389 research outputs found
Applicant Attraction Strategies: An Organizational Perspective
Developing labor shortages are expected to increase the importance of applicant attraction into the next century. Unfonunately, previous research has provided little in the way of unified theory or operational guidelines for organizations confronted with attraction difficulties. In part, this is because much research has been framed from the applicant\u27s, rather than the organization\u27s, perspective. In addition, attraction-related theories and research are scattered across a variety of literatures, and often identified primarily with topics other than attraction per se (e.g., wage, motivation, or discrimination theories). The present paper draws on multiple literatures to develop a model of applicant attraction from the organization\u27s perspective. In it, we (1) outline three general strategies for enhancing applicant attraction, (2) propose broad categories of contingency factors expected to affect the choice (and potential effectiveness) of alternative strategies, (3) suggest probable interrelationships among the strategies, (4) link applicant attraction strategies to other human resource practices, (5) outline various dimensions of attraction outcomes (e.g. qualitative and quantitative, attitudinal and behavioral, temporal), and (6) discuss implications for future attraction research
Predictors Of Completion In A Batterer Treatment Program: The Effects of Referral Source Supervision
Domestic violence offenders who are court mandated to attend a batterer treatment program are more likely to complete treatment than offenders who voluntarily attend. However, few studies have examined the amount or severity of referral source supervision and its effect on treatment completion. This study uses data from three referral sources in South Carolina (i.e., pretrial intervention, criminal domestic violence court, and summary court) to determine whether higher levels of monitoring during a 26-week hybrid cognitive-behavioral batterer treatment program increase the likelihood of completion among batterers. Results indicate that increased supervision exercised over the clients by the referral source during treatment increases the likelihood that offenders will successfully complete the program. It is recommended that courts and other refer-ring agencies keep attendance records, mandate monthly check-ins with case managers, require defendants to appear in court for follow-up hearings, and dedicate staff to monitor domestic violence cases to increase completion rates among batterers in treatment
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Genomic signatures of host-associated divergence and adaptation in a coral-eating snail, Coralliophila violacea (Kiener, 1836).
The fluid nature of the ocean, combined with planktonic dispersal of marine larvae, lowers physical barriers to gene flow. However, divergence can still occur despite gene flow if strong selection acts on populations occupying different ecological niches. Here, we examined the population genomics of an ectoparasitic snail, Coralliophila violacea (Kiener 1836), that specializes on Porites corals in the Indo-Pacific. Previous genetic analyses revealed two sympatric lineages associated with different coral hosts. In this study, we examined the mechanisms promoting and maintaining the snails' adaptation to their coral hosts. Genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data from type II restriction site-associated DNA (2b-RAD) sequencing revealed two differentiated clusters of C. violacea that were largely concordant with coral host, consistent with previous genetic results. However, the presence of some admixed genotypes indicates gene flow from one lineage to the other. Combined, these results suggest that differentiation between host-associated lineages of C. violacea is occurring in the face of ongoing gene flow, requiring strong selection. Indeed, 2.7% of all SNP loci were outlier loci (73/2,718), indicative of divergence with gene flow, driven by adaptation of each C. violacea lineage to their specific coral hosts
Manipulació informativa a les televisions espanyoles: anàlisi de la notícia sobre el 9N en diferents canals televisius
In general, Mass media is accused of manipulating information and broadcasting it according to their ideology. Public mass media is the most controversial due to the fact that it informs in favour of those who govern because it is the type of media that is paid by all citizens with their taxes. In this way, focusing on public and private Spanish televisions, the main proposal of this project is to investigate to check if there is any manipulation or not when it is time to broadcast information. In order to do this, it will be take into account a new- in this case it is a news about the controversy of the 9N case and, specially, about the judments done to the politicians Francesc Homs ans Artur Mas who were accused at the end of February- and a concrete media ¿television- and the audiovisual content is contrasted through the different Spanish media