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    equally successful, many researchers have demonstrated the effectiveness of frame-of-reference training in increasing rating accuracy (Woehr, 1994; Keown-Gerrard & Sulsky, 2001; Roch, Woehr, Mishra, & Kieszczynska, 2012). The following will assess the effectiveness of frame-of-reference training in increasing rating quality through comprehensive examination of its validity, accuracy and reliability. Explanation for Frame-of-Reference Training Early approaches to rater training were focused mainly

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    Societies across the United States are comprised of many culturally diverse people. Each and every individual possesses a distinct perception that differs from one another of events that have transpired. For most people that desire to achieve a career in law enforcement, they depend heavily on accurate, detailed eyewitness testimonials on a daily basis to apprehend the correct perpetrator that had committed a crime. In fact, law officials frequently inquire about precise and dependable depictions

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    Introduction The argument of whether or not to use child testimonies in court has been long debated. I believe that children’s testimonies can play a vital role in many court cases. Although there should be a careful protocol when obtaining there statements, so they are not biased into a false statement. Some research shows that there may be techniques we could use in order to improve child’s testimonies, other research shows that children’s testimonies can be manipulated and altered just by the

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    of these methods, we can specially design exquisite, high-precision patterns. However, with an increase in corpus size, this strategy is likely to miss more items and has lower recall. In this paper proposes a novel approach based on the partially-supervised alignment model, which regards identifying opinion relations as an alignment process. Compared to the traditional unsupervised alignment model, the proposed model obtains better precision because of the usage of partial supervision. Compared to

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    Based on Zillow’s business needs of presenting accurate, up-to-date data to the users, the order of importance of these five characteristics to Zillow (from high to low level of importance) would be accurate, timely, consistent, complete, and unique. Accuracy can be assured when Zillow takes data from reliable authenticated sources (e.g. the land office), and timeliness can be assured with daily updates (or hourly where applicable). Consistency can be assured with a proper design of the database structure

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    Small Town Accounting in Rural Appalachia It has always been a dream of mine to be able to return to my home region and help influence the way people conduct business. So when I was given the task to seek out an accounting professional for this interview assignment, I could think of none better fitted than the man who inspired me to enter the field, Darrell Madden, CPA. Based out of the micro-sized town of Hindman, KY, Madden has been in the practice for nearly thirty years and has seen the area’s

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    Introduction This report will give an overview of the aim behind collecting data, types of data collected, methods used and how the collection of the data supports the department’s practices. It will also give a brief outlook on the importance of legislation in recording, storing and accessing data. Why Organisations Need to Collect Data To satisfy legal requirement: every few months there is some request from the government sector to gather, maintain and reports lots of information back

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    College students are responsible for interpreting and remembering a vast amount of information. An efficient method for remembering things can be associations that are pictures or sounds that aid a person in remembering information. There also can be certain distractions that can hinder the amount of information that one can recollect. In a two-way ANOVA, we tested the effect that associations and distractions can have on memory recall. We hypothesized that when an association was present, participants

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    1. Design Brief: To design and manufacture…. The design brief for the timber tray is to design and manufacture a rectangular timber tray where it is used to carry plates and cutlery for example morning breakfast in bed or maybe to carry drinks or tea to a table. 2. Drawings: This may include freehand sketches and orthographic drawings. 3. Material List: This is an outline of the materials you used to manufacture your project. To able to complete the project of the timber tray materials

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    For example, when measuring the volume of water in a graduated cylinder, if the bottom of the meniscus falls about halfway between the 14.3 and 14.4 markings, the chemist would estimate the volume to be 14.35 mL. In regards to precision, the textbook we use differs greatly in significant figure rules from the rules we use to obtain the most precise, accurate results. Firstly, it states that placing a decimal point after trailing zeros makes them significant (ex. 300.). In Mr. Halpin's

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