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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"confidence and accuracy"”.
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Confidence and Accuracy in Concurrent and Predictive Judgments of Performance
… process may affect the appropriateness of confidence in judgment. Specifically, the tendency to generate evidence supporting one's own judgment was expected to increase with effort, task experience, decision making, and the availability of relevant information. Confidence in judgment was …
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Disguising external features affects identification accuracy in video identification lineups
Hooded garments are a widespread fashion article and readily lend themselves as a disguise in terms of covering the hair and majority of the face. The presence of external features and maintaining the context in which a face was first seen have both been found to facilitate unfamiliar face …
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Estimating the upper ocean vertical temperature structure from surface temperature as applied to the southern Benguela
… world by their respective navies for submarine and surface vessel strategic operations and exercises. Together with the sonar equations, the sound velocity profiles are of paramount importance to solve underwater sound detectability problems as they provide insight into the highly variable sound …
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Reduce Inappropriate Cardiac Stress Testing by Improving Adherence to Educational Guidelines
… primary care providers about theindications and contraindications for nuclear and non-nuclear cardiac stress testing to promote appropriate test selection and improve patient outcomes. Background: Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, with coronary artery …
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The ray of hope : hidden work and the pursuit of accuracy
Informed by the study of humans and machines in heterogeneous networks, this thesis examines how relations are made and how the discursive ordering within networks of associations can shape technologies and their worlds. In a critical exploration of the introduction and use of X-ray Volumetric …
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An Examination of the Nurse/Midwife Prescribing Programme in Ireland: Confidence, Accuracy, Seeking Advice and working within the Scope of Practice
… programme on nurse/midwife prescribers and measuring the confidence, accuracy, advice seeking behaviour and scope of practice of the participants. A concurrent mixed method approach was used. Data were gathered from 28 qualified nurses and midwives in Ireland, 14 of whom were registered …
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Absolute and Relative Judgments and the Relationship Between Eyewitness Accuracy and Confidence
… identification has found that eyewitness confidence can be highly predictive of eyewitness accuracy if a set of pristine testing conditions are met. Fuzzy-trace theory (FTT), a dual-process theory of cognition and memory, predicts that the distinction between pristine and non-pristine …
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When Can We Trust Our Memories? Quantitative and Qualitative Indicators of Recognition Accuracy
… I present a quartet of experiments that studied confidence ratings and remember/know/guess judgments as indicators of recognition accuracy. The goal of these experiments was to examine the validity of these quantitative and qualitative measures of metacognitive monitoring and to interpret them …