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Team perfectionism and team performance: A prospective study
No full textPerfectionism is a personality characteristic that has been found to predict sports performance in athletes. To date, however, research has exclusively examined this relationship at an individual level (i.e., athletes’ perfectionism predicting their personal performance). The current study extends this research to team sports by examining whether, when manifested at team level, perfectionism predicts team performance. A sample of 231 competitive rowers from 36 boats completed measures of self-oriented, team-oriented, and team-prescribed perfectionism prior to competing against one another in a 4-day rowing competition. Strong within-boat similarities in the levels of team members’ team-oriented perfectionism supported the existence of collective team-oriented perfectionism at the boat level. Two-level latent growth curve modeling of day-by-day boat performance showed that team-oriented perfectionism positively predicted the position of the boat in mid-competition and the linear improvement in position. The findings suggest that imposing perfectionistic standards on team members may drive teams to greater levels of performance
Report of an independent peer review of A forest management strategy for the proposed Coquille Forest submitted to the Coquille Indian Tribe by the Independent Scientific Advisory Team (ISAT)
No full text"[T]he [Coquille Indian] Tribe requested that the State of Oregon assemble a team of independent scientists to peer review the forest management strategy proposed by the ISAT. The purpose of the independent peer review would be to: 1) assess the degree to which the two major goals assigned by the Tribe are met by the proposed ISAT forest management strategy, 2) validate the scientific soundness of the proposed strategy, 3) identify any gaps in the strategy or components not adequately addressed, and 4) make recommendations to correct deficiencies or to make improvements in the strategy. In response to the Tribe's request, the Governor's Office of Natural Resources assembled a team of independent peer reviewers and structured the process by which the review would be accomplished. The results of the IPR were presented to the ISAT in a conference open to the public which was held on November 21, 1995 at the LaSells Stewart Center, Oregon State University. Following is a consolidated report of major conclusions and recommendations presented by the independent reviewers to the ISAT at the November 21 public forum. This information also reflects key points contained in written reports prepared by IPR team members"--Page 2.Introduction -- Presentation by Independent Peer Review Team to the ISAT -- Independent Peer Reviewers (IPR) -- Introduction to the IPR process -- The "nine questions" and their answers -- Does the review team generally support the strategy of the proposed Coquille Forest -- Does the strategy meet the goals of the Northwest Forest Plan (NFP)? -- Is the adaptive management approach described in the strategy adequate? -- Is the monitoring approach described in the strategy? -- Is the strategy generally consistent with scientific knowledge? -- Are Northern spotted owls and riparian species adequately considered? -- Are aquatic species adequately considered? -- Are future natural disturbances adequately planned for in the strategy? -- Does the strategy meet Tribal goals? -- Overall comments -- Preliminary response by ISAT -- Response by the Coquille Indian Tribe -- Individual Independent Peer Reviewer reports / submitted by Peter Bisson, Bernard Bormann, Larry Davis, Walt Knapp, Jim Rochelle -- November 21, 1995 conference brochure ; list of conference attendeessubmitted to the State of Oregon Governor's Office of Natural Resources by the Independent Peer Review TeamThis archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposesElectronic reproduction Salem, Or. State Library of Oregon 2023 Electronic reproduction from print version OrMode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications CollectionText in Englis
Partners of people on ART - a new evaluation of the risks (The PARTNER study): design and methods
No full textBackground: It is known that being on antiretroviral therapy reduces the risk of HIV transmission through sex. However it remains unknown what the absolute level of risk of transmission is in a person on ART with most recent measured HIV plasma viral load<50 c/mL in the absence of condom use. There are no data on risk of transmission for anal sex in MSM when the index partner is on ART.
Methods/Design: The PARTNER study is an international, observational multi-centre study, taking place from 2010 to 2014 in which HIV serodifferent partnerships who at enrolment reported recently having had condom-less vaginal or anal sexual intercourse are followed over time, with 46 monthly reporting of transmission risk behaviour through a confidential self completed risk behaviour questionnaire and with 46 monthly HIV testing for the HIV negative partner. The objective is to study (i) the risk of HIV transmission to partners, in particular in partnerships that continue not to use condoms consistently and the HIV-positive partner is on therapy with a viral load<50 copies/mL and (ii) why some partnerships do not use condoms, to describe the proportion who begin to adopt consistent condom use, and factors associated with this. For any negative partner who becomes infected phylogenetic analysis will be used following anonymisation of the samples to assess if transmission had been from the HIV infected partner.
