Effects of Goal Orientation Profile Types on Organizational Outcoms in Veterinarians

Goal orientation and work avoidance dimensions and profiles were studied in relationship to performance, satisfaction, self-efficacy, commitment and tenure. It was found that dimensions were the only significant predictors of satisfaction and self-efficacy. Still, there was evidence that the profiles were related to outcomes and, specifically, profiles were a stronger predictor of tenure. In addition, the dimension of work avoidance appears to provide additional information to the emerging profile types. These results provide important evidence of the emerging common goal orientation profile types. These groups were found to have different outcomes, most notably in performance and tenure. This research provides evidence that there is value in examining goal orientation dimensions, adding in the work avoidance construct, and predicting various outcomes

Saggitarius: A DSL for Specifying Grammatical Domains

Common data types like dates, addresses, phone numbers and tables can have multiple textual representations, and many heavily-used languages, such as SQL, come in several dialects. These variations can cause data to be misinterpreted, leading to silent data corruption, failure of data processing systems, or even security vulnerabilities. Saggitarius is a new language and system designed to help programmers reason about the format of data, by describing grammatical domains -- that is, sets of context-free grammars that describe the many possible representations of a datatype. We describe the design of Saggitarius via example and provide a relational semantics. We show how Saggitarius may be used to analyze a data set: given example data, it uses an algorithm based on semi-ring parsing and MaxSAT to infer which grammar in a given domain best matches that data. We evaluate the effectiveness of the algorithm on a benchmark suite of 110 example problems, and we demonstrate that our system typically returns a satisfying grammar within a few seconds with only a small number of examples. We also delve deeper into a more extensive case study on using Saggitarius for CSV dialect detection. Despite being general-purpose, we find that Saggitarius offers comparable results to hand-tuned, specialized tools; in the case of CSV, it infers grammars for 84% of benchmarks within 60 seconds, and has comparable accuracy to custom-built dialect detection tools.Comment: OOPSLA 202

Hematochezia and the False Negative Meckel's Scan: A Continued Need for Barium Studies

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Teaching a Doctoral Course in Consultation: The Parallel Team Process

A parallel team model of teaching consultation is presented. The model highlights experiential group counseling theory, techniques, and Yalom’s (1995) identified group therapeutic factors. The goal was to increase the students’ awareness and knowledge of consultation skills and teamwork in order to model and teach the same skills. The parallel interaction between the consultant and consultee teams is illustrated during the consultation stages of entry, problem/strength identification (diagnosis), intervention, and evaluation. The learning experience stimulated ideas for teaching consultation and the parallel team process

Extension into the entrance channel of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase—Crystallography and enhanced solubility

Non-nucleoside inhibitors of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase (HIV-RT) are reported that feature extension into the entrance channel near Glu138. Complexes of the parent anilinylpyrimidine 1 and the morpholinoethoxy analog 2j with HIV-RT have received crystallographic characterization confirming the designs. Measurement of aqueous solubilities of 2j, 2k, the parent triazene 2a, and other NNRTIs demonstrate profound benefits for addition of the morpholinyl substituent.Fil: Bollini, Mariela. University of Yale; Estados Unidos. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Frey, Kathleen M.. University of Yale. School of Medicine; Estados UnidosFil: Cisneros, José A.. University of Yale; Estados UnidosFil: Spasov, Krasimir A.. University of Yale. School of Medicine; Estados UnidosFil: Das, Kalyan. Rutgers University; Estados UnidosFil: Bauman, Joseph D.. Rutgers University; Estados UnidosFil: Arnold, Eddy. Rutgers University; Estados UnidosFil: Anderson, Karen S.. University of Yale. School of Medicine; Estados UnidosFil: Jorgensen, William L.. University of Yale; Estados Unido

Suction rectal biopsy in the diagnosis of Hirschsprung's disease and chronic constipation

Suction rectal biopsy has gained increased acceptance as the means of definitively diagnosing Hirschsprung's disease as well as excluding this diagnosis when evaluating the child with chronic constipation. During the 11-year period from 1 July 1974 through 30 June 1985 at the University of Michigan, Mott Children's Hospital, 309 suction rectal biopsy specimens were evaluated. Of these, 293 were done for the evaluation of chronic constipation and/or Hirschsprung's disease. The remaining 16 were performed as a part of the work-up in patients with neuromuscular, glycogen storage, inflammatory bowel, or other diseases. Forty-two (14%) of the 293 patients were diagnosed as having Hirschsprung's disease at an average age of 14.4 months. This diagnosis was ruled out in the remaining 251 patients, whose age at biopsy averaged 2.7 years. There was one false-negative reading representing an incidence of 0.3%, with no false-positives. There were no complications. The suction rectal biopsy is a bedside or clinic procedure that reliably provides pathologic material adequate for the accurate diagnosis or exclusion of Hirschsprung's disease and offers a number of advantages over manometric, radiographic, histochemical, and open, full-thickness biopsy techniques.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/47146/1/383_2004_Article_BF00166866.pd