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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"thoroughness"”.
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An Evaluation of the Standard Setting Performance of the FASB
… factors regarding FASB standard setting: thoroughness, timeliness, and consensus. I find evidence that a change in voting rules from super majority to simple majority is associated with an improvement in timeliness but a decline in thoroughness and consensus. I also find that a change in …
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Critical choices in print and cyberspace : a content analysis of three print-based film critics and three Internet-based film critics.
… to see how their criticism matches in content, thoroughness, and emphasis with amateur critics writing on the Internet. Six critics were purposely selected for study: three print-based (Roger Ebert, Kenneth Turan, and Janet Maslin) and three amateur, Internet-based critics (James Berardinelli, …
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Usability Problem Description and the Evaluator Effect in Usability Testing
… sessions, with low to moderate individual thoroughness of problem detection across all/severe problems (22%/34%), reliability of problem detection (37%/50%) and reliability of severity judgments (57% for severe ratings). Practitioners received higher grades averaged across the 6 guidelines …
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A Pragmatic Study on Speech Acts in Chinese Invitational Conversations
… earlier studies in fact lacked completeness and thoroughness in shaping Chinese pragmatics. There also existed two additional interactive structures featuring Chinese invitational conversations: the single structure in accordance with an invite/accept schema, and the bipartite structure in …
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Design and manufacture of a chain driven motor shaft for Formula Electric applications
… serve as an example of the level of detail and thoroughness that is expected when designing racecar components. To that end, this document should provide a number of unique examples of how specific problems were modeled and addressed in the design. It should also serve as a template for future …
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‘It’s all a cover up!’: An Examination of Epistemic Vices and Conspiracy Theories in the Internet Age
… of knowledge i.e., closed- mindedness, lack of thoroughness, dogmatism and more. Moreover, I will introduce my theory ‘Epistemic Cluster Vices’ to categorise each recognised vice into their respective groups and assess whether other epistemic vices can off-shoot from the is a central/ capital …
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The Assessment Agent System: Assessing Comprehensive Understanding Based on Concept Maps
… method depends heavily on the accuracy and thoroughness of the criterion propositions. Therefore, assessment criteria need to be continually refined and improved through examining student-created propositions.
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Improving speech recognition accuracy for clinical conversations
… is that it should be possible to improve the thoroughness and quality of information gathered through clinical encounters by developing a computer system that (a) listens to a conversation between a patient and a provider, (b) uses automatic speech recognition technology to transcribe that …
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Gaining Computational Insight into Psychological Data: Applications of Machine Learning with Eating Disorders and Autism Spectrum Disorder
… used for psychological data are lacking in thoroughness and predictability. This provides a perfect opportunity to use machine learning to study the data in a novel way. In this paper, we present examples of using machine learning techniques with data in three areas: eating disorders, body …
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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: A Discourse Analysis of Forensic and Psychological Truth in Child Narratives
… of evaluator caution, objectivity, and thoroughness, since evaluators are understood as responsible for preserving the accuracy of children’s memories during the evaluation process; and 2) use of the suggestibility model of memory, which assumes memory is a predominantly cognitive …
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Isogeometric Analysis: Fundamentals and details of implementation. From first steps to two-dimensional non-linear problems
… in this project is not considered novel, the thoroughness in which the project was approached is hoped to be useful for future projects. From this project, the work can be expanded to more complex geometries, multi-patch problems with the help of CAD programs or more complex non-linear …
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The genesis and morphology of three southwest Virginia soils which were developed from material weathered from limestone
… horizons. The base to alumina ratio showed the thoroughness of the weathering of the three soil profiles. Calculations of the percentages of bases lost during the soil forming processes showed that calcium was lost from the soil to a greater extent than the magnesium.
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An examination of the conducting method of Hideo Saito
… However, the level of sophistication and thoroughness of his examination of velocity, and changes in velocity, is unique. His diagrams are noteworthy as well.Saito's conducting method is very popular in Japan. Seiji Ozawa, the Music Director/Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra for …
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El teatro en la ciudad de Murcia durante la guerra civil
This work tries to study with thoroughness the aesthetic tendencies of the theater written or represented during the war, neither the attitude of the authors or the intentionality of works, task or made by other investigators who mention themselves in the bibliography. Its purpose is to gather in …
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SOCIAL DISPARITIES IN HEALTHCARE UTILIZATION FOR CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS WITH MIGRAINE DISEASE
… which patient traits were associated with the thoroughness of clinical documentation. Amongst patients with model-identified migraine, we explored socioeconomic trends in migraine care during and after the ED visit. Continuing on to outpatient care, we explored the feasibility of adopting a …
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Mountain Man : Fact and Fiction
… the frontier spirit and American freedom. His thoroughness in trapping nearly exterminated his prey, the beaver. His expeditions led him deep into the Rocky Mountains where he discovered the mountain passes and river routes that would make possible western emigration. These two conditions …
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Un nuevo marco conceptual para el análisis electoral
… to reach just one objective: the accuracy, thoroughness and rigour characteristic of every knowledge, wherever is possible to elaborate a set of theories susceptible of being labeled as "scientific". In that sense, the model is that of the Theory of Voting developed by the Economic Science.
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Refurbishment value stream optimization
… inspections, highlighting that improving the thoroughness of early-stage inspections could prevent the necessity of substantial rework to remedy the issues found late in the process. With respect to the second element of the research performed, an understanding of why and how connectors were …
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Trust and gender in patient-practitioner relationships
… Skills, Responsiveness, Professional Confidence, Thoroughness, Acceptance, Personal Connection, Honesty, Empathy, Reciprocity, Safety, and Empowerment. Collectively the men develop the following themes: Risk, Evidence, Autonomy, Personal Connection, Clinical Skills, Professionalism, Empathy, …
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Affirming Expectations: African American Men's Perceptions Of Trust In Physicians
… included, caring, technical competence, thoroughness in evaluation, providing appropriate treatment and information, good communication, partnership-building, being personable or relatable, and feeling a sense of security. Respect, kindness, compassion, empathy, sensitivity, and …
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