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Coaching-Based Leadership Intervention Program: A Controlled Trial Study
In spite of the potential benefits that coaching-based leadership interventions can bring
to organizations, basic questions remain about their impact on developing coaching
skills and increasing psychological capital (PsyCap), work engagement and in- and
extra-role performance. In a controlled trial study, 41 executives and middle managers
(25 in the experimental group and 16 in the waiting-list control group) from an automotive
sector company in Spain received pre-assessment feedback, a coaching-based
leadership group workshop, and three individual executive coaching sessions over a
period of 3 months. The intervention program used a strengths-based approach and the
RE-GROW model, and it was conducted by executive coaching psychologists external
to the organization. Participants (N = 41) and their supervisors (N = 41) and employees
(N = 180) took part in a pre-post-follow up 360-degree assessment during the research
period. Quantitative data were analyzed using Analyses of Variance (ANOVA) with a
2 2 design, paired-samples t-tests, and univariate analyses between groups. Results
indicated that the intervention program was successful in increasing the participants’
coaching-based leadership skills, PsyCap, work engagement, and in- and extrarole
performance. Qualitative measures were also applied, and results from individual
responses provided additional support for the study hypotheses. Regarding practical
implications, the results suggest that the Coaching-based Leadership Intervention
Program can be valuable as an applied positive intervention to help leaders develop
coaching skills and enhance well-being and optimal functioning in organizations
Three-Body Dynamics and Self-Powering of an Electrodynamic Tether in a Plasmasphere
The dynamics of an electrodynamic tether in a three-body gravitational environment are investigated. In the classical two-body scenario the extraction of power is at the expense of orbital kinetic energy. As a result of power extraction, an electrodynamic tether satellite system loses altitude and deorbits. This concept has been proposed and well investigated in the past, for example for orbital debris mitigation and spent stages reentry. On the other hand, in the three-body scenario an electrodynamic tether can be placed in an equilibrium position fixed with respect to the two primary bodies without deorbiting, and at the same time generate power for onboard use. The appearance of new equilibrium positions in the perturbed three-body problem allow this to happen as the electrical power is extracted at the expenses of the plasma corotating with the primary body. Fundamental differences between the classical twobody dynamics and the new phenomena appearing in the circular restricted three-body problem perturbed by the electrodynamic force of the electrodynamic tether are shown in the paper. An interesting application of an electrodynamic tether placed in the Jupiter plasma torus is then considered, in which the electrodynamic tether generates useful electrical power of about 1 kW with a 20-km-long electrodynamic tether from the environmental plasma without losing orbital energy
The pion-pion scattering amplitude. III: Improving the analysis with forward dispersion relations and Roy equations
We complete and improve the fits to experimental scattering
amplitudes, both at low and high energies, that we performed in the previous
papers of this series. We then verify that the corresponding amplitudes satisfy
analyticity requirements, in the form of partial wave analyticity at low
energies, forward dispersion relations (FDR) at all energies, and Roy equations
below threshold; the first by construction, the last two, inside
experimental errors. Then we repeat the fits including as constraints FDR and
Roy equations. The ensuing central values of the various scattering amplitudes
verify very accurately FDR and, especially, Roy equations, and change very
little from what we found by just fitting data, with the exception of the D2
wave phase shift, for which one parameter moves by . These improved
parametrizations therefore provide a reliable representation of pion-pion
amplitudes with which one can test various physical relations. We also present
a list of low energy parameters and other observables. In particular, we find
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P and F wave
Frozen orbits for scientific missions using rotating tethers
We derive a semi-analytic formulation that permits to study the long-term dynamics of fast-rotating inert tethers around planetary satellites. Since space tethers are extensive bodies they generate non-keplerian gravitational forces which depend solely on their mass geometry and attitude, that can be exploited for controlling science orbits. We conclude that rotating tethers modify the geometry of frozen orbits, allowing for lower eccentricity frozen orbits for a wide range of orbital inclination, where the length of the tether becomes a new parameter that the mission analyst may use to shape frozen orbits to tighter operational constraints
