Automated video interviews (AVIs) use machine learning algorithms to predict interviewee personality traits and social skills, and they are increasingly being used in industry. The present study examines the possibility of expanding the scope and utility of these approaches by developing and testing AVIs that score ability from interviewee verbal, paraverbal, and nonverbal behavior in video interviews. To advance our understanding of whether AVI ability assessments are useful, I develop AVIs that predict ability (GMA, verbal ability, and interviewer-rated intellect) and investigate their reliability (i.e., inter-algorithm reliability, internal consistency across interview questions, and test retest reliability). Then, I investigate the convergent and discriminant-related validity evidence as well as potential ethnic and gender bias of such predictions. Finally, based on the Brunswik lens model, I compare how ability test scores, AVI ability assessments, and interviewer ratings of ability relate to interviewee behavior. By exploring how ability relates to behavior and how ability ratings from both AVIs and interviewers relate to behavior, the study advances our understanding of how ability affects interview performance and the cues that interviewers use to judge ability.

Clinical decision rules improve health care fidelity, benefit patients, physicians and healthcare systems, without reducing patient safety or satisfaction, while promoting cost-effective practice standards. It is critical to appropriately and consistently apply clinical decision rules to realize these benefits. The objective of this thesis was to understand how physicians use the Ottawa Ankle Rules to guide radiography decision-making. The study employed a clinical judgment survey targeting members of the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians. Statistical analyses were informed by the Brunswik Lens Model and Social Judgment Analysis. Physicians’ overall agreement with the ankle rule was high, but can be improved. Physicians placed greatest value on rule-based cues, while considering non-rule-based cues as moderately important. There is room to improve physician agreement with the ankle rule and use of rule-based cues through knowledge translation interventions. Further development of this Lens Modeling technique could lend itself to a valuable cognitive behavioral intervention.

Clinical decision rules improve health care fidelity, benefit patients, physicians and healthcare systems, without reducing patient safety or satisfaction, while promoting cost-effective practice standards. It is critical to appropriately and consistently apply clinical decision rules to realize these benefits. The objective of this thesis was to understand how physicians use the Ottawa Ankle Rules to guide radiography decision-making. The study employed a clinical judgment survey targeting members of the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians. Statistical analyses were informed by the Brunswik Lens Model and Social Judgment Analysis. Physicians’ overall agreement with the ankle rule was high, but can be improved. Physicians placed greatest value on rule-based cues, while considering non-rule-based cues as moderately important. There is room to improve physician agreement with the ankle rule and use of rule-based cues through knowledge translation interventions. Further development of this Lens Modeling technique could lend itself to a valuable cognitive behavioral intervention.

Clinical decision rules improve health care fidelity, benefit patients, physicians and healthcare systems, without reducing patient safety or satisfaction, while promoting cost-effective practice standards. It is critical to appropriately and consistently apply clinical decision rules to realize these benefits. The objective of this thesis was to understand how physicians use the Ottawa Ankle Rules to guide radiography decision-making. The study employed a clinical judgment survey targeting members of the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians. Statistical analyses were informed by the Brunswik Lens Model and Social Judgment Analysis. Physicians’ overall agreement with the ankle rule was high, but can be improved. Physicians placed greatest value on rule-based cues, while considering non-rule-based cues as moderately important. There is room to improve physician agreement with the ankle rule and use of rule-based cues through knowledge translation interventions. Further development of this Lens Modeling technique could lend itself to a valuable cognitive behavioral intervention.

