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Die fünf Quellen der Motivation bei der Nutzung von Enterprise Wikis

Mit ca. 88 % Verbreitung haben sich Enterprise Wikis zu einem wichtigen Bestandteil der Corporate Intranets entwickelt. Aufgrund ihrer Nut- zungsoffenheit und hohen Flexibilitat lassen sich Enterprise Wikis fur vielfal- tigste Einsatzzwecke verwenden. Dabei ist die Nutzungsmotivation ein kriti- scher Stellhebel fur den Erfolg von Enterprise Wikis. In diesem Beitrag wird auf Basis des aus der Arbeitspsychologie stammenden Konzepts "motivation sources inventory" von Barbuto & Scholl eine Untersuchung mittels Online- Befragung mit 75 Teilnehmern aus 10 verschiedenen Unternehmen durchge- fuhrt. Hierbei wurde ersichtlich, dass Enterprise Wikis von den Befragten durchweg als wertvoll eingeschatzt werden. Weiterhin stellen die Nutzlichkeit von Enterprise Wikis fur die tagliche Arbeit sowie das Bestreben, Kollegen bzw. das eigene Team zu unterstutzen wichtige Quellen der Motivation dar. Be- zuglich der intrinsischen Prozessmotivation bei Enterprise Wikis, d.h. Spas an der Benutzung, konnten stark divergierende Meinungen festgestellt werden. Hingegen ist Lob bzw. Reputation nur fur einen kleinen Teil der Befragten mo- tivierend, im Enterprise Wiki beizutragen.
It takes a village to teach information technology

The recent introduction of a radically updated national secondary school curriculum in computer science (CS) and information technology (IT) has left many New Zealand high school teachers unprepared and anxious. At Otago Polytechnic, we are currently implementing a programme of supported teacher development that joins tertiary teachers, tertiary students and secondary teachers in collaboratively addressing problems of content knowledge, teaching methods and curricular materials. Our aim is to establish a long-term working partnership that will serve to enrich secondary education and strengthen the diversity and preparedness of incoming tertiary students.
Virtual Teams and Group Member Dissimilarity

The consequences of demographic dissimilarity for group trust in work teams was examined in a virtual (computer-mediated) and a face-to-face (FTF) environment. Demographic dissimilarity (based on age, gender, country of birth, enrolled degree) was predicted to be negatively associated with group trust in the FTF environment but not in the computer-mediated environment. Participants worked in small groups on a creative task for 3 consecutive days. In the computer-mediated environment, participants worked on the task for an hour per day. In the FTF environment, participants worked on the task for 20 minutes per day. Partial support was found for the effectiveness of computer-mediated groups in reducing the negative consequences of dissimilarity. Age dissimilarity was negatively related to trust in FTF groups but not in computer-mediated groups. Birthplace dissimilarity was positively related to trust in computer-mediated groups. Implications for the successful management of virtual teams are discussed.
Time and space in neuronal networks - the effects of spatial organisation on network behaviour

Biological neural networks tend to exhibit a variety of spatial structures. Here, we study the effect of spatial embedding in a specific example motivated by cortical circuits in which inhibitory cells densely occupy a central region and are surrounded by a larger and more dispersed population of excitatory cells. To instantiate space, neuronal time delays are chosen to be proportional to the distance between neurons. We use simulations of spiking neural networks, operating close to a critical bifurcation between stationary behavior and population-wide oscillatory behavior, whereas in a nonspatial network, shorter time delays tend to enhance stationary population dynamics; here, the imposition of space reverses the effect: the shorter the time delays, the more oscillatory the network becomes. We conclude that the specific geometries of spatial embedding and their subtle effects on the distributions of time delays in a network can have significant repercussions for network dynamics. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Complexity 16: 45–50, 2010 © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Unheard and Unseen

This narrative study is based on stories told by African American adolescents experiencing homelessness. It offers insights into their lived experiences and describes the challenges faced in negotiating the urban education system. African American youth are disproportionately represented in the adolescent homeless demographic. “Unheard and unseen” in the dominant narrative, the needs of this population often go unmet. The educational and social service systems frequently place barriers, and blame, that impede the academic achievement of these youth. The dominant narrative is often viewed from the perspective of “what is wrong with ‘those’ kids? ” This research shifts the perspective to “what is occurring within the larger system? ”
A dual broadband dual slot antenna

In this paper, two types of the slot antenna were designed, fabricated, and measured. We used several technical methods to perform the impedance characteristics, control the operating frequency of resonances, enhance the impedance bandwidth at the resonances and miniaturize the size of the microstrip-fed slot antenna at the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz (the industrial-scientific-medical (ISM) bands and the Hiperlan2) bands. The slot antenna was fabricated by changing the radiation element from the rectangular slot to the Z-like slot, adding four symmetrical tuning stubs at the slot edges, and splitting the slot into a double slot. The obtained impedance bandwidths for two operating bands can reach about 16.07 % for the 2.4 GHz band and 20.59 % for the 5 GHz band. The simulated and the measured radiation patterns of the double Z-like slot antenna were shown.
Making Gender Fit and “Correcting” Gender Misfits

