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Micro-Level Determinants of Lecture Attendance and Additional Study-Hours
This paper uses novel measures of individual differences that produce new insights about student inputs into the (higher) education production function. The inputs examined are lecture attendance and additional study-hours. The data were collected through a web-survey that the authors designed. The analysis includes the following measures: willingness to take risks, consideration of future consequences and non-cognitive ability traits. Besides age, gender and year of study, the main determinants of lecture attendance and additional study-hours are attitude to risk, future-orientation and conscientiousness. In addition, future-orientation, and in particular conscientiousness, determine lecture attendance to a greater extent than they determine additional study. Finally, we show that family income and financial transfers (from both parents and the state) do not determine any educational input. This study suggests that non-cognitive abilities may be more important than financial constraints in the determination of inputs related to educational production functions.higher education, education inputs, lecture attendance, hours of study, future-orientation, attitude to risk, non-cognitive ability, conscientiousness
History of HAART – the true story of how effective multi-drug therapy was developed for treatment of HIV disease
Assessment of the status, development and diversification of fisheries-dependent communities:RĂĽgen Island Case study report
Vertex corrections in localized and extended systems
Within many-body perturbation theory we apply vertex corrections to various
closed-shell atoms and to jellium, using a local approximation for the vertex
consistent with starting the many-body perturbation theory from a DFT-LDA
Green's function. The vertex appears in two places -- in the screened Coulomb
interaction, W, and in the self-energy, \Sigma -- and we obtain a systematic
discrimination of these two effects by turning the vertex in \Sigma on and off.
We also make comparisons to standard GW results within the usual random-phase
approximation (RPA), which omits the vertex from both. When a vertex is
included for closed-shell atoms, both ground-state and excited-state properties
demonstrate only limited improvements over standard GW. For jellium we observe
marked improvement in the quasiparticle band width when the vertex is included
only in W, whereas turning on the vertex in \Sigma leads to an unphysical
quasiparticle dispersion and work function. A simple analysis suggests why
implementation of the vertex only in W is a valid way to improve quasiparticle
energy calculations, while the vertex in \Sigma is unphysical, and points the
way to development of improved vertices for ab initio electronic structure
calculations.Comment: 8 Pages, 6 Figures. Updated with quasiparticle neon results, extended
conclusions and references section. Minor changes: Updated references, minor
improvement
The Case of the Frequent Flyer Fraudster
This case, based on a real fraud, engages students in a fraud investigation learning activity with a focus on interrogation. Students analyze an interrogation, identify and discuss verbal and nonverbal cues to deception, discuss legal ramifications of conducting fraud examinations, and develop recommendations to improve internal controls. The intended audience is a fraud examination course
Executive Briefing: Winning with ICT, Competing on Competency – an IT Capability Maturity Approach
Information Technology (IT) is emerging as one of the most
dominant forces that are changing business, and indeed
society, today. Increasingly, we are seeing the collision of
Moore’s law with all types of business to produce great
entrepreneurial and business opportunities. Although
technology, driven by Moore’s law, is advancing at a very fast
rate, the management practices used to manage and apply IT
appear to be lagging significantly. Despite Nicholas Carr’s
assertion that “IT doesn’t matter” many firms are increasingly
using IT to create and sustain competitive advantage. However
the challenges of technology complexity, demand growth,
security, budget and many others make the use and conversion
of technology into value unpredictable and risky.
The IT profession is in a catch 22 scenario at present. IT
departments are underperforming and company management is
unwilling to fund IT: in fact less funding is the dominant
strategy these days. CEOs invest in those areas of the business
that contribute to the core objectives of the business, typically
looking for growth and margin, or new successful products and
services. IT departments consume so much of their available
resources to just maintain current performance levels (and do
not always succeed in even achieving this), that there is little
capacity for investing in innovation. This situation can continue
to be a constantly downward spiral, unless IT can move from a
reactive to proactive posture
The effect of teachers trained in a fundamental movement skills programme on children’s self-perceptions and motor competence
Trial wave functions for High-Pressure Metallic Hydrogen
Many body trial wave functions are the key ingredient for accurate Quantum
Monte Carlo estimates of total electronic energies in many electron systems. In
the Coupled Electron-Ion Monte Carlo method, the accuracy of the trial function
must be conjugated with the efficiency of its evaluation. We report recent
progress in trial wave functions for metallic hydrogen implemented in the
Coupled Electron-Ion Monte Carlo method. We describe and characterize several
types of trial functions of increasing complexity in the range of the coupling
parameter . We report wave function comparisons for
disordered protonic configurations and preliminary results for thermal
averages.Comment: 11 pages, 6 figures, submitted to Computer Physics Communication
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