In a departure from the organizational development literature, this study hypothesized that managerial responses to organizational change are influenced by 7 dispositional traits (locus of control, generalized self-efficacy, self-esteem, positive affectivity, openness to experience, tolerance for ambiguity, and risk aversion). Data were collected from 6 organizations (N = 514) to test the hypot...

In this paper, we discuss a case study performed for validating a Natural Language (NL) based software requirements specification (SRS) in terms of completeness, consistency, and fault-tolerance. A partial verification of the Guidance and Control Software (GCS) Specification is provided as a result of analysis using three modeling formalisms. Zed was applied first to detect and remove ambiguity...

Although actuarial data indicate that risk-taking behavior peaks in adolescence, laboratory evidence for this developmental spike remains scarce. One possible explanation for this incongruity is that in the real world adolescents often have only vague information about the potential consequences of their behavior and the likelihoods of those consequences, whereas in the lab these are often clea...

Multiple forces vie to control the narratives of Lingsar festival, a major annual event initiated about 350 years ago that uniquely brings together indigenous Muslim Sasak and migrant Hindu Balinese on Lombok, an island east Bali in Indonesia. This attention festival is not surprising because governments, political religious figures, commercial interests, tourist industries compete define benef...

I explore some of the issues that arise when trying to establish a connection between the underspecification hypothesis pursued in the NLP literature and work on ambiguity in semantics and in the psychological literature. A theory of underspecification is developed ‘from the first principles’, i.e., starting from a definition of what it means for a sentence to be semantically ambiguous and from...