'Unless people believe they can produce desired effects by their actions, they have little incentive to act' Albert Bandura, Self-Efficacy: The Exercise of Control. Bandura's theory states that 'Perceived self-efficacy refers to beliefs in one's capabilities to organise and execute the courses of action required to produce given attainments' [1]. In the workplace setting, self-efficacy is an in...

This paper presents an empirical study on two different navigation styles within QuickTime VR panorama scenes. In one style, the users would jump from one position in the scene to the next while maintaining their direction of view. In the second style, the users would jump from one position to the next and reverse their direction of view. The results show that participants preferred the later s...

The occupational therapist functions as an integral member of the burn care team and assists patients in achieving an optimal level of independence and a satisfying life style after a burn injury. With early assessment and ongoing occupational therapy intervention, an individual recovering from a burn injury should be able to return to a functional life style more rapidly.

This paper attempts to use microsimulation methods to compare returns to education in four European countries, Germany, Ireland, Italy and the United Kingdom. This paper broadens the type of measure used to measure the return to education to include interactions with public taxtransfer systems and to consider the effect of differential employment rates on education. Mincer style wage equations ...

For the presence of non-normal distribution characteristics in the financial assets returns, the model of AR(1)-GJR(1,1) is used to characterize the marginal distribution of the style assets in China stock market. The Copula function is introduced to analyze the dependency structure between the six style assets, combined with the marginal distributed residual sequences. And the joint return dis...

In a functional language, the dominant control-flow mechanism is function call and return. Most higher-order flow analyses, including k -CFA, do not handle call and return well: they remember only a bounded number of pending calls because they approximate programs with control-flow graphs. Call/return mismatch introduces precisiondegrading spurious control-flow paths and increases the analysis ...