Using data from 3 different samples, the authors found that: (a) the relationships between political conservatism and racism generally increased as a function of educational sophistication; however, the relationship between political conservatism and anti-Black affect did not increase with educational sophistication, (b) The correlation between political conservatism and racism could be entirel...

Optimizing the common case has been an adage in decades of processor design practices. However, as the system complexity and optimization techniques’ sophistication have increased substantially, maintaining correctness under all situations, however unlikely, is contributing to the necessity of extra conservatism in all layers of the system design. The mounting process, voltage, and temperature ...

Optimizing the common case has been an adage in decades of processor design practices. However, as the system complexity and optimization techniques’ sophistication have increased substantially, maintaining correctness under all situations, however unlikely, is contributing to the necessity of extra conservatism in all layers of the system design. The mounting process, voltage, and temperature ...

We reflect on the convergence and termination of optimization algorithms based on convex and separable approximations using two recently proposed strategies, namely a trust region with filtered acceptance of the iterates, and conservatism. We then propose a new strategy for convergence and termination, denoted f iltered conservatism, in which the acceptance or rejection of an iterate is determi...

In this paper, we empirically evaluate two views on the relation between product market competition and conditional accounting conservatism. One view is that intense product market competition increases bankruptcy risk and consequently, exacerbates shareholder-bondholder conflict of interest and enhances the likelihood of litigation. In response, both bondholders and auditors demand a higher le...