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Contrasts or Carryover? Demands–Capabilities Fit and Task‐Level Intrinsic Motivation Across the Workday

open access: yesJournal of Organizational Behavior, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the course of a workday, employees attend to various tasks whose challenge might be equal to, higher than, or lower than employees' present level of capabilities. Moreover, employees encounter these tasks sequentially throughout the day with different levels of prior motivation. Investigating carryover effects in motivation from one task to
Sherry (Qiang) Fu   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Preference Elicitation in Matching Markets Via Interviews: A Study of Offline Benchmarks [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The stable marriage problem and its extensions have been extensively studied, with much of the work in the literature assuming that agents fully know their own preferences over alternatives. This assumption however is not always practical (especially
Goldberg, Paul   +2 more
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Utilizing Flow State Therapeutically With Survivors and Refuges of War: An Existential‐Humanistic Approach

open access: yesThe Journal of Humanistic Counseling, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Survivors and refugees of war often have mental, behavioral, emotional, and spiritual consequences from undergoing civil unrest. In many cases, counselors utilize cognitively‐based therapies as the recommended treatment to alleviate these issues.
Isaac Burt, Luis A. Tosado II
wiley   +1 more source

Veto Power and Wealth: Analysis of the Development of the Swiss Old Age Security [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Switzerland was one of the last OECD-coun­tries to introduce a program for old age security – the AHV. For many decades, expenditures both in absolute terms and as a portion of GDP remained low in OECD comparison.
ZENKER, Christina
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Olfactory preference in chemical host plant recognition by male and female click beetles and its implications for pest management

open access: yesPest Management Science, EarlyView.
Click beetle (Elateridae) olfactory preferences for plant volatiles, including those released by damaged plants, remain poorly understood. Olfactometer and electroantennography experiments revealed sex‐ and plant species‐specific olfactory preferences of Agriotes sputator beetles, with maturity influencing female responses.
Michael Brunner   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Trajectory of an Agreement: Tracing Objectivated Knowledge Across a Series of Mundane Encounters

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
This article adds to the sociological study of time and temporality in everyday life by building on recent longitudinal developments within conversation analysis. It investigates members' methods to bring about change within their shared (life) world. It examines how, as part of an extended project of action, one agreement made early on is continually ...
Sarah Hitzler, Jonas Kramer
wiley   +1 more source

Linear Time Recognition of P4-Indifferent Graphs

open access: yesBRICS Report Series, 1999
<p>A simple graph is P4-indifferent if it admits a total order < on<br />its nodes such that every chordless path with nodes a, b, c, d and edges<br />ab, bc, cd has a < b < c < d or a > b > c > d. P4-indifferent graphs generalize<br /> indifferent graphs and are perfectly orderable. Recently, Hoang,<br /&
openaire   +3 more sources

Demographic analysis of behavioral reactions of African bush elephants to a synthetic honey bee alarm pheromone blend

open access: yesWildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Human–elephant conflict situations continue to be a growing conservation issue. Conflict situations typically arise as the result of elephants traversing places with infrastructure where they become disruptive to human activities. Developing passive options for managing elephant movement and reducing human–elephant conflict situations is a conservation
Mark G. Wright   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

MAKING MOTILITY: Sociospatial Mobility as Capital

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract ‘Motility’ has become a highly influential concept in global mobility and migration studies in the two decades since it emerged in this journal. The call to centralize sociospatial mobility as a form of individual capital gave motility a particular and enduring significance in the wider mobilities turn.
Niall Cunningham
wiley   +1 more source

Voting over economic plans [PDF]

open access: yes, 1995
We review and provide motivation for a one-sector model of economic growth in which decisions about capital accumulation are made by a political process.
Boylan, Richard T., McKelvey, Richard D.
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