Modifying the atlas of low lunar orbits using inert tethers
For long enough tethers, the coupling of the attitude and orbital dynamics may show non-negligible effects in the orbital motion of a tethered satellite about a central body. In the case of fast rotating tethers the attitude remains constant, on average, up to second order effects. Besides, for a tether rotating in a plane parallel to the equatorial plane of the central body, the attitude?orbit coupling effect is formally equal to the perturbation of the Keplerian motion produced by the oblateness of the central body and, therefore, may have a stabilizing effect in the orbital dynamics. In the case of a tethered satellite in a low lunar orbit, it is demonstrated that feasible tether lengths can help in modifying the actual map of lunar frozen orbit
Bootstrap Bandwidth Selection and Confidence Regions for Double Smoothed Default Probability Estimation
[Abstract] For a fixed time, t, and a horizon time, b, the probability of default (PD) measures the probability that an obligor, that has paid his/her credit until time t, runs into arrears not later that time t+b. This probability is one of the most crucial elements that influences the risk in credits. Previous works have proposed nonparametric estimators for the probability of default derived from Beran’s estimator and a doubly smoothed Beran’s estimator of the conditional survival function for censored data. They have also found asymptotic expressions for the bias and variance of the estimators, but they do not provide any practical way to choose the smoothing parameters involved. In this paper, resampling methods based on bootstrap techniques are proposed to approximate the bandwidths on which Beran and smoothed Beran’s estimators of the PD depend. Bootstrap algorithms for the calculation of confidence regions of the probability of default are also proposed. Extensive simulation studies show the good behavior of the presented algorithms. The bandwidth selector and the confidence region algorithm are applied to a German credit dataset to analyze the probability of default conditional on the credit scoring.This research has been supported by MICINN Grant PID2020-113578RB-100, and by the Xunta de Galicia (Grupos de Referencia Competitiva ED431C-2020-14 and Centro Singular de Investigación de Galicia ED431G 2019/01), all of them through the ERDFXunta de Galicia; ED431C-2020-14Xunta de Galicia; ED431G 2019/0
A Doubly Smoothed PD Estimator in Credit Risk
[Abstract]
In this work a doubly smoothed probability of default (PD) estimator is proposed based on a smoothed version of the survival Beran’s estimator. The asymptotic properties of both the smoothed survival and PD estimators are proved and their behaviour is analyzed by simulation. The results allow us to conclude that the time variable smoothing reduce the error committed in the PD estimation.This research has been supported by MINECO Grant MTM2017-82724-R, and by the Xunta de Galicia (Grupos de Referencia Competitiva ED431C-2016-015 and Centro Singular de Investigación de Galicia
ED431G/01), all of them through the ERDFXunta de Galicia; ED431C-2016-015Xunta de Galicia; ED431G/0
Nonparametric estimation of the probability of default with double smoothing
In this paper, a general nonparametric estimator of the probability of default is proposed and studied. It is derived from an estimator of the conditional survival function for censored data obtained with a double smoothing, on the covariate and on the variable of interest. An empirical study, based on modified real data, illustrates its practical application and a simulation study shows the performance of the proposed estimator and compares its behaviour with smoothed estimators only in the covariate. Asymptotic expressions for the bias and the variance of the probability of default estimator are found and asymptotic normality is proved
Bootstrap Selector for the Smoothing Parameter of Beran’s Estimator
Presented at the 4th XoveTIC Conference, A Coruña, Spain, 7–8 October 2021.[Abstract] This work proposes a resampling technique to approximate the smoothing parameter of Beran’s estimator. It is based on resampling by the smoothed bootstrap and minimising the bootstrap approximation of the mean integrated squared error to find the bootstrap bandwidth. The behaviour of this method has been tested by simulation on several models. Bootstrap confidence intervals are also addressed in this research and their performance is analysed in the simulation study.This research has been supported by MINECO Grant MTM2017-82724-R, and by the Xunta de Galicia (Grupos de Referencia Competitiva ED431C-2016-015 and Centro Singular de Investigación de Galicia ED431G/01), all of them through the ERDFXunta de Galicia; ED431C-2016-015Xunta de Galicia; ED431G/0
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