Gender Presentation and Membership Bias in Greek Organizations

The study objective was to explore the possibility of discrimination and bias based on perceived gender presentation. In this study, subjects were female and male undergraduate students of both Greek and non-Greek affiliations at a University in the Southeastern United States. Subjects were asked to rate the probability of extending group membership to others based on perceived visual gender appearance. In the pilot study, 150 University of Central Florida students were polled to assess three categories of visual gender presentation in pictures: average gender presentation (typical female or male), extreme gender presentation (extremely feminine or extremely masculine) and non-traditional gender presentation (masculine females or effeminate males). Three pictures of each gender presentation category were then chosen for the final study. In both studies, The Crowne-Marlowe (1964) Social Desirability Scale (CMDS) was administered. Results indicated no difference in the ratings between Greek and non-Greek participants. However, the results did show a statistically significant bias against individuals of average and non-traditional gender presentation versus individuals who represented extreme gender presentation. Hence, subjects were more likely to extend membership to individuals who appeared to be extremely feminine or extremely masculine. There was also a statistically significant bias favoring average over non-traditional gender presentation individuals. Additionally, social desirability bias played a significant role in how subjects made their selection. The study not only shows significant relationships between gender presentation and discrimination, but also provides evidence that male students prefer hyper-masculine males and female students prefer hyper-feminine females

A decision-making model for workload/salary choices and their effect on well-being

We propose a career decision-making model to examine employees' well-being and understand why in developed countries rising incomes are accompanied by increasing workloads, rising social problems and stagnant satisfaction. The model applies prospect theory to people's career choices under uncertainty, and specifically to scenarios where workload is expressed through qualitative expressions. We argue that uncertainty leads to systematic over-evaluation of some well-being predictors (salary) over others (friends and family). A research agenda and some potential solutions are also discussed.Decision-making Utility indifference curves Well-being Labor economics Prospect theory

Etude de limnigraphes adaptes aux ecoulements tres charges en transport solide

vol. 1 : Etude de limnigraphes adaptes aux ecoulements tres charges en transport solide - vol. 2 : Rapport sur la mise au point d'un limnigraphe a ultrasons aeriens - vol. 3 : Etude, realisation et essais d'une echelle limnigraphique a lecture analogique et numerique ELLAN - vol. 4 : utilisation des capteurs de pression (tests en laboratoire) - vol. 5 : Limnimetres optiques - Faisabilite en fonction des caracteristiques de la surface d'un cours d'eau relatives a la reflexion et a la diffusion d'un faisceau lumineuxSIGLEAvailable at INIST (FR), Document Supply Service, under shelf-number : AR 15360 (1); AR 15360 (2); AR 15360 (3); AR 15360 (4); AR 15360 (5) / INIST-CNRS - Institut de l'Information Scientifique et TechniqueFRFranc