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Associate: a) We have only external candidates for this position. The applicant versus selection ratio is 20.87% Whites, 21.90% Non-Whites, and 22.73% African-American. Comparing the minority selection ratio to the majority selection ratio, more than 80.00% are hired, so there is no sign of disparate impact. B. Shift Leader: a) External hires: there is a percentage of 57.58% for Non-White, and 69.67% for African-American, both below the 80.00% required by the

. Support Vector Machines: SVM is a state-of-the-art machine learning algorithm which is used in text analysis. They are universal learners. They exist is various forms- linear and non-linear. It uses function called kernel. They are not dependent on the dimensionality of feature space. Using an appropriate kernel, SVM can be used to learn polynomial classifiers, radial basic function(RBF) [35]. The goal of SVM is to find the large margin hyperplane that divides two classes. Equation of hyperplane

European expansion during the 16th and 17th century was considered an “assault” on the non-European world because of the number of negative effects that European presence caused. The first major effect was the African slave trade, which had a negative impact on the indigenous people. The need for laborers increase and since the Native Americans fell susceptible to disease; the Europeans went to Africa for their workers. According to the first presentation, Europe’s Assault on the World, “The most

disorder within their lifetime than non-teachers (Roy et al., 2004b). Further study indicates that teachers who have developed voice disorders from their profession are negatively affected in the areas of job performance, attendance, and future career choices (Roy, Merrill, Thibeault, Gray & Smith, 2004a). This was determined through a telephone questionnaire conducted by Iowa State Statistical Laboratory who interviewed randomly selected participants (teachers and non-teachers) in the states of Iowa

sparse (HiDS) matrices. However, most LF models fail to fulfill the non-negativity constraints that reflect the non-negative nature of industrial data. Yet existing non-negative LF models for HiDS matrices suffer from slow convergence leading to considerable time cost. An alternating direction method-based non-negative latent factor (ANLF) model decomposes a non-negative optimization process into small sub-tasks. It updates each LF non-negatively based on the latest state of those trained before, thereby

The negative effects that smoking tobacco has on the body have been proven scientifically and today is common knowledge. According to Health Canada, there is a large amount of strong medical evidence that smoking is related to more than 24 different diseases and other body conditions. Including emphysema, lung cancer and chronic

Non-normative life events are usually those that are significant, unpredictable and unexpected; they happen to a particular individual and if not handled properly can have mental or psychological effects. They include natural disasters, civil wars or loss of a family member. In some instances, events like illness or death are statistically categorized as normative but in real sense are unexpected and undesired hence are definitely non-normative. This discussion is going to identify and summarize

PMF is a mathematical receptor model that is used to analyze a wide range of environmental data. The model has been widely used in air, water, and lake and ocean sediments research to determine the sources of pollutants. This model reduces the large number of variables in intricate analytical data-sets to just a few combinations known as source types and contributions while providing very robust uncertainty estimates and data diagnostics. The identification of the source types is achieved by matching

In this study, the effect of introducing non-local plant material into a certain environment for restoration purposes was investigated. Several studies already showed that plants exhibit local adaptation to their sympatric environment (Howe et al., 2003; Savolainen et al., 2007; Leimu and Fischer, 2008; Salmela, 2014). We hypothesized that if A. arenaria shows evidence of local adaptation, we expect the plants of the experimental site, and closely related ones, to have a greater performance than

Discuss the issues associated with non-traditional gender roles and identity. Many professions are traditionally occupied by one gender over the other, identified as occupational segregation (Hoffnung et al., 2013). Furthermore, Hoffnung and colleagues (2013), state that females are often perceived as carrying the burden of parenthood and general domestic chores, often in positions such as domestic labour. Whereas males are traditionally employed in positions with lower social demands