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Insights From An Updated Personnel Selection Meta-Analytic Matrix: Revisiting General Mental Ability Tests’ Role In The Validity-Diversity Trade-Off, Christopher M. Berry, Filip Lievens, Charlene Zhang, Paul R. Sackett

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

General mental ability (GMA) tests have long been at the heart of the validity–diversity trade-off, with conventional wisdom being that reducing their weight in personnel selection can improve adverse impact, but that this results in steep costs to criterion-related validity. However, Sackett et al. (2022) revealed that the criterion-related validity of GMA tests has been considerably overestimated due to inappropriate range restriction corrections. Thus, we revisit the role of GMA tests in the validity-diversity trade-off using an updated meta-analytic correlation matrix of the relationships six selection methods (biodata, GMA tests, conscientiousness tests, structured interviews, integrity tests, and situational judgment tests) …

Physical Frictions And Digital Banking Adoption, Hyun Soo Choi, Roger Loh

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

The behavioral literature suggests that minor frictions can elicit desirable behavior without obvious coercion. Using closures of ATMs in a densely populated city as an instrument for small frictions to physical banking access, we find that customers affected by ATM closures increase their usage of the bank's digital platform. Other spillover effects of this adoption of financial technology include increases in point-of-sale (POS) transactions, electronic funds transfers, automatic bill payments and savings, and a reduction in cash usage. Our results show that minor frictions can help overcome the status-quo bias and facilitate significant behavior change.

An Approach To Multi-Attribute Decision-Making Based On Single-Valued Neutrosophic Hesitant Fuzzy Aczel-Alsina Aggregation Operator, Raiha Imran, Kifayat Ullah, Zeeshan Ali, Maria Akram

Neutrosophic Systems with Applications

A single-valued Neutrosophic hesitant fuzzy set (SVNHFS) is a combination of a single-valued neutrosophic set (SVNS) and hesitant fuzzy set (HFS) that has been developed to address insufficient, unreliable, and vague environments in which each element has several possible options determined by the truthiness, indeterminacy and falsity value. By considering this, in this paper, we have proposed the Aczel-Alsina aggregation operator (AAAO) for SVNHFS, which is more flexible t-norm and t-conorm than the other and due to the flexible nature of parameters to solve Multi-Attribute decision making (MADM) problems. Further, the score function, accuracy function, and certainty function of SVNHFS …

Evaluation Of Renewable Energy Sources For A Sustainable Future: A Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Approach, Mai Mohamed, Asmaa Elsayed

Neutrosophic Systems with Applications

The urgent global challenges of climate change, energy security, and environmental degradation highlight the need for sustainable energy solutions. Renewable energy sources (RES) present a viable pathway towards sustainability by mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, reducing reliance on fossil fuels, and fostering economic resilience. Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to propose an advanced Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) approach to evaluate various RES by integrating environmental, economic, technological, social acceptance, and resource availability criteria, to identify the most suitable RES for sustainable energy solutions. Methodology: The study employs a hybrid method combining Type-2 Neutrosophic Numbers (T2NN) with LOPCOW (Logarithmic Percentage Change …

Keepin’ It Inclusive: Inclusive Cataloging Scholarship Of The 1990s, Tiffany Henry, Alyssa Nance

Libraries Publications

Inclusive cataloging has gained more attention within the discipline of library and information science (LIS) within recent years. While the term coined for this concept is newer, the underlying ideas are not new and have been part of the professional and scholarly conversation within cataloging for decades. To trace these ideas, the authors conducted a literature review of scholarship on cataloging, diversity, and vocabulary written in the 1990s to discuss the evolution of inclusive cataloging. The review of the literature from this decade shows the intellectual progression of this topic and how it lays the groundwork for current scholarship.

