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Relationship between Personality Traits and Sense of Urgency: A Study of Repso Malaysia

Sense of urgency is a crucial element of a successful change process. This research was designed to investigate the relationship between personality traits and sense of urgency. It employed quantitative method in examining the said relationship against a real-life scenario of major change in a single entity of a Multi National Corporation – Repso Malaysia. Through on-line questionnaire, a total of 247 employees of various functions, job levels and cross border cultures made up the case study of this research. The findings of the research confirmed the positive relationship of conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and openness to experiences with sense of urgency. The trait of neuroticism revealed a negative but non-significant relationship to sense of urgency and duly supported with justification by the research. The paper addresses the limitations; first, the use of modified instrument lacks the established knowledge of its validity and reliability within the contexts of the case organization. Secondly, the researcher has no control on who actually responds to the questions. Thirdly, the research sample represents only single entity and cannot be generalized to the total population. Other than contributing to the body of knowledge over a subject which is empirically scarce, the research further renewed the importance of micro level analysis of an organization i.e. individuals rather than only the macro level.
The Metric Matters: The Sensitivity of Conclusions About Growth in Student Achievement to Choice of Metric

A central means of assessing the health of educational systems involves using longitudinal data to examine patterns of academic growth across a series of grades (e.g., the extent to which the range of achievement among students widens or narrows over time and whether students tend to “slump” in particular grades). The purpose of this article is to illustrate, through a series of analyses based on a longitudinal study of reading achievement in the Chicago Public Schools, that the conclusions one draws about patterns of academic growth and, in turn, the decisions one makes regarding the kinds of interventions that may be needed can be extremely sensitive to the metric used (i.e., whether achievement is measured using grade equivalents or based on item response theory metrics).
Four-Manifolds without Einstein Metrics

It is shown that there are infinitely many compact simply con- nected smooth 4-manifolds which do not admit Einstein metrics, but nev- ertheless satisfy the strict Hitchin-Thorpe inequality 2 ! > 3|" |. The exam- ples in question arise as non-minimal complex algebraic surfaces of general type, and the method of proof stems from Seiberg-Witten theory.
Paradoxical Effects of Intranasal Oxytocin on Trust in Inpatient and Community Adolescents

Research suggests that oxytocin, a neuropeptide implicated in attachment, is a promising clinical tool because it increases affiliation and attachment behaviors, which are reduced in a range of psychiatric disorders. Oxytocin has been recommended as a psychiatric treatment for adolescents, but this remains largely unstudied. Skepticism is warranted, based on mixed findings in adults and absence of data across development. The objective of this study was to examine the effect of intranasal oxytocin on attachment-related and non-attachment-related trust in an interactive game, determining how this effect differs among inpatient adolescents and healthy controls and whether this effect is moderated by attachment security. There were 122 adolescents (ages 12–17; n = 75 inpatient, 70% female, 37% Black, 24% Hispanic, 20% White, and 20% multiracial; n = 46 control, 55% female, 75% Caucasian) randomized to receive self-administered intranasal oxytocin or a placebo and play a trust game with their mother and a stranger over the Internet. Oxytocin only affected the trust game behavior of adolescents when attachment security was moderate or low. At these levels, oxytocin increased the trust of patients, such that their behavior was equivalent to that of healthy controls. Paradoxically, oxytocin reduced the investments of healthy control subjects. This study takes a first step toward determining whether, and for whom, oxytocin may have a trust-enhancing effect and challenges simplistic notions of oxytocin as the attachment-chemical of the brain—pointing instead to differential oxytocin effects based upon clinical status (patient vs. control) and attachment security.
A Survey of Human Disease Gene Counterparts in the Drosophila Genome

The recent sequencing of the Drosophila genome as a collaborative effort between the Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project (BDGP) and Celera Genomics provides an unparalleled opportunity to assess the prevalence of human disease gene counterparts in the fly genome ([Adams et al. 2000][1]; [Rubin et al
Social Welfare Contracts as Networks

This analysis of state social service contracts identifies sources of system instability and explores the impacts of instability on service delivery networks. The authors examine social welfare service contracts explicitly as networks and assess the effects of network instability on the management of contracts, contract effectiveness, the performance of network organizations, and clients. They offer observable patterns and detailed examples that indicate that instability imposes significant costs on service delivery networks—costs that impair organizational and network performance and that divert resources from services for vulnerable clients. The high costs associated with instability undermine arguments for more market-based service delivery.
Influence of the passenger domain of a model autotransporter on the properties of its translocator domain

