ICT and transport infrastructure development: an empirical analysis of complementarity - Na, Kyoung Y.; Kim, Dong H.; Park, Byoung G.; Yoon, Sang W.; Yoon, Chang-Ho (Applied Economics, 2020)
This paper provides an empirical framework to assess the nonlinear complementary linkage effects that arise from the interaction between motorway capital and information and communications technology (ICT) capital in developed economies. Using panel data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) member countries and controlling for endogeneity, the paper finds that there exists a critical mass for ICT capital such that if the capital grows beyond the critical mass, the marginal contribution of motorway capital to productivity growth increases as the motorway is extended. This empirical result explains variations in the productivity contributions of transport infrastructure across countries that differ in their ICT infrastructure and has implications for setting the investment priorities of key components of infrastructure. © 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
Keywords: ICT capital; OECD; complementarity; dept.eco; empirical analysis; information and communication technology; infrastructural development; infrastructure development; motorway; panel data; peer-reviewed; productivity; productivity growth; transportation infrastructure

Babysitter training guide for families with individuals with ASD - Bean, K; Neers, K; Cook, Barbara; Eren, R (Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2020)
The Second Edition of this major reference work expands its coverage and continues to break new ground as an electronic resource for students, educators, researchers, and professionals. Comprehensive in breath and textbook in depth, the Second Edition of the Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders serves as a reference repository of knowledge in the field as well as a regularly updated conduit of new knowledge long before such information trickles down from research to standard textbooks. The Second Edition of the Encyclopedia digests and presents new and updated information for readers who need to stay current with the latest research and clinical practices, including advances in neurobiology and genetics, diagnostic instruments and assessment tests, pharmaceutical treatments, and behavioral, speech and language, and other rehabilitative therapies. The Second Edition of the Encyclopedia covers topics across the following major conceptual areas of ASD and PDDs, including: Research trends and findings Behavior/speech Communication TreatmentsEducation Taking advantage of the techniques offered by the electronic medium, the Second Edition of the Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders offers an extensive cross-referencing system facilitating search and retrieval of information. This unique, comprehensive Second Edition of the Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders is an essential reference for advanced undergraduate and graduate students as well as researchers, professors, clinicians, and other practitioners across such related disciplines as developmental psychology, child and adolescent psychiatry, social work, child and school psychology, behavioral therapy, and sociology of education.
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Mentoring, sponsorship, and gender - Burke, Karen P.; Ciccomascolo, Lori E. (Social Justice and Putting Theory Into Practice in Schools and Communities, 2020)
The lack of women in leadership roles is a systemic problem in the United States and is not unique to the field of education; however, it is important to continue to challenge the status quo and provide a path for women to achieve equality and equity in the workplace. The following chapter will identify and discuss the importance of mentoring and sponsorship so that women pursuing education careers, novice women teachers, and women college, and university faculty and staff can actively and better position themselves to move into leadership positions and/or ensure a “seat at the table” in situations where decisions are made that affect their personal and professional lives.
Keywords: dept.com

A regional Kronecker product and multiple-pair latin squares - Carrigan, Braxton; Hammer, James; Lorch, John (Discrete Mathematics, 2020)
We introduce a variant of the Kronecker product, called the regional Kronecker product, that can be used to build new, larger multiple-pair latin squares from existing multiple-pair latin squares. We present applications to the existence and orthogonality of multiple-pair latin squares. © 2019 Elsevier B.V.
Keywords: Factor pair latin squares; Multiple pair latin squares; Sudoku pair latin squares; dept.mat; peer-reviewed

Grief, loss and bereavement: An integrated perspective - Counselman-Carpenter, Elisabeth (Clinical social work practice, 2020)
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Uncovering Relations Between Leadership Perceptions and Motivation Under Different Organizational Contexts: a Multilevel Cross-lagged Analysis - Gagné, Marylène; Morin, Alexandre J. S.; Schabram, Kira; Wang, Zhe Ni; Chemolli, Emanuela; Briand, Mélanie (Journal of Business and Psychology, 2020)
Surprisingly scant research has adequately examined directional influences between different perceptions of managerial leadership behaviors and different types of work motivation, and even fewer studies have examined contextual moderators of these influences. The present study investigated longitudinal and multilevel autoregressive cross-lagged relations between perceptions of transformational, transactional, and passive-avoidant leadership with autonomous motivation, controlled motivation, and amotivation. Multilevel longitudinal models were estimated on data from 788 employees, nested under 108 distinct supervisors, from six Canadian organizations. Results revealed that perceptions of leadership behaviors predicted changes in motivation mostly at the collective level and that some of these relations changed as a function of whether organizations had recently faced a crisis. Collective perceptions of transformational leadership were related to increased collective autonomous and controlled motivation, while individual controlled motivation was related to increased individual perceptions of transactional leadership. In organizations facing a crisis, individual perceptions of transactional leadership were related to decreased individual controlled motivation, while collective perceptions of transactional leadership were related to increased collective autonomous motivation and decreased collective amotivation. In organizations not facing a crisis, collective perceptions of transactional leadership were related to decreased collective autonomous motivation. Implications for theory and practice are discussed.
Keywords: Autonomous motivation; Multilevel modeling; Transactional leadership; Transformational leadership; dept.mgt; peer-reviewed

