The purpose of the study is to survey researchers with established interests in early modern marginalia studies about the development of a peer-to-peer research tool designed to facilitate their research. The tool will match scholars in need of photographs of unique pieces of evidence from rare books repositories with scholars able to take and deliver those photographs. The hypotheses of the study are that a) there is interest in a tool like this and b) scholars with established interests in the area can contribute meaningfully to the design of the tool. The aim of the study is to collect information through a survey about the degree to which such a tool might be used, for what reasons, and by whom, and about the features and functionalities that users would like to see in the tool.
The purpose of this study is to create and test a behavioral measure of relationship-focused obsessive-compulsive (ROC) symptoms and to learn more about the distress associated with (and coping skills for) unwanted negative thoughts about one's relationship.
Predictive modeling has recently attracted a lot of attention from organizations trying to leverage AI and big data to improve their work processes such as decision-making. However, real-world problems are rarely well-formulated machine learning problems. Practitioners have to supply a well-defined predictive target to operationalize a predictive model. In such cases, they often resort to using observed variables to approximate the actual construct of interest. For example, people have used high sales numbers as a proxy for a good employee. Proxy label selection is a recurring challenge when predictive ML is applied to real-world problems. The purpose of this interview study is to understand how ML practitioners select proxy labels, evaluate proxy labels, and iterate through the different tasks involved.
We are surveying engineering doctoral students in the US to learn more about what factors lead them to continue or leave their training. We are especially interested in their perceptions of the climate of their programs.
This study will explore how eating behaviors may change among UNC Chapel Hill students who grew up eating cultural or religious diets when they attend college. The study will also look at how access to cultural or religious foods may impact student wellbeing and how the university can support students with accessing cultural and religious foods.
The primary purpose of this research is to inform a future evidence-based alcohol reduction intervention to integrate HIV status neutral counseling for people with HIV or at high risk for HIV who report heavy drinking and are receiving STI care in Malawi.