Executive Overview Recently, Pfeffer (2010) called for a better understanding of the human dimension of sustainability. Responding to this call, we explore how individuals sustain an important human resource—their own energy—at work. Specifically, we focus on strategies that employees use at work to sustain their energy. Our findings show that the most commonly used strategies (e.g., switching ...

Leader-member exchange (LMX) represents the quality of interaction between leaders and members of a work unit, such as the information system function within an organization. LMX is expected to improve organizational citizenship behavior, beneficial behaviors not explicitly rewarded, but prior research has failed to establish this link satisfactorily. To determine the influence of LMX in the IS...

Multitasking is held to be essential to corporate survival (Manhart, 2005), but little attention has been paid to the social meaning of technological multitasking. We focus on technological multitasking as rapid task switching involving information technologies and, in particular, where one or more activities involve interpersonal interaction. Understanding how technological multitasking behavi...

This paper proves the validity of a basic feasibility property which makes it possible to extend, to the case of set-point tracking in ANCBI systems under joint positional and incremental input saturations, the approach in [Mosca, E. (2005). Predictive switching supervisory control of persistently disturbed inputsaturated plants. Automatica, 41, 55–67] restricted to positional input saturation ...

This document identifies a set of requirements for the mechanisms used to dynamically reallocate the resources of a switching element (e.g., an ATM switch) to its partitions. These requirements are particularly critical in the case of an operator creating a switch partition and then leasing control of that partition to a third party.

Customers’ Loyalty is important to internet banking. Customers’ Loyalty is not only involved in the survival of internet banking,but also the revenue of intenet banking.This paper studies the factors influencing personal internet banking customers’ loyalty. The model of loyalty of internet banking is constructed on the basis of theoretical research and china’s reality. And the model is tested b...

We discuss the design and preliminary results of an experiment for modeling human-human multi-threaded dialogues. We found that participants tend to complete adjacency pairs in dialogues before switching to a new dialogue thread. We also have indications that, in the presence of a manualvisual task, the difficulty of the task influences switching between dialogue threads.

Jitter and shimmer are measures of the cycle-to-cycle variations of fundamental frequency and amplitude, respectively, which have been largely used for the description of pathological voice quality. Since they characterise some aspects concerning particular voices, it is a priori expected to find differences in the values of jitter and shimmer among speakers. In this paper, several types of jit...

Agricultural and biological processes often involve complex phenomena that depend not only on time but also on other independent variables, like spatial coordinates. These processes are intrinsically distributed parameter systems whose modelling requires the adoption of (non linear) partial differential equation. Due to their complexity these models often involve parameters difficult to be esti...