Is a "routine invasive" or "selective invasive" strategy the best approach for patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndrome (ACS)? A "selective invasive" strategy incorporates ischemia-guided use of aggressive medical therapy followed by angiography and revascularization for angina or stress-induced myocardial ischemia. The "routine invasive" strategy (cardiac catheterization ...

Recent research on influence tactics has focused on the benefits that accrue as a result of using such tactics. The current study utilizes meta-analytic techniques to estimate the true population correlations between various influence tactics and work-related outcomes. Results indicate that ingratiation and rationality have positive effects on work outcomes. Additional analyses suggest that the...

The goal of this paper is to present a reasoning system, called METAFOL, embodying the features of a self-reeective system, i.e. a system which has a representation of its own code and is able to reason about and, possibly, extend or modify it. These features have been achieved by employing a logical meta-theory, which represents the computation implementing deduction in its object theory. Comp...

An important way that the reliability of a software system is enhanced is through the implementation of specific run-time measures called runtime tactics. Because reliability is a system-wide property, tactic implementations affect the software structure and behavior at the system, or architectural level. For a given architecture, different tactics may be a better or worse fit for the architect...

This paper describes the development of a corpus of blog posts that are annotated for the presence of attempts to persuade and corresponding tactics employed in persuasive messages. We investigate the feasibility of classifying blog posts as persuasive or non-persuasive on the basis of lexical features in the text and the tactics (as provided by human annotators). Annotated tactics provide subs...

A proof is presented to show that, when fitnesses from alternative tactics within a population depend on both their frequency and the phenotypic condition of individuals, there will be a unique ESS switchpoint s* that determines both the condition at which an individual will switch between tactics and the resulting frequency of the tactics in the population. For an individual at the ESS s*, the...

This study investigated how structured interview formats, instructions to convey favorable impressions, and applicants’ individual differences influenced the use and effectiveness of verbal and nonverbal impression management (IM). Results from 190 people who were screened for a training program demonstrated that interview format affected the kind of tactics used, which in turn positively influ...