The Application of Attitude Functions to the Study of Job Attitudes

The current research applied the study of attitude functions to the domain of job attitudes. This study hypothesized that the psychological needs behind attitudes towards the organization would moderate the relationships between job attitudes. Forty-eight surveys were used from a sample of 81 faculty members. No significant moderating effects were found. However, a regression analysis found direct relationships between attitude functions and job attitudes. The social-adjustive (SA) function demonstrated a positive significant relationship with affective commitment and normative commitment. The self-esteem-maintenance function (S-E-M) demonstrated a negative significant relationship with affective commitment, normative commitment, and job satisfaction, and a significant positive relationship with continuance commitment. Implications for the organizational environment that should be facilitated at work are discussed

Structural Studies by X-Ray and Neutron Diffraction

This thesis is concerned with the application of neutron and X-ray diffraction techniques to the study of hydrogen bonding in the acid salts of some simple carboxylic acids and, in particular, those of glutaric acid. It is divided into three parts. By way of introduction, Part 1 contains a brief review of the subject of hydrogen bonding with emphasis on symmetrical hydrogen bonds and on the deuterium isotope effect. This is followed by a review of the available structural data for the acid salts of dicarboxylic acids. The elucidation, by X-ray diffraction analyses, of the crystal structures of potassium hydrogen glutarate, potassium hydrogen di-m-chlorobenzoate and potassium trihydrogen diglutarate is described in Part 2. The first two salts possess very short (2.445 A and 2.437 A respectively) crystallographically symmetrical hydrogen bonds while the last is an acid salt of a novel type. The structures of all three are discussed. A comparison of the crystal structures of potassium hydrogen ditrifluoroacetate and its deuteriate as determined by neutron diffraction analyses is made in Part 3 and the result adduced as evidence of genuine symmetry in the short (2.437 A) hydrogen bonds. As well as a discussion of these crystal structures, the application of the "difference-Patterson" function to neutron diffraction data is examined and is found to constitute a valid method for phase determination. This part is concluded with the description of the neutron diffraction analyses of potassium and ammonium hydrogen glutarate both of which confirm the X-ray results but locate the hydrogen atoms more precisely. Finally, the thesis contains two appendices; the first is a published paper describing and comparing the crystal structures of rubidium and ammonium hydrogen glutarate while the second is concerned with the effects of extinction in neutron and X-ray diffraction analyses and contains programs developed for the correction of the errors arising from this effect

Effectiveness of High Fidelity Human Patient Simulators in Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Teaching

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Landscape and artist film

This thesis is an analytical commentary on a portfolio of digital video pieces which together constitute a body of practical research. The aim of that research was to use digital video to make a series of experimental films about the Scottish island of Rum in order to address the following question: How can such films address three things connected with landscape: the way in which landscape and subjectivity are intertwined, the way in which power operates through and on landscapes and the process of digital filmmaking itself? To this extent, the films aimed to illuminate and explore aspects of the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Michel Foucault. Through a process of experimentation with different camera types and filming techniques, and different editing and presentation styles, a series of video pieces was created before and following a visit to the Isle of Rum. The different methodologies evolved on the basis of this experimentation. The thesis sets out the theoretical and artistic contexts in which the practical work took place with significant reference to artist filmmakers such as James Benning, Margaret Tait, Gideon Koppel, William Raban and Chris Welsby. It concludes that different styles of film are appropriate for capturing different truths about the landscape. Furthermore, it argues that digital filmmaking is itself capable of being a type of phenomenological investigation into our relationship with landscape

Trust and temporality in participatory research

This paper argues that trust cannot be taken for granted in long-term participatory research and promotes greater consideration to conceptualizing the trusting process as fluid and fragile. This awareness by researchers can reveal to them how the passing of time shapes and reshapes the nature of trusting relationships and their constant negotiation and re-negotiation. The paper draws together literature from different disciplines on the themes of trust, temporality and participatory research and outcomes from interviews and workshops undertaken for The Trust Map project to focus on two key moments that reveal the fragility of trust. These are the subtlety of disruption and trust on trial and trust at a distance. We discuss how trust was built over time through processes of interaction that were continually tested, incremental and participatory

Community Conversational: Supporting and Capturing Deliberative Talk in Local Consultation Processes

