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...

Research on vehicle longitudinal control with a stop and go system is presently one of the most important topics in the field of intelligent transportation systems. The purpose of stop and go systems is to assist drivers for repeatedly accelerate and stop their vehicles in traffic jams. This system can improve the driving comfort, safety and reduce the danger of collisions and fuel consumption....

The stop-signal paradigm is a popular method for examining response inhibition and impulse control in psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and clinical domains because it allows the estimation of the covert latency of the stop process: the stop-signal reaction time (SSRT). In three sets of simulations, we examined to what extent SSRTs that were estimated with the popular mean and integration met...

The automatic classification of the unvoiced stop consonants is widely considered as a difficult task for traditional frequency domain and even time-frequency methods. Main reason for this is their short duration and diverse temporal structure. In this paper we present a novel method for stop consonant recognition. The method is based on statistical properties of short temporal fine structure o...

An indirect method to locate the first tooth contacts in centric relation was described in this study. Mounted casts with an associated table and styli were used to locate the position of contact points in three planes. The method was tested using the anterior occlusal stop with chin point guidance and bimanual manipulation for recording centric relation. Ten records from one subject were analy...

the most accurate method for calculating the aeroheating is numerical solution method. using finite volume method to solve the navier-stokes equations in time is very time consuming. so by using the finite difference algorithm, transfer equations to curvature coordinate by the mapping function, and combination of the viscous shock layer and similarity of boundary layer, the ctca code was develo...

Paul Koch’s “Stop and Chop” method is a hybrid of divide-and-conquer and horizontal chopping. His technique begins with sculpting a traditional deep, central groove in order to crack the nucleus in half. One then stops the divide-and-conquer method, and chops the hemi-nuclei. Although the Koch method utilizes some horizontal chopping, this author coined the term “Non-stop Chop” to differentiate...