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Spain is not different: teaching quantitative courses can also be hazardous to one’s career (at least in undergraduate courses) [PDF]

open access: yesPeerJ, 2022
Student evaluations of teaching (SETs) have become a widely used tool for assessing teaching in higher education. However, numerous investigations have shown that SETs are subject to multiple biases, one of which is particularly relevant, namely, the ...
Jose Luis Arroyo-Barrigüete   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

The role of higher education in spatial mobility

open access: yesApplied Network Science, 2021
The role of higher education in social and spatial mobility has attracted considerable attention. However, there are very few countrywide databases that follow the career paths of graduates from their place of birth, through their enrollment in ...
Zsolt Tibor Kosztyán   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Boosting ridge for the extreme learning machine globally optimised for classification and regression problems

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2023
This paper explores the boosting ridge (BR) framework in the extreme learning machine (ELM) community and presents a novel model that trains the base learners as a global ensemble.
Carlos Peralez-González   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Risk Assessment Instruments for Intimate Partner Femicide: A Systematic Review

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
Intimate partner violence is a severe problem that has taken the lives of thousands of women worldwide, and it is bound to continue in the future. Numerous risk assessment instruments have been developed to identify and intervene in high-risk cases ...
Esperanza Garcia-Vergara   +3 more
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Quantitative probing: Validating causal models using quantitative domain knowledge [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Causal Inference, vol. 11, no. 1, 2023, 2022
We present quantitative probing as a model-agnostic framework for validating causal models in the presence of quantitative domain knowledge. The method is constructed as an analogue of the train/test split in correlation-based machine learning and as an enhancement of current causal validation strategies that are consistent with the logic of scientific
arxiv   +1 more source

THE ANALYSIS OF CHANGES IN MORTALITY IN TRAFFIC IN THE EUROPEAN UNION COUNTRIES IN THE PERIOD 1991-2011 [PDF]

open access: yesModern Management Review, 2013
The article presents the results of time-space analysis of selected aspects of road safety in the European Union countries. The study horizon covered years 1991-2011.
Aldona MIGAŁA-WARCHOŁ   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Measuring hospital spatial accessibility using the enhanced two-step floating catchment area method to assess the impact of spatial accessibility to hospital and non-hospital care on the length of hospital stay

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2021
Background Optimal healthcare access improves the health status and decreases health inequalities. Many studies demonstrated the importance of spatial access to healthcare facilities in health outcomes, particularly using the enhanced two-step floating ...
Fei Gao   +2 more
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THE COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE COMPANIES FROM THE TSL SECTOR OPERATING IN POLAND AND SLOVAKIA [PDF]

open access: yesModern Management Review, 2013
The article presents a comparative analysis of the companies operating in Transport-Shipping-Logistics sector in Poland and Slovakia. The statistical analyses included examination of logistic companies taking into consideration the size of the company ...
Katarzyna CHUDY-LASKOWSKA, Tomasz PISULA
doaj   +1 more source

A model for election night forecasting applied to the 2004 South African elections

open access: yesORiON, 2006
A novel model has been developed to predict elections on the basis of early results. The electorate is clustered according to their behaviour in previous elections.
JM Greben, C Elphinstone, J Holloway
doaj   +1 more source

Measuring consumers’ preferences for craft beer attributes through Best-Worst Scaling

open access: yesAgricultural and Food Economics, 2020
The current paper investigates consumers’ consumption behavior and preferences for craft beer. More specifically, it uncovers consumers’ consumption habits and perception about craft beer, as well as their preferences for 13 beer attributes drawn from ...
Marco Lerro   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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