The present study investigated the validity of the dimensions of the Pay Satisfaction Ouestionnaire (PSQ), in particular the degree to which the dimensions of the PSQ were differentially predicted by a number of antecedents. A series of tests supported dimensionality of the PSO. Perhaps more importantly, a theoretical model was hypothesized and tested which was based on the assumption that diff...

It's commendable that you?re committed to using protection! You ask two very good questions. First, who puts it on? That's completely up to you and your partner and either of you can take the lead on this one. Some people prefer to put the condom on themselves, while others find it sexy and enjoyable when their partners do it for them. This action can be incorporated into foreplay and is loaded...

A quasi-passive leg exoskeleton is presented for load-carrying augmentation during walking. The exoskeleton has no actuators, only ankle and hip springs and a knee variabledamper. Without a payload, the exoskeleton weighs 11.7 kg and requires only 2 Watts of electrical power during loaded walking. For a 36 kg payload, we demonstrate that the quasi-passive exoskeleton transfers on average 80% of...

End-to-end integrity for documents is provided by wrapping the tools that manipulate those documents and mediating their operation to cryptographically integrity mark those documents as they are being saved, to check those cryptographic integrity marks as those documents are loaded, and to record an application-level history of the changes to the document. Corrupted documents (those failing to ...

It has often been shown that the amount of media use is negatively related to cognitive outcomes. The more time spent on media the poorer cognitive performance is. This association has mainly been found for general-audience, violent, and action-loaded contents but not for educational contents. Typically, long-term-explanations like the time-displacement hypothesis are considered to account for ...

We investigate the role of framing, inequity in initial endowments and history in shaping behavior in a corrupt transaction by extending the one-shot bribery game introduced by Cameron et al. (2009) to a repeated game setting. We find that the use of loaded language significantly reduces the incidence of bribery and increases the level of punishment. Punishment of bribery leads to reduced bribe...

It's commendable that you?re committed to using protection! You ask two very good questions. First, who puts it on? That's completely up to you and your partner and either of you can take the lead on this one. Some people prefer to put the condom on themselves, while others find it sexy and enjoyable when their partners do it for them. This action can be incorporated into foreplay and is loaded...

Escalators are a common method of transportation for people in commercial and residential buildings, for this reason its energy efficiency is usually a matter of concern. Typically, the design of energy saving systems to be used in them involves the control of their speed. In this situation, in order to estimate the achievable energy savings it is necessary to evaluate the escalator’s behaviour...