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    Departure

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    Postcard from Sean Bowden, during the Linfield College Semester Abroad Program at Kanto Gakuin University in Yokohama, Japa

    The usefulness of personality questionnaires in officer selection and training : a paper submitted in fulfilment of the Master of Science degree

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    The aim of the current research was to assess whether the Revised Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ-R) and the Gordon Personal Profile-Inventory (GPP-I) could predict future behaviour in a sample of NZ Army officers and officer cadets. Personality questionnaire data completed at the time of selection was correlated with a workplace behaviour questionnaire (WBQ) developed specifically for the purposes of the research. It was hypothesised that (1) EPQ-R and GPP-I scales should correlate significantly with their corresponding scales on the WBQ, (2) the Neuroticism/Lie and Psychoticism/Lie correlation should indicate the presence of faking, (3) officers serving longer than three years should show more similar personality profiles than officers serving less than three years, (4) immediate superiors of the same gender and ethnicity should rate participants more favourably than those of a different gender and ethnicity, and (5) scores on the WBQ measuring High Psychoticism, High Neuroticism, Low Emotional Stability, Low Ascendancy, and Low Cautiousness should not be endorsed highly if selection has been effective. Only the fifth hypothesis was supported and the results are discussed in light of methodological shortcomings and earlier research

    Introduction

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    Contact structures, deformations and taut foliations

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    Using deformations of foliations to contact structures as well as rigidity properties of Anosov foliations we provide infinite families of examples which show that the space of taut foliations in a given homotopy class of plane fields is in general not path connected. Similar methods also show that the space of representations of the fundamental group of a hyperbolic surface to the group of smooth diffeomorphisms of the circle with fixed Euler class is in general not path connected. As an important step along the way we resolve the question of which universally tight contact structures on Seifert fibered spaces are deformations of taut or Reebless foliations when the genus of the base is positive or the twisting number of the contact structure in the sense of Giroux is non-negative.Comment: 37 pages, 2 figures; Improved exposition incorporating referee's comments mainly in Sections 5 and 9. (To appear in Geom. Topol.
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