bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Trait correlates of success at work
Authors: Teodorescu Alexandra , Furnham Adrian , MacRae Ian 
Published: February 2017

AbstractIdentifying and developing high potential individuals is fundamental to successful companies and organizations. The present study focuses on the personality traits of high potential individuals. The High Potential Traits Inventory (HPTI) was used to investigate associations between personality traits and measures of career success, in a sample of 383 employed individuals. Results indicate HPTI personality traits relate to subjective and objective measures of success with Conscientiousness being the strongest predictor. The findings of the current study are consistent with previous research on High Flyers. Implications of the current study are discussed, suggesting a clearer operationalization of success is crucial for understanding the underlying mechanisms which lead from personality to potential.
Can you test me now? Equivalence of GMA tests on mobile and non‐mobile devices
Authors: Brown Matt I. , Grossenbacher Michael A. 
Published: February 2017

AbstractAs technology continues to evolve, organizations seek to use personal electronics like smartphones for selection and assessment. While this promises to increase access to a more diverse applicant pool, research is needed to examine whether commonly used assessments function similarly on these devices as on a conventional computer. Contrary to past research, we did not find meaningful differences in general mental ability (GMA) test scores between device groups. We also observed few differences in item functioning between devices. Screen size had a positive, but marginal effect on test scores. These results are optimistic for the use of mobile devices in GMA testing, but additional research is needed to examine the functioning of alternative GMA tests administered on mobile devices.
Characterization of an entomopathogenic fungi target integument protein, Bombyx mori single domain von Willebrand factor type C, in the silkworm, Bombyx mori
Authors: Han F. , Lu A. , Yuan Y. , Huang W. , Beerntsen B. T. , Huang J. , Ling E. 
Published: February 2017

AbstractThe insect cuticle works as the first line of defence to protect insects from pathogenic infections and water evaporation. However, the old cuticle must be shed in order to enter the next developmental stage. During each ecdysis, moulting fluids are produced and secreted into the area among the old and new cuticles. In a previous study, the protein Bombyx mori single domain von Willebrand factor type C (BmSVWC; BGIBMGA011399) was identified in the moulting fluids of Bo. mori and demonstrated to regulate ecdysis. In this study we show that in Bo. mori larvae, BmSVWC primarily locates to the integument (epidermal cells and cuticle), wing discs and head. During the moulting stage, BmSVWC is released into the moulting fluids, and is then produced again by epidermal cells after ecdysis. Fungal infection was shown to decrease the amount of BmSVWC in the cuticle, which indicates that BmSVWC is a target protein of entomopathogenic fungi. Thus, BmSVWC is mainly involved in maintaining the integrity of the integument structure, which serves to protect insects from physical damage and pathogenic infection.
An evolutionary algorithm for the multi‐objective pick‐up and delivery pollution‐routing problem
Authors: Bravo Mauricio , Rojas Lorena Pradenas , Parada Victor 
Published: February 2017

AbstractThe design of sustainable logistics solutions poses new challenges for the study of vehicle‐routing problems. The design of efficient systems for transporting products via a heterogeneous fleet of vehicles must consider the minimization of cost, emissions of greenhouse gases, and the ability to serve every customer within an available time slot. This phenomenon gives rise to a multi‐objective problem that considers the emission of greenhouse gases, the total traveling time, and the number of customers served. The proposed model is approached with an ε‐constraint technique that allows small instances to be solved and an evolutionary algorithm is proposed to deal with complex instances. Results for small instances show that all the points that approach the Pareto frontier found by the evolutionary algorithm are nondominated by any solution found by the multi‐objective model. For complex instances, nondominated solutions that serve most of the requests are found with low computational requirements.
Stochastic multicriteria decision‐making approach based on SMAA‐ELECTRE with extended gray numbers
Authors: Zhou Huan , Wang Jian‐qiang , Zhang Hong‐yu 
Published: February 2017

AbstractActual stochastic multicriteria decision‐making (MCDM) problems usually exhibit two forms of information loss: criteria value uncertainty and criteria weight uncertainty. In this paper, extended gray numbers (EGNs), integrated with discrete gray numbers and interval gray numbers are used to express the uncertainty of stochastic MCDM problems. Stochastic multicriteria acceptability analysis (SMAA) and ELECTRE III are combined to solve stochastic MCDM problems with uncertain weight information. First, the outranking relations on interval gray numbers and EGNs are defined. Then, a SMAA‐ELECTRE model for dealing with gray stochastic MCDM problems is constructed. Finally, an illustrative example and two comparative analyses are provided to verify the feasibility and usability of the proposed approach. The proposed approach provides recommendations for alternatives based on uncertain preference information. It therefore contributes a new way to solve stochastic MCDM problems with uncertain, imprecise, and/or missing preference information.
Improved dynamic programming and approximation results for the knapsack problem with setups
Authors: Pferschy Ulrich , Scatamacchia Rosario 
Published: February 2017