Written emotional expression in schools: Processing psychological and emotional stress through narrative writing. - Sassu, Kari A.; Bray, Melissa A.; Gelbar, Nicholas; Kerzner, Tiffany P. (Promoting mind–body health in schools: Interventions for mental health professionals., 2020)
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Nature-inspired metaheuristics search algorithms for solving the economic load dispatch problem of power system: A comparison study - Sheta, Alaa; Faris, Hossam; Braik, Malik; Mirjalili, Seyedali (Applied Nature-Inspired Computing: Algorithms and Case Studies, 2020)
This work proposes a new approach in addressing Economic Load Dispatch (ELD) optimization problem in power unit systems using nature-inspired metaheuristics search algorithms. Solving such a problem requires a degree of maximization of the economic pact of a power network system, where this is possible with some existing population-based metaheuristic search algorithms. The key issue to be handled here is how to maximize the economic benevolence of a power network under a variety of operational constraints, taking into account the reduction in the generated fuel cost as well as the aggregate power loss in the transmission power network system. Some nature-inspired metaheuristics will be explored. Meanwhile, we shall focus our attention on a newly developed nature-inspired search algorithm, referred to as the Crow Search Algorithm or CSA for short, as well as the Differential Evolution (DE) that is commonly known as a metaheuristic. The CSA emerged to light by simulating the intelligent flocking behavior of crows. The practicability of the proposed approach-based CSA was conducted to common types of power generators, including three and six buses (nodes) in addition to the IEEE 30-bus standard system. The results of the presented approaches were compared to other results developed using existing nature-inspired metaheuristic algorithms like particle swarm optimization and genetic algorithms and also compared to traditional approaches such as quadratic programming method. The results reported here support that CSA has achieved an outstanding performance in solving the problem of ELD in power systems, demonstrating their good optimization capabilities through arriving at a combination of power loads that consummate the constraints of the ELD problem while simultaneously lessening the entire fuel cost. The experimental results also showed that the CSA solutions were capable of maximizing the reliability of the power supplied to the customers, and also reducing both the generated power cost and the loss of power in the transmission power systems.
Keywords: 3-units power system; 6-units power system; Crow search algorithm; Differential evolution; Economic load dispatch; IEEE 30-bus standard system; Nature-inspired metaheuristic algorithms; dept.csc

Diagnosis of Obstructive Sleep Apnea Using Logistic Regression and Artificial Neural Networks Models - Sheta, Alaa; Turabieh, Hamza; Braik, Malik; Surani, Salim R. (Springer International Publishing, 2020)
Regrettably, a large proportion of likely patients with sleep apnea are underdiagnosed. Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is one of the main causes of hypertension, type II diabetes, stroke, coronary artery disease, and heart failure. OSA affects not only adults but also children where it forms one of the sources of learning disabilities for children. This study aims to provide a classification model for one of the well-known sleep disorders known as OSA, which causes a serious malady that affects both men and women. OSA affects both genders with different scope. Men versus women diagnosed with OSA are about 8:1. In this research, logistic regression (LR) and artificial neural networks were applied successfully in several classification applications with promising results, particularly in the bio-statistics area. LR was used to derive a membership probability for a potential OSA system from a range of anthropometric features including weight, height, body mass index (BMI), hip, waist, age, neck circumference, modified Friedman, snoring, Epworth sleepiness scale (ESS), sex, and daytime sleepiness. We developed two models to predict OSA, one for men and one for women. The proposed sleep apnea diagnosis model has yielded accurate classification results and possibly a prototype software module that can be used at home. These findings shall reduce the patient’s need to spend a night at a laboratory and make the study of sleep apnea to implement at home.
Keywords: Artificial neural networks; Classification; Classification (of information); Classification results; Computer aided diagnosis; Coronary artery disease; Diseases; Epworth sleepiness scale; Features selection; Logistic regression; Logistic regressions; Membership probability; Neural networks; Obstructive sleep apnea; Regression analysis; Scales (weighing instruments); Sleep apnea; Sleep research; Software prototyping; dept.csc

