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Motivation through the Design of Work: Test of a Theory. Organizational Behavior and Human Performance,
, 1976
"... A model is proposed that specifies the conditions under which individuals will become internally motivated to perform effectively on their jobs. The model focuses on the interaction among three classes of variables: (a) the psychological states of employees that must be present for internally motiv ..."
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was unrelated to the Index. The investigators concluded that reactions to jobs high on the RTA Index were moderated by differences in the cultural backgrounds of employees. Subsequent research by A study by Results of the study generally supported the hypothesis that employees who work on jobs high
Self-determination and persistence in a real-life setting: Toward a motivational model of high school dropout.
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,
, 1997
"... The purpose of this study was to propose and test a motivational model of high school dropout. The model posits that teachers, parents, and the school administration's behaviors toward students influence students' perceptions of competence and autonomy. The less autonomy supportive the so ..."
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of .56 in this study, would produce an alpha of .81 if there were eight items. With short scales such as the ones used in this study, the adequacy of the underlying measurement model is generally more indicative of the quality of contruct measurement than internal consistency MOTIVATIONAL MODEL OF HIGH
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"... Abstract Early studies of molecular evolution revealed a correlation between genetic distance and time of species divergence. This observation provoked the molecular clock hypothesis and in turn the ‘Neutral Theory’, which however remains an incomplete explanation since it predicts a constant mutati ..."
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mutation rate per generation whereas empirical evidence suggests a constant rate per year. Data inconsistent with the molecular clock hypothesis have steadily accumulated in recent years that show no correlation between genetic distance and time of divergence. It has therefore become a challenge to find a
Real-Time Randomized Path Planning for Robot Navigation
, 2002
"... Mobile robots often find themselves in a situation where they must find a trajectory to another position in their environment, subject to constraints posed by obstacles and the capabilities of the robot itself. This is the problem of planning a path through a continuous domain, for which several app ..."
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Mobile robots often find themselves in a situation where they must find a trajectory to another position in their environment, subject to constraints posed by obstacles and the capabilities of the robot itself. This is the problem of planning a path through a continuous domain, for which several
Knowledge Engineering for Planning-Based Hypothesis Generation
"... In this paper, we address the knowledge engineering prob-lems for hypothesis generation motivated by applications that require timely exploration of hypotheses under unreliable ob-servations. We looked at two applications: malware detection and intensive care delivery. In intensive care, the goal is ..."
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need to use a planner capable of generating multiple high-quality plans. To capture the model description we propose a language called LTS++ and a web-based tool that enables the specification of the LTS++ model and a set of observations. We also proposed a 9-step process that helps provide guid
Whom You Know Matters: Venture Capital Networks and Investment Performance,
- Journal of Finance
, 2007
"... Abstract Many financial markets are characterized by strong relationships and networks, rather than arm's-length, spot-market transactions. We examine the performance consequences of this organizational choice in the context of relationships established when VCs syndicate portfolio company inv ..."
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's performance are the ability to source high-quality deal flow (i.e., the ability to select promising companies), and the ability to nurture its investments (i.e., the ability to add value to portfolio companies). Syndication likely affects both of these performance drivers. 2 There are at least three reasons
The Economic Geography of Talent
- Annals of the Association of American Geographers
"... The distribution of talent, or human capital, is an important factor in economic geography. This article examines the economic geography of talent, exploring the factors that attract talent and its effects on high-technology industry and regional incomes. Talent is defined as individuals with high ..."
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is highly concentrated. Talent is associated with the diversity index. Furthermore, the economic geography of talent is strongly associated with high-technology industry location. Talent and high-technology industry work independently and together to generate higher regional incomes. In short, talent is a
Self-concordance at work: Toward understanding the motivational effects of transformational leaders.
- Academy of Management Journal,
, 2003
"... We extend existing theories by linking transformational leadership to "self-concordance" at work. In two studies using diverse samples and methods, leader behaviors were associated with follower tendencies to set self-concordant goals. In general, followers of transformational leaders vie ..."
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feature of self-concordance. More generally, whereas self-determination theory was developed to account for the effects of contextual forces on intrinsic motivation (Sheldon & Elliot, 1999), the self-concordance model focuses on individuals' proactive and self-generated plans. This focus fits
Generating Diverse Clusterings Anonymous Author(s)
"... Traditional clustering algorithms search for an optimal clustering based on a pre-specified clustering criterion, e.g. the squared error distortion of Kmeans. However, most real-world data sets allow alternate clusterings that are potentially useful to different users. We propose a clustering algori ..."
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algorithm called Diverse-Kmeans that automatically generates a diverse set of alternate and informative clusterings. Experiments show that our proposed clustering algorithm thoroughly explores the space of clusterings, allowing it to find multiple high-quality that are missed by traditional clustering
Efficient Generation of Approximate Plan Diagrams
- DSL/SERC, Indian Inst. of Science
, 2008
"... Given a parametrized n-dimensional SQL query template and a choice of query optimizer, a plan diagram is a color-coded pictorial enumeration of the execution plan choices of the optimizer over the query parameter space. These diagrams have proved to be a powerful metaphor for the analysis and redesi ..."
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-resolution diagrams. In this paper, we investigate strategies for efficiently producing high-quality approximate plan diagrams that have low plan-identity and plan-location errors. Our techniques are customized to the features available in the optimizer’s API, ranging from the generic optimizers that provide only
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