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Beginning in 1981 with little publicity, the United States Employment Service began "race-norming" the reports of results of the GATB. [4]The aim of this practice was to meet affirmative-action goals and to counteract alleged racial bias in aptitude tests administered to job applicants,. [5]
Concentration diagram of Cholera deaths 1854 in London (John Snow (1813-1858)) The defect concentration diagram (also problem concentration diagram [1]) is a graphical tool that is useful in analyzing the causes of the product or part defects. [2]
Lexis diagram showing the cohort of 2003-born persons in green, and the year 2005 in red. In demography, a Lexis diagram (named after economist and social scientist Wilhelm Lexis) is a two-dimensional diagram used to represent events (such as births or deaths) that occur to individuals belonging to different cohorts.
The Sussman anomaly is a problem in artificial intelligence, first described by Gerald Sussman, that illustrates a weakness of noninterleaved planning algorithms, which were prominent in the early 1970s.
The S.I. unit for the mold constant B is seconds per metre squared (s/m 2). [4] According to Askeland, the constant n is usually 2, however Degarmo claims it is between 1.5 and 2.
In spatial analysis, the Huff model is a widely used tool for predicting the probability of a consumer visiting a site, as a function of the distance of the site, its attractiveness, and the relative attractiveness of alternatives.
The Clay Mathematics Institute (CMI) is a private, non-profit foundation dedicated to increasing and disseminating mathematical knowledge. Formerly based in Peterborough, New Hampshire, [1] the corporate address is now in Denver, Colorado.
A cycloconverter constructs an output, variable-frequency, approximately sinusoid waveform by switching segments of the input waveform to the output; there is no intermediate DC link.