Willingness to Enact Change: A Grounded Theory Study on Acceptance from a Trans Perspective

The rate of suicide attempts among trans (i.e., transgender) people is astronomically high, which is largely a result of the stigma and discrimination they face. However, when trans people experience acceptance, their rate of mental health problems declines to mirror the cisgender population. Despite this established importance of acceptance, the literature on trans experiences has failed to rigorously define the communicative aspects of acceptance. This qualitative study analyzes interviews with trans people using grounded theory to determine how trans people articulate experiencing acceptance. Results indicate a process of change—preceded by and upheld through willingness—that focuses on enacting change in three areas: the self (through doing research and performing emotional labor); the relationship (through being available, adapting language, and adapting to the trans person’s needs); and society (through advocating interpersonally and recognizing trans identities beyond trans spaces). Implications for this study include a breakthrough in the burgeoning field of trans communication research that ultimately results in a theory of trans identity acceptance; practically, these results facilitate the construction of a trans-inclusive society and encourage the building of fulfilling relationships across differing identities

Signal Detection by Human Observers

Contains a report on a research project.This work was supported in part by United States Air Force (Contract AF19(604)-1728

Signal Detection by Human Observers

Contains research objectives and reports on one research project

A Study of the Establishment of Grand Valley State College

A study of the establishment of Grand Valley State College. Thesis for the Degree of Ph. D. Michigan State University by Marinus Matthius Swets in 1963. Swets later became professor and dean at Grand Rapids Junior (later Community) College.https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/reports/1007/thumbnail.jp

Signal Detection by Human Observers

Contains research objectives and reports on one research project.U.S. Air Force Contract AF19(604)-1728, monitored by the Operational Applications Laboratory, Air Force Cambridge Research Cente

An Experiment Testing the Influence of Oral Interpretation on Entertainment and Persuasion

A post-test only experimental design evaluated the empirical influence of three 2016 National Forensic Association final round oral interpretation performances (two Dramatic Interpretations and one Prose Interpretation) on entertainment (parasocial interaction, identification, and narrative transportation); the capacity of entertainment to elicit enjoyment; and the capacity of entertainment to elicit persuasion (i.e., changes to attitude valence and attitude importance) through the mediating process of reduced counterarguing against subjective interpretations of arguments in the oral interpretation performances. The influence of oral interpretation on entertainment, enjoyment, counterarguing, and persuasion was substantially similar to that found in the larger body of empirical scholarship investigating other mediated forms of narrative persuasion

Balanced boosting with parallel perceptrons

The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11494669_26Proceedings of 8th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, IWANN 2005, Vilanova i la Geltrú, Barcelona, Spain, June 8-10, 2005.Boosting constructs a weighted classifier out of possibly weak learners by successively concentrating on those patterns harder to classify. While giving excellent results in many problems, its performance can deteriorate in the presence of patterns with incorrect labels. In this work we shall use parallel perceptrons (PP), a novel approach to the classical committee machines, to detect whether a pattern’s label may not be correct and also whether it is redundant in the sense of being well represented in the training sample by many other similar patterns. Among other things, PP allow to naturally define margins for hidden unit activations, that we shall use to define the above pattern types. This pattern type classification allows a more nuanced approach to boosting. In particular, the procedure we shall propose, balanced boosting, uses it to modify boosting distribution updates. As we shall illustrate numerically, balanced boosting gives very good results on relatively hard classification problems, particularly in some that present a marked imbalance between class sizes.With partial support of Spain’s CICyT, TIC 01–572

Extremal Dependence Indices: improved verification measures for deterministic forecasts of rare binary events

Copyright © 2011 American Meteorological Society (AMS). Permission to use figures, tables, and brief excerpts from this work in scientific and educational works is hereby granted provided that the source is acknowledged. Any use of material in this work that is determined to be “fair use” under Section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Act September 2010 Page 2 or that satisfies the conditions specified in Section 108 of the U.S. Copyright Act (17 USC §108, as revised by P.L. 94-553) does not require the AMS’s permission. Republication, systematic reproduction, posting in electronic form, such as on a web site or in a searchable database, or other uses of this material, except as exempted by the above statement, requires written permission or a license from the AMS. Additional details are provided in the AMS Copyright Policy, available on the AMS Web site located at (http://www.ametsoc.org/) or from the AMS at 617-227-2425 or [email protected] forecasts of rare events is challenging, in part because traditional performance measures degenerate to trivial values as events become rarer. The extreme dependency score was proposed recently as a nondegenerating measure for the quality of deterministic forecasts of rare binary events. This measure has some undesirable properties, including being both easy to hedge and dependent on the base rate. A symmetric extreme dependency score was also proposed recently, but this too is dependent on the base rate. These two scores and their properties are reviewed and the meanings of several properties, such as base-rate dependence and complement symmetry that have caused confusion are clarified. Two modified versions of the extreme dependency score, the extremal dependence index, and the symmetric extremal dependence index, are then proposed and are shown to overcome all of its shortcomings. The new measures are nondegenerating, base-rate independent, asymptotically equitable, harder to hedge, and have regular isopleths that correspond to symmetric and asymmetric relative operating characteristic curves