Since its inception, Audiology has been concerned with hearing aid selection and the interaction of the hearing impaired person and amplification . The classic work of Watson and Knudsen (1) and Lybarger (2) suggests a long clinical interest in prescribing parameters for hearing aids according to audiometric measurements . In the early days, prescriptive procedures were neglected due to technol...

We present the DySectAPI, a tool that allow users to construct probe trees for automatic, event-driven debugging at scale. The traditional, interactive debugging model, whereby users manually step through and inspect their application, does not scale well even for current supercomputers. While lightweight debugging models scale well, they can currently only debug a subset of bug classes. DySect...

We address the problem of prescribing an optimal decision in a framework where cost function depends on uncertain parameters that need to be learned from data. Earlier work proposed prescriptive formulations based supervised machine learning methods. These methods can factor contextual information potentially large number covariates take context specific actions which are superior any static de...

When do descriptive regularities (what characteristics individuals have) become prescriptive norms (what characteristics individuals should have)? We examined children’s (4–13 years) and adults’ use of group regularities to make prescriptive judgments, employing novel groups (Hibbles and Glerks) that engaged in morally neutral behaviors (e.g., eating different kinds of berries). Participants we...

The relationship between descriptive and prescriptive gender stereotypes and the performance expectations placed on female leaders was explored. Descriptive and prescriptive agency stereotypes were found to interact with leadership style, suggesting that prescriptive stereotypes might lead to bias against women by affecting performance expectations. This finding calls assumptions underlying the...

We sketch a series of studies and experiments designed to provide empirical evidence about the truth or falsity of claims that non-prescriptive approaches to standards demand greater competence from regulators than prescriptive approaches require. Keywords—safety; argument; evidence; experiment; prescriptive; goal-based; fantasy