The development of platforms for community decision- making has been of growing interest to the HCI community, yet the ways technology might be woven into traditional consultation processes has been under-studied. We conducted fieldwork at consultation events where residents were invited to discuss and map assets related to their neighbourhoods to inform community decision-making. The fieldwork highlighted problems with equality, turn taking, the evidencing and elaborating on opinions by residents, and challenges related to capturing and documenting the events. We developed Community Conversational—a hybrid table- top game and digital capture and review platform—in response to these issues. Community Conversational was designed to provide a flexible structure to consultation events related to ‘place’, and support the production, capture and review of deliberative ‘talk’ to support decision-making. We study how the platform was used in two consultation events, and discuss the implications of capturing and evidencing local people’s opinions for the accountability of decision- makers and community organisations

Geothermal Heating and its Influence on the Meridional Overturning Circulation

The effect of geothermal heating on the meridional overturning circulation is examined using an idealized, coarse-resolution ocean general circulation model. This heating is parameterized as a spatially uniform heat flux of 50 mW m-2 through the (flat) ocean floor, in contrast with previous studies that have considered an isolated hotspot or a series of plumes along the mid-Atlantic ridge. The equilibrated response is largely advective: a deep perturbation of the meridional overturning cell on the order of several Sv is produced, connecting with an upper-level circulation at high latitudes, allowing the additional heat to be released to the atmosphere. Risingmotion in the perturbation deep cell is concentrated near the equator. The upward penetration of this cell is limited by the thermocline, analogous to the role of the stratosphere in limiting the upward penetration of convective plumes in the atmosphere. The magnitude of the advective response is inversely proportional to the deep stratification; with a weaker background meridional overturning circulation and a less stratified abyss, the overturning maximum of the perturbation deep cell is increased. This advective response also cools the low-latitude thermocline. The qualitative behavior is similar in both a single hemisphere and double hemisphere configuration.The anomalous circulation driven by geothermal fluxes is more substantial than previously thought. We are able to understand the structure and strength of the response in the idealized geometry and further extend these ideas to explain the results of Adcroft et al. [2001], where the impact of geothermal heating was examined using a global configuration

Vertex operators and the geometry of moduli spaces of framed torsion-free sheaves

We define complexes of vector bundles on products of moduli spaces of framed rank r torsion-free sheaves on the complex projective plane. The top non-vanishing Chern classes of the cohomology of these complexes yield actions of the r-colored Heisenberg and Clifford algebras on the equivariant cohomology of the moduli spaces. In this way we obtain a geometric realization of the boson-fermion correspondence and related vertex operators.Comment: 36 pages; v2: Definition of geometric Heisenberg operators modified; v3: Minor typos correcte

The preventative role of exogenous melatonin administration to patients with advanced cancer who are at risk of delirium: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.Background Delirium is a very common and distressing neuropsychiatric syndrome in palliative care. Increasing age, the presence of dementia and advanced cancer are well-known predisposing risk factors for delirium development. Sleep-wake cycle disturbance is frequently seen during delirium and melatonin has a pivotal role in the regulation of circadian rhythms. Current evidence across various settings suggests a potential preventative role for melatonin in patients at risk of delirium, but no studies are currently reported in patients with advanced cancer. The aim of this article is to describe the design of a feasibility study that is being conducted to inform a larger randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind trial (RCT) to evaluate the role of exogenously administered melatonin in preventing delirium in patients with advanced cancer. Methods/Design Adult patients with a cancer diagnosis who are admitted to the palliative care unit will be randomized into a treatment or placebo group. The pharmacological intervention consists of a single daily dose of immediate-release melatonin (3 mg) at 21:00 ± 1 h, from day 1 to day 28 of admission. The primary objective of this initial study is to assess the feasibility of conducting the proposed RCT by testing recruitment and retention rates, appropriateness of study outcome measures, acceptability of study procedures and effectiveness of the blinding process. The primary outcome measure of the proposed larger RCT is time to first inpatient incident episode of delirium. We also plan to collect data on incident rates of delirium and patient-days of delirium, adjusting for length of admission. Discussion The outcomes of this feasibility study will provide information on recruitment and retention rates, protocol violation frequency, effectiveness of the blinding process, acceptability of the study procedures, and safety of the proposed intervention. This will inform the design of a fully powered randomized controlled trial to evaluate the preventative role of melatonin administration in patients with advanced cancer. Trial registration Registered with ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT02200172 Registered on 21 July 2014. Health Canada protocol number: BRI-MELAT-2013 (Final approved protocol version (Version 3): 18 June 2014) (Notice of Amended Authorization (NOA) received 14 November 2014). Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13063-016-1525-8) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users