Selected Aspects Of The Organization Of Tourism And Recreation In Natural Areas With Different Status Of Legal Protection, Marcin Pasek, Dominik Borek

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

An important place in the strategy of promoting health of modern societies, especially in the post-pandemic world, is played by orienting recommendations on how to spend free time towards tourism and recreation in the natural environment. The utilitarian nature of this type of activity is associated with the need to respect legal provisions, relating to the use of statutory forms of nature conservation, as well as non-statutory protection areas. The aim of the study is to characterize the tourist-recreational use in both of the abovementioned types of ecological habitats, and to indicate the similarities and differences in the conditions of …

Cardiomyocyte Adaptation To Exercise: K+ Channels, Contractility And Ischemic Injury, Robert H. Fitts, Xinrui Wang, Wai-Meng Kwok, Amadou K.S. Camara

Biological Sciences Faculty Research and Publications

Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality, and exercise-training (TRN) is known to reduce risk factors and protect the heart from ischemia and reperfusion injury. Though the cardioprotective effects of exercise are well-documented, underlying mechanisms are not well understood. This review highlights recent findings and focuses on cardiac factors with emphasis on K⁺ channel control of the action potential duration (APD), β-adrenergic and adenosine regulation of cardiomyocyte function, and mitochondrial Ca²⁺ regulation. TRN-induced prolongation and shortening of the APD at low and high activation rates, respectively, is discussed in the context of a reduced response …

Innovation Challenges In The Air Force Sbir Program: From The Small Businesses’ Perspective, Hart J. Holt, Amy M. Cox, Scott Drylie, David S. Long, Alfred E. Thal Jr., R. David Fass

Faculty Publications

Every year the United States invests $3.2 billion in the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to promote innovation among the nation’s small businesses. Half of this investment is from the DoD. This research considers the challenges faced by small businesses innovating with the DoD, particularly those awarded SBIR contracts with the United States Air Force. The authors surveyed 286 unique small businesses that were previously awarded an Air Force SBIR contract. By asking the survey respondents open-ended questions and categorizing their responses, they pinpoint unaddressed challenges from the small business perspective. By categorizing survey responses through Qualitative Content Analysis, …

Fair Compensation For Patient Partners In Clinical Research: Perspectives And Practices, Michelle Culp

Doctor of Philosophy in Translational Health Sciences Dissertations

Engaging patient partners in clinical trial design is a valuable process for making trials more patient-centric, resulting in greater patient participation in clinical trials, better generalizability of results and more outcomes of relevance to patients and providers. Patient partners are people with a disease or condition who are involved in clinical trial planning, conduct, and dissemination with clinical trial researchers. Patient engagement is the meaningful and collaborative interaction between patient partners and clinical trial researchers across the clinical trial lifecycle where research decision-making is guided by patient partners’ input about their lived experiences. Patient partners, clinical trial researchers, funders, and …

Trajectories Of Diabetes-Related Sequelae For Identifying Transition Probabilities, And Optimal Timepoints For Prevention Of Ulceration, Infection, And Amputation, Daniel C. Jupiter, Yuanyi Zhang, Naohiro Shibuya

School of Podiatric Medicine Publications

To reduce diabetes-related complications and to avoid futile procedures, foot and ankle surgeons need to understand the relative timings of catastrophic events, their incidence, and probabilities of transitions between disease states in diabetes in different patient populations. For this study, we tracked medical events (including an initial diagnosis of diabetes, ulcer, wound care, osteomyelitis, amputation, and reamputation, in order of severity) and the time between each such event in patients with diabetes, stratifying by sex, race, and ethnicity. We found that the longest average duration between the different lower extremity states was a diagnosis of diabetes to the occurrence of …

Tender Rejection Under Article 393 Of The Polish Public Procurement Law (Ppl) – Remarks De Lege Lata And De Lege Ferenda, Joanna Affre, Mateusz Restel

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

The article examines how Poland has implemented Article 85 of Directive 2014/25/EU, and determines what consequences arise from the discrepancies between the wording of Polish and EU provision. The prerequisites that allow contracting authorities to exercise the right to reject a tender, due to the origin of the products covered by it, are identifi ed, and an interpretation of each of these prerequisites is provided. This discussion responds to problems related to the application of Article 393(1) point 4 of the Polish Public Procurement Law (PPL). The paper calls for the amendment of this provision, by introducing an obligation to …

Justification For The Introduction Of The Eu Short-Term Rentals (Str) Regulation In The Context Of The Housing Market In The Eu, Paweł Budny

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

Given the priority status of ensuring universal access to decent and affordable housing at the EU level, the EU legislator has highlighted the need for harmonization in the collection of data on short-term rentals of residential units through sharing economy platforms. The dynamic growth of platform tourism, observed across the EU in recent years, justifies the need for the introduction of EU Regulation 2024/1028 on Short-Term Rentals (STR), which imposes on collaborative economy platforms that operate on the short-term property rental market, the obligation to provide relevant authorities with data on landlords and units associated with the services provided. The …