Teaching note—Taking social work undergraduates inside: the inside-out prison exchange program - Smoyer, Amy B. (Journal of Social Work Education, 2020)
The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program is an experiential learning program that involves teaching college courses inside correctional facilitates to classes that include incarcerated and nonincarcerated students. This teaching note describes the program and argues that its congruence with social work values makes it a valuable tool for preparing students to take on social justice work. The impact of the program’s pedagogy and structure on students’ and faculty’s capacity for critical thinking and self-reflection is described. Logistical issues to consider in developing programs are discussed.
Keywords: article; critical thinking; dept.swk; human; human experiment; pedagogics; peer-reviewed; prison; program impact; social work; teaching

School nurse guidelines for: Abrasions - Towle, Antoinette (Legal resource for school health services, 2020)
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School nurse guidelines for: Allergies - Towle, Antoinette (Legal resource for school health services, 2020)
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School nurse guidelines for: Bipolar disorders - Towle, Antoinette (Legal resource for school health services, 2020)
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School nurse guidelines for: Cardiac conditions - Towle, Antoinette (Legal resource for school health services, 2020)
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School nurse guidelines for: Depression - Towle, Antoinette (Legal resource for school health services, 2020)
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School nurse guidelines for: Developmental disabilities - Towle, Antoinette (Legal resource for school health services, 2020)
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School nurse guidelines for: Enuresis - Towle, Antoinette (Legal resource for school health services, 2020)
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School nurse guidelines for: Fractures - Towle, Antoinette (Legal resource for school health services, 2020)
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School nurse guidelines for: Human Papillomavirus (HPV) - Towle, Antoinette (Legal resource for school health services, 2020)
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School nurse guidelines for: Mosquito-borne disease - Towle, Antoinette (Legal resource for school health services, 2020)
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School nurse guidelines for: Puncture wounds - Towle, Antoinette (Legal resource for school health services, 2020)
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School nurse guidelines for: skin and soft tissue infection (Boils, Cellulitis, Lymphangitis, and MRSA) - Towle, Antoinette (Legal resource for school health services, 2020)
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Cohabitation before marriage: Do prior alliances enhance post-merger performance? - He, Zhaozhao; Yu, Han; Du, Lijing (Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 2020)
We investigate the impact of prior alliance relationships on subsequent mergers between partner firms. We argue that an acquirer’s prior alliance experience with the target reduces information asymmetry, which helps improve acquisition performance. Alternatively, agency problems arising from familiarity may lead to inefficient decision making. Examining mergers between 1986 and 2014, we find evidence that prior alliance collaboration is positively associated with the acquirer’s long-term profitability and growth. This positive effect is more pronounced when target-specific learning and experience are more crucial to merger success, such as targets in knowledge-intensive or organizational-capital-intensive industries as well as cross-industry mergers. However, we cannot formally rule out the possibility that our results are partly driven by the small size of our sample.
Keywords: D80; G34; Information asymmetry; L14; L24; Learning and resources sharing; Mergers and acquisitions; O30; O32; Post-merger performance; Strategic alliance; dept.fin; peer-reviewed

Family Law and Practice - Luppino, Grace A.; Miller, Justine FitzGerald (Legal practice guides, 2020)
For courses in family law for students in paralegal studies programs, broader legal studies programs, and those majoring in criminal justice, social work, and education. Connecting theory, history, and practice in family law Family Law and Practice prepares students to enter the workplace with a firm grasp of family law and procedural components of family law practice. To meet this challenge, the authors have divided the 5th edition into two parts: the first introducing the principles of family law and the second translating theory into practice. The new edition also addresses changing views on marriage, spousal roles, children’s status in the family, and even what constitutes a family. It also adds cases, statutes, and legal forms from a variety of US states to engage students across the country.
Keywords: Domestic relations; Handbooks, manuals, etc; United States; United States; Legal assistants; dept.mgt; faculty_collection

