In this longitudinal study, the authors compared 1,244 white- and blue-collar workers who reported 0, 1, or 2 contacts with layoffs; all were employees of a large manufacturing company that had engaged in several mass waves of downsizing. Consistent with a stress-vulnerability model, workers with a greater number of exposures to both direct and indirect downsizing reported significantly lower l...

Employees (N = 194) from a wide variety of organizations participated in this study aimed at describing the attitudes of individuals who refuse to respond to an employee survey request (noncompliants). Noncompliants, in comparison with those individuals who would comply with the survey request, possessed greater intentions to quit, less organizational commitment, and less satisfaction toward su...

When implementing a software, developers express conceptual knowledge (e.g. about a specific feature) not only in program language syntax and semantics but also in linguistic information stored in identifiers (e.g. method or class names) [6]. Based on this habit, Natural Language Program Analysis (NLPA) is used to improve many different areas in software engineering such as code recommendations...

the words containing missing characters to the 43,300 word lexicon. Table 1: Results of regular expression matching with a 43,300 word lexicon (averaged over 200 pages). No. of words that are present on a test page 248.75 100.00% have missing characters 42.04 16.90% have a unique match of same length 26.74 10.75% have multiple matches of same length 11.27 4.53% have no matches of same length 4....

Actions are informed by the complex interactions of response execution and inhibition networks. These networks integrate sensory information with internal states and behavioral goals to produce an appropriate action or to update an ongoing action. Recent investigations have shown that, behaviorally, attention is captured through a hierarchy of colors. These studies showed how the color hierarch...

Sentiment analysis is one among the distinguished fields of knowledge and pattern mining that deals with identification sentiment within text. The main challenges in are word ambiguity multi polarity. problem to define polarity because for words context dependent. tweets initially preprocessed. preprocessing includes removal stop words, lower case conversion. then passed feature extraction tech...

“Desistance” is a criminological concept that discusses person’s dismissal from criminal behaviour. The ambiguity of this leads to confusion about what words use: stop, cease, evade or distance crime. There even no translation into the Malay language, which can cause problems, especially when discussing study re-offending. We cannot avoid discussions regarding repetition behaviour in Malaysia a...