634 research outputs found
Evaluating the Effectiveness of the New Jersey Leaders to Leaders Induction Program: a Case Study
Evaluating the Effectiveness of the New Jersey Leaders to Leaders Induction Program: a Case Study
Mimetic Isomorphism and TechnologyEvaluation: Does Imitation TranscendJudgment?
Although contemporary technology adoption theories incorporate societal norms or peer references, it is unclear to what extent these factors influence choices. In this research, we apply institutional theory and the concept of mimetic isomorphism as peer influences to the technology evaluation process to determine the degree to which managers conform when selecting between competing information technologies. More specifically, we test if peer influence is sufficient to overcome a product evaluation where the choice is believed to be inferior. An experiment is conducted using the World Wide Web and a national sample of 348 senior information technology and business decision makers. Significant effects are found where inferior technologies are selected if respondents are informed that competitors have selected them. Further research is warranted to investigate the presence and extent of these effects but overall implications are that product evaluations may be more ornamental than substantive
Minority Stress among Gay and Bisexual Men in Agricultural Occupations
Research integrating the minority stress model and vocational behavior has used broad samples of sexual minority persons. Specific work contexts, particularly traditionally masculine work contexts, may be relevant areas to the integration of minority stress theory and vocational well-being. This study examined the relationship between workplace heterosexism and job satisfaction, as moderated by identity management and person-organization fit, among a sample of 114 sexual minority men, employed in agriculture, recruited from an online social network group. Contrary to prior research, integrating identity management did not moderate the relationship between workplace heterosexism and job satisfaction. Person-organization fit did moderate this relationship, such that the relationship between workplace heterosexism and job satisfaction was negative at high levels of person-organization fit, and positive at low levels of person-organization fit. Our findings add to work on the integration of minority stress theory and vocational behavior by examining these links within a traditionally masculine field
Exploring the treatment of epilepsy through intrahippocampal GABA modulation with an HSVvector expressing GAD67
Articlehttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/96990/1/UMURF-Issue06_2009-MMooney.pd
Accommodating (global-glocal) paradoxes across event planning
The aim of this research note is threefold: 1) to introduce the concept of paradox and its numerous applications to the study and management challenges associated with the planning and delivery of events, with a specific look at large-scale events like the Olympics to provide an extreme case; 2) to present a new paradox entitled the Global–Glocal Paradox that interrogates how inherent global and local stakeholder interests and tensions are managed; and 3) to present a series of conceptual and practical ways events can accommodate as opposed to resolve this paradox to help balance stakeholder interests instead of pitting one against the other
Do Female University Varsity Athletes Have a Greater Risk of Injury Within a Competitive Varsity Season?
International Journal of Exercise Science 16(6): 129-147, 2023. Previous varsity sport injury research has analyzed how acute and chronic injury severity, type, and location differs between sport and sexes, with limited research in time to injury. Canadian university varsity sport injury research is especially sparse and mostly retrospective. Thus, we aimed to understand injury differences in male and female competitive university athletes competing in the same sport. Athletes who competed on the basketball, volleyball, soccer, ice hockey, football (male), rugby (female), and wrestling teams were eligible for the study. There were 182 male and 113 female athletes who provided informed consent to be prospectively followed over a season. Injury date, type, location, chronicity, and events missed due to injury were recorded on a weekly basis. Overall, the percentage of male (68.7%) and female (68.1%) athletes injured was not different. No overall sex differences (variables collapsed) were observed in injury chronicity, location, type, events lost, mean number of injuries, or time to injury. Within sport differences existed for mean number of injuries, injury location, type of injury, and events missed. Mean time to injury in female basketball (28 days) and volleyball athletes (14 days) was significantly shorter compared to male basketball (67 days) and volleyball (65 days). Time to a concussion was significantly shorter in females overall compared to males. These results indicate that Canadian female university age athletes are not inherently more susceptible to injury, but female athletes within certain sports may have increased injury risk which could shorten time to injury (basketball, volleyball) and increase the number of events missed due to injury (hockey)
Economic assessment of candidate materials for key components in a grid-scale liquid metal battery
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, 2011.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (p. 90-92).In order to satisfy the growing demand for renewable resources as a supply of electricity, much effort is being placed toward the development of battery energy storage systems that can effectively interface these new sources with today's electric grid. To be competitive with the prices dictated by the sources currently in use, namely fossil fuels, these new systems must be able to deliver energy at a cost of about 62/kWh and total system cost of around 300/kWh, much cheaper than many of the most recent technologies.by Michael C. Parent.S.M
Understanding the Concentration Dependence of Viral Capsid Assembly Kinetics - the Origin of the Lag Time and Identifying the Critical Nucleus Size
The kinetics for the assembly of viral proteins into a population of capsids
can be measured in vitro with size exclusion chromatography or dynamic light
scattering, but extracting mechanistic information from these studies is
challenging. For example, it is not straightforward to determine the critical
nucleus size or the elongation time (the time required for a nucleated partial
capsid to grow completion). We show that, for two theoretical models of capsid
assembly, the critical nucleus size can be determined from the concentration
dependence of the assembly reaction half-life and the elongation time is
revealed by the length of the lag phase. Furthermore, we find that the system
becomes kinetically trapped when nucleation becomes fast compared to
elongation. Implications of this constraint for determining elongation
mechanisms from experimental assembly data are discussed.Comment: Submitted to Biophysical Journa
The Effect of Different Training Loads on the Lung Health of Competitive Youth Swimmers
International Journal of Exercise Science 11(6): 999-1018, 2018. Airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR), airway inflammation, and respiratory symptoms are common in competitive swimmers, however it is unclear how volume and intensity of training exacerbate these problems. Thus, our purpose was to measure AHR, inflammation, and respiratory symptoms after low, moderate, and high training loads in swimmers. Competitive youth swimmers (n=8) completed nine weeks of training split into three blocks (Low, Moderate, and High intensity). Spirometry at rest and post-bronchial provocation [Eucapnic Voluntary Hyperpnea (EVH)] and Fractional Exhaled Nitric Oxide (FeNO) were completed at the end of each training block. A weekly self-report questionnaire determined respiratory symptoms. Session Rating of Perceived Exertion (sRPE) quantified internal training loads. Internal load was significantly lower after Moderate training (4840 ± 971 AU) than after High training (5852 ± 737 AU) (p= 0.02, d= 1.17). Pre-EVH FEV1was significantly decreased after Moderate (4.52 ± 0.69 L) compared to Low (4.74 ± 0.63 L) (p= 0.025, d= 0.326), but not different from High load. Post-EVH FeNO after Moderate training was significantly decreased (9.4 ± 4.9 ppb) compared to Low training (15.4 ± 3.6 ppb) (p= 0.012, r= 0.884).Respiratory symptom frequency was significantly correlated with percent decrease in FEV120 minutes post-EVH after Low and Moderate loads (both ρ= -0.71, sig = 0.05), and after High load was significantly correlated with percent decrease in FEV1at 10 (ρ= -0.74, sig = 0.03), 15 (ρ= -0.91, sig = 0.00), and 20 minutes post (ρ= -0.75, sig = 0.03). In conclusion, Moderate load training resulted in the worst lung health results, suggesting there may be factors other than the total amount of stress within training blocks that influence lung health. Further research is needed to determine the effect of manipulating specific acute training load variables on the lung health of swimmers
- …