The bi-canonical degree of a Cohen–Macaulay ring - Ghezzi, Laura; Goto, Shiro; Hong, Jooyoun; Hutson, H. L.; Vasconcelos, Wolmer V. (Journal of Algebra, 2021)
This paper is a sequel to [8] where we introduced an invariant, called canonical degree, of Cohen–Macaulay local rings that admit a canonical ideal. Here to each such ring R with a canonical ideal, we attach a different invariant, called bi-canonical degree, which in dimension 1 appears also in [12] as the residue of R. The minimal values of these functions characterize specific classes of Cohen–Macaulay rings. We give a uniform presentation of such degrees and discuss some computational opportunities offered by the bi-canonical degree. © 2019 Elsevier Inc.
Keywords: dept.mat; peer-reviewed

The fear of missing out at work: Examining costs and benefits to employee health and motivation - Budnick, Christopher J.; Rogers, Arielle P.; Barber, Larissa K. (Computers in Human Behavior, 2020)
The popular business media argues that the “fear of missing out” (FoMO) on work-related opportunities harms employees’ health and performance. Yet, these claims rely on the study of FoMO in college students in non-work contexts. Therefore, we explored workplace FoMO among employees across three studies. We first developed a measure and provided validation evidence for workplace FoMO among diverse employees (N = 324; Study 1) and MBA students (N = 223; Study 2). Using a third large employee sample (N = 300; Study 3), we tested whether workplace FoMO predicted health (i.e., work burnout and work well-being) and motivational outcomes (i.e., message-checking behaviors and work engagement). We also examined whether family-supportive organizational perceptions (FSOP) moderated these relationships. Results indicated that workplace FoMO is a distinct construct from other measures, including general FoMO. Workplace FoMO also predicted work burnout and message checking behavior, but not work well-being. Lower levels of FSOP strengthened the positive relationship between workplace FoMO and message checking behavior, but also produced a positive relationship between workplace FoMO and work well-being. Overall, FoMO appears to be relevant to the work context and predicts both employee well-being and behavior outcomes. © 2019 Elsevier Ltd
Keywords: Behavioral research; College students; Costs and benefits; Employee health; Fear of missing out; Health; Job satisfaction; Motivation; Students; Technology use; Technology use at work; Well being; Work engagements; Work-related; article; burnout; controlled study; dept.psy; fear of missing out; human; major clinical study; motivation; peer-reviewed; perception; wellbeing; work engagement

The intra-industry effects of proxy contests - Chen, Fang; Huang, Jian; Yu, Han (Journal of Economics and Finance, 2020)
In this study, we examine the intra-industry effect of proxy contests. Proxy contests convey the information of common industrial risks or expected competitive relationship change. We find significant negative abnormal returns in the group of competitors of target firms with negative abnormal returns, and such negative abnormal returns become larger for similar-size competitors. In contrast, there are no significant abnormal returns for competitors of target firms with positive abnormal returns. These findings are consistent with the information-based theory but not the competitive theory. © 2019, Academy of Economics and Finance.
Keywords: Competitive effect; Information-based effect; Intra-industry effect; Proxy contest; dept.eco; dept.fin; peer-reviewed

Teaching accelerated nursing students’ self‐care: A pilot project - Green, Cheryl (Nursing Open, 2020)
Aim A benchmark of 4 has been determined for the reduction of self-reported stress by nursing students’ status post 5 weeks of holistic educational activities and interventions provided by a nurse educator. Design Provision 5 in the American Nurses Association Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements emphasizes the duty of the nurse to not only promote the health and safety of others, but to self as well (ANA, 2015, Code of ethics with interpretive statements, Nursebooks.org). A self-care for nurses’ pilot project was trialled with 25 accelerated nursing students over the course of 5 weeks. Holistic education programmes were facilitated by a nurse educator uninvolved in providing clinical or classroom education to the students. Methods The Standards for Quality Improvement Reporting Excellence (SQUIRE) guidelines are used in this pilot project as a framework to explore standardization of education of nursing students about self-care in nursing programmes and to promote positive health behaviours and student nurses’ insight into how nurses’ self-care can have an impact on patient outcomes. The self-care pilot project introduced the importance of self-care for the pre-licensure nursing student by teaching healthy eating, physical exercise, the value of sleep, use of positive affirmations and aromatherapy to a cohort of accelerated nursing students over the course of 5 weeks. The Star Model of Knowledge Transformation was the theoretical framework for the pilot study. Two questionnaires were used by the principal investigator to obtain participant data, the Project Participant Questionnaire and the Final-Year Group Questionnaire. Results On completion of the self-care for nurses’ pilot, the nursing students reported a reduction in stress and an increased ability to cope with stress after exposure to different holistic stress reduction strategies. An average benchmark of 4.36 was achieved indicating that the nursing students’ self-care had improved status post the interactive teaching intervention. Self-care taught to pre-licensure nursing students by nurse educators can enhance their self-awareness of the importance of stress reduction and care of themselves while enduring the academic rigour and simultaneous clinical practicum experiences in nursing programmes. Applying self-care behaviours to reduction of stress for nursing students may be of benefit to of students as they transition from the pre-licensure to graduate nurse roles. Hence, teaching health behaviours that are self-protective and contribute to maintaining safe clinical environments for nurses and the patients in their care.
Keywords: dept.nur; nurse educators; nursing students; peer-reviewed; self-care; stress reduction

