We examined the extent to which individual relationships with mother and father, social support from partner, and quality of the relationship with the partner, are related to work orientation and work ethic. Survey data were obtained from 3841 respondents from the Netherlands Kinship Panel Study (wave 2). The results showed that, overall, people with a more positive relationship with their pare...

The image gradient is a commonly computed image feature and a potentially predictive factor for image quality assessment (IQA). Indeed, it has been successfully used for both fulland noreference image quality prediction. However, the gradient orientation has not been deeply explored as a predictive source of information for image quality assessment. Here we seek to amend this by studying the qu...

The role of team and organizational factors affecting new product quality and their interactions as moderating the effects are examined. Results from a domestic study suggest that new product quality is positively affected by information capability in the team and quality orientation in the firm; in contrast, it is negatively related to the innovativeness of the new product as seen by the firm ...

With the introduction of the Bus Rapid Transport system in South Africa, existing public transport organisations, particularly buses and minibus taxis, will have to adapt to the changes or else they will inevitably fail. In general, public transport organisations are being forced to move from a traditionally operations-driven orientation to a more marketdriven orientation, which means that they...

The present study examined variables related to the quality of the therapeutic alliance in out-patients with schizophrenia. We expected recovery orientation and insight to be positively, and self-stigma to be negatively associated with a good therapeutic alliance. We expected these associations to be independent from age, clinical symptoms (i.e. positive and negative symptoms, depression), and ...

This paper presents an empirical investigation into the quality of automatic relative orientation procedures. The results of an in-house developed automatic orientation software called AURELO (Läbe and Förstner, 2006) are evaluated. For this evaluation a recently proposed consistency measure for two sets of orientation parameters (Dickscheid et al., 2008) and the ratio of two covariances matric...

Parts formed using freeform fabrication processes can vary significantly in quality depending on the orientation of the workpiece during manufacture. This paper presents four measures of quality for three performance measures in which this occurs, along with computational methods for computing their expected effects on faceted representations of a workpiece. The optimization of these quality me...

The ability of the visual system to compensate for differences in blur orientation between eyes is not well understood. We measured the orientation of the internal blur code in both eyes of the same subject monocularly by presenting pairs of images blurred with real ocular point spread functions (PSFs) of similar blur magnitude but varying in orientations. Subjects assigned a level of confidenc...

The purpose of this study is to assess the proposition that adoption of a market orie ntation le ads to im proved s ervice qua lity for se rvice sector organisations. We argue that an organisational culture incorporating customer care as i ts cen tral t enet an d i nvolving eff orts t o un derstand t he n eeds of customers throug h a m arket orie ntation e nables t he org anisation to pr ovide ...