Chemical risk assessment: Pressures, perceptions and expectations

Justice Expectations and Applicant Perceptions

Expectations, which are beliefs about a future state of affairs, constitute a basic psychological mechanism that underlies virtually all human behavior. Although expectations serve as a central component in many theories of organizational behavior, they have received limited attention in the organizational justice literature. The goal of this paper is to introduce the concept of justice expecta...

Modulation of chemical toxicity and risk assessment.

MUS81 is conserved among plants, animals, and fungi and is known to be involved in mitotic DNA damage repair and meiotic recombination. Here we present a functional characterization of the Arabidopsis thaliana homolog AtMUS81, which has a role in both mitotic and meiotic cells. The AtMUS81 transcript is produced in all tissues, but is elevated greater than 9-fold in the anthers and its levels a...

Expectations and Perceptions in Developing Countries:

The expectations and perceptions of ED patients.

Patients expect staff to treat them as individuals, listen to their concerns, provide reassurance, and provide updates on what is happening at all stages of their ED visit, including expected delays, investigations, results, and treatments. Patients do not expect to wait to see a physician once they are brought back to the treatment area. Patients expect to be given an accurate wait time estima...

Lecture Capture: Student Perceptions, Expectations, and Behaviors

The decrease in cost and increase in automation of audio visual systems for the classroom has led to widespread deployment of lecture capture within higher education. While a number of studies have examined the effectiveness of such systems within an institution, no study has characterized student background across institutions. In this paper we describe three different lecture capture systems ...