This article highlights the extent to which finding a job without actively searching (“nonsearching”) sustains workplace sex segregation. We suspect that unsolicited information from job informants that prompts fortuitous job changes is susceptible to bias about gender “fit” and segregates workers. Results from analyses of 1,119 respondents to the 1996 and 1998 waves of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth are generally consistent with this expectation. Gender “misfits”—individuals employed in gender-atypical work groups— are more likely to move into gender-typical work groups than neutral ones. Women misfits are more likely to move into male-dominated than neutral work groups without a job search, but they join mostly desegregated occupations and receive lower job rewards than men misfits who change jobs without searching. We conclude that the nonsearch process serves as an important mechanism that sustains sex segregation and workplace inequality.
Tourism, Capital, and Place: Towards a Critical Geography of Tourism

Travel and tourism has become one of the largest industrial complexes and item of consumption in modern Western economies. It is argued here that, to date, geographers studying tourism have done so without fully grasping the fact that tourism is an important avenue of capitalist accumulation. I contend that if this weakness is rectified the geographic analysis of tourism could provide important contributions to contemporary debates in geography. In an attempt to integrate critical theory and political economy into the study of tourism, two themes are developed: the capitalistic nature of most travel and tourism production and consumption; and the contribution of tourism to the analysis of territorial competition and economic restructuring. The core of the argument presented is that the study of tourism assists us to recognise how the social meaning and materiality of space and place is created, and how these representations of place are explicitly incorporated into the accumulation process. To understand how tourism is involved in this, we need a thcorisation that recognises, and unveils, tourism as a capitalistically organised activity driven by the inherent and defining social dynamics of that system, with its attendant production, social, and ideological relations.
Human Tissue and ‘the Public’: The Case of Childhood Cancer Tumour Banking

Currently influential accounts of research use of human tissue depict biomedical science as operating in opposition to the norms and values of ‘the public’. Using historical analysis and empirical data from a qualitative study of 79 family members of a child with cancer, this article challenges such accounts of ‘the public’. Families of a child with cancer generally reported that they considered themselves to be members of a community united by a sense of common purpose, in which values and interests are shared and members of the community are to be trusted. The value of tissue for patients and families lay not so much in the way it embodied some essence of the self, as in the way it embedded them within the childhood cancer community. Historical analysis demonstrates that science and its broader ‘public’ are interdependent, mutually constitutive components of a culture, interacting and exchanging rhetoric and imagery relating to research and research materials, as well as the material itself. Rather than separate social worlds of ‘bioscience’ and ‘the public’, our evidence suggests that the childhood cancer community, in respect of the area of tissue banking for research, is much better conceived of as a hybrid. Understanding ‘the public’ and ‘science’ as a multiplicities helps clarify the existence of often competing views of tissue use.
Google Insights and U.S. Senate Elections: Does Search Traffic Provide a Valid Measure of Public Attention to Political Candidates?

type="main"> To propose a new indicator of public attention to electoral candidates based on the relative pattern of Internet queries for opposing candidates. To demonstrate the validity of this measure, we use ordinary least squares regression and an F-ratio test. We find that this measure, based on Google Insights data, behaves in a manner consistent with a valid measure of public attention. Moreover, this finding holds when the measure is included in a standard model used to explain U.S. Senate election outcomes. The Google Insights measure of relative public attention shows the shifts in public attention as the campaign is waged and is consistent with how we would expect to see such a measure behave. This research opens numerous avenues for research in the campaigns and elections subfield.
Both Typical and Atypical Long-Acting Injectable Antipsychotics in Bipolar Disorder: A Retrospective Chart Review

aimed to include both LAI atypical and typical antipsychotics and to compare the clinical status, number of hospitalization, and side effects of pre and post-treatment periods of one year separately. Methods: Our study sample was constituted of 802 BD patients whom are followed in Mood Disorders Unit of Gaziantep University. Among them 80 patients has been using typical or atypical LAI antipsychotics. In the context of the study criteria only 31 patients included in the study. Efficacy was assessed by the CGI, YMRS, HAMD scores of pre and post-treatment periods of one year (12 months ago, 6 months ago, treatment initiation time, 6 months later and 12 months later), by the rate of hospitalization, and by comparing the average number of mood episodes. Results: LAI antipsychotic usage rate was identified as 9.88% in the study sample. Both of the antipsychotics were shown to decrease the average number of episodes in one year, and effective in preventing manic episodes rather than depressive episodes. Atypical antipsychotics significantly decreased YMRS and CGI scores but a decrease in HAMD scores was not observed, whereas no significant changes were observed in all scale scores with typical antipsychotics. There were not any significant difference when typical and atypical LAI antipsychotics compared according to their side effects in pre and post-treatment periods. Discussion: To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study that atypical and typical LAI antipsychotics were both included. As a result, it was shown that LAI antipsychotics may be effective in the prevention of manic episodes and there were not any differences found in terms of pre and post-treatment side effects. The results of our study are needed to be repeated in new studies with increased number of patients. Journal of Mood Disorders 2014;4(1):20-5
The ethnic label Zinjibari: Politics and language choice implications among Swahili speakers in Oman