Legal And Practical Aspects Of Sharing And Entrusting Personal Data, Taking Into Account Tourism Regulations During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Stanislaw Hady-Głowiak, Dominik Borek

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

The article presents issues related to the sharing of personal data, and to entrusting data for their processing, with particular emphasis on tourism regulations during the pandemic. The work aims to indicate practical solutions, and to distinguish between situations of entrusting data for processing, a contractor authorized to process them on the basis of a contract, and of sharing of personal data. In the latter case, the most important thing is to verify each time the legal basis authorizing their sharing, and to keep a register of data sharing. In the case of the process of entrusting personal data for …

Ferric Chloride Promoted Glycosidation Of Alkyl Thioglycosides, Lacie M. Ridgway, Anupama Das, Melanie L. Shadrick, Alexei V. Demchenko

Chemistry & Biochemistry Faculty Works

Reported herein is a new reaction for glycosylation with thioglycosides in the presence of iron(III) chloride. Previously, FeCl3 was used for the activation of thioglycosides as a Lewis acid co-promoter paired with NIS. In the reported process, although 5.0 equiv of FeCl3 are needed to activate thioglycosides most efficiently, no additives were used, and the reactions with reactive glycosyl donors smoothly proceeded to completion in 1 h at 0 °C. This work showcases a new direction in developing glycosylation methods using greener and earth-abundant activators.

Abstinence Beliefs In Early Adolescence And Sexual Risk Behavior Two Years Later, Shristi Bhochhibhoya, Briana Edison, Elizabeth R. Baumler, Christine M. Markham, Susan T. Emery, Melissa F. Peskin, Ross Shegog, Robert C. Addy, Jeff R. Temple, Dennis E. Ready

Health, Human Performance and Recreation Faculty Publications and Presentations

Introduction

The United States has the highest teen pregnancy rate and sexually transmitted infection rates among developed countries. One common approach that has been implemented to reduce these rates is abstinence-only-until-marriage programs that advocate for delaying sexual intercourse until marriage. These programs focus on changing adolescents' beliefs toward abstinence until marriage; however, it is unclear whether adolescents' beliefs about abstinence predict their sexual behavior, including sexual risk behavior (SRB). An alternative approach may be encouraging youth to delay their sexual debut until they reach the age of maturity, but not necessarily until marriage.

Methods

To address this question, we compare …

2024 Fall Vol. 41 No. 2, Alumni Affairs School Of Medicine

Medicinews

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Associations Between Self-Reported Levels Of Aggression, Irritability, And Depression In Collegiate Athletes With A History Of Concussion, Amber Mae Bankston

Theses and Dissertations

Objective: The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between history of concussion and symptoms of aggression, irritability, and depression. Furthermore, the relationship between these variables were examined in a small subgroup of participants before and after sustaining a head injury.

Methods: Archival data of NCAA Division II and club collegiate athletes from Florida Institute of Technology was included in the present study. Participants were included in this study if they completed baseline and/or post-trauma neuropsychological evaluations that included the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9), Buss Perry Aggression Questionnaire (BPAQ), and Irritability Questionnaire (IRQ). Athletes’ demographic information along with …

The Relationship Between Health Anxiety, Health Information Seeking Behaviors, And Healthcare Outcomes, Rima Malkan

Theses and Dissertations

The relationship between health anxiety and health information-seeking behaviors (HISB) suggests a possible bidirectional or reciprocal relationship, suggesting that health anxiety leads to HISB and HISB exacerbates health anxiety. The motivations for individuals seeking different types of health information vary and may be impacted by numerous factors that lead to particular health outcomes. However, the impact of these collective variables on healthcare outcomes has not been extensively investigated. The current study aimed to bridge this gap in the literature. The study sample consisted of 133 individuals ages 20-77 years who had varying levels of health anxiety. Results suggested that those …

“The Truth Should Not Be Hidden”: Experiences And Recommendations Of Individuals Making Npe Discoveries Through Genetic Genealogy Databases, Olivia Schuman, Caroline Beit, Jill Oliver Robinson, Whitney Bash Brooks, Amy L Mcguire, Christi Guerrini

Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy Staff Publications

Purpose: Fueled by direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing and genetic-relative finder services, some participants in genetic genealogy databases are making "not parent expected" (NPE) discoveries. To better understand experiences of this phenomenon, we surveyed a large cohort of users of genetic relative finder (GRF) services concerning their experiences after an NPE discovery.

