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Beyond accuracy
Jessie Munton
Dec 11, 2019
What, if anything, is epistemically wrong with beliefs involving accurate statistical generalizations about demographic groups? This paper argues that there is a perfectly general, underappreciated epistemic flaw which affects...
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Call for Nominations for Best S.C. Teacher Mentors
Winthrop University
Jan 01, 0001
Quick Facts The endowment was established by Jessie Williams Little '73 and her husband, retired physician John Little '02, who partnered with Winthrop's Richard W. Riley College of Education and the James and Susan Rex...
Published by: Winthrop University
Best and Brightest Mentors Honored at Winthrop for their Dedication
Winthrop University
Jan 01, 0001
Quick Facts At the Feb. 15 dinner in the DiGiorgio Campus Center, eight teachers were cited for their work and given a financial reward. The 2018 Jessie Williams Little "Leading the Way" Award recipient is Shawna Simmons, who...
Published by: Winthrop University
Facing one’s implicit biases
Expanding on conflicting theoretical conceptualizations of implicit bias, 6 studies tested the effectiveness of different procedures to increase acknowledgment of harboring biases against minorities. Participants who predicted...
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Solving Task Scheduling Problem in the Cloud Using a Hybrid Particle Swarm Optimization Approach
Synergistic confluence of pervasive sensing, computing, and networking is generating heterogeneous data at unprecedented scale and complexity. Cloud computing has emergered in the last two decades as a unique storage and...
Perceptual Skill And Social Structure
Jessie Munton
Dec 11, 2019
Visual perception relies on stored information and environmental associations to arrive at a determinate representation of the world. This opens up the disturbing possibility that our visual experiences could themselves be...
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A Configurational Approach to Understanding the Drivers of Mobile Phone Usage in Developing Countries
While mobile technologies adoption has been largely examined by IS research, the symbolic meanings related to these technologies and the role they play in the adoption of mobile technologies in developing countries has been...
Facing one’s implicit biases
Expanding on conflicting theoretical conceptualizations of implicit bias, 6 studies tested the effectiveness of different procedures to increase acknowledgment of harboring biases against minorities. Participants who predicted...
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THE EYE'S MIND
Jessie Munton
Dec 11, 2019
Philosophers have tended to formulate theories of perceptual justification independently of psychological investigation into perceptual functioning. Nevertheless, work in perceptual epistemology often conceals an implicit...
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How to see invisible objects
Jessie Munton
May 24, 2022
Abstract: It is an apparent truism about visual perception that we can see only what is visible to us. It is also frequently accepted that visual perception is dynamic: our visual experiences are extended through, and can evolve...
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Class matters in the interview setting?
In this article we argue that despite methodological and analytical advancements in the field of social class research, these developments have not led to a wholehearted discussion about class positionality and situatedness in...
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The Harlem Renaissance's Hidden Figure
Jada A Grice
Jan 01, 0001
This project will seek to look at the Harlem Renaissance's hidden figure, Jessie Fauset. Jessie Fauset was born to an A.M.E. minister and his wife as one of ten children in Camden County New Jersey and raised in Philadelphia....
Published by: Ursinus College
Modelling of Boil-Off and Sloshing Relevant to Future Liquid Hydrogen Carriers
This study presents an approach for estimating fuel boil-off behaviour in cryogenic energy carrier ships, such as future liquid hydrogen (LH2) carriers. By relying on thermodynamic modelling and empirical formulas for...
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Alumni Couple Establishes New Statewide Teacher Mentor Award
Winthrop University
Jan 01, 0001
The Jessie Williams Little "Leading the Way" Endowed Award will recognize a South Carolina educator who has made a significant impact as a mentor to future or beginning teachers.
Published by: Winthrop University
Class matters in the interview setting?
In this article we argue that despite methodological and analytical advancements in the field of social class research, these developments have not led to a wholehearted discussion about class positionality and situatedness in...
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Macroevolutionary consequences of mast seeding.
Masting characterizes large, intermittent and highly synchronous seeding events among individual plants and is found throughout the plant Tree of Life (ToL). Although masting can increase plant fitness, little is known about...
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Stability analysis of line patterns of an anisotropic interaction model

Motivated by the formation of fingerprint patterns, we consider a class of interacting particle models with anisotropic, repulsive-attractive interaction forces whose orientations depend on an underlying tensor field. This...

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