Finding Teammates Who Are Not Prone to Sucker and Free-Rider Effects: The Protestant Work Ethic as a Moderator of Motivation Losses in Group Performance

This study examined whether differences in the endorsement of the `Protestant Work Ethic' (PWE) are related to motivation losses in group work. Three factors were derived from male student scores on the Mirels—Garrett Protestant Work Ethic Scale, Ho's Australian Work Ethic Scale and a scale designed to assess preferences for reward distributions: instrumental value of work, ethical value of work and normative value of equity. The study assessed motivation loss in two situations; one designed to promote free-rider effects and another designed to promote sucker effects. Results showed that the sucker effect was moderated by all three factors but in qualitatively different ways whereas the free rider effect was not strongly moderated by any of the PWE factors

Preferences, Perceptions, and Veto Players: Explaining Devolution Negotiation Outcomes in the Canadian Territorial North

Since the early part of the 20th century, the federal government has engaged in a long and slow process of devolution in the Canadian Arctic. Although the range of powers devolved to the territorial governments has been substantial over the years, the federal government still maintains control over the single most important jurisdiction in the region, territorial lands and resources, which it controls in two of the three territories, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. This fact is significant for territorial governments because gaining jurisdiction over their lands and resources is seen as necessary for dramatically improving the lives of residents and governments in the Canadian north. Relying on archival materials, secondary sources, and 33 elite interviews, this paper uses a rational choice framework to explain why the Yukon territorial government was able to complete a final devolution agreement relating to lands and resources in 2001 and why the governments of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut have not. It finds that the nature and distance of federal-territorial preferences, combined with government perceptions of aboriginal consent and federal perceptions of territorial capacity and maturity, explain the divergent outcomes experienced by the three territorial governments in the Canadian arctic. The following acronyms are employed: AIP: Agreement-in-Principle; DTA: Devolution Transfer Agreement; GEB: gross expenditure base; GN: Government of Nunavut; GNWT: Government of Northwest Territories; NCLA: Nunavut Land Claims Agreement; NTI: Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated; NWT; Northwest Territories; ON: Ontario; TFF: Territorial Formula Financing; UFA: Umbrella Final Agreement; YDTA: Yukon Devolution Transfer Agreement; YTG: Yukon Territorial Government; YK: Yukon

Finding Team Mates who are not prone to Sucker and Free-Rider effects: The Protestant Work Ethic as a Moderator of Motivation Losses in Group Performance

This study examines the contribution of a personality variable in motivation losses in group performance. Differences in the endorsement of the ‘Protestant Work Ethic’ can account for variance in motivation losses in group work. Male student scores on the Mirels- Garrett Protestant Work Ethic Scale and Ho’s Australian Work Ethic Scale as well as different preferences for reward distributions were used as moderator variables. The study tested motivation losses in a situation that was designed to provoke the free-rider effect and in a situation that was designed to provoke the sucker-effect. Results showed that different facets of the Protestant Work Ethic have different effects on behavior in group work situations: Whereas approval of the equity principle moderates the sucker-effect, belief in work as a value moderates the free-rider effect

Peasants, skinners, and dead cattle: The transformation of rural society in western Japan, 1600-1890

This dissertation traces the development of capitalism in Japan in the nineteenth century by focusing on the transition from status-based property to private property. Property is important to the capitalist transition because the separation of the laborer from the objective means of labor forms the necessary precondition for capitalist production. At the beginning of the Tokugawa period (1600-1868), property in Japan was directly tied to status. Status was a form of organizing production and political control via semi-autonomous social groups based on a shared trade or territorial space. Status groups provided status-specific service to the Tokugawa state in return for the official recognition of status-specific rights and privileges, which constituted the status-based property of that group. The establishment of modern, capitalist property relations emerged out of the dissolution of the status system, while the abolition of status marked the triumph of new property relations. To trace these changes in status and property, I focus on the kawata (skinner) status group from the late medieval period to the end of the nineteenth century. The kawata were a group of skinners, knackers, and small holders who were responsible for disposing of dead draft animals in their local communities. In exchange for this service, these communities were granted ownership rights over all carcasses as a status-based right. When a bovine or equine died, it automatically became the property of the nearby kawata community with no compensation to the former owner. Using one village as a case study – Saraike Village of Kawachi Province, now Osaka Prefecture – I show how livestock carcasses transitioned from the status-based property of a single social group to the private property of individual households regardless of status. I argue that this change was effected by forces from below, resulting in the emergence of capitalist property relations prior to the arrival of the West in 1853

