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Boosting insights in insurance tariff plans with tree-based machine learning methods [PDF]
, 2020 Pricing actuaries typically operate within the framework of generalized linear models (GLMs). With the upswing of data analytics, our study puts focus on machine learning methods to develop full tariff plans built from both the frequency and severity of ...
Antonio, Katrien +3 more
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Opulent Servitude: Shoplifting in a Culture of Material Excess and Systemic Racism
Fashion Studies, 2019 Why did the latter part of the nineteenth century witness a sudden growth of white, middle class female shoplifters? Psychology tells us that shoplifting is a mental deficiency manifested in women as “kleptomania” (Abelson 4).
Evangeline Holtz Schramek +1 more
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Psychological Strategies and Protocols for Promoting School Well-Being: A Systematic Review
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Physical, socio-economic, cultural and mental challenges faced by students have been associated with adverse impacts on school wellbeing, resulting in increased school dropout and deviant behaviour.
Pierpaolo Limone, Giusi Antonia Toto
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Unmasking deviance: the visual construction of asylum seekers and refugees [PDF]
, 2012 This paper explores the visual representation of asylum seekers and refugees delineating how English newspaper imagery constructs such groups as deviant and dangerous.
Banks, James
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Norm and Deviance-Seeking Personal Orientation Scale (NDPOS) Adapted to the Organisational Context
Psychologica Belgica, 2019 Deviance theory introduces a behavioural view on constructive and destructive deviance to explain how an individual’s intent can harm or improve organisational well-being. However, to our knowledge, no scale exists that evaluates the personal orientation
Guillaume Roland Michel Déprez +2 more
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‘We’re All Sinners Here’: A Microhistorical Exploration of the Deviance-Identification Nexus
M@n@gementExtant research shows that deviance as a departure from established norms is influential to innovation and change. However, challenging the embedded assumptions and practices renders deviance subject to heavy stigmatization, compelling the identification
Yasaman Sadeghi
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Travailler pour survivre : exploration du travail des jeunes de la rue
Criminologie, 2010 RésuméLe présent article explore les diverses formes que prennent l’emploi et les « petits boulots » dans la vie des jeunes de la rue. L’étude a été faite à Halifax, au Canada, et porte sur un matériel tiré d’entretiens menés auprès de 34 jeunes.
Jeff Karabanow, Jean Hughes, Sean Kidd
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, 2019 The distinct setting in which cyber-dependent crime takes place may reduce the similarity in the deviance of social network members. We test this assumption by analysing the deviance of the most important social contacts of cyber-dependent offenders and ...
Ruiter, S. +2 more
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Approximate Bayesian Model Selection with the Deviance Statistic [PDF]
, 2015 Bayesian model selection poses two main challenges: the specification of parameter priors for all models, and the computation of the resulting Bayes factors between models.
Bové, Daniel Sabanés +2 more
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Digital Geography and SocietyThis paper presents a survey-based case study of the experiences and perceptions of, and attitudes towards, various forms of online deviance amongst a largely female, educated sample of young people drawn predominantly from the Armenian capital city of ...
Tim Hall, Ulrike Ziemer
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