To evaluate driving aptitude and traffic-relevant performance at peak and trough medication levels in opioid-dependent patients receiving maintenance therapy with either buprenorphine (mean: 13.4 mg) or methadone (52.7 mg) and a medication-free control group, the Addiction Clinic at Medical University Vienna conducted a prospective, open-label trial where 40 opioid-dependent patients maintained...

Cognitive ability tests are commonly used in the employment selection process. Despite their criterion-related validity, they also demonstrate adverse impact (Campbell, 1996; Hartigan & Wigdor, 1989; Hunter & Hunter, 1984). This study assessed two cognitive ability tests (one with verbal, numeric and spatial subtests the General Aptitude Test Battery and the other predominantly spatial the Rave...

This exploratory study of clerical aptitudes was undertaken for the principal purpose of discovering the structure of clerical aptitudes. The clerical field embraces a large group of occupations, and consequently the measurement of clerical aptitudes has received intense study. This is fortunate, since tests to help in the estimation of success hi these occupations are among the most necessary ...

This paper investigates the influence of three factors on pronunciation accuracy of Chinese adult foreign language learners. Ten target sounds including phonemes and syllables are included in the pre-test, an analysis of which shows that the mispronunciation of the randomly chosen target sounds mainly results from L1 negative transfer. It is observed in intervention that some mispronounced targ...

This study examined whether attributes of emotional intelligence and career commitment predicted career success using both objective and subjective indicators of career success. Survey results from 60 adult education students with full-time employment indicated that career commitment predicted salary attainment and career satisfaction. Career commitment was also found to mediate the relationshi...

Three inspection-time tasks measuring the amount of time required to discriminate differences in pitch, loudness and phase were administered alongside the Multidimensional Ability Battery and Raven s Advanced Progressive Matrices to 75 undergraduate students. The auditory tasks were administered adaptively, and thresholds were estimated by fitting a logistic function to each set of data. After ...