Overview Over the past 50 years, motivation theorists have generally agreed that implicit motives represent capacities to experience specific classes of incentives as rewarding Achievement) find pleasure in mastering challenging tasks; individuals high in the need for power (n Power) get a kick out of having impact on others; and individuals high in the need for affiliation (n Affiliation) enjo...

Across cultures, social relationships are often thought of, described, and acted out in terms of physical space (e.g. "close friends" "high lord"). Does this cognitive mapping of social concepts arise from shared brain resources for processing social and physical relationships? Using fMRI, we found that the tasks of evaluating social compatibility and of evaluating physical distances engage a c...

Current image coding standards provide limited support for privacy and security features. An exception is the JPSEC standard, which defines security extensions in JPEG 2000 specifications (part 8). Notwithstanding this shortcoming, the JPEG committee is currently defining a new JPEG Systems standard, which envisages privacy and security support across JPEG family of standards. In this manuscrip...

In this study, teacher generated metaphors were closely aligned with three major educological themes: behavioral change, assisted performance, and radical constructivism. Teacher observations, in contrast, revealed much more complexity. A factor analysis of the follow-up survey results exposed nine distinctive teacher practice profiles. Each of these three strategies -metaphor analysis, observa...

This project aims to model the h-index of a firm as a function of several properties of the owning organization’s patent co-authorship and citation networks. Studies have shown that the number of forward citations a patent receives strongly correlate with its market value [3], which is of great interest to potential investors. Unfortunately, future number of forward citations of particularly hi...

The health care industry in the United States has been experiencing substantial and ever increasing cost pressures. At the same time, many forces are revolutionizing the way health care is financed and delivered. Telemedicine, in this respect, offers significant potential for addressing some of the challenges faced by the health care industry. However, despite the fact that Telemedicine technol...

We examine the (in)compatibility of diversity and sense of community by means of agent-based models based on the well-known Schelling model of residential segregation and Axelrod model of cultural dissemination. We find that diversity and highly clustered social networks, on the assumptions of social tie formation based on spatial proximity and homophily, are incompatible when agent features ar...

Existence, uniqueness, and a priori estimates for solutions are studied for stochastic parabolic Ito equations. An analog of the second fundamental inequality and the related existence theorem are obtained for backward stochastic parabolic Ito equation. AMS 1991 subject classification: Primary 60J55, 60J60, 60H10. Secondary 34F05, 34G10.

In a synthesis of the relevant social cognition, human resources, stakeholder, and entrepreneurship literatures, this article explores how perceptions about entrepreneurship affect entrepreneurial behavior and job security seeking. Definitions and reasons for the apparent incompatibility of entrepreneurship and job security are analyzed, with the impact of cognitions about the two terms being a...

This study uses Indian unit record data from expenditure and employment surveys, in conjunction with State level indicators, to (a) investigate whether the backward classes and female headed households face higher poverty rates than others, and (b) examine the impact of poverty, along with a host of individual, family, socio economic and State characteristics, on child labour and child schoolin...