Students’ perceptions of career counselling: an examination of a graduate curriculum in the United States - Lindo, Natalya A; Ceballos, Peggy L; Blalock, Sarah; Conner, Charmaine; Edwards, Josh; Spellings, Maria; Webster, Lindsay; Opiola, Kristie (British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2020)
Despite its importance as a core counselling competency, less attention is given to career counselling than to other counselling specialties and it is often dismissed as a non-essential category in the counselling field. Because students’ perceptions of career counselling are affected by peer and faculty attitudes it is important to examine the training needs and experiences of graduate counselling students. Therefore, in the current study we utilised a phenomenological approach to examine students’ perceptions of a career counselling curriculum, and its impact on overall views of career counselling. Analysis of in-depth interviews yielded five major themes: View of Career Counselling, Course Delivery, Theory, Application of Knowledge, and Connection between Career Counselling and Personal Counselling. © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
Keywords: Career counselling; career theory; counselling theory; counsellor education; dept.csp; peer-reviewed; personal counselling

Mindful consumption: Three consumer segment views - Milne, George R.; Ordenes, Francisco Villarroel; Kaplan, Begum (Australasian Marketing Journal, 2020)
As consumers are moving away from mindless consumerism, a mindful consumption literature has emerged that is based on Buddhist and psychological perspectives of mindfulness. While the idea of mindful consumption has great potential, there is little empirical research to date that comprehensively examines the consumer perspective on the role of mindfulness on consumption. To provide a grounded consumer perspective, the authors segment mindful consumption views from open-end text using a mixed method of clustering and text mining. By analyzing the segmentation structure, the authors discover various consumer views of mindful consumption, such as careful economic based consumption, monitoring activities of firms, and being informed about the impact of consumption choices. The authors compare the empirical results with the academic literature to provide directions for future research. © 2019 Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy
Keywords: Mindful consumption; Mindfulness; Segmentation; Sustainability; Text mining; dept.mkt; peer-reviewed

Unsettling transcription through “event memory”: problem and possibility in exploring the phenomenological question - Sinclair, Meredith N. (Qualitative Inquiry, 2020)
This article works to unsettle the use of transcription in qualitative inquiry by troubling the truth claims of transcribed text. Building on the hermeneutic phenomenology of Van Manen, it explores the way the researcher might “write through” transcribed text to return to the two-dimensional text space a more honest reading of lived experience. It also draws on Deleuze and Guattari’s rhizomatic thinking to explore the “gruesome multiplicities” present in reality—and the ways we might honor that multiplicity in research texts. Excerpts from an inquiry into the phenomenon of “reading as not a reader” are used to illustrate.
Keywords: dept.eng; hermeneutic phenomenology; methodologies; methods of inquiry; peer-reviewed; qualitative research; qualitative research and education; transcription; writing as method of inquiry

CEO characteristics, firm performance, and corporate political contributions - Subrahmanyam, Vijaya; Singh, Manohar; Pennathur, Anita K. (Review of Financial Economics, 2020)
We investigate if CEO characteristics determine the choice of Political Action Committee (PAC) contributions by firms and if such participation leads to better firm performance. Using a unique, hand-collected database, we also focus on the identity of the politicians receiving PAC contributions to examine the impact of the value-relevance of such contributions. Examining data on corporate contributions made to candidates seeking federal office during the 2002, 2004, and 2006 election cycles, we find that CEO dominance and interest alignment influence strategic choices of firms with regards to establishing PACs. Our analysis of value-relevant contributions shows that firms prefer to donate to politicians representing the state of a firm's headquarters, validating the truth to the adage that all politics is local. However, these targeted political contributions do not have a discernible impact on firm performance.
Keywords: CEO characteristics; CEO dominance; agency theory; corporate political contributions; dept.fin; dept.grad; firm performance; peer-reviewed