Shorter Personality Questionnaires—A User's Guide Part 1

In this two part series, James Bywater and Anna Brown summarise some of the issues involved in determining the correct length of assessment in a personality questionnaire (PQ). In the first instalment they discuss the general issues that test designers face, and in the second they cover some more modern solutions to these, with associated disadvantages. It is aimed at practitioners rather than hard core psychometricians and can not be exhaustive. However wherever possible it attempts to distil out practical messages for the audience

Governance in a globalized world: the limitations of corporate social responsibility / Krista Bywater

The Coca-Cola Corporation1 promotes itself as a responsible corporation while people from India and Colombia to the United States and Europe criticize the company’s business practices. Coke, like many other transnational corporations (TNCs), has adopted corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies to protect its revenue and the reputation of its global goods and brand. The company continues to promote its CSR agenda to address the social opposition it has faced since re-entering India in 1993. Using the movement against Coke in India as a case study, this paper examines the problems with CSR and how firms can employ CSR policies to quell oppositional social movements. 2 Through initiatives such as corporate partnerships with development agencies and corporate sponsorship of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), companies, like Coca-Cola, blur the boundaries between markets and movements in order to minimize the effects of popular opposition to global goods. CSR is a discourse that helps companies “greenwash”3 (Greer and Bruno 1996) their images and appear more responsible without making meaningful changes to their business practices. Rather than being used to curtail the harmful effects of economic globalization and TNCs, CSR is typically employed to limit governmental regulation and justify increased foreign investment in the Global South (Blowfield 2005). As a result, CSR furthers the neoliberal agenda, which promotes economic globalization and foreign investment as the best means to achieve social and sustainable development

The Soft Robotics Buzz

Dr. Bergeles\u27 work has close ties to other soft robotics research around the world, including here at Purdue. “Soft Robotics\u27\u27 is a buzzword these days, and that has both positive and negative consequences on the field. On one hand, novel research in the area of surgical robotics is paving the way for things like tele-surgeries. On the other, it has become very competitive to get into the field and some may be mis-using the term “soft robotics” because its clout has outgrown its understanding in everyday society. This artifact is a Canva presentation offering background on the development, market, challenges, and future opportunities for soft robotics

A study of some factors influencing intestinal function in calves

Culture filtrates prepared from a strain of Escherichia coli associated with calf diarrhoea were shown to produce fluid accumulation in ligated segments of calf intestine. No activity could be demonstrated in vitro in the other experimental systems in which these culture filtrates were tested. The material was therefore examined using Thiry-Vella loops prepared in calves.Thiry-Vella loops were found to be a useful test preparation for the study of enterotoxin activity, and were used to examine the effect of enterotoxio extracts on net fluid, electrolyte and glucose absorption. It was found that a significant shift towards secretion of fluid, sodium, bicarbonate and chloride occurred in each case in which they were examined. Potassium was not consistently affected, and glucose absorption was unchanged.The effects of enterotoxin on unidirectional fluxes of water and sodium were studied using isotopic labels. It was found that the net effect on water movement resulted from an increase in exsorption. However, the net effect on sodium movement was mainly the result of decreased insorption. It was suggested that this indicated a complex mechanism for enterotoxin activity.Culture filtrates prepared from strains of E.coli isolated from diarrhoeic but non-septicaemic calves provoked a greater volume of fluid exudate than did filtrates from strains in septicaemic or healthy animals. It was suggested that enterotoxin production may be a graded phenomenon, and moreover, may be commonly encountered in organisms associated with diarrhoea in calves.Using Thiry-Vella loops as a test preparation, it was shown that enterotoxic activity was distinct from bacterial endotoxin, and that the activity was dialysable using Visking tubing. Ultrafiltration showed that most of the activity was contained in the 1000 to 10,000 molecular weight fraction. The material was stable when heated at 100°C, but showed partial loss of activity when heated at 121°C for two hours.Evidence of systemic absorption of enterotoxin was obtained in one animal, but could not be confirmed in another. Attempts to inhibit enterotoxin activity with drugs were not successful.Mucosal lactase was assayed in material from healthy calves and from calves which had died after scouring. Lactase activity was shown to be depressed in the latter group. Normal calves were shown to be able to digest at least twice the normal lactose intake before changes were seen in faeces weight and dry matter, but despite this, lactose tolerance tests showed that there was a significant regression of peak blood glucose rise on faecal dry-matter content. It was therefore suggested that scouring calves may be unable to fully utilise dietary lactose. No effect of enterotoxin on lactase activity could be demonstrated

