Assessing the influence of organizational personality, applicants' need motivation, expectancy beliefs, and person-organization fit on applicant attraction

This research explored the thesis that organizational personality is related to applicants’ attraction to an organization through a process which involves need motivation, expectancy beliefs, and applicants’ perceptions of person-organization fit. Organizational personality may be defined as a collection of trait-like characteristics that individuals use to describe organizational practices, policies, values, and culture. Specifically, this research investigated the hypothesis that organizational personality information is useful to applicants because it helps individuals to determine their perceptions of fit. A sample of students (N = 198) and working adults (N = 198) participated in an online experiment. Findings indicated that individuals’ beliefs about the instrumentality of desirable work related outcomes are essential to determining their perceptions of fit and organizational attraction. Additionally, organizational personality perceptions interacted with need motivation to affect perceptions of fit and organizational attraction. For instance, perceptions of fit mediated the influence of the interaction between need for achievement and perceptions of innovativeness on organizational attraction. The interaction of need motivation and perceptions of organizational personality helped individuals to better determine their perceptions of fit and subsequent attraction toward organizations.^

Nonnative African jewelfish are more fit but not bolder at the invasion front: a trait comparison across an Everglades range expansion

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation through the Florida Coastal Everglades Long-Term Ecological Research program under Cooperative Agreements #DBI-0620409 and #DEB-9910514. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in the material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

Use of Homeostatic Model Assessment Indexes for the Identification of Metabolic Syndrome and Insulin Resistance among Cuban-Americans: A Cross Sectional Study

Aim: to determine cut off points for The Homeostatic Model Assessment Index 1 and 2 (HOMA-1 and HOMA-2) for identifying insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome among a Cuban-American population. Study Design: Cross sectional. Place and Duration of Study: Florida International University, Robert Stempel School of Public Health and Social Work, Department of Dietetics and Nutrition, Miami, FL from July 2010 to December 2011. Methodology: Subjects without diabetes residing in South Florida were enrolled (N=146, aged 37 to 83 years). The HOMA1-IR and HOMA2-IR 90th percentile in the healthy group (n=75) was used as the cut-off point for insulin resistance. A ROC curve was constructed to determine the cut-off point for metabolic syndrome. Results: HOMA1-IR was associated with BMI, central obesity, and triglycerides (P3.95 and >2.20 and for metabolic syndrome were >2.98 (63.4% sensitivity and 73.3% specificity) and >1.55 (60.6% sensitivity and 66.7% specificity), respectively. Conclusion: HOMA cut-off points may be used as a screening tool to identify insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome among Cuban-Americans living in South Florida.

GOG-Fit : Sistema servizio-prodotto di mascherer da sci su misura.

GOG-Fit è un servizio che offre maschere da neve personalizzate, stampate in 3D su misura del cliente. Il modello di maschera prodotto è composto da due moduli, uniti tra loro grazie a incastri magnetici.

How does problem based learning fit with cognitive load theory?

This paper reports on an investigation with first year undergraduate Product Design and Management students within a School of Engineering. The students at the time of this investigation had studied fundamental engineering science and mathematics for one semester. The students were given an open ended, ill formed problem which involved designing a simple bridge to cross a river. They were given a talk on problem solving and given a rubric to follow, if they chose to do so. They were not given any formulae or procedures needed in order to resolve the problem. In theory, they possessed the knowledge to ask the right questions in order to make assumptions but, in practice, it turned out they were unable to link their a priori knowledge to resolve this problem. They were able to solve simple beam problems when given closed questions. The results show they were unable to visualise a simple bridge as an augmented beam problem and ask pertinent questions and hence formulate appropriate assumptions in order to offer resolutions.

An Alternative Goodness-of-fit Test for Normality with Unknown Parameters

Goodness-of-fit tests have been studied by many researchers. Among them, an alternative statistical test for uniformity was proposed by Chen and Ye (2009). The test was used by Xiong (2010) to test normality for the case that both location parameter and scale parameter of the normal distribution are known. The purpose of the present thesis is to extend the result to the case that the parameters are unknown. A table for the critical values of the test statistic is obtained using Monte Carlo simulation. The performance of the proposed test is compared with the Shapiro-Wilk test and the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. Monte-Carlo simulation results show that proposed test performs better than the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test in many cases. The Shapiro Wilk test is still the most powerful test although in some cases the test proposed in the present research performs better.

