Person-environment fit and job satisfaction among police.

Dept. of Psychology. Paper copy at Leddy Library: Theses & Major Papers - Basement, West Bldg. / Call Number: Thesis1988 .H638. Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 40-07, page: . Thesis (M.A.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 1988

Feasibility of incorporating genomic knowledge into electronic medical records for pharmacogenomic clinical decision support

In pursuing personalized medicine, pharmacogenomic (PGx) knowledge may help guide prescribing drugs based on a person’s genotype. Here we evaluate the feasibility of incorporating PGx knowledge, combined with clinical data, to support clinical decision-making by: 1) analyzing clinically relevant knowledge contained in PGx knowledge resources; 2) evaluating the feasibility of a rule-based framework to support formal representation of clinically relevant knowledge contained in PGx knowledge resources; and, 3) evaluating the ability of an electronic medical record/electronic health record (EMR/EHR) to provide computable forms of clinical data needed for PGx clinical decision support. Findings suggest that the PharmGKB is a good source for PGx knowledge to supplement information contained in FDA approved drug labels. Furthermore, we found that with supporting knowledge (e.g. IF age <18 THEN patient is a child), sufficient clinical data exists in University of Washington’s EMR systems to support 50% of PGx knowledge contained in drug labels that could be expressed as rules

Polymeric drift control adjuvants for agricultural spraying

The movement of a pesticide or herbicide to an off-target site during agricultural spraying can cause injury to wildlife, plants and contamination of surface water. This phenomenon is known as spray drift and can be controlled by spraying during favorable environmental conditions, and by using low drift nozzles and drift control adjuvants (DCAs). Polymeric DCAs are the most common type of DCA and function by increasing the droplet size produced during spraying. There are, however, two main drawbacks of polymeric DCAs; they are prone to mechanical degradation during spraying which reduces their performance and they can produce oversized drops which reduces the efficacy of the spray. In this trend article, existing DCA technology is reviewed including the mechanism through which they function. This then provides a platform for the discussion of novel polymeric architectures which have currently not been applied in DCA formulations

The effects of career plateauing on self-efficacy expectations, career coping strategies, and job outcomes among police

The present study was designed to compare a subjective, probabilistic measure of career plateau with a traditional, tenure-based measure and to examine the effect of career plateau on self-efficacy expectancies (Bandura, 1977), coping strategies (Lazurus & Folkman, 1984), and job outcomes (stress symptoms, job dissatisfaction, job apathy, and organizational detachment). A personal-development definition of the career plateau as constituting part of a career transition was proposed as well as a stress-coping model of career plateau transition. The study involved the development of two multidimensional measures of self-efficacy expectancies (midcareer decision-making and police duties) and a multidimensional measure of career coping strategies (work-role centred, decision-making, wishful avoidance, support-seeking, minimization.) A total of 553 police officers from a large decentralized Canadian police force were separated into five career status categories on the basis of a combination of their self-judgements of the probability of attaining their career goals (nonplateaued, 80%-100%, plateauing, 40%-70%, and probably plateaued, 0-30%; n = 407) and self-selection (plateaued and basic career; n = 146). The data supported the hypothesis that the subjective measure of career plateau explained a significant amount of the variance in each job outcome measure beyond that which was explained by several covariates (rank, rank tenure, position tenure, times competed, off-job stress, and social desireability) and two tenure-based measures combined. In addition, the data showed that as perceptions of career plateauing increased, self-efficacy expectations and work-role career coping behaviours decreased, and levels of stress symptoms and negative job/organizational attitudes increased. Preliminary support for the stress-coping model of the career plateau transition was found. The data showed that the effect of the career plateau on stress symptoms was entirely mediated by both types of self-efficacy expectancies and by three of the five coping strategies. The data also revealed a direct effect of career plateau on negative job/organizational attitudes as well as an effect mediated through decision-making and work-role competency domains