Methods: Using thematic analysis, we analyzed responses from a cohort of GRF users (n = 646) to open-ended survey items to understand these experiences and their recommendations for DTC genetic testing companies and other GRF users.

Results: We found that individuals had both positive and negative emotional experiences related …

Intelligent Transformation Of New Quality Productivity From The Perspective Of Intelligence, Jianan Zhang, Hong Yu, Yanfei Wang, Yuxiang Zhang, Yanhua Wang

Journal of Scientific Information Research

[Purpose/significance]The most prominent feature of the new quality productivity is scientific and technological innovation. In the new era, intelligence plays a new role of eyes and ears, spearhead and staff, and also plays a new role of guidance. This paper analyzes the intelligent revolution of new quality productivity from the perspective of information science, and probes into its challenges and opportunities to traditional intelligence work. [Method/process]New quality productivity takes data as the core element, forms wisdom based on data, enables scientific and technological innovation, and promotes social and economic development. Intelligence work needs to adapt to new productivity and improve …

Blockchain Research Status And Route In Library And Information Area In Our Country, Zhen Su, Jie Lv, Wenyan Zhao

Journal of Scientific Information Research

three categories: vector data embedding generation, vector data indexing, and vector data retrieval. Application patterns can be divided into three categories: data-driven applications, knowledge-driven applications and scenario driven applications. Challenges exist in various aspects such as high-quality generation, semantic description, storage resource utilization, collaborative sharing, and ethical security of vector data. Trends point towards the systematization of theoretical frameworks, maturation of technical solutions, and ecosystem development of application services.

Research On The Construction Of Multi-Layer Vocation-Skill Network For Industrial Talent Demand Identification, Zhanlei Yao, Jinxuan Li, Xin Xu

Journal of Scientific Information Research

[Purpose/ signficance]As an important tool for labor market observation，the relative robustness and other characteristics inherent in the traditional occupational classification system make it difficult to reflect changes in industrial talent demand in a timely manner. To solve this problem，this paper focuses on how to use digital means to map the relationship between occupations and skill requirements，and how to construct a multi-layer vocation-skill network and how to realize it. [Method/process]Firstly，design a set of cross-job descriptors，a common language for describing different jobs in Chinese context，in order to establish a vocation description framework for recruitment data development and utilization. Secondly，the Key technology of …

Research On Relationship Prediction And Path Evolution Between High-Tech Firms And Professional Skills From The Perspective Of Supply And Demand Optimization：Take The Ic Field As An Example, Luyao Dou, Yuncong Huang, Zengliang Bai, Yi Li, Zhigang Zhou

Journal of Scientific Information Research

[Purpose/ significance]To clarify the professional skill demand and change trend of high-tech enterprises from the perspective of supply and demand optimization is helpful to accelerate the aggregation of innovation elements, gradually establish technical groups and establish a sound cooperation system. [Method/process]Based on the resume information of incumbents in the Integrated Circuit（IC）field, the collaborative filtering recommendation algorithm in the ime dimension was used to predict and evaluate the relationship between enterprises and professional skills in the field. By combining Word2vec word vector model and LDA model, data mining and corpus expansion of resume information are carried out to identify skill topics. …

Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources, And Associated Traditional Knowledge, N.S. Gopalakrishnan, Srividhya Ragavan, Narendran Thiruthy

Faculty Scholarship

The recently concluded WIPO Treaty on Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge mandates disclosure requirements in patent applications, thereby creating an obligation to attribute the use of genetic resources and traditional knowledge. The WIPO member countries thus have an opportunity to modify their national patent laws, so that they can effectively control genetic resources and traditional knowledge. This article examines the choices that the biodiversity-rich countries have when designing their national legal systems to implement the treaty.