Discussion: This observational study will provide missing information on the absolute risk of HIV transmission for both vaginal and anal sex when the index case is on ART with a VL<50 copies/mL in the absence of condom use
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Effect of MST on Crystallinity of CST/Sludge Glasses
No full textIn support of the Salt Disposition team, the effects of monosodium titanate (MST) on two glass formulations were investigated. These glass formulations combined a blend-type sludge with Crystalline Silicotitanate (CST) and glass formers (or frit). The objective of the testing was to determine if the MST would lead to crystal formation in the glasses
Arbeidstid i barneverninstitusjonene og behandlingstiltaket MST
No full textDenne rapporten omhandler arbeidstidsordninger i barneverninstitusjoner og behandlingstiltaket Multisystemisk terapi (MST). Bakgrunnen for undersøkelsen er dels at flere institusjoner har begrunnet lange turnuser med behandlingsmessige resultater, dels at man regner med at flere av disse arbeidstidsordningene kunne være i strid med bestemmelsene i Arbeidsmiljøloven. Evalueringen bygger på en surveyundersøkelse blant ledere ved landets barneverninstitusjoner, kvalitative intervjuer med ansatte ved institusjoner samt gruppeintervju med fem MST-team. Ulike arbeidstidsordninger ses i lys av vurderinger av både behandlingsmessige resultater og ansattes helse og velferd. Rapporten belyser omsorgs- og tjenesteyrkenes rolle i spenningsfeltet mellom tilgjengelighet og autonomi. Evalueringen er gjennomført på oppdrag av Barne- og likestillingsdepartementet
Top Management Team Diversity: A systematic Review
No full textEmpirical research investigating the impact of top management team (TMT)
diversity on executives’ decision making has produced inconclusive results.
To synthesize and aggregate the results on the diversity-performance
link, a meta-regression analysis (MRA) is conducted. It integrates more
than 200 estimates from 53 empirical studies investigating TMT diversity
and its impact on the quality of executives’ decision making as reflected
in corporate performance. The analysis contributes to the literature by
theoretically discussing and empirically examining the effects of TMT diversity
on corporate performance. Our results do not show a link between TMT
diversity and performance but provide evidence for publication bias. Thus,
the findings raise doubts on the impact of TMT diversity on performance
Men's Sports Team
No full texta black and White photo of a Latvian Canadian sports team with trophy9.1.4 General day to day news and event
Rialto Community Drug Team: policy discussion paper.
No full textThis review examined the development of the Rialto Community Drug Team (RCDT) in Dublin, a partnership between the Rialto Youth Project and the Eastern Health Board. The RCDT began operating in September 1992. The author was commissioned to look at its development in the broader policy context, to identify key issues in relation to community drug teams in terms of drug treatment and support policies, and to make appropriate recommendations. The author gathered data using semi-structured interviews, which he conducted with members of staff, the management board, policy makers, and local drugs activists. The author also studied internal RCDT documents, policy reports and relevant academic literature.
The report presents an overview of the context within which the RCDT operated, the UK experience of community drug teams, a discussion of Irish public policy in the area, and a description of the RCDT. The author concluded that the RCDT provided a clear focus for health promotion, and helped to facilitate inclusive policy-making. He stated that the RCDT provided an excellent locus for including local communities in the management of, and policy formulation for, local drug services, and he suggested that this could also be extended to treatment and rehabilitation
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Algorithms for partially robust team formation
No full textIn one of its simplest forms, Team Formation involves deploying the least expensive team of agents while covering a set of skills. While current algorithms are reasonably successful in computing the best teams, the resilience to change of such solutions remains an important concern: Once a team has been formed, some of the agents considered at start may be finally defective and some skills may become uncovered. Two recently introduced solution concepts deal with this issue proactively: 1) form a team which is robust to changes so that after some agent losses, all skills remain covered, and 2) opt for a recoverable team, i.e., it can be "repaired" in the worst case by hiring new agents while keeping the overall deployment cost minimal. In this paper, we introduce the problem of partially robust team formation (PR–TF). Partial robustness is a weaker form of robustness which guarantees a certain degree of skill coverage after some agents are lost. We analyze the computational complexity of PR-TF and provide two complete algorithms for it. We compare the performance of our algorithms with the existing methods for robust and recoverable team formation on several existing and newly introduced benchmarks. Our empirical study demonstrates that partial robustness offers an interesting trade-off between (full) robustness and recoverability in terms of computational efficiency, skill coverage guaranteed after agent losses and repairability. This paper is an extended and revised version of as reported by (Schwind et al., Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS’21), pp. 1154–1162, 2021).Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Algorithmic
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