Photoinitiated polymerisation of monolithic stationary phases in polyimide coated capillaries using visible region LEDs

The spatially controlled synthesis of poly(glycidyl methacrylate-co-ethylene dimethacrylate) monolithic stationary phases in polyimide coated fused silica capillaries by visible light induced radical polymerisation using a three-component initiator and a 660 nm light emitting diode (LED) as a light source is presented here

Vergleich einer Zucchinihybridsorte mit einer Zuchtlinie unter Ökolandbau-Bedingungen hinsichtlich der Bildung erster pistillater Blüten- bzw. Früchte

Die Dauer von der Pflanzung der Zucchinipflanze (Cucurbita pepo L.) bis zu deren Bildung der ersten pistillaten Blüte und schließlich Frucht variiert je nach Umwelt. In diesem Experiment wurden die Tage von der Pflanzung bis zum Beginn der ersten pistillaten Blüte sowie die Bildung der ersten Frucht von zwei verschiedenen Zucchini-Genotypen unter biologischen Anbaubedingungen ausgewertet. Die beiden Genotypen wurden zu drei verschiedenen Zeitpunkten (jeweils einen Monat auseinander) innerhalb einer Anbauphase gepflanzt. Die Gradwachstumstage (GDD) wurden berechnet, um mögliche Unterschiede zwischen den beiden Genotypen zu bewerten. Die erzielten Ergebnisse zeigten Unterschiede zwischen der erforderlichen Anzahl von Tagen und GDD nach dem Pflanzen bis zum Beginn der ersten pistillaten Blüte und Frucht

Further evidence for a large glue component in the f0(1500) meson

We argue that the experimental decay rates of the f0(1500) meson into two pseudoscalar mesons and into two photons are incompatible with a quark-antiquark state and that the f0(1710) meson is dominantly an ssbar state.Comment: 11 page

Umsetzung eines sozialraumorientierten Konzeptes im Förder- und Betreuungsbereich

In Baden-Württemberg bieten sogenannte Förder- und Betreuungsbereiche (FuB) Arbeits- und Unterstützungsmöglichkeiten für Menschen mit hohem Unterstützungsbedarf. In diesem Beitrag erläutern die Autoren mit ihrer Praxis- und Einrichtungserfahrung entsprechende Aktivitäten einer Trägereinrichtung und zeigen dabei Wurzeln und Weiterentwicklungen auf im Kontext der beruflichen Bildung und der Sozialraumorientierung. (DIPF/Orig.

Testing the Unitarity of the CKM Matrix with a Space-Based Neutron Decay Experiment

If the Standard Model is correct, and fundamental fermions exist only in the three generations, then the CKM matrix should be unitary. However, there remains a question over a deviation from unitarity from the value of the neutron lifetime. We discuss a simple space-based experiment that, at an orbit height of 500 km above Earth, would measure the kinetic-energy, solid-angle, flux spectrum of gravitationally bound neutrons (kinetic energy K<0.606 eV at this altitude). The difference between the energy spectrum of neutrons that come up from the Earth's atmosphere and that of the undecayed neutrons that return back down to the Earth would yield a measurement of the neutron lifetime. This measurement would be free of the systematics of laboratory experiments. A package of mass $<25$ kg could provide a 10^{-3} precision in two years.Comment: 10 pages, 4 figures. Revised and updated for publicatio

Glueballs and Hybrids (Gluons as Constituents)

After a brief introduction to hybrid and glueball source operators, I summarize recent lattice results for these particles.Comment: 5 pages, contribution to LATTICE-99, corrected glueball mass tabl