Engineering design often requires the optimisation of multiple objectives, and becomes significantly more difficult and time consuming when the response surfaces are multimodal, rather than unimodal. A surrogate model, also known as a metamodel, can be used to replace expensive …
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Noncompliance to treatment allocation is likely to complicate estimation of causal effects in clinical trials. The ubiquitous nonrandom phenomenon of noncompliance renders per-protocol and as- treated analyses or even simple regression adjustments for noncompliance inadequate fo…
Machine learning-based decision support systems bring relief to the decision-makers in many domains such as loan application acceptance, dating, hiring, granting parole, insurance coverage, and medical diagnoses. These support systems facilitate processing tremendous amounts of …
The disproportionate rates of violent crimes, historical oppression, and cultural assimilation disrupted the traditional practices and belief system within Alaskan Native communities, thus changing the influence of protective factors that support balance and equality for women. …
With the explosive growth of information on the Internet, recommender systems have been broadly applied in user engaged systems to efficiently discover items of potential interest. In order to automatically generate such “guess what you like” results and serve matching recommend…
Despite the recent wave of female visibility, advocacy, and empowerment across the nation, female professionals within the sport domain remain in a tenuous position (Oglesby, 2001), confronting reminders about their marginalized status (Roper, 2008), navigating gendered stereoty…
Published in 1992, “The osteological paradox: problems of inferring prehistoric health from skeletal samples” highlighted the limitations of interpreting population health from archaeological skeletal samples. The authors drew the attention of the bioarchaeological community to …
Nowadays, the concept of personalization has gained huge popularity and every decision maker would like to optimize the decisions by exploiting personal data. Personalized decision making has been applied to scenarios including web content recommendation, clinical trials, hiring…
Alcohol consumption is a leading cause of morbidity and premature mortality. In the United States, consumption remains highly prevalent, and certain subgroups have been increasing alcohol risks in recent decades. Among these are women in the mid-life, who have increased rates of…
Research on multiple text comprehension reveals key principles and elements of comprehension: readers' mental representation, cognitive text processing, and strategy use while reading multiple texts (Goldman, 2004; Rouet, 2006). However, many studies of multiple text comprehensi…
Hoge, Terhakopian, Castro, Messer, and Engel (2007) found that 16.6% of the soldiers in their study met criteria for PTSD after their return from Iraq or Afghanistan. Military servicemen and women who have the symptoms of PTSD experience much greater difficulty in readjusting to…
The present study utilized an emotional Stroop task, a social desirability scale, a normative protection measure, three explicit questionnaires, and an open-ended writing sample in order to assess participants explicit, as well as implicit bias towards the three major western re…
The purpose of this study examined whether candidate ethnicity, specifically one perceived to be Arab versus one perceived to be White, would effect candidate evaluation and choice of who to interview in a simulated managerial decision making situation. Further, this research ex…
A multiple case study was conducted to determine whether bias exists within the Kansas City Missouri Police Department regarding people of Middle Eastern origin or Islamic heritage. This study involved personal interviews with Kansas City Missouri Police Officers of varied exper…
Teacher ratings are among the most valued methods used for school-based assessments and diagnostic determination of whether a child possesses symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). However, previous research has indicated that that prevalence of ADHD varies…
While certain minority groups have gained acceptance in contemporary American society, others continue to experience high levels of bias. Currently, Muslims are one of the most “othered” social groups in American society. In this research, I examine social bias toward Muslims, w…
In previous research, fear has caused people to increase their perception of risk, regardless of what caused them to feel afraid (defined as incidental fear). Three studies were conducted to test and expand upon on this finding. In Study 1, a video fear manipulation was used to …
I present a series of essays examining the industrial organization of media industries, and these industries' broader social and political impact. The first chapter develops new methods for analyzing the impact of new goods in the presence of possible complementarities, and appl…
Since the beginning of American education in the U.S., women often have been left out of educational prosperity. First, by excluding females from learning and working, and later by disregarding their capacity for educational leadership. The superintendency of American Schools is…