This article summarizes the practical and theoretical implications of 85 years of research in personnel selection. On the basis of meta-analytic findings, this article presents the validity of 19 selection procedures for predicting job performance and training performance and the validity of paired combinations of general mental ability (GMA) and Ihe 18 other selection procedures. Overall, the ...

This article uses the post-Katrina migration as an exogenous shock to test theories of racial threat while minimizing concerns about selection bias. Drawing in part on a new survey of 3,879 respondents, it demonstrates that despite the national concern about issues of race and poverty following Katrina, people in communities that took in evacuees became less supportive of spending to help the p...

This investigation is about the cultural, social, and legal factors influencing on the amount of dowry. Hence, we used structuralism theory, functionalism, symbolic interactionism, and reasonable selection, theory of mass society and media power and religiosity theory. Therefore, for this topic we examined cluster random sampling of the 384 married men and women of 18 to 35 years in Qom. The re...

This study proposes a behavioural complexity theory for media selection in global virtual teams. This theory captures multiple contingencies into one holistic approach to media selection. Unlike existing linear and mechanistic theories of media selection, this heuristic theory moves away from the universal models that were previously proposed. The behavioural complexity theory assumes ambiguity...

Recent years, various information theoretic based measurements have been proposed to remove redundant features from high-dimensional data set as many as possible. However, most traditional Information-theoretic based selectors will ignore some features which have strong discriminatory power as a group but are weak as individuals. To cope with this problem, this paper introduces a cooperative ga...

The personnel selection problem is a classical decision making problem. It refers to the process of choosing candidates who match, possibly to some degree, the qualifications required to perform a certain job. Personnel selection is an important activity for organizations and usually the outcome of a personnel selection method is an overall ranking of the candidates. This paper introduces two n...

We discuss the problem of model selection in Genetic Programming using the framework provided by Statistical Learning Theory, i.e. Vapnik-Chervonenkis theory (VC). We present empirical comparisons between classical statistical methods (AIC, BIC) for model selection and the Structural Risk Minimization method (based on VC-theory) for symbolic regression problems. Empirical comparisons of differe...

Robust lip contour detection plays an important role in Facial Expression Recognition (FER). However, the large variations emerged from different speakers, intensity conditions, poor texture of lips, weak contrast between lip and skin, high deformability of lip, beard, moustache, wrinkle, etc. often hamper the lip contour detection accuracy. The novelty of this research effort is that we propos...

the main purpose of this paper is to present a fuzzy multi-criteria decision making (fmadm) model for appropriate location selection of a health center. therefore, we identify sixteen criteria and sub-criteria for selecting a health center location. these criteria and sub-criteria have been obtained from literature reviews and practical interviews. this paper proposes a method which combines th...