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A perspective on enhancing representative samples in developmental human neuroscience: Connecting science to society

Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 2022
Marginalized groups are often underrepresented in human developmental neuroscientific studies. This is problematic for the generalizability of findings about brain-behavior mechanisms, as well as for the validity, reliability, and reproducibility of ...
Kayla H. Green, Ilse H. Van De Groep, Ilse H. Van De Groep, Ilse H. Van De Groep, Lysanne W. Te Brinke, Renske van der Cruijsen, Renske van der Cruijsen, Fabienne van Rossenberg, Hanan El Marroun, Hanan El Marroun   +9 more
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Current Limitations and Ways to Increase the Representativeness of Provincial Assembly Elections in Poland

Polish Political Science Yearbook
Elections to provincial assemblies (sejmiki) in Poland are fraught with specific problems in ensuring a sufficient level of representativeness of all voters, understood as a fair and as proportional as possible representation of voters in an elected ...
Dawid Pieniężny, Marcin Jankowski
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Representativeness of the mammalian collection of the Zoological Museum of Lviv University [PDF]

Праці Теріологічної школи, 2016
During collection inventorization of the Zoological museum of Lviv University we found that there are nearly 3800 exhibits belonging to 258 mammal species of the world’s fauna. Most of the samples (68 %) represent the order of rodents (Rodentia).
Andriy Zatushevskyy, Ihor Shydlovskyy, Iryna Tymkiv   +2 more
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Using Model Performance to Assess the Representativeness of Data for Model Development and Calibration in Financial Institutions

Risks, 2021
This paper proposes a methodology that utilises model performance as a metric to assess the representativeness of external or pooled data when it is used by banks in regulatory model development and calibration.
Chamay Kruger, Willem Daniel Schutte, Tanja Verster   +2 more
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Comparative analysis of human mobility patterns: utilizing taxi and mobile (SafeGraph) data to investigate neighbourhood-scale mobility in New York City

Annals of GIS
Numerous researchers have utilized GPS-enabled vehicle data and SafeGraph mobility data to analyse human movements. However, the comparison of their ability to capture human mobility remains unexplored.
Yuqin Jiang, Su Yeon Han, Zhenlong Li, Huan Ning, Joon-Seok Kim   +4 more
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Quantifying the Degree of Movement Dissimilarity between Two Distinct Action Scenarios: An Exploratory Approach with Procrustes Analysis

Frontiers in Psychology, 2017
Game consoles allow subjects to perform movements which are visually similar to the movements performed in ‘real’ world scenarios. Beyond entertainment, virtual reality devices are being used in several domains: sports performance; motor rehabilitation ...
Pedro Passos, Tania Campos, Ana Diniz
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KiGGS Wave 2 cross-sectional study – participant acquisition, response rates and representativeness [PDF]

Journal of Health Monitoring, 2018
For the third time, wave 2 of the German Health Interview and Examination Survey for Children and Adolescents (KiGGS), which is conducted in the context of health monitoring at the Robert Koch Institute, now provides representative cross-sectional data ...
Robert Hoffmann, Michael Lange, Hans Butschalowsky, Robin Houben, Patrick Schmich, Jennifer Allen, Ronny Kuhnert, Angelika Schaffrath Rosario, Antje Gößwald   +8 more
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Representativeness of Qualitative Surveys

Интеракция. Интервью. Интерпретация, 2023
The author challenges the widely held belief that qualitative surveys (in-depth interviews and focus groups) will never be considered as a representative study.
Sergey Alexandrovich Belanovskiy
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Knowledge Acquisition from Social Platforms Based on Network Distributions Fitting

, 2015
The uniqueness of online social networks makes it possible to implement new methods that increase the quality and effectiveness of research processes.
Bródka, Piotr, Jankowski, Jarosław, Kazienko, Przemysław, Michalski, Radosław, Utz, Sonja   +4 more
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A networked voting rule for democratic representation [PDF]

, 2018
We introduce a general framework for exploring the problem of selecting a committee of representatives with the aim of studying a networked voting rule based on a decentralized large-scale platform, which can assure a strong accountability of the elected.
Brigatti, Edgardo, Gracia-Lazaro, Carlos, Hernandez, Alexis R., Moreno, Yamir   +3 more
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