Project FOCUS

Forming Occupational and Community Understanding for Success Created in 2015 Has grown ever since Provides access to resources for students with intellectual disabilitieshttps://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/educ_fys_103/1051/thumbnail.jp

Gift-Exchange, Incentives, and Heterogeneous Workers

By incorporating reciprocity in an otherwise standard principal-agent model, I investigate the relation between monetary gift-exchange and incentive pay, while allowing for worker heterogeneity. I assume that some, but not all, workers care more for their principal when they are convinced that the principal cares for them. The principal can be egoistic or altruistic. Absent worker heterogeneity, an altruistic principal signals his altruism by offering relatively weak incentives and a relatively high expected total compensation. However, the latter is not always required to credibly signal altruism. Furthermore, since some workers do not reciprocate the principal’s altruism, the principal may find it optimal to write a contract that simultaneously signals his altruism and screens reciprocal worker types. Such a contract is characterised by excessively strong incentives and a relatively high expected total compensation.reciprocity, gift-exchange, signaling game, incentive contracts, screening

Isolation or joining a mall? On the location choice of competing shops

I study the location choice of competing shops. A shop can either be isolated or join a mall. A fraction of consumers is uninformed about prices and incurs costs to travel between market places and to enter a shop. The equilibrium mall size is computed for several parameter values, showing that mall and isolated shops can coexist. Several effects play a role. Mall shops attract more consumers, but isolated shops set a higher maximum price. Moreover, numerical evaluations show that an increase in mall size decreases the average price level and increases the participation level of uninformed consumers.location choice; travel costs; pricing; consumer search

Reciprocity and Incentive Pay in the Workplace

We study optimal incentive contracts for workers who are reciprocal to management attention. When neither worker's effort nor manager's attention can be contracted, a double moral-hazard problem arises, implying that reciprocal workers should be given weak financial incentives. In a multiple-agent setting, this problem can be resolved using promotion incentives. We test these predictions using German Socio-Economic Panel data. We find that workers who are more reciprocal are significantly more likely to receive promotion incentives, while there is no such relation for individual bonus pay.Reciprocity, social exchange, incentive contracts, double moral hazard, GSOEP

Case report: Typhoid fever complicated by hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis and rhabdomyolysis

Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) and rhabdomyolysis are rare complications of typhoid fever from Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi. Herein, we describe the clinical features in a 21-year-old female from India who presented to the intensive care unit with fever, severe pancytopenia, and rhabdomyolysis

TARI JAIPONG KARYA RUMINGKANG SEBAGAI MEDIA INDUSTRI KREATIF BERBASIS SENI TRADISI

Sumber daya manusia yang kreatif merupakan modal utama industri kreatif. Fungsi pertunjukan tari Jaipong di era ekonomi kreatif saat ini, tidak hanya dinikmati sisi seninya saja, akan tetapi dari sisi bisnisnya, sehingga perubahan ataupun pengembangan tari Jaipong harus terus dilakukan untuk memenuhi kebutuhan pasar pada era ini. Buyung Rumingkang sebagai kreator tari Jaipong merupakan pelaku budaya yang berperan dalam melestarikan dan mengembangkan tari Jaipong serta mengelola tari Jaipong ke ranah industri. Industri Buyung dalam menjual karya tari Jaipong yang berpijak pada seni tradisi seperti gerak-gerak silat, termasuk ke dalam ranah industri kreatif subsektor seni pertunjukan. Buyung berperan aktif dalam pengembangan gerak Jaipong yang identik dengan sifat erotisme menjadi gerak-gerak staccato, kekinian dan memiliki nilai jual, sehingga terhindar dari kata seronok. Penelitian ini memaparkan person, press, proses dan produk Buyung Rumingkang, pergeseran fungsi serta rantai nilai yang terjadi dalam tari Jaipong karya Buyung Rumingkang. Teori kreativitas, teori fungsi seni dan konsep rantai nilai industri kreatif digunakan untuk menganalisis tari Jaipong karya Buyung Rumingkang yang dijadikan sebagai media industri kreatif. Penelitian ini dipaparkan berdasarkan hasil wawancara, studi dokumen, studi pustaka dan observasi. Metode penelitian yang digunakan dalam analisis ini ialah metode penelitian kualitatif dan menghasilkan data deskriptif. Tujuan penelitian ini ialah untuk mendeskripsikan kreativitas Buyung Rumingkang dalam membuat karya tari Jaipong yang memiliki nilai jual, sehingga diharapkan dapat menjadi pengetahuan dan stimulus bagi seniman, kelompok seni ataupun pendidik seni untuk terus berinovasi, dan berkreasi dalam tari tradisi, agar dapat menciptakan nilai dari karya tarinya. Creative human resources as a main capital of creative industry. Jaipong dance function in creative economy era nowadays is not enjoyed in art side only, but also in business, therefore the change or development in Jaipong dance should be done continuously to fulfill the market needs today. Buyung Rumingkang as a creator of Jaipong dance is the person who role in conserving and developing Jaipong dance and also managing the dance through industry. Buyung industry in selling Jaipong works lies on traditional art such as silat movement. Included into creative industry domain show art subsector. Buyung role actively in developing Jaipong dance movement which is identically with erotism and developing it into staccato movement, up to date and having selling value, thus are avoiding from taboo word. This research show person, press, process and Buyung Rumingkang’s product, the function shifting and value chain which is happened in Jaipong dance by Buyung Rumingkang. The creativity theory, art function theory and value chain concept in creative industry are used to analyze Jaipong dance by Buyung Rumingkang as creative industry media. This research is showed by the result of interview, document study, library research and observation. The research method used in the analysis is qualitative method of research and resulting in descriptive data. The goal of this research is to describe Buyung Rumingkang creativity in creating Jaipong dance which is having selling value, so it will be a stimulus for other artists, art group, or even art teacher to keep on innovating, and creating in traditional art to create value from it