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 …
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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…
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…
This study investigates women's individual and collective responses to the processes of structural adjustment in Nigeria. Structural adjustment, or SAP, is the package of macro economic conditionalities imposed on African economies in crisis by the International Monetary Fund an…
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…
This submission for PhD by Publication includes two studies I conducted during 8 years of dedicated field research examining the US role in mediating the Arab-Israeli conflict. These studies developed from my collection of in-depth oral testimonies and were buttressed by my reco…
Could shareholder primacy, with its assumed short-termist practices, have had its day when it comes to managerial activity centered on creating corporate value? Many business and opinion leaders appear to take this position, not least Jack Welch who famously declared 'shareholde…
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…
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 …
Developing countries and the poor within them (i.e., the other) receive scant attention in management and organization studies (MOS). The field, thus, suffers from both ethnocentric and class biases. This research effort seeks to reduce these biases, particularly in the conversa…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
Technology is developing day by day and is involved in every area of our lives. Technological innovations such as artificial intelligence can strengthen social biases that already exist in society, regardless of the developers' intentions. Therefore, researchers should be aware …
Perovskite photovoltaics is a promising technology due to its low-cost fabrication and high efficiency. Since their first demonstration in 2009, efficiencies of perovskite solar cells (PSCs) increased unprecedently fast from 3.81% to 25.2% in 10 years. The most common method for…
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…
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…