Autotransporters are a superfamily of proteins secreted by Gram-negative bacteria including many virulence factors. They are modular proteins composed of an N-terminal signal peptide, a surface-exposed ‘passenger’ domain carrying the activity of the protein, and a C-terminal ‘translocator’ domain composed of an α-helical linker region and a transmembrane β-barrel. The translocator domain plays an essential role for the secretion of the passenger domain across the outer membrane; however, the mechanism of autotransport remains poorly understood. The whooping cough agent Bordetella pertussis produces an autotransporter serine-protease, SphB1, which is involved in the maturation of an adhesin at the bacterial surface. SphB1 also mediates the proteolytic maturation of its own precursor. We used SphB1 as a model autotransporter and performed the first comparisons of the biochemical and biophysical properties of an isolated translocator domain with those of the same domain preceded by the C-terminal moiety of its natural passenger. By using cross-linking and dynamic light scattering, we provide evidence that the passenger domain promotes the auto-association of SphB1, although these interactions appear rather labile. Electrophysiological studies revealed that the passenger domain of the autotransporter appears to maintain the translocator channel in a low-conductance conformation, most likely by stabilizing the α-helix inside the pore. That the passenger may significantly influence AT physicochemical properties is likely to be relevant for the in vivo maturation and stability of AT proteins.
Factors associated with general surgery residents' desire to leave residency programs: a multi-institutional study.

IMPORTANCE General surgical residency continues to experience attrition. To date, work hour amendments have not changed the annual rate of attrition. OBJECTIVE To determine how often categorical general surgery residents seriously consider leaving residency. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS At 13 residency programs, an anonymous survey of 371 categorical general surgery residents and 10-year attrition rates for each program. Responses from those who seriously considered leaving surgical residency were compared with those who did not. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES Factors associated with the desire to leave residency. RESULTS The survey response rate was 77.6%. Overall, 58.0% seriously considered leaving training. The most frequent reasons for wanting to leave were sleep deprivation on a specific rotation (50.0%), an undesirable future lifestyle (47.0%), and excessive work hours on a specific rotation (41.4%). Factors most often cited that kept residents from leaving were support from family or significant others (65.0%), support from other residents (63.5%), and perception of being better rested (58.9%). On univariate analysis, older age, female sex, postgraduate year, training in a university program, the presence of a faculty mentor, and lack of Alpha Omega Alpha status were associated with serious thoughts of leaving surgical residency. On multivariate analysis, only female sex was significantly associated with serious thoughts of leaving residency (odds ratio, 1.2; 95% CI, 1.1-1.3; P = .003). Eighty-six respondents were from historically high-attrition programs, and 202 respondents were from historically low-attrition programs (27.8% vs 8.4% 10-year attrition rate, P = .04). Residents from high-attrition programs were more likely to seriously consider leaving residency (odds ratio, 1.8; 95% CI, 1.0-3.0; P = .03). CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE A majority of categorical general surgery residents seriously consider leaving residency. Female residents are more likely to consider leaving. Thoughts of leaving seem to be associated with work conditions on specific rotations rather than with overall work hours and are more prevalent among programs with historically high attrition rates.
When leaders are seen as transformational: the effects of organizational justice

In 2 studies, we attempted to make a first step toward integrating the literature on transformational leadership and organizational justice. We examined the extent to which justice affects perceptions of transformational leadership. We predicted that especially interactional justice should have strong effects. Study 1 was a vignette study (N = 100) in which distributive, procedural, and interactional justice were manipulated orthogonally. As expected, only interactional justice affected transformational leadership perceptions. Study 2 replicated these results in an organizational field study (N = 257). Distributive and procedural justice affected perceptions of transformational leadership, but when interactional justice was entered in the regression equation, their effects disappeared. Implications for integrating the literature on transformational leadership and organizational justice are discussed.
Architecture-based exception handling

