Burnout and Its Antecedents:Considering Both Work and Household Time Claims, and Flexibility in Relation to Burnout

This study contributes to the previous literature by examining how flexible work arrangements interact with work and family time claims to affect burnout. It does so by providing a theoretical framework and empirical test of the interaction of flexibility with the effect of work and family time claims on burnout. Hypotheses and predictions based on previous literature are tested by Ordinary Least Squared regression models using data from the Time Competition Survey, constituting a sample of 1,058 employees of 89 function groups within 30 organizations. We found no main effects of work and family time claims or flexible work arrangements on burnout. However, the results do show an interaction of flexible working hours with the effect of work and family time claims on burnout. Specifically, the higher an individual's work and family time claims, the more this person benefits from having flexible working hours. In general, the results support the proposition that the relationship between work and family time claims and burnout differs for individuals with different levels of flexible work arrangements.</p

Tacitus on Principate and Empire: from the Agricola to the Annales.

This dissertation is a holistic examination of the relationship and interactions between Tacitus’ early monographs (the Agricola, Germania, and Dialogus de Oratoribus) and his later historical works Historiae and Annales. The study serves in part to confront several preconceptions about Tacitus and his writings that have informed much scholarship on the historian in the past century. In particular, it takes issue with the assumption that the opera minora are immature and essentially preliminary to the historical works, with the claim that Tacitus’ outlook on the Principate and the Empire shifts throughout his literary career, and with the generic determination on his corpus common in modern scholarship. One consequence of the above assumptions and approaches has been that the different texts often are read in isolation; the historical works receive most attention, while the shorter works continue to be comparatively marginalized. By reading the different works in conjunction and illustrating the thematic and conceptual consistency across them, I show that the corpus forms an integrated project, in which the different works interact with and build on one another, rather than being disparate intellectual attempts. I argue that, in the Agricola, Germania, and Dialogus, Tacitus sets out theories of the Roman state, imperial rule, and the nature of historical analysis, respectively, theories which he subsequently applies to his account of the early Principate in the historical works. The Agricola, Germania, and Dialogus formulate a series of well articulated topics that will continue to draw Tacitus’ attention in the Historiae and the Annales. What emerges from the approach I take is that Tacitus’ thinking progressively develops, while his methods of analysis largely remain consistent. In advocating this approach, I engage with scholarship that has tended to see Tacitus reaching full maturity as a thinker only in his Annales. My method of looking at thematic and conceptual continuity across the different works further serves to suggest that particular aspects of Roman thought are environmentally determined rather than, as is often the case now, dictated by the form in which they are composed, prompting us to reconsider the nature of genre.PhDClassical StudiesUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/120889/1/bltenber_1.pdfDescription of bltenber_1.pdf : Restricted to UM users only

Three-Dimensional Stereophotogrammetry Assessment of Facial Asymmetry in Facial Palsy

Three-dimensional stereophotogrammetry is not much used in assessing facial palsy and a comprehensive understanding of sources of variation in these measurements is lacking. The present study assessed intra- and interobserver reliability of a novel three-dimensional stereophotogrammetry measurement of facial asymmetry and examined sources of variation in these outcomes. Three photographs (rest, closed mouth smile, and maximum smile) were made of 60 participants, 30 facial palsy patients and 30 control subjects. All images were analyzed twice by 2 observers independently, to determine intra- and interobserver reliability. Variance component analysis was performed to investigate sources of variation in the outcomes. Intraobserver reliability was good with intraclass correlation coefficients ranging from 0.715 to 0.999. Interobserver reliability ranged from 0.442 to 0.929. Reliability of the smile image measurements was not clearly different from the rest images. Variation in measurement results was largely due to the status of a participant, facial palsy versus control. When splitting the sample, the facial expression was a major source of variation. Acceptable reliability of the proposed 3D facial asymmetry measurement was found, in facial palsy patients and control subjects. Interobserver reliability was marked less compared to intraobserver reliability. For follow-up data only one observer should assess 3D stereophotogrammetry measurements

Een integrale hervorming van de woningmarkt

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Gram-Schmidt versus Bauer-Rutishauser in alternating least-squares algorithms for three-way data

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