In this study, we use proprietary data from a retail organization to examine whether subjective ratings by supervisors exhibit patterns reflective of a “Halo effect” and the extent to which this Halo effect is affected by information gathering costs or efforts to preserve personal relationships and avoid conflict. We find evidence consistent with prior experimental research that subjective rati...

Social scientists implicate high-status men as sexually objectifying women. Yet, few have investigated these men’s perceptions and accounts of their own experiences. Racial variation in gender relations in college has also received little scholarly attention. Analyzing 30 in-depth, individual interviews and surveys and two focus group interviews from Black and White men at a large university, w...

Accurate and real-time tracking of the orientation or attitude of rigid bodies has traditional applications in robotics, aerospace, underwater vehicles, human body motion capture, etc. Towards human body motion capture, especially wearable devices, the use of a longer time has always been a challenge for several weeks or several months continuously, so a low-cost chip and a low computational co...

Background: Improvement in the performance of health care workers is an important aspect of infection control in the health care settings. Nursing students are more exposed to infections during clinical experience so they need to improve their performance related to infection control measures. Aim: This study was conducted to assess of knowledge, practice and attitude of internship nursing stud...

In this paper, a new algorithm is developed for attitude estimation using Global Positioning System (GPS) signals. The new algorithm is based on a predictive filtering scheme designed for spacecraft without rate measuring devices. The major advantage of this new algorithm over traditional Kalman filter approaches is that the model error is not assumed to represented by an unbiased Gaussian nois...

An attitude is a psychological state of mind. It the way person thinks about situations, and it ultimately determines person's behavior. In workplace, employees can have either positive or negative specific work tasks, products services, co-workers management, company as whole. Positive attitudes among make workdays more enjoyable. Tasks are performed to higher standard without complaint. Curre...

Background: Documentation is one of the nurses’ professional tasks, which is an important component of medical evidence and patient’s record. Finding effective teaching methods for enhancing nurses’ ability in documentation can be helpful. Aim: This study was performed to determine the effect of continuing education program on nurse’s knowledge, attitude and performance about documentation. Met...

Background: Currently, hospital preparedness is an essential element for disaster management. Accordingly, the aim of this study was to examine the attitudes, knowledge and performance of nurses with respect to crisis management. Materials and Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was undertaken among 112 nurses working in three hospitals affiliated to the Ilam University of Medical ...