AbstractIn this paper, we consider the 0–1 knapsack problem with setups. Items are grouped into families and if any items of a family are packed, this induces a setup cost as well as a setup resource consumption. We introduce a new dynamic programming algorithm that performs much better than a previous dynamic program and turns out to be also a valid alternative to an exact approach based on the use of an Integer Linear Programming (ILP) solver. Then we present a general inapproximability result. Furthermore, we investigate several relevant special cases that still permit fully polynomial‐time approximation schemes and others where the problem remains hard to approximate.
Unilesional plantar mycosis fungoides treated with topical photodynamic therapy – case report and review of the literature
Authors: Kaufmann F. , Kettelhack N. , Hilty N. , Kempf W. 
Published: February 2017

AbstractBackgroundUnilesional mycosis fungoides (UMF) and pagetoid reticulosis (PR) are variants of mycosis fungoides. Conventional therapy comprises surgical excision or radiotherapy, which may be associated with long‐term side effects, especially when the lesion is located at a special site like the palms and soles. Therefore, alternative treatment options are needed to treat solitary lesions in the case of UMF or PR. Recently, topical photodynamic therapy (PDT) has been described to be an efficient and non‐invasive therapeutical option with excellent clinical outcome.ObjectiveThe objective of this study was to report a 43‐year‐old woman with plantar UMF treated successfully with PDT, and to compare our findings with the data on PDT in UMF and PR reported in the literature.MethodsThe literature was analysed for articles on UMF and PR, respectively, treated with topical PDT. Various parameters including form of PDT and response to treatment were analysed and compared with our case.ResultsA total of 24 patients were documented with 24 lesions treated with PDT, either using aminolevulinic acid (ALA) or methylaminolevulinate (MAL). In average, a single lesion was treated 4 times with PDT. In 21 cases (88%), complete response could be achieved, whereas three cases (13%) showed partial remission. None of the cases showed stable or progressive disease.ConclusionsPDT is a safe, efficient and non‐invasive therapeutical approach for the treatment of UMF and PR. It has no long‐standing adverse events and therefore is of high therapeutic value especially in cases of UMF and PR located at special sites like the palms and soles. We propose to include topical PDT as therapeutic option for the treatment of UMF and PR in future guidelines on the management MF.
Prevention incentives in long‐term insurance contracts
Authors: Bourlès Renaud 
Published: February 2017

AbstractLong‐term insurance contracts are widespread, particularly in public health and the labor market. Such contracts typically involve monthly or annual premia which are related to the insured's risk profile. A given profile may change, based on observed outcomes which depend on the insured's prevention efforts. The aim of this paper is to analyze the latter relationship. In a two‐period optimal insurance contract in which the insured's risk profile is partly governed by her effort on prevention, we find that both the insured's risk aversion and prudence play a crucial role. If absolute prudence is greater than twice absolute risk aversion, moral hazard justifies setting a higher premium in the first period but also greater premium discrimination in the second period. This result provides insights on the trade‐offs between long‐term insurance and the incentives arising from risk classification, as well as between inter‐ and intragenerational insurance.
Maternal stress during pregnancy and neurodevelopmental outcomes of children during the first 2 years of life
Authors: Polanska Kinga , Krol Anna , Merecz‐Kot Dorota , Jurewicz Joanna , Makowiec‐Dabrowska Teresa , Chiarotti Flavia , Calamandrei Gemma , Hanke Wojciech 
Published: February 2017

AimA growing body of literature documents associations between maternal stress in pregnancy and child development, but findings across studies are often inconsistent. The aim of this study was to estimate the association between exposure to different kinds of prenatal stress and child psychomotor development.MethodsThe study population consisted of 372 mother‐child pairs from Polish Mother and Child Cohort. The analysis was restricted to the women who worked at least 1 month during pregnancy period. Maternal psychological stress during pregnancy was assessed based on: the Subjective Work Characteristics Questionnaire, Perceived Stress Scale and Social Readjustment Rating Scale. The level of satisfaction with family functioning and support was evaluated by APGAR Family Scale. Child psychomotor development was assessed at the 12th and 24th months of age by Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development.ResultsNegative impact on child cognitive development at the age of two was observed for the Perceived Stress Scale (β = −0.8; P = 0.01) and the Social Readjustment Rating Scale (β = −0.4; P = 0.03) after adjusting for the variety of confounders. Occupational stress, as well as satisfaction with family functioning, was not significantly associated with child psychomotor development (P > 0.05).ConclusionsThe study supports the findings that prenatal exposure to maternal stress is significantly associated with decreased child cognitive functions. In order to further understand and quantify the effects of prenatal stress on child neurodevelopment further studies are needed. This will be important for developing interventions that provide more assistance to pregnant women, including emotional support or help to manage psychological stress.
A normative foundation for equity‐sensitive health evaluation: The role of relative comparisons of health gains
Authors: Moreno‐Ternero Juan D. , Østerdal Lars Peter 
Published: February 2017

