Cognitive theories of adherence to difficult courses of action and findings from previous survey research on coping with a major life event--job loss--were used to generate a preventive intervention, tested by a randomized field experiment. The aim was to prevent poor mental health and loss of motivation to seek reemployment among those who continued to be unemployed and to promote high-quality...

A critical challenge in temporal planning is robustly dealing with non-determinism, e.g., the durational uncertainty of a robot’s activity due to slippage or other unexpected influences. Recent advances show that robustness is a better measure of solution quality than traditional metrics such as flexibility. This paper introduces the Robust Execution Problem for finding maximally robust dispatc...

— The institution of venture capitalism is a difficult one to initiate through policy intervention, particularly in developing countries with unstable macroeconomic environments and histories of state involvement in the use of national capital and in the composition of production. India has all these constraints. The emergence of a thriving software services industry after 1985 created the raw ...

Abstract The latent structure of four-dimensional tensors can be investigated by means the four-way CANDECOMP/PARAFAC model. This technique is seldom used because its estimating design challenging from an algorithmic and interpretational standpoint. Parameter estimation with a least-squares approach computationally costly, especially under difficult conditions such as factor collinearity model ...

Abstract In this interview, Sonia Guajajara, the executive coordinator of Brazil’s Indigenous Peoples Articulation (APIB), addresses analyzis and strategies developed by movement to face COVID-19 pandemic. Among other topics, she highlights some movement’s concerning communication, surveillance, monitoring COVID-19, as well its actions support territories, initiatives carried out in Legislative...

Recent advances in computing technology have enabled microsecond long all-atom molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of biological systems. Methods that can distill the salient features of such large trajectories are now urgently needed. Conventional clustering methods used to analyze MD trajectories suffer from various setbacks, namely (i) they are not data driven, (ii) they are unstable to nois...

Using longitudinal data from the Dutch Labor Force Supply Panel (OSA), this article examines how unemployment scarring (i.e., wage setbacks following unemployment) and its underlying mechanisms operate across gender in the Netherlands over the period 1985-2000. A series of fixed effect panel models that correct for unobserved heterogeneity, reveal a notable disparity in unemployment scarring by...

A critical phase in goal striving occurs when setbacks accumulate and goal disengagement becomes an issue. This critical phase is conceptualized as an action crisis and assumed to be characterized by an intrapsychic conflict in which the individual becomes torn between further goal pursuit and goal disengagement. Our theorizing converges with Klinger's conceptualization of goal disengagement as...

In a number of transition economies the banking systems are at different stages of the transformation process from mostly planned to market economy structures. But the past turbulent year led to further distinctions in development within these countries. While FSU (the former Soviet Union) countries, in particular Russia, were deeply shattered by the SouthEast Asian financial crisis and have su...

BACKGROUND Comprehensive smoke-free laws are effective at protecting non-smokers and reducing tobacco use, yet they are not widely adopted by tribal governments. METHODS A series of smoke-free policy initiatives on the Navajo Nation, beginning in 2008, were reviewed to identify key issues, successes and setbacks. RESULTS It has been essential that proposed policies acknowledge the Navajo pe...