction is different, and simple heuristics have proven to be ineffective at classifying weather encounters. A key contribution of this work is the development of a deviation detection …
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Investigating the Language of Engineering Education
… the computed results to the judgment of subject-matter experts. The overall data show a good correlation between the program and the subject-matter experts. The results indicated a balance between accuracy and feasibility, and suggested that this approach could mimic subject-matter …
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What to Buy: the Underexplored Dimension of the Smart-buyer Problem
… the null finding and nearly 70 percent of subject matter experts interviewed were unsurprised that the selected service contract characteristics did not correlate with investment ratings. The lack of correlation between selected contract characteristics related to requirements and …
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Playing the Bad Guy: How Organizations Design, Develop, and Measure Red Teams
… interview data with organization leadership, subject matter experts, and red-team developers from Department of Defense (DoD), Intelligence Community (IC), and Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDC) organizations. The study also includes red-team governance documents, …
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Guidelines for Psychomotor Skill Instruction for Athletic Performance: A Design and Development Study
… sports. These guidelines were then validated by subject matter experts and revised based on their recommendations.
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Development and Validation of an Assessment Tool Grounded in Occupational Adaptation Theory
… the modified Delphi process was conducted with subject matter experts. Following the Phase 2 Delphi process, revisions were made to the final version of the MAC assessment tool to improve its content validity with OA theory for items that did not meet the predefined 80% subject matter expert …
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EXAMINING THE ROLE OF JOB FAMILIARITY, COGNITIVE ABILITY, AND EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE IN FAKING SUCCESS FOR PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT
… on a personality test to the perception of what subject matter experts would consider critical traits for success to that job. Psychology and Business students were assigned to an `honest' or `faking' condition and asked to complete a personality test. Students in the honest condition were …
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Fostering an Inclusive Learning Environment Through Course Development: A Program Evaluation
… designer, and that, while there is support for subject matter experts during the process, the focus on structural and temporal aspects of the course design process may be sidelining conversations and work toward inclusive practices. Recommendations that emerged from the evaluation included (a) …
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Brackish Groundwater Desalination: A Decision Support Tool
… areas were created and then posed to twelve subject matter experts, via remote interview, for their comment. Experts interviewed included engineers, water company managers, state association directors, both state and federal agency program administrators, and a retired city manager. With the …
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