AbstractWe explore in this paper the relationship between equity‐sensitive population health evaluation measures and normative concerns for relative comparisons of health gains. Such a relationship allows us to characterize focal equity‐sensitive models for the evaluation of population health. Instances are the so‐called multiplicative Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) and multiplicative Healthy Years Equivalents (HYEs), as well as generalizations of the two. Our axiomatic approach assumes social preferences over distributions of individual health states experienced in a given period of time. It conveys informational simplicity, as it does not require information about individual preferences on health.
Mandating vaccination with unknown indirect effects
Authors: Manski Charles F. 
Published: February 2017

Social interactions make communicable disease a core concern of public health policy. A prevalent problem is scarcity of empirical evidence informative about how interventions affect illness. Randomized trials, which have been important to evaluation of treatments for noninfectious diseases, are less informative about treatment of communicable diseases because they do not fully reveal the indirect preventive (herd immunity) effect of vaccination on persons who are not vaccinated or are unsuccessfully vaccinated. This paper studies the decision problem faced by a health planner who observes the illness rate that occurs when persons make decentralized vaccination choices and who contemplates whether to mandate vaccination. The planner's objective is to minimize the social cost of illness and vaccination. Uncertainty about the magnitude of the indirect effect of vaccination implies uncertainty about the illness rate that a mandate would yield. I first study a simple representative‐agent setting and derive conditions under which the planner can determine whether mandating vaccination is optimal. When optimal policy is indeterminate, I juxtapose several criteria for decision making—expected utility, minimax, and minimax‐regret—and compare the policies they generate. I then extend the analysis to a more general setting in which members of the population may have heterogenous attributes.I have benefitted from the opportunity to present this work in seminars at the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, the Department of Economics, University of California at Santa Barbara, and the Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, University of Southern California. I have also benefitted from the comments of an anonymous reviewer and associate editor.
Acculturation and its impact on the oral health status of Pacific children in New Zealand: findings from the Pacific Islands Families study
Authors: Schluter Philip J. , Kanagaratnam Sathananthan , Taylor Steve , Tautolo El‐Shadan 
Published: February 2017

AbstractObjectivesImmigration and acculturation are increasingly recognized as important explanatory factors for health disparities, although their impact on oral health is less well understood. This study investigates the relationship between Pacific children's cultural orientation and oral health, after adjusting for potentially moderating and confounding variables.MethodsThe Pacific Islands Families (PIF) study follows a cohort of Pacific infants born in 2000. PIF study participants' data from their last dental examination were extracted from service records, and matched to the cohort. A bi‐directional acculturation classification, derived from maternal reports, was related to children's oral health indices in crude and adjusted analyses.Results1,376 children were eligible, of whom 922 (67.0 percent) had mothers born outside New Zealand. Matching was successful for 970 (70.5 percent) children, with mean age 12.2 years (range: 6.8, 15.4 years). Significant differences were found between acculturation groups for children's tooth brushing frequency and school dental service enrollments but these differences did not moderate relationships between acculturation and oral health status. Unmet treatment need was significantly different between acculturation groups, with children of mothers having higher Pacific orientation having worse unmet needs than those with lower Pacific orientation. No other significant differences were noted.ConclusionsPacific children carry a disproportionate oral health burden, particularly amongst those with mothers more aligned to their Pacific culture. Strategies which enable Pacific people to re‐shape their oral health understanding, together with reducing barriers to accessing dental health care, are needed to prevent a legacy of poor oral health in Pacific people within New Zealand.
The Stretching Method for Vibration‐Based Structural Health Monitoring of Civil Structures
Authors: Tsogka Chrysoula , Daskalakis Emmanouil , Comanducci Gabriele , Ubertini Filippo 
Published: February 2017