Ajustando el cuerpo al sistema. Un análisis acerca del fit-body y la violencia simbólica en gimnasios fitness

Esta investigación pretende (re)pensar el fitness como práctica socio-cultural moderna, observando aquellos discursos que la atraviesan y constituyen. Entre otros, se destaca el análisis de significaciones que son particulares al contexto de los gimnasios, en los cuales se desarrollan ideales distintivos de belleza o de salud, métodos de entrenamiento que responden a ?escuelas? o tendencias empresariales, ?habilidades corporales? que son ponderadas o menospreciadas, sentidos y sensibilidades legitimadostransmitidos como valores o técnicas y prácticas específicas condicionadas por los materiales utilizados. Para ello se propone reflexionar acerca de la compañía internacional ?BodySystems?, indagando aquellas prácticas desarrolladas en sus sucursales de La Plata, a través de tres técnicas de recolección de datos: el análisis de los documentos que la empresa proporciona a sus instructores, el estudio de los discursos que se desprenden de las clínicas que la compañía dicta cada tres meses y la reflexión sobre las entrevistas realizadas a los profesionales que desempeñan sus actividades en estos establecimientos. Para ello, se ponen en juego dos categorías de análisis que son características de la cultura fitness: los agentes que participan en los gimnasios constituyéndose en clientes de un cuerpo yla construcción y reproducción del "fit-body" característico de las empresas gímnicas

Ajustando el cuerpo al sistema. Un análisis acerca del fit-body y la violencia simbólica en gimnasios fitness

Esta investigación pretende (re)pensar el fitness como práctica socio-cultural moderna, observando aquellos discursos que la atraviesan y constituyen. Entre otros, se destaca el análisis de significaciones que son particulares al contexto de los gimnasios, en los cuales se desarrollan ideales distintivos de belleza o de salud, métodos de entrenamiento que responden a ?escuelas? o tendencias empresariales, ?habilidades corporales? que son ponderadas o menospreciadas, sentidos y sensibilidades legitimadostransmitidos como valores o técnicas y prácticas específicas condicionadas por los materiales utilizados. Para ello se propone reflexionar acerca de la compañía internacional ?BodySystems?, indagando aquellas prácticas desarrolladas en sus sucursales de La Plata, a través de tres técnicas de recolección de datos: el análisis de los documentos que la empresa proporciona a sus instructores, el estudio de los discursos que se desprenden de las clínicas que la compañía dicta cada tres meses y la reflexión sobre las entrevistas realizadas a los profesionales que desempeñan sus actividades en estos establecimientos. Para ello, se ponen en juego dos categorías de análisis que son características de la cultura fitness: los agentes que participan en los gimnasios constituyéndose en clientes de un cuerpo yla construcción y reproducción del "fit-body" característico de las empresas gímnicas

Ajustando el cuerpo al sistema. Un análisis acerca del fit-body y la violencia simbólica en gimnasios fitness

Esta investigación pretende (re)pensar el fitness como práctica socio-cultural moderna, observando aquellos discursos que la atraviesan y constituyen. Entre otros, se destaca el análisis de significaciones que son particulares al contexto de los gimnasios, en los cuales se desarrollan ideales distintivos de belleza o de salud, métodos de entrenamiento que responden a ?escuelas? o tendencias empresariales, ?habilidades corporales? que son ponderadas o menospreciadas, sentidos y sensibilidades legitimadostransmitidos como valores o técnicas y prácticas específicas condicionadas por los materiales utilizados. Para ello se propone reflexionar acerca de la compañía internacional ?BodySystems?, indagando aquellas prácticas desarrolladas en sus sucursales de La Plata, a través de tres técnicas de recolección de datos: el análisis de los documentos que la empresa proporciona a sus instructores, el estudio de los discursos que se desprenden de las clínicas que la compañía dicta cada tres meses y la reflexión sobre las entrevistas realizadas a los profesionales que desempeñan sus actividades en estos establecimientos. Para ello, se ponen en juego dos categorías de análisis que son características de la cultura fitness: los agentes que participan en los gimnasios constituyéndose en clientes de un cuerpo yla construcción y reproducción del "fit-body" característico de las empresas gímnicas

Analysis of the Bovespa Futures and Spot Indexes With High Frequency Data. Chinese Business Review

Data from the World Federation of Exchanges show that Brazil’s Sao Paulo stock exchange is one of the largest worldwide in terms of market value. Thus, the objective of this study is to obtain univariate and bivariate forecasting models based on intraday data from the futures and spot markets of the BOVESPA index. The interest is to verify if there exist arbitrage opportunities in Brazilian financial market. To this end, three econometric forecasting models were built: ARFIMA, vector autoregressive (VAR), and vector error correction (VEC). Furthermore, it presents the results of a Granger causality test for the aforementioned series. This type of study shows that it is important to identify arbitrage opportunities in financial markets and, in particular, in the application of these models on data of this nature. In terms of the forecasts made with these models, VEC showed better results. The causality test shows that futures BOVESPA index Granger causes spot BOVESPA index. This result may indicate arbitrage opportunities in Brazil.

