Impact of Total Rewards on Animation Employees’ Engagement

The researchers examine the impact of total rewards on engagement by multiple regression analysis in this paper. The sample for the study is 800 animation employees in South China. SPSS17.0 and AMOS18 are used in exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis. The study proves that: (a) Total rewards are a multi-hierarchical and multi-dimensional construct which includes 7 first-order factors and 4 second-order factors. (b) Challenging working environment, appreciation and recognition, promotion opportunity and individual variable pay have significant positive impacts on employee engagement, and the contribution rate are 42.0%, 11.6%, 1.4% and 0.9% respectively. (c) Individual fixed salary, collective salary and spiritual rewards have no significant positive impacts on employee engagement. The study has further enriched the theories of total rewards and employee engagement and has provided the theoretical basis and empirical evidence supports to the management of the animation companies for them to carry out the incentive programs to the employees

Designing Promotion Incentive to Embrace Social Sharing: Evidence from Field and Lab Experiments

Despite the increasing connectivity between customers enabled by digital technologies, there is an absence of research investigating how firms should redesign the promotion incentives to engage customers as both ‘purchaser’ and ‘sharer’ in this social media era. In this study, we conduct a large-scale field experiment and two lab experiments to test the effectiveness of different incentive designs (varied by shareability and quantity of promo codes) in driving social sharing senders’ purchase and referrals. Providing senders with one non-shareable code significantly increases their purchase likelihood. In comparison, the senders who receive one shareable code are less likely to purchase themselves, but are much more likely to make successful referrals. We further conduct two lab experiments, which replicate the field experiment findings and explore the underlying mechanisms. We find that the exclusivity perception and social motive triggered by various incentive designs mediate and explain their effect on sender’s purchase and referrals. Our study extends prior IS literature on social sharing that has focused on sharing information to the domain of sharing incentives, providing implications to firms on how to design promotional incentive that accommodates the dual role of customers as purchasers and sharers and sheds light on the motives underlying social sharing

Stop Hiding The Sharp Knives: The WebAssembly Linux Interface

WebAssembly is gaining popularity as a portable binary format targetable from many programming languages. With a well-specified low-level virtual instruction set, minimal memory footprint and many high-performance implementations, it has been successfully adopted for lightweight in-process memory sandboxing in many contexts. Despite these advantages, WebAssembly lacks many standard system interfaces, making it difficult to reuse existing applications. This paper proposes WALI: The WebAssembly Linux Interface, a thin layer over Linux's userspace system calls, creating a new class of virtualization where WebAssembly seamlessly interacts with native processes and the underlying operating system. By virtualizing the lowest level of userspace, WALI offers application portability with little effort and reuses existing compiler backends. With WebAssembly's control flow integrity guarantees, these modules gain an additional level of protection against remote code injection attacks. Furthermore, capability-based APIs can themselves be virtualized and implemented in terms of WALI, improving reuse and robustness through better layering. We present an implementation of WALI in a modern WebAssembly engine and evaluate its performance on a number of applications which we can now compile with mostly trivial effort.Comment: 12 pages, 8 figure

Measurement of Source Star Colors with the K2C9-CFHT Multi-color Microlensing Survey

K2 Campaign 9 (K2C9) was the first space-based microlensing parallax survey capable of measuring microlensing parallaxes of free-floating planet candidate microlensing events. Simultaneous to K2C9 observations we conducted the K2C9 Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Multi-Color Microlensing Survey (K2C9-CFHT MCMS) in order to measure the colors of microlensing source stars to improve the accuracy of K2C9's parallax measurements. We describe the difference imaging photometry analysis of the K2C9-CFHT MCMS observations, and present the project's first data release. This includes instrumental difference flux lightcurves of 217 microlensing events identified by other microlensing surveys, reference image photometry calibrated to PanSTARRS data release 1 photometry, and tools to convert between instrumental and calibrated flux scales. We derive accurate analytic transformations between the PanSTARRS bandpasses and the Kepler bandpass, as well as angular diameter-color relations in the PanSTARRS bandpasses. To demonstrate the use of our data set, we analyze ground-based and K2 data of a short timescale microlensing event, OGLE-2016-BLG-0795. We find the event has a timescale $t_{\rm E}=4.5 \pm 0.1$~days and microlens parallax $\pi_{\rm E}=0.12 \pm 0.03$ or $0.97 \pm 0.04$, subject to the standard satellite parallax degeneracy. We argue that the smaller value of the parallax is more likely, which implies that the lens is likely a stellar-mass object in the Galactic bulge as opposed to a super-Jupiter mass object in the Galactic disk.Comment: Submitted to PAS

The lifetime of charged dust in the atmosphere

8 pagesWind-blown dust plays a critical role in numerous geophysical and biological systems, yet current models fail to explain the transport of coarse-mode particles (>5μm) to great distances from their sources. For particles larger than a few microns, electrostatic effects have been invoked to account for longer-than-predicted atmospheric residence times. Although much effort has focused on elucidating the charging processes, comparatively little effort has been expended understanding the stability of charge on particles once electrified. Overall, electrostatic-driven transport requires that charge remain present on particles for days to weeks. Here,we present a set of experiments designed to explore the longevity of electrostatic charge on levitated airborne particles after a single charging event. Using an acoustic levitator,we measured the charge on particles of different material compositions suspended in atmospheric conditions for long periods of time. In dry environments, the total charge on particles decayed in over 1week. The decay timescale decreased to days in humid environments. These results were independent of particle material and charge polarity. However, exposure to UV radiation could both increase and decrease the decay time depending on polarity. Our work suggests that the rate of charge decay on airborne particles is solely determined by ion capture from the air. Furthermore, using a one-dimensional sedimentation model, we predict that atmospheric dust of order 10μm will experience the largest change in residence time due to electrostatic forces