Architecture-based development environments are becoming an effective solution towards the construction of robust distributed systems. Through the abstract description of complex software systems configurations in terms of the interconnection of software elements at the interface level, software reuse and evolution get promoted. In addition, as shown by research results from the software architecture domain, it becomes feasible to provide formal notations for the precise description of configuration behavior, together with associated CASE tools for their automated analyses. However, little attention has been paid to software fault tolerance and in particular exception handling in that context, although this is crucial for achieving software robustness. We investigate the design and implementation of exception handling support for architecture-based development environments. After a survey of the issues raised by exception handling at the level of software architecture description, we introduce an exception handling facility for architecture-based software systems, addressing the resulting extension to architecture description languages and the mapping to implementation of software architectures embedding exception handling.
Multidimensional Physical Activity: An Opportunity, Not a Problem

Our research shows that no single metric will reflect an individual’s physical activity adequately because multiple biologically important dimensions are independent and unrelated. We propose that there is an opportunity to exploit this multidimensional characteristic of physical activity to improve personalized feedback and offer physical activity options and choices that are tailored to an individual’s needs and preferences.
Seeing and Being Green? The Effect of Money Priming on Willingness to Perform Sustainable Actions, Social Connectedness, and Prosociality

ABSTRACT This investigation attempted to conceptually replicate/extend research that suggests that reminders of money can inhibit prosociality, promote self-sufficiency, and influence political beliefs. Based on these results, we hypothesized that money primes would decrease willingness to engage in sustainable actions. We also predicted that people would distribute points less prosocially and feel less socially connected when money was primed. Individuals were recruited from an undergraduate participant pool and MTurk. Meta-analytic results across the two samples revealed that money priming did not have a significant impact on willingness to act sustainably, but it did cause participants to distribute points less prosocially and report lower social connectedness than individuals in the control condition. While effects were smaller than those reported in Vohs, Mead, and Goode (2006), this study still offers support for the detrimental impact of reminders of money on interpersonal relations.
Religion as Moderator of the Depression-Health Connection

This study used a representative community-based sample of men and women born in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1920s to investigate the long-term relations between religiousness, spirituality, depression, and physical health. In late adulthood (age late 60s/mid-70s), religiousness buffered against depression associated with poor physical health, with highest levels of depression observed in the low-religiousness-poor-physical-health group. The buffering effect of religiousness was present after controlling for social support and was predicted longitudinally using religiousness scored in middle adulthood (age 40s)—a time interval of approximately 30 years. Spirituality, operationalized in terms of adherence to noninstitutionalized religious beliefs and practices, did not have the same buffering effect as religiousness. The findings are discussed with regard to the mechanisms underlying the salutary effect of religion on depression resulting from personal adversity.
Fast Landmark Localization With 3D Component Reconstruction and CNN for Cross-Pose Recognition

Two approaches are proposed for cross-pose face recognition, one is built on the handcrafted features extracted from the 3D reconstruction of facial components and the other is built on the learned features from a deep convolutional neural network (CNN). As both approaches rely on facial landmarks for alignment across large poses, we propose the Fast Hierarchical Model (FHM) for locating cross-pose facial landmarks in real time. Unlike most 3D approaches that consider holistic faces, the first proposed approach considers 3D facial components. It segments each 2D face in the gallery into components, reconstructs the 3D surface for each component, and recognizes a query face by component features. The core part of the CNN-based approach is a modified VGG network. We study the performance with different settings on the training set, including the synthesized data from 3D reconstruction, the real-life data from an in-the-wild database, and both types of data combined. The two recognition approaches and the FHM are evaluated in extensive experiments and compared with state-of-the-art methods to demonstrate their efficacy.
Aminopeptidase O contains a functional nucleolar localization signal and is implicated in vascular biology

We have identified a gene trap integration into Aminopeptidase O, the gene encoding a member of the M1 family of metalloproteases. Using the βgal reporter of the gene trap vector, we have revealed that at least some ApO isoforms are expressed predominantly in embryonic and adult blood vessels leading us to propose that ApO plays a role in vascular cell biology. The protein produced from an engineered Gfp‐ApO fusion cDNA localises to the nucleolus in transfected COS7 cells. We confirm that indeed the APO protein contains a functional nucleolar localisation domain by demonstrating that GFP‐APO fusion proteins that lack the predicted nucleolar localisation signal are retained in the cytoplasm. We report the existence of multiple alternatively spliced Apo isoforms that differ with respect to the presence of exons encoding important functional domains. Alternative splicing predictably produces protein products with or without the catalytic domain and/or a nucleolar localisation signal and therefore likely represents an important mechanism in regulating the biological activity of APO that has been reported to cleave one of the peptides of the renin angiotensin pathway. J. Cell. Biochem. 103: 1171–1182, 2008. © 2007 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
β2-Adrenergic Receptor Agonists Inhibit the Proliferation of 1321N1 Astrocytoma Cells