Residence Time Distribution (Rtd) Associated with Statistical Weighted Moments to Fit Mathematical Models Using In Industrial Systems Diagnosis

This work presents a computational, called MOMENTS, code developed to be used in process control to determine a characteristic transfer function to industrial units when radiotracer techniques were been applied to study the unit´s performance. The methodology is based on the measuring the residence time distribution function (RTD) and calculate the first and second temporal moments of the tracer data obtained by two scintillators detectors NaI positioned to register a complete tracer movement inside the unit. Non linear regression technique has been used to fit various mathematical models and a statistical test was used to select the best result to the transfer function. Using the code MOMENTS, twelve different models can be used to fit a curve and calculate technical parameters to the unit.

”Lihas on laiska kaveri.” Tarkasteluja Fit-lehden kehollisuusparadigmasta

Tutkin, millaisia merkityksiä keholle annetaan Fit-lehdessä, joka on yksi Suomen näkyvimpiä naisille suunnattuja kuntoilulehtiä. Kysyn, millaiseksi naiskeho oletetaan, mihin se pystyy, mitä siltä odotetaan, kuinka sitä liikutetaan ja miksi sitä liikutetaan. Analysoin lehden vuosikertaa 2014 pohtien, millaiseksi voitaisiin kuvailla lehden välittämää kehollisuusparadigmaa eli käsitystä, jota pidetään tällä hetkellä totena ja oikeana kun puhe on naiskehoista fitness-trendin läpäisemän liikunnan kontekstissa. Paradigman käsitteellä tähdennän kehopuheeseen liittyvää tiedon rakentuneisuutta ja kytköstä valtasuhteisiin. Katson, että nykyinen liikuntakulttuuri hahmottaa kehollisuutta yksipuolisesti biologislääketieteellisen käsitteistön kautta. Miellän oman tutkimukseni fenomenologisesti värittyneeksi kriittiseksi luennaksi, joka pyrkii sulkeistamaan normalisoituneet käsitykset, jotta voisi syntyä entistä tiedostetumpaa keskustelua kehoista ja liikunnasta. Inspiroidun Martin Heideggerin sekä Luce Irigarayn kirjoituksista ja sovellan näitä teoretisointeja uusmateriaalisen feministisen ajattelun hengessä. Lähestyn Fit-lehden kehollisuusparadigmaa kahden näkökulman kautta: Fantasioidun kehollisuuden kautta katsottuna orientaatiossa näkyy rakkaus kehoa kohtaan. Negatiivinen kehollisuus puolestaan näyttää, kuinka suuntautumista liikkumiseen ohjaa usein inhoon, vihaan tai pelkoon kytkeytyvä huolehtiminen. Johtopäätökseni on, että vallitseva kehollisuusparadigma nojaa kartesiolaiseen dualismiin, teknisrationaaliseen eetokseen, rakkauden fantasian toisteisuuteen ja negatiivisen kehollisuuden ulossulkemiseen. Fit-lehden välittämän kehollisuusparadigman puitteissa liikkujan keskittyminen omaan kehoon lopulta etäännyttää häntä kehostaan. Tämän kodittomuuden tilalle tarjoan tulkintani kinesteettisestä kehollisuudesta vaihtoehtoisena näkökulmana liikkujan kehollisuuteen. Tähän mennessä tutkimus on soveltanut kinesteettisyyttä kapeasti vain tanssiin, mutta en näe mitään syytä, miksei kinesteettisen kehollisuuden lähtökohtia voitaisi siirtää myös osaksi käytännön fitness-liikuntaa. Tarvitsemme käytännön, joka tunnustaa kehon moninaisuuden ja sallii liikkujan kotiutua kehoonsa. Luonnostelen reittiä tähän käytäntöön moniaistisen eläytymisen, tunnustelevan kielen kehittelyn, negatiivisen kehollisuuden kokemisen ja ihmettelyssä viipymisen kautta.