This investigation explored the convergence between vocational interests as measured by the Strong Interest Inventory (Hansen & Campbell, 1985) and two competing personality models: the Big Five as measured by the NEO Personality Inventory–Revised (NEO-PI-R) (Costa & McCrae, 1992) and the Big Three as measured by the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire (MPQ) (Tellegen, 1982; Tellegen & W...

The design method of orthogonal test is commonly used in engineering test. It is very effective when many factors influences on one test. Orthogonal table experimental design is necessary to simplify the test procedure, to reduce the number of tests, and to improve test efficiency. By the orthogonal test, a level of each factor can be chosen to form the optimal production conditions. But in the...

With lumbar epidural anaesthesia, big toe skin temperature increases and is associated with a compensatory decrease of thumb temperature. The purpose of the present study was to examine whether thumb-big toe temperature differences were affected by age. Following the attachment of temperature probes at the digital pad of the right big toe and the right thumb, lumbar epidural anaesthesia at L2/3...

Big q-Jacobi polynomials {Pn(·; a, b, c; q)}∞n=0 are classically defined for 0 < a < q −1, 0 < b < q−1 and c < 0. For the family of little q-Jacobi polynomials {pn(·; a, b|q)}∞n=0, classical considerations restrict the parameters imposing 0 < a < q−1 and b < q−1. In this work we extend both families in such a way that wider sets of parameters are allowed, and we establish orthogonality conditio...

We survey some classical norm inequalities of Hardy, Kallman, Kato, Kolmogorov, Landau, Littlewood, and Rota the type \[ \|A f\|_{\mathcal{X}}^2 \leq C \|f\|_{\mathcal{X}} \big\|A^2 f\big\|_{\mathcal{X}}, \quad f \in dom\big(A^2\big), \] recall that under exceedingly stronger hypotheses on operator $A$ and/or Banach space $\mathcal{X}$, optimal constant $C$ in these diminishes from $4$ (e.g., w...

There is a large literature on contagion. It is perhaps the most important systemic risk to the financial system. The term is widely used so this covers many topics. The paper starts with a discussion of exactly how the term is used. Perhaps most importantly it is used to refer to the spread of crises from one country to another through real links such as trade, through portfolio rebalancing an...

Most investigations of creativity tend to take one of two directions: everyday creativity (also called “little-c”), which can be found in nearly all people, and eminent creativity (also called “Big-C”), which is reserved for the great. In this paper, the authors propose a Four C model of creativity that expands this dichotomy. Specifically, the authors add the idea of “mini-c,” creativity inher...

BACKGROUND Certain personality traits have long been suspected to reflect an enduring vulnerability to major depression (MD) in part because of shared genetic risk factors. Although many have agreed that normative personality is well captured by the 'Big-Five' personality traits of Openness (O), Conscientiousness (C), Extraversion (E), Agreeableness (A) and Neuroticism (N), to date genetically ...