Astrocytomas and glioblastomas have been particularly difficult to treat and refractory to chemotherapy. However, significant evidence has been presented that demonstrates a decrease in astrocytoma cell proliferation subsequent to an increase in cAMP levels. The 1321N1 astrocytoma cell line, as well as other astrocytomas and glioblastomas, expresses β2-adrenergic receptors (β2-ARs) that are coupled to Gs activation and consequent cAMP production. Experiments were conducted to determine whether the β2-AR agonist (R,R′)-fenoterol and other β2-AR agonists could attenuate mitogenesis and, if so, by what mechanism. Receptor binding studies were conducted to characterize β2-AR found in 1321N1 and U118 cell membranes. In addition, cells were incubated with (R,R′)-fenoterol and analogs to determine their ability to stimulate intracellular cAMP accumulation and inhibit [3H]thymidine incorporation into the cells. 1321N1 cells contain significant levels of β2-AR as determined by receptor binding. (R,R′)-fenoterol and other β2-AR agonists, as well as forskolin, stimulated cAMP accumulation in a dose-dependent manner. Accumulation of cAMP induced a decrease in [3H]thymidine incorporation. There was a correlation between concentration required to stimulate cAMP accumulation and inhibit [3H]thymidine incorporation. U118 cells have a reduced number of β2-ARs and a concomitant reduction in the ability of β2-AR agonists to inhibit cell proliferation. These studies demonstrate the efficacy of β2-AR agonists for inhibition of growth of the astrocytoma cell lines. Because a significant portion of brain tumors contain β2-ARs to a greater extent than whole brain, (R,R′)-fenoterol, or some analog, may be useful in the treatment of brain tumors after biopsy to determine β2-AR expression.
Teaching personal and social responsibility and transfer of learning: Opportunities and challenges for teachers and coaches

© 2015 Human Kinetics, Inc. The transfer of learning from the gym to other areas of participants' lives has always been a core component of the Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility Model. The degree to which transfer of learning is successfully facilitated in the reality of Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility Model-based teaching and coaching is, however, uncertain. The research findings are mixed both in the commitment to transfer of learning and the level of success that has been achieved. The interest in transfer of learning is not restricted to the area of the Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility Model or physical education and sport in general, but is an area of strong academic interest with a long history of research and debate. This article draws on the knowledge and understandings of transfer of learning from this wider literature to explore ways in which to help facilitate transfer of learning for practitioners of the Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility Model.
Imaging Humanitarianism: NGO Identity and the Iconography of Childhood

Abstract: This paper asks how images of children are used by prominent signatories to NGO codes of conduct. The answer is that images of childhood and shared codes of conduct are both means through which development and relief NGOs produce themselves as rights-based organisations. The iconography of childhood expresses institutional ideals and the key humanitarian values of humanity, neutrality and impartiality, and solidarity. Images of children are useful for NGOs in reinforcing the legitimacy of their ‘emergency’ interventions as well as the very idea of development itself. But the dominant iconography is also inherently paradoxical, as the child image can be read as both a colonial metaphor for the majority world and as a signifier of humanitarian identity. The question then for NGOs using this image in social justice campaigns is whether overtly political accompanying texts can nullify the contradictory subliminal messages that emanate from the iconography of childhood.
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REWARDS AND EMPLOYEE'S MOTIVATION IN THE NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS OF PAKISTAN

This study empirically examines the relationship between rewards and employee’s motivation in the non-profit organizations of Pakistan. Employees of three organizations (PERRA, World Vision and SUNGI Development Foundation) working in Khyber Pakhtonkhuwa province of Pakistan were taken as sample of the study. Self designed questionnaire was used for data collection. 125 questionnaires were distributed and 107 were returned, hence the response rate was 85.6%. The data was analyzed using the techniques of rank correlation coefficient and multiple regression analysis. All the findings were tested at 0.01 and 0.05 level of significance. The result concludes that there is a direct relationship between extrinsic rewards and the employee’s motivation. However, intrinsic rewards found an insignificant impact on employee motivation. Key words: Rewards, Employee motivation, Non-Profit Organization (NGO), Correlation, Regression, KPK province, Pakistan.