AbstractThis article newly proposes the application of the stretching method, that is used in geophysics for detecting variations in the velocity with which waves propagate in the earth's crust from seismic noise recordings, in the context of vibration‐based Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) of civil structures. The result is a computationally efficient long‐term vibration‐based SHM tool, that follows the current trend of using a very limited number of sensors permanently installed on site to measure operational structural responses for the purpose of damage detection. In the SHM setting, the proposed method aims at a direct identification of small permanent shifts in the natural frequencies of the structure in a changing environment, which is achieved by maximizing the correlation coefficient between a reference waveform, computed in a training reference period in which the structure is assumed to be undamaged, and a stretched version of the same waveform evaluated at the current time. The comparison is performed in the frequency domain and the waveform of interest is obtained from cross‐correlations of the ambient vibration measurements. More specifically, in the case of multiple sensors, the waveform can be either the cross‐power spectral density of the signals recorded by a pair of sensors, or the largest singular value of the spectral matrix of the measurements. It follows that the method can be regarded as an extension of the classic Frequency Domain Decomposition (FDD). A key feature of the proposed stretching method is mitigating the effects of environmental fluctuations by time domain averaging of cross‐correlations over a proper period of time, before taking their Fourier transform to estimate the spectral densities. Such a time domain averaging is carried out in a relatively long period of time for estimating the reference waveform, whereas it is carried out in a shorter time for estimating the current waveform. The main features of the proposed methodology are its very low sensitivity to environmental fluctuations, resulting in a quite short training period length, and its low computational cost, which could be compatible with a direct integration within smart sensors with embedded electronics. The performance of the method is illustrated in the case study of an Italian historical monumental bell tower that has been monitored by the authors for more than 1 year.
Attentive Visual Reference
Authors: Green E. J. 
Published: February 2017

AbstractMany have held that when a person visually attends to an object, her visual system deploys a representation that designates the object. Call the referential link between such representations and the objects they designate attentive visual reference. In this article I offer an account of attentive visual reference. I argue that the object representations deployed in visual attention—which I call attentive visual object representations (AVORs)—refer directly, and are akin to indexicals. Then I turn to the issue of how the reference of an AVOR is determined relative to a context. After raising problems for existing accounts, I propose a mechanism of reference determination that is both causal and descriptive: For an AVOR to refer to a particular object, the object must appropriately cause the deployment of the AVOR, and the AVOR must be associated with descriptive information about some of the object's geometrical and mereological properties.
Prepulse inhibition and facilitation of the postauricular reflex, a vestigial remnant of pinna startle
Authors: Hackley Steven A. , Ren Xi , Underwood Amy , Valle‐Inclán Fernando 
Published: February 2017

AbstractIf the postauricular reflex (PAR) is to be used effectively in studies of emotion and attention, its sensitivity to basic modulatory effects such as prepulse inhibition and facilitation must be determined. Two experiments were carried out with healthy young adults to assess the effects of transient and sustained visual prestimuli on the pinna‐flexion response to trains of startle probes. In the first experiment, participants passively viewed a small white square. It was displayed from 1,000 ms prior to onset of a train of noise bursts until the end of that train. Relative to no‐prepulse control trials, PAR amplitude was inhibited, possibly due to the withdrawal of attentional resources from the auditory modality. In the second experiment, participants performed a visual oddball task in which irrelevant trains of startle probes followed most briefly displayed task stimuli (checkerboards). Prepulse inhibition was observed when a transient stimulus preceded the first probe at a lead time of 100 ms. Amplitude facilitation was observed at longer lead times. In addition to documenting the existence of prepulse inhibition and facilitation, the data suggest that the PAR is not elicited by visual stimuli, that temporal expectancy does not influence its amplitude or latency, and that this vestigial microreflex is resistant to habituation. Results are interpreted in light of a recent theory that the human PAR is a highly degraded pinna startle, in which the reflex arc no longer includes the startle center (nucleus reticularis pontis caudalis).
N1 response attenuation and the mismatch negativity (MMN) to within‐ and across‐category phonetic contrasts
Authors: Silva Daniel M. R. , Melges Danilo B. , Rothe‐Neves Rui 
Published: February 2017

AbstractAccording to the neural adaptation model of the mismatch negativity (MMN), the sensitivity of this event‐related response to both acoustic and categorical information in speech sounds can be accounted for by assuming that (a) the degree of overlapping between neural representations of two sounds depends on both the acoustic difference between them and whether or not they belong to distinct phonetic categories, and (b) a release from stimulus‐specific adaptation causes an enhanced N1 obligatory response to infrequent deviant stimuli. On the basis of this view, we tested in Experiment 1 whether the N1 response to the second sound of a pair (S2) would be more attenuated in pairs of identical vowels compared with pairs of different vowels, and in pairs of exemplars of the same vowel category compared with pairs of exemplars of different categories. The psychoacoustic distance between S1 and S2 was the same for all within‐category and across‐category pairs. While N1 amplitudes decreased markedly from S1 to S2, responses to S2 were quite similar across pair types, indicating that the attenuation effect in such conditions is not stimulus specific. In Experiment 2, a pronounced MMN was elicited by a deviant vowel sound in an across‐category oddball sequence, but not when the exact same deviant vowel was presented in a within‐category oddball sequence. This adds evidence that MMN reflects categorical phonetic processing. Taken together, the results suggest that different neural processes underlie the attenuation of the N1 response to S2 and the MMN to vowels.