The Impact of Teacher Roles Outside the Realm of Education

Teachers perform multiple roles and duties in their career as educators, which can lead to teacher burnout. However, there is a lack of research regarding the specific roles and duties outside of curriculum and instruction that are asked of teachers to perform that would result in feelings of emotional labor. This qualitative study aspires to identify the additional roles and duties teachers perform outside of curriculum and instruction and analyze how these additional roles and duties contribute to emotional labor and teacher retention. Through poetic inquiry, this study aims to capture the essence of teacher voices and their additional emotional labor they express from the overwhelming number of additional roles and duties required of them. Based on the research findings, the researcher concludes that the additional roles and duties expected of teachers are a hindrance to their primary jobs and are key factors contributing to a teacher’s choice to leave the profession of educator

Neutron emmision-time distributions of methane moderators at the Argonne National Laboratory Intense Pulsed Neutron Source

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Some correlations between hypnotic action and chemical constitution

A review of theories of narcosis has been made, and some correlations between constitution and activity have been presented for the aliphatic hypnotics;The close and important relationship of dibenzofuran and its derivatives to morphine has been discussed. The following derivatives to morphine has been discussed. The following derivatives to morphine has been discussed. The following derivatives of dibenzofuran haven been prepared for use in physiological tests: 2-, 3-, and 4-amino-, 2- and 3-hydroxy-dibenzofuran, and 2- and 3-dibenzofurancarboxylic acids;A necessary study of nuclear substitution in dibenzofuran has been made prior to the preparation of derivatives for physiological tests. It has been shown that homonuclear substitution results when 2-discetaminodibenzofuran is brominated or nitrated. Heteronuclear substitution occurs when 3-nitrodibenzofuran is brominated. Both heteronuclear and homonuclear substitution take place when 2-bomodibenzofuran is nitrated;The hydroxydibenzofuran formed by passing resorcinol over heated tungstic oxide has been shown to be 3-hydroxydibenzofuran; and, a low melting isomer formed during nitration of dibenzofuran has been found to consist, in part, of 2-nitrodibenzofuran. The significance of these two facts is discussed with reference to the space formula of dibenzofuran and purported anomalous substitutions

A study in short-sight in public elementary schools

Since Cohn’s investigation of the cause a of short- sight and the striking evidence which he brought forward as to the part which Education played in connection therewith, we have been accustomed to regard the schools as the "hot bed" of myopia. In view of the apparently conclusive nature of the statistics obtained by Cohn after an examination of over 10,000 scholars in German Schools, supplemented, as these have been, by the work of Snellen, Priestley Smith, Straub (Amsterdam) and many other eminent ophthalmologists, one reads with something of surprise the memoir or Pearson and Barrington “ A First Study of the Inheritance of Vision, and of the relative influence of Heredity and Environment on Sigh “. In this memoir, which was issued in 1909 under "the auspice of the Eugenic Laboratory of London University, the authors have carefully analysed, by modern statistical methods, much of the evidence adduced in support, of the generally accepted theory "that short- sight is largely the result of Educational Environment

Features of Auditory Brainstem Response Spectral Representations as Tools for ADHD-Diagnostics

ADHD is a psychological disorder which has become significantly more prevalent and much debated in the last decades. This study investigates the possibilities in developing quantitative diagnostic tools for psychiatric assessment of ADHD based on spectral representations of Auditory Brainstem Responses (ABR). Two different approaches to data pre-treatment are adopted, followed by estimates of power spectral densities, cross power spectral densities and time-frequency distributions. From these, features are extracted and examined on their merit as disorder-specific traits. The subject sample consists of ABR:s from 69 individuals; 36 of which are diagnosed with ADHD and 33 healthy controls. Using a band-pass pre-processing method, some significance in difference between disease groups is found for females in terms of dominant frequency, bandwidth, spectral purity and spectral slope in the power spectral density estimate