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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"age bias"”.
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Expertise and the Own-Age Bias in Face Recognition
… has shown that we recognise faces similar in age to ourselves better than older or younger faces (e.g. Anastasi & Rhodes, 2006). The primary aim of this thesis was to investigate this phenomenon in young adults and children to gain further insight into the underlying perceptual, cognitive …
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Ethics Adherence as a Predictor of Age Bias in Social Work Practice with Older Adults
The purpose of this study was the examination of age bias in social work professionals who have direct and influential contact with a growing segment of the population: older adults. Those who work most closely with older people may be at risk for age bias, although much of the research on age bias …
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Palaeoepidemiological study of the post-medieval Gloucester 13/83 Skeletal Assemblage.
… collection (13/83). This skeletal assemblage contains 82 individuals, including 37 burials from a non-parochial church (Southgate Congregational Church) and 45 burials from Gloucester Infirmary (GI). Biological profiling was carried out to determine sex, estimate age-at-death and stature …
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Moving towards an evidence informed approach to talent identification and development in Scottish soccer long term athlete development pathways.
… Chi squared and odd's ratios on relative age impacts (papers II and III) and least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) logistic regression with multiple imputation and bootstrapping (n = 10,000) to consider the predictive value of physical assessment on the likelihood of …
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NUTRITIONAL STATUS OF SCHOOLING CHILDREN IN TANZANIA AND UGANDA: RESEARCH AND ACTION
… surveys (DHS and MICS) we noticed a selection bias favouring children with a valid and complete date of birth that can lead to underestimate undernutrition prevalence up to 28%. Moreover, information bias and errors, that more likely affect unregistered children, contribute to expanding the …
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DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE-GUIDED LEARNING FOR ROBUST MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION DETECTION FROM 12-LEAD ELECTROCARDIOGRAMS
… Second, when a DL model is trained on biased datasets, it may rely on spurious correlations associated with age rather than learning MI-relevant features. Third, prior work primarily addresses MI detection, stage classification, and localisation as separate tasks, while rarely …
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Clarifying the role of attention on Own Gender Bias in face recognition
… faces which belong to our own race (Own Race Bias, Meissner and Brigham, 2001), our own age (Own Age Bias, Anastasi & Rhodes, 2012) and even our own gender (Own Gender Bias, Herlitz & Loven, 2013). The present thesis aimed to examine possible underlying mechanisms concerning Own Gender Bias. …
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Social Policy and Family Well-Being: Essays in Applied Microeconomics
… for addressing the needs of disadvantaged populations in the United States. I use quasi-experimental empirical strategies with large and varied data sets to provide credible causal estimates. I believe that the results from my research can shed some light on the causes and consequences …
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Rewriting the aging body: literacy, technology, and history
… favorite blogs, a visit to her son’s Twitter page, and a quick scan of reader comments on her own weekly blog posts. She looks forward to corresponding with a fellow blogger, who will help her get the most out of the e-reader she received as a gift for her birthday—her eighty-fifth. Accounts …
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A phenomenological case study to describe the ageism-induced anxiety of job seekers aged 50–83.
Age discrimination is a significant issue facing the workforce today. Many older job seekers find themselves in a predicament as they experience ageism-induced anxiety while seeking new employment. This phenomenological case study investigated the anxiety experienced by job seekers aged 50–83 …