Investigators Yuichi Fujioka, Ph.D. Counselor, RITE Shingo Kazama, Ph.D. Group Leader, Chief Researcher, Chemical Research Group, RITE Katsunori Yogo, Ph.D. Senior Researcher, Chemical Research Group, RITE Teruhiko Kai, Ph.D. Senior Researcher, Chemical Research Group, RITE Kazuya Goto, Ph.D. Senior Researcher, Chemical Research Group, RITE Ikuo Taniguchi, Ph.D. Senior Researcher, Chemical Rese...

Noshir Contractor (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Principal Investigator Kathleen Carley (Carnegie Mellon University), co-Principal Investigator Peter Monge (University of Southern California), co-Principal Investigator Raymond Levitt (Stanford University), co-Principal Investigator. Stanley Wasserman (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), co-Principal Investigator Francois...

his research investigated relatedness need satisfaction in senior executives in three studies (two qualitative/ one quantitative). In study 1, we identified a matrix of coping strategies (MoCS) as conceptualization of senior executives’ behavioral responses to perceived social rejection or exclusion. Study 2 found that senior executives’ level of relatedness need satisfaction as a potential ind...

Introduction: Emotion is fundamental to nursing practice and EmotionalIntelligence is considered as an important characteristic of nurses that can affect the quality of their work including clinical decision-making, critical thinking, evidence and knowledge use in practice, etc. The aim of this research was to assess and compare Emotional Intelligence between freshman and senior baccalaureate n...

Bureaucracy is featured by vertical hierarchical structure in which the decision maker usually lacks direct access to the informed agent, and the span of discretionary authority decreases top down. In this paper we investigate the delegation scheme in three-level hierarchies. The minister delegates authority to a biased senior bureaucrat, then the senior can make further delegation decision to ...

BACKGROUND Accurate assessment of cognitive functioning is an important step in understanding how to better evaluate both clinical and cognitive competence in practicing surgeons. As part of the Cognitive Changes and Retirement among Senior Surgeons study, we examined the objective cognitive functioning of senior surgeons in relation to retirement status and age. STUDY DESIGN Computerized cog...

In the January 2009 special issue of the Journal of Public Health Policy on built environment and public health, the authors have elucidated the importance of public health research to inform policy actions to preserve and improve the health of communities through collaborative, cost-effective built environment interventions. We recently studied possible policy interventions to enhance the safe...