重要性（Materiality ）是審計過程中一個極重要但又很模糊不清的觀念。一方面審 計人員必須依據重要性來作專業判斷，但是另一方面又沒有任何準則來指導重要性判 斷。因此，審計判斷的品質經常良莠不齊，而投資大眾對查帳報告的信心也大為降低 。就因為這個綠故，所以研究審計重要性判斷成為一件刻不容緩的事情。 本論文採用Brunswik的透視模型（Lens Model）來研究重要性判斷。研究對象為某大 學會計系四年級的６０位學生，研究內容包括：（１）要求這６０位學生根據３個線 索（Cue ）來判斷一項存貨沖銷事件是否重要（這３個線索分別是該沖銷金額對淨利 百分比、對存貨百分比、以及對總資產百分比）；（２）研究這６０位學生的重要性 判斷策略（Judgment Policy ，使用統計ANOVA 與ω□）以及判斷的品質（Judgment Quality ，使用Stability 、Self-insight、與Consensus 三個指標）；（３）研究 穩定性（Stability ）、自我洞查力（Self-insight）、一致性（Consensus ）三者 之間的關係。 研究結果顯示學生的穩定性、自我洞查力、一致性均很低（其總平均分別為：．３９ ９７、．２０５０、．３８６９），而且個別差異很大（其標準差分別為：．４００ ８、．７３６９、．１８４８）。至於三個指標之間的關係也並不明確（穩定性與自 我洞查力、一致性的相關係數分別為：．０１９５、．２７４２，而自我洞查力與一 致性則為．０１０４）。

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2008-06-18Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:54:40Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 luz_emm_me_fran.pdf: 3131126 bytes, checksum: eb3b6cfb198850160fca0e7611941c82 (MD5) / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) / A idéia central desta pesquisa é analisar a atuação política do cônego Hermógenes Casimiro de Araújo Brunswik no contexto da construção do Estado Nacional brasileiro durante o século XIX. No entanto, para entender o significado de sua atuação política foi preciso voltar até as suas origens familiares assim como analisar a formação religiosa do cônego. A Igreja estava vinculada ao governo durante o Império e a atuação religiosa dos padres estava intimamente ligada à atuação política. O cônego estudou em São Paulo onde recebeu a ordenação em 1809 e em seguida foi administrar a freguesia do Desemboque, no Triângulo Mineiro, região que naquela época era quase desabitada. Ali ele desenvolveu uma sólida liderança religiosa e política, tornando-se vigário geral e vereador nas câmaras municipais de Araxá e Desemboque. Como vigário geral da freguesia teve atuação pioneira: fundou capelas e conseguiu verbas para a construção de estradas e pontes que conectaram a região ao comércio imperial e contribuíram para seu povoamento. Bom pregador, proprietário de terras e líder político local, o cônego conquistou reconhecimento na província, aliou-se ao Partido Conservador mineiro e ganhou espaço no cenário político imperial. A partir de 1850 ascendeu politicamente sendo eleito deputado provincial e deputado geral pela província de Minas Gerais, atuando na Câmara dos Deputados até 1860 quando se afastou por motivos de saúde. Morreu em 1861 após trabalhar nas três instâncias do legislativo brasileiro: municipal, provincial e imperial / The central idea of this research is to analyze the political performance of the canon Hermógenes Casimiro de Araújo Brunswik in the context of the construction of the Brazilian National State during the century XIX. However, to understand the meaning of his political performance it was necessary to return until their family origins as well as the religious formation of the canon. The Church was linked to the government during the Empire and the priests’ religious performance was intimately linked to the political performance. The canon studied in São Paulo where received the ordination in 1809 and soon afterwards he went to administer the clientele of Desemboque, in Triângulo Mineiro, area that was almost totally uninhabited in that time. There he developed a solid religious and political leadership, becoming general vicar and alderman in the city halls of Araxá and Desemboque. As general vicar of the clientele he had pioneering performance: founded chapels and it got budgets for the construction of highways and bridges that connected the area to the imperial trade and they contributed to its settlement. Good preacher, proprietor of lands and local political leader, the canon conquered recognition in the province, he formed an alliance with Conservative Party and it won space in the imperial political scenery. Starting from 1850 he ascended politically being chosen provincial deputy and general deputy by the province of Minas Gerais, acting in the Camera of the Deputies up to 1860 when he stood back because of health. He died in 1861 after working in the three instances of the brazilian legislative: municipal, provincial and imperial