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Sidi Zin Archaeological Project: New Investigations Into the Acheulean and Middle Stone Age in Tunisia
Get PDFThe Sidi Zin Archaeological Project aims to bridge understanding of the Acheulean–Middle Stone Age transition in northern Tunisia, a relatively understudied region in the context of hominin evolution. The Sidi Zin locality will provide chronological, palaeoenvironmental, geomorphological and cultural insights into Acheulean and Middle Stone Age occupations in Tunisia
Baccalaureate Service 2025
No full textAn interfaith Thanksgiving ceremony for graduates, their families, and their friends. Bryant chaplains lead the ceremony, which features music, readings, and reflection. Graduating seniors do not wear caps and gowns to this event and may sit with their families
Datasets of Smartphone Modalities for Depression Assessment: A Scoping Review
No full textAs mobile sensing research for depression assessment is rapidly expanding, it is vital to uncover fundamental patterns and overarching limitations in the datasets available for such research, especially as many analyses are conducted on the same datasets. As such, we conduct a scoping review by identifying 80 datasets through the start of 2024 that contain smartphone modalities and depression labels. These datasets originated from 72 manuscripts and approximately 60 research groups. The most collected smartphone modalities included location and/or activity for 68.75%, communication logs for 47.5%, phone use for 41.25%, vocal utterances for 30%, and WiFi and/or Bluetooth connectivity for 28.75% of the datasets. The PHQ-8 and PHQ-9 (Patient Health Questionnaire) were the most popular screening instruments, administered for 53.75% of datasets. Of the 80 datasets, 31.25% recruited from student populations, 22.5% from patient populations, and 7.5% recruited crowdsourced workers. Excluding the nine datasets that did not report demographics, 73% reported a majority of women participants. Given the importance of datasets on analysis outcomes, this scoping review is an invaluable resource to inform the state of science and guide future mobile health research
Skating for a Payday: Analyzing NHL Player Performance in Contract Years
Get PDFThis research investigates the contract year phenomenon in the National Hockey League (NHL) by analyzing player performance during contract years rather than salary outcomes. Through an extensive literature review and empirical analysis, I examine whether NHL players exhibit statistically significant differences in performance during the final year of their contracts. Drawing from a broad range of studies on performance motivation, team systems, free agency, arbitration rights, and the role of advanced analytics, this paper synthesizes existing theories with new regression-based evidence.
Using a dataset of 2,717 player-season observations, I evaluate the effect of contract year status on key performance metrics, including goals, assists, points, shots, hits, blocked shots, and penalty minutes, as well as rate-based statistics such as goals per 60 minutes and points per game. I control for variables such as age, position, team strength, games played, and year fixed effects using the statistical software Stata. My findings consistently indicate that NHL players underperform across several offensive and defensive categories during contract years. These results challenge conventional wisdom and suggest that contract years may lead to strategic or psychological changes in player behavior. This study contributes to the growing body of sports economics literature by offering a comprehensive, data-driven evaluation of contract year performance in the NHL
Power Dressing or Overdressing? The Effect of Self and Managerial Attire on Employee Perceptions
Get PDFThis study investigates how dress styles influence employees\u27 self-perceptions when they and their managers wear different attire in corporate environments. We surveyed employees across various industries and company sizes, showing them images of individuals in casual, smart casual, business casual, and business formal attire. Based on Peluchette and Karl\u27s (2007) validated instrument, participants rated sixteen self-perception attributes across six dimensions: authoritativeness, competence, productivity, trustworthiness, friendliness, and creativity, with strong reliability coefficients ranging from .82 to .93. Our findings revealed that employees perceive themselves as significantly more authoritative (p = 0.0002) and competent (p = 0.033) when wearing business formal attire, while manager attire significantly affects employees\u27 self-perceived authoritativeness (p = 0.036). Notable gender differences emerged, particularly in how manager attire influences employees\u27 sense of friendliness (p = 0.0089), with female employees rating themselves lower on friendliness when managers wore formal attire. Work environment moderated these effects, with hybrid and remote settings showing significant impacts of manager attire on employees\u27 self-perceived competence (p = 0.0296) and productivity (p = 0.0379). Through factorial ANOVA analyses, we identified complex interactions among attire, gender, work experience, and work environments, extending previous research by examining the bidirectional influence between employee and manager dress codes in contemporary corporate settings