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Title: A semiparametric Cox-Aalen transformation model with censored data
Author: Ning, Xi, Pan, Yinghao, Sun, Yanqing, Gilbert, Peter B.
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Mathematical models, Models and modelmaking
Description: We propose a broad class of so-called Cox–Aalen transformation models that incorporate both multiplicative and additive covariate effects on the baseline hazard function within a transformation. The proposed models provide a highly flexible and ve...

Title: Assessing guaranteed minimum income benefits and rationality of exercising reset options in variable annuities
Author: Ocejo Monge, Adriana, Jones, Riley F.
Subjects--Topical: Variable annuities, Risk (Insurance)
Description: A variable annuity is an equity-linked financial product typically offered by insurance companies. The policyholder makes an upfront payment to the insurance company and, in return, the insurer is required to make a series of payments starting at ...

Title: Partitioning the real line into Borel sets
Author: Brian, Will
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Analytic functions, Borel sets
Description: For which infinite cardinals κ is there a partition of the real line R into precisely κ Borel sets? Work of Lusin, Souslin, and Hausdorff shows that R can be partitioned into ℵ1 Borel sets. But other than this, we show that the spectrum of possibl...

Title: Racial bias in traffic stops : the City of Charlotte
Author: Groulx, Carson, Fernandes, Anthony (Anthony M. A.)
Subjects--Topical: Traffic stops (Law enforcement), Racism
Description: This study analyzes the traffic stops data published by the City of Charlotte in the years 2016-2017 and 2019-2020 to determine if there was any racial bias in the policing. R was used to examine 213,475 stops that involved Black and White drivers...

Title: Supporting preservice mathematics teachers’ culturally responsive teaching : a focus on teaching for social justice
Author: Register, Jordan, Fernandes, Anthony (Anthony M. A.), Pugalee, David K.
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics--Study and teaching, Social justice, Lesson planning
Description: This paper reports on how 10 middle and high school preservice teachers (PSTs) designed a social justice focused lesson using the culturally responsive mathematics teaching (CRMT) tool. Results from our analysis indicate that most of the PSTs were...

Title: The study of COVID-19 within the state of North Carolina in the United States
Author: Alzate, Cesar, Li, Xingjie Helen
Subjects--Topical: COVID-19 (Disease), Virus diseases--Transmission
Description: Research on COVID-19 was done for North Carolina to assess local governmental policies, to measure COVID-19 growth rate, and to discover what predictors impact COVID-19 spread. Using a Time-Delayed SIR model, removal rates were calculated to compa...