The ethnic label Zinjibari in Omani society has various connotations that depend on who is using the term and about whom it is being used. Through participant observation and within the context of ethnolinguistic identity theory, this qualitative study aims to demonstrate how the label Zinjibari can function as an outgroup or ingroup label, as a mark of solidarity, as a term of prestige or as a slur. It is also proposed that these different connotations influence language choice among Oman’s Swahili speakers.
A Tool Framework for Static and Dynamic Analysis of Object-Oriented Software with Templates

The developers of high-performance scientific applications often work in complex computing environments that place heavy demands on program analysis tools. The developers need tools that interoperate, are portable across machine architectures, and provide source-level feedback. In this paper, we describe a tool framework, the Program Database Toolkit (PDT), that supports the development of program analysis tools meeting these requirements. PDT uses compile-time information to create a complete database of high-level program information that is structured for well-defined and uniform access by tools and applications. PDT’s current applications make heavy use of advanced features of C++, in particular, templates. We describe the toolkit, focussing on its most important contribution -- its handling of templates -- as well as its use in existing applications.
Cholinergic modulation of cognitive processing: insights drawn from computational models

Acetylcholine plays an important role in cognitive function, as shown by pharmacological manipulations that impact working memory, attention, episodic memory, and spatial memory function. Acetylcholine also shows striking modulatory influences on the cellular physiology of hippocampal and cortical neurons. Modeling of neural circuits provides a framework for understanding how the cognitive functions may arise from the influence of acetylcholine on neural and network dynamics. We review the influences of cholinergic manipulations on behavioral performance in working memory, attention, episodic memory, and spatial memory tasks, the physiological effects of acetylcholine on neural and circuit dynamics, and the computational models that provide insight into the functional relationships between the physiology and behavior. Specifically, we discuss the important role of acetylcholine in governing mechanisms of active maintenance in working memory tasks and in regulating network dynamics important for effective processing of stimuli in attention and episodic memory tasks. We also propose that theta rhythm plays a crucial role as an intermediary between the physiological influences of acetylcholine and behavior in episodic and spatial memory tasks. We conclude with a synthesis of the existing modeling work and highlight future directions that are likely to be rewarding given the existing state of the literature for both empiricists and modelers.
The Impact of Microcredit on the Poor in Bangladesh: Revisiting the Evidence

Abstract We replicate and reanalyse the most influential study of microcredit impacts (M. M. Pitt & S. R. Khandker’s, ‘The impact of group-based credit on poor households in Bangladesh: Does the gender of participants matter? ’, published in the Journal of Political Economy, 106, 1998). That study was celebrated for showing that microcredit reduces poverty, a much hoped for possibility (though one not confirmed by recent randomised controlled trials). We show that the original results on poverty reduction disappear after dropping outliers, or when using a robust linear estimator. Using a new program for estimation of mixed process maximum likelihood models, we show how assumptions critical for the original analysis, such as error normality, are contradicted by the data. We conclude that questions about impact cannot be answered in these data.
Automatic speech recognition and a review of its functioning with dysarthric speech

The use of speech as a means of access can be a very powerful tool for individuals with motor disabilities. Knowledge of how automatic speech recognition (ASR) can function with dysarthric speech is important when selecting a system because dysarthria often accompanies other motor disorders. This paper provides an overview of the ASR process and discusses the functioning of different types of ASR systems with dysarthric speech. Methods to assess the appropriateness of a selected system are also described.
Healthcare Professionals' Reactions to Health Enterprise System Implementations: A Theory of Cynicism Perspective

Health enterprise systems (HES) are becoming increasingly popular in healthcare organizations. The purpose of the current study is to develop and test a model of healthcare professionals'' reactions to HES implementations. This is done by drawing on prior research on cynicism and resistance to technology. The model links healthcare professionals'' cynicism toward HES with their resistance to the technology, job satisfaction, and job stress. The study hypotheses were tested using a field study in a hospital that recently implemented an HES. Results suggest support for the proposed model. Important implications for research and practice are offered.
The Feeling Word Game: A Tool for Both Teaching and Therapy

