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Klasszikus változócsillagok többdimenziós numerikus modellezése

Gábor Kovács

Spätgotische Chorgestühle im deutschen Südwesten. Band 1: Untersuchung

Brants, Sabrina

Chorgestühle zählten im Mittelalter zur grundlegenden Ausstattung nahezu jeder Kirche. Die miteinander verbauten, hölzernen Sitzplätze waren zu beiden Seiten des Chorraums aufgestellt. Sie konnten einfach und schlicht gehalten sein, waren jedoch auch reich an Ornament und figürlichem Schmuck. Diese Untersuchung listet...

Data-Driven Disease Management: An Integrated Framework for Estimating Progression, Optimizing Decisions, and Validating Policies in Small Renal Mass Care

Qi, Wanyue

This dissertation develops an integrated, data-driven framework for disease management that connects statistical inference, policy evaluation, and sequential decision optimization, applied to small renal mass (SRM) management. SRMs, defined as solid enhancing renal lesions 4 cm or smaller in diameter, represent a rapid...

Effortful Emotion Regulation Strategy Use and Cognition: An Individual Differences Approach

Christopher John Schmank

As we age, several cognitive abilities decline, yet the ability to regulate emotions remains stable (or improves) even when the emotion regulation strategy required is mentally effortful (i.e., requires cognitive resources for success). The primary aim of this dissertation was to examine how expressive suppression (i.e...

Investigating Causal Inference of Policies: Ban the Box on Employment, Wage Transparency on Wage Gap, and DNA Databases on Serious Crimes

Atousa Egualada

This dissertation is a collection of three chapters that investigate selected policy issues and their broader implications, specifically focusing on the causal inference of policies. Ban the Box on employment, Wage Transparency on wage gaps, and DNA databases on serious crimes.  Chapter 1 - Ban the Box (BTB) polic...

Advancing Conversational Dynamics for Human and AI Communication in Virtual Space

Hu, Erzhen

Communication is a fundamental human activity that has been continually reshaped by technological advancements. As digital and blended environments become central to daily life, people increasingly meet co-workers, attend conferences, and socialize with friends in virtual spaces. Yet real-world communication remains ri...

Essays on Identity-Based Bias and Discrimination

Jiusi Xiao

This dissertation empirically examines identity-based disparities and discrimination in the context of criminal justice and science. It focuses on gender and racial bias within the U.S. criminal justice system and ethnicity-based disparities in international scientific collaboration due to the rising U.S.-China tension...

Alternativas de saneamento apropriado de baixo custo para disposição de excretas em Assunção e sua área metropolitana

Ricardo Torres Ruiz

Outness Through a Cultural Lens: Self-Construal Impacts Disclosure Among Diverse Sexual Minority Individuals

Ivy Alexandra Carrete

This research aimed to advance an empirically informed understanding of the role of culture in sexual identity management decisions and disclosure tendencies among sexual minority individuals (SMIs) from diverse ethnic backgrounds. Sexual identity management decisions – in relation to voluntary disclosure of sexual ide...

VDDM: A Value-Driven Decision Model to Augment Value-Focused Thinking Methodology

Yana Saakyan

Decision-making is a fundamental human behavior. Most scientific research on Decision-making focuses on alternatives: their evaluation, the psychological mechanisms framing the evaluation, and the dynamics of human interaction around alternatives.  Value-Focused Thinking (VFT) offers a paradigm shift by emphasizin...