Chronic stress, physiological and psychological, has been strongly associated with the onset of psychopathology, highlighting the importance of research investigating the experiences of stress. A current model of the stress process includes stress appraisal, stress reactivity, and performance in stressful situations. Past research has treated performance as a dependent variable in this model, b...

OBJECTIVE Previous work investigating deficits in self-appraisal in behavioural-variant frontotemporal degeneration (bvFTD) has focused on a single domain: social/behavioural processes. We examined whether a domain-specific versus multi-domain model best explains degraded self-appraisal in bvFTD. METHODS 49 patients with bvFTD and 73 patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) were administered qu...

Performance appraisal of employee is important in managing the human resource of an organization. With the change towards knowledge-based capitalism, maintaining talented knowledge workers is critical. However, management classification of “outstanding”, “poor” and “average” performance may not be an easy decision. Besides that, superior might also tend to judge the work performance of their su...

African-American women are less likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer than are White women but are more likely to be adversely affected. Although differences in incidence and mortality have been explored in some depth, little attention has been paid to how these women cope with the disease or whether their appraisal of their breast cancer differs from that of White women. Using a comparativ...

In Multi-user Feedback support system or 360 0 Feedback, data on the performance of an individual are collected systematically from a number of stakeholders and are used for improving performance. The 360 0 Feedback approach provides a consistent management philosophy meeting the criterion outlined previously. The 360 0 feedback based appraisal is a comprehensive method where in the feedback ab...

Research presented in this paper uses the Network Simulator, ns2, to investigate the direct effects and subsequent consequences associated with the use of different transport protocols in a SIP context. Specifically, we seek to perform a comparative evaluation of UDP, TCP and SCTP based on a model simulating a scenario most likely to benefit from congestion control and error correction mechanis...

Ð Researchers and practitioners often use rapid rural appraisal (RRA) methods to secure a representative, accurate, and cost-e€ective portrayal of wealth rankings among rural populations. This paper proposes an asset possession-based approach to developing RRA wealth rankings and portrayals of wealth holdings and portfolios. It also o€ers new validation methods for RRA e€orts, especially for id...

The investigations of 20 evolutionary fuzzy algorithms implemented in data mining system KEEL from the point of view of their usefulness to create bagging ensemble models to assist with real estate appraisal were presented in the paper. All the experiments were conducted with an actual data derived from cadastral system and the registry of real estate transactions. The results showed there were...