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and Deviance , this paper empirically explains why some households choose to copy others, while some choose deviance even … though social deviance in acquiring education can throw subjects into abject poverty. In particular, the paper examines the …
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This paper considers the problem of modeling migraine severity assessments and their dependence on weather and time characteristics. Since ordinal severity measurements arise from a single patient dependencies among the measurements have to be accounted for. For this the autoregressive ordinal...
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This paper considers the problem of modeling migraine severity assessments and their dependence on weather and time characteristics. Since ordinal severity measurements arise from a single patient, dependencies among the measurements have to be accounted for. For this the autoregressive ordinal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275914
Salaried professionals may exhibit organizational deviance when faced with conflict resulting from their mutual role as … scalogram analysis. Not only was the practice of organizational deviance, although not widespread, confirmed, but the scales …
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A discriminant analysis was performed on a sample (n = 114) of salaried professionals to distinguish work patterns among three age groups corresponding to early, middle and late career stages. Three distinct profiles were generated by the two significant discriminant functions which emerged. The...
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A model of professional deviant/adaptive career behaviors is presented to clarify the negative behavioral effects experienced by some salaried professionals and proposed as being caused by conflicting expectations with their management. The nature of and precursors to these conflicting...
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The use of electronic spreadsheets as the primary software tool for teaching management science modeling techniques and quantitative methods in economics and finance undoubtedly played a key role in the increasing impact of quantitative lectures given in graduate programs. Researchers suggest...
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Increasing oil security represents one of the most important policy actions, especially within IEA countries. Short and … of national storage systems, with the institution of public and private agency, a wider co-ordinated use of security … stocks, and an increase in the physical amount of oil stocks. Long term measures for enhancing oil supply security can be …
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Security as an objectively existing quality which can be discussed in innumerable ways, but it may hardly be ignored … and its significance (let alone its existence) may hardly be doubted. Security is a fundamental human need which is a … on how the term "security" itself should be defined and what specific aspects or issues it should include (and which ones …
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the development of social segregation and the tendency to ensure ontological security behind impenetrable walls. The … ghettos trend". The new gated suburbs seem to have increased safety measures such as surveillance cameras, security personnel … random and unaccounted movements, to enhance a sense of security and minimize the perception of fear. This paper examines the …
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