Shifting Toward Boilerplate Regulation, Wayne R. Barnes

Faculty Scholarship

Consumer assent to standard form contracts has been creating cognitive dissonance among contracts scholars for a century. Businesses impose standard forms on consumers, who never read the terms. But consumers would not understand them if they did. And they don’t have the bargaining power to change them anyway—the terms are famously “take it or leave it.” Contracting is ideally theorized as an act of voluntary, knowing consent to all the terms agreed to. The dissonance is that consumers, although ostensibly signaling their assent to the boilerplate by signing (or clicking, or tapping their phone screen), do not in fact know …

Experimental Study Of Coal Fines Migration Characteristics In Reservoirs With Diverse Coal Structures: Influence On Reservoir Behavior, Yingchun Wei, Ziliang Liu, Xianyue Xiong, Tiancheng Xie, Biao Li, Anmin Wang, Daiyong Cao, Zhenjiang You

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

The challenge of coal fines production within tectonic coal reservoirs during coalbed methane (CBM) development in China presents a significant concern. In this study, coal samples with distinct coal structures from Hancheng mining area were selected for experiments on coal fines migration. Our analysis focused on the distinctive characteristics of coal fines generated by various coal structures, the subsequent alterations in sample permeability, and the changes in pore and fracture structures before and after the experiments. By examining the reservoir properties across different structures, we aimed to uncover the migration characteristics of coal fines in these diverse coal reservoirs and …

Lessons Learned On The Feasibility Of Coastal Wetland Restoration For Blue Carbon And Co-Benefits In Australia, Valerie Hagger, Phoebe Stewart-Sinclair, Renee Anne Rossini, Maria Fernanda Adame, William Glamore, Paul Lavery, Nathan J. Waltham, Catherine E. Lovelock

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Diverse types of saline coastal wetlands contribute significantly to global biodiversity, carbon stocks, and ecosystem functions. Opportunities to incentivise coastal wetland restoration from carbon markets is growing across the world. However, little is known of the economic feasibility of blue carbon restoration across different regions, or the quantities of ecological and social co-benefits that accompany restoration. We explored the opportunities for tidal restoration of coastal wetlands for blue carbon projects in three regions across Australia. We identified biophysically suitable potential restoration sites for mangroves, saltmarshes and supratidal forests, estimated their carbon abatement over 25 years, and undertook a cost-benefit analysis …

Sequential Investment Decisions For Mining Projects Using Compound Multiple Volatility Real Options Approach, Atul Chandra, Peter R. Hartley

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Managers evaluating investment decisions in mining projects have reported using the net present value approach (NPV). However, NPV has the drawback of collapsing variations from uncertainties in future project cash flows into a fixed expected project value today. Ignoring future uncertainties and contingencies can lead managers to make incorrect up-front binary decisions, such as investing in or abandoning the project now. The real options analysis approach (ROA) instead captures variations from uncertainties as volatilities in project value and allows flexibility in investment decisions to be contingent on information as it is revealed. Managers we consulted agreed that ROA is superior …

Nursing Student Voices: A Qualitative Thematic Synthesis Of Education Elements Supporting Nursing Students' Clinical Learning During Placement, Robyn Cant, Colleen Ryan, Lynda Hughes, Christine Ossenberg, Simon Cooper

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Aim: to report a thematic synthesis of students’ narratives in free text comments from a national quality survey of Australian nursing degree students’ clinical placements. Background: Nursing student evaluation surveys are submitted to the Australian National Placement Evaluation Centre. Students in 36 Australian nursing programs are included. Design: Thematic synthesis of nursing students’ narrative comments. Methods: Data were sourced from 10,226 surveys submitted between July and December 2023. From these, the 3640 free text comments were extracted and tabulated to form the sample for synthesis. Three authors conducted a thematic synthesis and all five authors agreed on the findings. Findings: …

Rapid Weight Changes And Competitive Outcomes In Muay Thai And Mixed Martial Arts: A 14-Month Study Of 24 Combat Sports Events, Colin S. Doherty, Lauren V. Fortington, Oliver R. Barley

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

This study investigates the rapid weight loss (RWL) and rapid weight gain (RWG) of contest winners and losers from Muay Thai (MT) and mixed martial arts (MMA) events. The relationship between rapid weight change variables of males and females, and competitive success is also examined. Data from a weight management questionnaire was collected one day post-competition from 185 participants across 24 fight events, resulting in 263 responses (MMA: n = 78, MT: n = 185). Official and secondary weigh-in data were provided by the Combat Sports Commission. The results show that in MT, contest winners compared to losers had significantly …