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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"credibility assessment"”.
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The Credibility Assessment Process of Political Information on WhatsApp in Brazil
… & Vaccari, 2018). This study investigates the credibility assessment process of political information on WhatsApp, a central skill for individuals and a main component of information processing. Based on past literature, this study explores the credibility assessment along three fronts: …
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Credibility assessment of volunteered geographic information for emergency management: a Bayesian network modeling approach
… character of its contents. For this purpose, a credibility model approach measuring the credibility of VGI is presented in this thesis to promote the democratization of geographic information from a traditional top-down process, to a revolutionary bottom-up process. For a plausible inference of …
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Toward Enhancing Automated Credibility Assessment: A Model for Question Type Classification and Tools for Linguistic Analysis
The three objectives of this dissertation were to develop a question type model for predicting linguistic features of responses to interview questions, create a tool for linguistic analysis of documents, and use lexical bundle analysis to identify linguistic differences between fraudulent and …
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An experimental investigation of dynamically reconfigurable computer network architectures through simulation
… conveniently into three components: (1) the credibility assessment of a simulation model for the investigation of dynamically reconfigurable computer network architectures, (2) a comparative study of the standardized time series method of simulation output analysis, and (3) an experimental …
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A Critical Evaluation of the Usefulness of Criteria-Based Content Analysis for Judging the Credibility of Public Appeals for Missing Persons
… of Criteria Based Content Analysis (CBCA), a credibility assessment or “truth detection” tool. Although CBCA was specifically designed for child witness statements in sexual abuse cases, it has since been argued that the method is effective when applied: i) to the statements of adults, ii) to …
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Robert Boyle and the Significance of Skill and Experience in Seventeenth-Century Natural Philosophy
… experimental natural philosophy, including the credibility assessment of tradesmen and eyewitnesses to natural phenomena, the contingencies involved in the making of experiments, and Boyle's statements about the requisite skills of experimental philosophy in contrast to other traditions. …
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Effects of deceptive behavior on biomechanical measures of standing posture
… potential applications in many fields including credibility assessment, security screening, homeland security, and counter-terrorism. Techniques currently used for deception detection typically capitalize on deception-related physiological changes, and include polygraph testing, voice stress …
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Combating Problematic Information Online with Dual Process Cognitive Affordances
… model to design automatic affordances for better credibility assessment of news tweets from mainstream and misinformative sources. In TransparencyCue, I show the promise of value-centered automatic affordance design inside news articles differentiating content quality. To encourage information …
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Courtroom Discussions about Children's Sexual Abuse: An Examination of Prior Conversations about Disclosures, Non-Disclosures and Perpetrator Statements to Children about Abuse
… factors to consider when assessing children's credibility. In the present study, children were often asked about what they disclosed generally, what was said during abusive acts, and what was (or was not) disclosed during specific prior conversations. Further, our results reflect that …
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Criteria-based content analysis : an experimental investigation with children
… Analysis (CBCA, a system for assessing the credibility of eyewitness reports) for discriminating between credible and non credible eyewitness reports by children. As well, two other tests of the quantitative and qualitative differences between credible and noncredible eyewitness reports were …