This study examined Super’s (1990) concept of recycling through the stages of adult career development in a sample of 226 Australian men and women who were approximately evenly distributed across the following four steps in the uptake of a second career: (a) contemplating a change, (b) choosing a new field, (c) implementing a change, and (d) change fully completed. A group of adults of similar ...

This study aims to explore users’ image seeking behaviour when searching for known, non-annotated images across languages in FlickLing. In particular, the investigation reported in this paper aims to demonstrate the value in focusing on user’s trust and confidence in the exploration of seeking behaviour to reveal users’ perceptions of the tasks involved when searching across languages. The task...

Despite the aphorism, “Nature does not make jumps,” it is frequently useful to work, either descriptively or prescriptively, with simplified models which involve switching between different modes of evolution. We describe a variety of examples of such modeling with particular attention to some situations in which the interpretation of the reduced model is a matter of concern.

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Many constitutions specify procedures that allow critical decisions to be made with a different rule than routine decisions. We propose a theory of constitutional rules that explains why. The theory is based on the assumption that the type of a decision can be observed, but not veri...ed. We characterize two classes of second-best constitutions, both with clear analogues in real world constitut...

This study investigates the effect of analyst coverage on both accrual-based and real earnings management. Regarding accrual-based earnings management, I find that firms followed by more analysts engage in less accruals management and that more experienced analysts seem to be more effective in constraining accruals management, consistent with the role of analysts as external monitors to manager...