This article develops methods for fitting spatial models to line transect data. These allow animal density to be related to topographical, environmental, habitat, and other spatial variables, helping wildlife managers to identify the factors that affect abundance. They also enable estimation of abundance for any subarea of interest within the surveyed region, and potentially yield estimates of ...

Limited studies have focused on the factors that influence knowledge sharing behaviour of managers in the Malaysian public service. Moreover, little is known about the predictors of knowledge sharing behaviour, incorporating its two dimensions i.e. knowledge donating and knowledge collecting. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to build a knowledge sharing model among managers in the Malaysian ...

Social media visual analytics are becoming important in helping emergency managers gain situation awareness and make better decisions. In this paper, we present a systematic mapping to understand how the field is structured, find out what research topics exists in social media visual analytics for emergencies, and understand what the visual analytics application categories in this area are. Thi...

Efforts to redesign primary care require multiple supports. Two potential members of the primary care team-practice facilitator and care manager-can play important but distinct roles in redesigning and improving care delivery. Facilitators, also known as quality improvement coaches, assist practices with coordinating their quality improvement activities and help build capacity for those activit...

THISARTICLE PROVIDES INFORMATION on organizational approaches to managing stress in the library workplace; defines stress as a person’s psychological and physiological response to the perception of a demand or challenge; develops the concepts of stressors and coping strategies; and emphasizes the importance of library personnel officers, administrators, and managers knowing the dynamics of stre...

In this study we investigate the connections between transformational leadership and subordinate formal and contextual performance among Brazilian employees. We also proposed and tested two mediating processes through which transformational leaders would enhance the performance of their staff: stronger follower identification with the leader and efficacy beliefs. These relations were tested wit...

This report is part of a series of working papers published under the ILO's Action Programme on Privatization, Restructuring and Economic Democracy for use by governments, workers' organizations, employers' organizations, development agencies, consultants, academics and managers. The ILO is particularly interested in the social aspects of privatization, structural adjustment and economic transf...

The use of advanced applications has caused end-users to show a new interest in accessing network measurement and status data across multiple domains, in order to detect occasional network problems. Diversity on network technologies, technical solutions and network managers add to the complexity of providing such information, which, when available, includes technical details that are meaningful...

This study compared the intent to help in response nonverbal and verbal stimuli that described people need of clarify conditions generality effects promote help. Participants were randomly assigned a help-imagining group, no-help imagining or control group. In Study 1, participants evaluated stimuli. 2, they visual as illustrations developed for this study. The results both studies indicated gr...