channels that were chosen. Finally, a conclusion will be made about if there is transparency and objectivity in the information given or if there is subjectivity on the Spanish Mass media.Els mitjans de comunicació són, en general, acusats de manipular la informació i transmetre-la d¿acord amb la seua ideologia. Sobretot, els que més polèmica creen són els mitjans de comunicació públics per informar sempre a favor dels qui governen, ja que, tal i com indica el seu nom, són uns mitjans que els paguen tots els ciutadans amb els seus impostos. D¿aquesta manera, el propòsit d¿aquest projecte és fer una recerca per a verificar si hi ha manipulació o no a l¿hora de contar la informació. Per a realitzar-lo, es parteix d¿una notícia, que en aquest cas és sobre la polèmica del 9N i concretament sobre els judicis realitzats als polítics acusats Francesc Homs i Artur Mas a finals de febrer, i un mitjà concrets (la televisió) i es contrasta el contingut audiovisual en els diferents canals del mitjà escollit d¿Espanya. Finalment, s¿arribarà a la conclusió de si hi ha transparència i objectivitat en la informació o una certa subjectivitat als mitjans de comunicació espanyols.Barber García, S. (2017). Manipulació informativa a les televisions espanyoles: anàlisi de la notícia sobre el 9N en diferents canals televisius. Universitat Politècnica de València. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/85722TFG
Community Health Centers and Medicaid Payment Reform: Emerging Lessons from Medicaid Expansion States
Community health centers represent a major source of primary health care for the nation’s Medicaid beneficiaries. Because the Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) payment system is encounter-based, health centers and Medicaid agencies in ACA expansion states are actively pursuing payment reforms that will enable health centers to adopt strategies that can more effectively respond to the considerable and complex health and social needs of people served by health centers, and more efficiently address the surging volume of patient care. In five expansion states whose alternative payment experiments are underway, health centers and Medicaid agencies are testing payment alternatives, such as global payments, that link payment to performance while ensuring that the FQHC hold-harmless standard is met and that total revenues do not fall below the FQHC floor. These alternative payment approaches enable health centers to test new strategies to address the needs of their patients, while enabling state agencies to align these strategies more closely with broader payment reform efforts
Are Eye Movements and EEG on the Same Page?: A Coregistration Study on Parafoveal Preview and Lexical Frequency
published Online: September 15, 2022Readers extract visual and linguistic information not only from fixated words but also upcoming parafoveal
words to introduce new input efficiently into the language processing pipeline. The lexical frequency
of upcoming words and similarity with subsequent foveal information both influence the amount
of time people spend once they fixate the word foveally. However, it is unclear from eye movements
alone the extent to which parafoveal word processing, and the integration of that word with foveally
obtained information, continues after saccade plans have been initiated. To investigate the underlying
neural processes involved in word recognition after saccade planning, we coregistered electroencephalogram
(EEG) and eye movements during a gaze-contingent display change paradigm. We orthogonally
manipulated the frequency of the parafoveal and foveal words and measured fixation related potentials
(FRPs) upon foveal fixation. Eye movements showed primarily an effect of preview frequency, suggesting
that saccade planning is based on the familiarity of the parafoveal input. FRPs, on the other hand,
demonstrated a disruption in downstream processing when parafoveal and foveal input differed, but
only when the parafoveal word was high frequency. These findings demonstrate that lexical processing
continues after the eyes have moved away from a word and that eye movements and FRPs provide distinct
but complementary accounts about oculomotor behavior and neural processing that cannot be
obtained from either method in isolation. Furthermore, these findings put constraints on models of reading
by suggesting that lexical processes that occur before an eye movement program is initiated are
qualitatively different from those that occur afterward.This study was partially funded by the Spanish government (FPIMINECO
Predoctoral Grant BES-2017-081797) and the society of Spanish
scientists in United States (ECUSA; Fostering Grads mentorship program).
Data from this study have been presented at the 2021 Psychonomic Society
Annual Meeting and a departmental colloquium in the Department of
Psychology at the University of South Florida. The data that support the
findings of this study, the full sentence stimuli, and the code used for
analyses, are available at https://osf.io/jkhvw/
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