Learning to identify, label, and share feelings is an important ingredient of healthy personal, social, and family functioning. The Feeling Word Game provides a lively, creative context for these tasks. The game consists of 110 colorful cards, each of which displays an emotional descriptor. Divided into two levels of difficulty, the cards can be used in a variety of therapeutic ways with individuals, couples, groups, and families. A creative counselor need not be limited by the six variations of play that are suggested in the game bag; innovative variations are encouraged.
Temperament and Peer Acceptance in Early Childhood: Sex and Social Status Differences

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relation between sex, social status and temperament in a sample of preschool-aged children. Sociometric interviews were conducted with 182 children (92 boys and 90 girls). Status groups of popular, rejected, neglected, controversial and average children were identified according to previously established criteria. Teachers rated children's temperament. Results indicated that rejected children displayed a more difficult temperament than popular children in terms of higher activity levels, higher distractibility and lower persistence. Both rejected and neglected children were rated as displaying lower adaptability and more negative mood than popular children. Boys were also rated as more active, more distractible and less persistent than girls. Results are discussed in terms of the relevance of particular temperament dimensions to successful social functioning for boys and for girls.
igher education institutions ’ costs and efficiency : Taking the ecomposition a further step

A multiproduct cost function is estimated for English higher education institutions using a panel of data from recent years. The panel approach allows estimation by means of a random parameter stochastic frontier model which provides considerable new insights in that it allows the impact on costs of inter-institutional differences in the cost function itself to be distinguished from inter-institutional differences in efficiency. The approach used here therefore resembles in some respects the non-parametric methods of efficiency evaluation. We report also on measures of average incremental cost of provision and on returns to scale and scope. 20
Canonical Numbering and Constitutional Symmetry

the list of atoms with the Morgan algorithm and assigning “parity”, even or odd, to each stereocenter, The class identifiers derived from the topological symmetry algorithm are ideally suited for the assignment of parity to all stereocenters dependent on molecular topology. This perception of stereocenters is not rigorous since there are cases where equivalency may depend upon the chirality of attachments. New class identifiers are needed for a determination of configuration in these cases. For example, consider the diastereomers 17 and 18. In structure 17 atom 3 is a stereocenter, but not in 18 since the chiralities of the two topologically equivalent attachments are identical. The perception of stereocenters dependent on the configuration of other stereocenters can be achieved by appending the parity property to the class identifier and reimplementing the topological symmetry algorithm. The algorithm for stereocenter perception may be described as follows: (1) assign class identifiers using the topological symmetry algorithm; (2) use the class identifiers to define the parity of each stereocenter resulting from the molecular topology; (3) append thle parity to the class identifier and again partition into classes; (4) reassign the parity of each stereocenter using the new (class identifiers; ( 5 ) done. It should be noted that chiral structures without stereocenters derived from topological properties are not amenable to this approach. For example, chiral structures 19 and 20 possess no stereocenters that result from mcllecular topology and require special treatment.
Enhancement of Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli Pathogenicity in Young Turkeys by Concurrent Turkey Coronavirus Infection

Abstract In a previous study, turkey coronavirus (TCV) and enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) were shown to synergistically interact in young turkeys coinfected with these agents. In that study, inapparent or mild disease was observed in turkeys inoculated with only TCV or EPEC, whereas severe growth depression and high mortality were observed in dually inoculated turkeys. The purpose of the present study was to further evaluate the pathogenesis of combined TCV/EPEC infection in young turkeys and determine the role of these agents in the observed synergistic interaction. Experiments were conducted to determine 1) effect of EPEC dose, with and without concurrent TCV infection, and 2) effect of TCV exposure, before and after EPEC exposure, on development of clinical disease. Additionally, the effect of combined infection on TCV and EPEC shedding was determined. No clinical sign of disease and no attaching and effacing (AE) lesions characteristic of EPEC were observed in turkeys inoculated with only EPEC isolate R98/5, even when turkeys were inoculated with 1010 colony forming units (CFU) EPEC (high dose exposure). Only mild growth depression was observed in turkeys inoculated with only TCV; however, turkeys inoculated with both TCV and 104 CFU EPEC (low dose exposure) developed severe disease characterized by high mortality, marked growth depression, and AE lesions. Inoculation of turkeys with TCV 7 days prior to EPEC inoculation produced more severe disease (numerically greater mortality, significantly lower survival probability [P < 0.05], increased frequency of AE lesions) than that observed in turkeys inoculated with EPEC prior to TCV or simultaneously inoculated with these agents. Coinfection of turkeys with TCV and EPEC resulted in significantly increased (P < 0.05) shedding of EPEC, but not TCV, in intestinal contents of turkeys. These findings indicate that TCV infection predisposes young turkeys to secondary EPEC infection and potentiates the expression of EPEC pathogenicity in young turkeys.