The role of intrinsic factors determining perceived degree of vowel openness was examined. In order to determine the role of F1 and F0, one-formant vowels, covering a wide range of fundamental and formant frequencies, were identified by 23 subjects who were native speakers of a Bavarian dialect in which five degrees of openness occur distinctively. The significance of intrinsic factors other th...

Using a long dataset on openness and productivity this paper tests the influence of openness on TFP growth and per capita growth since 1870 for 16 industrialized countries. It is shown, in simple regressions, that growth is by and large independent of openness. However, once the interaction between openness and foreign knowledge is allowed for, productivity is positively affected by openness. J...

Earlier studies indicated that personality characteristics contribute to symptomatic outcome in patients with psychotic disorders. The aim of the present study was to further explore this connection by examining the relationship between the Five-Factor Model (FFM) personality traits and a dimensional liability for psychosis. FFM traits according to the NEO-FFI and levels of subclinical psychoti...

Open communication is critical to the effectiveness, efficiency, and overall success of a business. It is believed that communication openness interplays with media channels and cultural contexts in which the communication takes place. Our study investigated communication openness in downward, peer, and upward directions in face-to-face (F2F) and instant messaging (IM) in the workplace in both ...

PURPOSE This study investigates management awareness of employee musculoskeletal pain and conditions that shape managers' handling of employees with pain. METHODS We used a mixed methods design including data from a questionnaire survey and focus group sessions. All employees and managers from seven nursing homes were invited to participate in the questionnaire survey and 327 employees (81%) ...

Airborne laser scanning has become an arch technology and which is now widely accepted for 3D data collection. These 3D points represent the terrain surface as well as objects on top of the terrain surface. Airborne LIDAR systems are able to record data through multiple pulses which make the data very accurate. LIDAR data is a relatively new technology for obtaining Digital Surface Models (DSM)...

Software producing organizations are frequently judged by others for being ‘open’ or ‘closed’, where a more ‘closed’ organization is seen as being detrimental to its software ecosystem. These qualifications can harm the reputation of these companies, for they are deemed to promote vendor lock-in, use closed data formats, and are seen as using intellectual property laws to harm others. These jud...

Context: Prior research has established that a small proportion of individuals dominate team communication during global software development. It is not known, however, how these members’ contributions affect their teams’ knowledge diffusion process, or whether their personality profiles are responsible for their dominant presence. Objective: We set out to address this gap through the study of ...

This paper decomposes and estimates the impact of foreign trade on economic growth evaluates relevance financial openness in relationship Nigeria using annual time series data between 1987 2020. The key findings are that although positively drives growth, effect is due largely to contribution non-oil export component long run short run. This, however, does not rule out fact import over or overa...

code Reflections on how collaboration happened in the Organization Explicitation of viewpoints There is an open dispute for the best ideas in order to convince the other area on the best decision to be made. To do that, a dialogue is encouraged and conflicts between departments are exposed. ́You have to be exhaustive, always feel that the other is important, that another area is important, not o...