The Impact of Sexual Harassment on Turnover Intentions, Absenteeism, and Job Satisfaction: Findings from Argentina, Brazil and Chile

This study, which tested the effects of sexual harassment on consequences previously indicated in US studies, (i.e., overall turnover intentions, overall absenteeism and job dissatisfaction), was conducted with 8108 employees chosen by the International Labour Organization (ILO) in three Latin American countries – Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. Multivariate and logistic regression were employed while controlling for age, education, gender, marital status, and race to analyze ILO’s database. Significant results revealed that Latin American employees who were sexually harassed were likely to have more turnover intentions and to engage in more absenteeism; yet they did not experience a significant decrease in job satisfaction. These results differ from US findings indicating that there are cross cultural differences in the consequences of sexual harassment. However, the more costly outcomes of sexual harassment (i.e., turnover intentions and absenteeism) are consistent with US findings, indicating the need for multinational companies to establish sexual harassment policies in Latin America as well despite their different legal systems

An Overview of the Prospects for Sectoral Integration: The View from the United States

sectoral integration and United State

Investigational project in the 5th gradem: russian fairy-tale “Frog-princess”

В статье рассмотрен вопрос о реализации исследовательских литературоведческих проектов на примере изучения русской народной сказки «Царевна-лягушка» в 5 классе. Цель проекта: подвести итог развитию представлений учащихся о структуре волшебной сказки на ранних этапах литературного образования школьников. Показано, как уже на ранних этапах обучения литературе в школе можно реализовать основные положения В. Я. Проппа о структуре волшебной сказки, отмечены и прокомментированы методические приемы учителя-словесника и формы организации деятельности учащихся на уроках, разработана и продемонстрирована связь урока с исследовательским поиском во внеурочное время, отмечена роль принципа внедрения как важнейшего мотивационного инструмента в процессе реализации проекта, описаны возможности привлечения Интернет-ресурсов для поиска фактического материала во время работы над исследованием. Особо подчеркнуто, что проект может быть выполнен школьниками как индивидуально, так и в парах и микрогруппах, что позволяет проводить его дифференцированно, в зависимости от психологических и коммуникативных особенностей детей и, кроме того, в различных типах школ, в том числе и малокомплектных.In the article they consider the possibility of realization of investigational literary projects by studying Russian fairytale «Frog-princess» in the 5th grade. The aim of the project is to summarize the development of students’ understanding of the fairytale structure on early stages of school literary education. They show how even on the first stages of teaching literature at school you can put into practice the main Propp’s statements about a fairy-tale structure. They also comment methodic ways of a philologist’s working and forms of students’ activity at lessons management, show the connection between a lesson and a research at free time, note the role of the introduction principal as one of the main motivating instrument in the process of realizing the project, describe the possibilities of using the Internet to search the necessary data. They lay stress on the fact that the project can be done by students either individually or in pairs or microgroups. This gives the opportunity to carry it out differentiately, depending on psychological and communicative characteristics, and in different types of schools

Cultural Long-Term Orientation and Facework Strategies

This study added to extant research by investigating the relationship between cultural long term orientation (LTO) or Confucian Dynamism and harmony and cooperation facework strategies. Studying intercultural communication is particularly vital at this time given the increasing global nature of today’s communication interactions. Respondents from two cultures -- Hong Kong and the United States --completed questionnaires. Multivariate analysis of variance results showed that LTO culture members were more likely to use harmonious and cooperative facework strategies than their short-term orientated counterparts. An inadvertent finding from this study was that Hong Kong, originally thought to be high on the LTO dimension, actually scored moderate. This finding brings into question the assumption that “culture” can be classified by country

Orthoclinostatic test as one of the methods for evaluating the human functional state

The possible use of different methods to evaluate the autonomic regulation in hygienic studies were examined. The simplest and most objective tests were selected. It is shown that the use of the optimized standards not only makes it possible to detect earlier unfavorables shifts, but also permits a quantitative characterization of the degree of impairment in the state of the organism. Precise interpretation of the observed shifts is possible. Results indicate that the standards can serve as one of the criteria for evaluating the state and can be widely used in hygienic practice

Communication practices in the US and Syria

This study highlights Syrian communication practices using comparative tests with the United States communication as a baseline. Additionally, theoretical findings on individualism and collectivism theory are extended to include findings from Syria. Multivariate Analysis of Covariance was used to test culture’s effect in demographically similar (in age, SES, and education) student convenience samples, with the covariate communication adaptability, on dependent variables: empathy, social confirmation, social composure, friendships, non-verbal immediacy, social self-efficacy, and general self-efficacy. Results indicated that Syrians possess more empathy, social confirmation, and perceived general self-efficacy in comparison to U.S. citizens who have greater social composure, friendships, non-verbal immediacy and social self-efficacy. These results indicate that Syrians have the strength of self-efficacy to succeed in intercultural relationships while U.S. Americans have the assets of warmth and sociability to enable successful interactions with Syrian

Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling Through E-region Turbulence: Anomalous Conductivities and Frictional Heating

Global magnetospheric MHD codes using ionospheric conductances based on laminar models systematically overestimate the cross-polar cap potential during storm time by up to a factor of two. At these times, strong DC electric fields penetrate to the E region and drive plasma instabilities that create turbulence. This plasma density turbulence induces non-linear currents, while associated electrostatic field fluctuations result in strong anomalous electron heating. These two effects will increase the global ionospheric conductance. Based on the theory of non-linear currents developed in the companion paper, this paper derives the correction factors describing turbulent conductivities and calculates turbulent frictional heating rates. Estimates show that during strong geomagnetic storms the inclusion of anomalous conductivity can double the total Pedersen conductance. This may help explain the overestimation of the cross-polar cap potentials by existing MHD codes. The turbulent conductivities and frictional heating presented in this paper should be included in global magnetospheric codes developed for predictive modeling of space weather.Comment: 13 pages, 5 figures, 2nd of two companion paper

Branching of the Falkner-Skan solutions for λ < 0

The Falkner-Skan equation f'" + ff" + λ(1 - f'^2) = 0, f(0) = f'(0) = 0, is discussed for λ < 0. Two types of problems, one with f'(∞) = 1 and another with f'(∞) = -1, are considered. For λ = 0- a close relation between these two types is found. For λ < -1 both types of problem allow multiple solutions which may be distinguished by an integer N denoting the number of zeros of f' - 1. The numerical results indicate that the solution branches with f'(∞) = 1 and those with f'(∞) = -1 tend towards a common limit curve as N increases indefinitely. Finally a periodic solution, existing for λ < -1, is presented.