Masters Candidate, Michele Barry, has successfully defended and made the required modifications to the text of the master's thesis for the M.S. during this Spring Semester 2016. THESIS COMMITTEE iv Acknowledgments I would like to express my sincere thanks to my advisor, Dr. Michael Vigorito, for his wisdom and guidance. His support has given me the opportunity to complete research in an area of...

Entrevista com Dina Salústio, escritora cabo-verdiana, concedida à pesquisadora Franciane Conceição Silva.

This report shows that the deterministic-input noisy-AND (DINA) model is a special case of more general compensatory diagnostic models by means of a reparameterization of the skill space and the design (Q-) matrix of item by skills associations. This reparameterization produces a compensatory model that is equivalent to the (conjunctive) DINA model, and is valid for all types of complex structu...

ment, Yale University (e-mail: [email protected]). The author thanks Duncan Simester for his encouragement and advice during all stages of this research; On Amir, Dan Ariely, David Godes, Jeffrey Hu, Dina Mayzlin, K. Sudhir, Dick Wittink, and Birger Wernerfelt for their helpful comments on previous drafts of this article; the acting editor, Sridhar Moorthy, whose comments helped improve thi...

ment can be only a rough sketch of the intricate network of tropical-rainforest life. Leigh jokes that humans are not distinguished for their omniscience, and Ziegler reminds us how elusive are the visions of nature that he depicts. To fathom the web in all its detail, we will need to step up collaborations between scientists with diverse expertise and approaches. BCI, with its terrific facilit...

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