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Few applications of organizational behavior management (OBM) in the banking industry have been reported, despite evidence showing that work performance in many areas of a financial institution, and even bank profitability, can be improved with these methods (Abernathy, Duffy, & O'Brien, 1982; Roberts, 1983). However, given today's highly competitive financial services marketplace, it is imperative that banks optimize the performance of their human resources, especially in the area of ...

ABSTRACT: The aim of this study was to monitor short-term osteoarthrosis progress in relation to a recently introduced novel extracapsular method called the Tight Rope procedure and after Lateral Suture with nylon in cruciate-deficient dog stifle joints. Twelve dogs were included in the study. Treatment type was not randomised. Mediolateral radiographs from 12 stifle joint were evaluated preoperatively and six months after surgery. A modified scoring system for evaluation of osteoarthrot...

The International Conference on Harmonization of Technical Requirements for Registration of Pharmaceuticals for Human Use (ICH) consists of a series of committees, mainly concerned with standardizing the range of toxicology tests needed for new pharmaceuticals. ICH S2B guidance was finalized in 1997 and adopted by the US, European and Japanese regulatory authorities shortly after. The guidance indicates that the expected standard battery of genotoxicity tests normally required for small ...

H IGH-DENSITY storage on magnetic disk drives requires increasing both the linear bit density and the track density on the recording medium. Currently, the recorded transitions, henceforth loosely referred to as the bits, are approximately ten times wider in the radial (cross-track) direction than they are in the circumferential (downtrack) direction. The National Storage Industry Consortium (NSIC) estimates that the bit aspect ratio (BAR) will approach one-to-one as the industry tries ...

In applied research the evaluation of the hypothesis under investigation can be obtained developing experiments in which different treatments are included. Results are generally submitted to statistical analysis of variance, testing a global null hypothesis H0 using the F test and comparing the means by mul- Modification for the Tukey test 429 Sci. Agric. (Piracicaba, Braz.), v.65, n.4, p.428-432, July/August 2008 tiple comparison procedures (Hochberg & Tamhane, 1987; Hsu, 1996). A co...

South America, long considered the ethnographically and linguistically “least known continent” [1], has in recent decades experienced a surge of descriptive and documentary linguistic research [2], [3]. The classification of the languages of this region, and especially those of Amazonia, has, in contrast, advanced little in the last 50 years [4], [5]. However, the increasing availability of lexical data on South American languages, as well as recent successes in applying computationa...

Over the past 15 years, energy storage technologies for vehicle traction systems have improved dramatically. This technology is finding its way into commercially viable hybrid, electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles. Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) prototype vehicles are being developed and tested at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Utilizing bi-directional power electronics can allow a vehicle to not only charge its batteries from the electric utility grid during charge but also c...

D ifferential item functioning (DIF) is a statistical term that describes a condition when the item response is dependent not only on the ability level of the subject but also on the value of some additional group membership variable. If DIF is present verification plays an important role in psychometric analysis of a test and is closely related to the problem of validity. Let Ui denote response to item i, θ be the level of ability that the test measures and G be the group ...

Solar radiation measurements as most time-series data suffer from interruptions. Gaps may occur due to loss of power, misalignment, failure of instruments, insufficient cleaning or other reasons. Quality check procedures identify such malfunctioning and mark untrustworthy data by flags. Even well maintained stations with good equipment usually show gaps. Duration of gaps can range from few minutes to several days. Depending on duration and type of missing parameters various procedures ca...