There is still a good deal of confusion in the literature about how the use of a performance management system affects overall organizational performance. Some researchers find that performance management enhances both the financial and non-financial results of an organization, while others do not find any positive effects or, at most, ambiguous effects. An important step toward getting more cl...

Prejudice (i.e. unjustified feelings of dislike or hatred towards members of ethnic minority groups) has long been a significant social problem in ethnically diverse countries (Brown, 1995). Indeed, contrary to earlier reports that prejudice was systematically declining, recent evidence suggests that prejudice may simply be being expressed in new disguises, and may actually be increasing (e.g. ...

The TB-LMTO-ASA method is reviewed and generalized to an accurate and robust TB-NMTO minimal-basis method, which solves Schrödinger’s equation to Nth order in the energy expansion for an overlapping MT-potential, and which may include any degree of downfolding. For N = 1, the simple TBLMTO-ASA formalism is preserved. For a discrete energy mesh, the NMTO basis set may be given as: χ (r) = ∑ n φ ...

The enhanced operator function model (EOFM) is a task analytic modeling formalism that allows human behavior to be included in larger formal system models to support the formal verification of human interactive systems. EOFM is an expressive formalism that captures the behavior of individual humans or, with the EOFM with communications (EOFMC) extension, teams of humans as a collection of tasks...

the russian formalism is an approach was introduced at the beginning of 20th century and those who offered such a theory wanted to find a scientific method in literary criticism. they believed that the literary work itself should be criticized instead of its author and the literary nature of the work should be considered as the main subject.    adopting such a method, they propelled the study o...