Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationships among goal setting, employee engagement, workplace optimism, and individual performance constructs. Goal setting is hypothesized as positively impacting employee engagement, employee engagement as positively impacting workplace optimism, and workplace optimism as positively impacting individual performance. Design/methodolo...

Recent policy reforms have dramatically changed how educators are evaluated. To better differentiate teacher effectiveness, newly implemented teacher evaluation systems incorporate multiple teacher performance measures and performance rating categories. Yet, little evidence exists on the consequences of these system design features for the distribution of teacher effectiveness. Using data from ...

The focus of this paper is to evaluate the benefits of a Japanese e-government project. In this research, the Importance-Performance Analysis (IPA) grid was used to measure the e-government benefits from the users’ perspective. A list of 27 government benefits was identified from the e-government literature reviews and each of the benefits was rated using a five point Likert scale. On a five po...

Flávio Luís Beltrame* Departamento de Ciências Farmacêuticas, Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa, Av. General Carlos Cavalcanti, 4748, 84030-900 Ponta Grossa PR, Brasil Rubiana Mara Mainardes e Najeh Maissar Khalil Departamento de Farmácia, Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste. Rua Simeão Camargo Varela de Sá, 3, 85040-080 Guarapuava PR, Brasil Rosilene Aparecida Prestes, Alessandro Nogueir...

Although x86 processors have been around for a long time and are the most ubiquitous processors in the world, the amount of academic research regarding details of their performance has been minimal. Here, we introduce an x86 simulation environment, called TAXI (Trace Analysis for X86 Interpretation), and use it to present some results for eight Win32 applications. In this paper, we explain the ...

Vocal training through singing and acting lessons is known to modify acoustic parameters of the voice. While the effects of singing training have been well documented, the role of acting experience on the singing voice remains unclear. In two experiments, we used linear mixed models to examine the relationships between the relative amounts of acting and singing experience on the acoustics and p...

Some of the work done in the last three years on the Vaucanson platform in order to enhance its performances is reported here. One is the functorization, a feature of C++ that proved to be rather disappointing. And the other is the implementation of automata via hash tables (as opposed to the implementation by adjency lists that was used fo far) and which proved to be really efficient.

When considering what health food is, we have many different “faces to solve”  We have the medical community telling us what is good and bad for our health  We have nutritionists telling us what not to eat and what to eat  We have food companies putting all sort of things in advertising and on the packaging  We have academic researchers employing PR firms to broadcast their most recent conc...

R. R. Borges, F. S. Borges, E. L. Lameu, A. M. Batista, K. C. Iarosz, I. L. Caldas, C. G. Antonopoulos, M. S. Baptista Pós-Graduação em Ciências, Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa, Ponta Grossa, PR, Brazil. Departamento de Matemática, Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, 86812-460, Apucarana, PR, Brazil. Departamento de Matemática e Estat́ıstica, Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa,...